The Brussels Post, 1948-3-10, Page 6Her Whole Life Seems Spoiled — A Canadian film that has won
high acclaim both in Europe and the *United States is "The Feel-
ing of Rejection". In a striking manner it shows how a sense of
being "unwanted" in childhood can affect the entire life of an
individual, and what modern psychiatry can do to relieve this
condition.
The Girl Who Felt "Unwanted'
In "psychological" movies the
plot generally leads back to some
horrific incident in childhood which
is stated to be the rout cause of tate
mental illness.
This month in many Ontario
counties people will have a chance
to see a different type of psycho-
logical film, entitled, "The Feeling
of Rejection". Produced by the
National Film Board for the Men-
tal Health Division of the Depart-
ment of National Health and 'Wel-
fare, "The Feeling of Rejection" is
the story of Margaret, the elder of
two children in an average Cana-
dian family. Outwardly she ap-
pears to be quite normal; in work
and home life she is quiet but
competent.
But Margaret is not well. She
is troubled by headaches, stomach
upsets, dizzy spells and constant
tiredness, and the most thorough
medical examination fails to tarn
up any reason for them. So, in due
course, she is referred to a psychi-
atrist.
Childhood Days
The psychiatrist has Margaret
telt him about her past life. Lead-
ing back from the present into her
childhood, you see or the screen
the accumulation of incidents which
have compounded to make Marga-
ret what she is today.
Today you see a Margaret unable
to face up to the normal competi-
tion of every -day Hie. At home, for
example, although she has planned
to spend the evening at a movie,
aha --gives in to her y nooger sister
who refuses to share the housework
when°`iilt interferes with her plans
for entertainment. Again, at the
office, she consents to work over-
time on another girl's job although
she wanted to have early to go
shopping. Next day. the shopping
trip is a failure since ,,he lets the
salesgirl override her choice of
dress. These submissions to other
people give rise to weariness and
recurrent headache, which she can-
not understand.
The Model Child
Going back still further, the psy-
chiatrist "digs out" incidents from
her childhood which created in
Margaret a crippling fear of failure,
and the consequent fear of trying
anything new. Her parents, throng/it
a fear of having the child injure
herself, check many of her normal
activities. Again, since her parents
give most of their attention to the
younger sister — Margaret feels
r5 -e is unwanted. To get herpar-
ents' attention, she tries to show
them her natural talents as they
are expressed in such things as
dancing. But she is told that "nice
girl, don't show off." Gradually
Margaret learns that the only way
to save herself from the frighten-
ing sense of being unwanted is to
give in to all demands and to re-
frain from all activity to which
others might object. She becomes
the "model child".
Result of Psychiatry
Towards the end of the film, we
sec the positive side of modern
psychiatry. Group therapy is ap-
plied to Margaret and a number of
others suffering from similar handi-
caps. They are taught to face and
examine their problems. At the
end we a her beginning to break
away from the habit of blind' obedi-
ence that was so thoroughly estab-
lihed in her childhood and that had
been at the rout of her emotional
troubles,
"The Peeling of Rejectioi." has
already been shown in the United
States and Europe. It received re-
cognition last year at the Edin-
burgh Film Festival, the Internation-
al Scie- tiiic Film Festival and the
C ernes Filet Fa stival in France, the
International Conference of High
School Teachers in Norway, and
tock a prize at the Chicago Film
Fe.tival a flay months ago,
LIFE'S LIKE THAT
wu.t.-YUM.
By Fred Neher
/0./6.94
01001
"Why don't you get on a quiz program, Pop , .. You know
all the answers when mom questions yowl?"
The sound of a ragman's horn
cane in the open window of the
room, where, with housewifely zeal,
Wavey Winters was busy with
spring hoose -cleaning,
A gleam carte into her eyes: She
thought, "I'll give him that pile of
magazines Ted has in the garage
and all those pop bottles he is al-
ways promising to take away, but
never does. I'm tired of having
them around."
The ragman looked around hope-
fully as he loaded the bottles and
magazines on his rickety old truck,
"Any olda clothes, Ma'am?" he
asked. "As.y old rubber or iron?"
"No, that's all , , wait a min-
ute." She darted into the garage,
turning with a pair of old grey
trousers. Here, you may as well take
these, too."
She gave her husba•td a partial'
larly warns kiss when he came home
that evening. "Pm almost dead,"
she sighed as they were eating din-
ner, "At first I thought I would
open a can of soup or something
easy to prepare, but then I remem-
bered how nice you were, so I made
you this meat pie and. upside-down
cake." Thus she trt •d to pave the
way to tell him what she had done.
"It beats me why you have to kill
yourself, trying to do everything in
one day," Ted answered, "The
housc always look.. all right to me
without you having to tear it apart
every so often. Thanks for the swell
dinner, Honey, Guess I'll work on
the car for awhile.
"That reminds me," she inter,
rupted hastily, "A ragman came by
today rod I let him take those pop
bottles and magazines out in the
garage."
"You what!"
"And I let him take those dirty
, I.1 pants out there too," she rushed
on.
"You mean you gave those pants
away!" Ted shouted: "Those pants
had fifty dollars in the pocket."
"Ted! They didn't."
"Ther did unless you took it out.
Did you?"
"Of course not. It never occurred
to me ... Oh, Ted! What have 1
done?"
"Gave away your birthday gift,
that's all. I'vl. been saving all year
to buy that wrist watch you wanted.
I thought I had found a safe hiding
place in those pants. Perhaps we
can get it back. Did you notice a
name on the truck?"
Nance shook her head despair-
ingly. "There was,l't any name,
but there was a phone number. I
noticed that because it was the
sante number as our house, Main
1152."
"That's a lot of help. We can't
look through th whole book."
"We could look under 'Junk
Dealers',' she cried.
"Here it is," she exulted, after a
few minutes' search. "Tony Rozalle,
1346 Clark Street."
1346 Clark Street was a shabby
little house, whose back yard gave
ample proof of its owner's occupa-
tion. An ancient, bent old lady an-
swered the' knock, She shook her
head in response to their request to
speak to Mr, Rozalle.
"The a Id lady doesn't speak or
understand English." A dark -eyed
boy came from the back of the
house. "You wauta buy something,
Mister, or have you got something
You wants, sell??"
"Are you \Ir. Rozalle's son?" Ted
asked.
"Naw, I livt. next door, but I told
Tony I'd take care of things till he
came back.
"When will he be hack?"
"Not for a couple of days, mister,
His boy, who's in the'air corps, was
all busted up in an airplane crash.
Tony and his wife wanted to go see
him but they didn't have the money.
Then today a rich lady gave Tony
fifty bucks and they lit out as soon
as he came home. That's what I call
ltek."
"Yea, it was fortunate" Ted
avoided Nancy's eyes as he spoke.
"I'm glad Mr. Rozalle and his wife
were able to visit their son."
"Sure I can't do anything for you,
Mister?"
"Nothing, thank you. What we
wanted to see about wasn't very
important."
OUR FALL FAIRS ATTRA.CT GREAT ATTENTION. During the Autumn months last year a feature of these pages
was a series of striking action pictures taken at various Fall Fairs held throughout the Province. At the Annual Convention
of the Agricultural Societies of Ontario, held at the King Edward Hotel, Toronto, on February llth, 12th and 13th, a display
of the original photographs from which those pictures were made caused a great deal of favorable comment. It was even said
that so many of those attending recognized themselves or friends in the photographs that the display frames were almost
stripped before the Convention ended. Above is seen just on e small corner of the exhibit, In the past few years more and
more towns and villages are coning to recognize the immense value to a community of a good Fall Fair, and it is hoped that
publicity of this sort will act as an encouragement to all who help carry on the good work.
World's Biggest Uncut Diamonds
To Go On Exhibition in England
A "fountain of diamonds" cascad-
ing over two tiers of gold and plat-
inum may sound like a magic treas-
ure pile of Aladdin. But it's no
fairy tale. The display will sparkle
under the eyes of thousands of vis-
itors from all parts of the world
this spring at tite 1948 British Ind-
ustries Fair, which will run sim-
ultaneously in London and Birm-
ingham from May 3 to May 14.
Central attraction in the diamond
section of the fair will be the 770 -
carat Woyie River Diamond—the
largest uncut diamond in the world
today—which was found in Sierra
Leone. It will be on public view
for the first time.
This famous stone, discovered in
1945, is the third largest diamond
ever found. Forty-four carats
heavier than the Jonker, it has been
surpassed in size only by the 3,106 -
carat Cullinan found in 1905 and
the. Excelsior, of 995-7- carats,
found in 1893.
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Stranger than any circus side-
show will be the exhibit of freak
diamonds—the only collection of
its kind in the world. The most
remarkable item in this group is a
gold nugget with two diamonds, one
white and one green, actually im-
bedded in it.
By some quirk of nature the two
gems were- already "set" in this
museum -piece rarity when it was
found. Other freak diamonds in-
clude stones in odd "artificial
shapes and a fantastic range of
colors.
A selection of Princess Eliza-
beth's own personal gems will also
be on show. Highlight of the
Princess's collection, to be loaned
for the Fair, is a diamond neck-
lace made up from choice stones
presented to her by the Govern-
ment of South Africa during the
Royal Tour last year. The neck-
lace is considered by experts to be
probably the most perfectly match-
ed collection in large brilliant -cut
diamonds ever put together. The
21 gems (to celebrate the Princess-
's 21st birthday) are graduated from
a centre stone of 9.55 carats to a
pair weighing 1.59 and 1.60 respee'
tivelyr.
Diamonds are today big dollar -
earners for Britain. The United
States, in turn, is the world's big-
gest buyer of high-class gent stones,
both rough and polished.
Diamond dealers in London—
the world's diamond -selling centre
—estimate that wo.' sales of rough
stones in 1948 by the biggest group,
De Beers, will top £25,000,000
this year, One-fifth of this total
will be a block sale of £20,000,000
of industrial diamonds to the Unit-
ed States Government, according
to the dealers. Diamond sales for
1947 were £24,500,000.
Front African nines, the rough
diamonds travel to the head office
of the Diamond Trading Company
in London, the selling organization
for five big producers. Here, at
No. 32 Holborn Viaduct — one of
the most blitzed sections of Lon-
don -30 girls sort and grade the
uncut stones into little parcels
$40,000, $80;000 or 8120,000 each:
The smallest, most valuable pile is
"sizes"—uncut stones over one
carat. The biggest pile is "cleav-
age" — large stones with faults.
The rest is "sand"—diamonds below
one carat, but not as heavy as "me-
lee" which is also under one carat.
What Is A Blizzard?
The Dominion Meteorological
Division has taken tint,e off to work
out a definition of a blizzard.
The division's minimum quali-
fications for blizzards appear at
first sight rather mild—a wind of
25 utiles an hour, a temperature of
less than 10 above zero, and a vis-
ibility of less than half a mile be-
cause of snow.
However, these are just the en-
trance requirements, so to speak;
they are by no means the specifi-
cations for a real storm. Even at
that, a wind of 25 miles an hour at
10 above zero can be extremely un-
pleasant. The statement about a
visibility of half a mile might be
questioned, In many blizzards, you
are lucky if you can see across the
road,
The Danish fresh -water fisher-
ies produce about 150 tons of eels
annually for food.
Scouting . r
Canada's Boy Scout membership
now stands at an all-time high of
103,759, This is 5,282 more than
last year.
The junior Scouts, known as the
Wolf Cubs, showed the biggest in-
crease in Canada last year, num-
bering 52;044 as against 47,800 the
year before. Boy Scouts increased
in numbers from 38,632. to 39,077.
Adult Scout Leaders increased
from 8,491 to 8,954.
Of Canada's 2,3I9 active Scout
groups 1,403 are sponsored direct-
ly by churches.
Affiliation of Canadian Boy
Scout groups is as follows: An-
glican, 418; Baptist, 80; Canadian
Legion, 41; Community, 660; Han-
dicapped, 8; Hebrew, 15; Latter
Day Saints, 30; Lutheran, 13; Pres-
byterian, 112, Roman Catholic,
198; Salvation Army, 68; Service
Clubs, 145; United Church, 398;
Others, 133.
Registered Camps for Scout
groups increased from 580 to 647,
and unregistered camps from 21
to 46.
The number of boys attending
Scout camps in 1947 increased by
nearly 30 per cent from 14,753 to
21,039, which means that more
than one in every five boys in
Scouting in Canada last year went
to camp.
Short -period camps for Scouts
last year, and not included in other
camping :statistics, numbered 263
with 2,937 boys in attendance,
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methods of painting automobiles as
contrasted with procedure years ago.
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