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6 DAILY NtRALD Wedneldirf AerN 1941 4 Picking Pop IT seems to be an occupational weakness of some headmasters to cry Woe, woe about the interests and enthusiasms of the generation they teach. The weakness is not, of course, confined to headmasters. Less distinguished members of an older generation frequently fall into the same temptation. Denunciations of this kind do not do much good. Teenagers shrug them off with more or less tolerant boredom.

They how right they are this is the kind of attitude middle-aged people have always taken to things the young like. Yesterday, at the Conference of the National Association of Schoolmasters their new President, Mr. T. A. Casey, made a spirited assault (reported on thts page) on pop culture, and on songs that approach love in a shallow and sordid manner." His blame was for the commercial purveyors of this culture rather than for their young customers.

Financial independence THERE is nothing new in the young proclaiming attitudes which by the standards of conventional morality may seem to be slightly depraved. Conventions can be different without being worse. And by and large today's outspokenness is healthier than the Victorian repression which still had us in its grip until the beginning of the war. What is new today is that teenagers have a financial independence of their parents which they have never had before. This not only gives them unusual freedom: it makes it commercially worth while to exploit the market that they offer for clothes, for records, for programmes or for coffee bars.

The young can snap their fingers at their seniors, and this fills their critics with exasperation. Breadth of interest MR. CASEY talks of schools as I protected child-sanctuaries in the jungle of modern life." Teenagers did not make the jungle. They were born into it. And they are not such tender plants as all that.

What Is astonishing about many of them Is their breadth of interest (including pop their intelligence. their quickness. their capacity for hard work. They resist the pressures of the Jungle with a toughness that only the young can show. And those who do not resist are often those whom the older generation have who know from the age of 11 that they are consigned to a brief.

second-class education. leading to a second-class Job. They have every right to denounce US. VINCENT BALL carries on with the 'natural look' "Carry On" films have been a great success. I And Silvikrin Hair Cream's natural look has been a great success for me.

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Bettina looked like becoming a top model. It seemed likely that Emma Smith might one day write a very good novel. And that Art Buchwald would turn out to be a famous columnist. Destiny A whole clutch of young people, in fact, seemed to me destined for success. But there was one American girl in Paris that I would never have put on any bound-to-bespectacular list.

She was pretty, devastatingly pretty. She was rich. She had awfully good manners and a whispery, polite little voice. Deadly serious about her studies, she browsed bookstores and drifted through the rest of us sat at sidewalk cafes and gossiped. To me she always seemed a goody-goody.

safe and protected American girl who wouA go back home and marry an oil man and do nothing constructive for man or beast. or even herself, from that day on. It is. though, as someone said When I make a mistake, I make a big one." For this serious-minded girl who seemed so sober in Faris had more to her than met the eye. BUT HOW I UNDERESTIMATED ER She may yet turn out to be the encomia of the lot.

And though Jackie Kennedy has many attackers today, you will not find me among them. Some Americans never forgive her for being pretty. Others can't bear her be.ng rich. That she should be both is too much. And there are many clingers to the myth that plain fols are superior to operabook-reading city slickers, who curl their lip at her dedication to what Americans call kultcha.

shows signs of branching out to wider Serious writers, painters and musicians now dine at the White House. and by inviting them Mtn Kennedy has given new status to long-hairs. Quietly she has been instrumental in setting-up committees to give practical answers to the question of how to wean America from juke-box-popcorn culture. And it now looks as if country that never hesitated to spend ElOrnillion on a highway or a dam, but has been as mean as any about the at last be about to open the public pocketbook. Ilk lOC At.

"SHE WAS PRETTY AND RICH, WITH AWFULLY GOOD MANNERS AND A WHISPERY, POLITE LITTLE VOICE." Revolution REATEST white hunter of them all," proclaims the publishers. I thought I had better go to see this Norman Carr, just flown in from Northern Rhodesia. Carr turned out to be a slight, but wiry man of 50. with steady brown eyes, a pipe and a slightly deprecating expression. He talked about Big Boy and Little Boy, two lions he brought up and taught to hunt, after their mother had been shot dead by a game guard.

Next month Carr will drive his Land Rover into the Luangwa Game Reserve, 38 miles from the nearest village. Alone and on foot he will start looking for Big Boy and Little Boy. Nonetheless. I think she may succeed in slipping the American public a bit of this dreaded culture. Already she has masterminded a revolution in the White House From a dog's breakfast of bad taste.

second rate pictures and third rate reproduction furniture, she has transformed it into a Georgian colonial mansion furnished and decorated as it should be. This victory behind her. she SPECIAL CALL 'I will shoot a buck for them perhaps, and give the special call the lions know so well." he told me. "I want to be sure they are making out all right in the bush." After that he can leave them to it. Will they recognise himand lick.

not eat? Carr admits there is no altruism in the jungle. But lions lite people and TM Twist 0 Nk I pl 1 ow 1 I le Ilesseseid's base Biel be seem, Ise--it's Windfall If Mrs. Kennedy has her way, the era of the decaying. privately subsidised opera may be over. City sympleony orchestras and ballets and theatres, that now sweat through seasons not knowing where the next windfall is coming from.

may soon be to look to Washington for support. Traditionally these matters have always been left to local councils and city administrators. Which means that a rich area or a large city can usually give its people much more than can a poor area. But even rich New York can't afford to give its people much. The outdoor summer symphony orchestra has to be privately subsidised.

The ballet is always floundering on the brink of financial disaster. and at least one company has in. Theatres are closing down at an alarming rate. And the once-golden Metropolitan Opera House has a dingy. down-at-the-heels look that is shameful and sad to see.

If Mrs. Kennedy can erase this grubbiness, then more power to her. She is exactly what the White House needed. Friendly chaps, these Carr, who started as a poacher and became a game ranger (a Government Job) preserving wild-life, likes lions. When he set his cube free they tried, like tabbies, to follow him home and he thinks they'll react in the same way next time.

Carr (married, three children( has shot plenty of lions in his time and has been mauled, been bitten by snakes, trampled by buffalo. Now he never shoots for pleasure Hls African game guard. Nelms Chilangwa (see my picture) is here, too, helping lions Carr to launch his book. Re. turn to the Wild." Nelson cycled for three days to catch the flight to London.

wearing a collar and tie for the first time. After a safari to Trafalgarsquare he made it clear that he would rather face a rampaging elephant than cross a London street. A -FRUSTRATION ROOM" is being built into a Chicago hotel. Guests will be able to throw lamps and ash trays against a brick wall. The designer says: It's safer than drinking martinis." Potatoes I HEAR Lewd has a fair potato crop on hs farm in remote County Cavan in Eire.

He is in London at the moment. envious of the price being paid £6O a ton. When he takes his spuds the long journey to Dublin he makes only 23 a ton. And selling them at home in Cavan. only half that.

Unfortunately, exporting is illegal. Even for his own noble table in Hush Ir. as yesterday's report I by Brush architects Said. there has been a dmestrous increase in the daily YOUTH'S FALSE pea These are some of the things Mr. T.

A. said yesterday in his presidential address to the National Association of Schoolmasters in conference at PI outh. Mr. Casey, 41-year-old headmaster of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic School.

Maids Vale, London, is the father of four schoolage children. DECAUSE they are human Institut) tions, schools are not perfect, but almost all are superior to the society in which they exist. They are partly protected child sanctuaries in the jungle of modern life. I do not mean that not their superior beings. School is superior to society at large only in that its aspirations are higher, its objects wider, than those which animate the industrial.

commercial and social which makes up adult society. Many people in their personal lives strive for, and attain, levels far higher than the common mores. but this Is despite, not because. of them. School.

by contrast, consciouslg, seeks standards which many fall to attain through human frailty. It is more than a difference in emphasis. Newspapers and ines OUTSIDE of school. a hat degree of supervision is exercised over the content of children's reading? Some of the matter in newspapers and magazines would rate an certificate if it appeared on film, yet this stuff is left lying around the sitting-room by unthinking adults, ready for perusal by any child with a reading age greater than eight. Thus the details of the latest sex murder become mental pabulum for la-year-olds.

A right-minded public opinion would banish to the back streets of Soho the sleazy shops which peddle pornography in the vicinity of many urban secondary schools. This muck is deadly enough, but because it is easily recognised as mental poison it may not cause as much havoc as the trashy aphrodisiacs which purport to portray normal boy-girl relationships, and form the basis for much of the unwholesome reading matter available to youngsters. and pop songs SOME control is now exercised over "programmes in the early evening, but no voice has yet been raised in protest at some of the so-called pop songs which are churned out expressly, it seems, to arouse basic instincts and emotions troublesome enough in themselves to adolescents. Melodious tunes and lyrics. the ingredients of an good love songs.

are replaced by discords, throbbing beat and mumbo-jumbo. Calf-love and romance are pleasant paths to the emotional stability required in marriage. but these songs express sentiments which are anti-romantic and approach love in a shallow or sordid manner. Any young warbler who can send an audience of teensge females shrieking into seehysteria becomes a veritable geld-mine fee the GODS by a Headmaster shrewd lateraits ezpleitlag him aad bi public." Not only false standards but false gods are erected. It seems perverse that some pop sawn anould be built up as an object of adulation heroes of the stature of Gagartn and Glenn are at hand.

Modern advertising 111 ER HAPs ne most peryagave a nu. a educationat influence is that of modern advertising for it exists to circumvent the reasoning faculty and weaken judgment. Bums of at JA puerile. but it can be subtle when you are told that for fod day you can be one of the Top People of the land. "Blow the best.

This must be so because slogs says it is so." Millions of young minds, which we seek to train to think. are constantly bombarded with this sort of nonsense. Children themselves are recruited as advertiamg agents and are urged to make importunate demands on their parents to buy this or that product. In school we try to enrich vocabularies. but many children are reduced to the verbal poverty of using the prepositional adjective "super as an all-purpose adjective denoting approbation.

The genius at Stirling's bedside by JACK LUCAS riman who is attending Stirling kloss is one of the world's greatest brain a motorracing enthusiast Mr Wylie McKlssock, burly 55-year-old Scot, himself has a taste for fast cars. Hs drives a 150 m.p.h. E-type Jaguar. And at week-ends he relaxes by watching ear racing on V. He is one of the few surgeons to tested the effectiveness of operations by comparing the results of one op" with another of similar kind in which a different technique is used.

Twelve years ago, McKissock said: "It is possible to alter the personality of a man or woman by brain surgery and to know exactly what alteration the operation will make." Ha has proved these words hundreds alr times before and since in the operating theatre. He has performed countless through part of the brain to free mentally sick from anxieties and fears. What are they like, the Pig hands that work these marvels "They are great big hands, not at all delicate to look at his younger daughter Aramiuta told me. "They are very strong." 41 4. 11111111116.

Lion kudos in Trofolgor-Inure wi first stiirl din, what exactly is the Noise Abatement Society doing? Working hard in face of considerable opposition, says its secretary, John Conseil. It seems the new bits of quiet the society manages to achieve are not keeping pace with the new bats of noise that we produce But Connell feels he is making progress: one motor-bike manufacturer is now the idea of quiet power." The appalling roar of these machines has always been the selling point back into Amsterdam, the stadium where Benfica and Real Madrid will fight for the Eurocup will be disgorr.na its thousands. "Some of the royal guests consider the idea of buses rather quaint," it was said at the Palace In Amsterdam An hour or two In the traffic Jams could dispel tin impres- MOIL Casinos ARE we becoming a nation of caeino- keepers? Yesterday the Isle of Man Tourist Board triumphantly announced that the Maharajah of Illaroda going to the island to view possible sites for a casino. Be Is paredpreto Invest Cats Illinois eneral William Clark Is a bold man indeed: he came down firmly as an anti-cat man yesterday and imposed an CM inheritance tax on four pets. Their owner had left them £4.600 in her will.

The Attorney-General had the help of a vettrinary surgeon to mess the tax on the cats. One of them vas taxed very heavily because of the good care he had received." His name is Plat Nose. reasonably appropriate since he has had to pay through it to the tilile at 64. OUTCASTS There was a time, of course, when the real enthusiast. on bike or in spores car.

would drill a hole in the silencer to produce the right sort of racket, but I fancy I have heard less of it lately. Connell certainly thinks so We've made them social outcasts." he says. There's not a day goes by without a prosecution. The next step. for him.

is to get the noise it can make stamped on every engine. And the more decibels, the higher the tax. Royal buses Queen Juliana has chosen a rather curious outing for the impressive royal guests who will be going to Holland next week for her silver wedding celebrations. She is taking them all on a coach tour of the Dutch trippers' paradise. Keukenhof Park The Queen and Prince Philip included.

At the time they are due Record Aramints is secretary to her father's first assistant, but yesterday she was helping her father. His own secretary is away. Mr. wno oyes in Purley, Surrey. with his wife.

Hitch has two other children, Alison. married to doctor. and lan, who is still at school. His neighbours in Silverlane, know little of his distinguished record. McKissock was given the OBE for his brain surgery during the war.

has operated on the and the humble. and was called in when the Duke of Kent was hurt in a car crash Despite hta tiluidT appearance. his hatred of bureau- GENTLE NA cracy. his love of a powerful car. Wylie Ii a gentle man.

He Is fond of good food. good wine, good literature. "He is very interested in birds, and knows a lot about them." said Araminta. "He likes gardening, too." The surgeon's father wrote light-hearted novels. a contrast to the contributions which bleXissock makes to books and journals.

He has published many papers on brain haemorrhage. Some of his colleagues wish he would publish a paper explaining his colossal powers of concentration when he is working and his colossal powers of relaxation when be lent HE LOOKS TOWN. Siff SURIRON NIeKISSOCK IS A.