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EAR of old age is one of the deepest fears in human nature. It is a Icar that goes back to primi- tive man. And it may be the Inst fear to be conquered by modern man.
Yet there is no adequate or
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MONDAY, Nov. 2, 1936.
BRITISH CIVIL AVIATION
The Governments of most, of the leading nations of the work have spent money lavishly on en- couraging civil aviation. The British Government also has as- sister private enterprise to build up national air services, but on a much
more modest scale. Ag- corting to statistics quoted in the House of Commons some time Jago, the British subsidy paid per ton-mile was only half that paid in Germany, less than a quarter of that paid in France, and about a fifth of the amount paid in Italy. The total Hiritish vote for civil aviation last year was £639,041. an increase of £93.704 over that for the previous year, due mainly 15 improvements required to facilitate night flying. In spite of the comparatively small sums pro- vided by the Government, British air services are advancing rapid- ly. A report recently issued by the Air Ministry on the progress of civil aviation in 1935 shows nos encouraging developments in
all respects. The statistics given
pas-
is one based on a blind instinct and not on reason.
Old age can be the most beautiful chapter in fc. The is usually associated with long years exist chiefly in the appre- hensive minds of the young and the middle-aged,
I write that as an old man myself.
But directly I make that clas- sification I am aware of an inner protest. "Old?" says old Ego, "what nonsense is this? Don't you touch your toes every morning? Can't you run a good quarter of a mile without get- Ung winded? Have you ceased to enjoy a run. n,dive, and a plunge?"
It is when my Ego talks like In that that I have no answer. years, being close on 70, I am what the very young think of as "ancient." and the middle-aged as "old." But that is all. .Old- age has not very much to do with the years: but it has a great deal to do with our minds.
A man is as old as he thinks. To-day, because to the eco- nomic insecurity that was al- ways the lot of the majority (a fact we are apt to forget) there Is added the persistent fear
of war, fear of age increases.
There is a story of how Rodin; the great French sculptor, per- mitted fear of age to dominate lale creative years and polson his mind.
When the hour' struck, when old age was upon him, Rodin faced the disaster of a war and, wringing his hands, fled from France to England.
But the years-were-not-the..
-To-day's Thought----- CROW old along with me, The best is yet to be
-ROBERT BROWNING.
by
Sir Herbert Barker
catastrophe, nor the war. The trouble was that Rodin had no philosophy with which to meet old age.
For such people old age is a terrible thing, but for nobody else.
That may seem a wide and sweeping assertion. Perhaps it Is. Yet who will dispute the fact that the real armour against misfortune is within cach one of us?
As Str James Barrie has put ft: "It is not Life that matters, but the courage we bring to it."
It is beenuse old age brings for most people who have lived full and sensible lives a full philosophy that it can be the most lovely phase of life.
Why do people fear the years? Why do they forfelt the joys of the years of full bodily and intellec- tual vigour by casting over each day the shadow of the fear of to- morrow?
It is because old age has been identified with great evil rund, generation after generatiori, man has accepted the assertion.
And the old have remabied rather reticent: they are not given to proclaiming the truth. Namely, that the joy of life depends chiefly upon the quality of memory.
When one is old one no longer anticipates old age with fear. It is upon one, for the calendar bear witness to the fact
And one looks in the mirror and wonders "Is this face the face of one who to
old? Am I an old man?
Save for the evidence of the ycars, one might dispute it. fact, one has every right to dis- pute it.
What most people think of as old age is a state of mind. The
young are often very old; the old are often young.
Here, very briefly, 1 will try to tell my readers How To Be Happy When Old. It is necessary to pass this information to them before they are Old Age Pensioners, for then it wil be too late.
The art, then, of getting the best out of old age is to ignore it com- pletely, to cast away fear, fear of sickness, of want, of the loss of dend ones, and to live one day at a time.
Love life, and make love the mainspring of all your actions, and you need have no fear of what is to be, Live, while you have vigour, so that no day is wasted, Love life and you will become Life's lover,
It is only necessary to glance at the outstanding old among us to recognise the supreme truth this.
of
At over eighty Bir Oliver Lodge continues to work hard his sclentine laboratory. The Poet
Do You Dream Too Much?
a
most
THE study of dreams is times every court fascinating
one. in
ancient had its official
Generally speaking, a dream is
By T. S. Denham
hin heud.
cause
"The art, thon, ol getting the best out of old ago is to
ignoro it com.
pletely.
"Live..so that no day is wasted."
Laurente turned to a new career when most men would reckon their life's work done. He died at eighty- two. Until the end he bang. 密
Masaryk, until a few years ago President of Czechoslovakia. tired at eighty-two-and, having handed over, rode into the country on his horse.
1'c-
Edison, at eighty, was still work- Ing. sometimes as long as twenty hours on end. 'And I could go out citing other instances, including that of my lamented friend the Jate Lord Moynihan, vigorous, nt' seventy and only defeated at the last by a broken heart.
The whole point is this: that the architecture of old age is the task of the rest of life. I imagine a man- or woman who has done much karm to others has an ago old without joy. For it is when we have time to survey the years that aro past that we can look with keen, critical eyes at the part wa played throughout them.
There can be no harsher court than the tribunal of self-judgment when it sits in age upon the errors and omissions of the years of activity.
In a way, each of us gots the old nge he deserves. And when I write that I am not thinking of material that no rewards, but of those consolations
man can steal from another.
For just as the bee gathers honey
against winter, so we, too, fill the storehouse of our futures with the trash or treasure of our choice.
For when the heat of the day is passed and evening is come, we shall draw upon whatever we have garnered through the years.
Then to whoever has stored his heart and brain with sweet and noble things, with charities and dally kindnesses, and whoever has drunk deep of the beauty of the world, will know a deep content. and fulfilment.
in the report are eloquent in their testimony as to the progress made. The traffic returns show that the number of miles flown on the
Secondly, there are the purposes regular Empire, Continental and domestic lines rose from 4,557,000
of the incidents, and it is these which may be traced back to unsuspected in 1934 to 8,412,000 last year,
dream interpreter, and many shrewd where people are talking together or unaccomplished desires of Walting while the passenger mileage in pronouncements were made by these and producing a hum of conversation. iife. The man whose life is one long (creased from 29,162,000 to 42,- gentlemen, who were at least versed 1le wakes to find the rain beating round of financial worry dreams 360,000. The number of in a knowledge of human nature, if on his bedroom window. He dreams that he is in a field making a huge sengers carried increased from
not in what the modern world knows that he is in a crowded street along bonfire of bank notes. In his dream 135,000 to 200,000, and the air muny
as psychology. To-day we have which a fire engine dashes madly the wealth of his workaday imagina-
eminent scientists studying with its bell clanging out the alarm. tion in his. mail from 250 to 714 tons. The dreams, and their andings make and he wakes to find his alarm clocki The woman who has a rival for amount of freight carried in-nteresting and useful reading. ringing on the little table close to more beautiful than she and who creased from 1,172 to 1,898 tons.
hates her intensely dreams that she off Bedclothes that cilp In other words the number of
is doing this rival a good turn. In an expression of a hidden wish or dreams of exposure. A sigh at the dream she is superior to her, passengers increased by 48 per longing that cannot be realised in waking causes the sensations of a fall rival, and this recompenses her for cent,; the weight of mail by 186 ordinary waking life. But there are through space. A man who breathes being inferior in waking life. per cent, and of freight by 62 per
a number of dreams which seem to heavily now and again may dream cent. during the course of the stimulants.
be due simply and solely to external that he is floating on air or upon NIGHTMARES AS WARNING
the surface of the sen. year. The number of pilots with Class "A" licences current at the
Many a dream is caused by FEELING SUPERIOR
in the bedroom. A nolse end of 1935 was 3,353, an in- dreams that he is in a busy restaurant crease of 200 on those current at the end of 1934; while the number of those pilots with gliding movement last year. At dream in which the Class "B" licences increased from the end of the year there were 498 in 1934 to 583 at the end of 31 registered gliding clubs, with armed with a spear. 1935. At the end of last year a membership of about 1,000. In all these dreams some kind of relief from the mental distress Dey mum of needs, there is but one external stimull may cause certain there were 70 light acroplane The Government programme of evenly to happen in the dream On the other hand such dreadful To be old and unwanted-and. clubs, of which 42 were parti-expansion for the Royal Air Force world. but there is much more In dreams are sometimes a sign of Im- who has not seen this tragedy?—— pending -health or disease. Con- is not always a sad commentary cipating in the Air Ministry's made heavy demands upun air-dream than this, schemo for affording financial as craft manufacturers, but, in spite be analysed satisfactorily into two
Most dreams, however queer, may inuous nightmares should certainly upon the young and vigorous.
For, as one poct says, "Human sistance to approved clubs. The of this, 1935 set a new record in parts. First, there are the actual medical overhaul.
love needs human meriting.” We average total membership of these the aeronautical export trade, forms of the incidents, and these may Dreams that disclose the future are loved as we deserve to be loved. clubs during 1935 was 9,112, and The total value of the exports last be traced back to happenings that puzzle many people that they at the end of
- When Browning wrote that the the year 2.489 year was £2,721,441, which was previous day, or a day or so before classical instance is that which saved who lived and loved to the full.
have impressed the dreamer the actually occur cannot be doubted. A best is yet to be, he wrote as a man members held pilots Class "A" £562,774 more than the previous
that.
the Life of William Harvey, the dis- licences; the corresponding record set up in 1929. All in all, Thus a man dreamed that he few coverer of the circulation of the figures for the
previous British civil aviation is in a in an aeroplane to a farm house. He blood. When a young man. he set year were respectively 5,814 thoroughly healthy condition; it is was not an airman, but the day be out for Padua, but the Governor of and 1,823. A grant of £5,-growing stendily and rapidly and and the neroplane had been im saying that he had dreamed that fore he had attended an air pageant; Dover would not let him proceed, 000 to encourage gliding had its further progress seems 38-pressed upon his mind as a means the Dover to Calais boat was wrecked a stimulating effect on the 'sured.
fot getting about,
man
Really frightening dreams in, which the dreamer murders someone else or is chased by frightful animals or Sometimes pains and achès due to is in the death cell awaiting execu- -heplth cause queer dreams. In-flon may in the same way be traced digestion pains in the chest cause a back to thwarted longings or re- sleeper is pressed fears of waking life. It is huge in tracing back this connection that abbed in the chest
the dreamer may nd some sort of
cause him.
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But what of those who have:
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They will be empty in the oven- ing of their day..
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No man can do more than that, And no man doing that need shrink from the hand of Time. For Time can touch lightly and tho drearea contact may become at the end auction from which nono: (- need shrink. ...