Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1935, Page 6

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Botb instrument and bench in perfect condition, and We assure you nothing can prob- ably ever be found elsewhere that will compare with the true beauty of tone this instrument actually possesses. Now reduced during this manufacturer's sale. EASY PAYMENTS ENTIRELY FREE From Finance Companies’ Excessive Charges Manufacturer's Branch Store in Baltimore, at another Catholic in- stitution, and at various parochial schools. The intent was to get un- der the surface of the devclopment of religious - thinking during the transition period from childhood. Va- rious safeguards were adopted to pre- vent the boys from merely recording what had been suggested to them or what they thought it would be proper to say—one of which was the promise of absolute secrecy. Underlying Consideration. Father Nagle found that the boys were stirred and perplexed by many things which did not appear on the surface and that not infrequently the estimate which a teacher would get from a youth's overt' behavior is totally inadequate when one knows what the subject really is thinking. There is a progressive development, he finds, from the twelfth year on- ward, with an extremely critical pe- riod arising at about the fourteenth year when the familiar moorings of childhood are shaken or washed | away by new experiences, doubts of authority and original thinking be- ! gin to appear, and the boy becomes | outstandingly self-conscious. | starting with the 12-year-old, | Father Nagle concludes from his { diary studies: “He is extremely ortho- | dox and prides himself more upon | acquired knowledge than upon mani- | festations of originality. He stands | apart from older and younger broth- ers caught between the frec imagery of credulous childhood and the free thinking of adolescense. We have found evidence that his religion is very objective and very much ready | made. Disillusion and violent temp- tation have not yet made it a,per- { sonal thing reaching in to affect | him, but rather he sits apart in a phiiosophic attitude and gazes on the | unseen world which is being un- folded before him. The justice of God is impressive, ingsmuch as it will be meted out to the world, but not so much as it applies to himself. Obedience to superiors, justice and fair play in dealing with his asso- ciates seem to be based on mixed | motives—partly because there is a God | who sees such things and partly be- | cause these things are expedient.” 13-Year-Old Different. The 13-year-old, Father Nagle | found, was differentiated from the younger group by a rather sharp rise in originality. He concludes: “The solemnity with which tne 12-year-old repeated stories from the Bible has given way to a much more familiar style and stories are embellished with personal touches as the narrator's confidence increases. “Self has reached a higher peak of importance than before, but the boy is still very righteous, although he is less a world hero. Self criticism has not yet made a conspicuous appear- ance and although shortcomings are mentioned it is usually in the same breath with an assurance or promise of improvement. Authority still is an external thing and the taskmasters in the persons of parents and teach- ers are not half as exacting as the taskmaster of a few years later—the boy’s own awakening conscience.” But at 14 on an average—or at an equivalent age, depending on the boy’s rate of development—the storm breaks, the self becomes the center of the picture, the boy is assailed by doubts which can be solved satisfactorily only in his own mind, and for the first time there is a breaking away from dogma and a reinterpretation in terms of one’s own experience. The boy is no longer satisfied to take some- body’s word for it. This is a transition period, Father Nagle points out, between two ad- justments to the world. The boy be- gins to speculate between God and the universe. Somewhere in the 13- year-old period two lines of charac- ter are beginning to diverge from the common pattern of boyhood which is likely to characterize the individuals in their adult lives. One is toward practical shrewdness, the other toward generous simplicity. Perhaps for the first time Father Nagle has got at the genesis of two fundamental types of character in mankind. Fight at Ball Game. He illustrates these developments in the diaries of two representing the extreme of each type. The one is always practical. He is lazy, but he resolves to do his work right to keep out of trouble. He has a fight at a base ball game: “When I was at bat a ball came over my head and the umpire said ‘strike one’. I was mad and thought I could fight him, but when we fought 1 he knocked me so that I could not | say a word, and that gave me a lesson g l’Eate“juslz to others who I could not Presumably, in common with his kind the world over, he was not es- pecially concerned with justice to- ward those whom he could fight. The same boy was day-dreaming | while attending mass. He was having a glorious fight with another boy, which took his thoughts entirely from the progress of the service. That day he hit a smaller boy, who told his brother, who proceeded to administer to the dreamer a sound threshing in Teal life. That taught him a lesson. He would not day dream at mass any more because it resulted indirectly in a threshing, and there might be some mystical repetition of the experience, ‘This boy forgets to say his prayers before going to bed. As a result his conscience hurts him and he cannot sleep. Henceforth he resolves not to neglect his prayers—lest he suffer another sleepless night. The very frankness of the diary entries indicate the youth’s complete naivete. He cannot comprehend any other motive | for conduct than its practical results. Strikingly different are the equally naive entries in the diary of the other 14-year-old. There is no con- | sideration of the practical and the | earthly. His conscience also is hurt | by his shortcomings, not because he expects some disadvantage from them | but because they are wrong in them- | selves. This lad is following the hard road of the children of Mary, yet not without certain faults of his own, for, very strangely indeed, he records from his own experience an incident strik- ingly like a well-known one from the Bible: “Many a time during the day I remember of our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ and His sufferings. At one time I was 50 impressed with the sufferings P THE SUNDAY BSTAR, WASHINGTON, that I could fall right down where I was and cry my eyes out for having offended Him. But as this thought keeps pressing I say a prayer of thanksgiving that I'm not like some of the rest of the fellows.” Depth of Boyish Tragedies. Perhaps few adults realize the depth of some of the tragedies in the life of the 14-year-old as brought out in the diaries kept for Father Nagle, as in the case where being called a “girl” precipitated a major emotional experience worthy of supernatural interference in the cause of eternal justice. He will “pray to Our Lord and ask Him to guide me, and to stop the boys from teasing me and calling me names and all other things, es- pecially saying things about me which I never Gid.” As Farther Nagle sums period: “With the realities the life up of crossing his path, the boy dreams less and less of being a despot in an in- credibly powerful and besutiful land far away and is enraged almost to tears because some one called him s girl. He thinks less of souls going to heaven or hell in wholesale numbers and talks rather of his own dominant faults and virtues. When he was a child it was the world about which absorbed him. Now it is rather him- self, and the acute sensitiveness ac- companying this change of view is the reason for the bashful awkward- ness and feeling in inferiority which brings so much suffering. On the verge of life he stands, conceiving |the great things and fancying himself doing great things, but because of lack of experience he is beat:n down by problem after problem. His habit of D. C, JANUARY 6, turning in upon himself forbids his asking for help.” ‘Through the 15th and 16th years the diaries show an increasing ad- justment to the real world with increasing experience, and the emo- tional storms die away in the hard business of meeting the practical af- fairs of life. There begins even to be retrospection and the 15-year-old worlding voices his vain regrets over the follies of a wasted youth. It is & picture of universal boyhood which stands out of these naive rec- ords of the musings of adolecense on the great questions of life, death and hereafter collected by Pather Nagle. He closes his story by an entry of a parochial school boy which is somewhat aside from the objective of the study but the 15-year-old’s indig- THE NATIONAL'S JANUARY (oms SENSATIONAL REDUCTIONS! 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W. 1935—PART ONE. nation will strike a familiar note in the recollections of many: “I was misjudged by one of the sisters today,” he says. “She accused me of going off the grounds for the purpose of talking to a girl. It was partly true and partly false, because the girl didn't show up.” Dinner at Y. W. C. A. CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM SUBJECT OF BROADCAST Three Members of Commission ‘Will Speak During Observ- ance of Special Week. Dr. Hazel Stiebeling, nutrition ex- | Service pert of the Department of Agriculture, will speak at a dinner of the Business and Professional Women of the Associa- ning at the Y, W. C. A. Mrs. Eileen Scott-Williams and several assistants from the Elizabeth Arden studio also will be on the program. eek, for January 13-19 by the American Pederation of Government Employes. President Harry B. Mitchell will isunch the talks at 4:45 pm. Tues- day; Commissioner Lucille Foster McMillin will follow on January 15, and Commissioner Leonard D. 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