Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29
Aviation Students at X. U. are
Given Psychological Tests
During Training.
GOVERNMENT TAKES up WORK
Fifty Scientists Now Examining Men
rs to Fitness for Exactina
Forms of Service.

Fourteen students of aviation at the
University of Kansas are to be given
the army aviation psychological tests
as part of their university training to
help qualify them as aviators. me
tests will be made by DIR. +. Z. Dock
cray, acting head of the university de-
partment of psychology since DR.. w.
s.. Hunter was commissioned first
lieutenant (of psychology several
weeks ago and began testing soldiers
psychologically at the army canton
ment at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va.
Doctor Hunt and Prof. D. G. Paterson
were called from the University few
weeks ago to work with fifty leading
navy environments in applying psyche
logical tests to men and officers want
ed for particularly exacting forms of
service.
1.-The psychological tests that have
been worked out for the army and
4 navy" said Doctor Dockeray, ARE
similar in way to some of the tests
that have been adopted by great cor
porations in selecting men for certain
work. The Ford Motor Company, the
Curtis Publishing Company and per-
haps a dozen of the biggest life insur-
ance companies and other national
commercial and Industrial concerns
are using psychology in selecting men
for responsible positions. In the last
ten years applied psychology has made
such advances that today in America
psychologists are applying tests calcu-
lated to determine the types of sol
diers that would succumb to shell
shock if they were put in the trenches
in France.
Professor Paterson of the Univer-
sity of Kansas volunteered his SER
vices last summer in the preliminary
experiments in psychological tests for
soldiers and with two other psycholo-
gists examined $40 recruits. These
tests are to a degree still experiment
tai but should they work out success
fully the army and navy as well as the
great commercial and industrial con-
Germs will require scores of trained
psychologists"
Died Before Cake Arrived.-A few
moments after soldier boys mother
had mailed him a cake and Christmas
presents at McCracken, recently, a
telegram was received by the mother
that her son, Fay Burch, had been
killed in the trenches while fighting
last letter to his mother said; Bake
me a cake and send me some tobacco.
I want something from home.'' Young
Burch had been with the Canadians a
year.
Stop "Movies" in Churches-A year
ago the churches joined hands to vote
down ordinance granting Sunday
picture rights to the movies" at Wich-
tia, but the churches displayed Bible
pictures. Now the churches have been
notified that an ordinance just passed
by the city commission precludes even
church or Bible movies
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Aged Preacher Dead.-The Rev. w.
G. Slinker. a pioneer Baptist preach
er, is dead at Mound Valley. He was
81 years old. He had been a Baptist
preacher for fifty-seven years. He is
survived by his wife to whom he had
been married sixty-three years. He
was a charter member of Masonic
lodge No. L of Fayetteville, Ark.
Falling Rock Kills Miner.-Mariano
Arcuri, an Italian miner, 25 years old,
was killed in a fall of rock in mine
No. 10 of the Wear Coal Company,
near Pittsburg. His neck was broken
He was married and lived in Ringo.
Boy Scouts to Husk Corn.-Fiye
troops of Boy Scouts have offered to
help the farmers in Saline county to
husk corn. The boys earning will go
into the war fund, they say.
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Hutchinson Boy Honored.-Although
he donned the uniform of a sea sol
der only June Is last, Lester B. Nc
CULLEN, Hutchinson boy serving in the
United States marine corps, has al
ready qualified as marksman, winning
the coveted medal and an increase
of pay
Found Body of Minister.-The body
of the Rev. Walter NJ. Eastman of
Lawrence, minister in charge of st.
Stephens Episcopal church of Wich-
tia. was found by hunter near there
with bullet hole just below the
heart Mr.. Eastman was graduate
of the University of Kansas.
Home for Colorado Paper.-The FL
dorado Republican. founded in 1882
by the late I. B. Murdoch, has started
erection OF new $4,000 printing
plant, which it expects to have COM
pleted about January 1. Alice Muir
dock, daughter of the founder. is now
editor of the paper