Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1935, Page 7

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., MAY 12, 1935—PART ONE. 1,300 SPECIALISTS MEET TOMORROW American Psychiatric Unit Continues Sessions Un- til Friday. The annual meeting of the Ameri- ean Psychiatric Association will open here tomorrow, with more than 1,500 specialists in nervous and mental dis- eases from the United States and| Canada in attendance. The sessions will continue through Friday, with approximately 100 scien- tific papers, giving accounts of the| latest advances in the field of psy- chiatry, Particular stress will be laid on the psychiatric implications in such associated sciences as general medicine, biology and the social sciences. 1 The psychiatrists are opening their | convention with an alarming picture | of 500,000 hospital beds in the United | States occupied by patients suffering | from some nervous or mental dis- order, as compared to 525,000 for vic- tims of all other illnesses. According to a statement authorized by the as- sociation today. one person in 22 dur-| ing the present generation will be at some time a patient in a mental hos- | pital. | Epilepsy to Be Topic. i Tomorrow there will be precon- wention meetings of the sections on conclusive disorders and forensic psy=- chiatry. The former group, headed by Dr. Temple Fay, professor of neuro- surgery at Temple University, will spend the day discussing the possible causes and treatment of epilepsy. The forensic psychiatry section will discuss | the legal aspects of the science. Hugh | H. Clegg of the Department of Justice will describe the work of crime in- vestigation. Dr. Abraham Myerson of Boston will discuss the connection between head injuries and crime, and | is expected to ask for a clear state- ment of the psychiatric position which | may clear away supposed conflicts in testimony in the future. The convention will open officially | Tuesday morning on the call of Dr. C. F. Williams, Columbia, S. C., pres-| ident of the association. There will| be an address of welcome by Dr. A.| B. Bennett, president of the Medical | Society of the District of Columbia. Tuesday afternoon there will be a| symposium, over which Dr. Adolph | Myet of Johns Hopkins University will wreside, on “The Material Dealt With as Personality Function.” This sym- their scanty meal workers in parts of Arkansas where the depression has been severely felt. The Federal Government plans to aid many by moving them to more fertile land where they will be “in the swim” of American progress, Thankful Despite Poyerty Children of share-croppers near Sherrill, Ark., saying grace before Saving such children as these is the lot of social —A. P. Photo. posium is for the purpose of better integrating the diverse approaches made by workers in psychology, psy- choanalysis, biochemistry and general medicine, each with their own peculiar | Beta Phi Alpha Group Composed concepts and language There will be a child psychiatry | symposium on Wednesday afternoon. SORORITY INSTALLED ceremonies held at the Admiral. The new chapter of Beta Phi Alpha was | formerly . the Zeta Chapter of Phi 2 e lDeltn Sorority. Miss Lee Price Goff of G. W. U. Undergraduates. |y, the installing officer. The Alpha Eta Chapter of Beta Phi | Officers of the chapter are: Ena Educators, child guidance experts and | Alpha Sorority, composed of under- | Sikes, president; Louise Seifert, vice psychiatrists will consider the de-| graduates at George Washington Uni- | president; Doris Miller, secretary, and velopment of the child to its fullest potentialities and prevention of con- | duct disorders through co-operation of experts in the various fields. Thursday will be given over to further consideration of laboratory | and clinical reports, In the after- noon there will be a consideration of | administrative problems, especially | dealing with quacks. There will be | informal round table discussions Thursday evening by groups inter- | ested in particular phases of psychi- atry. There will be a continuation of reports on clinical studies Friday, in- | cluding one study made of 200 male | transients. Friday afternoon the mem- | bers will be guests of Dr. William A.| White, director of St. Elizabeta’s Hos- ‘ pital. 50 FIRE DEPARTMENTS | GIVEN BIDS TO SESSION| Twelfth Annual Carroll County | Convention to Be Held in | Taneytown May 23. i Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. | MOUNT AIRY, Md., May 11.—In- vitations to attend the twelfth an- rual convention of the Carroll County Volunteer Firemen's Association, in | Taneytown, May 23. have been sent to 50 fire departments. | The program follows: Reception end registration of delegates and visit- | ing firemen at Firemen's Building; | 10 o’'clock, opening of convention; ad- | dress of welcome, music, address on | behalf of business men and citizens of Taneytown, business session; 11 to 2 o'clock, dinner served at the Fire- | men’s Building to the public; 12, din- ner served at Firemen's Building, free to delegates; 1 p.m., second session of | ccnvention, closing with prayer. I A parade will be held at 2 o'clock. | Contests will be held immediately after | the parade. | MARYLAND NEWS PLANT | LEASED TO COMPANY | By a Staff Correspondent of The _tar. SILVER SPRING, Md., May 11— Lease of the building and equipment of the Maryland Publishing Co., located at the intersection of Georgia and Sligo | avenues, to the Cornelius Printing Co. of Indianapolis for a term of years, was announced yesterday. Maj. E. Brooke Lee, former Demo- cratic organization leader of Mont- gomery County, is president of the Maryland concern, publishers of the Maryland News, the Columbia Heights News and the Silver Spring News, all | weekly newspapers. Under the new arrangement these papers will be printed by the Cornelius Printing Co., but will continue under their present ownership and management, it was stated. 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