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Show become dull, perverted, or hyper-sexual hyper-sexual with iw. Ilis happiness is doubtful," wails the physician. "Ilis superiority is inherited from j;uod minds on both sides of his family, and his possibilities lire limitless. He should be nd":ineed as fust as possible in school and placed anion?; older and more highly high-ly educated students than those of his own age," continues the psychologist. PRODIGIES ARE TO BE PITIED EXPERTS SAY By MARJOKIE MATHIS, International News Service Staff Correspondent. ATLANTA, Ga., (Jet. 23. Gland specialists at the head of the Good Samaritan clinic, a charitable institution in-stitution for the treatment of diseases dis-eases of the ductless glamls, have warned parents that prodigies are to be deplored, not adored, 'even as ten-pound babies are to be regarded as potential freaks instead of the embodiment of promise. The old war of the psychologist and the physician has reached an acute stage here on the question of the merits of the prodigy. "lie is gifled; a genius, replete with inherited greatness. He is marvelously fortunate," declares Prof. Wesley Peacock, head of the Peacock school mid specialist in mental tests. "He is abnormal, either hvpo or j hyper-sexual, due to under or over- I I secretion of lhe endocrine glands. ; j lie is fortunate." contradict the ' specialists in gland study, with the ! authority of the thirty physicians who attend the free clinic behind ; the statement. : j "He will live long, be free from j disease, develop with years and : live happily and normally," says ; j the optimism of the psychologist." j "He has little resistance and will i ' fall an easy victim to an aggres- i sive, acute illness. He is apt to |