The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-02-13

Il
yesterday afternoon of the "Psychoi
ogy OF the Twentieth Century Man.
His address was considered one Of thu
most interesting sessions Of the con
vention. He held the attention OF the
lcrowd In a way that proved they were
interested listeners The theme of his
address was as follows:
] Every race of man imagines himself
| different from every other race and
every generation of man has believed
that generation different from the pre-
ceeding generations. Some genera
tions have thought that the older gen.
Grafton were better men than them
selves but now the prevalent opinion
is that our generation has surpassed
the older generations by wider mar
gin. This, however, is not the case.
Man has not changed bit in stature
or otherwise since prehistoric times,
A man of today does not vary one inch
in stature from the men that inhaoit-
ed the earth some one hundred thous-
and years ago. The same is true OF
the mental powers. The babe that is
born today comes in on the same
plane that the babe did in prehistoric
times. Fundamentally they are the
same. This same thing can be said
about children of different races. IL
by some magic power all the children
of England could be transported to
Turkey as soon as they were born and
the children of Turkey removed 10
England in the same way, these chill
dren when they grew up, outside of a
few physical characteristics, the Turk.
;-l. Ia In, Ia
be typical Englishmen and the Eng
lish children raised in Turkey would
be typical Turks.
What q man is when he is developed
then, is simply a matter of environ
ment during his development The
reason then that the Twentieth Cen
fury man is different from the former
generation is that the motives of ac-
ton are changed. A few years ago a
child did a thing because he had to,
now he don't have to do a thing, and
he only does what he wants to. One
place where this thing is noticeably
different is in our schools. In the last
generation when child went to school
he was met by the man teacher at the
door and fear was held in his heart
study and at that to study things thar
were distasteful to him and they natur.
ally became more so. Now when a
child starts TO school he does nothing
but play. Our kindergarten systems
let the child play when he wants to
and work when he wants to, In fact
he does nothing that he does not want
to. This system is used in all of our
best schools from kindergarten thru
the University. The motives in the
penitentiaries haye changed. Now
lectures, moving. picture shows and
the like have been itroduced into these
institutions in place of the old beating
system formerly used. A generation
or So ago child was forced to go to
church and when he got there he was
inspired with fear of doing bad by the
threats of hell-fire which he heard
hurled at him from the pulpit. Now he
hears nothing of. this kind and he is
good because of the love that is shown
him. The same thing may be noted in
the medical aid Industrial world.
Economic is affected the some way.
With our advanced methods we have
done away with the families that were
always living in fear of the poor house
and now the family is living in hopes
of an auto.
On account of these changes we haze
different race. Our homes are better
Our schools are better and need bet
ter trained teachers to succeed
Our criminals are not increasing
but they need harder work to keep
them down. Our churches are better
AMI need a higher type of men in the
pulpitS than ever before. This shows
why in the industrial work the old
methods used for making the en-
ployees work cannot be used. The
time of bosssm is gone.
The fact that pains contract the
blood vessels and causes feeling of
unrest is fact that has long been
known to psychologists. 1t has also
been known that pleasure relaxes tne
blood vessels and gives a good feeling
to the body. There is a glow felt all
over the system and person in this
condition is much more able to work
than when he is in any other condition.
This argues for the taking of your en-
ployes into your companiOnship, have
them work with you and not for you.
Make them feel that with you they
are part of the business and that
the business could not get along with
out them. Inspire into them feeling
of comradeship and you will get the
best results from your employees
This is an age of cooperation and or
ganizatiOn. Do away with threats and
driving to get the best results from
an employe. The age for driving,
threats, etc, is past and that of pleas
ure has taken its place, for pleasure
creates greater efficiency.
Discussion by Convention.
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