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THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 19381
PROTESTS NOT ENOUGH
The British Government prepared to take more drastic
Why Husbands
beat
UST lately they have been bringing into the courts Some of those HOW "cruelty" divorce sults.
It is one of the changes brought about by A. P. Herbert's Marriage Act.
Now there are a lot of old- fashioned ideas in people's heads about why husbands ill- treat their wives.
Most
A wife- people regard
If beater as an inhuman brute. someone they know i had up in the pollee court for wife-beating and publicly disgraced, they have no hesitation in blackening his
repeter pretty freely title nequaintances,
be
A
amon!
ful for ten minutes let tolerant with the wife- rs. Let us and out why they o their wives.
We owe it to them because they are going to be a good deal in the news from now on--and people wil e saying hard things about them. But maybe at heart they are no worse than you and 1. That, nt any rate, is what many psycholo
bts say. And they ought to know
1 likely that any husband has been cruel right from the day Wife beaters are not him birth
their
WIVES
born: they are made. They bo- come cruel because some normal human desire has been frustrated.
Here are a few normal human desires: to feel secure, to have a pleasant Job with reasonable hours and fair Wages, to get enough to cat, to live in a house that can be made a real home, w have outlets for one's affectionate instincts, one's sexual instincts and one's social instincts.
Now it may well happen that one or more--of these simple de- sires may be frustrated. Far tou this imperfect many people in Britain of ours do find themselves frustrated.
Sonte people can Bland more frustration than others, But for everybody at a certain point some- thing snaps.
Some people, i short, react in wife- Trustration by becoming lanters.
But why, you will probably ask. when als હા 233147 becomes Erturated dora he beat his wife, who is supposed to be the person i loves most? Why not
mother or his sisters or the people he meets at work?
Well, the paychologists their answer to that, too.
havo
He chooses his wife not only bo- cause she is the least likely person to whistle for the police, but also because in the words of the late Mr. Oscar Wilde, Euch man kille the thing he loves,"
It is the habit of many men to express their strongest feeling- whether of love or hate on the same person. The things that go deepest in them inke them turn towards their wives.
If a man teels angry, ho *takes it out" on his wife. And this does not only hippen when the cause of his anger ts something in the home-over-crowding of poverty or rain coming through the roof.
ir in Just as likely to come home nat take it out of his wife it some- thing has gone wrong at her work.
A very ambitious man may find
Artists On The Rampage
the
vendettas
but ferocious
by
"An Old Stager'
Modernist Against
Orthodoxista
committee may regard Mr. James Maxion and his I.L.P, associate.
the It is possible that some of
But it is
150 a
them
his ambition thwarted, very often becomes cruel.
If so, be
I such a man is found beating his wife, the real enuse in not his cruelty, but his undue ambition.
Yet undue ambition is not listed as a crime and cruelty tn.
Many of the wife-beaters whose vices are paraded before the courts are no worse in character than lots of other ambitious, self-centred men. They are merely less KUCCESS- fut.
Husbands who make a habit of getting drunk often emple this with wife-beating.
Then the neighbours say that it to the drink that made him cruel. But they arO WIOBJ.
You can bet your boots that something quite else, some serious frustration in his life, has caused both the drunkenness and the cruelty.
Neither drunkenness nor cruelty is a disease in itself. Both are symptoms of some deeper discane,
The wife-beater, like the drunk- ard, behaves in the way he dues because he is being thwarted in some simple human desire. And if he la to be cured, he must get a doctor to find out what it is.
Some people say that A. P. Herbert's Act, by making divorce ensier, is very hard on the chit- dren.
Psychologists have little use for A good opinions of that kiad. home is one in which the children love and respect their parents.
A quarrel between parents is like an earthquake to a child. And if quarrels are frequent, and it they have a habit of becoming violent, then the children will grow up neurotie and abnormal,
They would be far better in an orphanage.
A doctor talked to the other day told me about a family he knew where there was a cruel husband.
The wife was 35 years old and she had a son of six. This husband of hers was fity. He was " psycho- logically mad," but not certifiably mad-although the doctor said that the day would come when he would be certifiable.
This madness did not stop him from being able to manage a busi-, ness very well. But he had a repu- tation for great cruelty in his administration of it.
☆
This husband showed little merey in the home. He had boxed his son's cars so hard that both his eardrums had been broken.
He had made a steady practice of beating his wife-ami on one occasion had gone so far as to throw her on the floor, breaking her arm.
action than in the past to put THE most lethal
concerned, not with morals, fron- a stop to the repealed attacks, ndmarks. or polities,
The art Left Wing party, in the eyes of the orthodox R.A. members, hos on British shipping in Spanish with deginas. And the most fer
its moderale Surlulists and its ex- of dogmatical controversies are
Mu clan associations treme Communists, the former being porta, 1t hast HOW been acthose whitel have to do with questions and having.
He curly declared after typified by Mr. Wyndham Lewis and tate Even the proverbial odkan whatever.
The cepted by the authorities, it
relentless and even rewards, when his alde had won, that the latter by the Surrealists. Theologum,
in whlic Is. however, that difference selesa though it can be, pales its he did not fight for profit or glory, seems, that these attacks are
political fe
fe it is the moderates who anaethic trea before the antagonisms but "for my own hand.
ejert the extremists, in the art world not always accidental. In other for Act. The ducts of the art atelier
It is the extremists who eject selves. This is due to the fact where- words, the Insurgent bombing are fought out to the death,
Hence the excitement aroused by
as politicians realise the vital im- planes responsible are deliber-
dramatic events immediately
portance of proselytism from within, pre-
dramatic ately sinking British vessels and ceding opening of the Royal
artists apor
appreciate only gesture frun without. killing British crews. To the Academy's hundred and seventieth
Spring Exhibition **t Burlington Protagonista in this R.A. duel may
Naturally the younger and fiercer Briton this Nort of Hastin This art sensation, no doubt be similarly selfcentred.
just as well that the outside publle, of the wild men among the art cri- sublime oppor- by a happy acrident, occurs at 4
whose art interests perhaps do not ties are revelling in a thing looks like hostile action, moment when it is bound to attract extend far beyond the advertise-tunity to run amok. They are empl
tuvern
signing the long-bottled-up vids of their ment hoardingy and and whatever may be the des. the widest possible free publicity.
understand what artistic wrath on the RA's grave and boards, should The sequence of events is simple broadly the trouble is all about. cription given in the language The R.A's respectable Hanging Corn-
reverend [1
Eccurs, and smiling the
and thigh. of diplomacy, it is a situation mittee reject a portrait of young is not quite so simple us some of the old buffers
One young gentleman, whose toma- hawk i
is dripping with ancient gore, fast becoming intolerable and Mr. T. S. Eliot, the poet, sent in by London papers imagine.
The outraged Mr. Wyndham Lewis.
The accepted version of the quarrel,
a dramatic critic. As he has demanding
"Coriolanus" something more painter asserts that this insult is by the outside public, is that the
Shakespeare's part and parcel of the R.A.'s per-modernists are up against the ortho-
devold ak has a play
or either poetry than protests. Mr. Lloyd Georgesistent boycutt of modern or original doxists; that it is a rebellion by
fest snob who ever strutted across n maintains that British protests art in favour of mere coloured photo-ptoncer art extremists against accen- philosophy, and its hero as the big- ed art canons and conventions. But stage, and has had similar comments
to offer Mr. Wyndham Lewis and his friends
on Henry V's egregious are becoming "the joke of the
Promptly Mr Augustus John. o
vehemently deny this. They con awashbuckling braggartry, it con- world." And to be frank itfriend and compatriot of Mr. Wynd- tend that it is the R.A. who are ceivable the R.A. will take
leaf out ham Lewis, resigns his R.A. member the apostates, and who have strayed of Dogberry's book, and "thank God does seem that they carry littleship on a protest against his so-
from the true paths of traditional they are well quit of a knave." In When a German war-
cintes treatment of that distinguished weight.
within recent artist. ship was struck by Loyalist
towards the Modernist. They have far more peculiar, accepted works bombs. the authorities con.
of people are being drawn. The The contention of the R.A. grey-from their point of view, than Mr. cerned did not hesitate to take
much more, Wyndham Lewis's.
Obviously this is no conflict for Bery cross hus been sent round the beards can be stated artistic clans o nature reprisals of
Incidentally, having seen both Mr. laymen to intrude upon. The battle 1 of which
Chelsea and St. John's briefly. In their opinion the rebels Wood. The art eritics can no more are just either deliberate or de- Wyndham Lewis's portrait of Mr. risks even. to impartial neutrals are discouraged
They suspect Eliot, and also Mr. Ellot in person. excessive. further resist the call of battle than could mented caricaturists. quickly
Yet it la little startling attacks. The Germans simply Highland clans whose multiple due elementary art
w many of them of being artistic frauds, the R.A.'s contumacity in relecting to find one really eminent critic ob- respective pipers of the
who camouflage their lack
of the work does not exactly raise my serving that the status of the R.A. shelied a coastal city in retalia-Scott vividly narrates in "The Fair sheer effrontery of colour anarchy portraits I liked better-and worse fact that hardly a picture in it.would canons under the blood to boiling point. I have seen Exhibition may be judged. from the Maid of Perih."
and enveman draughtsmanship. They but we must walt for posterity to bear the simple test of being looked In that poignant encounter, it may regard these mutineers very much as pronounce whether Burlington House at upside down! be recalled, Hal o' the Wynd, the a member of the Carlton Club house missed a masterpleeg. sturdy Perth blocksmith and prospec- tive busband of the Fair Maid, fought?
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tion. While this is not the sort
of remedy British people would apply there is no question of its effectiveness. Shells, it seems, [have more power of persuasion
than fine words.
graphy.
Into the furious vortices of this) bloodshot quarrel all sorts and sizes
the
art, and that they, the so-called re-
Ele so frightened his wife that she dare not tell her family doctor the ren! cause for her broken arm. And he has so terrorised her that she dare not bring proceedings against him for assault.
Meanwhile the boy grows up a nervous wreck....
Yet there are people who object to the fact that wives can now suc
for divorce on grounds of cruelty,
bela, are the genuine conservators fact, the R.A.
tord years shown considerable tolerance Useless Disputing About of the high tradition of the Masters.
as a volunteer, though a Lowlander, GRIN AND BEAR IT
The French have decided that the crossing of their frontier by Great Britain has consider-
unidentified bombing plancs, ably more reason for indignation suspected to be Insurgent, is a than had the Germans at the matter for military action time of the bombing of the rather than diplomacy. There Deutschland. It is no secret will be no denial of the justice that German advisers and pilots of this decision, surely. In a and probably troops and aircraft nense, then, the
attacka on British shipping demand the have been fighting on the side samme sort of action because, to of the Insurgents in Spain. British mariners, their decks are Britain, on the other hand, has as much British as their native remained strictly neutral. If land. This is not intended to be an argument for armed reprisal; anything, and this is certainly but to end this ugly situation a true of the more conservative corrective of a very firm and element, a majority of people perhaps painful nature is in- alcated. Britain has other have always felt sympathy for
weapons besides guns with the cause of General Franco, which to discipline those who [probably because so much of old fail to respect the Red Ensign,
and some people commence toį Spain which is good seems to feel that she hesitates too long be threatened with destruction to use thom. If there is risk
by the Leftists. But that involved, it must be taken. The British Government has not for- sympathy is rapidly evaporating bidden British vessels to trade with the repented offences in Spanish waters, providing against helploss merchantmen they do not carry munitions, and the Government thereford THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. whose blasted hulls have been has not relinquished the res
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Taste
This, in fact, gets right down to the root of the controversy. One school of art likes Its pictures to re- semble as closely as possible what
By Lichty they set out to depict. To the other
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"Mr. Truffle, I can't tell from my notes whether you said
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school this is hideously photographic, and what these disciples desire in syncopated Inspiration from
the artist. It does not matter n
n boot whether the picture looks like any- thing so long as its composition in colour scheme and outline and group- ing in satisfying. It wants to handle paint as a musician handles sound. "A cow by any other shape would milk as sweet perhaps conveys their outlook.
We
• all know what Whistler sald to the lady who complained that she had never seen Battersea Bridge look
ike that. "Ab, Madam, don't wish you
W
the
you:
could!" That in true enough. We look
eye of the artist to interpret facis better and more beautifully than normal vision. But is there not some limit to this artistic llcence? May there not come n point at which, as in the case of much Surreallast nonsense, the honest reply
of the astounded and indignant layman would be, "Thank God, I' don't and can't!"
Moreover, when we are told that the R.A. have wandered from the old master tradition, while we may agree that much orthodox work is nowa-- days far too unexcitingly copylat, and too mechanical, may we not nsk, which old master ever painted men and women like over-inflated bale: loons or irees that looked like a rather bod amush on the Under- ground.
Finally, when the ateller claummon Krow
too ferocious, let us remind them that about two thousand yearn". ngo a wise old Roman bird observed that it was useless disputing about.... Itaste.
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