Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1930, Page 7

CHILDHOOD TRENDS SEEN IN MATURITY Mental H‘ygienists Shown Im- portance of Infant Training. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Early infancy may decide a person in good or bad, weak or strong, gentle or cruel, stable or neurotic. Importance of events in those dark years below censcious memory and in the succeeding playtimes of childhood and adolescence were discussed from many viewpoints before the World Conference on Mental Hygiene here today. All the qualities of the adult per- sonality generally are present in the 3-year-old, said Prof. G. C. Ferrari of the University of Bologna, Italy, one ot the world’s foremost authorities on adolescence. While the child's life is controlled by adults these qualities may remain sub- dued and hidden, Dr. Ferran said, but the coming of adolescence awakens them and the bov “tries to assert him- self with an exuberance and violence that seems proportional only to the length of time he has been forced into silence.” Adults Intrude Clumsily. “Generally, the attempt of adillts to Ppenetrate the shut-in emotional world * he when the parents intervene when' they come unexpectedly on the tears that the child seeks to hide.” Some of the most important events in life happen in the first two years, sald Dr. Marion E. Kenworthy of the New York School for Social Work. The uppermost activity in the infant's mind is feeding and any notable revo- lution in the feeding routine, she said, may give rise to such emotional expres- sions as thumb sucking, food fads and stammering. These bring threats and unishment from the parents, causing further emotional involvement which may eventually warp the whole char- acter. Child Geniuses Lonely. ‘The child genius is likely to lead a lonely life. ‘While soclety spends millions on fecble-minded children gifted young- sters, who are likely to contribute much | to the progress of the world, are ne- glected, Prof. Leta S. Hollingsworth of Columbia University told the congress today. he gifted child, she said, often “drifts in school unrecognized, his abilities never genuinely challenged, and receives daily practice in habits of idleness and day-dreaming. On the other hand, if he is accelerated in grade 80 that he is able to function intelli- gently with real interest, he will be mis- placed. A child of eight graded with 12-year-olds may be able to do intel- lectual work as well as they can, but ‘éull)ut of his depth socially and physi- y. The American college is a fruitful fleld for the psychiatrist, Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles of Yale University told the congress, stressing the number of break- downs and suicides among college stu- dents and the number who fail to amount to anything after graduation. “When we read in our daily pape: , “of three suicides among co! lege men in one day we must realize that either our college material is not well selected or that some of the well selected material is put under too much stress and strain.” Prolonged childhood and adolescence, together with changing conditions in the American home, are bringing new problems in the train ing of the younger generation, said Mrs. Sidonie M. Gruen- berg, director of the Child Study Asso- ciation of America. “The modern home,” she said, “has lost certain edu- cational and disciplinary opportunities Which existed before the introduction of labor-saving improvement—the dis- cipline of disagreeable but indispensable ice, the challenge to ingenuity and invention and the daily exercise in adaptability. “Both conscious and unconscious re- sentment against the control implied by economic dependence are unavoidable. ‘The opportunity to earn should be a part of every child’s experience. Defectives Can Earn Living. Many mental defectives can be trained to earn a living and still be kept in their own homes, said Evelyn Fox, sec- retary of the British Association for Mental Welfare. The establishment of occupation centers for imbeciles and low-grade feeble-minded children, rath- er than institutions, was advocated. Even a murderer in Holland may get off with a fine of 30 cents and a day in jail, Eugenia C. Lekkerkerker, dele- gate from the Netherlands, told the Congress, These, she said, are the minimums of indeterminate sentences which may | be_imposed for any crime. Punishment is no longer according to the crime, but according to the in- dividual criminal “Moral insanity,” still is recognized in Prance, it was pointed out. It is held that some persons are born instinctively | bad, who feel the necessity of doing evil for its own sake and who cannot | be_reformed. They usuallyare highly intelligent, a French delegate said, and the best treat- ment for them is isolation Cuba has a unique institution which | solves the problem of abandoned chil- dren and which has been in existence from within a century of the discovery of America, said Dr. Pranscisco M | Fernandez of Havana. The hospital in | Havana, he said, is operated by Sisters | of Charity. When parents wish to get rid their children, illegitimate or | otherwise, there is no need to abandon | them The child can simply be placed | |'on a platform in front of the building at any time of the night. Its weight| | automatically rings a bell which brings | an attendant, who takes it and cares | for it until it is able to shift for itself. | Even 1if an adult comes to an attendant | with a baby questions are forbidden. | Matrimony Is Alded. | The children are taught means of | livelihood, said Dr. Fernandez. For the | | girls a matrimonial plan is in operation. | A countryman coming to the city in| search of a wife is shown quietly through the institution and if he sees a girl that meets his fancy the nuns | try to arrange a marriage. While the rest of the country is com- plaining of overcrowded jails, said Herbert C. Parson, deputy probation commissioner of Massachusetts, his State has not added a single cell for years and now has some good second- hand jails for sale for lack of inmates. This he credited to the prohation sys- tem and the extension of juvenile court methods to adult_justice. The position of the child in the family has changed so that it has be- come the center of attraction, but is treated as if it did not hold this posi- tion of its own right, but as an outlet for the emotions of its parents, said Dr. August Aichhorn of Vienna. Children, said Dr. K. Birnbaum of Berlin, have three distinct reactions to unpleasant situations—flight, deflance and avoldance. He defined the psy- chopathic _personality, responsible for much of the crime of the world, as an individual with reactions which come so quickly that they do not allow time for the Inhibition of these three to the demands of soclety. 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Before the members of Congress arrived to present him to the President, not only had the fish | been decapitated, but he had lost his beautiful tail. ‘There was excitement in the kitchen G_STAR, WASHINGTO BIG FISH, INTENDED TO BEGIFT TO |WILLARD SMITH CHOSEN IN KITCHEN FIRST Representative Snow Sews Salmon Together, So Present- ation Ceremony May Be Held Anyway. as the hour approached for the nffiv‘ cial presentation. Representative Snow | hurriedly called for needle and thread. | | and with haste. helped to sew the head back on | But having had little experience with | holding up salmon whose decapitated heads had been put back on with| thread, Mr. Snow felt uneasy about | holding the fisn up in the approved | fashion, with fingers through the gills. ‘The head might come off in the middle he | of the ceremony. | So a piece of wire was hooked through the fleshy part of the fish's tail, a | piece of paper was wrapped around the | dismembered end, and the beautiful big fish was duly presented to the President. It graced the White House table at the next meal, and both the | President and Mrs. Hoover partook of what proabbly will be the most famous fish of this administration. tor of personnel research of the Macy stores of New York. Civilization must have a new moral code based on objective science, Prof. Hornell Hart of Bryn Mawr College told a mass meeting of the congress and the American Psychiatric Association last night. Dr. Hart pictured the world as floundering between the disintergrating dogmatism of the Puritan and the un- restrained libertinism of the bolshevist, especially in matters of family organiza- tion and child rearing. The doctrine of libertinism, he aid, Washington, D. C. 823 Upshur St. N.W. Columbia 4873 THE ORIGINAL WHOLE MILK CHEESE FOOD | does not proceed from objective knowl- | edge, but from “wishful thinking,” and | marks no real progress beyond the | rigidity of the Puritan. “Dogmatic religion may provide a prop for a rapidly diminishing fraction | of the population, but the day of such | magical aids to morality is rapidly pass- | ing. The spirit of science affords a far | sounder and more permanent support | for a valid code of sex than the super- stitious dread of dogma. 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