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When the young man's fancy turns to love.

by Dr. J. MACALISTER BREW, M.A. Education Secretary of the National Association of Girls' Clubs and Mixed Clubs

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where happy,, In the same Inquiry, most of the personal relationships are boys wanted two children-but not so rare, it is hard that more than four-and most of the young people should be attack. girls threel

ed for seeking natural com- At heart, therefore, they wish for panionship and blamed for the normal things

but-how are

being boy-mad" or "girl. they to and the "right person?" For financial, problems and "per- crazy.".

sonally differences" have been fur- ther aggravated by false ideas about romantic love-especially the love- st-first-aight theory.

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The plain truth is that what ever else extended social ser vices may achieve, ro made laws can alter the natural law that in later adolescence both boys and girls begin to feel the need for each other's company.

They are driven by the in- stinctive creative urge to find a mate and to found a family.

But finding a mate-let alone founding a family-is now more difficult than ever before..

The disappointments and suf- ferings they experience in try ing to achieve married happi- ness are not due to social change in any abstract sense, but to the failure of several re- lated social changes to keep pace with one another.

MORE 'DEMANDING' Firstly, there is a greater variety of leisure than in great aunt Charlotte's day.

Secondly, as education is ex tended and improved, so the do people more individualised become and the more difficult it is for one individual to please another without adjustments which neither know how to make.

Modern young people are therefore more "demanding" in their attitude towards a mar- rlage partner.

One should not fall into the error of confusing young people's outward attitude towards the other sex with their actual behaviour,

At heart the average young per- non is conventional and has an al- most alarming sense of the pro- prieties.

casual Even those so

On the dance floor and who hang about street corners more often than not cherish allmost pathetic dreams of a happy married life.

But your 19-year-old boy is now looking for something mane than a good housekeeper-and the young girl expects a higher standard of material comforts than great-aunt Charlotte.

LOVE-FALSE IDEAS

In an extensive Inquiry among 17 and 18-year-olds it was found that they desired happiness-love, companionship and permanence almost equally.

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Instead of merely criticising, older people should try to accept the fact that nature is on the side of the

young.

THE FIRST BABY After all, most doctors agree that physiologically the best ago for a woman to have her drat baby is between 19-21.

If circumstances now make early marriages almost impossible, can we 'not do something to case the ten-

sion of the longer waiting period before marriage?

Not enough adults are sufficiently conscious of their responsibility to the parents of tomorrow.

Many could do splendid work in youth clubs by helping young people to a more instructive and creative use of their leisure.

Both boys and girls are interested in how to bring up children-and are eager to face the problem, (when it is put to them squarely) of how much a baby costs in £ s. d. and work and loneliness-and what divi- dends such a baby will pay in human interest and affection.

"My dad says it's easy to see who gets most of 'the rations in SOMEBODY'S family,”

TWO WASTED

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YEARS

Rocket chiefs resign: secret

station reports no progress

WESTCOTT, Bucks. I saw no signs of real pro- ITH a grave display of gress in this vital defensive

authority. Government work. security police opened Research Station Above all, young people need in the Rocket A "demanding" world

under- here to public inspection for standing of their fellow creatures.

an

And my belief was confirmed that no important developments

we

The Cabinet has authorised a big staff expansion at Westcott and other rocket stations, but the pay offered is hopeless for qualified men. An example: A senior technician

charge of a ballistics range in the

Family living demands all corts of the first time on August 13 lay behind the locked doors of is now being sought to plan and take

other privileged arts besides that of cooking-even And with 26 love alone is not always and in people I was shown over this

converted airfeld. every circumstance enough.

The station director, efficient, sandy-haired Dr William R. complete Cook, showed of in collection German rocket

weapons.

LIVING HAPPILY We cannot give young people a foolproof recipe for either love or a happy marriage, but we could, adolescence, equip them with some insight into the intricate processes of happy living and ready acceptance of its uncertainties and dimculties.

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demon- I saw an excellent full and

stration of German rocket fuels by the station scientists. I saw the 7,000 h.p. rocket en- Finally, one can but wonder whe-gino of the Mess. 163 in action. ther the State might not perhaps cave (in the long run) much of the money spent on curative measures

on

rocket

the hangars from which were excluded by order of the Chiefs of Staff.

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

Australian depart.

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He must be an experienced en- gineer with spcial knowledge of pro- jectiles at high, altlludes. The salory offered is 212 a week.

The Ministry of Supply; cheese- paring policy on pientists salarios set the racket project off to a bad start. Now It has brought disaster.

The two top men, Dr Cook and his assistant Mr St. John Elstub. are resigning to goʻto better-paid postą. Both would stay if the Ministry of supply would offer better prospects.

The only British robot flying dovices the Westcott scientists During the war, as an Army have on which to base their They pay their technicians much In America.conditions are excellent. technical speciallist

are two small better rates and use German devices, I worked with such experiments people and among such appa- Ack-Ack missiles. Even those perts extensively..

were graded three years obso Hundreds of German rocket scientists are taking part in the Intest

such as moral welfare, child and marriage guidance, and probationary work it it could tackle the noot ratus. cause of so much unhappiness and "maladjustment”*****

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I should have enjoyed the lete when captured German

In rockets arrived. If the State could find it in its experience of the visit. heart to provide a marriage sub-stead I was shocked, sidy, young people would be given

the chance to marry while they are It was like going back two still young enough to adjust them-years British rocket research selves one with another and young has marked time since the end enough to enjoy growing up together

of the war. and with their children.

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

CERTAIN misunderstand- which the long-suffering public re- But so long as our officials are con- Vng arose when the dis- plies: "They are bullt for rather tented, we do not care what the

different

And, anyhow, non-officials think. purposes.

They have no Government tribution of a

the fact remains that a

of the special circum- power knowldege directive on overall zoning coin- station has never yet turned out to stances obtaining, and therefore

report on olded with a

As a the be as beautiful

Cathedral." should shut their mouths." arrival of n consignment of But a new twist was given to the

refrain the other day by a member Oh, I say, look here! overalls from Melanesia,

of an engineering firm. He Eaid: no reason why an atomic

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A telephone message which re- "Th

reported to have said that "I a ferred to the overall overall target power-station should be any more other day Mr Chuter Edle is was thought to be nothing but a of an eyesore than a hydro-electrical man elopes with the daughter of the foolish repetition.

Overalls generating station." I do not pro- chairman of a county council, that were sent to n dump in the Cheviots, pose to debate with him on the dit should not disqualify him from fre Brigade com- and meaningless messages continued ference between two such exquisite serving on a

mittee." to pass between the various depart forms of beauty.. ments concerned or not concerned

Suet lashes out in this attempt to co-ordinate and Integrato. 'Beauty draws us with

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experiments at the White Sands Pro- ving Grounds in New Mexico. Wer- ner von Braun, the V2 inventor, is there with the bulk of his wartime staff.

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WHAT is the result? 1. The

Chiefs of Staff cannot pos- It has been estimated that already sibly plan a long-term defence the German rocket scientists have programme until they have re- saved the liable data on the behaviour of guided weapons. Westcott has nothing to offer.

2. The building of new war- ships is completely held up until designers get some per formance estimates of guided rockets in sea warfare.

Westeet has one naval rocket on Its programme. It has a code name. But that is all. There is not yet even a drawing.

million dollars. The number of Ger mans employed in now to be increased to 1,000.

At Wealcott there are 12 Germans, not top-fight technicians.

are many

Why is this? There Germans willing and able to work in Britain. They come voluntarily, not as prisoners of war,

The danger

THE Interchange of technical in- formation on guided missiles between the United States and the British Government is now 100 per- America has at least ten gulded cent. America has been generous rockets, in a semi-operational stage, considering we have given so little They have begun production of a in return. But there in grave dan- super V 2 with double the range and fer for Britain In this one-way lease- fend. Piles of blue prints and reports speed of the German one.

breed a false sense of security. I can imagine no more dangerous

Westcott is not even in a position It or reactionary principle. Before we

is the pool of experimental CPEAKING at Dobney-St-Vitus, know where we are, we shall have the present rate of progress any actual production of weapons in a to consider such a project. And at knowledge and technical skill in the C Suct, Esq., cald: "It is the man, who clones with the cousin noticeable that it is only those who of the town cleric serving in the rocket engable of carrying the 4-ton country which counts when war

atomic bomb is out of the question threatens, The door will for 15 years, are not civil servants who complain local waterworks: about the working of four-way re- then be open to overy kind of abuse,

"We were in the neld of racket re- THE haunting refrain of the latest gistration, This dwindling group of and there will be ruining to Pro-This delay is not the fault of Dr search before America, and we have song runs "There is no reason the ordinary public, without any vent the nisce of a equncillor marry Cook and his scientists. They realise the technical talent to stand on our why a power-station should not be official status, neems to think it has ing the brother of the head park how grave a malter this is. But feet now if the Government will as beautiful as a Cathedral.? To a right to criticise what is done, keeper..

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