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The Army's new idea

for its

the psychiatrist really necessary? For two years Lhave been attending Pen- sions Appeals tribunals, and from my observations I would say "No." I would go fürther and say that the psychiatrist may well be a menues..

Before this last war, few neo- ple had heard the term, bus the psycho-analyst,. the sune man under another name, enjoyed considerable publicity.

Psychiatry came from Ameri- ca; but in the Services, after the outbreak of war, the psychiu- trist was well established 'and quickly flourished and multi- plied.

Ex-Servicemen know all about the psychiatrist and have little, if any, use for him; they call him a "trick cyclist."

There are, of course, many, good ones, but on the other hand there are even more not so good, though doubtless all are men with good intentions.

What is he? NOW, what is a psychiatrist,

and what does ne do? He is a specialist in mental for psychotic) and neurasthenic (or psycho-neurotic) disorders, and by the science and training he has acquired undertakes to inok Into a person's mind and follow its workings, and if he thinks there is something "not normal" to classify the trouble and pos. sibly put it right.

He may be quite a young fel- low, with little or no experience of the world, but that does not deter him from exercising all his book-lore in judging his fei- low men and women.

There is nothing to stop a civi- lian who chooses to spend his or her money from consulting a psychiatrist as to some real or imagined ailment.

A

'Browned off'

FTER all, it is, or was, a free

country and a man may spend what spare cash he may kuppen to I have in a variety of ways: drinking, dog racing, going to the pictures or on a psychiatrist.

But in the Services is different. Let us take for example case of Pri- vate X.

Private X. being thoroughly "fed up" or "browned, of." which is the up-to-date term at having been put on guard too often, and being called uut in the cold wet dawn to shovel coal, throws his shoved at a window,

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bad boys

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The War Office has now got a new idea. "glasshouse" or old punishment camp is going. In its place there are to be "corrective establish- ments" in which the main power. is apparently going to be that much-discussed innovation in the Army, the psychiatrist, who will study the offender's mental attitude. Now, is there 'any- thing in psychiatry, or is it just plain hooey"?

By Captain P. I. V. Rippon

wh is duly broften and anounces to his delighted fellows that he "hus had a bloomin' aut of it."

Now, in the good old days, when

remember, he may have got away with it by paying for the window, or he may have got something more: but in this scientiae "pe it is quite likely that he will be ordered before the psychiatrist to have his "state of mind" examined.

ware were wars, which most of us

There may be a case of a warrior who has entered the maw of a psy. chiatrist emerging therefrom, but I have never heard of one.

He is questioned

He learned man then proceeds to THE

question the miserable offender, and the questions asked and the tests given are usually something after this fashion.

he ct

What standard was school?

Who is the King of Switzer- land?

Keep taking seven away from a hundred,

Was he frightened of police- men and the dark as a child?

Did he step in the middle of paving stones as a child?

Did he rattle on the railings, missing one or two here and

there, also as a child?

Wu ahr fond of games?

Did he go to the .cinema?

Did he like girls? (Quite a number of these learned gentle; men seek for a ser foundation).

Had he been happy at home?

His did he get on with his father and mother?

Did they knock one another about?

Did they drink?

Did he go back to make sure the gas was turned off?

Has a duck fur or feathers? Did he ever tie a tin can to a dog's tail?

And so on according to taste,

Now, with all this data to guide him, the psychiatrist writes out a re- Hart by which he demonstrates' how Private X differs from the normal

M.

The normal man Do not know what the normal man is like, but think he must be someone completely devoid of a sense of humour (like Use average paychla trist), a person who would rather lle than break a convention or lose his temper, a person who likes work, a person who has never had a single original thought in his or her life, a person who neither smokes or drinks nor does anything forbidden by any- body-a person who, thank: heavens, is very rare in this amazing world,

From the first paychiatrist he is passed on to another and more pro- found ane, who starts the game again with a now and more exciting Bot of tests and questions, with perhopa

little hypnotism or 3 drop of truth-telling "drug." By this time poor is beginning to tear his holr, he rude to the sister, and, yes, trying to escape from the ward,

All these aspirations are duly' 'written down, and in course of time our keen young soldier is either be- bind bars or out of the Service. There appears to be no other alter- native,

The trouble is—and very serious trouble it is, too-that by nów Pyl- vate X is neurotic.

He has had so much. "hospitalisa- lion," another Americanism generally

POCKET CARTOON -

"You've got to be a bit of.

magician these days, haven't you. lady?

BY THE

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†TOPIA is almost ready for the attempt Mechanics

ure at work on her, cranking

used in the Services, that he thinks up her shaft-ventilators and testing chutes. Rinanka Bam, the he is really ill. After all, the doctors her

student, says re- have said so, and he quite often de-puzzled Slameso velops into an invalid, useless to him-peatedly "Sanyo ina nakok." Mimsle

stacking coples of self and everyone else. He does not Slopcorner is know that he is one of thousands, or "War and Peace" in Turkish, for Profes- rather tens of thousands, who have distribution in the moon.

sor Gneiss is studying tables of lunar · had a similar experience to his.

drifts. The Doctor himself is shut Not a bit funny up in a refrigerator, testing the effect of low temperatures on his The rocket, AND that is the trouble; the very Batgol binoculars.

at an angle of nature of the "label" which has pointing skywards been affixed to these people prevents 40, looks almost fragile, yet when them from airing their grievances she is launched, the concrete baso In a nice bed and laughing at something which, at-, wilt melt in the heat of her back- Inside the rock:el nothing is though it certainly has its humorous! wash. PRIVATE X. much to his initial de-angle, is very far indeed from being light, finds himself in a nice com- the least bit funny; is, in fact, a fortable hospital bed, with good food

and his temperature taken night and terribly serious business, morning.

to be seen but gadgets, each one a delicate but powerful instrument. The tiny windows are strutted with bdellium, to resist the forward woll of air projected by the up-rush of the projectile itself: At an approxi➡ mate height of 34,000 miles above Shrewsbury the inmates will losh

How many men and women of all Every day the psychiatrist descends Tonics invalided from the Services are on him for a minute or two and bugging the "labels," from "nerves" propounds some now question or to "insanity", which were tled other he has thought up, and goes to them by psychiatrists (who, themselves to the floor with ropes, sway with the answer. looking pro- of course, were protected in their ar- found.

to counteract the pull of the moon.

rogance by their Service ranks),

After a ume the rovelly wears off rather than let their friends or em All being well and Private X (who is really a good ployers know of their supposed "dla-TOW will Utopia make a landing?

at heart)

by tour) becomes huty and off, ability." It would be interesting to H The Doctor telma that the

and yes, even for gunds and coat learn. fatigues, anything in fact to "get out of this Winkin' place."

But little does he now that by now a formidable dossier has grown up about him in the expert's office from which, it may be, emerges the fret the he. Private X, always wanted to throw a briel: through the window of his local sweet shop, could not travel by train without itching to pull the communication cord, and what is more wanted to return to duty,

Definitely 'nuts'

THIS last desire would impress

la that poor X was definitely "uts."

FURTHER REVISION OF

JAPAN'S SCHOOL SYSTEM

THE Far

Eastern Commission, Allied Supervisory Group for Japan, is not completely satisfied with the way the Japanese education Byttem is working and plans to do something about it

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The Group has under consideration directive decentralising further

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Japan's educational authority. That is. It would transfer the supervision of education from the central govern. ment to prefectural and lesser ad- ministrative officials.

The Commission views the eduen. tional reorganisation carried out in Japan so far as of an emergency and hurried character, incomplete in scope and short of the desired goals.

"Too Much Authority

controlled the

national govemment schools on an empire-wide basis.

Frequently, the Minister of Educa tion was a military oficer high in the eelive affairs of the Army and in the nation's political life.

Through this active link with the Army, the Education Minister in- culcated into Japanese schools the ideas that the Far Eastern Commis- sion feels contributed in a major way to the regimentation of the Japanese people and their preparation for

wor.

Under the present system, the Com- SCAP Responsibility mission believes, the central govern ment and its Education Minister re- tain excessive authority over the INDER the proposed directive, pre-

fectural authorities will even re school system, and too much oppor ceive authorisation to undertake the tunity continues to exist for Tokyo preparation of new textbooks wrich to influence ali schools throughout these officials, without reference to the country. This, the Commission the Tokyo government.

may feel desires to break down.

desirable for their particular prefec-

While the Commission has yet to lure. reach a decision it is to be expected that it will place Japan's schools on a profectural basis.

This will mean that each prefer tural government will be virtually supreme in determining the nature of its school syslenL

Regimentation

THIS will be a far cry from the educational methods followed in Japan prior to the war. Then, the

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General Douglas MacArthur, 'or whoever' may be the ranking allled authority in Japan, may be expected to retain a general supervisory re sponsibility, but the day to day work- Ing of the school system will be in the hands of the local administra- tions.

The Commisson feels that de mocratic principles will be more firmly established by such changes in Japan's school system--Associated Press

HOW DO YOU LIKE.

IT ?

It would also be interesting to low how many cases of insanity and other allied troubles were caused, not by straightforward bombing or doodle bugs, but by the Insidious, wicked "treatment" of the psychiatrist.

Rupert & the New Pal--29

Again thanking the blacksmith to his kindness, Rupert runs back to bus pals and finds they have only just reached the end of the St. Wilfrid's hedge. "What on earth have you found now?" says Bill. "It's

tortoise-trolley," laughs Rupert. "I wanted something that would carry George along more quickly. At first I thought of agi garden trolley, but he wouldn't have been able to see over the top. so our friend, the blacksmith, made this for

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rocket will slow down to a speed of

second three miles a

on getting within 143,701 miles of the moon. The nozzle is banked up with rubber mattresses to take the initial shock, and the whole under part is fitted with a strong web of woven silicon, The Impact will be terrific but these shock-absorbing methods have been tried on mice dropped from a great height in an iron bns-

dressed kel, by men

in asbestos suits with helmets of fortified En. The mice survived, but were restive for twelve hours and their cheese made them sick-partly because it was beastly stuff, a job lut kept in the window of the Waggling Parva grocer's shop.

To-morrow the Anal preparations will be completed!. The rocket will be launched at 8.34 a.m. on Monday morning. A report will be tele- phioned to me, and will appear in Monday's paper. Interlude

Prodnose: Surely a great fent of journalism. to get a story tele- phoned at 8.34 into every edition of the paper on that very morning.

Myself (modestly): Yes. Not bad. It's never been done before.

Prodnose: But dow Is it done? What's the secret?

Myself: Effelent organisation, team spirit, and extraordinary energy and cnterprise, (Less modestly). You may quote me as saying 90,

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