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TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1936.
TRAGIC
The collapse of the Ethiopian armies, in the face of the in-
Accident
People...
--are mostly born
·with a tendency
that way
LORRY came in collision with a public
car on the Castle Peak road.
Doctors fought to save the life of Wong Chung, aged thirty-five, whose arm was caught in the electric lathe he tended.. William Brown, aged ten, was run over and fatally injured by a motor-cyclist. Ah Ming, the amah, 'dropped and broke in priceless Ming vase.
car
ACCIDENTI
Or every one of them might have been "accident-prone," the new phrase coined by psycho- logists to describe a type more than usually susceptible to the risks of life.
sistent pressure of an invader NOTES OF THE DAY driver
utilising the most modern forms
latter
the Christian Alone of the
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by Gerald Haylett
Accident-prone people can be trained to live safer lives. Fatigue
is one of the main causes of accidents,
real lathe..
This is not due to a general in-
have increased by 155 per cent.
There are special tests for flying weakness folk. If your eye has a of the inner musclen-if you are "exophoric"-you will flatten out too early when landing. If, on the other your outer eye muscles are weak-if you are "exophoric".........you will By Into the ground because you do not flatten out carly enough,
hand.
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* Statistics #how that pedestrians
and people in unsuitable jobs become tired more easily than others, The driver of the lorry or the
general accident-proneness. It is both connected with a pencil- might have been care
established, however, that ac- pointer on a printed circle. One Accidents can arise from any cidents in factories tend to occur handle turns the pointer north- less; the turner might have been
east-west. tired; the chiki might have been number of causes. One on in the first and last hours of south, the other playing "Last Across the Road"; record occurred because a silk work.
The subject is required to trace the amnh might have been stocking got caught up in the
a path along the printed circle. dreaming of opium. There chain of
An- a motor-cycle.
A lead has been given in Lon- If the line he draws is very might be a simple explanation other because a man in a closed don by the Board of Medical irregular, he is quite likely to for every accident.
car got a sudden attack of
Health Research. They regard cut off his finger at claustrophobin-foar of being shut in. A third because a as the main factor in avoiding
The Paris tram and omnibus was flung against the accidents quick mental reaction, edge of his sunshine roof and combined with good muscular system decided to select drivers by test. During that time the co-ordination. stunned when going over
number of omnibuses and trams of warfure, including methods A KING OF COMEDY
humip-back bridge.
Thus, if you
are crossing a has increased by 30 per cent. outlawed by international èon-
road and a car sweeps down on Accidents have diminished by Dr. A. C. Alugton, former head- ventions, bas given Italy virtual
master of Eton. recalls that when These are true accidents. But you at speed, quick reaction will 37 per cent, victory in the first stage of her he and the present Archbishop of these are the rarities. The bulk enable you to see it and deter-
De- Canterbury were both Fellows of of accidents happen to people mine at once whether to go for- provement in driving, for other East African adventure. jected and disappointed in the A Souls College, Oxford, the who have, through heredity or ward or back. Good co-ordina- velicular traffic has increased by
dignitary used
to environment or temperament, tion will enable you to carry out 218 per cent, and general accidenta hopes which he pinned on joint "Come back to 18, Charlie, the
occur in the To test these two inter-related action under League of Nations king of us all in a rich, deep voice, an inherent predisposition to your decision in time.
Charlie, in the person of Mr. them, and most
traits, they have devised a auspices, the Emperor has been
Chaplin, has at last responded to home! compelled to how to the inevit- the appeal, and his popularity, in able, and has fled from the coun- London at any rate, suggests that try. The scenes which have his sovereignty is at least as un- followed his departure are those disputed as was that of the Young
Pretender. says which might have been expected Science Monitor.
The greatest difficulty in deal- machine like the roller of a in
the tragic circumstances, great stars of the early cinema, From the Ualual incident, which he still holds a lofty position in ing with "accident-proneness" pianola. A roll of perforated
the cinema skies, and there is lies in the fact that a man may paper is passed over was the forerunner of the much discussion as to what is the be prone to one type of accident drum. The subjects of the test to street nccidents. Children under actual clash at arms between secret of his enduring success and immune from another. The have to stab the holes as they
If they hit enough holes, twenty-eight and forty-five. Women From this discussion three main Italy and Ethiopia, has develop-points have emerged. Many filma mah or boy who smashes your pass.
from a lack of ten-set might be quite safe hand. they pass; if they hit the paper have a good record. Girls ed a war in which the defenders appear to suffer had little hope, apart from out-certainty of direction. The authoring a garden fork. The Indian too often they fail.
has one idea about them, the pro- chauffeur who has driven your side help and such aid as nature dacer another, and the leading cars for twenty years without-But accident-proneness is not Actors are said to be bant drivers. might afford, of repelling the actors a third, and the resulting scratching the paint might be a only a question of quick reaction largely because they do their dinv.
is not always free death-trap for another motorist and good co-ordination. And invading. armies. Declared the collaboration
from that artistic wobbling which when on foot.
for specific trades, specific tests They are so careful. People who Real beginners have few accidents. aggressor by the majority of the invariably results when too many
have a little experience aro danger- nations of the world, Italy has exoks take a hand in preparing Psychologists have determined have been invented.
There is nothing of mathematically that one-third of At the National Institute of ous: they think they know more than gone her own way and by sheer the broth.
this in. Mr. force of might has accomplished author never
Chaplin's films, the employees in every factory Industrial Peychoogy, in London, they do.
disagrees with his
Motor-cyclists are no more accident- the first part of her task. star, nor his composer with his are accident-prone, and incur at there are all manner of devices.
least two-thirds of the accidents One is intended for electrical prone than any other class of road re- user, but a motor-cycle crash is more There was some hope, in August producer, for they are all one that happen in that factory, Inthe workers. They are often serious than those involving a
the same person, Again, Mr. last, that the issue between the
the dangers of But they have not as yet been quired to turn two handles, one other vehicles. Chaplin, running two countries might be suscepti- monotony, reaps the rewards of able to devise any test for with each hand. These urc ble to mutual adjustment, par- consistency. Other players, chang- ticularly after the Conciliation their characterisations with their producers, often disappoint Commission found that neither their followers by not giving exactly Government was really respon- what is expected of them. Not so sible for the Ualual incident: Mr. Chaplin, who always plays the same character, Lastly, this charac the three Powerter, the Tramp, the weak thing conversations, between Italy, of this world who invariably con- Britain and France, in which founds the things that are mighty, lis one of profound philosophical some difficulty was experienced significance. He stands for some- in getting a clear statement of thing univerad in human ex-
do the great figures| Italy's claims. The British and perience, as
of dramin and, fiction, and In con-j French delegations, however, sequence has a perennial vitality. advanced a series of proposals
Then came
wide port in certain quarters.
First,
guar-
as a basis for negotiations. These provided very economic, opportunities for Italy the loss of Manchuria by China; in Ethiopia, protection of the now, the virtual wiping out of frontiers of the Italian Colonies, Ethiopia. Is there no and a four-Power Treaty with antee of the preservation of in- the "Open Door" but with main dependence by smaller nations determined economic advantages,for Italy in the face of a all subject to the maintenance aggressor? It would seem not. The apparent of Ethiopia's independence and The upshot? the subsequent consent of the doom of the League as an in- strument for the securing of League, Italy, however, con- tinued to pour troops into the justice by smaller nations. It country and insisted on impos-is a sorry and a tragić doduction sible demands, the while Musso-to be drawn, but no other seems lini was declaring that Italy possible in the light of what has would pursue her aims with happened in Ethiopin. Never Geneva, without Genova, or was there the least justification against Genova, All that has for Italy to make war on Ethio- happened since is known to the pip. She has ignored the rights of the case, and defied the world. world the interminable wrang- lings in Genova, the partial im-The end may not be yet; but position of sanctions, and the meantime the Ethiopians have
of. general ineptitude. the lost their country to a declared League, due to lukewarm sup-Inggrensor.
SIDE GLANCES
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a brass over fifty-five are the most liable
ten years come next.
Drivers are at their best between.
between eighteen and twenty-one are better. than boys of the same age.
Ing at rush hours.
The British Ministry of Transport has discovered that the worst hours for London road accidents are those between 5 and 7 p.m.-the evening.
By George Clark rush hour, when 21 per cent. of the
"I think. I'll bring my husband around, If he chooses it- himself, he won't think it's too éxpensive.”
total road accidents occur.
Although traffic in London is htt heavier at this time than between
10 8 and
LM, the morning rush hour-this is scribed by the Ministry to poor light, ` expecially at this time of the year.
Psychologists, however, regard the fatigue of workers at the end of a hard day as largely responsible. A fatigued person is automatically acci dent prone.
One of the most obscure causes of accidents, however and of accident- proneness in the unconscious desire io experience them. You may say no one wants to be killed or injured, but the man who hates his work, the woman who despises her job, have an unconscious (or, rather, a sub-con- selous) urge to have an accident.
Again, if a man or woman in worried over something in private life, concentration on the task in hand vanishes. If a person is suffering one of those frightful luner conflicts that affect the mental health of so many, he is prone to accident.
The paychologist, reading a news: paper report on an accident. will! consider that possibly the victim was doing work for which he was not fitted: a quick brain doing Job that required some one of a slower tem- perament and feeling outraged; a slow brain forced to do work for which it was not fitted and being an- xious: a superior doing routine work and feeling depressed.
When the work and the worker are. really fitted one to the other, accidents will diminish. When casos in need of surtous paychological treatment are treated paychologically as a matter of nornial routine, "accident-proneness" will be not the latest discovery of the most enlightened psychologists but a. relle of the dark ages.