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Until his staff tipped him off last week, Superintendent Roman Haremski of the Illinois State Child Welfare Division had thought the subject was closed. On two occasions, Miss Ruth Schmalhausen, supervisor of home management studies at Eastern Illinois Stat College in Charleston, had asked him to find her a real live baby for her home economics majors to care for; but each time, appalled at the idea, Haremski had said no. Now it turned out that Miss Schmalhausen had been able to find a baby on her own. By last week psychologists and educators all over the state were furiously...
...Miss Schmalhausen, all this is "very worthwhile": it not only gives her girls "practical experience," but it is good for David too. Superintendent Haremski, however, thinks otherwise. "It is not a normal family setting," said he. "There are just too many persons involved in the handling of that child." Heaven only knows, added the superintendent, how many neuroses little David might develop. Other officials seemed to agree. "Imagine." cried Mrs. Babette Penner, director of the Women's Services Division of United Charities, "what anxieties there are in a child who is given a bottle in twelve or more pairs...
Acting without a license . . . may cause a criminal prosecution." But Miss Schmalhausen had no intention of giving in. "I'm as well qualified as any nursing home. I'll fight to the last inch if they try to take this baby away from me." Meanwhile, as the experts wrangled, little David went right on risking future neuroses, and his assorted mothers went right on gaining some worthwhile "practical experience...
Richard L. Schank, instructor in Psychology will address the meeting of the John Reed Society for the Scientific Study of Socialism tonight in Phillips Brooks House at 7:30 o'clock. The subject of his talk will be "The Psychology of Socialism," and the discussion will be based on Schmalhausen's "The New Road to Progress...
Obviously Mr. Schmalhausen hits the nail on the head as often as not, but he tries to hit too many nails, to destroy too many windmills. And he should never have recounted his woes in his appendix, a "Psycho-Biography." It savours too much of Gundelfinger, and arouses painful comparisons with Upton Sinclair...