THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1958.
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"ANY OF YOU LIKE TO DO A BIT OF HORSE-TRADING ?"
Sleep: To Deny It Was A Chinese Death - Penalty
W
HAT is life's prime necessity, lack of which will kill a man quicker than the absence of food and drink?
The an- swer is sleep, the complete lack of which for more than three or four days can have fatal results.
And what is sleep? This is a question which has long baffled scientists, and which is still shrouded in a good deal of mystery. A dictionary definition describes it as the periodic condition of rest during which voluntary consciousness and activity cease, but this does not go far towards explaining the condition.
Many theories hove been But experiments carried out after a person har dropped off
to account for scep. with
to testing Some authorities have attributed various theories on the cause of
avolved
Bylew
the into the land of Nod.' General-
it to chemical changes in the sleep have not proved very antis- body, such as the accumulation factory.
and
of certain acide fulness altribute it to the body
during wake- activity.
up, during
oxygen
of
has
into the effects Some Research using sleep on the human body uctivity, more been more successful, however. than body-cells can 1 is known, for stance, that a store up and replenish. Some person's respiratory movements heart-beats Bre slower attributo it to changes in the and blood supply of the brain during sleep, and the body lem- and, in fact, it is believed that pereture lower. alery And wakefulness
It has also been estimated that
ly, from the second or third hour cowards the sleep becomes shal- low, and the brain is only just below the level of alertness.
The ideal sleep la cald to be
dreamless, though it is widely considered that absolutely dreamless sleep is comparative- ly rare.
Some inmates of mental in- stitutions have been known to fall into an exaggerated kind of sicep, а trance-lko condition under the control of a centre in the greatest Intensity of sleep is lasting for days or even weeks, the middle part of the brain. reached approximately one hour and often associated with
['hysterical cases.
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It's tougher than ever to get into Oxford
VVISCOUNT CHEL-
SEA: sent down. Lord Oxman-town: rusticated. Sent down also: Glubb Pasha's son and, most recently of all, the son
of the Liberal "Grimond, leader, Jo Oxford's college au- thorities scythe down the sons of the great in swathes. Why?
These young gentlemen do not go down for burning the Dean's bed. Nor, Ilke Viscount Encombe last year, for killing one of the
(JUST THE SAME AT CAMBRIDGE, TOO)
Service men atrained their ro- sources to breaking-point.
The pro-war population of 60,000 students roce to a peak of 85,000 in 1949. Then, to the relief of the dona and the ad ministrators the wave began to
subeide.
But not for long. Four years later the numbers rose again. Why? Because many more children were staying on at
school until they were 17 or inore. Nearly twice as many, in fact, as before the war. And the proportion of children doing so is still increasing every year.
deer which have safely, grazed Big demand
in the grove at Magdalen for
generations.
They BO down
for failing their preliminary examinations.
Twice.
Bursting
It la a ruthless sign of the tiras. Il reflects the intenso and increasing competition for places at all British universities, ала and especially at Oxford Cambridge.
of appli-
This new and welcome trend reversed the moderate de cine in numbers which had sel in when the last ex-Service men had come up to study,
It has carried the student population to even greater heights, This coming year is likely to see about 100,000 men and women in the universities of Britain.
The universities have been hard put to it to cope with this This year the press cants was greater than ever and steeply rising demond. Teaching the numbers admitted are the problems and the supply of ac
commodation present largest in Britain's history.
obvious the Ever since
war the dimeuilles-most of all for tho universities have been bursting residential universities of Oxford
The wave of ex- and Cambridge.
at the scams
Here the
BY IVAN YATES
next these
It the dona are not preparing for this, it may knock them off balance.
This new wave is what is inclegantly known as The Bulge. In the middle of the last war tho number of births in Britain be- gan to rise. The rise accelerated
Children born then have now the primary chools. They have taken their 11-plus. Now they are pushing their way through the secondary schools.
This year and colleges have had to raise the academic Atan- men will join those coming Immediately after the WAT. dards demanded of those scok- straight from school with no ing a place. Long past are the obligation to join the Colours, to passed through days when an interview and a make one over-size entry,
Reluctantly, but inescapably,
nice letter from the headmaster
sufficed. Would-be commoners
have to sit an examination now,
One in five
the universities and the colleges are expanding to cater for this ance-for-all food of applicants.
Some bulge!
So Baillol steps up its entry from the normal 110 to more At Magdalen College, Oxford, than 150. Even a small college apply many of them, to enter What will happen when they сустуопе who wants n place like Pembroke, which prides it- the univentiles? must sit the college's scholar- selt on its smallness, prepares to Here is the measuro of the ship examination. This year tale in another 20 under- problem. only one in every five who did graduates. so could be accepted,
At Ballel half as many again sought admission ns commoners
this year as inst, Ankl, in apite of a decision to Increase the size of the Intake, only one in seven could be taken.
But the tutor responsible for admissions, Mr C. N. Wand- Perkins looks to a return to the
normal, smaller size in a year or
two.
New wave
For every 100 youths aged 10 last year there will be 112 in three years' time. And 144 four years after that.
Nearly halt as many again: in less than a decade. Some bulgel In one way or another an fa- creased proportion of these in- creased numbers of young men must be accommodated in the universities. The oun nt present is to reach 124,000 students by 1988. And then top that with an increment of 10 per cent.
For a special reason. A reason which has everywhere swelled
He may be over-optimistic. the demand this year even above For another wave of entrants that in recent years the ending can be seen sweeping on its way, It will dash Itself against the of National Service.
Every effort must bo made and .. Since the war many under college walls in two or three no expense spared to attain this graduates have been encouraged years time just when the pre- modest target. The welfare and to do their time in the Forces sent combined wave of National prosperity of Britain depend before going up to the univer Servicemen and sixth formers upon it. zity.
has spent itself.
London Epress Service).
JOHN CLARKE TAKES TIME OFF FROM REPORTING CRICKET
They're still trying
WALHALLA, Victoria.
to sell gold
in Valhalla...
arolypoly man named James Hagerty, In slouch it,
Let un to. sapething reafly: good."
I made a mental note to tell Desmond Eager, known here os "Cash" as the handles the MOC's Enances,
An old-timer showed me what looked like a relie of a brieir chimney. It was the bank vault In which sometimes £10 million worth of gold was stored. Once a week the bank manager could take it to Moe rafhend by corch with two mounted armed police- men; as ́escun
Though Ned Kelly was oper- ating not far away, the coach was not ones molested on its
31-mile day-long journey-which the old-timer made to seem safer than wage collection in London nowadnya.
"We did better than Ballarat ment League's barbecue waa vilinge
The band began to play the because we went on for 50 years busy gediting a steer.
Maori farewell. Now is the On a wooden bandsland bullt invited people to buy 25, shares Hour, and as we elimbed into On the other hand, there is WE rode into Valhalla from 1863 to 1913.
"There were close on 5,000 un stilts, a band that had come in a gold mine 25 miles away. the buses there was a stronge or as they spell it people in Walhalla. Now there from 14 miles away to breathe The prospectus called it New air of poignancy. We were are 64 in the ghost town, The life into the occasion through its Dawn Consolidated. The heading leaving a little world of 84 suffering from the strains and here, Walhalla-in
alast narriage took place 10 years bras embarked on the march added, "No lubility."
people once more to its own stresses of a particularly exct-stream-lined blue elec- ago and that was the first for St Kilda
devices. ing way of life, or even th
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In the old gold days brass years. excess of Inte nights and high trie train and a convoy
When we reached Walhalla bonds had been, apart from of buses that laboured charlie cried, "Here we are, fighting, one of the few pursuits
avallable, up into the dusty, close- The Vale of Heroca."
The vale wag B winding- wooded hills like over- rough-surfaced road overhung Along- worked Valkyrie mai- by steep wooded hills.
living. to submit themselves to a treatment which aims at in- ducing prolonged sleep.
by dens.
Shares for 2s.
"Just look at this," command- ed Mr Hogerly and handed me a plece of rock and a magulty ing glass fitted with a flashlamp bulb. Gold sparketed, convincing- 17,
They had no doctor, no police- mon, Half a dozen young men but no young girls. No adven- turous Jobs now-only work on roads or the sawanili.
Some had accented our intru- alon. Some were already living for the next invasion, due in several January.
We climbed into the hills.
"Oh, my word, we're working side it where there was room,
on this," Hagerty told me and perlips 40 shack-like bungalows And there was cricket in those the women standing around.
day's, Miners hacked out A "you'll pay There
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your way rubber- clung to the hillside. wern:
They were made of wood and ground on in nouft, high hilltop, times round the world on this," neckers who had come to see a
with asbestos
"Would we get reports on how ur Harry Boyle, who played in 13 ghost goldmining town once so roofed
Some were matches against England, taking you're doing?" one cauilous "Great town, isn't it?" fold rich that £1 shares of its best corrugated iron.
bravely painted; 32 wickets, in the '80s, camo woman asked. mino paid a dividend of £512. shabby; some
Charlie Lee. "It's by no means ́“You can't have people send-, dead." And there was Charlie Lee, all as forlornly lonely as private from Walhalla. Charlle had bounced into the misery. It was all that was left And Warwick Armstrong is ing out reports all the time," credited with mocking the ball Hagerty sald, "but, maric you aircraft-type seat next to mine of the busy gold town. in the train, a wiry little man of
On a patch of flat ground cut of the ground on to a hotel me, you'll be hearing about this
had stood
mine." the reor below, 73 whore Sabbath-solemn, well where once
He turned to me and added, The band played Come All rein-bic energy.
pressed suit could hardly contain Methodist church, assembly hall
and outside the "You tell the and police station, the Improve Ye Faithful
boys. They could
Such people can beneût going into private nursing bornes and, under proper medlczi super- vision of course, allowing them- selves to be put to sleep for, say, forty-eight hours. The treatment can be prolonged over a perlod of a fortnight, if they can afford The the money and the time. treatment has to be prescribed by a doctor, and is specißenly cases of Intended for extreme strain.
Those who undergo it Bay its marvellously vigorating, and some hard- worked industrialists and commercial tycoons are reputed to tako this sleep-treatment every six months or so, though there is a body of medical opinion which frowns on it being unnatural and not to lightly undertaken.
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be
Dairy farm cuntryside that reminded me of Sussex flowed past and Charlie Lee, who had once owned a hotel in Walhalla, told me the town's history.
Gold was discovereď by a mon named Stringer who, apart from giving his name to the pine-IL was first mown as Stringer's Creek-seems to have got very
little for his trouble,
Like most prospectors, Stringer lacked capital and business acumen. Melbourne businessmen who stepped in possessed plenty of both,
No one would deny the value of a rest-cure for a person suffering from overwork or any excessive activity, but, personal- 1y, I prefer the natural variety of repose of sleep to the sort which special nursing homes may provide by artificlal means,
One famed tycoon would cer- One prospector sold a sixth tainly not have followed the share In Long Turmel, the best prescal-day, trend had he be ting, for a bag of flour and one longed to the current generation week's groceries,
of 'Big Business' personalities, It Whe the mine's first and he was assuredly as hard-manager, Henry Rocares, who worked as any of his modern changed its name to Walhalla. counterparts.
He was John Davison Focke- feller, Senior, born in 1830. American capitalist, oil magnate, and philanthropist on the grend scale. In his recipe for health
"It's Norse mythology." Charlie explained, “Ob, It wa a great place in the old days. There were 14 pube, and fighto in the street were a regular thing on Saturday nights. Same
and longevity he laid stress on fellows would fight each other securing plenty of fresh air every week and then go into i while sleeping-and he lived to
the ripe old age of ninety-eight. pub for grog.
Recognised general alda
to
sloop, in fact, are a well-venti- lated quiet and darkened room, and, though many folk might not like the idea of this, a fairly hard bedf
The barbecue
"Nowadays We've got a Walhalla Improvement League, Footnote: The Chinese appra- | 1's trying to preserve the town,, clated the importance of steep you know They're putting on a In sustaining human life-and barbecue for this lot. Dught to also appreciated rohat the denial make £76.
of alumber could mean. A legal The old town's not. denú, punishment
In the China, of aco? We've just put la a publié former days was death by de convenience Cart £1,200,* privation of sleep, the Com demned'e ordeal ending after the lapse of a fus days
A.- ROBERTSON
"I was born in Wallfilm, TVm) 'n grent town, wonderful town. They took 816,000 ounces of gold out of Long -Tunnel mine. It paid 21,205,000 dividend,,
NOTICE
I do not think he had seen, the town as we tow it. For him Walhalla still thrived and there was still gold in those hills,;
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