"The idea that the present economic situation has greatly increased the number of suicides and enlarged the lists of admissions to our public and private asylums has furnished frequent head lines and much newspaper... All of us confess to a mental an emotional strain which exceeds any we ever knew... A pathetic feature of all our trouble is the fact that the young and still younger generations must bear the consequences. We see daily retrenchment in the measures we have fought so long to have established toward safe-guarding life and health. There is even greater menace in the feeling of lowered morale and self respect. The "American Journal of Public Health" recently said editorially, "a sense of security, psychological and economic, is essential to the maintenance of good mental health." The increase in idleness is responsible, we know, for the growth in trifling habits, and in petty property trespasses... Satisfaction of soul goes a long way toward a sound mind." (Chrisman, 1933).