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Did I tell
you about
my operation?
nel for any useful porlod, or to control its excursions into the . fantastic without an effort of determination of which one felt, hardly capable.
This was noticeably the caso when. being "read to.". Perhaps A Пока paper man develops an uncanny faculty for knowing what on safely be left unread, but it is a fact that the European crisis, as an example, transmitted to the mind through the medium of the ears alone, Beemed thoroughly unreal.
Many troubles, both personal and International, would probably never urlae if thoir beginnings simply passed unseen.
This Is not quito so whimsical as I sounds. It leads up, anyway, to a subject of real importance--whether the unceasing hunger for news that. is inherent in all of us can ever be satisfied by a radio broadcast. No one la bettor qualified to answer this And the answer le in the negative. News that is merely heard, no matter WHAT was the mean- how deep its portent, makes no cur ing of these illus. during Impression on the mind unless It is reinforced by the printed or Radio has limitations never realised so bad. Most con- explanation does not seem to fit:
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 its contrast. blind told me once that free atmosphere decided to take the
A blind told me once that he a
smoking unless you can see the smoke.
THE operation wasn't trated dreams? The Freudian written word.
sensitive externally to the
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Hiness. But that is all.
I
USED to amuse my-
I don't think I quite be- soling of all was the knowledge these were no fantasies of the by the five senses. Remove the most it brought me that the eye, so sub-conscious streaming, into precious of these and you put it in Ita true perspective. It enables o lieved hins
But now that
I have been smallest grain of dust, can re- "vision" during sleep. My eyes sightless man to hear somebody say. visuales personalities-it is only by blind myself for a month I act to the knife, most surpris were closely bandaged, but my ing something. It enables him to.
mind was wide awake. realise that incredulity can be ingly with almost complete
This ghostly cavalcade that flashed Batening to a woman speak, by near- overdone.
freedom from pain.
and faded on my mental screen incant, the smile in her voice, that a
blind 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 those for whom every day is twenty- ette which comes with loss of ing than the gradual realisation, solved no problems.
All that could be said is that, it four hours of darkness. LL kills, or sight is incredible, but true. It as I lay in bed afterwards, that comparents had recognisable simi. is, perhaps, unimportant, but I was going to suffer nothing farity to objects I knew by night." at any rate dopes, the demon of lone-
blind, who has one born temporary. To any SHOW ROOM
it is symptomatic of a number worse than very Stubbs Rd. of surprises, minor and major, very slight and very local dis never rasped 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. Aut 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. I dis Impressions formulated in such a the nurses who tended me. I prises, of course, is the con- covered, for instance, that although brain have any close resemblance to had title to go on but their there is joy in amoking in the facts-ot even the blind themselves. sciousness that something has dark, food and drink taste exactly you can teach then what grans, for voices, but these, I imagined. feels like; you cannot would give useful clues to their FERGUSON.—At the French Hospigone wrong with your eyes. In the same. I also found that nobody instance,
inl, on Juffe 29th, 1936, to Mr. and my
describe green to any one who has visible characteristics. case this was mercifully seemed to know why.
I discovered, too, that the blind do never seen it. Mrs. 31. Ferguson, Kowloon
When my light came back I and gradual: I cannot even now, not live in a world that is just plain That is only one of the riddles you several shocks, some unexpectedly Docks, a daughter. Both well.
Intermittently trace the trouble to its origins. black.
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ponder an you lie in the dark. Another All I knew was that a columu amazing things with my purely In Is the curious difficulty of conten- pleasant, same not so good. But in of type seemed to be less clear ginative eyes things, but, curiously, trating thought on any one subject no single instance had my car, un- to read than hitherto; that the ever people. And the pictures that without looking at something at the ailed by my eyes, told me the truth. awam into "view" changed with be sanic time--en a blank sheet" of
to
run into one another; that beyond anything I was conscious
A seascape, perhaps, of grandeur paper.. adjustments of artificial light of ever having behield, would suddenly made no improvement.
take form before my closed eyes, But even as I gazed" its outlines side
BIRTH.
The
Hongkong Eclegraph. Hines had an increasing tendency wiltering rapidity,
As a working nsis in normal life this knowledge will perhaps be valu- able. In any case, I should probably 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- distractions removed, this in a month in the dark.
TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1936.
LAW-MAKING BY
OUTSIDE the office faded in a sort of shimmering mist, would be so much the easier.
things were
no And there; in pince of Lowering cliffe. But I found it impossible to Frank le Couteur.... REGULATIONS better. It became difficult to of, plant rellers shattering on the
read
the DOL 1327-
YOUNG MEN'S THOUGHTS ON WAR
FALSE GLAMOUR
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All
Surely the dreadful object lesson would hot fall in time to have an appreciable effect.
the direction boards of rocks, was a typical suburban gan keep the mind fixed in one chan- The recent summoning of two
Every- Indies at Home for having shar-buses, to drive a car.
at hud its ed with others the cost of taxi thing I looked
shadowy double: no outlines hire, and thus caused or per mitted motor vehicles to be used had definition any more.
retina" WALS "Delached as "express" carriages, has re-
apecialist's verdict. "It's ceived
considerable attention common,” he said. "I get one or
MOST emphatically do not want both in the Press and in legal two pages every week. Almost any
thing can cause it-generally some another war, nor, I feel certain, circles. The issue was even-sort of shock. One of my patients can any sane individual who has de
unseen. It is obvious
An Ordinary Morlai tually taken to the Appeal recently was a perfectly healthy man voted the slightest thought to the and return
that the targets would be the large Court, with the result that the who had jumped too heavily on a problem.
Hearty back-sfappers.
udventure and excitement, and, moving bus. "offence" was established in one
War of any kind was long since an cities and the arsenais, dockyards, VERY active young man langs for Bambe containing pisan, gas and unfortunately, many still cherish tho large
scale it might end civilisation," bacteria as well as the ordinary ex- idea of war simply because they re- sare method of gaining The Hard it as a is a comment thereon, appearing side in which we see things had War had, originally certain plosive variety would be used. in the Law Journal, which come away from its moorings, was glamour about it in an far as it effect, in addition to loss of life, these things.
If
Full of the desire to prove them- "apping about like a blind"; that allowed free play to the savage lust would be to cut off food and water touches on a matter which is not was unwilling to let him operate for hand-to-hand confilet, sublimited supplies, and in a short time to re-selves and to achieve romet naturally without its applicability to would come right away, probably, by the desire to protect one's nearest duce a nation to submission by star- world, most. young men
find the daily rund monotonous. Then he said: "The operation is a aggressor. That clement, however, is Retaliation, it is true, might have Throughout the ages they have been opinion of this organ, are exam. pics of the results of a growing 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 50 per cent, of cases. Another war would be conducted and no doubt the survivors on both fight in. support of it.
Indeed, war has for so many habit of State interference with But it's not very serious, and it's mainly in the air, and the first to sides would be hastily negotiating! the lives of ordinary people, from work about a couple of months. tion authorities are agreed that so how great a prical
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, the lesson at last, well learnt, but at romantic opportunity for the young which is pushing England, in- Think it over"
man to prove his mettle that it is directly-and-assiduously, in-the-certainly did I couldn't imagine-long as nations possess acroplanes no-Further, oven-wore it possible, des not surprising many still ha direction of Totalitarianism. myself idle for so long. I went to defensive force whatever can prevent pite this civilian slaughter, to set up possible advent with delight. They "It is becoming 'common form, see a film-the most light-hearted a certain number of the invaders get a battle front, wherein would the are longing no ardently for an op- says the Law Journal, "for the
ting through. With warfare in three glamour lie? The warfare would be portunity to crusade that they over- dimensions there are not merely so almost entirely mechanlaod, and of look the fact that war has evolved
into something deadly and terrible. State te interfere, by its Market-
many square miles to patrol and pro- the glorious hand-to-hand fighting so
It is no longer the stirring affair tect but the air above to height of dear to the schoolboy imagination! 25.000 feet or more. sinners, and its statutes em-
there would be none, merely an orgy of open charges and of sword, lance, powering Ministers to make' re- The League of Nations is about. Such great progress has been made of mass murder by air, long range and manly combat that it has been gulations for this, that and the to lift sanctions, authorities be-in cload flying that nowadays pilots shelling, poison gas, and liquid fire, in bygone days. Now, through the fly blind to their objectives, alded when necessary by tanks and development of selence, war has be
come synonymous with mass destruc- other, in almost every aspect of lieve, arguing that since the can
tion by high explosive, gas, and mechanised forces. It must inevit national life and private owner- Italian occupation of Ethiopia is guided by wireless, drop their bombs, machine guns,
penalties
ably result in all-embracing turmoil ship" and it is suggested that accomplished League
in which the civilian population will the nation's law-makers might against the aggressor state no longer serve any useful purpose. do much worse than to remem- The argument appears to be that
be attacked and women and children.. Eacrificed. ber the dictum of Aristotle that since Ethiopian resistance has "the State came into existence ceased the subjugation of that to enable man to live, and exists country may be taken for granted, to enable him to live well," The and that as long as there is no conception that the individual war the League is satisfled with exists for the State, remarks the the position. Realising this at- authority quoted, seems to us a titude, the Ethiopian Emperor is heresy far more dangerous and taking steps to revive the cam- damnable than any for which the paign against Italy in the western fires of Smithfield were lit, or a corner of his country, where the bonfire of Bishops blazed outside Inst stand of the official Govern- ment is being made: It seemsi Balliol College." The comment
necessary that there should be a is timely, and, as we say, it could war in Ethiopia before the League well be applied to certain aspects can act, before it will ever sup- of law-making inithi Colony.port sanctions, and in this light Skeleton Ordinances, giving it must certainly seem that the either the Governor-in-Council or League is encouraging, rather than specified Government depart, preventing, hostilities. We should ments power to make regala-like to warn the Negus, however, tions, are all too common here in not to expect support from Geneva Hongkong. The general rule even if he does renew his resis
tance to Italian aggression. The is to publish these regulations in methods of some statesmen there the Gazette, but the fact is that make a mockery of the Covenant- very few people see this official they pretend to respect, and, wo organ, whilst in many instances regret to say, the pledges they the regulations are so lengthy have made or a guarantee of their that re-publication in the columns nasistance in any situation culling of the Press, for the purpose of for more than words. acquainting the public there-
with, is quite out of the question. for which there is little, if any, The tendency in this matter of reason. The process has, indeed, law by regulation is undoubtedly gone so far that most of us prob- to invest far too much power inably infringe the letter of the Government departments, par-law almost every day, unwit- ticularly the police, and it is a tingly though it be. It may be tendency which stands in definite true that only a tithe of the re- need of being checked. The gulations are strictly enforced, fact is that there is an excess of but that fact only serves to illus- regulation of the public, which trate the folly of continuous restricts and restrains the ordin-additions to the list, and, inciden- ary individual at every whip and tally, the existence of dead-lotter turn, sometimes causing en-rules certainly tends to bring the croachments on personal liberty law generally into disrepute.
SIDE GLANCES
By George Clark
列
"Jerry needs to get away from the grain exelmuge for a while. A trip to the country--anything to get its mind oll wheat."
So, since modern warfare las be-- come a thing of horror, it is plainly the young man's duty to admit that. war as an outlet for his unrest and hla 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 psychology of the young man. Still, the facts of the last war are plain, and every young man owes it to civilisation to admit them to himeolt. To him as an individual war may mean many things, but to his country it can mean only one thing tragic listurbanco in the life of the people. A refusal to admit this amounts to more than mere selfishness, and is. in no way gallant or herole.
The young man must seek. other outlets for his enthusiasm and his desire for strife, achievement, and | self-rezolution.
Young men do not need to go to wr so long as there are mountains. Lobe climbed, regions of the earth and phases of science to be explored, causes of social right to be advanced, and, so long na great, endeavour in still possible, on land, sea, and in the
air.
This is not mere idle talk. Two years ago I was twenty-one, and was working in an office, with no apparent means of ever getting out of it. would still be there if I had not realised, that hoping' would, get me nowhore. So I made the break, and hoped for the best.
Since then. I have managed to travel nearly 20,000 miles; and in momo of the wilder parts of the globe I have had a good share of the ex- citemont I
craved.
I do not want war, for I have made the discovery that the world in peace in a great adventure-and it is open to every young man who wants to prove himself,
RK, M.
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