Show ff itaL mi clr I 1 Us U S off office ice of air safety guards cadets cabets in training accident statistics prove value of regional safety officers work program has three main divisions by news analyst and commentator service union trust building washington D C the army air force has beer been around the world times I 1 th at is what air miles add up to three billion three hundred and fifty two million in the fiscal year 1943 just how safe Is the job of a pilot not the job where you have to count on the enemy enemy fighters and the ack ack but the job of learning to be a pilot ninety five out of every hundred army air force cadets cabets are going through their flight training program with no personal injury of any kind says col sam harris chief army air force office of flying safety the office of air safety is the institution ution which has built safety into training programs as a highly emphasized pha sized part of the whole regime it has three main principles initial phase the first is prevention and in vesti gation and the keynote here I 1 is experience the 54 officers who take care of this end of the work have a total air experience of 33 years days in the air these men known as regional safety officers fibers are assigned to each air force and command in the united states here is an example of how the works ile he goes to a certain field ile he meets meeta some cadets cabets who say they had any breakfast ile he puts that down in his notes he looks the place over notes a ditch parallel to a runway he orders the ditch filled talks with the moss mess officer and has breakfast served earlier then he tackles the boys themselves he gives them a talk on the importance of instruments three separate moves and the accidents are cut down there the second principle is night flight control here is where the flight control officer traffic cop of the air comes in for traffic control is as important inthe air as on the street the men of this force offer a pilots advisory counsel this service leads pilots through or around dangerous or weather conditions suppose the flight control in the seattle center knows lieutenant smith is headed in that direction he also knows that a co cold id front is moving across his path so he radios smith tells him to make make lor for an alternate airport no 3 on the list of safeties is safety education safety Edu education cafron most of the accidents in training in the united states are due to personnel err error orthe the fault of the human being not the weather or the machine this education comes through special movies through manuals through cartoons and posters here are some of the slogans that help hitler and hirohito cheer when you forget your maps when you pay no attention to telephone wires when you jam on your brakes when you dont I 1 check your gas other points are driven home with a little sardonic humor such as when a pilot thinks hes pretty hot hes usually close to burning to grow old in the natural way a pilot hns has to use his luck sparingly the first six months ol of 1943 compared with all of 1942 show these percentages of reduction of 0 accidents in primary schools 2376 23 in basic schools 5 55 V in advanced schools 11 and just see the table for accidents as miles flown down go UPI up 1021 1921 30 miles flown accident rate 1943 miles hewn flown accident rate how america is learning safety in the skyways sky ways I 1 war brings recognition to psychiatry there will be so many changes after the war that a lot ot of words will not even have the same meanings new things and new thinking will appear and people will have to learn the new words in order to think the new thoughts already the war has caused psychiatry to be adequately recognized according to dr richard hutchings who is the author of A psychiatric word book published by the new york state department of mental hygiene and now in its seventh edition this is not a book for laymen but it is exceedingly interesting to scan its pages just to see how ordinary words can achieve new meanings as new thoughts about new things develop the word book Is invaluable to the doctor and many others who will be more and more concerned with this important study of interpersonal P personal relations psychiatry lets take a haymans lay mans look at the pages of the little pocket volume starting at the beginning with aan not the simple articles they look the definition is not new in this case but shows the special meaning the person who reads psychiatry must know the definition reads prefixes prefixes derived from the greek and having the same meaning as the prefix un or the suffix less without absence of not cf amentia tia that takes us to amentia which means 1 absence of intellect 2 a state of mind bordering on stupor 3 feeblemindedness feeble mindedness you have heard of behavior but what is behaviorism it is the psychological theory which holds that correct conclusions in psychology must rest upon objective study and interpretation of behavior you have also heard of conversion here is the psychiatrists meaning of it the process by which an emotional trauma that is an emotional wound after repression becomes converted into a physical symptom in hysteria practical application if you think that sounds too high brow just recall the remark ai I 1 hes e I 1 3 had that squint ever since he saw that terrible accident there are a lot more interesting new meanings clear over to the last word which you know all about if you ever saw ten nights in a barroom the great prohibition play is what we incorrectly call DT s the definition is a visual hallucination of animals or insects the little book also has an appendix in which there are careful and more detailed descriptions of the emotions anxiety fear pride vanity etc which we now know are as dangerous to our mental health when they get out of control as a flock of flu germs are to our bodily welfare ill 1 11 give you a definition 0 of the one emotion which is highly important because when it gets the upper hand in politics it can do as much harm to a form of government as to an individual egoism and egotism are not synonyms egoism is a self seeking desire to gain advantages at the ix expense of the rights convenience or possessions of others it is essentially antisocial egotism is over I 1 valuation of self ones opinions abili ity or cleverness and corresponding of others now just apply that definition of egoism to blocs political parties nations and see why psychiatry Is important in the new world the more people who understand it the more people will understand each other the words in A psychiatric word book are important words 1 postpaid from the hospitals press mental hygiene department state ot of new york utica N Y popular questions que eions here are answers to three questions alons I 1 was asked most frequently on a recent trip to the middle west 1 when will the war be over I 1 dont know I 1 be surprised if germany cracked inside this winter at least another year to clean up japan 2 what about international cooperation afterward I 1 dont know the feeling I 1 get in washington is that there will be an honest attempt to form an international league just as it is suggested in the moscow conference 3 will president roosevelt run for a fourth term I 1 doubt if even he knows that either lie ile probably will unless the war is done and over |