Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-27

explained it in the same way, and work.
ea Tor the same sort of punishment,
without realizing that no two indiyid-
uals are alike.
Report on Tests Made.
He reported on standardized objec-
tive tests for policeman. An unsolicited
group were shown a motion picture
reel Of an event and then asked to
report upon it-as a policeman would
be required TO do in real life to his
superiorS or to the court. The reports
varied from per cent to 81 per cent
in accuracy and completeness, presum-
ably a striking commentary on the value
| OF the evidence of an unsolicited group.
Surveying the police schools already
functioning, he said THE great range
of subject matter taught, together with
study of the actual demands on police
officers, shows q need Of training at
least equivalent to the demands In the
professions of law and medicine"
The homeless child from 4 to years
old has a hard time finding a home
reported Walter G. Reckless Of Wander
bilt University. Those who want to
adopt children are attracted to the
tiny tots" naturally, and besides the
older children have already developed
personality traits which often make
them undesirable.
He reported on method of de-
teFm1n1ng the personality of children
by observation, SO as to fit the indivi6-
ual child better into the home willing
to take him.
Mortality Compared.
While the country boy at birth may
expect nearly eight years longer life
than ms city brother and the country
girl six more years than the city girl,
according to reliable statistics, these
do not give the whole picture, H. e.
Barnard OF the Presidents Conference
on Child Health and Protection told
the group meeting on rural sociology.
In many important diseases, he said,
rural mortality exceeds the urban. The
World War medical examinations
showed that the men from the country
districts were but little more At to be
soldiers than the men from the cities
and that the men who were born under
SUM conditions were physically able to
go to battle for their country on a
parity with boys from the farm. The
University Of Minnesota trspects the
health OF its freshmen students, and
their reports show that the students
raised on farms have more physical
defects than those raised In towns or
larger cities. Students from cities Of
more imam oU,UUO pOpuIaClon snow the
lowest number of physical defects.
Recent studies in New York showed
that more than 81 per cent of the
children in rural schools have diseased
tonsils, while moro than 16 per cent
Of village children suffered the same
difficulty. The country children, how
ever, show less underweight than vii
lage and city children"
The problems Of child life and we'll
being he said, can be studied in much
the same way as the problems of the
farmer are studied in the experiment
station.
Result Of Study Reported.
A theory Of delinquency developing
from changing cultural contacts" was
presented by Pauline Vislick- Young of
| Los Angeles as the result of the study
Of closely integrated colony Of Rus
| sian immigrants of the same religious
sect in Los Angeles. The first genera
| ton shows little crime, but the study
of juvenile delinquents shows that "as
the age OF the colony advances the
number Of delinquents increases, the
extent OF recidivism grows and the ma
tt1re Of the offenses grows more serious