New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 17

Minutely Computes the Varying Degrees of Radiant Heat Generated Wkhen Surprise msons a Girl's Cheek—an Interesting of Prof. Marston's Theories About the “New Sophistication or Embarrassment Posed by Maryland Jarbeau. By PROF. WM. M. MARSTON (Lecturer on Psychology at Columbia University; Author of “Emotions of Normal People,” etc.) N view of the sensibility and abun- I dant intelligence of the child mind, the real question today is not why the modern child is so sophisticated as compared with those of the past gen eration, but why he is not more sophis ticated. Probably the most important dis covery in child education of modern times is that the child intelligence does not have to be “talked down to.” In other words, by treating a child like a normal human being, with normal un derstanding, lies the road to progress in securing for civilization a better class of future grown-ups, more ef: ficient in work, less criminal, and with greater all-round social capacity. At the present time every father, every mother, every family of this country has become aware that it has a new set of children to deal with These children have They are more soph wonder what the new children mean in the making of the nation. Will it be for better or worse? Certainly this new liberty of speech and action of the children contains many splendid elemerits and in some respects lead us to hope for the dreamed-of race of super-men and women. One fly in the ointment, however, comes from the new sex knowledge of girls. The revolution that has taken place in that field is apparent. The new boy and the new girl are more in- telligent because better informed and with better training than the children of the past generation. But what will they do with this intelligence? The present generation of grown-ups is quite aware of the way in which the new realism has touched the child mind. “Keep still! You are too y~ung to talk!” That was the scolding attitude of the parents of the grown-ups now living. When family matt whether of business or home relations, were being discussed, the children of the older generation were told to go to bed, or to go out and play, or were somehow shut off from the conve tion. In other words, the children of the older generation were treated little short of so many young animals. For one thing, families were larger, there were so many children and neither the father nor the mother, engrossed in the toil of making both ends meet, had time to care for their minds. If the children were fed and clothed, that was about the limit of the strength of the parents. But today the picture has changed There are fewer children to a family; the material prosperity of the Ameri. can family is higher; there are better times for the children and for every- body, in a social sense, and, for a va. riety of reasons, there is abundant Lib. erty for the children—so much so that Anmerican children are regarded as the most spoiled on earth. The rod is Except there are no spared at home and at school. on the poorer farms, chores for the children and their hands are idle—whatever may be the state of their minds. Their new sophistication partly from the fact that they are per- mitted to ness matters, either by design or because comes ten in on family and busi. the parents are less etrict themselves those of the older when they are not downright careless and themselves spoiled by material prosperity, the desire to get some fun out of life, if not the looser-living in- fluences of the hip-flask, dishonesty in business, the lack of religious restraint and many criminal conditions. This old situation led educators to ask: Why it that children, poten tially so intelligent, grow up into stupid people The answer has in veen found by modern s ing the child mind. /hatever else may be n child, he is not knows everything t child of the older gener - was for: bidden to know. He as much about m. articularly of > of twenty or , too, this lack of in- often to start him It follows than generation, part certainly said of the pid. He innocent” nocence seer on a career How 60 Eager Clainpants Lost the $§300.000.000 Hopkins Fortune EMPIRE BUILDER Mark Hopkins, Railroad Genius, Whose Estate, Valued at From £90,000,000 to $300,000,000, Has Just Been Won Ly His Foster Son, Timothy, 72, and Other Defendants in the Vast [legal Battle. 5300,000,000 fortune bitterly bat tled for from coast to coast— and won by the adopted son of the man who left it “*hidden”? This, in a nutshell, is the history of ment in View is Amazed That Fiaming\{suih snit Even .But---the Psyichologists Do Point Out That the normal impulse to reach at what it wants by short-cuts and society forbids those short-cuts. About 65 per cent of the inmates of our prisons are boys and girls under 21 years of age. That fact either indicates that we still do not know how to bring up our children, that we do not take the trouble, or that with our justice or with the new | liberty of the children. Grown people have been changed by the World War in extraord inary ways, not only n regard to the honesty of men and the nioral- ity of women, not only in their mental outlook, but in their whole philosophy of living. It does not require much reffection to realiz that the children who were babi during that war, or who have been born since, should be changed by the same cataclysmic influenc We know that the human race, there's something wrong in a long-distance aspect. changes little, either physically or men- tally, from one thousand years to another, yet this human race has never before ut.der stress or press of physical and in tellectual The Machine Age has brought into our eve tangible phenomena th v years ago were wonders without parallel, the property of the gods and powers of darkness So the eternal “Wh of the child mind has taken on alarming pro. portions. “What would happen if the earth stopped turning?” This is a question today that is put by the child mind of four years of It took schoolmasters in fo a whole school term to children that the earth turned. they accept it unconsciou. as a fact to the logical result. tremendous interest of educa. tors and psychologists in the child to. day is founded on the information that the future of the nation and race can be moulded rightly if the right environmental been such change mer genera teach Today influences thrown about the fit children, up to the age of adolescence. . During that period not only the body but the mind changing inside and out. The child’s character consists of its emotions and the trends of behavior to which these emotions lead. Char- acter was once regarded as largely de. rived from heredity. Today we know there's moracto it. Whatever controls a person’s emotions controls his char- acter. The new psychology wants to build constructive emotions, and there- fore good character, by influencing properly the physical body and the brain of the child. The modern mother knows that her child’s body must have plenty of phys- ical exercise, but not always that its mind's growth demands something to keep it working and expanding. Out of this knowledge schools have quit making children sit long hours at a are i = estate, mants colossal Mark Hopk rd which six hundred ¢ stretched forth er hands. A pic jue touch o given the epic le for millions by the fact that the victor is himself a capitalist of note and a close friend of President Hoover. The ending to the contest for Mark Hopkins’s bags of gold came when, after a three-year skir in the Cali- fornia courts, the defendants, Timothy Lesser “Innocence” of Girls Does Not Emancipate Them from Love Follies Labes us t¥at continues to tasks. taught desk over mechanical atory psychology has while the grow until perhaps 20 years of body age, the average mind has ceased other words, it than the body. has a exercise. What the new child shall be taught until 14 remains for the gap. its growth at 14. In grows faster Therefore, it need of more vital most part a His moral PRODUCT OF ERA? Carl N. Mahan, 6, Sentenced to 15 Years in a Reformatory for K Cecil Vanhoose, in Kentucky. An Appeal Was Carried to a F Prof. Marston in the Accompanying Article Analyzes can no longer be controlled by old mythical fears. But one thing experi- ence seems to have proved in recent s that until that age “sex” has n properly taught, and that fa alone is responsible for greater youth- ful vice. Children have been left too much to guess at sex mieanings and to learn for themselves. The new liberty of girls and their lesser “innocence” do not seem to have brought them emancipation from PRESIDENT'S FRIEND Left to Right: Timothy Hopkins, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Timothy Hopkins and President Hoover Snapped at the Stanford-Santa Clara Football Game. Nolan Hopkins and his allied family were adjudged the rightful owners of the huge “stake.” The pl N right, 1929, Internattonal Feature Sersice, fne. G ’)'7 3 g, the follies of love copyboo made by h character build The danger of is a race of d women without vir . e se being sown abundantly now. sponsibility lies in part at the door of the fathers and m who have not furnished a good exam i nt ¢ More Flamin AMELESS YOUTH “Girl with Lamb,” from the Famous Painting by Greuze, French Artist, Regarded as spical of Early 19th Century ine Innocence, if Not Vapidity, Light of Modern Emancipated The Original Sold for 1,000,200 Francs in 1865. t lesson for th t liberty precious of re- w liberty of the child, in dis- f what others think, is an un- step In al uca- esents a striking forward navior. The normal st generation from h aught to > yard- , and r ; If we observe ourselves closely, we will find that in private we have secret thoughts and behave in a totally dif- ferent manner than when with other persons. THAT IS OUR NORMAL SELF. Yet the child which, too, has its secret conduct, learns quickly to regard it as abnormal and to hide it, just as do its elders. This truth represents one of the most ridiculous and at the same time appall- phases of so-called civilized be- or. We are chained, bound hand foot, abject SLAVES to the nor- t norr oing off, the new freedom for geheration striving t is to throw 0 ality under ty is laboring. > Central Pa- his_power was discov onal k_and n the Hopkins estate 1 ted at from $90,000.000 to £300,000,000 Upon publication the immense of the curit the landslide nt of the ther had bin my money iy Here from you 84 yeares old."” e adopted son, defendants, is E: He lives with his wife in an elaborate estate at Menlo Park, a tone’s throw from President Hoover's me on San Juan Hill. Timothy Hopkins, t ef of the toriou. R 7% 4 % ey A IR A s AT 3 4 g Tnernnnn /,,, e 7, X i vy, e i D A ) R R o 7 7 7 % i it L, rww I M09 s A Gonmmmmmmmmenmnmrm -