Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

your brains. That Is an accepted notion But
Dr. JaederhOlm has come to the conclusion that
the amount Of thinking you do depends still
more on your training In childhood In this
trait Of cOmmOn-seI elaboration. Sometimes
child Is forced too early and too cornpletely
into this delibeTative age, and becomes I little
social prodigy. 80 - - ,f. Il" !.t,7 80.
AS an individual develops he does net COM
pletely cast on the earlier types Of his be-
haviOr. like q snake shedding last years skin,
but simply lives more and more In the higher
level. These higher levels Of behavior put the
individual on greater tension, like the stretch
ing of an elastic band. And so, throughout hfe
he snaps back into the earlier easier levels
when he plays games or when he becomes very
tired. -,-- -. .... 20 - - J.
Games and exercise give the burdened worker
or head of family the chance to be childish
without endangering his career. They keep the
tension from becoming so much Of q strain
that needed elasticity Is completely destroyed
FATIGUE slackens the tension, too, but in
undesirable fashion. In fatigue the ten
sion is apt to be uncontrollably relaxed per-
haps without warning, when the individual
cannot afford to be childish You often see
examples Of this. 80
WEAKNESS leads to thoughtless remarks at
afternoon teas and to failures in pushing ofsice
deals. 1t explains a good many mistakes in
tTuthfully pronounce the sort of game you'd
expect a child of to play" 1t is not chance
that the peak hour of trafic accidents is around
O'Clock, when tired workers driving and
walking home
Looking at mental and nervous breakdowns
from the behavior angle, Dr. Jaederholm ex-
planned that the person who becomes mentally
i'll may slip back almost entirely into his child
ish way Of treabing life. Once he succumbs, he
may not have the elasticity to pull himself back
to stand the stress Of the sort of behavior that
is expected of responsible citizens.
The third age Of human behavior is first
experienced between the fourth and sixth year
Dr. Jaederholm observed. This is the time
when the child leaves his carefree babyhood
behind him and discovers that he, Is expected
TO settle down TO work He has now entered
the effort work age.
Not until he comes to this degree of ma
turity can growing human being start on a
school career. But now he can keep his at
tention on q book after the first few minutes
Of pleasing novelty have worn of, He can hold
himself to the book task, even with more at.
tractive ideas Of things to do fitting through
his mind, for he has grasped the conception Of
working with distant goal in view. He can
delay talking until the teacher calls on him
and stin remember what he has so eagerly
wanted TO tell the class for perhaps q long five
minutes. He is able to overcome the impulse
to jump up and investigate the noise outside
the schOOl-rOom window. In short, by This
time the individual has entered the re- ne
work level ON which most people remain, Il ore
or less, for the rest Of their lives. +. -;
GONE gifted ones grow out Of this work-effort
age, DR.. Jaederholm found. These are the
geniuses and AL the lesser creators, and expert
mentors who voluntarily seek new, experiences
and who try to convert themselves into some
thing inner. But, except in the gifted persons,
the streak Of originality runs thin. :, r r. =:
T. Nest children start bEayely 10 climb, this more