Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

feel bad? And do you feel good? Sure
you do.
And the best part of it Is that Joe never
quite catches up with you This trick Is your
-figuratively and literally-and you
have Joe on the spot. He may beat you out
on the mazes, and at the races but as a ro-
dent sailor you can haul line, and reef, and
lash down that morsel of food right into your
mouth where it belongs.
And out of it all, comes this. The infer
iority complex begins to disappear. You find
that your friend Joe Mouse Is kind Of human
after all. He beats you at some things, and
you can beat him at others.
So what? So, you're all right again and
you have regained your self respect and your
inferiority complex has turned into a couple of
words in a psychology textbook
Psychologists all over the country are do
ing the same kind Of experiments with animals
cats, guinea pigs and rats-to discover such
things. Their findings are going into new edu-
cational methods that are designed to prevent
the formation of inferiority completes In
school where they often first start and where
they can do such damage to young minds that
are not yet attuned to the struggles, victories
and misfortunes of real life.
At Brooklyn College DR.. Charles Winslow
is doing work with cats to see whether these
felines develop into the human counterpart OF
DULLES. Some of his big old tom cats ara
tough nails and far less straight. They
browbeat the other cats so that they can get
their food just by growing for it. They be-
come gangsters in cat form.
At Columbia University Prof. Carl l.
Warden is carrying on other experiments to
see how animals behave like human beings.
Just as a lot of people become neurotic when
they meet up with a problem they cannot
solve, so has Prof. Warden created in his
laboratory neurotic guinea pigs. They tremble
and shake when you come near them and
show what happens to man and animals alike
when the world gets too much for them.
The examples of these studies in modern
education are many.
Just as a sample, suppose your child can
not paint, or draw or carry tune at the sing
ing sessions at school. Under the old system
such children were often scolded by the
teacher and forced. again and again. to try to
do these things The children failed, got bad
marks and ridcule from the teacher and from
their classmates Full-fledged inferiority COM
plexes were developed that sometimes lasted
all the rest of the life of the child
But under the new method teachers do not
push children too far along lines in which they
cannot succeed. II little Jane cannot draw,
the teacher interests her in other things Per-
haps soon, she is tipping rings around her
playmates at little portable typewriter.
What this means is that little Jane is prob
ably going to grow up to be a darned good
private secretary with a good job. instead Of
trying 10 be an artist.
Jane is happy in her school in this way
for If the other kids say-as they cruelty can
Jane can't draw an apple. Jane can't draw
horse" Jane simply comes back and says, II
can type and you can't"
The moral for adults is just about what It is
for the mice, or little Jane in school
Not everyone can be writer. or. an artist,
or good executive or a good interior decora-
tor. Nor can everyone be good doctor lawyer
or a scientist.
But everyone can develop some skill or
ability that will equal or excel that same abil-
ity in the people next door or down the block
The advice Of scientists Is TO develop this
skill and use It.
Maybe this skill will only make you the
best mince-pie-maker in the block but that's
SOMETHING'S any small boy will testify
about his mother