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Northern Advocate, 13 June 1935, Page 6

TIMELY TOPICS

MENTAL WELFARE. ' The importance of recognising when children show symptoms of mental maladjustment, and enabling them to develop into healthy-minded, useful members of society was stressed by speakers at the annual meeting and luncheon of the Institute of Medical Psychology, London, which deals with people of all ages. They agreed that our mental hospitals, prisons and Borstal institutions would be much less full if abnormal traits or maladjustments were set right in childhood. “Dictators see the importance of the child, democrats must do the same,” said Lord Allen of Hurtwood, adding: “The preventive work of medical science in the sphere of mental wellbeing would do more to protect democracy by giving us a nation of healthyminded citizens than anything we politicians can do through the Statute Book. The next generation will never be able to deal with the problems unless we give them alert, controlled, and co-operative minds. Our democratic system cannot stand up to its job if citizens are slinking away from imaginary dangers; they must be able to call the bluff of political prejudice. Emotional swings of the electoral pendulum might destroy democracy, for it is set the task of making rapid changes without upheaval.” <s>.<•><?><?> <S> WORDS OF WISDOM.

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