A EUGENIC COROLLARY 



The most powerful educative agents 

 of the vegetative apparatus of a 

 human being are the other human 

 beings around him, and they com- 

 prise the most powerful of the external 

 effectors of education, for better, for 

 worse. The training and education 

 of the endocrine-vegetative system is 

 the basis of all social rules (Habit, 

 Custom, Law, Conscience). An unre- 



solved discord, a continued conflict 

 among the parts of the vegetative 

 system, in spite of such education, is 

 the foundation of the unhappiness of 

 the acute and chronic misfits and 

 maladjusted, the neurotic and the 

 psychotic. 



(Louis Berman, M.D., the Glands 

 Regulating personality, p. 194) 



Children Need Fathers 



Is there any success that can pay a 

 father for n,ot knowing his child? If 

 no amount of success could repay the 

 child for neglect on the part of the 

 mother, how much can make up for 

 neglect on the part of the father? I 

 have been teaching young men and 

 women of college age for ten years and 

 I am convinced that the greatest need 

 of American children to-day is greater 

 care from their fathers, greater feeling 

 of responsibility for the upbringing of 

 the children on the part of the fathers. 



A child needs a father's guidance just 

 as much as a mother's. It is not a 

 question of a mother's shielding the 

 father and watching over the children 

 while the father — free to forget them — 

 makes name and fame. No. The best 

 in both the father and mother should 

 go into the care of the children. Then 

 let him who can, make a career for 

 himself "with equal rights for all and 

 special privileges for none." 



Louise Dudley, The Atlantic 

 Monthly, June, 1922. 



The Development of the Child 



The Physical Growth of Children 

 FROM Birth to Maturity, by Bird 

 T. Baldwin. LIniversity of Iowa 

 Studies in Child Welfare, Vol. I, 

 No. 1, pp. 411, pub. by the Univer- 

 sity, Iowa City, 1921. 



Here, in concise form, is a mass of 

 well-digested material which must 

 serve as a work of reference for all who 

 are interested in the question, "How 

 does a child grow?" The original data 

 cover thousands of children; a series of 

 easily compared tables gives certain 

 facts about more than five million 



others; while an annotated bibliog- 

 raphy of 911 titles puts the reader in 

 touch with other authorities. The 

 concepts of anatomical age and physio- 

 logical age are developed in an inter- 

 esting way. Little material bearing 

 directly on problems of heredity is 

 presented, but it is announced that 

 special studies, covering all the mem- 

 bers of certain families, are being made 

 which will illustrate the parent-off- 

 spring correlation. The fraternal cor- 

 relation is dealt with in this volume 

 particularly in the cases of twins. — P.P. 



