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BRITAIN'S NEW CRITICS

1. Is your

child happy?

2. What is he

Y

going to be?

OUR child's answers

to the twenty ques- tions set (this page, Monday) will provide clues to solve these two prob- lems:-

1. How happy is he (ar

she) 7

2. What career shall I

consider for him?

"Ask

Wkeeping in mind about

THAT is worth' while.

the child of the age (eight, to teen) for which this ques- tionnaire is intended is that:-

1. He needs to belong to a group of companions of his own nge;

2. School offers tile terrors for him if he feels that his teacher is fair to Jilm:

3. He is at the age when children are most ready to co-operate with the work in the home mid to learn to help themselves.

Consider

His Career

It is too early to choose a career. But it is just the right time to note his bent and to allow his studies to follow that

gnt; be it science, languages, " handicrafts, etc.

choosing a career, you must consider the child's (1) capacities, (2) in- Terests, (3) opportunities.

THIS IS THE KEY TO

your

child these TWENTY QUESTIONS" (this page Monday)

lighter, the plain child a movie

How Happyar, the shy child an actress

Is He?

singer. And so on.

Where the questionnaire helps is in de- fining his in- terests.

His interests and his atins will sug- gest which of the three linds of intelligence pre- dominate: (a) abstract intel2)-

ALES

LESS healthy –– be- gence (which enables him' to deal

more passive with idens), (b) mechanfen! Intelll- reaction to insecurity and fear nice which enables him to deal with things), and (e) social intelligence In question 3 Which of these of life is day-dreaming.

(which enables him to get on with wishes do you want to come true?). The day-dreamer has few friends, propic). the riuld begins to reveal in more does nut wish to grow up, prefers to The choice of a career will be in- detall the particular qualities that he remain chiki, fanything to be dicated by: 1. The quality of his is: feels abstract intelligence (whether supe- The child who is unhappy for is worried about. To the child they younger than he actually

are very real, fears rund muy interfere, inferior in most things, gets few real rior, good, average, etc.): 2. Whether some reason:--

vitably with the normal development satisfactions outside his fantnales, (b) or (c) predominales. Wants to be stronger, elever, belter- of his pawsonality and eftuclés,

looking, morts popular:

It a girl, often would prefer to be

A boy:

Think shant Cott bas the best

of mite

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identifies immelf readily with James

the day-dreamer in question 18,

He is potentially a problem child:

F he is interested

int it net already a problem child. with them and his abstract His social contacts must be care- intelligence ia superior, he fully chosen and gradually increased, will make a teacher, preacher.

She is far from the land (Lambert) John McCormack Drink to me only with thine eyes (Calcott)

John McCarmack. Sweet Melody of Night (Film-"Give us this night") My Love and I (Film--"Give us this night")

Webster Booth.

[TWO reactions are TWO

pecially noteworthy Load the covered wagon (Kane & Hunt) Peter Dawson Rolling Along (Film "Music goes 'round")

As on looks over the inter- fun in life after twenty-five years because they are signals that

The child needs your help. Peter Dawson.

situation 10-day. it Warts to be grown up:

They {{} national

bragging and day-

CVECOND to a sense of politician, physician, lawyer. Where am I? (Film-"Stars over Broadway"}

Feels that grown-ups don't really dieaming.

Sinferiority as a cause publicity expert, etc. With would seem that the dictators.

understand children,

Tik bragger-usuntly # boy-- James. Melton.

are having all the diplomatic Carry me back to the Lone Prairie ....James Melton.

to be more specific, the considers himself very strong, very of unhappiness in the child is good intelligence, a salesman,

very popular, very some difficulty in his relation- receptionist, nurse, To Against their récent triumphs.

child may be unhappy bright, withough his real record ship with others, his family, shop-assistant, waitress, bus- The Spanish Lady (Hughes?

Stuart Robertson.

successes, the main pillars of the because of: 1. A feeling that he obviously Indicates that it cannot his leachers, his mates.

conductor, etc. Limehouse, Reach Proctor-Gregg). Stuart Robertson,

League of Nations have little to is inferior in some respect; 2. be true.

Question 2(What three prople If he is mechonically minded and Derek Oldham.

nover boast about the particular gifts would you take to a desert island of superior abstract intelligence, he gives an Idea what will indke un engineer, Inventor, Derek Oldham show except a melancholy record Some difficulty in his relation

his parents. his they possess, with of misfortune, mistakes and dis-ship

people have the greatest emotional chemist, scientist, agriculturist, pic. Blogging is a reaction--true.

good an value for him. Leaving out a mem- With

intelligence, Molly Picon, sensions. It is not surprising, brothers and sisters, his tench-

a healthy ber aggressive and therefore

of the family may suggest mechanic, craftsmun, chauffeur, reaction--lo sence of insecurity, jealousy, resentment.

domentle servant, ete. Mally Pican, therefore, that erities of the r, his friends,

His atlitude to his parents-over- British Government-a Govern-

With superior intelligence that is .Sam. Brownc.

attachment, the feeling that he is not predominantly abstract, he will make.

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Make-Believe

because he is a weakling physically confri fundamental lack of self- ment which tried night andor has been led to consider himself The obvious remedy is to provide loved, etcs further clarified by his art architect, accountant, editor, a A Melody from the Sky

Film "Trail of the Lonesome Pine"! Sam Browne main to support the rights of: in which case he will admit he the chlid with opportunities for real answers to the questions: Do you director of scientific research. With is weak, does not like rough gumes, achievements and success so that he wish to have other parents? to be good intelligence, secretory, clerk, the victims of aggression wants to be grown up and strong does not need the faise satisfaction better liked by your parents? Are typist, etc. should now come forward and like Peter (the strong boy of the of bragging. If he is physically back- you like Jack, who does not mind his Certain careers-sitch ou music,

school), fancies himself in the first ward, let him have boxing lessons: father and his mother?

sports master, etc.-should, naturally. reproach it for a policy which. question as a boxer, a policeman, or if his school work is too arduous, cut The child will reveal these things only be encouraged if the child has same one whom he identifies with out a subject so that his remaining by indirent questions when he would definitely from in early age, a very even after the decision to re-

work may benefit.

not admit them directly.

special gift. move sanctions was made, is said Jikely to antagonise Italy. It is of her appearances wants to be betterZONE

prettiest girl in the school, fancles; British policy has been the herself as a movie star, a princess, means of throwing Germany-and-something glamorous Italy into each other's arms, and whether through illness, faulty teach- has made it more difficult for ing or mental dulness--wants to be Italy le co-operate within the brighter in his studies, to go to a

different school or no school, wants. framework of the League in to be grown up; fancies himself as ELDERLY persons must be sédul- eusly on their guard against two efforts to strengthen European detective, a doctor, an inventor or heavy afletions. One is dyspepsia,

one whom he identifies with the other omniscience. security. These critics present knowledge and its prestige.

It is possible to suffer from both the usual spectacle of wisdom The shy child--who feels socially these troublesome complaints without inferior admits to few friends and fully realising it, but far easier in the after the event. They have wants hundreds: he wants in be case of the latter than the former. apparently ceased to view the grown up and to be popular: he is a If your digestion is all wrong, you Ethiopian affair from the point of view of its rights and wrongs, and its conective responsibinties,

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NOTES OF THE DAY

are almost bound to know about it. But it is fatally easy to clude con- sciousness of

of the fact that you are

season secular pupat infallibility,

Film Mad

What Shadows

We Pursue".

By AN OLD STAGER

Somehow he has scraped together

This is because, the righteous devo- tion of European statesmen to the cause of international peace and the sanelity of pledges lacked the grim to realism of Mussolini's ambition found a new Roman Empire. Whilst the rest of Europe played a game of let's pretend, his legions were jugker- nauting and gussing primitive tribes. into subjection.

"Letting On"

Mark Twain, like a great humor-

of

How many citizens could recite alt. the peace pacis, treaties, and pledges signed and sealed by all the Great Powers since the war? I confess I: could not name one half, Yet we alt knew, in our hearts, that these were

and would have Britain bow feels inferior and unhapps ten that conviction deepens in my mind

the peculiar fatality of the pre-enough money to buy, with the help ists a keen student of human nature, down incontinently before the reveals the qualities he lacks by especially in this country, is make-in

epoch, at home and abroad, but of some society, a small plot of land invented the artifice of "letting on." + pleasant semi-rural suburb. When Tom Sawyer found anything in Duge and the accomplished facts, the heroes he chooses: the belief. Perhaps it is one unfortunate There he is slowly but surely buld-me pins beyond nieve

After his ment, he "let on" that the thing hind even to the point of recognising weakling wants to be a prire-result of a surfeit cinema shadowing himself a new home.

as arranged instead shows.

day's work is done, he puts in wisat been done the annexation of Ethiopia.

People of all kinds and degrees time he can on the job. At week-doing it. One may perhaps confec- ture that Geneva has read its ""Tom They have, in fact, become wor-

seem disposed at all costs to dodge ends he takes his family out there to shippers of success as success,

A monumental object lesson, realities and to grasp with fevered picnic in a discarded bus that he Sawyer to some purpose.

"letting on" was America's prohibi- avidity at mere illusions. If this is bought for an old song, now matter how it is attained.

a true dignosis, as I greatly fear Whilst his wife cooks the meals, the tion law, At one blow Americans Might seems to them to be the

At the Olympic Games, sport it is, it is most dangerous condition youngsters help father to build their salved their conscience and slaked new home. in my view that sort of their thirst. But that Jusion was less only right. And yet some of

a genuinely serious thing. But of mind for any people to be in.

our post-war peace these self-same crities were, not the extent to which the Peruvian | This is a world of very grim reality, reality is infinitely better, both for dangerous than long since, load in protesting people, have been aroused by the and summer or later the illusionists that family and the community, than Illusion,

rude awakening.

any thrills of film Illusion, that Ethiopia must be saved decision at Berlin to force them must have a

It may be asked on what ground from the aggressor at all costs. to play again a match they won buse this accusation of reality in Vain Pretenres As we look back on all that has from, Austria is regrottable. Not our national outlook. The answer is,

Though a prodigious one, the film occurred during the past six that we cannot understand the think, comprehensive enough. To

bitterness of Peruvians, who be-start with the most obvious example illusion is not the only sympton: months, marked by situations lieve they were the victims of af st), we need ku no further than The fucky girl's lipstick, all fudge. The nations were Just without military or diplomatic anfair decisions both during and the popular obsession for film per-fingertips, high heels, and Italo "etting on,"

dificult precedent, it is

silk gown are all illusions. Shu d to after the match; but we deprecate formaticus.

a class

The very redundancy and overlap- merely aping the ugliness of a escape the conviction that the such a demonstration ns that re-

which she does not ping of these peace pacts betrayed of society to British Government would have ported from Lima, where mobs

belung, in which she would be bored how little real faith anybody had in took the make- been charged in some quarters smashed the windows of the Ger

No other country in the world has stiff, and which is far less Jecund, if them. We alone with bungling, and indecision, or minn Consulate, tore down the the same intense devotion to cintings only she realised the fact, than her belief with apparent sincerity and

Olympic flag from A indiscretion, whatever line it factors and, at Cailao, refused to Amerienn film

German that our people have. Recently an own might be were all its opportuni-disarmed to such a pitch that, when stark reality put its hood, right tius fully seized. mugrute publicly took. So far as the perpetuation work

the really through all the benevolent protocols, German vessels. Thoje | thunked his directorial stars that the Equally lusive are

we found ourselves impatent to stand of sanctions is concerned, it is things rather disturb the conten: British were "Alm mad.

fashionable dame's cosmetics, face-up to the realists. clear that Britain reluctantly tion that the Olymple: Games are I am far from condemning the habit liftings, and other vain pretences. Some of us carried self-deception fell in with the viewpoint of always beneficial to international of cinema-going. No doubt it is far She is trying, at great expense and so far that we wanted to make war

relations.

better our people should spend their travall, to look what she is nut. She without weapons. John Bull has other Powers, for the very

The soccer match replay was spare time and money, if they have would probably appear for more at been in Wonderland simple reason that none were

It is much the same with other ordered it Berlin

any, looking even at the most sloppytractive is what she actually is, and because prepared to support her in the Peruvian supporters rushed on soaking themselves in some corner-

kind of American films than just incidentally have a much better time. matter. But it surely cannot the field of play and attacked the house taproom.

And having a good time, which fre- projects. We decide to raise the fre-school age, and insert a proviso that quently is the sole ambition of such nullifies the decision. We "let on we now be argued that because of Austrian players as a result of Yet I think it might be better to people, Is Itself a soul-destroying are doing something we are really not that circumstance Britain should allegedly unjust decisions by the give improved reality to the lives and illusion. It is one of the great secrets doing at all. What else but this. shake hands with the aggressor refereo and unfair tactics by the surroundings of such people thati to of life that people intent on a good narcotic cult of Illusion is behind the

footballers. Though encourage them to continue dwelling time always have a bad one, whereas ranaming of our workhouses as if nothing whatever had hap-Austrian

those engrossed in some useful occu- asylums? We call them something pened. To worship success and Peru eventually won the match, in a celluloid Nirvana..

Let me give one example. Not for pation generally have a good time else and "let on" they no longer exist. condone actions for which there Committee that it should be in a dreadful Blum, is a man who

It was the decision of the Olympic from my home, in a dreary barrack without effort. never was any real justification played again. Poru has with carne less than £4 a week as a motor passion for sheer delusion. We can

These pre minor evidences of the Freudian Disguise may appeal to a minority, but | drawn from the Games, and is driver. He has A wife and three discover plenty of major ones, Halle We have reached the stage whien a that is not, and never has been, attempting to draw with it the small children. But he refuses to ac-Selussle could tell us that the League rose smells sweeter by any the British way.

(Continued on Paga 4.) cept cinema oblivion..

[of Nations is an elaborate illusion."

(Continued on Pape, 4.)

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