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Picher, Okla., Oct. 10. — High points in a defense plan to expand the work projects administration housekeeping aid program, sponsored by the county commissioners, to make it a permanent partof community health and welfare work, were announced today by Wesley P. Day, WPA supervisor, on receipt of official notice from Ethel E. Simpson, district .supervisor,A new trend will be an activity known as informational assistance, having its headquarters in a housekeeping aid training center.To Train Volunteers,Other points for additional improvement call for the training of volunteers to participate in a community campaign for center home- [ making, extending the service into more communities, and expanding the existing program where it does not fully meet community needs, Day said.Among objectives are higher living standards for low-income fam- j Hies by introducing new methods I of operation.According to Miss Loyette L. Webb, state project supervisor, the program is in operation In 37 Oklahoma counties, Last month the 1,300 aids, all certified as in need of employment, gave 2,645 families, consisting of 8,644 members, the benefits of their training. Nationally the program operates in all •tates.The informational assistance is bo provide follow-up service for femilies previously serviced by wFA housekeeping aids, Supervisor Simpson said. Homemakers of low-income families serviced at any time since the inception of the program in 1935 are eligible for supplementary scervice wherever it 0 in operation.Tha supplementary assistance, bbe local supervisor was informed, la restricted to communities where qualified personnel is available to direct and supervise .the work and evhere high standards of technical ppertion of the program are being maintained.Supervisor Day emphasized thatthe clinic is p imarily for the purpose of assisting in nutrition problems. After nutrition come problems in general housework, care of children and elementary home care for the sick.Each housekeeping clinic will be under the direction of a graduate home economist, according to the supervisor’s information.In the absence of the economist, qualified assistants may be placed In charge of individual clinics.As the plan is outlined by the supervisor, homemakers receiving Informational ervice are referredto the clinic by written request by some local public agency having authority to do so. Referral slips will indicate what the clinic applicant's housekeeping problems are, and give assurance the homemaker will attend the clinic a designated number of times.No clinic will be opened until a minimum of 12 previously serviced homemakers have been recommended by the referral agency and accepted by the clinic supervisor.Within the range of subjects allowed, each woman attending the clinic will receive the assistanceshe most needs. The supervisor, orpractico or mercy KHimg,' quieuy advocated by certain Nazi quarters, has come into the spotlight in Germany.An officially approved film, Ieh Klage An” ('T Accuse”), has mad£ the question of killing mental defectives, invalids and the incurably sick, because they are “un-, productive” under the Nazi concept, one of public debate.At the same time the outspoken bishop of Muonster, Count Clemens August von Galen, has made an expose of Nazi “mercy deaths” and denounced the practice. Some months ago the Lutheran bi3hop, Theophil Wurnt of Wuerttemberg, also attacked “mercy death teaching in a letter addressed to Adolf Hitler.Bishop von Galen, who unhesitatingly speaks his mind and of late has even defied the Gestapo, warned that if the principle of “killing unproductive fellow creatures is recognized, then even the lives of crippled war veterans and the aged aren’t safe.“I have been assured that in the ministry of the interior and in the office of the reieh’s leader of physicians (health director), Dr. Leonardo Conti, no secret is made of the fact that a great number of insane in Germany already have been deliberately killed and In the future are to be killed,” he declared as recently as August 3 in a sermon at St. Lamberti's church, Muenster, Westphalia,Bishhop von Galen elaborated that statement in his sermon, now making the rounds of Germany in chain letter fashion.“For several months,” the bishop said, “we have heard reports that patients who have been ill for a long time and perhaps appear to be incurable have been forcefully removed from sanatoriums and asylums for the insane by orders from Berlin.“Begularly then, after a short time, a relative received notice that the person had died, the body had been cremated, and. the ashes could be delivered. A suspicion, bordering on certainty, exists generally that these numerous and unexpected cases of the death of the insane don’t happen of themselves but are intentionally brought about, that the teaching is being followed which maintains that one may destroy the lives of so-called 'persons unworthy to live,’ and so kill innocent persons if one thinks their lives are no longer of use to the nation and state.”This was a reference to the cardinal Nazi principle that the nation is everything and the individual nothing.“Only what is of use to the nation may be a biding guide for what we do or don’t do,” Dr. Conti recently said.The letter, quoting the bishop's letter, continued:“According to reliable information, lists are now being made up in. sanatoriums and asylums in theLlUUta WilU €13 OU-UilllCU U11U1UUUVtive countrymen,’ are to be taken away and in a short time deprived of their lives. The first transport left the institution at Marlenthal near Muenster in the course of this week (July 31).“As the cause of death, any kind of sickness is given. Because the body is immediately cremated, relatives and also the police later can no longer establish whether the sickness really existed and what was the cause of death.“The first transport of innocent persons condemned to death has left Marlenthal,” he continued, “and, according to what I hear, 800 patients already have been taken from the sanatorium at Warstein,” Going into the reasons given for the “mercy deaths, the bishop said that “according to the judgment of some doctor, according to theopinion of some commission, theyhave become 'unworthy to live,’ because, according to these judgments, they belong to ‘unproductive countrymen.’ One judges that they no longer can produce goods, they are like an old machine which no longer runs; they are like an old horse which has become incurably lame; they are like a cowwhich no longer gives milk.” “What does one do with such old* maohines?” the letter continued. “They are scrapped. What does- one do with a lame horse, with such unproductive cattle?—no, I won’t carry the comparison to the end.“If it is once conceded that men haVe the right to kill ‘unproductive fellow creatures’ and if at first it affects only poor helpless insane persons—then fundamentally the murder of all unproductive persons is given free rein, the murder of incurably sick persons and cripples unable to work, invalids of industry and the war, of us all whenwe become old and weak with age and therewith unproductive,“Then it is only necessary to issue a secret decree that the method tested on the insane also is to be extended to other unproductives, that this also may be used in incurable pulmonic patients, aged invalids, and soldiers seriously Injured in the war!MARINE’S REMARK TOO MUCH TO POINTJacksonville, N. C. — Iff5) —Two marines walking along a Jacksonville street fell in step with a stranger.“That’s a pretty house,” one marine commented upon approaching a dwelling. “Bet there’s prettywomen, there.”“There is,” replied the stranger, “my wife.”His invitation to dinner was declined by the red-faced . leathernecks.A“temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit is most conducive to mental activity.linnTTAV'TATA MMf lo* 4 A Vl•■mrtAiir*on
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Fri, Oct 10, 1941
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