THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1958.
HOLES AND BLOTS
CAN TELL
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TALES
By Edward Goring
Sheffield. Emotionally unbalanced Students submit to psycho- people see in them quite logical tests on leaving school different things from those and during thele Arst and final
years at university. who are "well organised."
E old gentlemen with beards and side whiskers stared out Impassively from their gilt frames on the walls of Firth Hall at Sheffield University, England.
Had they been able to see what was happening below they would have shaken their wise heads sadly.
an
card.
They answer the questions by But all that I saw were punching holes against appro- blots; untidy aprawling plate numbers on sheets of The cards go through a blots that might have been special machine which keeps Ute made by n grasshopper score and supplies the key to wearing boots.
the student's personality.
So I tried the vocabulary test. The iden of this was not to discover how many we knew bul why we knew them,
According to the words with which we were familiar It was possible to sort the introverts from the extroverts.
Twenty students were long words earnestly punching little holes in coloured cards,
They
taking examination. Not the straightforward Q. and A. form of examination. A psychological examination.
were
SIGNIFICANCE
"Rather like odd pencil- I FOUND consolution in the fact and-paper games at Н that inteligent people do not party," explained a psycho- all possess nii extensive lugist.
!
what he meant when I accepted his invita- tion to have a go.
IN
FIRST TEST
TN the first lest we were given sets of letters in sequences and asked to sup- ply the letter that was due to follow, like this:--
BRBCCC DD w~ D Some were more difficult: PNXLJY IF - Z There were 30 of these, designed to test our intelli- gence, persistence, and power of concentration.
turned
bulary.
Yor,
There are "verbal" types, who know many words, and there are "practical" typer, just as hile gent, who do not.
A deep psychological signif- cance was hidden in the general knowledge quiz, too.
My profound Ignorance of the nesazole period of the world's history did not matter very much because when wo came in the paleozole period (which in was able for more exelting) 1 to show exactly where my interests file,
And that is what the psycho- logists are after. One's interests are a big clue to the complext-
Bles of one's character.
These baffling tests are being tried on thousands of students ik Sheffield University cach
are compared with the student's progress at university and in the early days of his career.
Performances in these lesta
"We have discovered a great deal about predicting from the results of the tests how well a will do," Mr W. D. person Furneaux, the psychologist in charge of the experiment, told
me.
Will psychology supplement the present methods of univer-, sity selection, which are based academic suitability? We know unil the ex- shall not
complete. periment is years' time.
on
THAT CAREER
five
MR Furcoux thinks that it
M
"Other investigations show," he said, "that under the present system too many people who have no chance of oblain- ing a degree are admitted, while who might do well too many are rejected.
"Psychological tesis could re- duce the number of mishts."
They could also help people to find their vocation. A per- son who is undecided about his gel some idea of career could the type of job to which he is temperamentally and intellect- ually suited from his responses in the tests.
remarkable system,
It is a and none the less reliable be- By way of diversion 1 year.
cause of its comparative novelty, And the results will answer It will doubtless prove to be of to the psycho-
Can enormous value in the years to diagnostics. These are blots. an important question: Just blots. We had to say of suitable people for a univer-
psychology help in the selection come. what each blot suggested to sity education? us, for our interpretations
To find the answer, a ten-year
of blots, it seems, are very experiment is being conducted revealing.
by the Nuffield Research Unit.
But after my performance the
to other day it is reassuring know that my own job is not dependent un my reaction to the subtleties of psychologists.
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A LAND FLOWING
WITH
BUTTER
From DONALD LUDLOW
New York,
But to the layman it appears
a pretty obvious ense of house-
GOVERNMENT bulk a pretty obvio
For the Government's prico aame the whole world over. support policy is keeping butter
When not
organising at 0s, a lb. Margarine is only
shortages they are in the 25.
much in the news,.
grip of glut but they DOLLARS and center are very always have a nice line in explanations as to just why their plans have
gone astray.
Take the Washington experts who are playing Canute against a rising yellow tide of butter that has already brimmed the warehousey and cold stores of the Middle West and is spread- ing across the country,
The tide was let loose when the U.S. Government under- look to
butter from buy up farmers at DO percent of the market price to keep prices stable.
But in the shops butter sales are staying down. And mar- garine sales are staying up.
The experts have thought up a dandy one for this pheno- menon. They say: "The trend is partly due to overfat Americans cutting out butter in order to alim."
German Business Hires Cloak-and-Dagger Inc.
O
to carry
behaviour, They
for
Hamburg, him. He is not a Naumann or "re-education," then released their best PPOSITE the bottom a Remer with a sense of poli- them into civilian life with the hupe In this way that many of bellpush at the en- ical mission
out the promise that they should do only then will win both personal
mental work,
proft and nigh position in the trance to a somewhat Fuchrer's work. neglected looking
American-sponsored drive In my view he is just an oki Tha are now getting back European rearmament, apartment building here in professional of the Secret into high positions in political. Hamburg there is a card. Service game who has been administralive and industrial with a famous name. "H. J. asked to do a professional job. lire. Why? Giskes." it reads.
And he has done it admirably,
Famous? Well, even if you
Yet I
Partly because they arc
The score! Intelligence or ganisation run by Major- General Gelen, former head of
The lavish dollars that sup- port high-priced restaurants, like New York's "Twenty-one," are coming from the expense Recount spenders, "the new U.9. aristocracy says a Life maga zine survey..
Few major business concerns
· discourage big expense accounts for executives bocatze "nobody gives dann about money any more, for every dollar spent on entertainment saves 82 cents in taxes, and so costs only 18 cents in real money,"
QHOULD depreciating glamour
girls get a tax rebate in the Hame way as n machinot
A group of fashion modela has set up a lobby in Washington to press for a better deal from
the tax collector because they a Himited say they have only time in which to earn money.
If the girls are successful, the glamour boys of the baseball stadium, track, ring, and foot- boll field will be queueing up next.
MRS. CLARE LUCE, xen at
partics Intely, has been wearing simple dresses, mostly black, and practically no make-
up.
Bays a columnist: "She is now strictly an ambassador, not an actress or a playwright.”
TWENTY- years, ago aimbat every bay in America wore knickers-remember they looked like plus-fours?
Today in New York only vo schools stil require boys to wear them and only six shops stock them.
TIDGAR HOOVER'S F.B.I., EP
always regarded as above suspicions has been ordered by the Squate to carry out a loyalty check of its 1,800 employees.
Independent
Senator Morse, of Oregon,
that suggested Berntors should also submli to
Shocked volces shouted him down.
cannot help thinking experts at their jobs, partly Hlller's Soviet Intelligence sec: loyalty tests themselves. do not know this name the that i is a highly dangerous because they belong to a kind tion, is an example in point. chiefs of the Allled Secret Ser-thing to allow
vice agencies certainly do. For the establish- Colonel Giskes was wartime ment in this chief of 'Hitler's counter. new and yet espionage services in Holland, none the ablest of all former Nazi stable West operators in this field.
German State
of secret ring
ex-Nazis General Gelen's organisation and ex-inter- is receiving 3,500,000 dollars L nees which is year (about £1,250,000) troen determined to ito American sponsors,
a sum ひゃ that the
of
by SEFTON DELMER
of
#
private ex-interners get back to their which they are able to multiply
Gestapo and a private polite good jobs and their old influence into many times its dollar value
which are respon again.
by skilful market operations.
Giskes hoaxcti our cloak-and- dagger headquarters in London troop
for 20 months in 1942 and 1943 sible not to the German Govern
so that every agent we sent to ment or Parliament, but to an 3 The natural idealism of Cer- Holland went to certain death. ex-army calenci and the
Now the colonel is at it again Industrial bosses who pay blin.
-on behalf of the big 'business- men of the Federation of Ger-
man Industry, He is building up an organization-a kind of
DANGEROUS
man youth, to whom Nazlem
S.S. MEN .
ELEN'S
bus
TWO borry, bandits, James Lovell and his wife Ann, Languish in a New Jersey gaol. They tried to hold up a truck
driven by grocer John Goss only to find that he was a gun- toting grocer who was quicker on the draw.
ONDON may have is spivs, but do they have their own guide book?
patriolic movement akin to Nazism makes a big ideological appeal. Look at the cheers for
Dr Franz Pick has published Stalin at the German Communist where. They form a politically real" rates from A for Austra
every-here the "Black Market Year- book,' giving unofficial and
Youth Brigade meeting
Jast
spread its terracles
organisation
M.1.5 and secret shock police HAT are the elements in the October. It out Nuremberged Germany. Among their mem-ziety.
most powerful organisation in Ikan pound to Z for Polish
combined-to-guard-the-resursituation that might bring-Nuremberg-
gent German industrial machine
against espionage and sabotage about from whatever quarter R come.
A revival of Nazisan in
SCOFFERS
bers, apart from a number of But there is no black market first-rate German Army In price for the book. It is the may Germany?
same price to everyorie-25 telligence experts, are a sub-dollars.
And that, changing stantial Our precipitate invitation to
number of Hinunler's dollars to sterling at the official There is hardly an important Germany, to become an ally ROUND, me today, in West S.S. und Gestapo men..
rate and not the yearbook one, industrial plant in West Ger-
A Germany, I see browned-off.
is CB 185. Gd. many where the colonel has not and constitute an army while at managed establish one or two the same time we give the Ger- young cynico scoffing at every-
They are keeping very quick POLISH planici Maria Eugenio
have assuaged all the of his V-men. And these in mans a hundred and one proofs thing, But I am sure it would They
Sobol, aged 21, is preparing their turn have their cells of that we do not really trust them, not take long to raise them from misgivings
of the official In- for her first concert at Carnegie secret Informants and watchers.
their phlegin and Insi Into elligence Service of Chancellor Hall by practising on a grand In addition he has provided 2 The sudden restoration of them the old fervour. If this absolute obedience and support. trailer. She says it is the only Adenauer and assured them of plano wedged into a caravan full citizen rights to the large fervour may be made to serve why?
place she earl afford in crowded number of Nazi Party func-
the cause of democracy and the
Now York without annoying tionaries, SS. men and profes- West, as it could be, that would sional offlcers.
be an excellent thing; but we are hoping to become the most BERTIE
and his men neighbours.
must take great care that it is These are men whom we have not channelled into the wrong telligence Division of the new Georgia, Atlanta, considered she
In-M president of the Important element in the turned talo truculent enemies direction ognin by Naumann,
cach of the works under his charge with a secret shock troop of strong men capable of dealing quickly and effectively with any "emergency."
SINISTER? NO
Because Gelen
HIALE, Vice
Bank of
even in the few cases where Remer, or one of the apostles of integrated European Army. was a banker right up to the they were not our enemies the old regime,
moment she arrived at New If they can attain this position Yark's stately Union League NOW I do not think there is already.
anything politically sinister
time being the they will have achieved a jump-Club for a conference of bank about Colonel Giskes himself. I For after the war we Interned 'ex-Nazi graduates of the allied ing-off point for really am- executives. Then she found sho have met him and talked with these men for lengthy periods of re-education campaign are on bitious projects.
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For the club, which opened fri You will also And large num- the Civil War, is for men only bers of ex-Nazi leaders in the and they would not let her in. ring of German, contracting
or not, Miss Hale Arms who are hoping to get the sounded very like a women when In her honey-dipped Jon's share in the construction draw! Linged with verom: of new airfields, roads, and other "Ah'm used to Southern defences in Spain and North courtesy. They can keep their Africa.
old club. Ah'm going shopping."
INSUPERABLE
all
1
ES, it would have been L
much easier to
frame logical German policy had we not started off in the beginning by treating the Germans as sation of criminals and then in the next moment, hailed them as our friends sind alles. Anda moment after that treating them once more with suspicion.
And all this tends to make movements such Colonel Giskes's doubly' dangerous,
There is just one factor which is insuperable in the whole
business.
There is already. ́ ́a: German Army, a German Navy, and 20 German Air Force In existence, and under Nazi officers too,
They exist in the Soviet zone of Germany under Russian supreme command. They com- prio 100,000 man today and aro. steadily expanding
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by OSBERT LANCASTER
Darling, wouldn'e la be wonderful if fuit for once, somebody, somewhere, thought it worthwhile to speculate about whas WE
wars going to do!!!!!