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Evening star., 1934-06-03

rs AMERICA mentally Nation of 12-year-
olds?
Much heated argument has arisen on this
question most of it due to an unfortunate
misunderstanding Of what psychologists
have discovered with regard to the intelli-
gence Of the children and grown-ups Of the
Nation.
Latest to challenge the assertion officially
is an expert in the United States Office of Ed
ucation here in Washington, DR.. David Segel.
The mental age of adults in the United States
is 177 years, DR.. Segel contends, and he de-
used as an argument for lowering the education
or cultural level Of newspapers, magazines,
movies and radio presentations.
The pronouncement that the national intel
ligence is greater than has been stated by psy-
biologists and educators will be welcome to
many who are loath to consider themselves part
Df a mentally 12-year-old population. They
may, however, wonder whether 1t is so much
better to be II than to be IL. in mental age.
Looked at from another point of view, though,
12-year mental level is not so alarming The
parents Of the modern young adolescent are
Years and her brother are entirely capable Of
outvitting their elders. They surpass many
older persons in ability to learn.
"A IL this talk about mental age is compare
4 lively new.
The giving Of examinations to measure what
children have learned in school Is a very
cient custom, but the idea Of applying some
sort of yardstick to measure the childs innate
capacity for mental penetration and organiza-
tion is a fairly new one.
Even today despite the fact that psyche
logical examinations, or mental tests are rou-
tine in a great many of the more modern
Schools, and practically any parent who wishes
the information can find out whether his or her
child has high or low mental age or II. O."
etill many are puzzled to know just what the
Psychologists are driving at when they talk of
b mental age Of IL years. or years, or years.
Most people picture mentality as continuing
10 develop and grow throughout the entire span
Of human life. How then, they ask. can the
average mentality Of all the adults Of the
United States be the same as that Of school
Evening star., 1934-06-03

ana all the teNelS In between are
found among the 122 900 900 people living in
the UEi4ed States
Probably about 13 per cent would rate as
superior and an equal percentage dull about
z per cent as very superior; less than ! per
cent as geniuses, about ! per cent as feeble
minded, and per cent borderline- The rest
about 60 per cent-would rate as just nor
NAL everyday folks.
Probably the most comprehensive study yet
made is the one known the later maturity
study conducted at Stanford University by DR..
w. r. Miles tnow at Yale) and his associates.
In this research tests were given to large num-
bers Of persons aged all the way from years
to "a.
In this group, which included only persons
who could read and write, thus eliminating the
lower grades of intelligence it was found that
the average mental age of youngsters in their
teens is IL years months, and the average
for the 20s is just the same.
In the 30s it has dropped to 16 years
months: for the 4Os, Is years months; for
the $685. is years 8 months; for the Cos, IA
years months; for the 70s, 13 years IL
months and for the sOs IL years months.
IA THAT is Americas mental age?
w If we assume that those tested in the
later maturity study were typical of all the
people in the United States, it is possible to
use the census figures showing the number in
each age group to determine an average mental
age for the population.
This assumption is a generous one, because
the persons tested were all able to read and
write and they were the general run of the city
population higher percentage Of the peo-
pie in institutions and those in isolated districts
might be expected to be lower in mentality
than the sample"
When allowance is made for the age
composition of the population in finding the
average mental age, it Is found that America
has an average mental age Of IA years.
Dr. Segel arrived at his more optimistic fig
ure by ignoring all those below the age of l6
or above the age of so. Thus he fails to con-
slider the very young and the very old in addi-
ton to ignoring illiterates feeble minded In ami
out Of institutions and the senile.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

have reached nearly 5-year level
mentally Those known technically
as "morons" and "border-hne" in
intelligence may continue growth
for a year or two longer and reach
something more than 8 and 10 years
of mental age. respectively.
Superior children, on the other
hand, may reach the mental age Of
IA before they are r. By the time
they are IA they may be II in mental
age and still developing.
America is made up of all classes
in intelligence. Geniuses and idiots
Evening star., 1934-06-03

age OF IL. Then
there is a sort Of
plateau, a period
during which he
does not grow or
grows SO slowly
that it is not per-
ceptible. This is
followed by a long
period .of slow
decline in intel
lectual ability.
Other persons,
however. re a c n
their full mental
stature at an ear
lier age and at a
lower level than
Evening star., 1934-06-03

the average normal person.
Some there are who by the
time they are 8 years old have
a mental growth less than
that of the average 2-year-old
baby.
These unfortunate persons
may continue to develop until
they are about IA years old
and grow to about a 3-year
mental age. BY that time
their development is COM
plete: they never grow up
mentally; they are intellectual
Peter Pans and are called
idiots.
Imbeciles, too, cease grow
ing by the age of about Il,
but by that time they may
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01

can not spend here vacation IN idyl-
lie leisure. She wonders what a
certain man Is dOing-unless Of
course there isn't any man to Won
der about. She visualizes him in
scenes that never happen. She
makes herself unhappy.
Well. vacation time is here. And
a wise woman viii copy the rules
from a mans book. A mans OBJ
hvion is not due to the fact that
he does not care what a woman
may be doing. He honestly doesn't
think about it,
II a woman could realize this she
wouldn't fret because she isn't bonn
barded with telephone calls and
kilograms during the interval Of
separation. Her stock hasn't gone
down. She has been put aside for
a few days.
When a woman takes man to
task for carelessneSs Of which he IS
unconscious she is demonstrating
something else. too. She reveals the
fact that she has a greater capacity
for unhappiness as well as for
happiness!
downright. 1884. NEA Service. Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Olson are vis-
iting in Evansville.
Mr.. and Mrs c. A. Jaqua are va
cationing in Michigan.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Pittman and
daughters Georgiana and Sylvia are
visiting in Milwaukee after stopping
at Chicago and A Century Of Prog
reSs exposition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01
Season S
Programs
Scheduled
Wednesday Club Will
Begin Activities Early
in Fall.

After a summer season Of club
inactivity, members Of the Wednes-
day Afternoon Club will assemble
Wednesday, Sept. &c, for preSi-
dents day observance at Whisper
ing Winds.
Readings by Mrs. Joe Kettery and
Antiques" by Vesta and Joe Ket-
terry with music by the w. A. C..
quartet will be included in the
opening program at which Mrs. A.
F. Walsman, president, will preside.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bradford will give
the Bible lesson
Continuing a program theme on
Things of Yesterday" Mrs. Laura
New will present Antique China
and Glassware" Mrs. G. L. Hack
erd, antique Silverware;;" Mrs. j..
R. Farrell, old Time Cooking and
Menus" Mrs. Chic Jackson, odd
Fashioned Clothing;" Mrs. c. M.
Aldag, Spinning, Weaving and
Needlepoint;; Mrs. B. F. Entwistle,
Antique Furniture" Mrs. Bob
Shank, Early Travel" and Mrs. F.
M. McKinstray, Henry Fords
Greenfield Village"
Other Programs Ready
The clubs Christmas program
will include a talk by Mrs. r. G.
Vermillion on antique Jewelry"
and a Christmas story by Mrs. G. B.
Cannon. Special music is being
planned. Mrs. Herbert Rennard and
Mrs. Homer Jones will be hostesses.
Hostesses for a Valentine party
include Mesdames F. w. Scheigert,
Eva Wright, N. G. Steffey, A. A.
Dunn, Louis Grabhorn and r. L..
Davidson. Mrs. j. R. Horne will
talk on 1.-The Soul of Ann Rut-
ledge" and Mrs. Homer Trotter will
present THAT Old Sweetheart of
Mine" Mrs. Robert Avels will sing
several selections.
Quilts, coverlids and hooked rugs
will be displayed at the March 27
meeting with Mesdames Fred Chas-
tain, Lulu Horne. A. A. McCray,
Laura Driver and A. E. Shirley,
hoStesSeS. Betty Marie Starr will
present when Grandma Was a
Girl" and Irene Bishop and Robert
Rothman will play marimba and
accordion numbers.
Guests will be entertained by the
club at its meeting April "a when
Mrs. Harry SChWab will entertain
with readings and Saul Bernat will
play the violin.
Garden Party Set
The clubs program will conclude
with a June garden party with Mrs.
Kettery and Mrs. William Enrich,
hosteSses. Mrs. Eva Wright will
present "Old Fashioned Gardens"
and a children's day program and
flower plant exchange are sched-
uled.
The club has an active member
ship of thirty-eight with fifteen as
sociate members.
With Mrs. Walsman, other officers
are: Mrs. Robert Shank, first vice.
president; Mrs. Jones, second vice.
president; Mrs. P. G. NicoleS, secre-
tary, and Mrs. Robert E. Campbell,
assistant; Mrs. Vermillion, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Lewis
Shot, critic; Mrs. Entwistle, parlia-
mentarian, and Mrs. Shirley, GUS
tOdian.
The club is affiliated with the In
dianapolis Council of Women, Sew
enth District Federation of Clubs,
Indiana Federation of Clubs and
the General Federation of Clubs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01
Happiness
Defeated
by Women
Lack Faculty Men Have
OF Putting Troubles
Aside for Time.
BY HELEN WELSHINER
MA service Writer

NTHEN DR.. Boris sokolof an
w noUnced that women have a
greater capacity for happiness than
men. he made a surprising remark
Men. As everybody knows. usually
are happier than women. But the
famous European phyziologist ex-
planned why women defeat them
selves. Women. he asserted. do not
relax They do not take life as
calmly as men. They work too hard
AZ living.
Yet DR.. Sok0lof states that
American women are the most TO-
mantle in the world. The most 70
mautic-snd they accomplish Moth
ing a. all. because Of it,
Men are happy he continues. be
cause they have simpler natures.
Where is "A woman who wouldn't
exchange her own completely for
a mans Simplicity
Where is a woman who doesn't
wish that she could Danish the aDil-
ifv % speak IN riddles since she
expects men 10 understand them,
and a cross word puzzle is the best
that men can d02
Men take life simply. after the
manner OF children A business
contract is as important to an ex-
eCutive as the money from a paper
route Us 20 an 8-ycar-0Id boy.
A steel bridge across the Andes
symbO.IZes a mans dreams as sure
Is as the wooden one across the lIv-
ing room rug Is the suggestion Of
a vision that has been born IN a
small BOYS heart
But women ponder ana Worry on
the possibilities and the prObabili-
ties Of their peculiar problems in
stead n accepting them simply.
IL we built bridges we would
wOrrv for fear they weren't gong
TO be properly appreciated. for fear
our new frOcks might not arrive in
time Tor the opening. for fear
certain man would be latel Oh.
yes. we would DR.. SOkOlof was
speaking correctly.
Men take life more quietly. more
methodicallv. A man can 60 to the
golf club and spend a day. two DAYS,
three days. four days. chasing balls
around the green, perfectly con-
tented.
He doesn't Worry lest the woman
Of his fancy. or his heart. is spend
ing her time on somebody's else's
Yacht or IN some one elSe's motor
car.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof, according to an old pro-
verb which a wise teacher gave us
long long ago.
After all. men reason. they Will be
home tomorrow or the next day
and they will WIN back any love
that has strayed.
But woman acts differently. She
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01

TIED NICHOLAS, manager Of the
Il Lyric, today announced that he
has booked the new Bert Wheeler
and Robert Woolsey comedy,
"Cockeyed Cavaliers" which will
open Friday.
This movie gives the two come
dams a chance to indulge in farce
and satire in good measure. Part
of the time, the two comedians are
attired as two vagabonds in Eng
land many years ago, when knights
were bold and the maidenS shy
Edward kaufman and Ben
Holmes tailored this story specially
for the comedy team.
Val Burton and Will Jason, two
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01
Tile Theatrical Uorld-
Wheeler and WOOlSey
Open Friday at Lyric
by WALTER D. HICKMAN

of the leading song writer's on the
coast. wrote several song hits for
the movie.
One that they are whistling on
the air and on the street is I Went
Hunting" Woolsey and Thelma
Todd sing and dance this one with
the aid of a chorus.
Wheeler and Dorothy Lee sing L
Love to billy Daily in romantic
setting.
The production was supervised by
Lou Brock who directed Flying
Down to Rio" With its haunting
"Carioca" number.
Noah Berry, Robert Greig, Henry
Sedley, FRANKLIN Pangborn, Alf P.
James, Jack Norton and Snub Pol
lard are others in the cast.
FRIDAY at Loew's Palace. the
4 new Jean Harlow movie will
open weeks engagement.
After several changes in title, it
will be presented here under the
title of The Girl From Missouri"
Miss Harlow has big names in her
supporting cast such as Lionel
Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Lewis
Stone. Patsy Kelly, Alan Mowbray
and Hale Hamilton.
INDIANAPOLIS theaters today Of
i fer: John Dillinger Sr., on the
stage and L Give My Love" on the
screen at the Lyric; Paris Inter
lude," at Loew's Palace; The Old
Fashioned Way" at the Circle, and,
Handy Andy" at the Apollo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01
HOUSE GUEST FETED
WITH GARDEN PARTY

A garden party yesterday at the
home OF Misses Doris and Marian
Pottenger, Thirty-fourth street and
Lafayette road, honored the Potten-
gers house guest. Miss Lora May
AmeS. South Bend.
Guests included Misses Gladys
Bechert, Edith Handbook Marie
Smith. Ruby Kearns, Ruth Rose
Maxine, Eileen Mellendorf. Mar
guerite Minnick. Ruth Hamilton,
Bonnie Bailey, Nellie Minnick. Betty
NiSamore. Gladys Mcfarland and
Jean Miller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01

Miss Marian Emerson, New York,
is a guest of her brother, DR.. Charles
P. Emerson, and Mrs. Emerson.
Mrs. F. Allison Preston and
daughters, Misses Elizabeth and Ju-
dith Preston. left today for Lake
WaWaSee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01

Mrs. Francis Clark and son Tom
my have returned to their home at
Frankfort after a visit with Mrs.
Clark's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
G.. Jones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01

500 10 choose FRONT Attractive patterns
and colors. all guaranteed tub fast, the
finest OF materials and workmanship.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01
CZub Season Ends

Albert Walsman All Club held its
last meeting Of the season today at
the home of Mrs. L. E. Prange.
Plans were made for an annual eX-
hibit to be held at the state fair
Aug. 6 to 10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01
Chnnter to Meet

Annual presidents day observ-
ance of Gamma chapter, Xxi Delta
XII sorority, will be discussed at the
meeting tonight at the home of
Miss 10 Watson, 3271 Kenwood ave-
nue..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01

Miss Fanchon Fattig is visiting in
Chicago.
Mrs. Vince v. Canning is spending
the summer at Lake Manitou.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-01

That beauty and brains are no
strangers is evidenced by five
Butler university students among
those recently elected to the
second semester honor roll at the
Fairview campus.
They are Misses Margaret Jane
Martin, Charlene Heard, Mary
Elizabeth Davenport, Barbara
Baumgartner and Frances Strong.
A total of forty-five students
had averages Of A minus or
better, which qualities them for
membership on the honor roll.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-15
BY Williams
@ 1854 az srA stswot- NC SIS
Martin

one al-eaoy SO ciose 10 him that she could
have touched him, as had been her intention, having
thought that she would thus make friends with him.
But now she decided to fall back with dignity, when
the waving trunk shot suddenly, out and encircled
her body.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-15
TheAmateurC Gentleman
BY Jeffrey FarnoI

I have to thank you. I do thank
you-more than these poor lips can
tell. If there IS anything I could
do-to-to prove my gratitude, you
have but tO-name it."
DO" stammered Barnbas. DO
indeed-I-no.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-15

do-to-to prove my gratitude, you
have but tO-name it."
Do stammered Barnbas. DO
indeed-I-no.'
INSTALLMENT SEVEN.
THE challenging eyes we're hid
Il den now. but the lips curved
wonderfully tempting and full Of
allurement. Barnabas clenched his
fists hard.
4 see, sir, your cheek has stopped
bleeding, It's almost we'll, I think
there are others-Whose hurts will
not heal-quite so soon-and, be-
tween you and me, sir, I'm glad
glad! Good-by and may you find
as many friends in London as you
deserve
So saying, she turned and went
on down the glade.
And in a little Barnabas sighed,
and turning also, strode on London
wards.
Now when she had gone but
very short way, my lady must needs
glance back over her shoulder, then,
screened to be sure by convenient
bramble-bush, she stood to watch
him as he swung along, strong,
graceful, but with never a look be-
hind.
Who was he?" she wondered.
What was he? From his clothes he
might be anything between a game
keeper and a farmer"
And with the word she turned,
then hastily drew a certain lace
handkerchief from her bosom, and
set it very cleverly among the
thOrns of a bramble, and so sped
away among the leaves.
NTOW, by the Lord!" said Barna-
N baS, stopping all at once, for
getful fool that l am! never bowed
TO her "
Therefore, being minded to repair
so grave an omission, he turned
sharp about, and came Striding back
again, and thus it befell that he
presently eSpied the lace handker-
chief fiuttering from the bramble,
lace from the naturally reluctant
thOrns with a vast degree of care
and trouble, he began to look about
for the late owner.
But search how he might, his eff
forts proved unavailing-Annersley
Wood was empty save for himself.
Having satisfied himself of the
f1 h0c fCh
the handkerchief into his pocket,
and once more set off upon his
way.
HereupOn, bethinking him of the
book in his pocket, he drew it out,
and turning to certain page, be-
gan to study the stiff legged
gentleman" with a new and en-
thralled sintereSt. Now ever against
this gentleman, that is to say, on
the opposite page, he read these
words:
THE ART OF BOWING.
ITO bow gracefully the feet should
be primarily disposed as in the first
position of dancing"
And so forth and so on for two
pages more.
Barnabas sighed and shook his
head hopelesSly.
II
A H" said he, under these cir
"A cumStances it is perhaps just
as we'll that 1 forgot to try. 1t
would seem I should have bungled
it quite shamefully. Who woulc
have thought a thing SO simple
could become a thing so very COM
plicated!"
Saying which, he shut the book,
and thrust it back into his pocket
and thus became aware of a certain
very small handful of dainty lace
and cambria, and took it out, and,
looking at it. beheld again the
diminutive stain, while there stole
to his nostrils a perfume, faint and
very sweet.
Il wonder" said he to himself.
L wonder who she was-I might
have asked her name but, fool that
I am, I even forgot that"
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-15

Fora Drinovs strength was slowly returning
Today she had taken few steps out into the
sunlit clearing The elephant regarded her out of
his little eyes. She no longer feared him, as she
no longer feared the strange white man who had
befriended her.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-05-15

The girl approached Cne great Dull. ne nau
been so docile all the days that he had guarded
her that it had grown to be difficult for Fora to
tink of him injuring her. But she looked into
his little eyes now their expression brought her to
sudden halt.
Evening star., 1934-02-08

newly completed relic oeorsetown under the
saints the Catholic Church at the university
The photograph view the altar and chancery the relic
the Oriental lighted by ceiling lanterns the
Society,"
the repository Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1934-02-08
PLEA FOR SCOTTSBORO
BOYS MADE BY DEAN
Charles H. Houston Of Howard q.
Law School Urges Fight
Be Continued.

A plea to continue the fight for re-
lease of the Scottsboro boys was
sounded last night by Dean Charles
H. Houston Of the Howard University
Law School at mass meeting Of the
Scottsboro Action Committee in the
Mount Carmel Baptist Church Audi
tOrlum.
1.-THE fight Is by no means won."
said Dean Houston, who declared the
people of Alabama now are more de-
termined than ever to exact the death
penalty for the alleged criminal as
sault on two white girls. He traced
the recent outbreak of lynchings in
the South to the Government plan of
plowing cotton under and said the
colored farmers were being discrimt-
mated against In the program.
Other speakers included j. Finley
Wilson, Colored Elks; Bernard AIDES,
counsel for the International Labor
Defense: Emanuel Levin, Communist
leader: Leon Collins, George B. Muir
ply, Thomas Watson, DR.. w. H. Jer-
nagin and William L. Patterson.
Evening star., 1934-02-08

Newspapers throughout Mexico in
editorials yesterday attacked q pro-
posal in the United States for raising
tariffs on Mexican shoes, and said
such an action would nullify promises
Of economic cooperation made by
the United States at Montevideo.
Evening star., 1934-02-08
White SLAVE RING
ALLEGED IN RAID
26 Persons Arrested In Chicago,
Including 6 Training
School Fugitives.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 8.-Oficers
yesterday disclosed existence Of an
alleged white slave ring, with possible
interstate ramifications. after a raid
In which 26 persons, six Of them girls
recently escaped from Geneva, H.,
Training School, were arrested.
The raid eliminated an investiga-
ton by State and city authorities.
State Superintendent Of Paroles
George Scully said the ring had engi-
neered the escapes of girls from the
Geneva home and brought them to
disorderly houses in the colored and
Chinese districts here.
Assistant States Attorney Julius
Sherwin said it was reported at least
40 girls had been aided to flee the
institution only to find themselves In
the clutches Of white slavers. He said
the ring supplied vice dens In Wis
consin and possibly other nearby
States.
The raid was made as five supposed
leaders of the band were in confer
ence'' at a hotel in the heart of the
South Side colored district. Those held
included David Young; Angelo Louisa,
Coal City; Jessie White, colored; Rose
Binca, Rockford, and Calvin Stone,
colored, one Of the reputed operators
Of the hotel.
Girls in the Geneva institution
allied with the ring contacted" new
comers there anxious to escape. Sher-