The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-27
Mind Is Closely Related To
 Behavior
BY l.. S, BRADY

OeI1nlIe areas III WHICH uIc ized the centres for sight, hearing, muscular movements. speech and so on If these areas are injured in any way. AS by a blow, or the ravages of bacteria, or by the breaking of one of the arteries in the skull, then the part of the body stimulated, co-ordinated or controlled by them will of course cease to function
 I am going to mention several other interesting facts along this same line, because 1 want you to see that mind and behavior are, if not the same thing, at least closely related
 For instance, when a blow on the skull has caused splinters of bone to penetrate into the speech area and to destroy the cells there, what happens? Eventually some others cells of the brain can 'learn," as we say, the clements of speech and reintegrate them into a pattern, which we call thought
 This immediately suggests to us that the mind is nothing more nor less than the sum total of all of the individuals experiences, and that every time any action is performed a corresponding change occurs in the cells composing the brain, or other part of the cere- bro-spinal or autonomic nervous sys- tenn
 Another curious fact supporting this hypothesis is that in left-handed person, the cells controlling such movements and the speech cells both are found on the right side of the brain Git will be recalled that the nerve flores controlling the left side of the body cross over and are located in the right side of the brain, and vice versa), and in the right-handed indf- vidual, both the cells controlling such movements and the speech cells are found on the left side
 Now go one step further: great many scientists believe that without speech - words, just queer little sounds representing things and occur rences-thought would be impossible
 So we come to the hypothesis that GAS a man has acted nthe past, and is behaving now, so is he," instead of that other doctrine, AS man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Con- trary to what most people have been taught to believe, the act always pre- cedes the thought; because without previous experience-that is, previous action and the corresponding changes > in the brain cells, including the per sistent change called memory thought would of course be impossible.
 If more parents would only sit down and spend some time on thinking these things over, tkev would have far less trouble in managing their children. Here, for instance, is a typical case of an intelligent and we'll meaning father who never stopped to disentangle what is cause and what is effect in life:
 "NIy son is keeping late hours, gam bling and drinking. When I reproached him for his mode of living, he mani fested the most sincere dismay, and, content, I forgave him. To my dis may 1 found him back at his old rou- tine last week.
 Shall take him away from board ing school and keep him under my personal supervision?"
 You see, the father can't see why 1t is that the thought of not-gambling, not-drinking and not-staying -out-late is not going to cause the appropriate ac- tion.
 As I tried to show in a preceding article, there is no such thing, as non action or non-thought. What is of course necessary is to build up in that boy a series of action (habits) which will displace the present series. Lines of interest are found in each and every boy and girl which are ''good' instead of "bad," and these can be emphasized, rewarded, developed and expanded un til they have simply crowded the bad" ones out of existence.
 You can't stand on your hands and on your feet at one time-do you see? It is not enough to say to a boy, Don't stand on your hands" You must show him exactly how to stand on his feet-and bring him out in actual experience how much more thrilling and interesting things can be done by standing on his feet
 Any form of athletics is a good habit to build up. Chess is far more fascinating than most card games. One can't keep late hours and be al- ways at top form in tennis or swim ming-do you get the idea? A boy who is healthily fatigued won't crave late hours or additional excitement.
 So many parents write to me ask have already explained in previous write something about when and how and how much to punish children.
 And in regard to the habit, quite common in boys and girls, which you, Mrs. R. J. T., are so much worried about: contrary to what you have been taught, it does no harm, and will disappear of itself in the course of time. Keep a child so busy doing things that are interesting that he won't have time to do what Le shouldn't.