by James O. Henry Chairman, History Department, Biela College
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the soft approach because it is a pri vate business engaged in trying to reduce vandalism and delinquency, Dr. Slack said. New Anti-Red Film The armed services have ordered more than 600 copies of a new De fense Department film, “The Chal lenge of Ideas,” dramatizing the struggle against communism. A Pen tagon spokesman said recently that 275 copies would go to the Air Force, 200 to the Army and 184 to the Navy for use in service education. The film substitutes for “ Operation Abolition,” produced by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, a n d “Communism on the Map,” private ly produced. Both of these were ban ned by the Defense Department for compulsory showing. The Defense De partment version of the struggle with communism, said to be more authen tic, is also documentary. The use of the army as a labor force has been given increasing pub licity in the Communist Chinese press. The Hsinhua (New China) News Agency said that officers and men of the army had contributed 40,000,000 man-days of “ voluntary labor” last year to industry and agri culture. This is the equivalent of sixteen days work for each of the soldiers in Communist China’s Army, which is estimated to number 2,500,- 000. The troops helped in the con struction of 5,600 water conservation projects. They took part in building factories and workshops for iron and steel centers and other industrial en terprises. Another Hsinhua report said that most army units had be come self-sufficient in meat and vege tables by raising pigs and gardens “ in their leisure hours.” In the northeast ern province of Liaoning, army units have made “ brilliant contributions” to construction, according to a Shen yang paper. A Yunan paper reported that soldiers in the province had con tributed more than 9,000,000 man hours to irrigation works and iron and steel works. In Sinkaing the army was said to have created “an area of flourishing farms and orchards” out of a formerly desolate river basin. From these reports it is easy to detect Red China’s determination to catch the west in production. THE KING'S BUSINESS Red China Using Army for Labor
Scientist Reports on Human "Clocks"
The human body harbors a host of “ clocks,” in joints, brain and other organs, that keep time in units rang ing from twelve hours to several years, according to an article in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It is noted, however, that most of the clocks make their presence known only when sickness strikes. The arti cle is by Dr. Curt P. Richter, who says that a study of 500 patients whose symptoms have occurred with clock-like regularity convinced him of the presence of true internal clocks in the body. The clocks show great regularity, he reports, regardless of the external conditions to which the patients have been exposed, such fac tors as temperature, humidity, baro metric pressure and other external in- vulences and regardless of the pas sage day-to-day of emotionally charg ed vents and occurrences. Dr. Richter believes that he has assembled evi dence of clocks that make themselves known through mental and emotional symptoms and clocks that manifest themselves through physical symp toms. A Harvard psychologist who has been employing juvenile delinquents to “ cure themselves” in Cambridge for the last year and a half proposed recently to move his “ business” into New York City. His project, which would be started in Harlem is being considered for a $50,000 grant by the National Institute of Mental Health of the Public Health Service, Dr. Slack, the psychologist reported recently. Yeshiva University would administer the program. Dr. Slack’s project has employed about twenty hard-core delinquents to discuss de linquency and its origins with him and to provide case histories and re search material about it. In the pro cess, the delinquents, he said, reha bilitate themselves through the in sights they gain. Dr. Slack said that only one youth had returned to de- linqency in eighteen months. The key to the program, he said, is not doddling or getting tough with a de linquent. It is first of all enlisting the toughest of the delinquents and gang leaders in an area. The program is committed neither to the tough nor Scientist1Offers Delinquency Aid
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