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mel for any useful period, or to control its excursions into the fantastic without an effort of determination of which one felt' hardly capable.
news.
This was noticeably the caso when being "rend to." Perhaps a paper man develops an uncanny faculty for knowing what can safely be laft unread, but it in a fact that the European crisis, as an example, transmitted to the mind through the medium of the ears alone, seemed thoroughly unreal,
Many troubles, both personal and international, would probably never arise if their beginnings simply passed unseen,
MAN who had gone one I could find-in a pathetic effort den, tiny, meaningless, incongruous in than a man who has gone blind.
to cheer myself up, and in its care- ita contrast. blind told me once that free atmosphere decided to take the.
there is no fun in plungt.. smoking unless you 'can see the smoke.
THE operation wasn't trated dreams? The Freudian written word.
hiar to
This is not qulle ao arhimsical as it sounds. It fends up anyway, to subject of real importance---whether the necesing hunger for nows that I inherent in all of ys cari ever be Antisfied a radio broadcast. No one is better qualified to answer this And the answer is in the negative. News that is merely heard, no matter WHAT was the mean- how deep its portent, make no en ing of these illus during impression on the mind unless it in reinforced by the printed or Radio has limitations never realised so bad. Most con- explanation does not seent to fit:-
Hemove the moet I don't think I quite be- soling of all was the knowledge these were no fantasies of the by the five denses.
it brought me that the eye, 50 sub-conscious streaming.
precious of these and you put it in into its true perspective. It enables a lieved him."
sensitive externally to the vision" during sleep. My eyes sightless man to hear somebody eny- I have been smallest grain of dust, can re were closely bandaged, but my ing something. It enables But now that
visuales personalities-it is only by blind myself for a month I act to the knife, most surpris- mind was wide awake. realise that incredulity can be ingly with almost complete
This ghostly cavalcade that flashed listening to a woman speak, by hear ing the smile in her voice, that a overdone.
freedom from pain.
and faded on my mental screen meant bind man can fall in love, The loss of savour in a cigar- Nothing was more astonish- nothing to me, conveyed no messages,
It helps to preserve the sanity of ette which comes with loss of ing than the gradual realisation, solved no problems.
All that could be said is that its those for whom every day is twenty- four hours of darkness. I kills, or sight is incredible, but true. It as I lay in bed afterwards, that components had recognisable aimi- is, perhaps, unimportant, but I was going to suffer nothing larity to objects I "knew by sight at any rate dopes, the demon of lone-
ane born blind, who has liness. But that is all it is symptomatic of a number worse than very temporary. To any
USED to amuse my- Rd.of surprises, minor and major, very slight and very local dis- never grasped the shape of things as they are, these dream pictures
self in hospital by that await you when something comforts.
must be queer indeed. goes wrong with your eyes. And these were chiefly mental, and No one can ever know whether, the constructing mental pictures of Chief of all the major sur mitigated by their novelty. 1 dis impressions formulated in such a the nurses who tended me. covered, for Instance. that although brain have any close resemblance to prises, of course, is the con- there is no joy in smoking in the factiot even the blind themselves, had title to go on but their sciousness that something has dark, food and drink taste exactly You can teach them what grass, for voices, but these,. I imagined.
I also found that nobody Instance.
freis like; you gone wrong with your eyes, in the same.
cannot would give useful elues to their desertbe green to any one who has visible characteristics. my ease this was mercifully seemed to know why.
"I discovered, too, that the blind de gever seen it.
When my sight came back I hrd gradual: I cannot even now not live in a world that is just plnių That is only one of the riddles you several shocks, some unexpected y
Intermittently trace the trouble to its origina. black.
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ponder as you lie in the dark. Another All I knew was that a column amazing things with my purely ima- is the eurious difficulty of concen pleasant, age not so out. But in inative eyes-things, but, curiously rating thought on any one subject no sigance had my cars, un never people. And the pictures that
As a working bass in normal life swam into "view" cranged with be without looking at something at the aided by the eyes, told me the truth. same time-even a blank sheet of this knowledge will perhaps be vala wildering rapality.
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TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1936.
LAW-MAKING BY
REGULATIONS
The recent summoning of two ladies at Home for having shar- ed with others the cost of taxi hire, and thus caused or per- mitted motor vehicles to be used as "express" carriages, has re-
considerable ceived
attention both in the Press and in legul circles. The issue VIE even-
to tually taken the Appeal Court, with the result that the "offenec" was established in one
We are case.
not concerned with the cases as such, but there is comment thereon, appearing in the Lare Journal, which touches on a matter which is not without its applicability
of type seemed to be less clear to read than hitherto; that the lines had an increasing tendency 10 run into one another; that adjustments of artificial light made no improvement.
paper.
I
I
able, In any case, I should probably A acuscape perhaps, of grandeur far beyond anything I was conscious of ever having beheld, would suddenly
You would imagine never have realised the extent of the deceptive powers of sound if I had that, with all out- been spared the experience of spend- take form before my closed eyes. But even a "gazed its outlines side distractions removed, this ing a month. in the dark. OUTSIDE the office faded in a sort of shimmering mat would be so much the ensier.
things were no And there, in place of towering cliffe. But I found it impossible to Frank Couteur better. $1 became difficult to recks, was a typical suburban gar- keep the mind fixed in one chan- read. the direction boards of buses, to drive a car. Every- thing I looked at had ils по outlines shadowy double:
of
giant rollers battering on the
had definition any more. YOUNG MEN'S THOUGHTS ON WAR
"Detached retina" WIR the spécialist's verdict, "It's not tin-
common,
he said. "I get one or
two cases every week. Almost any. I MOST emphatically do not want!
a film-the most light-hearted
NOTES OF THE DAY
SIDE GLANCES
.
FALSE GLAMOUR
By George Clark
Но
Surely the dreadful object fonaon would not fall in time to have ant appreciable efect.
90
many
in bygone days. Now, through the development of science, war has be come synonymous with mass destruc- tion by high explosive, gas, and mechanised forces. It must inevit- ably result in all-embracing turmoil in which the civilian population will be attacked and women and children sacrificed.
thing can cause it generally some Another war, nor, feel certain,
unseen. It is obvious; sort of shock. One of my patients can any lane individual who has de
An Ordinary Mortal recently was a perfectly healthy man voted the slightest thought to the and return
that the targets would be the large! who had jumped too heavily on a problem
Hearty back-sfappers. War or moving bus,
on, should be avoided."
any kind was long since an cities and the arsenals, dockyards, VERY active young man longa 'for adventure and excitement, and, anachronism, and if with its modern foodstores, ships, and reservoirs.
Bombs containing poison gas and unfortunately, many still cherish the He told me that the retina of my resources it broke out again on a
eye-the "looking glass" in large scale it might end civiliantion. bacter as well as the ordinary ex-idea of war simply because they re- right
The gard it as a sure method of gaining side, in which we see things-had War and originally certain plosive variety would be used.
these things of life, in addition to loss so far as it effect, to come away from ila moorings, was glamour about it in
Full of the desire to prove them- Hongkong. The cases, in the Rapping about like a blind; that if allowed free play to the savage lust would be to cut off food and water
I was willing to let him operate for hand-to-hand conflict, sublimited supplies, and in a short time to re-selves and to achieve something in the opinion of this organ, are exam- would come right away, probably, by the desire to protect one's nearest duce a nation to submission by star- world, most young meu, naturally And the daily round monotonous. and dearest from a ples of the results of a growing and the eye would go blind.
bloodthirsty vation and terror. habit of State interference with; Then he said: "The operation is a aggressor. That element, however, la Retallation, it is true, might have Throughout the ages they have been the lives of ordinary people, comparatively new one: it is success wholly lacking in modern warfare a similar effect on the opposition, welcoming a just cause and a stirring
ful in about 60 per cent. of cases. Another
Indeed, war has for war would be conducted and no doubt the survivors on both fight in support of it. which is pushing England, in-
negotiating But it's not very serious, and it's mainly in the air, and the first to sides would be hastily directly and assiduously, in the worth the risk. You'll only be away suffer would be the civilian popula- for peace from their respective ruins, centuries been the one glamorous, direction
the lesson at last, well learnt, but at romantic opportunity for the young Totalitarianism. from work about a couple of months. tion. of
han to prove his mettle that it is All authorities are agreed that ee how rent a price! "It"19"becoming common form, Think it ever".
I certainly did. I couldn't imagine long as nations possess auropianes no Further, oven wore it possible, des not surprising many still hail its says the Law Journal, "for the myself idle for so long.
defensive force whatever can prevent pite this civilian slaughter, to act up possible advent with delight They State to interfere, by its Market-ce
a certain number of the invaders get a battle front, wherein would the are longing so ardently for an op- ing Boards, its Traffic Commis-
ting through, With warfare in three glamour lie? The warfare would be portunity to crusade that they over sioners, and its statutes cm-
dimensions there are not merely so almost entirely mechanised, and, of ook the fact that war has evolved many square miles to patrol and pro- the glorious hand-to-hand fighting us into something deadly and terrible,
It is no longer the stirring affair powering Ministers to make re-
teet but the air above to a height of dear to the schoolboy imagination
there would be none, merely an orgy and manly combat that it has been of open charges and of sword, lance, gulations for this, that and the
25,000 feet or more. other, in almost every aspect of
Such great progress has been made of mass murder by air, long range national life and private owner- The League of Nations is about in cloud flying that nowadays pilots shelling, poison gas, and liquid fire can fly blind to their objectives, aided when necessary by Lanks and ship; and it is suggested that to lift sanctions, authorities be- the nation's law-makers might leve, arguing that since the guided by wireless, drop their bombe, machine guns. do much worse than to remem- Italian occupation of Ethiopia is penaltiesi ber the dictum of Aristotle that accomplished League "the State came into existence against the aggressor state no to enable man to live, and exists longer serve any useful purpose. to enable him to live well." The The argument appears to be that conception that the individual lace Ethiopian resistance has censed the subjugation of that. exists for the State, remarks the country may be taken for granted, authority quoted, "seems to us and that as long as there is no heresy far more dangerous and war the League is satisfied with damnable than any for which the the position. Realising this at- fires of Smithfield were lit, or atitude, the Ethiopian Emperor is bonfire of Bishops blazed outside taking steps to revive the cam- Balliol College.' The comment(paign against Italy in the western is timely, and, as we say, it could corner of his country, where the well be applied to certain aspects last stand of the official Govern- ment is being made. It soumy of law-making in this Colony.necessary that there should be a Skeleton Ordinances, giving
war la Ethiopia before the Leagug either the Governor-in-Council or
can net, before it will even suр- specified Government depart-port sanctions, and in, this light ments power to make regula-it must certainly seem that tho tions, are all too, common here in League is encouraging, rather than Hongkong. The general rule preventing, hostilities. We should is to publish these regulations in like to warn the Negus, however, the Gazette, but the fact is that not to expect support from Geneva very few people see this official oven if he does renew his resis organ, whilst in many instances tanco to Italian aggression. Thơ the regulations are so lengthy methods of some statesmen there that re-publication in the columns make a mockery of the Covenant they pretend to respect, and, we of the Press, for the purpose of regret to say, the pledges they acquainting the public there-have made or a guarantee of their with, is quite out of the question. assistance in any situation calling The tendency in this matter of for more than words law by regulation is undoubtedly
to invest far too much power ini Government departments, par- gone so far that most of us prob ticularly the pollce, and it is ably infringe the letter of the tendency which stands in definite law almost every day, unwit- need of being checked. The tingly though it be. It may be fact is that there is an excess of true that only a tithe of the re- regulation of the public, which gulations are strictly enforced, restricts and restrains the ordin- but that fact only serves to ilus- ary individual at every whip and trato the folly of continuous turn, sometimes calising en-additions to the list, and, inciden- croachments on personal liberty tally, the existence of dead-letter for which there is little, if any, rules certainly tends to bring the reason. The process has, indeed, law. generally into disrepute.
"Jerry needs to get away from the grain exchange for a while. A trip to the country--unything to get his mind off whent."
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So, since modern warfare has be come thing of horror, it is plainly the young man's duty to admit that war as an outlet for his unrest and his longing for adventure is no longer morally conceivable.
This is no easy task, for progress and modern methods have changed the character of war, but not the paychology of the young man. Still, the facts of the last war are plain, owes it to and every young man civilisation to admit them to himself. To him as an individual war may mean many things, but to his country it can mean.only one thing a tragic Esturbance in the life of the people. A refusal to admit this mounts to more than more selfishness, and is in no way gallant or heroic.
The young man must rock other outlets for his enthusiasm and his desire for strife, achievement, and self-resolution.
Young men do not need to go to war so long as there are mountains to be climbed, regions of the earl and phases of science to be explored, causes of social right to be advanced, and, so long as great endeavour is still possible, on land, sea, and in the air.
This is not mero lo talk. Two years ago I was twenty-one, and was working in an office, with no apparent Incans of ever getting out, of it. I would still be there. if. I had not realised that hoping would get me nowhere, So I mado. the break, and hoped for the best.
Since then I have managed to travel nearly 20,000 miles, and in some of the wilder parts of the globe. I have had a good share of the ex- citement I craved.
I do not want war, for I have made the discovery that the world in peace His a great adventure—and it is open to every young man who wants to prove himself.
R. K. M.