Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-22 | Page 4 | "Nerves Shot"

"Nerve Shot" v'OU know the story of the nervous sleeper who, hearing a neighbor drop a shoe, .yg'ffoiJt .Companion tn fall, in he rnuM go back to sleep. The second shoe was put down quietly, however, because the neighbor neigh-bor remembered the nervous wreck in the next room. - Nevertheless the N. W. waited for t,he second thud, and when it didn't come for a long while, he called out: I "For the love of Mike, when are vnu rn. ing to drop that other shoe?" . The man wliose nerves are diseased "on edge" becomes chronically apprehensive, watchful for a turn for the worse, expecting disaster The nervous .victim fears and expects ex-pects -additional troubles and complications. With this, expectant attitude, he invites what he expects. We create what we fear. A neurasthenic, suffering from a complication like Beard's disease, becomes convinced that he has organic heart trouble as soon as he gefs a touch of intercostal (between-the-ribs) neuralgic pains from Indigestion. An Imaginary Imag-inary ailment is worse than the real thing. AH of which is as true of .nations as of Individuals. Right now America is recovering from - a neurasthenic or nervous condition, pandemic, In which we are apprehensive constantly Imagining that we are on the verge of .disaster. Hence, crisis after crisis threatens, though it never materializes. The war aroused us- to emotional fury. It over-stimulated our endocrine glands to supply us with energy for fighting the war. It left us with an unbalanced unbal-anced glandular system, nationally. That's what happens to the average neurasthenic. It Is what has happened to our nation. Our adrenal ad-renal glands, stimulated by the war, are slowing slow-ing down, the nation's nervousness will lapse into calm.