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Warns Against Hasty
Conversion of NSLI
In response to hundreds of in
quiries made by ex-servicemen
regarding the new National Ser
vice Life Insurance Act which be
came effective on August 1, E. R.
Benke, deputy administrator in
charge of Branch 8 of the Veter
ans Administration, warned veter
ans against too hasty conversion
of their term policies.
‘The best advice VA can give
the average veteran right now,”
Mr. Benke said, ‘ is to continue
paying, at least temporarily, the
same low premiums he paid while
in the service. By doing this he
can be protected by insurance un
til such time as he is in a position
to afford the kind of converted in
surance that will fit his needs. By
no means should the veteran con
vert until he has solicited advice
from a VA representative.” ,
The new enactment, Mr. Benke
says, offers the standard provis
ions to be found in commercial in
surance company policies; provid
es for endowment types of polic
ies which were not included in the
original law; removes restrictions
on the choice of beneficiaries; of
fers lump sum payments and total
disability benefits which were not
previously included. \
Mr. Benke pointed out that
those veterans who are now hold
ing term insurance policies have
many years in which to convert.
Term insurance issued before Jan ,
n, -3i ir=
uary 1, 1946, may be continued
without change for eight years
from the date they were issued
and policies issued after Decem
ber 31, 1945 may be kept in force
five years without the necessity
of converting to one of the perm
ant types of insurance.
Another outstanding provision
of the new bill permits former ser
vicemen who never before held
NSLI policies to take them out
now, and it also permits veterans
who are carrying policies of less
than the maimum protection of
$10,000 to increase them to that
amount. Furthermore, the same
liberal reinstatement provisions,
for those who have allowed their
policies to lapse, remain in effect
until the time that their term in
surance would normally expire.
Meanwhile, Mr. Benke said that
passage of the new bill will un
doubtedly increase the tremend
ous workload now facing the Vet
erans Administration, and he urg
es ex-servicemen to be patient if
answers to their queries are delay
ed. Mr. Benke said there are now
approximately 600,000 NSLI ac
counts in the Branch area of Min
nesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and the
Dakotas, and it is estimated that
the figure will increase under the
new regulations.
“The problem is intensified, be
cause the changes have occured in
the midst of our decentralization
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Werthams Clinic Seeks to Check Delinquecy
and Crime Through Scientific Treatment .
—
By Sidney M. Katz
(In Magazine Digest Sept. Issue)
Tears rolled down the 16-year
old boy's face when he heard the
judge pass sentence. Three years
was a long, long, time. As he stood
there crying, he looked like a piti
ful waif of ten.
T don’t enjoy sending you away
said the judge of the Harlem
court, but I can’t overlook the
fact that you attacked an inno
cent person with a knife”.
The boy’s mother sobbed bitter
ly as he was led away. Later, she
waited in the judge’s chamber to
have a talk with him.
‘My Freddie has never been
well”, she told him. “Always act
in' kinda funny. That boy needed
a special kind of a doctor. What
could I do with him?”
The judge shrugged his should
ers, “I’m sorry madam. I sympa
thize with you. but there’s nothing
I can do about it at this stage.”
This boy was only one of a long
procession of Harlem young peo
ple sentenced for crimes they were
doomed, by circumstances and en
vironment, to commit. For years,
Dr. Frederic Wertham, an inter
nationally known New York psy
chiatrist, had watched them.
“What else could one expect?”
he asked. Harlem's people were
packed—1600 to the acre—into
filthy, decaying tenements.
Boys and girls eager for better
homes and decent jobs and un
able to attain them, became frust
rated. They formed gangs to find
excitement and to procure when
ever possible, a few dollars for
spending money, they ended up in
the police station..
“If these youngsters could con
sult a psychiatrist while they are
unhappy but still not delinquent”,
thought Dr. Wertham, “they could
be kept out of jail, families would
not be broken up. and violence
would be reduced”.
But where could a Negro find a
psvchiatrist ?
Those who did succeed in gain
ing access to the clinic of a large
public hospital were hurt and
frightened by the coolness with
which they received. “You’re lazy,
shiftless and you don’t want to
amount to anything” was an all
too familiar diagnosis.
Dr. Wertham’s deep disgust at
program. Furthermore many of
our present work forms are now |
obsolete, and there will be an un
der standable time lag until new
ones can be prepared, Mr. Benke
said. “The Branch office at Fort
Snelling will not be geared to
fully handle the expected work
load until our insurance files are
sent here from New York of this
year. So again, I urge veterans to
be patient in any delays they may
encounter”.
As summarized by Mr. Benke,
the principal provisions of the In
surance Act of 1946 are:
1. Provides for three types of
endowment policies; 20 year en
dowment, endowment at the age of
60 and endowment at the age of
65.
2. All restrictions on the choice
of beneficiaries have been removed
Any person or persons, a corpora
tion or the estate of the insured
may be named.
3. In addition to the present
method of payments, beneficiaries
may now receive their money in
a lump sum or in equal monthly
installments ranging from 36 to
240 months
4. Payment of benefits to an
insured who is totally disabled for
six months or more. They are in
the amount of $5 a month for
eacch $1000 of insurance and are
payable for as long as the disi
bility feature may be added to any
form of NSLI, including term in
surance. It is only necessary that
that the insured meet specified
health requirements and pay the
extra premium that is required for
this additional benefit.
5. All persons not now in the
armed services, but who served in
the armed forces between Octo
ber 8, 1940 and September 2, 1945
are entitled to apply for NSLI.
6. Applications for insurance
which were rejected solely for
health reasons between October 8,
1940, and eptember 2, 1945, are
validated by these amendments in
cases where the applicants were
killed or totally disabled in line
of duty while in service. This
amendment will provide income
for beneficiaries who receive no
insurance under the old law.
Argentina’s Quints
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BOENOS AIRES, Argentina—
Soundphoto—Not quite so famous
nor publicized as Canada’s famous
Dionne quints, are the Diligenti
quintuplets of Buenos Aires, three
girls and two boys who on July
15. 1946 celebrated their third
birthday. Wearing sailor uniforms
they appear almost like a midget
ships crew and they register var
ious emotions as they look pretty
for the photographer. They are
the children of Mr. and Mrs.
Franco Diligenti of the Argentine
capital.
this heartless discrimination gave
rise to a strong determination. He
would establish a clinic in the very
heart of Harlem, he promised him
self, r'here all troubled people—
regardless of color, age. sex, or
political opinion—would be treated
without fear or favor. Money
would be no consideration.
One Friday evening last March,
Dr. Wertham made good that pro
mise. In spite of a number of set
backs the Lafargue Clinic opened
its doors in the basement of the
St. Phillip's Episcopal church par
ish house, deep in the heart of
Harlem.
I visited the Lafargue Clinic re
cently.
The little waiting room was
crowded. A good looking ex-G I
smoked a cigarette nervously. A
mother sat holding her 10 year
old daughter’s hand. Two men
sat together, talking quietly.
A young lady in a white smock
came in. "Mr. Carson next, please’
she announced.
He followed her into a large
room and they both sat down at
a small circular table. She poised
her pen and asked him numerous1
questions. When she was through,
she led him behind one of four
cubicles formed by unpainted
wooden screens. Here, a psychia
trist was waiting to hear his trou
bles and start treatment.
I asked the receptionist about
the box of coins on her table. That
is our cash register she told me
smilingly. The folks who can af
ford it pay 25 cents. If they can’t
they pay nothing. Some of them
take money out for carfare. You
see, strictly speaking, we can op
, srate without money. We’re all
volunteers here—nobody is paid a
single cent.
From the cubicles came the
drone of steady talk as Dr. Wer
tham's three co-workers consulted
with patients. They are Dr. Hilde
Mosse, an attractive woman at
tached to a New York hospital;
trim, auburn-haired Dr. Jeanne
Smith; and Dr. Andre Tweed, a
colored psychiatrist recently dis
charged from the army. Some pa
tients remain for 15 minutes, and
others are not through for an
hour.
“I got out of the nevv three
months ago. I can’t settle down
to my job at the airport. I always
worry about my family and about
losing my job.. ”
*T don’t know how it happened
but when I came to I was lying
r>n th*' ^onr. Mv tongue was bleed
ing. This is the second time.. ”
“They’re out to get me I tell you
I feel sure he put poison in my
soup. I’m afraid to eat anything.” >
‘Married? Of course, I want
to get married. But he even shakes
hands with me I'm frightened.. ” j
“This is Harold, doctor. He has
always been a good boy up until
a month ago. Then he started
playing hookey—yesterday the
man at the newsstand caught him
stealing.
And so on, far into the night,
thousands of words uttered by
hopeful lips in search of peace of
mind.
When Negro friends would come
to Clarence Darrow, the famous
liberal lawyer, and complain that
they could not get psychiatric
treatment, he would tell them
hrere's a bright young assistant i
professor at Johns Hopkins. Go
and see him. He’ll make you wel
come..
It was from these colored pa
tients that Dr. Frederic Wertham
first learned about medical dis
crimination against the Negro,
since those days at Johns Hopkins
Wertham, a tall athletically-built
man, has climed to one of the top
positions in his profession. He is
Send,' Psychiatrist of the De
partment of Hospitals in New
j York.
A newspaper reporter, search
ing for background material about
Dr. Wertham, recently brought to
light several interesting facts. He
' learned, for instance, that the
psychaistrist had invented the Mo
i saic Test, a novel method of de
termining an individual’s normal
cy. He would give the patient a
set of colored blocks and ask him
to put them together. The finished
pattern gave the Doctor tell-tale
evidence as to what was going on
in the patient’s mind.
On one occasion he gave the Mo
saic test to a Martin Lavin, who
was being held by the police. After
the test, Wertham stated bluntly
‘‘If this man is set free he will
commit murdet” The authorities
l disagreed and Lavin was given
his liberty. Three months later,
when Lavin shot a policeman in
cold blood and then killed himself
the newsnaDers recalled Wert$
am’s prediction.
A few years later, Dr. Wertham
came back in the news when Gino,
a 17-year-old boy who lived in an
East Side tenement, stabbed his
mother to death as she slept. The
sensational crime was soon for
gotten—except by Dr. Wertham
who headed the institution to
which Gino was committed.
For years he sought to under
stand the boy. It was my own de
tective case he told friends. He
finally cracked the mystery of the
boy s behavior and, in so doing,
found hidden facts that have long
puzzled psychiatrists. Gino is now
fully recovered, and is holding
dowwn a $75 a week job. The
whole experience is recorded in
Wertham’s exciting book, DARK
LEGEND, which was recently dis
covered by the Book Find Club.
Many observers see Dr. Wer
tham's clinic as the forerunner of
numerous psychiatric stations
throughout the country, manned
by qualified personnel, dedicated
to helping people before they get
into serious trouble
"This Is not philanthropy, not
charity, not missionary work”,
was the way Dr. Wertham ex
plained the Clinic to me. “It is
merely the extension of psychia
tr*r t*' !»■’ye ^e'"> fo everyone, with
out discrimination. We have done
much without money. Who can
tell how much more could be
achieved with proper funds?”
IMPORTANT RECORDS STOLEN
WASHINGTON", u. xj. Sound
photo—Sen. James M. Mead, (D)
of N. Y., Chairman, Senate War
Profits Committee, disclosed that
5 classes of important records in
its investigation of the Garsson
munitions combine were stolen
from its file. Chief Counsel Geo.
Meader of the Mead Committee
and Mary Frances Harmer, clerk
shown examining file from which
documents were stolen. Meader
declared Garsson empire had in
side track to both Committee and
War Department while its affairs
were being investigated.
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, FUN WITH A CAMERA is what these soldiers of the 25th Combat Team at Fort Benmng, Ga., are
'having on the beach at the Seventh Army Recreation Center, Fort Barrancas, Fla. Pvt. Longino Cook,
Detroit, Mich., (kneeling with camera), is taking a snapshot of Corp. Keith Rollins, Cambridge, /
Mass., and Miss Gwendolyn Williams, Pensacola, Fla., while the others await their turn before the j
camera. (U. S. Army Signal Corps photo from W. D. Public Relations Division.) J
—-"AT THE SEVENTH ARMY RECREATION-CENTER at Fort Barrancas, Fla7, life guard Pvt. Robert
D. Jelks, Cincinnati, Ohio, demonstrates with Pvt. R>bert Armstrong, Ancilla, Fla., the proper technique
in life saving. Troops receive two hours instruction per day in “watermanship” at tnis recently estab
lished Army installation. No oth.er training is required during their week-long stay. Soldiers spend
most of their time deep sea fishing, sun bathing, boating and sight-seeing. Neither loss of furlough
time nor extra cost is incurred by the men of the new peace-time Army who “vacation” at t.hif resort.
(U. ^S. Army Signal Corps photo from W. D. Public Relations Division.) ' " "■ ™ i