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bitter," the recording repeats. Apparently many of the sleeping children become convinced, find their fingernails do taste bitter, and drop the habit. A California pediatrician reports success in as high as 70% of cases in the last twelve years where he has had parents talk to children with bed-wetting problems while they were asleep—and this after only two or three nights' repetition. Today's electronic equipment, of course, saves the lung power of the parent while achieving the same results. Therapy combined with sleep has been reported effective in connection with special problems and social betterment. Dr. James Odell, Coordinator of Adjunctive Therapies at the Parsons, Kansas, training school, conducted an experiment with retarded and mentally disturbed children. He selected two young girls with an I.Q. of twenty-five and forty respectively, who had difficulty pronouncing the letter "R." He played a sleep-tape for them on which were various words containing the letter "R." This, combined with speech therapy sessions, resulted in the children using the letter "R" correctly after twenty-one days. Adults whose problems have landed them in prison have voluntarily participated in a sleep-therapy experiment in the Woodlake Road Camp near Visalia, California, in Tulare County. The tape message is based on the belief that a desire for self-punishment is the main reason for crime, and is intended to overcome this desire. A recording played at specific intervals during the night drones, "Sleep, sleep, you are now completely in sleep. Listen, my inner self. Remember and obey this