Evening star., 1934-02-11
MOOSE TO MEET .
HEREFEBRUARY22 z
Advisory Council for Child
Research to Convene at
Willard.

Specialists in the field Of education
and psychology will come to Wash
ington February %, % and "a for q
meeting Of the advisory council of the
Mooseheart Laboratory for Child Re-
search, which will be held In connec-
ton with the Midwinter council meet
ing of the Loyal Order of Moose at
the Willard Hotel. The boards in con-
troll Of Mooseheart, the home for
orphans of deceased members Of the
Order of Moose, 81 miles west of
Chicago, and of Moosehaven the home
of aged men and women of the
fraternity near Jacksonville, Fla, will
meet at the same time.
Many Delegates Expected.
Invitations have been sent to the
1,700 lodges and 966 chapters in the
fraternity and from the response that
has been received to date there will
be a large attendance from cities in
the Eastern section of the country and
a few individuals from the Western
States. Many will come also for the
last day Of the conference, which will
be concluded with a dinner and dance
sponsored by the Mooseheart Alumni
Association. Large delegations will
come from Baltimore. Philadelphia
and New York and the New England
men and women will come by boat
from. Boston to New York and the
remainder of the trip by bus.
James J. Davis, chairman Of the
Board of Mooseheart Governors, will
preside during the sessions when the
research work at Mooseheart is dis
cussed. Among the speakers will be
the following members of the advisory
council: DR.. John E. Anderson, direc-
tor, Institute of Child Welfare. Uni
versity of Minnesota; DR.. E. w
Burgess, department of sociology, Uni
versity of Chicago; DR.. A. J. Carlson
department Of physiology Of the Uni
versity of Chicago; DR.. Edgar A. Doll,
the Training School, Vineland. N. j.;
DR.. H. F. HelmholZ, section of
Pediatrics, Mayo Clinic. Rochester,
Mimi; DR.. Charles H. Judd, School
of Education, University of Chicago;
Dr. Paul L. Schroeder, Institute of
Juvenile Research. Chicago, and DIR.
Louise Stanley, chief of the Bureau
Of Home Economics of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
That Mooseheart offers exceptional
opportunities for studies Of scientific
nature was the opinion of C. Spear
man, head of the department of
psychology and director of the psy-
Geological laboratories of the Uni
versity of London, England, who visited
the school last Summer.
School Well Organized.
"The Mooseheart School is so or
ganized as to offer exceptional facil-
tiles for scientific study OF the mental
development of the children" said
DR.. Spearman. "One reason for this is
the fact that the children pass the
whole Of their lives there, in many
cases. instead of being drafted off
elsewhere. In this manner the ma
terial for study presents a unity and
completeness which should render its
fruits far richer and more reliable
than is usually the case. Another
reason why MooScheart supplies an
exceptionally good opportunity for
study is the freedom and initiative
which it possesses in eminent degree. "
The result of study of the growth
of the normal heart was made recently
and its findings were printed in a
recent issue of the journal of the
American Medical Association. An
other study on nutrition was made by
DR.. Lydia J. Roberts, of the depart
ment of home economies of the Uni
versity of Chicago, who said that
"Mooseheart is an unusually favorable
one for research into the problems Of
childhood and the growth, in fact one
which is probably not equaled any
where In the world"