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Need for Low Fee Psychiatric CareBoro Wide Health ProblemmmiSome 2,000 persons of all agescalled upon the free Informationand Referral Service of theBrooklyn Association for MentalHealth for assistance with awide range of problems lastyear, according to Mary E.Brooks, executive director of theAssociation, located at 30 ThirdAve.In reviewing the types of calls,Miss Brooks termed the lack ofsufficient low cost diagnosticand treatm ent facilities forchildren in immediate need ofpsychiatric care, %u201c an acuteboroughwide health problem.%u201dShe said that there is no Statein-patient or residential facilityfor emotionally disturbedchildren in Brooklyn, and thatfacilities of this kind aredesperately needed. Requestsfn rhare not overcrowded, MissBrooks pointed out.\Brooklyn children nowhospitalized in Kings Park StateHospital, about 50 miles away,and in the Queens Children%u2019sHospital, two hours fromBrooklyn by subway and bus. Itis estimated that half of these300 youngsters visit their homesfor short periods and thenreturn to the distant hospitals,because there are no facilitiesfor them where they live. Thereare two federally funded mentalhealth centers in the borough.Neither of these has in-patientor residential facilities fordisturbed children.%u201dAbout 85 per cent of thetreatment resource referralscallers by the Associationeither for free or moderateclinics or social agencies.ie majority of personsquesting aid from the BAMHe strapped financially andHd not locate a treatmentiurce on their own, Missirooks added. This also includedthe Medicaid and non-veterangroups.Finding low fee treatmentcenters also is a problem forfamilies in need of psychiatrichelp. Even the moderate costlicensed clinics are charging $15jr more per session. Privatere, Miss Brooks explained, isit of reach for the vast nurn%u00ad's of families coming to thejentiori of the Association.JTie 1973 Information andjal Service of the Brooklynition for Mental Healthhat the serious absencejvay homes and day care'or those requiring posttalization andLongWay TeaOn Saturday, February 2,MANUAL TRAINING-JOHN JAYmarked its 80th year, that muchtime having elapsed since thewinter's day in 1894, whenManual Training teachersgreeted their first class ofstudents. The school is nowwhich were common to thetimes.1. Teachers each day will filllamps, clean chimneys, and trimwicks. 2. FaC^ te a rh p r w ill b rin e a bucket of water and a shuttleof coal for the day's sessions. 3.Make your pens carefully. Youmay whittle nibs to the individual tastes of the pupils. 4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.5. After ten hours in school.the teacher should spend theremaining time reading theBible or other good books. 6.Women teachers who marry orengage in unseemly conduct willbe dismissed. 7. Every teachershould lay aside from each day agoodly sum of his earnings forhis benefit during his decliningyears so that he will not becomea burden to society. 8. Anyteacher who smokes, uses liquorin any form, frequents pool orn n h l i r h a llc n r a n te c h a v o H in a%u2022 o ~ ~ %u2014barber shop will give goodreason to suspect his worth,intentions, integrity, andhonesty.9. The teacher who performs his labors faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five centsr T %u00a3 i r %u2019 %u2018 ,'ccrc 1/ %u2022 Fn %u2022 r~ *%u2022>-%*, H H i r u tI V V C C r \\ M l i n o v p i u v i u u i t jthe Board of Education approvesrehabilitation in professionallysupervised neighborhoodresidences was evident by themany pleas received by theorganization. This particularkind of problem surfaced severalyears ago under the flexible\policy, and the current emphasison community care placements.A number of these calls requiredfollow-up telephone counselingand planning meetings at theAssociation's offices at 30 ThirdAvenue in Brooklyn. TheAssociation is a strong advocateof decent, professionallysupervised facilities for childrenand adults in fam iliar environments as a means of obtaining effective treatment forthe mentally ill.Borough residents seekinghelp from the BrooklynAssociation for Mental Healthwith emotional problems areadvised to call the professionalcounselor on duty Tuesday andThursday evenings, from 6 to 9p.m. at Main 4-5191.Ft. Greene is the Real Thing!Dear Sir:I was shocked to read Beverly Moss Spatt%u2019s off the cuff remark that Fort Greene is not a genuine Historic District. To say the least it is inappropriate, as Ms. Spatt is the new Commissioner of The Landmarks Preservation Committee and Fort Greene%u2019s application for landmark status is now pending before that body. But most importantly it is simply not true. Fort Greene is a landmark. Historically it is Brooklyn%u2019s second communityand developed essentially between 1850 - 1875 as The Heights filled up and Brooklyn expanded eastward. Architecturally it contains the best surviving examples of Italianate and French Second Em pire brownstone roehouses in the eintire city.For The Phoenix to print such a remark without eliciting further explanation from her is irresponsible. I don%u2019t mean to emulate the ancient Greeks and kill the messenger for the bad news he carries but I do believe thatnewspapers should have certain standards and have the initiative to follow up with clarifications of provacative statements.Fort Greene is made up of a racially and ethnically mixed group of citizens who are proud of their unique heritage and we will fight to preserve it - even if Spatt has to get the boot.Yours truly Martin Goldstein President, South Portland Block AssnAdvises Mayor that LandmarkCommissioner's Got Wrong IdeaThe Editor:I am glad you published the interview with Beverly Moss Spatt. It prompted my writing the attached letter to the Mayor,She lives in the Heights and her husband the doctor can walk to work! Greart!I hope the Mayor takes some action because we do not need civil servants like Mrs. Spatt.Thanks for printing this in your paper.state. Thisis duly noted in the second attachment.1 can hardly agree with her statement that landmark status eliminater the middle class (she said %u201creal%u201d middle class, whatever that means), since I moved to Fort Greene two years ago, and God knows, I am middle class, since 1 ain%u2019t poor and I ain%u2019t rich.The third attachment is a notice of a meeting Monday, March 25th,at 8:00 p.m. in Fort Greene, called by the Fort Greene Landmarks Preservation Committee. I hope you will send Mrs. Spatt to attend. She lives not far away in Brooklyn Heights, which has tJhe status we are seeking, and she may learn something about city planning which all her college degrees have not taught her.Yours truly, 'Thomas Ferdinand.Thomas Ferdinand 289 Cumberland St. Hon. Abraham D. Beame Mayor City Hall New York, N.Y.Issue Demandsto MethodistDear Mr. Beame1 am attaching three Xerox copies, which I hope you will read.The first is an interview with Beverly Moss Spatt. whom you appointed as Landm arks Preservation Commissioner. This article appeared in the March 14th issue of %u201c The Phoenix%u201d , our weekly newspaper. Perhaps you have seen it.Mrs. Spatt says: %u201cRight now, a lot of neighborhoods that aren%u2019t genuine historic districts (Fort Greene) have petitioned for landmark status just to save themselves lrom demolition.'With this attitude, Mrs. Spatt should be removed as Commissioner at once.The whole point of getting landmark status is to STOP demolition and bring these fine old buildings back to a useful condition without costing the city or the taxpayers anything, and her statement that Fort Greene is .not a genuine historic district is refuted by many intelligent people in this city andThe following is an open letter to Vernon Stutzman, Executive Director, and John Willem, Chairman Board of Managers, Methodist Hospital, from The Ad Hoc Committee for Justice..Dear Messrs. Stutzman and Willem:We members of the Park Slope* Community have been active over a period of years concerning the expansion policies of Methodist Hospital.When on Jan. 31, 1973, the workers at Methodist Hospital voted by a large margin for Local 1199 Drug and Hospital Workers Union to represent them, we felt that at last the workers would have the job security, wages and working conditions to better provide the patient care we all desire.We see that we were wrong. In the same way that the Hospital has shown its contempt for the Park Slo|>e-South Brooklyn Community in its destruction of sound housing and in its lack of concern for improving health care in the Clinics and Em ergency Room, the Hospital has refused for over u year to recognize the results of the State Labor Relations Boardsponsored election. Further, the State Labor Relations Board turned down the Hospital%u2019s appeal of the election and upheld the Union.Finally on March 19, 1974 this foot-dragging by the Hospital Administration provoked a walkout by over 200 Hospital employees. The Hospital has responded by suspending 40 %u25a0 50 of%u2018 I--------------------- II 1 %u00ab ____I u. . r;m u o t r t i i u %u00bb* u m v . u u u i u n u u j * i t i %u00abi ^Mr. Vincent Dugo, the Union Delegate and a resident of our community.We demand that the Hospitalrecognize its responsibility to its employees, patients and the community by:1 Imm ediately agreeing to recognize the Union which hasLx'rr. i , , , l A A I I U t . l l h H . l U t l V . U i i y 1 IV V i v Vi W > i t , )own employees.on* \PrlQT 14