Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-08
BY 0 J.

by IO1 - O1DDONS
CHICAGO, July 8.-It's not the
first hundred years that r the
hardest, but the first hour of life.
Spoil a child during those so min
utes and he stays spoiled to the
grave in rs out of 100 cables, &C.
cording to DR.. w. S. Sadler, eminent
psychologist and director Of the
Chicago institute Of research and di-
agnosis.
Don't pamper him during the crit
ical hour after birth and he'll grow
from a little man into a big one
able to take and give knocks with
the best Of his fellows.
Must Be Forced to Work
'The subconscious mind has got
most of us tricked," DR.. Sadler ex-
planned. Man is not naturally q
working animal. He's a fighting and
hunting animal, and he's learned tc
be a playing animal, but he will not
work unless forced to it.
when a baby is born, the cold
air strikes it and it has to breathe
1t doesn't ike to because breathing
is work. Because it feels cold, il
cries. Almost at once it gets q
warm blanket wrapped about it.
1T is hungry and it lets out an
other howl. Baby is fed. Next the
baby misses the sWaying movement
he has become accustomed to in ges-
tation and it squalls some more
Someone hastens to rock it.
Finally, it misses the rhythmic
surging Of blood through its moth
er's veins, the regular syncopatic
throb Of the blood beat it has
known for months. Mother begins
to sing a lullaby and the infant
is satisfied.
by that time the baby has be-
come cogniZant of the fact that he
gets anything he wants when he be-
gins to yell. And, as a consequence
he's going to yell, and yell, anc
yell, for a good many years"
1t is during this important first
hour of life that parental influence
is needed most, DR.. Sadler declares
Then is the time for the mother tt
show her nerve and stamina and not
give in to this child Of hers who is
the things he has been accustomed
to and which have been taken
away from him.
If she doesn't, it'll be a case OF
just one more spoiled child in q
spoiled world.
Reverts to Nursery
"This is not a baWling world
said Dr.. Sadler. mo one ever got
anything important by bawling yet
Crying is a trick Of the subcon-
scious mind, just as all form OF
nervousness are tricks of the sub
conscious mind. 1t goes back to
the nursery.
THE child who cries and the
adult who cries, as well, are try
ing to retreat from the reality OF
things and get back into the nurs-
cry, where, in the past, their hoWls
brought them what they wanted.
Most people don't lose control
Of themselves. That's their diff
Guilty. The Subconscious mind does
mt believe in anything except ma
ture. If he can't get what he wants
the fear-anger-rage mechanism in
man starts operating and the adj
renal juice, or fight juice, squirts
into the blood stream. That gives
stimulus and high blood pressure.
to the end that one may either fight
or run, as seems best.
Civilization has taken away
mans either fight or run, as seems
best.
Civilization has taken away
mans enemies in the physical sense
SO that most Of his fears are imag-
mary, but he still works only when
he has to. The subconScious mind
is tricky. When it finds that the
crybaby act won't work. it has re-
course to other methods. such as
is demonstrated in the fatigue CON-
pick. which effectively acts as a de-
terrent to work. It's the subcon-
sclous mind working when most
women break down. blow-up or