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MALL
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HAVING ACHIEVED
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What Do Belgium and Holland Mean to
HE commander of a nation's destinies to- day is faced with the
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emergence of the neroplane as a supreme en- gine of war has changed considerations of defence.
Premises based on past wars (the favourite teaching ground for strategista) lack the funda- mental factor of the modern air weapon.
The Power Of Wings
SHALL
WE DO
WITHOUT
BRITAIN'S SLEEP?
SAFETY?
Asks
By A. Doctor
AN American scientist says
that future races will be able to do without deep.. "They will be able to work through the twenty-four hours.",
But a great American doctor, Crile, has told us, "Steep la vital not only to give the cerebral cells a rest, but to enable certain organs to complete their elimination of waste matters." Animals kept awake and without
sleep,
even under the best conditions, die in seven to ten day.
Germany, on the other hand, from her narrow northern cor- ridor of sen-board lying opposite Newcastle nur. Grimsbyto
every im-
Sleep is, after all, only a phase of portant city in the United King-the conscious brain. The real mind
without slumber dom, except perhaps in the already extreme southwest.
Captain Norman coastline, could raid
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How often in the past few HE who does not know the
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 4. 1936.
WILL ROOSEVELT BE RE-ELECTED? The United States will soon be in the throes of the Presiden- tial election campaign. Already there are indications of a more than usually keen struggle to de- termine whether President Roosevelt shall continue in oc- cupancy of the White House. "Straw votes" taken from time to time concede, in the main, that the Democrats will again suc- Johnson's Orchestra. ceed, although the odds on Roose- Every time I look at you-Fox Trot ..Johnson's Orchestra. velt have shortened somewhat Six "Hits" of the Day (Series 5)
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There is; in fact, a war, is a danger to his own aerodromes away from our east German territory only through Primo Scala Accordeon Band.general consensus of opinion that people.
and south-east areas, a require that one narrow strip unless ment so patently logical that (and until) we had squadrons Charlie Kunz. Governor Landon, although ad-
one is left astounded that the based in France. mittedly not such a well-known
precept has not become practice personality as his opponent, is
niready? likely to put up a big fight for.
the liberal wing of his party, Mr. | Landon does not believe in un-
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Why does the British Government continually af- firm that it regards the inviolability of Belgium and Holland as essential for the protection of Great Britain?. The occupation of Belgium
Swift Destruction CAN those who agree that
не must move back
reasoned denunciation of the by the German forces in 1914 suggest that Germany would New Deal; he knows the farm-was part of a definite plan of wish to move forward? ers and the ordinary citizens of campaign laid down long before
the Air Arm had emerged from policy for either Germany or the great Middle West too well the chrysalls stage. It formed to fall into that error, for these an essential element of ground people appreciate the many bene-warfare.
fits which the Roosevelt adminis- A sweeping movement tration has brought them, through Belgium was a tactical Moreover, he is sufficiently necessity to strike at France
and at the Channel ports. shrewd, man to realise that mere
Does the same consideration destructive criticism will not get
apply in aerial warfare?
But I do not subscribe to the thesis that German pos-
· Bession of coastal nero- dromes in Belgium and Holland would make Ger- many a stronger air Power against this country.
does
and works all the 24 hours, even when we are unconscious from any cause...... sleep, injury, disense, concussion, or under anaesthesia,
If this were not so, and if the cle- culation and respiration were not kept going by the independent sympathetic ganglia
system. Ive
should die when we dozed.
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THAT is why we may
sometimes
wake up in the morning not only our with a fresh brain but with problems solved. The job has been going on all through the night, and science,
many a knotty point in Invention, art, music, &c., has been born in "inspiration" in the down.
"I should go to bed and sleep on It," the writer heard a doctor
say
once to n worried person who was Lying desperately to find a way out of a light corner. And sure enough in the morning the solution suddenly came to him.
During the night's sleep all those jumbled Impulses were sorted out by the subconscious and the way was shown to the conscious brain op the waking.
Sleep is by no means a waste of time as some think. "We waste half our lives lying in bed and snoring away the hours," someone has com- plained (though na regards the latter accusation he might speak for him- self alone!) "Think of all the things we might do it we did not have to go to bed!"
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HE probability is that could we .410 without sleep our work would not be half as good as it is. Slumber is not waste of time..
The psychologist knows that the reactions, dreams, automatisms, mind pletures, day-dreams, inspirations, and revelations are impressed or gu
Impulses pressed complexes and embedded from the outside; they have sunk from the conscious to the unconscious, and persist from day's gatherings.
the
We can even, to an extent, register them, and a familiar example lies
with the ability some people have to make a note mentally of a thing. forget it completely, and resurrect it at the required time.
Another instance is in the use of those who can always make them- We could not blockade Ger-selves wake up at a given time.
We shall never be able, with satis.. many's aircraft as we blockaded
faction, to do entirely witlion our her fleet before. And in the "py-by time." centre of that narrow strip
stands refortined Heligoland.~~- Take another theoretical as-
pect.
If German squadrons flew
Tactically, it would be bad across Holland and Belgium to Britain to place air forces in attack Great Britain, would the
Low Countries declare this Holland or Belgium. Such an act of war, even though advanced position would render bombs were dropped? them open to swift destruction..
An
no
Would our statesmen retaliate The traditional British con- by sending British squadrons across the same neutral ter- ception of a forward Teutonic sweep into the Low Countries ritories before these States had has vanished with the coming made some declaration? of the aeroplane's supremacy.
Plain Clothes Weddings
By
A Clergyman
RECENTLY I officiated at
an American wedding and was impressed by the un- usual simplicity of the business. In the United States there is no need to publish the banns extend-
On presenting this to a justice of pence,, a mayor, o clergyman, or any be other authorised person, he can
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As you would expect, the wedding
Delay would give a time ad- him anywhere. His platform,
The inviolability of the vantage to Germany, in alr waring over 15 days. All that the Ameri- I do not believe it does. I neutrality of Belgium and Hol- all important. It is a pretty can has to do is to answer a fem therefore, outlines his ideas of how the worst defects of the believe that certain countries land is of greater advantage to problem, but, whichever way the questions at the City Hall and then
of which Great Britain is one Germany than to ourselves. It answer lies, one thing is cer-get a licence. New Deal can be overcome. He could be forced to capitulate would form a bulwark for her tain. does not pose as a Messiah, but, through air war alone, if they to the west, for it is a principle to use his own words, as "a plain themselves were inadequately of international law that the If Germany were to decide married at a moment's nolice,
sovereignty of a State extends that a plan of campaign would man"-a thoroughly reasonable armed in the air.
to the air above its territory. uccessitate flying over neutral CHURCH ́ weddings are the excep- middle-of-the-road American,
territory as in 1914 it meant C tion rather than the rule in the These are the Impressions gain-
The passage of war aireraft marching through it--that plan United States. If a religious cere- above the territory of another can be prepared within her own many is desired, in nine cases out of ed by a special correspondent of
nation without permission is at frontier at the present time with ten the wedding takes place at the one of the leading London jour-
any time a violation of interna as great effect as if she possess decide to have the ceremony either in clergyman's house, but some couples
nals who has been making a
tional law.
ed the intervening land.
their own newly furnished home or in. that of the bride's parents. study of the outlook on the spot.
In time of war it would be-
Aerodromes that lie within This observer concedes that Mr.
come a violation of neutrality the western frontier of Germany is very Informal. The party conslets Landon stands quite a good
and constitute an act of war, such as Sylt, Kiel, Hanover, of the bride and bridegroom with twa
persons to act serve the New Deal and to ex-
as witnesses. even though no bombs were Munster, Cologne-are both chance of election, but says that
The bridegroom wears un ordinary tend its implications to the full. dropped. Thus British aero- near enough to Britain and far lounge
BUIL
the bride a serviceable President Roosevelt has just as
not fly over enough away to provide the best dress or costume (sult" in American good à prospect of being return- Obviously, the success or other planes could
Belgium or Holland without strategic situation under all terminology), but she never omits n
beautiful bouquet of flowers. ed; he goes further, and remarks wise of his revolutionary experi- transgressing their neutrality. conditions.
Hlow very simple! No morning coats and spats, no bridal vell and that if times are bad, and if seri- ments cannot be determined at If the neutrality of these two There is no important city in orange blossom, nó retinue of brides- ous trouble should, break out in this stage. No man can work countries were respected by us, Great Britain that cannot be malds, no pages. Europe, the people are likely to miracles in a great Continent like Germany's geographical posi- reached by German bombers omelated made an appointment with revert to a strong and experienc- the United States within a space tion would be strengthened operating from within their own me on the telephone and arrived at
The outside against air attack far more than frontiers.
my house a few hours later as ar- ed' leader to tide them over. It of four years.
if she were to occupy the inter. **;
ranged. After the licence had been is, at this juncture, and from this world, therefore, at any rate, vening territory.
Liverpool, for example, lles examined and found in order the within the radius of action of ceremony was performed. distance, difficult to forecast the that section of it which is liberal Air attack on Germany from aeroplanes able to carry 3,000lb. outcome of the election, although in, thought-will incline to the the west could then be waged of bombs. Even a head wind of 5 for the reception, many couples the overthrow of President via that it would be all for the only through restricted cor- 30 miles an hour in both direc-dispense with it, others have an Roosevelt would certainly be sur-best were Mr. Roosevelt, again ridors of entry-one in, North- tions an unlikely circumstance informal one in their
France
(from thewould not prevent them from potato-crisps with green peus.
where creamed chicken, patties, und frontlors of Switzerland to reaching their target.
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observer would regret any such given a fair chance of carrying Luxembourg) and the other be
take the place of our familiar ham From Aberdeen to Plymouth, I and tongue, sulnd; and Jellies. But development. President Roose through the policies to which he tween the north of Holland and
the story is the same.
no toastingt velt has had to fight hard to pre- and his party stand committed. the south of Denmark.
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