Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1936, Page 4

BABCOGK JALLED ON DRUNK CHARGE Former Head of U. S. Work- ers’ Federation Collapses After Arrest. Arrested early last night following #° crash near New Alexandria, and charged by park police with driving intxdicated and leaving the soente of the collision, E. Claude Bab- cdck, former president of the Amer- ican Federation of Government Em- ployes, collapsed as he was leaving Alexandria JJail and was taken to Alexandria Hospital. \His condition was described as %good,” but a friend said he had been [ d Babcock would be confined two or three days. He has long been n ill health as the result of war- time injuries, and has had recurrent heart attacks. Policemen E. B. Cullember and J. E. Bhawhan, who made the arrest, sald they had started in pursuit of Babcock shortly before 6, o'clock, when they observed his car going at ‘“excessive speed.” They followed him 4 miles st a rate of 85 miles an hour, they yeported. Near New Alexandria, his car was sald to have side-swiped one driven by Donald R. Jack of Alexan- dria. Both vehicles were damaged. Babcock, according to the officers, con= tinued on his way, and was overtaken pepr Hunting Creek Bridge. He was held in Alexandria Jail for Beveral hours until the arrival of his attorney, Raymond Gitbelman, who artanged the $500 Bond asked by the arresting officers and fixed by United States Commissioner John Barton Phillips. The commissioner set the hearing for 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. Babcock’s collapse came as he was starting from the jail, and friends gook him to the hospital. Babcock, who resides at 3301 Mili- tary road, stepped out of the A. F. G. E. presidency in September after & controversy with other leaders who in- stituted recall proceedings. They ac- cused him of political activity in- volving the authoriship of an attack on the “spoils” policies of the Roose- velt administration that was circulated by the Republican National Committee. Recently, he has been forming a mew organization of Government workers. . Spain ‘(Continued From Pirst Page.) —_— diately learned, but flames could be seen shooting high from Parla. During the third visit the rattle #nd roar of machine guns and anti- sircraft pieces, coupled with the howl of the warning sirens, added to the panic of throngs crowding the streets. Red lights and tracer bullets gave color to the grim scene, and street cats continued to run through it all. Bombing Near Rail Station. ‘The only bomb dropped on the third ¢rip of the Fascist aircraft, landed in the Paseo de San Vicente, near the north railroad station, shatter- ing windows in the vicinity and spraying the walls of apartment houses with shrapnel. ’ Afrplane detectors, however, had ob- served the approach of .the three bombing planes and pedestrians, among them Miss McKay, were given eample warning to seek shelter. The American girl had been visit- {ng friends and was walking homeward on Huerto street when the sirens sounded. As she huddled in a door- way with dozens of Madrid residents, the bomb exploded and pieces of sharpnel buried themselves in the building. Of the 189 killed in the Madrid area in yesterday’s bombardments, 147 died within Madrid itself. Only 22 of these had been identified late today. Most of the victims were women and children. Many were mangled, their faces scarcely recognizable, The air raid alarms today inter- rupted inspection of bodies in morgues. ‘The government, in an effort to facili- tate {dentification of the dead, ordered minute descriptions of clothing and characteristics of victims posted at the central morgue. Hundreds of friends and relatives of the missing scanned the lists. In the first visit to the capital to- day, the Fascist bombers flew over the extreme western outskirts of the city and were seer only by residents of that section because of a thick mist, Pass Business Center. On their second trip, three planes taking advantage of the mist which screened them from government anti- aireraft guns, passed directly over the center of the business district. A number of shells were fired in their general direction, however, before they flew off to bomb the nearby vil- lages. The civil population, tasting the first horrors of modern warfare, thronged to hospitals seeking rela- tives and friends among the 360 per- sons injured in Friday’s bombard- ment. At Getafe, aviation center on the ecapital’s southern outskirts, authori- ties counted 42 dead and 150 wound- ed, many of whom were not expected to recover. REBELS SINK LOYALIST SHIP, Fascist Cruiser and Gunboat in Battle in Catalan Waters. PERPIGNAN, France, October 31 (P)—The Spanish Fascist cruiser Canarias sank a Spanish government gunboat today after earlier bombard- ing the Catalan village of Rosas, said reports reaching here tonight. The gunboat, Catalan authorities announced, opened fire on the cruiser for declining to state its identity and the reason for its presence in Catalan waters. The Canarias replied with one shell, which sent the gunboat to the bottom, officials said. Coastal batteries were strengthened along the Catalan shore after the cruiser hurled shells into fishermen’s homes, killing several and wourfding 30, at Rosas, 35 miles south of here. Government guns drove the vessel away from the shore, but authorities indicated they feared the insurgents might renew the attack with more ships. Heavy guns were placed in the vicinity of Rosas and troops were hur- ried northward from Barcelons to prevent the landing of Fascist (An official announcement in Barcelons said 40,000 men were sent to the coastal region near Rosas following an insurgent at- tempt to land troops.) D. C, NOVEMBER 1, 1936—PART ONE. High Lights of Shipping Strike No. 1—Called out by the maritime strike, the entire crew of the Point Vicente walked off at Portland, Oreg., yesterday with their duffile packed. This scene was typical of ships in all Pacific Coast ports. No. 2.— held telephone conversation in his efforts to settle the strike. No. 3—Harry Myers receivin four men while distributing st ward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, pictured at San Francisco s he first aid at New York after he was knocked unconscious by e literature on the waterfront.—Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. A Tests of Child Frustration May Be Key to Education BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Prustration of °children causes measurable levels of behavior. : Experiments which may have a profound bearing not only on educa- tion and the theories of psychoan- | alysts, but on humar progress in gen- eral, were described before the So- clety for Research in Child Develop- ment meeting here yesterday by &g, Kurt Lewin of the University of Jowa. First a group of children were turned loose in a play room and sup- plied with a few simple toys. After they had adjusted themselves to play- ing with these toys they were taken out for a few minutes and the room made twice as large by raising a par- tition. The old toys were left and many new ones added. Naturally, the children wcre de- lighted with the change. But as soon as they had become thoroughly ac- customed to the new setting they once more were removed and the room re- stored as it had been at first—only the youngsters could see the other half and the extra toys through a wire screen which had replaced the Yegressions to lower age| partition. There was no way, how- ever, for them to get their hands on them. Now the children had been content- ed enough in the first set-up, when the few toys were all they knew about. They probably had not really been happier with the riches of play mate- rial—which to them represented all | that wealth and prestige represent to | adults—provided in the second set-up. 4 But in the third set-up they were mis- | erable—although it was precisely the | same as the one in which they had | been happy before. They were in the position of men who had lost their wealth, or of persons struggling to- ward an unattainable goal, or of workers knowing that nothing they can do will bring them any more re- ward. 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But once the children were placed in the frustrating situation, Dr. Lewin found, their behavior began to revert to lower age levels to a degree commensurate with the amount of the frustration they had experienced. Children who had reached the point of long imaginary conversations over the toy telephone went back months in their behavior scale and used the instrument as a rattle once more. Those who had been drawing neat pictures of houses began covering sheets of paper with meaningless scrambles of lines, as they had done months earlier. The children also were tested on a scale of moods based on the fact that the younger the child the less respon- sible is its behavior. The small infant tries to get what it wants by temper tantrums and crying. As it grows older it replaces these with argument and persuasion. The rate of these changes can be measured for any particular child. Dr. Lewin and his aides used two degrees of frustration. With the most severe test they found that the chil- dren regressed as much as 26 months in the play scale and as much as 115 months in the mood scale. With the milder test the children averaged three months regression in play construc- tiveness, In no case, Dr. Lewin stressed, was the experiment carried to the point where it was cruel to the children and all quickly recovered when restored to normal conditions once more. They were not allowed to play in the lux- urious set-up long enough for it to make a permanent impression on them. The significance of the test, it was stressed, lies in its philosophical im- Pplications. The idea of regression as a basis for various types of insanity long has been a favorite one with psychoanalysts. They contendd that when an individual is confronted with an unsolvable problem, a natural way to get out of it is by “psychic flight” —back to happfer days of childhood, then back to the still more untroubled days before birth, and then even fur- their back to complete non-existence, when, of course, there were no trou- bles whatsoever. This is known as the “death drive,” and supposedly often ends in actual suicide. Step by step the integration of the personality which has been built up with :ncreas- ing experience breaks down. It also is noteworthy, it was stressed, that the adult who “goes to pieces” or into a temper tantrum when affairs go wrong is reverting to the types of behavior which always worked in early childhood when ‘weeping at- tracted the attention of its parents, who did for it what it colild not do for itself. Frustration Magnitude. For the first time, in the Uni- versity of Iowa experiments, not only has thfs been demonstrated as a fact, but a means found ef actually meas- uring the rate of regression and the demonstration made that its speed depends upon the magnitude of the frustration. The measurements re- ported were averages. Many differ- en:es{ were! t::‘;mgh l;le;:i:en individuals. ew of the especiall; the mild frustration exfirmzcu, d’;m‘? onstrated another mechanism stressed by the psychoanalysts—that of sub- limation. When they found that they couldn’t get at the cherished toys through the wire screen, they pro- ceeded to make themselves substitutes —either actually -out of the materials at hand or in their imaginations. These corresponded to the type of persons, apparently very few in number, who thrive on adversity. ‘This first actual measurement of one of the psychoanalytical drives, it was T~ —— R i i o 14th and G Sts. 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Mrs. Isobel MacLean, whose hus- band’s modest salary in an office posi~ tion enables her to maintain a cozy home, Mrs. Arthur Timleck, wife of an employe of the department of parks. Mrs. John Nagle, whose husband has been often without work during the depression years. Despite their prayers for a last- minute “miracle” Mrs, Peter Romas, wife of a part-time chef, amd Mrs. Grace Bagnato, a court interpreter, did not bear the babies they expected right up to the closing hour today. Both needed the babies to qualify with nine, although Mrs. Bagnato, with seven registered, claims two others during the 10-year period. The final development, which some had thought would be a birth, actu- ally was a burial. The 3-months-old infant Blanche, last born of the Tim- leck children, was buried under the dull October sky almost at the very hour the stork derby ended. Among the inany flowers that cov- ered the plain white casket were of- ferings from other marathon nfothers. The card of Mrs. Lily Kenny—who still insists she is the champion mother, although only 9 of the 12 children she claims to have borne are registered—bore this inscription: “I lost my baby, 1936, Child Vendor Millar Kenny. I realize you are a broken mother, same as 1.” (Mrs. Kenny's baby, born last Feb- | ruary 4, died within a few hours. The | infant was named in memory of| Charles Vance Millar, in whose honor Mrs. Kenny plans to erect a mauso- leum with part of her stork derby | income, if any.) ‘Would Aid Hospital. Mrs. Timleck was too upset by her child’s death to give much thought | to the baby race. Her only com-| ment was that if she should share in the legacy, she would use part of it| to endow a cot at the hospital for sick children where her baby died. If Millar, in bequeathing his wealth to the most prolific Toronto mother, | hoped to spur childbearing to new | numerical records, his hope was not | realized. The final standings indi- cate that births occurred at inter- vals of slightly more than a year. Four of the mothers claim they have borne 10 children in the last decade—Mrs. Kenny, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Timleck and Mrs. Nagle. In each case, however, at least one birth has been questioned, and all—excepting Mrs. Kenny—have agreed to avoid litigation by claiming only nine each. Most of the marathon mothers at- tended the Timleck funeral. For some OU'RE going to ask “How long i has this been going on?”” when you see West-Fruhauf Clothes...It is going to amaze you to see tailoring and styling that are as faithful to the highest custom ideals as the custom tailor him- self ... Ready to put on and wear... and wear. “FINE AS CUSTOM HANDS CAN MAKE” West-Fruhauf Clothes $50 to $95 Only at Sidfi'éy West, inc. 14th & G Sts. , EUGENE C. GOTT, President of them it was the second gathering. ‘The meeting was at a “stork derby entrants’ picnic” last Summer, One hundred and twenty children, all under 10, are represented in the families of mothers who are regarded as contenders. Many, however, have died. To Attend Hearing. The 14 mothers who have filed claims with the executors of the will are expected to attend a court hear- ing next Priday. At that time, the executors hope, the court will pass finally upon the question of the will's validity and also name the winner or ‘winners. Present also will be representatives of Mrs. Arabella West and Alexander Butcher, two elderly people from Port Burwell, Ontario, who are challeng- ing the will'’s validity as next of kin. They are the niece and nephew, re- some lawyers have said is its most vulnerable point, “the question of whether the ‘mothers’ clause’ is not ‘contrary to the public good.’” Mrs. West and Butcher, in their writ, call ihe marathon clause “scandalous.” Premier Hepburn of Ontario went even further last week and dubbed’ the stork derby “the most revolting, disgusting exhibition ever witnessed in a civilized country.” Although it has been constantly referred to as a “race,” the designa- tion has not been entirely accurate, for some of the mothers found thems= selves contenders without even know= ing of the Millar prize. Mrs. Mac~ Lean, for one, did not make her entry known until two days ago, explaining “we have had many children because we wanted them. We never dreamed a mere nine would win.” Mrs. Timleck is another mother spectively, of a step-aunt of Millar's. They have attacked the will on what ESTA who came into the race without any previous thought of the legacy. 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