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Show Wrong Idea About Growth o Idea Long Held, That Its Rapidity Tended to Retard Mental Development, Proved to Be Erroneous; Studies Made by Harvard Authority. height or weight, those who had shown the least physical development, develop-ment, those with the highest achievement achieve-ment and improvement in arithmetic and reading, and those with the lowest. The diversity of these cases helped to bear out his contention that there is no significant relation between the rapidity of physic al development and scholastic achievement. For example, ex-ample, the boy whose height Increased In-creased most In the period under examination ex-amination had a high achievement record In both arithmetic and reading, read-ing, and showed consistent Improvement Improve-ment throughout the period ; whereas where-as the boy with the lowest weight increase of all made very slight Improvement Im-provement in arithmetic and normal improvement in reading. The boy with the greatest gains in knowledge and understanding of arithmetic showed nothing remarkable remarka-ble about his physical growth, being somewhat under average ; the boy who made the least gain In arithmetic arith-metic studies had a growth spurt a little above average, but nothing startling. Doctor Hobson regards the elimination elim-ination of rapid growth as a reason for Wk of scholastic success as important im-portant because It makes possible a more accurate diagnosis of a child's scholastic and personal difficulties. Because a child grows rapidly is no reason for a slump in his scholastic scholas-tic work, and parents need not worry because their children ''shoot up like weeds," according to researches made by Dr. James R. Hobson, P.rookline, Mass. Doctor Hobson, at Harvard, examined ex-amined the physical and mental characteristics of more than 1,0'JO boys and girls of ages ranging from eleven to fourteen years, In order to make his conclusions on the matter. The material for these Investigations Investiga-tions was secured from the files of the growth study conducted by the psycho-educational clinic of the Harvard Har-vard Graduate School of Education, which began in 1021 to measure the physical and mental development of more than 3,000 school children in the first and second grades. The same children have been re-examined once a year by the study. Doctor Hobson took for his data the records of 522 boys and 550 girls at the age when they were growing the fastest. For boys, he found that the period was from twelve to fourteen four-teen years old; for girls, eleven to thirteen. Doctor Hobson's statistics, chosen from the extensive physical measurements tabulated by the growth study, are In terms of height and weight The scholastic achievement achieve-ment records which Doctor Hobson selected for his comparison were measured by standardized tests of gains In arithmetic and reading. In the Introduction to his report Doctor Hobson singles out the popular pop-ular notion that rapid physical growth Is accompanied by decrease in the rapidity of mental development. develop-ment. While this view appears to have some basis in the laws of natural nat-ural compensation, no scientific substantiation sub-stantiation has been offered for it, according to Doctor Hobson. The conclusions of his own research dispel dis-pel the view. After working for three years on the statistics Doctor Hobson found that "the rapidity of boys' and girls' growth in stature and weight bears no significant relationship to their gains In arithmetic or reading achievement during this period." As one check on his work he studied the records of 100 students who had grown the fastest and of 100 who had grown the slowest. He discovered that these groups failed to show any mental-physical relationships rela-tionships which were not already present In tho main body of those tested. As a further check on his results, Doctor Hohson examined the case records of 25 extreme Individuals those who had grown the fastest In BRISBANE les THIS WEEK lf Swiss Answrr Hack if Mrs. UookovoU ,r Trade lSiilance Id Good News im-Iii till Is small, but takes "liiylng down." ICvory Swiss :; iiluK ng Is reserve uiem-lie uiem-lie Swiss army, with a ritle k j jiiiinunitUiu that he can use. ; fiuvuiiiges Independent iv. Ku-jf Ku-jf snows that It would cost moro Jiv.:iltr Switzerland than Swlt-would Swlt-would be worth. In addl-nulKidy addl-nulKidy would know how to ? ,? iss hotels, except tho Swiss, .: .-iii ly Dr. Carl Barth, Swiss If; vir of theology at Bonn unl-to unl-to which the former Ger- ilser was sent as a boy, was .'vj jso1 by Prussia's minister of s v because Doctor Bartli would ikt the oath of personal loy-:o loy-:o Hitler. I Swiss government takes that jromptly. saying to Germany: ;t .u dismiss a Swiss teacher for .j.al reasons, the Swiss gov-eat gov-eat wi" Immediately send all German professors In "it 3 universities." X hemming and hawing there. f ' -; s Franklin D. Roosevelt, wise ': ";; energetic lady, advises giving !; cbildren as young as six or 2 a weekly allowance, because 3 ,-hes them to be Independent : learn how to spend, when to ' what to pay, and grow up ln-"4 ln-"4 lent, self-reliant Individuals. ;t is a good thought that some professors high up In govern-: govern-: might adopt It Is wise to teach Individual dence to young children, not encourage It In grown-up r icans, Instead of training them i3CS end the rest of their lives In ce 'RA baby carriage? tlo: dj ..-.in there Is cheerfulness. United exports since October were be 5t In three years. Uncle Sam alj 06,3."2,OOO worth of goods to r(x: countries, $76,723,000 less he took in. tiT it is called a "favorable trade yo ce," and Is supposed to be a ,1t : th'ns. on sit omen, but the French rev- t m started at a time when for the first time in a long ,ni j, found herself exporting more j; : she bought a ; sel Ford, son of Henry, and a ! o ' help to his father as presi-)af presi-)af : of the Ford company, dined on . President Roosevelt In Warm IM :;s, Ga., and told him the na- Is "out of the trough." at e two Fords are good judges (turning prosperity. They ex-cl ex-cl to sell at least 1,000,000 otier ;hl ."Is this coming year. :nthrop W. Aldrich, head of the ; York Chase National bank, 1 .est private bank In the world, i reporters In Seattle: "Busl-men "Busl-men and bankers In all the -s we have visited believe that e has been a real improve-t improve-t since September." asperity Is climbing up, accord-to accord-to Mr. Aldrich, and he ought n tnow. 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'ig around Europe, and no par- y cause for peace, except that H atlon could well afford another j '-Uncle Sam's pockets being j :lf buttoned, at present . ator Nye, an earnest man, de-i de-i 1 to peace, but not at "any asks the big United Alr-i Alr-i ' company Just what It has In ' In Its constant expansion In wtlon and betterment of alr-, alr-, The senator seems to fear ''United Aircraft has In mind ' Possibility of war. !: 'Js all hope that It has ex-that ex-that in mind, and that a gov-i gov-i wit showing little energy or j -five of its own In air defense M least appreciate help from . " initiative. " Jersey draws a panel of 150, them women, for the Llnd- II kidnaping and murder trial. v "ithorlties, without being spe- 'y they have evidence against j j'tmnnn not revealed to the J Hanptmann's lawyers would "''.t prefer all men on the Women feel more keenly than to about kidnnping children. t King Fpflturpp Syndicate, Inc. .J WNU Service. |