Evening star., 1938-06-11
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

The seedy fellow who bags you for a
dime was once, more likely than moi,
"mamma's precious little lamb
Very good little boys, who always keep
their faces washed and their hair
combed, have an extra handicap to over
come to keep from ending up in the
bread line, according to DR.. Ernest E.
Hadley of the staff of the William A.
White Psychiatric Foundation.
Dr. Hadley presents his views in an
analysis of the psychological mechanisms
of failure and success in business in the
first issue of the foundations journal,
Psychiatry. A potent cause of unem-
ployment and failure, DR.. Hadley says Is
crippling restraint imposed by parents in
early childhood. The small boy is natu-
rally adventuresome, curious and inven-
tive and by the exercise of these tend
encies he gets his satisfactions out of
himself in the future.
But, says DR.. Hadley, when these
tendencies are frustrated sense of in
security develops. The child gets the
idea that 1t always Is dangerous to take
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up an argument. There is only one
achievement which oversolicitous par
ents have left open to him-that Of ex-
ceiling in a good -littie-boy" role. For
this he wins praise He must play part
requiring immediate submission and
never trace of opposition to his parents.
This is very close to the sort of process
usually gone through in producing
&c r,oIe1 child nr HadInv
believes. Very few boys would willingly
choose such a role. 1t is the only one
left open to them.
'Psychiatric experience" says DR.. Had
ley, Indicates that mammals precious
little lamb enters the competitive society
of juvenility with tremendous handicap
compared with the frequently obnoxious
and generally irrepressible children who
have tried mothers patience beyond her
endurance.
with growing sense of what is to be
derived from well directed effort and
with a growing ability to meet disap-
pointment, perhaps with a modicum of
patience with ones elders the child is
ready to enter juvenile society in which
he is to evolve a new type of adaptation
In personal situations 1t is a new rela-
tionship of give and take It is the
introduction to the world in which to
the victor belongs the spoils
Competition is the life of youth as
we'll as the life of trade. AS good
little boy Bobby may not fare so well
with the bad little boys. They are going
to take advantage Of him If he continues
being too good. The tactics that worked
so well with mamma are singularly USE
less instruments for getting along. Go
ing home to cry in mammals lap is not
designed to win much approval from the
other lads. This is society of wit and
skill on which the youth has embarked"
Often, DR.. Hadley stresses, the early
training will have gone too far and the
child be unable to make any place for
himself in the associations OF street or
playground. In such a case he is almost
foredoomed to failure in the keener COM
petition Of later life. His only chance
Is to be worm that turns, perhaps bal
ancing his goodness with exceptional
badness when away from his parents.
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The Smithsonian Institution is soon to
start its fourth season OF excavations at
the Lindenmeir site in Colorado the
earliest known habitation OF human be-
ings in the New World, where q large
collection of tools and weapons Of
wraithlike bison hunters Of the time of
the last ice age already has been gath
cred.