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...Joint Amnesty Committee had been agitating for their release for many months. President Harding, a few weeks before his death, liberated several of these prisoners, some of them under conditions of good behavior, deportation, etc. Several of these "liberated" prisoners are still in jail because they refused freedom except with unconditional pardon. In the appointment of the new investigating board a Christmas amnesty is foreseen...
...character of the mental development of the child up to six is by no means purely or preeminently intellectual. Almost from the beginning it is social, emotional, moral and denotes the organization of a personality. The infant acquires perceptions and motor coordination; he is incorporating modes of behavior which do not, of course, constitute a mature personality, but which psychologically are at the core of personality...
...every level of behavior, the psychological, the sensory-motor and the higher psychical, he is acquiring both healthful and unhealthful habits of activity. Though he may not learn to read in the pre-school years, he is mastering the alphabet of life. So potent are these fundamental lessons that this period easily becomes the soil of perversion, inefficiency and distorted or curtailed development. Psychoanalysis reveals significant instances in which the unfortunate experiences in the first years of life were competent to produce developmental disharmonies resulting in abnormal adult behavior...
General Erich von Ludendorff was reported about to be forgiven by the Bavarian Government for his part in the recently attempted monarchist putsch (TIME, Nov. 19). His "honorable conduct as a retired officer" and his " spotless" behavior in the putsch received mention...
...examined 289 high school seniors in a city on the Pacific coast for traces of ignorant animus against the Japanese, and found that half these students believed war between Japan and America to be inevitable, while only a third denied this or thought war to be conditional on the behavior of the two nations. The significant fact is that the reasons in the first case tended to be of a primitive nature, while in the second case they indicated intelligence and-more important-information. The moral is: Inform, the assumption being that knowledge is the chief enemy of prejudice...