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Show America's Ten Big Problems tlon Is restful and should relieve stress and strain. Msn's leisure tiir ha been Increased In-creased about II per .; ! the past third of a century, and it ha certainly cer-tainly been employed in the satisfaction satis-faction of an enormous hunger for recreation. Outdoor physical rerree-tion rerree-tion must else have psychological effects. ef-fects. Religion, of course. Is the great comforter and has been man's greatest great-est support In his tribulations. It has been, perhaps, the' greatest aingle force in helping him bear the stresses of life. Adequate group life and family life must also be considered in connection with one of the ten great problems before man in the future. Tesaerrew: "Melding the Next Oea-eraliam.1 Oea-eraliam.1 We are what we are large ly because of the Influences of our early childhood, and not bees use of heredity, saya Professor Ogburn. except ex-cept within broad limits. Whether we shsll be hsppy, well-adjusted, make good mstes, and successful parents par-ents depends largely on how we are brought up. Parent education, the re organization of schools In the line of progressive education and the proper group life are policies to be pursued, he sayi In bis next article. . (Copyright, lMJ.'by the Associated Press.) to the psychological requirements of modern civilisation. Suppose a cave man should be brought to live In a modern city. The rules and regulation would get on his nerves very probably. The repetition repe-tition in his fobs would tire him. Temptation would get him in trouble. The codes of moral conduct would be hard to live up to. - . It Is somewhat like this with modern mod-ern man. He la born with a certain biological nature, not to roam the forests, for-ests, but to rive in factories and eities. in an ethical world. Whether this snslysis Is right or not, there I no dodging the fact that modern life places a strain on man. . j The biological nature of man cannot can-not be changed very well. Nor do sny but the egotistical or Idealistic think civilisation can be changed In a wholesale fashion.. UMOVINQ LITE'S FRICTION But the points of greatest friction can be dealt with. They may be within with-in the famvly. in hours of lsbor. with msn's code of behavior, or with the way he was brought up as a child, or in the school system. These frictions fric-tions form a varied and Intricate pattern pat-tern out of which emerge an important im-portant problem with practical way of dealing with it. The way man spend his leisure time would seem to be related to this problem. The right kind of rocrea- Modern Life Impoeea Croat Streag Upon Human Mechanism This is the fifth article In a series In which Professor William Fielding Ogburn of the University Univer-sity of Chicago discusses whst he considers the 10 biggest problems facing America. y WILLIAM FIELDING OOBURN (Research Director, PresMeat'a C'eea-eslttee C'eea-eslttee ea Recent Sect! Trends) (Written for Associated Press) Something should be done to esse the rough spot of life for us. The stress must be greet Otherwise Other-wise one out of II) boy and f Iris of high school age wtould not at some tim In their life go inssne and be placed In an Inssne asylum. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many of us nervous with morbid (esrs and anxieties. Otherwise there wouldn't be so msny crimes committed commit-ted If per 1000 urbsn populstion per yeer. Otherwise the suicide rate would not be increasing. There are many troubles in this vsle of tears. But there seems to be a peculiar group thst arises because our human nature doesnt adjust very well |