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Died, Henry Andrews Cotton, 64. director-emeritus of the New Jersey State Hospital, pioneer of modern methods for treating the insane; of a heart attack; in Trenton, N. J. Dementia praecox, melancholia and other mental defects he approached from a physical standpoint, seeking infections in teeth, tonsils or bowels as potential causes. When he assumed control of the State Hospital in Trenton. N. J. in 1907, he shocked physicians by removing all straitjackets, anklets, wristlets, straps. Friends claim that because of his researches the recovery rate among his patients leaped from...
...more attractive aspect of the reforming intellectuals in 19th century America, an aspect which books like Gilbert Seldes' "The Stammering Century" have tended to cover up. The lives of these two New Englanders, veering sometimes towards faddisms, nevertheless possessed a consistent and admirable idealism and rose above the sordid dementia of most of the contemporary nostrums and reforms. From such studies as this one learns how much in the so-called "lunatic fringes" of New England, and wider human areas, is worthy of admiration instead of contempt...
...believe in the omniscient power of any man to point the way out of this situation. . . . Ninety-nine out of 100 persons haven't good sense. In good times they are willing to take big risks. A seeming prosperity gives them a sort of dementia. Anybody would borrow then. We can't get anybody but the feeble-minded to borrow now. .'. . I think I can pay my debts but I know a great many people who will never be able to pay theirs. . . . There'll be a considerable revision of debts...
...Manhattan, when his wife had him judged incompetent because of senile dementia, it was revealed that Pietro A. Ierardi, bootblack concessionaire in Grand Central Terminal, had amassed $176,500 in 50 years...
...German Director Ernst Lubitsch has made popular in the U. S., with Sari Maritza, an actress who reached Hollywood before the picture reached Manhattan, in the leading role. Monte Carlo Madness, as anyone who has ever seen a cinema about Monte Carlo should guess, is no glum study of dementia praecox. The legend from which the plot was derived concerns the captain of a destroyer who squandered his payroll at the Casino gaming tables and threatened to shell the town if the money was not returned. When he got it back, he paid his crew and blew out his brains...