Evening star., 1928-05-13
one NAV me friei liver.

One may like fried liver.
One may be so sickened at the slight
est odor Of It that he would go very
close to starvation rather than put q
bit OF It In his mouth.
Some Of the 40 will be illiterates,
drifting from job to Job and barely
earning their iivings. Some viii be
philosophers, saints and heroes.
Why Is this?
ALI 40 are starting out this morning,
and their mystical journey through
time from the same sort Of baskets In
the same anesthetic-scented environ
ment, with precisely the same atten-
tions from the same neat, prim nurses.
They are as alike as peas In pod.
-Four years later they VIII be taken
to kindergarten with 40 different per-
sonalities already developed. They no
LONGER need tags around their wrists to
Distinguish one from another. They
have become possessed Of indiyiduali-
ties. Something momentous has hap
pened In those 43 months between birth
and kindergarten. There has been an
operation Of cosmic forces. The ham,
mers OF circumstance have forged a
character on the anvil Of infancy. Now
the metal Is cooling rapidly. II win be
extremely difficult TO unmake what has
been made. Awkwardly and painfully
II may be altered but the fundamental
pattern must remain as 1t Is.
The children at the National Child
Research Center are expected TO pro-
vide answers for some Of the questions
regarding the process OF creating a
character and personality which men
have been asking each other from time
irnmemorial.
The development of their behavior
will be watched by experts capable Of
attaching TO each little act It's proper
significance. They viii be placed in
strange and perpiexing situations. They
viii be given new and curious toys TO
play with and placed In situations
where IL viii be necessary for them TO
solve simple problems
Thus IL Us hoped TO get an accurate
photograph OF essential periods In the
shaping progress.
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TAKE the man or woman-~-familiar
= 70 eyeryoody--whose natural re-
action 10 everything ie fear. There is a
disabling tintdity In the face Of every
thing new, everything unknown. This
person is badly handicapped In life and
misses much Of the pleasure Of exist
ence.
Now there are two possibilities here.
! Either the individual was born with this
tendency 10 be afraid Of everything or
IL was created somehow, somewhere, In
the course Of living.
The National Child Research Center
stan wants 10 find out just how and
where
Generally IL would be impossible 10
discover this from examining the mind
Of an adult, however honest and anx-
i0us " cooperate the subject might be.
BY that time there are too many COM
pIicating factors. The problem Ia too
complex and It's factors are hidden.
There is little possibility Of looking
backward ~ All effort 10 analyze the
individual character after the subject
has been exposed 10 all the influences
0f S0ciety~the inferlOrity complex, the
i superiority completes, and all the other
psychic processes, The person has be-
come ilcITlsted In social custom ana
| reached point where IL Is customary
W fear some things and dislike other
, things. etc.
BY the time The child goes 10 kinder
garten, II ls likely, the fear reactions
already are IN the personality. IL IL
In that period 0f life which no man
remembers that the psychologist must
dig for the roots OF character, He must
observe character In the making. He
must watch the effects Of the ham
plers, blow by blow. as they fall ON the
hot metal
I IFIReT of all, DF, Sherman snd his
associates want ~ know what there
is Ia the beginning,
Are some children born afraid Of
| their giladows7 Ig such thing a. a.
tendency toward tsmidity hereditary In
! some families 0T even IN some racial
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