Notes

A contest for the design of an emblem for the AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION is announced by Dr. J. K. Hall of Richmond, Virginia, President of the Association. The emblem will be used in the centennial celebration in 1944 of the American Psychiatric Association, which is the oldest organization of medical specialists in the country.

Those who conceived the undertaking were ever mindful of the fact that the severe crisis which our country and the whole world are now enduring imposes upon us the duty to preserve and further to develop all our cultural values, scientific and artistic. These in times of war seem to recede into the background and to run the risk of being lost under the hard pressure of military necessity and the psychological exigencies of the spirit of combat. The scientific and humanitarian tradition of the American Psychiatric Association might thus, in a manner and to a degree no matter how modest, combine with the creative drives of American art to salvage and to hold a few of our cultural values which are now subject to the ordeal by steel and fire.

This is the fourth war in the history of the American Psychiatric Association, which is approaching the conclusion of its first hundred years of life. The Association as a whole, and its individual members, served in all these crises. The association emerged from each national crisis fully and more united, ever growing in size, in influence, in education and in scientific medico-psychological progress. Its membership covers all the forty-eight States of the Union, and Canada.

Like so many of our great institutions and traditions, the Association was born in Philadelphia. One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence,