Tomorrow's Children

> In Berlin, Kiki, 4, asked her artist-pacifist father what the word war meant. He told her, as horribly and gruesomely as he could. Said she, hopefully: "And can women play it too?"

> In Nish, Yugoslavia, as Hitler attacked Poland, a group of high-school students discussed their country's neutrality. Said one: "That's all right, but I don't see how we can afford to remain neutral. Our generation hasn't had its war yet."

> In London, Coventry and Plymouth, air-raid wardens found it almost impossible to keep youngsters in shelters. They insisted on fighting fires, frolicking and wisecracking in bombed streets.

Last week these facts, showing how the natural barbarism of children protects them from shock of war's gruesomeness, were reported by the Chicago Daily News's Foreign Correspondent Edgar Ansel Mowrer to 300 worried educators, social workers and parents at a Midwest conference on "Tomorrow's Children" in Chicago. The conferees had met to consider what, if anything, might be done to protect today's and tomorrow's children from the tension and insecurity of war. Although his observations had shown children standing up to the war remarkably well, Mr. Mowrer urged: Let parents themselves face the future with courage and resolve because the chief factor in making children jittery is jittery parents.

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