In Chicago

The Chicago Federation of Labor, glowered at "intelligence tests" for children, adopted a report condemning their use in Chicago. To the Chicago Teachers' Federation this position seemed admirable; it, too, has attacked the school board's methods, has filled whole newspaper pages with opposition.

Said the Laborites' report: "To place the suggestion of inferiority in the thought of a little child is in itself outrageous, and to do this in the public schools, through an alleged 'scientific' system which shows more than 40% error, is a crime against childhood. . . .

"The so-called 'intelligences test,' as an alleged means of measuring native ability and 'intelligence,' is of very recent origin. . . . Group tests proved to be 'both cheap and speedy and were quickly injected into the public,schools after the War."