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Show r Till' SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. irTAIl MENTAL HEALTH PUBLIC CARE !, IUf 9f MfiSOX. )! Ml Y OBtA in lending lb tf cail-to ft rrfortuatorj in lending a delinquent fchoulboj wk ran no lunger U limited to tha fon-trrnllic of n(un)uil! di-- , rrrmtii.n of hyicl defect in children or Mfrguarding the Jitc of mother and thilJmi in childbirth. It ma-- t lo imludq pretention of defects in runout and emotional would t TlIKIiK jut a !i8b t : ul control a: V ill Tha health officer mut to !, him-Juh quetiona tha nihiatrut before the policeto the man, Ian, neYrdu-wcl- l man dost? "Will the bull, the fearful child, the mtarsble man meet a who he it forced into an institution 1 (rial worker It it not at ieat a important that the auicidc rate hat n front 4.9 to 19.7 per 100,000 of our people in irventj year at that the diahrtca death rate haa done about the wme? It there a greater need to report upon a rising death rate from appendix tie or to anahie, publish, teadi and, if jible, prevent the cunditiona that have brought about a ri in the divorce rate from 5 jer 100.OO0 to C3 per 100,000 in !ei than fifty veart? It it just a roudi the province of the dodor of public health to concern himself with occurrence of temp r tantrum a with the prevalence of riiketa in community. IVrhapa the prohahilitiei of truancy be bat: of todaya record of boy who have mother-ic- a the estimated on ran home or break fast h morning. Much improvement in the field of mental health may he hoped for h of retarded school through preventive measure. Only about children one their difficulties to iuch cause at heredity, mental dieaa or epilepsy. Thi it an encouraging fact when considering the jmasibili-tie- a of prevention. f gt U-for- ri-e- t one-tent- PARENTS NEED OF TRAINING By DR. LOWRY. I ha Ihtll Bo nromlum nlr non. Ther h upon j&axAcrmanor Masarhuttii ZmZR32g$'2GM la. bar, and for jrouraatvaa. Thar la bar history; Iba world knowa It bjr heart. Tha paat, at laaat, la acura. Thara la Boston and Concord and Islington and Ounkar Hill; and thera they will racial a foravar. Judr By ELMO SCOTT WATSON T WAS Jiint a century ago that one of the greatest statesmen ami prohuhly TIIK greatest American orator ottered the word given above. The accne was the aenate chamber In the Capitol at the orator woa Daniel Waahlngton; Webater and the occaalon was the debate on a reaolutlon of Inquiry rejecting the antes and surveys of western lands. Introduced by Senator Foote of Connecticut In December, 1829. On January 19, 1830, Senator Ilayne of South Carolina, peaking on the resolution, made an attack upon the New England states, who, he declared, wished to check the growth of the West In the Interests of the protective policy. Webater felt that this attack could not be left unanswered and the next day he replied to It Rut it waa not until a week later, January 26, 1830, following another attack by Ilayne, that he made the Immortal speech, known as "Websters Reply to Ilayne," In which he not only demolished the principle of nullification but he "set forth with every attribute of eloquence the nature of the Union as It has developed under the Constitution, and took the vague popular conception and gave it life and form and character." In the course of the speech he uttered his tribute to the Old Bay state In the words which have become almost as famous as the more Important part of his oration, even though "popular conception has erroneously preserved It In the form of Massachusetts, there he stands I In 1830 Daniel Webster pointed to the 200 years of her history" which the world knows by heart" And now In 1930 the people of that commonwealth are pointing to her 300 years of history and Inviting the world to Join with them In celebrating her three hundredth birthday. For this la the year of the Massachusetts Bay tercentenary which Is being celebrated in one form or another throughout the state. Parades, pageants, exhibits, dedications, memorials, meetings, receptions, sports on land and water and even In the air, organised tours, official ceremonies In varied form, In addition to Important business, trade and Industrial features, are some of those forms. Already some of them have been held In one place or another as a part of the general program but the principal events will take place during the five months from June to October. One of the high spots of those five months will be June 12 when a replica of an ancient ship named the Arbella will sail Into Salem harbor. For it was on June 12. 1030, that the original Arbella, which had sailed from Southampton. England, on March 22, 1030, with 300 passengers on board, dropped her anchor In Salem harbor. Those passengers were the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay colony, chartered by King Charles I of England, led by John Wlnthrop, governor, and Thomas Dudley, lieutenant governor. If the precious charter which John Wlnthrop was bringing with him had been other than what It was, the Massachusetts Bay tercentenary this year would be of Interest mainly to the citizens of the Bay state. But since It was what it was, that celebration has national significance. For this charter, primarily a business document similar in form to many of its' day, proved to be such s workable guide to action and government that It served as the direct basis for the constitution of the state of Massachusetts, and this document in turn was model for many of the later state constitutions and for that of the whole nation. More than that, upon this charter was bullded the form of civil government which guarantees to all Americans "life, liberty and pursuit fit happiness" as witness the first article In the JJ trenchant shadow over lakes and rlvera and plains and Rockies and Sierras to the Pacific. was a Massachusetts colony, thumbing Its nose (In a strictly constitutional manner) at the royal government In England, while New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and the Carollnas were still all hack settlement. Hence, Massachusetts was able to raise a crop of American statesmen before the Livingstons and the Penns and the Pinckneys and the Rutledges had begun to bloom. What a rich mouthful Is the list of Massachusetts men who have become part of the national history of the United States! Bold John Smith and winning William Bradford, and peppery, but efficient Myles Standlsh; John Wlnthrop and John Endlcott and Governor Dudley, Parson Cotton and President d Cotton Increase Mather, and the Mather, Anne Hutchinson (the first woman In America to start a woman's club) she needed no man to tell her mind; Ann Bradstreet the poetess; Jonathan Edwards, whose sermons were thought by his parishioners to he a Hell of a preaching"; Sir William Phlps, and Agnes Surrtnge, the the treasure-finder- ; treasure found; governors and counsellors, and ensigns and military commanders all these stud the history of the future United States In the period. The American Revolution really began In the struggles of the gentlemen of the general court with the royal governors all the way along from the charter of 1(193 and the string of royal governors from Gov. Sir William Phlps to Governor General Gage. Other colonial legislatures expressed their minds to and at their royal governors, especially In Virginia; but the cyclone of the Revolution first blew with violence In Massachusetts, and never stopped blowing until Massachusetts was a state of the Old Thirteen. In Massachusetts asserts no that great movement which began the political transformation of mankind ; but In the councils of the Continental congress, side by side with Jefferson of Virginia and Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Pinckney of South Carolina, and Livingston of New York, glitter the names of the Immortal second-cousi- n twins, John Adams and Samuel Adams, of Hancock and Warren, of fiery old "Putt," and Manley, first commander of a national ship of war. The new Dictionary of American Biography could not do business without that couple of hundred notable number of Massachusetts names in the galaxy of the Revolution ; not men only Abigail Adams and Mercy Warren and other lovely and distinguished Massachusetts women. Abigail Adams had decided views as to the capacity of the female mind to comprehend politics, and as to the dramatical question whether all men are created free and equal. Included the female part of mankind. From some of those strong-mindeladles were descended the Intrepid leaders of the woman suffrage movement, especially Elizabeth Cady Stanton. stretched full-grow- n code of one hundred laws, called The Body of Liberties ndoptcd by the Colony of Massachusetts In 1641. TliHt article reads as follows: "No mans life shall be taken away, no mans honour or good name shall he stayned. no mans person shall he treated, restrayned, banished, dlsmembred, nor any wayes punished, no man shall be deprived of his wife or children, no mans goods or estalte shall he taken away from him, nor any way Indamnmged under colour of law or Countenance of Authorlile. unlesse It he by vertue or equltle of genernll Court and sufficiently published, or In case of the defect of a law In any particular case by the word of god. And In Cupi-taeuses or In cases concerning dlsmembrlng or banishment, according to that word to be Judged by the Generali Court" In July of 1030 the Arbella was Joined by six other ships bringing some 700 more colonists and In August It was decided to move the colony from Salem to Charlestown and the next month, having found the water supply there poor they moved to the peninsula which lay to the south and west of Charlestown. There the city of Boston was founded, so another high spot In the tercentenary celebration will he Boston Week," September 14 to "0 of this year, the seventeenth being the date for the principal celebration since It was on that date thnt the General Court of colony took the action thnt officially organized Boston. Incidentally one part of the celebration will be the dedication of a memorial on Boston Common to Wlnthrop and to William Blax-ton- , the first white settler of that historic spot. It would be Impossible In the limits of this article to list all of the events in Massachusetts history which will be recalled during the many celebrations which make op the observance of her tercentenary this year, nor to name all of her great men who had a part In that history. If It could he done at all briefly, It Is doubtful If It could be accomplished better than It has been done In the words of a distinguished historian, now a citizen of Massachusetts Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard university. Writing an article for a Massachusetts paper, the Cambridge Tribune, early this year under the title of Why Massachusetts?, Professor Hart summarized well the glory of the Old Bay states record In our national annals and the Interest which the tercentenary has for all Americans. A part of his article follows: At the start, If a person or a community has lasted to a birthday the presumption Is that something must have been done In the Interval. Hence, the proposed tercentennial does not mean an attempt to revive the experiences of 1630. nor to content Itself with a movie of what Massachusetts Is today. We are proud of our state for all the heroic deeds and grand conceptions and magnificent results which have studded the history of the commonwealth during three centuries. We are entitled to be proud of the physical1 I love thy substratum of Massachusetts, rocks and rills. Thy woods and templed hills." The children of the soil have long been acquainted with the many beautiful scenes of seashore and river and plain and mountain; and of late our neighbors. In states less fortunate, are rediscovering the same thing. The Indented coast, with Its two capes, is the delight of the yachtsman. the fisherman and the bathing person. Our hill villages are being rapidly gobbled up because of their picturesqueness of site and view, besides which Massachusetts Is a lesson In geography, Bince our reputed bounds once ll Win-thro- three-hundredt- -- seen-icall- y vast-minde- al Dirnrtes lastitutt lot Child Cui'Uoce. Child guidance clinic continually are encountering infantile" parent. The most frequent complaint of thi type i that their children disoliey them. They do not wok help in instilling desirable qualities. In an attempt to analyze the mo-- t desirable attribute of personality, I have collected from 2(5 person, mostly not parent, list of those trait whiih they regard as most desirable and most undesirable. The ten trail whiih appear on the largest number of list are honesty, spnse of humor, cheerfulness, tolerance, sincerity, intelligence, sympathy, courage, reliability and loyalty. The ten trait placed on the largest number of list as undesirable are selfishness, egoti.-deceitfulness, dishonesty, jealousy, laziness, cowardice, instability and stublmrnncss. It is noteworthy that obedience and disobedience, as such, do not occur in these two lists. The contrnst with the interests of parents emphasize ffle fact that parents are most likely to be concerned about the problems of the present instead of the future behavior and success of the child. TENDENCY TO CRIMINALITY By DR. FRANS ALEJANDER. Berlin P.ychoanslyift. All children, if free to respond to their instinctive impulses, would act as criminals. Instead of the popular conception that it is natural to he a citizen, mental science has shown that people are born criminals. Distinction must be made between the chronically criminal and the accidentally criminal, as the former class is incapable of reform by a mere change of environment, but requires medical treatment. The tendency to criminality is acquired in the conflicts of childhood between the natural impulses, chiefly love and hunger, and society. It is often impossible to find any rational motives for the behavior of the chronically criminal. Funishment has no deterrent effect on the neurotic criminal excepting to stimulate him in an opposite direction from that desired. An individual of this type after punishment feels he has expiated his crime and is encouraged to commit new offenses. law-abidi- NEW AGES, NEW RELIGIONS By CHARLES FRANCIS POTTER, New York (Humanist). religion is out of place in an airplane age. Every age has to have a religion of its own, because every age is marked by its system of transportation, and as travel increases, due to improved facilities, the mind of man broadens. When men had to depend on their own legs or on ox carts they could not travel far and remained tribal in their outlook. The development of transportation has continued until now the airplane removes mans last handicap in travel. When the airplane arrives provincialisms must go. World peace must come in the airplane age. The provincialism in religion also must go. As contrasted with ordinary theism, humanism stands for thinking versus praying, courage versus trust, confidence versus fear, simplicity versus elaborateness and ritualism and a pioneering instinct versus 0x-ca- rt conformity. CRIMINAL VICTIM OF ACCIDENT d Some of the original states, prominent in the Revolutionary period, ran out of timber after the Constitutional period, but statesmen and other national leaders continued to blossom and fruit on the Massachusetts tree. Three Presidents, John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge, is a good allowance for a state of limited area on the edge of the continent. Likewise, various speakers of the house. It Is no boast to say that from 1761 to the present day Massachusetts has had a share In national public affair far beyond the proportion of her population to the whole country. By DISTRICT ATTORNEY If husbands respected their CRAIN. New York. wives, and if children were given reli- gious education and taught to honor the principles of honbe crime no and fair would there problem. esty play, I am not saying anything new. I am merely repeating a few beliefs I have always held. We should be fair to the criminal, and take into account his early environment. lie should be allowed to earn a fixed sum while in prison so that he will feel independent and not an outcast, and his term should be cut down if he shows an intention to reform. While on parole, a prisoner should he treated as a man who has had an accident. The judge should also be treated with fairness. It is not wise to cut down judicial power because in some instances it has been abused. ed |