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WERNESDAY, A16. 12, 1936,

BRITAIN'S NEW CRITICS

1. Is your

child

happy?

2. What is he

going to be?

OUR child's answers

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

1. How happy is he (or

she)?

2. What

career shall I consider for him?

How Happy

Is He?

WH

XTHAT is worthwhile keeping in mind about the child of the age (eight to hateen) for which this ques- tionnaire is intended is that:-

1. He needs to belong to a group

of companions of his own ngej

for

2. School offers little terrork him if he feels that his teacher is fair to him;

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

career.

-

Consider

His Career

It is too early to choose a But it is just the right time to note his best and to allow his studies to follow that bent: be it selence, languages, hazulicrafts, ele.

'N choosing a career,

I you must consider the child's (1) capacities, (2) in- terests. (3) opportunities.

THIS IS THE KEY TO

“Ask your child these TWENTY QUESTIONS" (this page Monday)

fighter, the plain child a movie star, the shy child an actress or singer, and so on.

A

Whore the questionnaire help is in de- fining his in- terests.

His interests and his aims will sug- gest which of the three kinds

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intelligence dominate; (6) abstract intell

LESS healthy be- gence (which enables him to deal chuse more passive with Ideas), (b) nechanical intell!- reaction to insecurity and fene ence which enables him to dent with things), and (c) social intelligence In question 3 (Which of these of life is day-treaming.

(which enables him to get on with wisties do you want to enně true?),

The day-dreamer has few friends, peuple), the child begins to reveal in more does not wish to grow up, prefers to The choice of a career will be in-

ale tail thì partientar qualities that bo Banne a chdid, if anything to be diented by:. 1. The quailty of his The child who is unhappy fur worried about. To the child they younger than he actually is: feels abstract infebigence (whether supe- are very real fonts and may, interfere inferior in most things, we few real tior, good, average, etc.); 2. Whether vitally with the tormint levelopment satisfactions outside his fantasien, (b) or (c) predominaten..

sečne peasOTI~~

Wants to be stronges, cieven, better

lauktig, more popatlarg

El art, often would prefer to be

a boy: Think That

hag

The best

of his personality and character.

TWO

TWO reactions are (24

pecially noteworthy fun in life after twenty-tee years because they are signals that

the child needs your help.

of w

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Wants to be grown up

They are brojding nud day-

Thes bragger-usually il boy--

Ferb that grown-ups don't readły dreaming.

wnderstand chafdren

identifies himself rembily with James the day-dreamer in question 18.

TP he is interested

ira

He is potentially a problem elki:

A people and successful it already a problem chiki. with them and his abstract His social contacts must be care intelligence is superior, he fully chosen and gradually increase will make a teacher, preacher. CIECOND to a sense of politician, physiqian, lawyer, Sinferiority as a cause publicity expert, ele.

With

10 be more specific. the dersinselt very strong, very of unhappiness in the child is good intelligence, a salesman, Thild may be unhappy fight

good looking, very popular, very some difficulty in his relation- receptionist, nurse, reporter, although his real record ship with others, his family, shop-assistant, waitress, bus-

indicates that it cannot his teachers, his mates.

conductor, etc. Question 2(What three people if he is mechanically minded and would you take to a desert island of superior abstract Intelligence, be with youth gives an idea what will make an engineer, inventor, people have the greatest emotional chemist, scientist, agriculturist, etc.

Texis show that talented children

As one looks over the inter- national situation to-day, it would seem that the dictators fre having all the diplomatic triumphs. Against their recent successes, the main pillars of the because of: 1. A feeling that he obviously League of Nations have little to is inferior in some respect; 2. be true, Nocturne ("Song of Love") Currant. Derek Oldham show except a melancholy record Some dißiculty in his relation- never huas about the particular gifts

of misfortune, mistakes and dis-ship with his parents. his they possess, Molly Picon.sensions. It is not surprising, brothers and sisters, his tench- Brogging is a reaction-true, an value for him. Leaving out a mem- With good intelligence, #1 filter. aggressive and therefore healthy ber of- the family may, suggest mechanic. craftsman. chauffeur. therefore, that critics of the ers, his friends,

fraction ( British Government-a Govern-

domestic servant, etc. He may fecla insecure and inferjoë to

Jealousy, resentment.

His aitude to his parents-over- With superior intelligence that is because he is a weakling physically confidence. ment which tried might and for has been led to consider himself

attachment, the feeling that he is not predominantly abstract, he will make A Melody from the Sky

The obvious remedy is to provide loved, ele.—is further clarified by his an architect, accountant, editor, a (Film "Trail of the Lonesome Pine") Sam Browne, main to support the rights of in which case he will admit he the child with opportunities for real answers to the questions: Do you director of scientific research. With la weak, does not like rough games, achievements and success so that he wish to have other parents? to be good intelligence, a secretary, clerk, victims of aggression- wants to be grown up and atron does not need the false satisfaction better liked by your parents? Are lypist, etr. should now come forward,ande Peter (the strong boy of the of bragging. If he is physically bbck- you like Jack, who does not mind his Certain careers-such as music, reproach it for a policy which.qustin as a boxer, a policeman, or if his school werk is too arduous, cut

school, fenekes himself in the Heat ward, let him have boxing lessons; father and his mother?

sports muster, etc.-should, naturally, The child will reveal these things only be encouraged if the child has even after the decision to re- some one wheun he Identifex with out a subject so that his remaining by indirect questions when he would definitely from an early age a very

nt admit them directly. move sanctions was made, is said

spacial gift. likely to antagonise Italy. It is

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British policy has been the means of throwing Germany and Italy into each other's arms, and has made it more difficult for Italy to en-operate within the

framework of the League in efforts to strengthen European security. These critics present the usual spectacle of wisdom after the event. They have apparently ceased to view the Ethiopian affair from the point of view of its rights,and wrongs, and its coucetive responsibintles,

the

of her appearance wants to be better The girl who feels inferior because

herself as a movie star, a princesa, prettiest pet in the school, fancies) something danmar

whether through illness, faulty teach:- The child who is backward- ing or mental dulness-wants to be brighter in his studies, to go to a diferent school er no school, wants to be grown up: fanting himself as defective, a ductor, an inventor or any one whom he identifles with knowledge and its prestige.

day-dreamer.

of insecurity,

fundamental Back uf

work may benefit.

World Of Make-Believe

LDERLY persons must be sedul heavy afflictions. One is dyspepsia.

This is because the righteous devo-

ously on their guard against two What Shadows of International peace and the

the other omniscience,

It is possible to suffer from oth The shy child-who feels socially the troublesome complaints without interior-admits to few friends and wants hundreds: he wants to be fully realising it, but far easier in the

ense of the latter than the former.] grown up and to be popular: he is a If your digestion is all

wrong, you are almost bound to know about it. TN question 1

Iluí is fatally easy to elude con- (Which sciousness of the fact that you are of these people would usurping a secular papal infallibility. you like to be?), the child who

The conviction deepens in my mind

NOTES OF THE DAY

We Pursue"

By AN OLD STAGER

Somehow he has seruped together

to

cause

sanctity of pledges Incked the grim realls of Mussolini's ambition to found a new Roman Empire. Whilst the rest of Europe layed a game of let's pretend, his lesions were junger- nauting and gassing primitive tribes into subjection. "Letting On"

+

Mark Twain, like all great humor-

land would have Britain bow feels inferior and unhappy often that the peculiar futulily of the pre-enough money to buy, with the helpists a keen student of human nature, down incontinently before the reveals the qualities he incks by sent epochs, at home and abroad, but of some society, a small plot of land invented the artifice of "letting on. Dace and the accomplished facts, the heroes he chooses: the specially in this country, Is make in a pleasant semi-rural suburb. When Tom Sawyer found anything in belief. Perhaps it is one unfortunate There he is slowly but surely build his romantic plans beyond achieve- even to the point of recognising weakling wants to be a prize-result of a surfeit of cinema shadowing himself a new home. After his men, he "let on" that the thing had day's work is done, he puts in what en done, as arranged instead of Ethiopia.

shows. annexation of

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

seem disposed at all costs to dodge-

a discarded bus that he Sawyer" to some purpose. [shippers of success às success.

realities and to grasp with fevered picnic in

A monumental object lesson !* now matter how it is attained.

avidity at mere illusions. If this is bought for an old song.

"letting on was America's prohibi- a trite diagnosis, as 1 greatly fear Whilst his wife cooks the meals, the ion law. At ane blow Americans Might seems to them to be the

At the Olympic Games, sport is it is, it is a most dangerous condition youngsters help father to build their salved their conscience and slaked Jonly right. Anu yet some of

a genuinely serious thing. But of mind for any people to be in. new home. i my view that sort of their thirst. But that illusion was less these self-same critics were; not the extent to which the, Peruvian This is a world of very grim reality, really is infinitely better, both for dangerous than our post-war peace Hong since, loud in protesting people have been aroused by the and sooner or later the illusionists that family and the community, than in

any thrills of film illusion. that Ethiopia, must be saved decision at Berlin to force them must have a rude-nwakening,

How many citizens could recite all from the aggressor at all costs.te play again a match they won 1 bate this accusation of unreality in

It may be asked on what Vain Pretences

the peace pacts, treatles, and pledges signed and senled by all the Great As we look back on all that has from Austria is regrettable. Not our national outlank. The aruwer is.

Powers since the war? I confess I Gecurred during the past six tint we cannot understand the think, comprehensive enough. To

Though a prodigious one, the film could not tame one half. Yet we all months, marked by situations lieve they were the Vletins of of all, one need go no further than y

bitterness of Peruvians, who bestart with the most obvious example illusion is not the only symptomlarew, in our hearts, that these were girl's lipstick, dyed all fudge. The nations were just without military or diplomatic unfair decisions both during and the popular acession for dan perlingertips, high heels, and imitation "etting on." precedent, it is difficult [to] after the match; but we deprecate | formances,

silk gown are all illusions. She Is

The very redundancy and overlaps escape the conviction that the such a demonstration as that re-

merely aning the ugliness of a-class lof society to which she does not ping of these peace parts betrayed British Government would have ported from Lima,, where moss Film Mad

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

and whieht is far less fecund, if them, with bungling and indecision, or Olymple flag from a

man Consulate, tore down the the same intense devotion to cinemas might be wore all. Its opportant disprmed to such 'n pitch that, when No other country in the world has only she realised the fact, thin her belief with apparent sincerity and Indiseretion, whatever line it factory and, at Callao, refused to American film

German that our people have. Recently un

lark reality put its hoof right took. So far as the perpetuation work German vessels. The te thanked his directorial stars that the

through all the benevolent protocols, magnate publicly ties fully seized.

Equally illusive are the really we found ourselves impotent to stand of sanctions is concerned, it is things rather disturb the conten, British were “Blm innd,”

fashionable dame's cosinolles, face- up to the realists. elear that Britain reluctantly tion that the Olympic Games are I am far from condemning the habit flings, 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 better our people should spend their travail, to look what she is not. She without weapona. John Bull has other Powers, for the very relations.

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

It is much the same with at Berlin becausey, looking even at the most sloppytractive as what she actually is, and prepared to support her in the Peruvian supporters rushed kind of America Alms than just incldentally have much better time. matter. But it surely cannot the field of play and attacked the house taproom.

sonking themselves in some corner- And having a good time, which fre-projects. We decide to raise

quently is the sale ambition of such cool age, and insert a proviso that

nullifies the decision. now be argued that because of Austrian pinyers as a result of

We "let on" we 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 referee and unfair tactics by the surroundings of such people than 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 renaming of our workhousea as if nothing whatever had hap- Austrian

Peru eventually won the mateli, in a celluloid Nirvana.

those engrossed in some useful occu- asylums? We call them something pened. To worship success and

Let me give one example. Not far pation generally have a good time else and "let on" they no longer exist, it was the decision of the Olympic from my home, In a dreary barrack without effort. condone actions for which there Committee that it should be in a dreadful slum, fa a man who never was any real justification played again. Poru has with earns less than £4 a week as a motor passion for sheer delusion. We can

There are 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 falscover plenty of major ones.. Haile We have reached the'stage when a that is not, and never has been, attempting to draw with it the small children, But he refuses to ac- Sclassic could tell us that the Longue rose smells sweeter by any the British way.

(Continued on Page 4.). cept clnemu oblivion.

of Nailons Is an elaborate illusion.

(Continued on Page 4.)

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