Medicine: New Deal

It is no longer necessary to go insane in Washington. Skeptics who heard this announcement last week were silenced by the fact that it was made by Psychiatrist Winfred Overholser, head man at Washington's outsize mental hospital.

Said Dr. Overholser: "Things are settling down. . . . Some improvement is due to the fact that the worst cases of mental instability have been weeded out. Many . . . have gone back home. . . . Many have been rescued by their families. Some had a flash of real sanity and decided the salary lure was not worth the effort."

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