a
Should a teacher
delve into
child's home life?
WOULDN'T it be cosy if our children
came
home from infants' school, not only masters of the counting beads and spelling bricks, but also contented little souls whose teachers understood them.
I mean, soothing?
wouldn't
IL
be
Sl, this sort of thing is one of the normal hazards
Yeg. It sounds Γης. But having children at large.. watch a moment.
of
Today, sho's ob under- But how far should a teacher stending teacher. Tomorrow, go in her questions? she's your child's confidante. Certainly not as far as the The day after tomorrow, she'll, young lady from Worcestershire. be your child's confessor,
At the training colleges where And children sometimes the majority of junior school- teachers learn their business, a "confeas" to strange thinus
certain amount of child psycho- logy is taught.
Today, parents in a village in Worcestershire have been Imocked sideways by what is It is pretty basic information, being talked about among the intended for a teachers personal modelling clay and wooden pennies at the loen Junior has A tencher there schoni
interesting
been holding question and answer session for lier six-year-olds
"Hands up." she is reported
to have said. "all those children who have seen their parents fighting."
Her clasperlups. delighted
of the easy exchange for urith- metle were eager to supply lencher and classmates with delotls.
a
In
Naturally enough, there's lot of squabbling going on Worcestershire at the moment.
GOSSIP
For parents have been horri- fed to discover that infant in- terpretations of their marital differences are being gossiped around their aulet community. All over the country, parents
ar
their
ASKS
SALLY
VINCENT
benefit rather than direct appli- cation.
And somehow I don't believe the knowledge that ttie Mary's father got very cross with little Mary's mother is going to help toucher when it comes to little Mary and the six mes table.
-(London Express Servic#).
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1860.
SHOULD TEACHER DELVE INTO CHILDRENS
HOME LIFE?
NEXTARE PROGRAMME DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO U.S. ELECTION
**Dad, what's it worth if I don't tell teacher you and Grandma just used a rude littlo word?"
Jeremy Campbell looks at TELEVISION
Emotional striptease
DAY...
SEVEN BY-ELECTIONS IN ONE DAY
AND ONE'S A TEASER
it would certainly What a paradox:
shock the BBC..!
New York.
wondering just how far NOBODY who has ever listened to the true confession of a New York táxi driver, can fail to be aware of American capacity for autobio- graphy.
are teachers going in these "getting-to-know- you" sessions,
At most junior schools, and!. particularly the more progres-
sive ones, part of the curriculum
Is
So it is of little surprise that a new record total of six hours a week
is now devoted to psycho-analysis of one sort or another on American tele-
Bet aside for "news" or vision.
"discussion classes."
The intention is good,
encourage
1. em bound to admit that even New Yorkers are anding this extravagant.
Personally, I am no fan of Dr Brothers. With James Thurber, 1 belleve that, by and large, it is safer to let your mind alone.
and confusing Besides their that Dr Brothers is selling
groceries as well as psychiatry.
was that
Little boys and girls arc encouraged to stand up and talk about their homes. themselves, and their lives, This
A querulous TV crite supposed
kelt- to
Inst complaining
week expression and develop fiuency Americans are exposing and conidence,
inhibillong to the hired analysts Unfortunately, many chlidren of the networks as if they were aren'i all that desperately in old wor wounds, but who is- need of this sort of help. They tens to TV critics?
to chatter are only on happy
away about Mummy and Daddy
until the bell goes. And if they Unchecked
don't know something, just give them time and they'll 'make
10.
The
new
'kick' drink
TEEN
New York, EENAGERS have found new and dangerous way to get a "kick" out of life
If Macmillan
AS campaigning for the Little General Election
of November 17 gets under way, picture this poignant contrast: In the seven constituencies which are going to the polls, eager party workers suddenly galvanised, optimistic, filled with en- One is afroid of mariage, thusiasm-will be leaping into action like Keystone
that be Cops. another fears acceptable to women, a third is aver-possessive - oh, they have a complex to suit every cus- tomer.
"Next I'm going to diss Real cases
teenage petting, but first... and on comes an advertisement for the soda water, with the bubble-locked arbonation.
Bu treasure the answer she Rave to a tearful letter from a
The American passion for housewife, who complained that self-examination goes On un her husband was knocking her checked, and medical psychiatry about and what was she to do is now, along with real estate about the bruises? and engineering, a highly lucra- Live profession, TV has even Kiven it a boost.
I must say that by far the most fetching of the TV alienists, who is publicised as the nicest-
"Point out to your husband," said Dr Brothers, as from Mount Olympus, "how expensive the doctor's bills are going to be."
Ioolding doctor who ever luid Slaked
Jare મ libldo; 19 *Dr Joyce Brothers who dispenses Freud to the masses twice a day.
slaked your If you have not thirst for adjustment with Dr Back in the golden days of
is also a pro- television, when the quiz show Brothers. there
every after- gramme et 2.30 was young and clean, Dr
noon called Rond to Reality Brothers won 64,000 dollars by answering questions on boxing. which makes further forays into
the sub-conscious, They were her own answers,
In this show, a group of five To no time at all the American people meet in the doctor's public hud acclaimed the shapely office." to discuss al
Kreat young doctor as a phenomenon, length, and solemnily,
their a small fortune emotional disabilities. und she made
appearing et night-clubs. broadcasting between round
by.
by drinking commentaries from the big cough mixtures containing @ghts and holding ten-parties drugs.
c'eug-control Authori- throughout America worried about it.
And
tes
American
are
cough mixlines
In the middle of boxing rings, in order to attract more American women to blood sports.
Eventually the network hit upon the iden of putting the
011
containing drugs usually doctor Into low-cut evening contain alcohol too. Chemists dress and let her speak
forbidden by regulationsproblems of marriage, sex, to gely to A customer more adolescence, jealousy, boredom than one 402. battle of these and other infirmities of the mixtures.
This
must also take the name and address of every buyer.
Serious
But Romehow the teenagers get all have found a way to
the bottles they want.
In New York's Brooklyn and Long Island districts the pro-
director:
affluent society.
Naturally, It was a howling Success. in u week, she was receiving more letters than the young Lord Chesterfield.
Dr Brothers Keped phrases like "interlocked neurosis" mo prettily that the ratings curack
The network prempljy lowered
her three hours and 20 minutes of air Control
week, with breaks every "Teenagers commercials.
space for
blem of cough-mixture-drinking her neckline, raised her salary tecnagers has become serious,
Said Mr John Bellizzi, New and awarded York Slate Narcotics Burtau who get a kick from these cough mixtures will soon want #bigger kick. And that can start them on the real drug habit,"
Degrees
Now she has a programme at then children arě
Mr Bellizzi sold that teenagers had been found at parties with 1 am, when dozens of 40%. bottles of cough out of antshot, and discus mixtures. He added: They marriage probierns BO haiz- and Intimate
max them with soda, and then raisingly specie
they become "high" and all sorts
of trouble follows."
State have been arrested. Nine
as would give the gentlemen from the BBC an immediate
Two cheerLista In New York attack of the vapours......... have been finet afber appearing The doctor has one degree in before the control bureau. Nine psychology, another In home others have been warned about economic and she once wrote breaking regulations,,
apèper called "An experi
Now the controi Bureau is to mental investigation of avoi seek a new law banning over-danes anxiety and cscape › bei the-counter sales of the rough haviqsa, lifumbers as massured mbctures without a doctor's by action potentiale In ratoles" proription.
Take myvadily-cosart goat, Iser one up an
All the parts are taken by actors, but the programmes are case histories on real based and have the backing of the American Association of Medical Psychiatrists (it downs the commercials).
In Westminster the party. For years the Bolton Tories giants will be palely brooding, and Liberals have enjoyed a Indeed, it would be desperately most agreeable understanding. hard to tell which leader views
Under this the Tories of this coming party light with
Bolton Wesl have refrained more ambarrassment-Mr, Mac-
Mr from opposing Liberal MP. millan or Mr Galtskell:
Arthur Holl
Consider Mr Macmillan first. Is it possible that, al such a time as this, there is the cast ille thing that could disturb bland bonhomie?
his
In these sunny Tory days, it un- nuy seem absurd; even thinkable. But Yes, indeed The technique is to present there is. the viewer with a sort of emo-
His anxiety can signal striptease show, and every inhibition is divésted with tan-up in two words-Easi Bolton.
revealing lalising graduniness, ez ch time underneath.
a
Bresh complex
be summed
Anything
By the time the last veil i ready to be twitched away and
About the other six by- 'the lights are about to go down
anxiety. elections he feels no the stark naked psyche. viewers are calculated in a state He is comfortably sure that the of fevered expectation, many of Tories will hold Laudlow, Tiver thern must be, for the audiencesion, Carshalton, Petersfield, and
Mid-Bedfordshire. increase every aveck,
in
retum the Liberals of Bolton Eust have run no vandi- who the Tories, date against accordingly squeaked home last time by 2,700.
Now the Liberals have shal- tered the truce.
What is more, they have pick- ed as their candidate by far the the most dynamic figure in whole party. Observe the for- midable assets of Colonel Frank Byers,
loses-
so does Gaitskell
By DOUGLAS
CLARK
will
gives the-bomb Labour Party
never win elections. This WOR one of his bull points at Scar-
Not at all. Nobody Colonel Byers a chance.
But the fearful possibility is borough. that he will draw off enough
the He
Labour is boss of the party Tory voles to let machine in London.
candidate in.
4
He is a director of the mighty Rio Tinto mining concern.
He has been Party Whip at is a pungent Westminster. He and masterful orator.
And he has the prettiest possible wife whom I wis first meet when we privileged Lo
at the were radicals together same kindergarten.
Is 1 Mr Macmillan's fear. anything then, that Colonel Byers might
win the scat from the Tories?
He knows that nobody this I don't
know what all
overhaul the ## mrans
far
America's expect them to 25
majority massive Labour mental health is concerned, birl
Ebbw Vale. the ratings are doing very nicely, thank you.
con
at
-fLondon Express Service).
But in East Bolton might happen.
ALTO HON. MEMBERS OPPOSITE TO CLOSE RANKS BEHIND MR. GAITSKELL
HE'S THE BEST LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION WE HAVE
What
On purly waverers, indeed, it. has probably made more impact than his positive case for keep- Briain in the Western
a monstrous injustice ing that would bel
Alliance.
How fantastic, how misleading
So sce now the spot in which to public opinion if Labour-in he finds himself. Nobody cup- apile of defence rows and poses Bar Gaitskell wants the Opinion Polls-were to come out Tories to hold Bolton East. 01 of these November. 17 elections course he does not. But if he with a GAIN!
What
to an embarrassment Supermae and all because of a little local difficulty which is boyund his control!
As he sits out there Bolton victory for Labour in East might discomfit not only Mr limb, glumly, walling
Little Election, it is easy to Macmillart:
sympathise with Mr Galtskell's
But
A
were not perplexed and anxious he would be more than human;
For if he wins, he lores. And if he loses, he wins,
Imagine the awkward silua- plight. tion it would create for Mr Gaitskell.
Joy ?
What a pretty pickle for HIM. For look at the candiate who has been wished on him by the locni Labour Party. He is Mr Robert Howarth, 33-year-old draughtsman,
And Mr Howarth, after a Labour adolescence, jained the Young Communists League ka 1950. He only re-entered Mr Gaitskell's fold four years ago,
on
his for this
After all, doesn't he face trouble enough on November 17 already?
Isn't it sufficiently rough on
Vale him to know that Ebbw for sure, by
thumping majority, is going to send uni- lateralist Mr Michael. Foot, back to Westminster?
-{London Kapten Service),
QUOTE
by Conor H. A Hodge to doctors and nurses at a special
Cathedral
Moreover, when I asked him service for the medical profes before the Scarborough con- sion in Canterbury ference if he supported, the recently:- Cousins line on defence, he sent you could show patients more me back this very clear reply
their
compassion and under-
10 strengtheni "Whatever the conference de-standing cides, that will be my policy at faith and hope. It là só cuay to
treat
A the by-election."
sick person like nechando treats a sick ' mator=" Well, Mr Howarth may be car. Sloknem in the son?»r» treading a bit delicately in the tards the process of coming weeks-but after that of physical health. answer you may be sure where
his heart line.
And is this the sort of candi-
date Mr Galtskell really wantsby Sir Willineri
recovery
to cheer home to Westminster?year-old fortner British Ambas Would a unilateralist, victory at endor to Russia, talking to Ox- East Bolton cause him to jump ford undergraduates Ino other for joy?
night:
It would not only add a re-m
cruit to his back-bench oppor- COMMUNISM will lowe · Iss lion in the Commons. It would dynamtamu Then, Bussik also give tremendous ammuni- will bottle down and live/m tion to his Left-wing every-1 Bence with,ilie-world. But the whore.
cold war, will last for my integ For over and over again. Mr Sime and probably : foe, MON Ghitakell has argued that a ban- | zanky.