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FUTURE OF COLONIES

Despite frequent statements that Britain is not disposed to surinder any of her Colonies or mandated territories, in return for Germany's re-entry into the League of Nations, a fear still persists in certain parliamentary] circles that she may, under pres- sure, accede to some such demand,

a group of leading! Accordingly,

manifesto M.P.'s has issued a expressing the view that such course would be morally unjusti- Sam Browne fiable and politically dangerous. It is pointed out that under Arti-

of the Treaty Versailles, Germany "renounced Frances Day. Frances Day.

in favour of the principal Allied and associated Powers" (not the League of Nations) "all her rights and titles over her overseas possessions" and it is suggested that Britain has no right to bar-

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facts show conclusively, in the view of the authors of the muni- festo referred to, that the return

of her former colonies would

Ask your

child these

TWENTY

QUESTIONS

SK your chid these, twenty questions (de- signed primarily for.

from eight to answers

The answers will provide tell

valuable clues to his charac- ter, his real happiness, and

(or his her) will help

you:

the career that is likely to What he is

[suit him,

Point out to him that it is not

a test but just a way of tinding out what children really think about, and what they really wish for. There are no right answers and no wrong answers, and each child will 111:Šཀཱ མཱ་༥་ཎཱར differently.

This questionnaire, based on the findings of psychological analysis, has been mot by it practising psychiatrist, wire has also prepared a key to the

answers.

The key to the clues provided by the answers will be published on Wednesday (You might ent this page out and make a note of the answers for comparison.)

1.

Suppose that just by wish- ing you could change your self into any sort of person.- Which of these people would you wish to be? Give first, second, and third choice:

# ..a housewife; b...a teacher:

e... movie star: d...a great footballer:

e...a typist;

f... cowboy;

... shop-keeper;

h...a buisness 123423

woman;

...a princess: j...an inventor; k...a policeman; 1...a clown:

...an aviator; ...an engineķlriver: ...a captain; 1a detective; 4...a poet: "...a doctor: · 8...a nurse; t...an engineer;„; u...an actress; v...a prizefighter; w...a king: X...a singer;

y lawyer;

...a salesman; aa...a writer: ab...an artist.

01

he is really like

What he

he is likely to

be best at

What

will make him

happiest

a...to be stronger than I am 9. How strong are you?

110W:

b to get along better with

my father and mother; e... to be liked better by other

boys and girls: d... to play games better;

...to be brighter at my

school studies.

f...to have a different father

and mother;

...to be a boy (if you are u.

girl):

h...to be a girl (if you are a

Ixy);

...To be bigger than 1 am

HOW

...to have more money to

spend;

k...to be grown up and be

able to leave home; 1...to have more friends; mi...to be better-looking; n...to have father and mother

love me more:

...to go to a different school; pto have more toys to-play-

with.

Which of these would your mother ke best?

a...very weak;

b...not very strong; c...strong;

f...John is the most popular boy in the school, and everybody likes him; g...George is the best in the school at games of every sori.

Which would you prefer to be. like (First and second choice.) Which would your mother like best?

Which would your father like

best?

17.

For girls,

...Helen enn run faster than

any girl in school: b...Mary is the prettiest girl

in school;

e...Dorothy gets the best marks for her school-work. d... Grace is a leader, and the girls all do what she wants them to do;

... Alice always does what her mother tells her to do. f...Gladys always has the

nicest clothes of any one in school;

... Betty is the most popular girl in the school and everybody likes her. Which would you wish to be

d...the strongest in my class, like? (First and second choice.) Which would your mother 10. Do you like to play games like best?

with other boys and girls? Which would your father like a...I don't, because I can't best?

play games very well;

For boys.

b...they don't want me to 18. Fard likes to read. He

play with them because I

can't play games very well; hus read all the books he can get about cowboys, Indians, and e..I like to play games

soldiers. fairly well:

d...I like it a great deal; e...I would rather play games

than anything else I know. 11. Which do you like best?

a...to go off by yourself and play or read or work at making something; b...to play with one or two

others;

e...to play with a whole

crowd.

Am just like him"——Ye

little-Not at all.

Do I wish to be just like him?

---Yes-A little-Not at all. Jack doesn't want to mind He his father and mother. knows he is old enough to de- cide things for himself.

Am I just like him-Yes-A

Gttle-Not at all.

kim?

Dd 1 wish to be just

__-You--A little-Not at all. James likes to sit by himself and imagine things. He sits and dreams of make-believe ad- with make-believe Do you like to have some one else, to tell you how friends in a make believe world to do things?

which is much nicer than the a... Mke it;

real world. He thinks it Is more fun than playing games.

Which of these would your 12. father like best?"

4.

How many friends would you like to have?

a...none;

b...one or two:

.c.........a few good friends;

d...many friends;

e.... hundreds of friends.

b...I don't care;

e...I would rather do things

my own way;

d...I hate to be told what to

do.

ventures

Am I just like him?-Yes-A

little-Not at all.

Do I wish to be just like him?

-Yes-A little-Not at all.

live on a desert island and 5. How many good friends 13. Are you good looking. 19.

make no appreciable difference 2. Suppose you were going to to Germany's economic position.

There is to-day no discrimina- could take only three people tion in regard to the export with you. Whom would you

materials from any take with you? of raw

these territories.

of

More-

over, between 1904 and 19133. Suppose you could have three of the wishes below, average only 33 per- which would you want to conte

on

an

have you got? a...none at all; b...one or two;

c...a few good friends;

d. many friends: e..hundreds of them.

sons emigrated annually from true? First, second, and third 6. When do you think one has Germany to her colonics, and in choice:

Manufactured by 1913 her colonics supplied only

one half per cent, of her total im-

Jously

'SHOE-MAKER ports on the other hand, the

cession of the mandated ter: NOTES OF THE DAY ART LOOMS, ritories in Germany would stri- weaken the strategic unity of the British Empire.in sympathy when we grinned at We have pertops been lacking makers of the very

Tanganyika, for example, in the the

who surreptitiously natural

his eyes at some heart- finest

lustre hands of a foreign Power, apart wiped

Froin interrupting the continuity reading crisis in a cinema, and Chinese Carpets.

of British territory from Egyt to we have possibly been on the Cape, would endanger the those who shouted angrily when player on a football field lines of communication with some

reaction.

pure sheep's wool and India. Australia, and the East. lost his temper and fished out at Xo, there is pro- The entry of Germany into Africa an opponent. would thus necessitate a further bably no relationship between the machine spun yarn.'

But the point is that vast extension of Britain's de sport, like fiction, can move the fence programme and its already strongest to tears and angry vio- burden. A further tence. We admit that the specta- point maile is that the Govern- cle of a weeping supporter of a ments of most of the other mun-football team is a rarity, but we and known athletes, men

the most fun in life? ...when you are a young

child; b... when you are between nine and twelve years old; c...when you are between twelve and twenty-five years old; dufter you are twenty-five

years old.

4

Do you want to be a grown- up man or woman? a...I just can't wait to be

grown-up:

b...I would like to be grown-

ups

e...I don't want to be grown- up. I would rather be just as I am; d...I would like best of all, to be a few years younger than I am now.

For girls.

Esther likes to rend all

sorts of love stories, fairy tales a...I'm not at all good look- and whatever books she can

Ing; b...I'm not very good look-

ing:

c...I'm as good looking as

most boys and girls; d...People say that I'm very

good looking.

Do you like to get into 14.

rough games, wrestling matches, football, and things like that?

...I like them very much;

get.

Am I just like her? Yes-

little-Not at all.

Do I wish to be just like her?.

Yes-A little-Not at all. Ama would like to be a boy, She thinks she would drave a 'better time if she were.

Am I just like her lite-Not at all

Do

Yes-28.

wish to be just like jur? Yus-A, little-Not at all. Isabel likes to sit by herself and imagine things. She Mits and dreams of make-believe adventures with make-believe d...I hate people to push and friends, in a make-believe world

b. I like them a little; - e...I don't like them;

15.

pull me around. ̧

Do you want people, to like you? a...I can't stand it if people.

don't like me;

b... always try to make ·

people like me;.

which is much nicer than the real world. She thinks it is: more fun than playing games.

Am I just like her? Yes-A

little-Not at all.

Do I wish to be just like her?

Yes-A little-Not at all.

20.

c...I don't care very much,

but I'm glad when people about? like mej d...I don't care. a bit whe-

ther people like me or not.

L

HAND WOVEN crushing FAST COLOURS datory Powers, including the have

British Dominions, have declared women, to cry both lu, victors and 8. When you are grown-up, 16. This is for boys. their unwillingness to consider any defeat. When little Jollat scored Flying such cession, and it is thus urged the goal. which won the

Frenchmen of Montreal the British Government world's ice hockey championship that the should, once and for all, indicate against Vietoria some years ago, its definite adherence to a like he sobbed into his padded gloves. line of policy. This issue, it will When Schmeling boat Jack Shar-

(Continued on Page 43 be recalled, was mentioned in the questionnaire sent some months

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ngo to the German Government, None the less, it may again come in an effort to secure elucidation into the limelight in the near of Herr Hitler's ideas, but up to future, for which reason it is to the present. no reply has been be hoped that there will be no vouchsafed to this document, dubiety bout Britain's policy.

what sort of person do you want to be? -a...I want to be a very great person and do great things that people will talk about; b...I want to be one of the leading people in whatever town I live in;

c...I want to be a happy ordinary person, with a good job;

d...I would rather not grow.

up.

.

a...Harold can run faster than any boy in school; b...Peter is very strong, and can beat any of the other boys in a fight; e...Sam gets the best marks

for his school-work: d...Joe is a leader, and all the

boys do what he tells them;.. e...Alfred always does just what his parents tell him to do;

Do grown-ups understand what children really think

Yes. Sumetlines. Never. Who understand children belter

mothers or fathers or both The unme?

The KEY

will appear on WEDNESDAY