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Urging the speedy establishment of a world union, Ralph Barton Perry '98, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, addressed 1,200 delegates at the New England Council's third wartime conference Thursday night...
...Most present-day appliances for crip, pled people, including her own braces, are "medieval," says Betsey Barton...
Slow Beginning. Betsey Barton lay in bed for a year doing nothing, growing feebler & feebler. Recently she has visited people "who sit in back bedrooms . . . because rescue work was not brought to them...." Rescue, she says, should begin the minute danger is over, or there will be a "serious psychic lesion which may result in total paralysis of the will." The trick is "never give food that is too strong for the weak-tea capacity," never assign a task at which the injured may fail-they may give up altogether. The Army's new rehabilitation program with its graduated...
...even though it means entering a "new and terrifying world." She also feels that he should get no coddling, should learn to do things for himself, even when it seems harsh to make him do them. The best kind of help, she found, is from someone similarly injured. Betsey Barton made this discovery at Manhattan's unique Institute for the Crippled and Disabled.* There she found an organization with many disabled people on its staff, using many kinds of special training methods. For example, there are replicas of bus steps, curbs placed just the width of a city street...
Cooperation Wanted. Betsey Barton can now take care of herself entirely. She can even cook from a wheel chair (keeping pots & pans in bottom drawers instead of top ones) and mop ("not too clean, of course...