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his ambition thwarted. If so, be very often becomes cruel.
If such a man is found beating he wife, the real cause is not his cruelty, but his undue ambition.
Why Husbands beat their
WIVES
UST lately they have been bringing into
the courts those new some
'crucity". divorce suits.
of
It is one of the changes brought about by A. P. Herbert's Marriage Act.
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PROTESTS NOT
ENOUGH
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The British Governmzeta! prepared to take more drastic
worl
If
regard FL wife- Most people beater as an inhuman brute someone they know is had up in The police court for wife benting and publicly disgraced, they have 11 besttalion in blackening hts treely AMORE e practer pirity thrit acquaintanera.
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for ten minutes let be toleran! with the wife- beaters Let as flud nut ene they bent their wives
We owe it to them because they are going to be a good deal in the news free now on and people will buying hard things about them
maybe at heart they are no worse than you and I That, at why rute, is what many mycholo Kists say. And they ought to kne
It is unlikely that any husband balarga rrard right from the day ut his birtin Wite beater are y
They be born; they are made. come cruel because some normal human desire has been frustrated. Here are a few normal human desires: to feel secure, to have n pleasant Job with reasonable
24 hours
fair wagen, to Rel enough to eat, tu live in a house that can be made a real home, to have outlets for one's affectionate instinels, one's sexual instincts and one's social instincts.
Now I may well happen that of these simple de- one or more
Far 100 stres may be frustrated.
this Imperfect any people in Britain of ours to Bud themselves frustrated.
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Some people
stand more frustration than others. Bul for everybody at a certala point some- 1 staps.
Some people. In short, react to frustration by
wile. becoming
raters
But why, you will probably ask, when
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becomes ma irustrafert, does he beat his wife whio di supposed to be the person de laven Host? Why Bost Jals
mother or his sisters or the people he meets at work?
Well, the psychologists Lheir answer to that, 100,
bave
He chooses his wife not nuly be- cause she is the least likely person to whistle for the police, but also because in the words of the inte Mr. Oscar Wilde. Each man klik the thing he loves."
It is the habit of many mien to express their strangest feelings- whether of love or hate-un the Game per
The things that no deepest it them make them turn towards their wives.
If a man feel angry, he takes 12 out" on his wife And this does Not only happen when the cause of his anger is something in the home over-crowding or poverty or rain coining through the roof.
He is just is likely Le come home and take out of his wife it some- thing has gone wrong at his work.
A very amrious man may and
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Artists On The Rampage
most lethal vendiculas
And the most ferocious
HANNE
1917
elan
are all dogmatical controversies
associations a-those which have to do with questions and
The domly declared aftes- saf taste. Even the proverbial ruhum whatever theologiem, relenthe, and even re- wards, when his side had war, that morseless though it can be, pales its he did not night for profit or glory, annemie fires before the antagonisina but for my own hund ut Art.
The duels of the out ateher are fought out to the death.
the widest possible free publielty.
a
Modernist Against
Orthodoxists
committee may regard Mr. James Maxton and his 1.L.I. assocate.
as
The
Yot undpe ambition is not Ikted as a crime and cruelty la
Many of the wife-benters whose vices are paraded before the courts are no worse in character than lots' of other ambitious, self-centred men. They are merely leas success-
l.
Husbands who make a habit of getting drunk often couple this with wife-beating.
Then the neighbours Day that i in the drink that made him cruel. But they are wrong.
You can bet your boots that something quite èlse, some serioun frustration in his Hie, has caused both the drunkenness and the
cruelty,
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Neither drunkenness nor cruelty la disease in itself. Hoth are symptoms of some deeper disease.
The wife-beater, like the drunk- ard, behaves in the way he does because he is being thwarted in some simple human desire. And If he is 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 easier. very hard on the ebli- dren.
Psychologists have little use for A good opinions of that kind. home is one in which the children love and respect their parenta
A quarrel between parents is ilke an earthquake to a child. And if quarrels are frequent, and if they have a habit of becoming violent. then the children will grow up neurotle and abnormal.
They would be fur better in an orphanage.
A doctor 1 talked to the other day told me about a family he knew where there Was AL cruel husband
The wife was 35 years old and she had a son of six. This husband of hers was fifty. He waspycan- logically mad," but not certifiably mud-although the doctor said that the day would come when he would be certiflable.
This madness did not stop him from being able to manage a busi- ness very well. Ban he had a repu- tation for great cruelty in his administration of .
Thals husband showed Hittle mercy 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-and an one occuson had gone so far as to throw her on the floor, breaking her arm.
nction than in the past to put Terned, not with morals, hon by “An Old Stager" The art Left Wit party, to the cas a stop to the rupeated attacks ter landmarks. om podation,
of the orthodox R.A. members, has its maderate Socialists und ex- British shipping in Spanish | with dogmas
treme Communists, the former being ports. 17 h TRAN ix-en
typified by Mr. Wyndham Lewis and cepted by the authorities, it
the latter by the Surrealists.
is the moderates who politient Ufe that these attacks are
difference is, however, that while in
| seems,
eject the extremists, In the art world In other not always accidentul.
it is the extremists who eject them- selves.
This is due to the fact where- words, the Insurgent bambing
politicians realise the vital im- Hence the excitement aroused by plates responsible are deliber-
portance of proselytism from within, pre- dramatic events immediately
dramatie artists appreciate only the opristig of the Royal ately sinking British vessels and ceding
LE is possible that some of
gesture from without. Artemy's hundred and seventieth
f3a! #iuy|4་ protagonists in this R.A To the killing British crews.
Exhibition
Burlington Spring
al
But it is
the younger and flereer Naturally Hone Briton this
uf
This art sensation, no doubt be similarly selfcentred.
Just as well that the outside public, of the wild men among the art eri- average
ist by huppy arrident, occurs thing looks like hostile netion, noment when it bound to attract Whose art interests perhaps do not ties are reveling in a sublime oppor- extend far beyond the advertise-tunity to run amok They are empty- nign-ing the long-buttled-up vinds of their ment hoardings and tavern and whatever may be the des-
what artistle wrath on the RA's grave and understand should The sequence of events is simple boards,
I reverend seigneurs, and smiting the cription given in the language The RA respectable Hanging Cam- broadly the trouble is all about.
One young gentleman, whose tuma- of diplomacy, it is a situation mittee reject a portrait of young is not quite so simple as some of the old buffers hip and thigh.
hawk is Mr. T. S. Eliot, the poet, sent in by, London papers imagine,
dripping with ancient gore, fast becoming intolerable and Mr. Wyndham Lewis, The outraged The accepted version of the quarrel,
describeil Shakespeare's "Coriolanus” demanding something more
painter asserts that this insult is by the outside public, is that the is also a dramatic critic. As he has part and parcel of the A.'s per- modernists are up against the ortho-as a play devoid of either poetry or than protests. Mr. Lloyd Georgesistent buyent of modern or original, doxists, that it is rebellion by philosophy, and its her as the big- maintains that British protests art in favour of mere coloured photo-pioneer art extremists against accept-gest snob who ever strutted across a ed art canons and conventions. But age, and has had similar comments Mr. Wyndham Lewis and his friends to offer on Henry V's egregious are becoming "the joke of the
Promptly Mr. Augustus John,
vehemently deny this They con swashbuckling braggortey, it is con- world." And to be frank it tried and compatriot of Mr. Wynd- tend that it is the R.A. who are ceivable the R.A. will take a leat out ham Lewis, resigns his I.A. member the apostates, and who have strayed of Dogberry's book, and thunk God does seem that they carry little ship as a protest against his usso- from the true paths of traditional they are well quit of a knave." In weight. When a German war-cintes treatment of that distinguished art, and that they, the so-called re- fael, the RA. have within recent bels, are the genuine conservators years shown considerable tolerance ship was struck by Loyalist
of the high tradition of the
Old towards the Modernist. They have Into the furious vortices of this] Masters.
accepted works for more peculiar, bamba, the authorities con-bloodshot quarrel all sorts and sizes
The contention of the R.A. grey- from their point of view, than Mr. of people are being drawn. The
much cerned did not hesitate to take fery cross its been sent round the beards can be sated
more Wyndham Lewis's.
Obviously this is no confict for Incidentally, having seen both Mr. laymen to Intrude upon. The battle reprisals of 請 nature which artistic clans of Chelsea and St. John's briefly. In their opinion the rebels
deliberate or de Wyndham Lewis's portrait of Mr. risks even to Impartial neutrals are Wood. The art critics can no more are just either quickly
They suspect Eliot, and also Mr. Ellot in persun, excessive. Yet it is a little startling. discouraged further resist the call of battle than could mented varicaturists.
two many of them of being artistle frauds, the R.A.' contumacity in rejecting to find one really eminent critic ob- the respective The Germans simply Highland clans whose multiple duel
pipers of the
camouflage their attacks.
Jack of the work does not exactly raise my serving that the status of the R.A. canons under the blood to boiling point. I have seen Exhibition may be judged from the shelled a constal city in retalia-Seatt vividly narrates in "The Fair: elementary art Mald of Perth."
sheer effrontery of colour anarchy portraits I liked better-and worse fact that hardly a pleture in it would for posterity to bear the simple test of being looked tion.
(and caveman draughtsmanship. They but we must wait While this is not the sort
in that poignant encounter, it may regard these mutineers very much as pronounce whether Burlington Housent upside down! be recalled, Hal w the Wynd, the member of the Carlton Club house missed a masterplece. sturdy Perth blacksmith and prospec- tive husband of the Fair Maid, fought
of remedy British people would apply there is no question of its effectiveness. Shells, it seems, have more power of persuasion than fine words.
no IL is
Kruphy
artist.
n
Whe
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 planes, 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.
secret will be no denial of the justice that German advisers and pilots of this decision, surely. In a jandi probably troops and aircraft sense, then, the attacks on British shipping demand the have been fighting on the sidesame 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 land. This is not intended to be remained strictly neutral. If
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
clement, a majority of people perhaps painful nature is in- dicated. Britain has other have always felt sympathy for
weapons besides Kuns with the cause of General Franco, which to discipline those who probably because so much of okifail to respect the Red Ensign, and some people commence to Spain which is good seems to feel that she hesitates two long be threatened with destruction to use them. If there is riak involved, it must be taken. The by the Leftists. But that
British Government has not for- sympathy is rapidly evaporating bidden British vessels to trade with the ropeated offences in Spanish waters, providing against helpless merchantmen they do not carry munitions, and the Government therefore
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"Mr. Trupic, I can't tell from my notes whether you said
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He so frightened his wife that she dare not tell her family dactor the real en use for her broken arm. And he has so terrorised her that she dare not bring proceedings agabst him for assault.
Meanwblie the boy grows up u Nervous WILCK.
Yet there are people who object to the fact that wives can now suo for divorce on grounds of cruelty.
Useless Disputing_About
Taste
This, in fact, gels right down to the root of the controversy. One school of art likes its pictures to re- semble as closely as possible what they set out to depict. To the other school this is hideously photographic, and what these disciples desire is syncopated inspiration
from
the artist. It does not matter a hoot whether the picture looks like any- thing so long as its composition.in colour scheme and oufline 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 said to the lady who complained that she had never seen Battersea Bridge look like that. "Ah, Madam, don't you wish
you could!" That in true enough. We look to the eye of the artist to Interpret facts better and more beautifully than normal vision. But is there not some limit to thin artistic licence May there not come a point at which, ns in the case of much Surrealist nonsense, the honest reply of the astounded and Indignunt Jayman 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 trudillon, while we muy agree that much orthodox work is nowa- days for 100 unexeltingly copyist, and too mechanical, may we not ask which old muster ever pointed men and women like over-inflated bal- To or trees that looked like m bad smash on the Under-
rather ground?
Finally, when the atelier clansmen #row loo ferocious, let us remind them that about two thousand years ngo a wise old Roman bird observed that it was uselenn disputing about
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