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BEFORE YOU DECIDE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1933.
NOTES OF THE DAY WHAT DO WE KNOW
ABOUT LOSS OF MEMORY?
POLICE DISTRICTS
By A MENTAL SPECIALIST
The police system of dividing the Colony into station districts for patrol and other purposes is probably unavoidable; a line has to be drawn somewhere. But it. Tis a curious thing and elso. In the war we lind "hysteri certainly has the effect of produc-
cal" paralysis of volco, producing inexplicable to the lay-mutism, paralysis of hearing pro- ing comle opern situations on ocension, particularly in Kowloon man how anyone apparently ducing deafness, and many other on your NEW CAR teems sometimes that the normal and rational one day types. These were "functional" in extreme in curiosity of division can be found the next in a logical treatment could be cured, nature and by appropriate psycho- has been reached. In the vicinity
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GARAGE
... MENTAL CONFLICTS.
In the war thousands of deaf and
The Very Idea!.
I
BANDITRY
By Ed. Kelly, Compradore.
is not out of place for us to recall a few of our own ad- ventures at Home and Abroad now that bandits are at lest drawing good money and some- body in the Government has found a way of making money without waiting for pensions or superannuation.
IT was not until we ourself dumb and apparently paralysed were captured by bandits men were cured completely. And that we realised that there the same curo enn be brought about
dearer people than in those who are apparently well are one day and the next are without shroffs and worse things memory or recollection or know than being married. ledge of past events.
you should try out the of the Football and Bowling Green state where all memory, all often rapidly and dramatically. NEW VAUXHALLtricts are involved. The harbour even recollection of one's Clubs, for instance, three dis-recollection of past events—
side of Chatham Road is the con- LIGHT SIX corn of Hunghom; the other of own personal identity-seem Tsimtsatsut. One side of Austin to be wiped out as if by some Road is in the Yaumati District mystic force. and the other in Tsimshatsui. Prince Edward Road is in a some Such a condition is becoming what similar position, one side of frequent occurrence. Scarce- being the responsibility of Kowly a week passes but a case is loon City and the other of Mong- brought to our notice.
To sum up, then, these cases of kok,
This state of loss of memory is loss of memory-one excludes cases that last verse from "Believe You may think we got
medically termed amnesia. Of all of pure simulation-are due to the examples of amnesia, the most mental conflicts or mental trauma, it or not" but believe it or classical and typical were the cases mostly repressed; this leads to dia- produced by the Great War. Thou- sociation or splitting of the mind not we didn't, and if you The weakness of the system only. Bands occurred сазов where, where certain memories are lost to don't it doesn't matter. appears when, as often happens after the fierce bursting of shells, the main consciousness, though still ሴ policeman attached to one or a rain of bombe from the air, czisting. That they still exfat is Yes, the bandits demanded station watches with masterly unmen were shocked and shivered proved by the fact that the $1,000 as ransom and when we concern minor offences on the and concussed and shaken to their memories can be restored-where offered to go to work and pay it other side of the road, such as very foundations. Afterwards they ever they may be under appro- riding bicycles on the footpath, knew nothing-of space, or time, priate treatment. practised with impunity by com-
or anything that had happened And the best form of treatment guffawed or whatever bandits do pradore boys in the morning and before. For them, all that had in restoring lost memories is when they don't, bellove one. all sorts in the early evening gone before had been wiped out-hypnosis-sometimes of the light, This dangerous habit is a particupiteously and pathetically. sometimes of the deeper, state. We got a lot of publicity about lar nuisance in Prince Edward
This is one of the great things this time as the bandits advertised Road, where ready facilities for
hypnosis can do. No one need fear that wo were for sale in all the mounting the footpath are to be found in the provision made at
What happened in these cases the hypnotic state a state that local papers, every gateway for motor-car happens much the same in the can be brought about only with the owners, and it is nearly time that cases in everyday life where there full consent and co-operation of the
patient. a trap was set. Residents have, is amnesia, though the causes may in some cases, taken direct action not be the same. Many war in the interests of children liable "nerve" cases were similar to
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1933.
THE AUDIT REVELATIONS
to be knocked down, but nothing
that individuals can do is likely to be so salutary as a fine. But policemen always. seem to be on the wrong side of the road. It can only be hoped that they would take their courage in both hands
ritual in a matter more serious.
STRAIN A CAUSE.
civil cases. Strain had more to do RELIGION IS A
with many of them than shells. This is certain,
We have to remember that the mind is composed of a great many parts, and that these parts should work in unity and harmony; but
off in instalments they just
Some missionaries held a bazaar to raise the money but the head- ache got to hear of it and she squashed the idea, and took the $43 they raised...
We were having a swell time with our friends all this while. The chow was fine as they wanted
"BEST SELLER" us to be in good condition for the
buyer. The service was so good. that we couldn't turn round with- By CECIL PALMER. out meeting somebody who was willing to look after us. Where- 177HENEVER the pessimists ever we went they accompanied, us
that no one interfered with us.
and break the bonds of "district" where there are "conflicts" go get busy they excel them-with rifles, and whatnots to see
ENGINEERS FOR PEACE
SPLITTING UP OF MIND,
1
Things began to change after about two months, however. Re plies from prospective buyers were less frequent and the would- be purchasers were not of the same standard as they were at first. For instance, instead of a mission- ary we had the secretary of the
on the mind, the mind may be divided up into separate portions, selves in preaching the heresy that one warring with another, and it the age in which we live is funda- The only thing we objected to Is this dividing or splitting-up mentally and hopelessly materialis was their language. They used which has enrned the term "disso-tic. They would have us believe the most shocking words-to each When it comes to beating swords ciation of consciousnesa.”
that religion is a back number. other. We only wished the head- into plowshares-one of the most That this "dissociation" can og- The latest available official ache had been there. She would -The Audit Department has to-day-a good lesson of how that dividuals is clearly proved by books published
necessary tasks before the 'world cur In generally normal. In-Agures of the various types of have known exactly how we have said almost as much as there is objective can be furthere is those who are the subjects of during the first quarter of the for better or for worse. We in Great Britain felt about her when we took her to say concerning the irregu- furnished by the work of chemical somnambulism or sleep-walking present year aro intensely. il-knew that the worse could not inst larities discovered in the governing events of the last twenty-five of dissociation is what is termed now books published in this short bandite took us into keeping, bet- engineers since the war. Review. A further and more profound state luminating. The grand total of for ever and felt that when the ment's system of accountancy. years at Chicago recently, members a fugue. Startling as are the revelations of the American Institute of Chomi-
period is 3,567. But the real signi- ter times were in store. ficance of this colossal output of in their way, there is nothing has come of age since the World cal Engineers, a profession which
rending matter is revealed when the in general to suggest anything War, told how they had contributed An apparently normal individual figures are dissected and classified in the nature of jiggery to social and industrial progress by who has become nervously exhaust- under no fewer than 50 headings, pokery, The charge is one of applying to inventive, research the ed-by worry, overwork, shock, or ranging from Anthropology to
Wireless. experience gained during the war strain-may go through a fugue lackadaisical financial manage- This profession was called to arms where he may know and realise. It will not surprise anybody that ment by the different depart- with TNT, mustard gas, gunpowder hundreds of miles from home, of 1,304. But I. venture to claiming about us and the manager of a ments, which might be regarded as a grave matter in a busi-pons of war, as well as to increase to realise nothing until he has to learn that religion and theology us on. -ness-office-but which, unless
-the-native production of nitrates found himself as for away as occupy second place with a total of The bandits were sorry they' a jolt of this kind comes and potash. The war over, chemi- America, consciousness suddenly 224 entirely new books and 27 new didn't accept these offers later, for cal engineers entered a second returning then, after a lapse of editions. In passing it is worth soon no replies came at all, and along, is considered hardly phase of progress, capitalising, to nearly a week..
while recording that third, fourth, one day a policeman called to toll separable from red tape and the experience, but this time devoting some kind of mental annlysis, tofication: are held respectively by gamo up much longer. He hinted. a cortain extent, their war-time It is quite Impossible, without fifth, and sixth places in the classi them that they couldn't keep the their attention to the development knew what is going on in any educational books with an output of that our detention was illegal and of now peace-time products. human mind. An individual may 216; biography and memoirs 151; told us broadly that we were not
appear wonderfully normal in every politics, political economy, and keeping good company, way and may yet be enduring questions of the day 137, and poetry powerful mental conflicts. When and drama 127. these come, so to speak, to the end In the light of those statistics it War-time concentration on the of their tether, "dissociation may Is diflcult to draw any other con- manufacture of TNT and poison occur and may aid in the loss of clusion than that the reading public, peace time, to the production of ous gases rapidly changed, in memory,
so far from being almost exclusive It is not due to a lesion of the ly made up such starling new products as fer- brain. It is a state more closely seekers, is richly leavened with of entertainment tiliser ingredients from the tallied to hysteria than anything (Continued on Page 9.) about our soup and although the
to furnish the expeditionary forces nothing until he finds himself fiction heads the table with a total White Slave. Traffic Socioty writ
LATENT ENERGIES
routine of the file-passing sys- tern. It is safe to assume that nothing happened in December, 1982, and January, 1983, which did not also happen in the pre- vious August and September, or any other time. The depart- ments were caught out" be- cause December was the end of the year and accounts were sup- posed to be closed and, in point coal, artificial silk, leather and mosphere, gasoline and oil from of fact, were not. The charit- rubber, helium gas, and synthetic able view does not, however, tion but a few of the more spec- resins, bakelite, lacquers, to men- mean that the matter can thus tacular. Since the war, tho lightly be dismissed as of no chemical engineer has become a great importance. The Central new factor in the world of natural Police Station embezzlement science and industry. He has episode is sufficient indication become the recognised connecting that a tightening up is neces- the plant, and one of his moat. link between the laboratory and sary. "As far as can be estab-important functions, as it has been lished," and the phraseology phrased, "Is that of converting thus employed by the Acting the findings of the one into terms Auditor, Mr. Dallin, is interest- of commercial realisation of the ing in itself, the shroff who ab- other." If any lesson at all is to sconded with police funds made be learned from the development away with $8,252. We gather of the chemical engineering pro- that if the correct procedure had not be interpreted as meaning fession since the war, it should been followed, the loss would that the stimulus of a war was have been less by at least $3,- necessary to awaken these latent 517.87. The Accounts Office of energies. Rather, is it not one the Police Department apparent more reason for permanent world ly received $3,000 in deposita peace so that advancing knowledge during 1982 which was not may be applied only to good and paid into the Treasury, while the never again to evil purposes? $617.87 should have been `dis- bursed in December and was not, although it was shown as dit Report pointed to one of the spent in the Treasury accounts. main sources of the trouble in The incident adds considerable urging a reduction of depart force to the pressure exerted by mental bank accounts. Although. the Audit Department to secure the Treasury is ultimately re- a proper rendering at the proper sponsible, only a quarter of pay. time, although it is not at allments out are actually made by necessary to their case. It must the Treasury, Д circumstance be obvious that if any slackness which, on the face of it, hardly. is permitted in departments in seems satisfactory. Two years the matter of payments, either ago, the Colonial Treasurer could in or out, giving opportunity for not recommend a remedy. The the accumulation of largish fresh strictures of the Auditors sums, the liability to loss as the would seem to suggest that the result of sudden temptation Issue needs to be gone into once must be greater. The 1981 Au- again, a little more thoroughly,
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"If you would over get interested in my stamp collection
you wouldn't want to go to dancos and parties.":
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It was evident that we were- nearing the end. Things were. daily becoming more and more- unpleasant. The No. 1 Boy ras worried because our upkeep had run into several hundred dollars
return. and there was nothing to show in
One day we had to complain
Chlef Bandit himself apologised, it was evident that relations, and• the soup were becoming atrained.
Then a letter came from the. headache hoping that we were:45 it left her at present and stating that she had already put by a mat- ter of $115 against the day when the price for our release came down. We were relieved that she had not found out that we were. already to be had for a mere $50- and that we should probably be going as a gift unless the business. bucked up..
It was the shock to our dignity we were worried about. We felt that we could not hold up our head in our own house `If we were returned at the market price of $50, Wo felt quite shop soiled...
Thon camo the day when tho Chlef came and told us in sad. tones that unless we left them. Boon they would have to offer a reward to anyone who would take us off their hands..
Wore we mortified?. However,. there was only one thing to do, and wo began packing our bag right away. The Chlof implored” us to stay overnight, but we wero firm. It's great to be. Britislì. One can make these decisions and. become implacable.
It was a sad farewell..
The whole gang lined up and` fired a parting volley as we drove. off. Fortunately, they were all poor shootere...
Wo sont a telegram to break the nows and on the way back in tho train did our best to look bright and choorful. It was not anay especially as we were met by a long line of shroffs at the station
If only we could raise $1,000 wo could return to the bandits,