How Should A
s
Returning Service
Man Be Treated 1
By CARLTON E. MORSE
Author of "On* Man's Family"
A few months ago I attended a
meeting at which Dr. Franklin
Fearing, psychology expert at
U.C.L.A., discussed the problems
of re-adjustment between return
ing servicemen and civilians. I
thought to myself “Here is a
chance to do something really im
portant! Soon two new characters
appeared in the chapters of the
NBC “One Man’s Family”—Ar
thur Brittain and wife Louise.
Through them I attempted to
present the problems faced by the
discharged soldier and his family.
Though Arhur Brittin was a
“psycho-neurotic” — one of the
“mentally wounded” — his prob
lems are still the same as those
of every other serviceman. The
difference is that in the case or
“psycho-nurotics” they take a
more extreme form. The manner
of readjustment is much the same.
The first THING any service
man wants to know is “how are
things at home?” He needs reas
surance that everything is going
all right. In most cases he wants
to resume most of his relation
ships right where they left off.
Without realizing it, however,
many of his likes and dislikes as
well as his habits have been
changed. Therefore, no matter
how much he may want to resume
the old patterns, he and the fam
ily will find that this is not quite
possible. New adjustments will
have to be worked out. The fam
ily can make this easy for him by
accepting his new approach to life
as a matter of course.
Now for a • specific example:
Perhaps before the war Joe was
strictly an indoor type. His favor
ite pastime was bridge and he
could sit for hours at a time work
ing cross word puzzles and read
ing books. But the rough and
ready outdoor life of the infantry
may have given Joe a liking for
fresh air and sunshine. Upon re
turning home Joe may be bored
stiff with his former life. The
thing for the family to do is to let
him make-the first suggestion as
to what he would to do—not to
insist that he play bridge with
them as he used to do in “the
good old days.” On the other
hand, Joe may have a desire to
work in the garden or to take long
walks in the woods. It would be a
mistake for the family to raise
their eyebrows at thi$ new form
j of activity or to kid him too much
about it. After all, he’s a NEW
! JOE NOW, with new habits and
I desires, and everyone concerned
j will be much happier if they ac
i cept his slightly altered personal
[ ity as a matter of course. They’ll
get used to him in time.
Of course it’s important to
watch Joe and observe the things
that are different about him but
he should never be made to feel
as if he were something under a
microscope. The way to make Joe
feel at home is to include him in
all the family activities, to make
him feel that he is part of things.
It can be overdone, however, by
insisting that Joe do things when
he obviously would rather not.
Overanxiousness to please can
sometimes erect a stronger bar
rier between people than th cold
est cold shoulder. Particularly
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when it comes to telling about
his experiences—a serviceman is
likely to “frezee up.”
Some will want to talk about
their experiences and others will
not. The best thing to do is to let
Joe himself do all the talking
about it, without questions.
There have been many articles
on the subject of rehabilitating
the returning serviceman. Some
I of them are good and some are
not. Some of them are terrible.
There is really only one good rule
to follow and never deviate from:
1. Don’t build Up a difference
between returning servicemen
and civilians.
2. Don’t assume that he is some
special sort of problem child, that
is going to require special hand
ling with kid gloves for the rest
of his life.
3. Just treat him the way he
wants to be treated—like one of
the family, which, after all, he is.
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SALT LAKE CITY— (JP) —Er
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LONDON, Aug. 27—(/P)—The
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Kuriles west of the Aleutians as
Stalin’s forces speeded up the oc
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disarming enemy troops. The lat
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Soviet forces identified as Onne
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the operation carried out by air
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