Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-03-18


am President, Ladies Of the Mon.
Nv Club. and Friends,
esteem II a very great honor to ap.
before your club, and assist, IL I
10 circulating the problem, which
row have under advisement, "The
deal Inspection Of the Public
l.sls" by reading to you tae opip.
y Of some able physicians who have
voted much time and study to this
j,e
b., be il remembered please, that 1
merely reading to you from the
bhngs Of these leaders in our profes.
y, and that in no sense an I deliver.
40 address. When I have finished
alpg extracts from these very ex.
Den, articles, ! shall give you q few
Uestious which my experience as n
IsAer and a physician, tells me il
" be worth your while TO consider.
Should you come to any conclusion
The premises, O committee from your
b could easily arrange q joint meet.
with the Medical society through
Graham, its secretary, or DR..
ponsy, its president, and ascertain
N, the status Of our local physicians
" be, and Just what assistance they
sd render you.
The frs, article that will read for
" Is by ". &. Hollopeter, A. NJ, ".
Philadelphia: g..
"Child study has become so uuivers.
topic that il mas reached the eli.
u Of o fad. Child culture has alb
sbsd society 10 such degree that ]
" that i, has lost its digni6ed pres.
r. Some one has said In one of our
4alar periodicals., that Whist the aver.
child needs nowsdays <Is q little
sOleome neglect. He In studied and
b~rtd and cultivated until he can,
J, take a long breath and take IL nat.
hIly.'" Another writer says that the
}, thing on earth that needs 20 be
AnP,d out quickly, in the American
u Of child culture and child study.
This is not true, however, in oar pro.
'siOpal relations; we must continue
agitation, not with the physician.
sd'nt of sociology, to whom IL is un.
raally attractive, but with the par
10, until they can appreciate what is
tihg done for their children among
teachers and physicians throughout
country. What we need, as physi-
ans IN our work among young child
y, is better mothers with intelligence
cooperate in the upbuilding Of the
alton, and until we gain that intelli'
shee among parents we make slow pro-
sss vita the greater number.
Undoubtedly, school life for the
0uhg, the child from Q to 10 years
1t is likewise. with the adult, is
'Owing rapidly more complex; work
now given TO children far beyond
Ser mental calibre--too much thor
'ghness is expected at the tender age
hence the tension on the body anc
fa'u is frequently disasterous and dis
True'ive Of symmetrical development
Multiplicity Of studies for the youni
hid creates an artificial, generally
'perheial mentality, and in tae en-
savor ia keep pace with the class
'hson is usually created with its in
anably disasterous reflex on the body
~ is not my function to sit In judg
heh' an the curriculum Of the primar,
'uool task that has occupied 10
h'hds Of our best educators from man.
ear" The present standard IL I'M
FOuoledly the outgrowth Of profoun
f'Ody, yet the marvellous revelations o
FYehology inform us that the averag
r'ua'nt cannot make uniform progres
~ The application of rules suited to
fA'ge number. The personal equatio
'aOu'd be more fully studied as to phi,
'Eal and mental power. This unusua
|''Iustment Of childish mentality dre'
'o''h the opinion Of Judge Sweeney, O
we juvenile court Of Newark, N. j
~ the Grinding Monotony" q
"'o0l life. lie is Of the opinion tina
~u'A Of the delinquency and dehe
'D'y OF youth is due TO the "grindin
"Onoiony' Of the schools. As delii
fDeney in the sense employed in tn
junction. relates not to the studyin
" 'He pupil as a student, but as men
WI OF society, the charge becomes
particularly grave one.
rev children abhor the imparting
'AO"ledge, and, when presented In q
''"aetive manner, with a good teaeh'
w par with the intellectual ealibl