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Her Whole Life Seems Spoiled â€" A Canadian film tliat has \vo:i higli acclaim both in ICiin>])c and the United States is "-Tiie 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 Kcncrally leads back to some borrific incident in childhood which ia stated to be the root cause of the 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 Rej,clion". Produced by tlic National Film Boar<' for the Men- tal Heahh Division of the Depart- ment of N'ational Health and Wel- fare, "The Feeling of Rejection" is the story of Margaret, the elder of Iwo children in an average Cana- dian family. Outwardly she ap- pears to be quite normal: in work *nd home life she is quiet but competent. But Margaret is not well. She k troubled by headaches, stomach upsets, dizzy spells and constant tiredness, and the most thorough medical examination fails to turn â- p any reason for them. So, in due course, she i'. referred to a psychi- atrist. Childhood Days The psychiatrist has Margaret lelj 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 toi'ay. Today you see a Margaret unable to face up to the normal competi- tion of everyday ilfe. At home, for example, although she has planned to spend the evening at a movie, •he gives in to her younger sister who refuses to share the housework when it interferes with her plans for entcrtainuK it. Again, at the office, she coiiT.iits to work over- time on another girl's job although â- he wanted to leave early to go â- hopping. Next day, the (hopping trip is a failure since she lets the salesgirl override her choice of dresn. The.se submissions to other people give rise U weariness and recurrent headache, which s' e can- not understand. The Model Child Cioiiig back still further, the p.sy- chiafrist ''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, through 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 â€" Margaret feels •he is unwanted. To get her par- ents' attention, she tries to show them Tier natura! talents as they are expressed in siicli things as danciiijr. Rut she is told that "nice girls don't show off." Gradually Margaret learns that the only way to save hciself from the frighten- ing sense of being unvviuited is to give in to all demands and to re- frain from all activity to which others nii)!ht object. .She beromes the "model child". Kesult of Psychiatry Towards the end of the film, we see the positive tide of modern psychiatry. Group therapy is ap- plied to Margaret and a number of others suffering from similar handi- caps. They arc taught to face and examine their problems. At the end we e her beginning to break away from the habit of Wind obedi- ence that was so thoroughly e.^tab- lihed in her childhood and that had been at the root of her rinnlinnal troubles. "The Feeling of Rejeelioi " has already been shown in the United States and Furope. It received re- cognition last year at the F.din- hurgh Film Festival, the Internation- al .Sric tific Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival in I'rancc, the International Conference of High School Teachers ii, Norway, and took a prize at the Chicago Film I'estival a few months ago. LIFE'S UKE THAT By Fred Neher "Why don't you get on a quiz program. Pop . . . Yoti know all the answers when mom questions you?" OUR FALL FAIRS ATTRACT 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 11th, 12th and 13th, a display of the original jjh'otographs from which those pictures were ma de catised a great deal of favorable coinment. 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 one small corner of the exhibit. In the past few years more and more towns and villages are coming 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. ^HesMHi^iwieiM; v5iiiiiiT5fijJ?y Birthday Gift By MAUDE NORM.\N The sound ot a ragman's horn came in the open window of the room, where, with housewifely zeal, Nancy Winters was busy with spring hou cleaning. A gkam came into h.r eyes. She thought, 'Til 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. T'm tired of having them around." The ragman looked around hope- fully as he loaded the bottles and magazine.9 on his rickety old truck. "Any olda clothes, Ma'am?" he asked. "A..: old rubber or iron?" "No, that's all . . . wait a min- ute." She darted into the garage, returning with a pair of old grey trousers. Here, you may as well take these, too." * * * She gave her husba d a particu- larly warm kiss when he came home that evening, "''m almost dead," she sighed as they were eating din- ner. "At first I thought 1 would open I can of soup or something easy to prepare, l,i then I remem- bered how nice yi>u were, so I made you this meat pie ani' upside-down cake." Thus she tr= d to pave the way to lell him what she had done. "ft beats nic why you have to kill yourself, trying to do everything 'n one day," Ted answered. "The house always looks all right to me without you h;ving to tear it apart every »o often. Thanks for the swell dinner. Honey. Guess I'll work on the car for awhile. "That reminds me," she inter- nijited hastily. "A ragman came by today id I let him take those pop bottles and magazines out in the garage." "You what!" "And I let hiu' take those dirty ' ' pants out there too," she rushed on. "You mean yoi gave those pants away!" Ted shouted. "Those pants had fifty dollars in the pocket." "Ted I They didn't." "They did unless you took it out. Did you?" "Of course not. It never occurred to me . . . Oh, Ted! What have I done?" "Gave i-way your birthday gift, that's all. ''\ 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?" Nanc; shook her head despair- ingly. "There was.i't any name, but there was a phone number. I noticed that because it was the same number as our house. Main 1152." "Thit'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 ancien'. bent old lady an- swered the' knock. She shook her head in response to their ro(|uest 'o speak to Mr. Rozalle. "The old lady doesn't spe;ik or understand F.nKlisli." A dark-eyed boy came from the back of the house. "You wanta buy something. Mister, or have yo i got • imcthing you wanta sell?'' "Are you .Mr. Ko/ulle's son;" Ted asked. ".N'aw, I live next door, bnl I told Tony I'd take care of things till he came back. "When will he be li.uU;'' "Not for a ouple of days, mister. His boy, who'i. in the air corps, was all busted up in an airplane crash. Tony and his wife wanted to go see him but *.hey didn't have the money. Then today a rich lady gave Tony fifty bu-Vs and they lit out as soon as he came home. That's what I call luck." "Yes, it was fortunate." Ted avoided Nancy's eyes as he fiiokc. "I'm glad Mr. Rozalle and his wife were able to visit their son." "Sure I can't do anythiii); for you, nn'ster?" "Nothing, lliank you. What wc wanted to see about wasn't very important." . . Scouting Canada's Boy Scout membership now stands at an all-time high of 103,759. This is 5.282 more than la.9t 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 2,319 active Scout groups 1,403 are sponsored direct= ly by churches. Affiliation of Canadian Boy Scout group.f 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, 108; Salvation Army. 68; Service Clubs, 145; United Church, 398; Others, 13.3. 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. Shortpeiiod camps for Scouts last year,' and not included in other camping statistics, numbered 263 with 2.937 hoys in attendance. Quick Paint Job SlrikitiR cxamiile of industrial progress may be found in modern methods of painting automoliiles as contrasted with procodure years a};o. Once upon a time- and tint so many years :\f.o at thatâ€" aulomoliiles rc- i|iiired as many as 13 coals of piiiiit, and the job took from 12 days to six weeks to complete. Today's cars get three coats of hardy lacquer or enamel in less than an hour. Place of a Word There's a difference ber-veen bringing up children simply and simply bringing them up. 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