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tally Through Their Service.
By MAJ. GEN. W. C. HAAN. in New York World.
When we were first beginning to call on the young
manhood of America to take up arms in the country’s
defense, the so-called psychological test was devised to
determine each man’s mental capacities—his speed of
mind, his alertness, his capacity for forming quick
judgments, his general knowledge, his reflex to ques
tions put quickly, afid allowing little more than instan
taneous thought for an answer.
One of the largest employers of labor in the Lnited
States, whose name 1 withhold at his request, made the
same tests on the gTOup of his men who he re-employed
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after their serviae in the army. Out of more than ouu returneu sol
diers, 64 per cent were more efficient and alert mentally than before the\
had joined the army, 32 per cent remained as they were and 4 per cent
were rated as having gone back.
In a word, two soldiers out of each three who received army tiaining
improved mentally. Their judgments were more alert, their minds more
orderly and precise, their thought more speedy and their actions more
determined.
Does this not go to show that the millions of young Americans wffio
served in the army and navy are going to be better business men and
workers as a result of the training they received ? The great mass of
them went into the army at an age when they were most susceptible to
discipline, which made them alert mentally, sounder morally and ines
timably better off physically. What a combination!
Why? Because they were taught the great lesson of doing every
thing, no matter how trivial it might appear to them, in a workmanlike
manner.
In a word, they learned to concentrate—and that is the hardest job
4 an American of today has to learn.
MURDERS BARED IN
PLEA TO DOCTOR
Girl Telephones Physician ‘'Every
body Sick” and Triple Kill
ing Is Revealed.
Passaic, N. J.—“Is this Dr. Carlisle?
Well, please come to our house qul^fe;
everybody is sick.”
This telephone message from Mina
Strong, 14, disclosed the 'murder of
her mother and elder sister and the
suicide of her father.
Mason R. Strong, architect and
structural engineer, with offices in
Wall street, New York City, had al
most successfully annihilated his fam
ily on Tuesday night with an as. Bui.
it was not until Mina, herself wounded
on the head, gained strength enough
to notify the family physician that the,,
tragedy -was revealed.
H Mr. Strong killed his wife as she
slept in bed. He then crushed the skull
of his daughter, Elizabeth, 16, killing
her instantly. His son, Nathaniel 12,
is dying in St. Mary’s hospital with
a picture of the skull. Only Mina and
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j "Please, Come to Our House Quick!”
Susanne, 8, escaped with injuries from
which they are expected to recover.
Friends of Mr. Strong attributed the
tragedy to chronic ill health and finan
cial losses.
There was strong evidence that the
entire family had been drugged in
some manner before the crazed father
used the ax.
On the night of the tragedy Mr.
Strong apparently did not retire with
his wife. A deeply religious man, he
remained up for a while reading from
^^jbook, “What Would Jesus Do?” It
was found open on the dresser, be
side crackers he had been munching.
The police infer that when his loved
ones dropped off to sleep the architect
went to the cellar, where he obtained
an ax of the type firemen use.
Mr. Strong afterward went to the
bathroom. He stood the ax in a cor
ner and cut his throat with a razor.
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