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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1937.
I
Can you
up
By a Special Medical
Correspondent
F you knew you were coming into a million to-morrow, would you have any difficulty in tumbl- ing out of bed to-morrow into a new day?
Bed is warm and the world is cold to most of us anyway. Cold in more senses than one. It denies us яo many of the things we want.
SLEEP HAS
in
get the
morning?
you can MAKE yourself wake if you
want to
.
If your room is warmer than your bed--or at least as warm-~~- and your bath is warmer. than your room, the slide into wake- fulness should be easier.
Air-conditioning-when it is general will simplify lie in that respect.
Learn to enjoy actively both falling asleep and waking. As they are both natural procESACA, it should not be difficult.
Meditate for five minutes be- fore relaxing into sleep: on the joys of sleeping and of waking.. again to a new day.
Get it clearly into your mind whether you really want to rise at an early hour and what-for.. If you really want to get up, you will; if you merely wish but don't want, you won't.
IT IS A GOOD thing to train your subconscious mind to wake you at the appoint- cd hour, and this you can do by making a clear decision before you go to sleep..
Once trained, this faculty of waking at any hour-the Ger- mans call it Konfuhr (the clock in the head)-is always useful, besides being a step in the con- tro!' of one's subconscious facul- ties.
WHETHER YOU
use an aldrum or your "Kop-
for waking, so that you may. enjoy the process.
To jump abruptly out of bed at the tinkle of an alarum is bad for body and mind. The young may be capable of tolerating it. but it does no good.
Make it warm with expecta- face-then you are apt to linger High spirits and low spirits tions, and your trouble will not a little with your dreams; you follow a definite cycle which you Stubbs Road be in tumbling out but in are a little unpunctual with life: can discover for yourself if you you do not keep your appoint- jot down your moods from day tumbling in,
ment: you make a Bttle gesture to day, of defiance ("after all I have my
When you are low-spirited three functions: rest, repair dreams"); and you stay a little and in the low phise, you will fuhr," allow at least five minutes ? and what the psychologists coll. longer in bed.
need more sleep, which you can regression. Regression micans You say to yourself-and you conveniently get by going to bed retreat; retreat into the dream- may even deceive yourself "It a little earlier. You will have world, where the mind can coil isn't that I don't want to get up perceptibly greater difficulty in
rising and will need all the morn itself up to emerge stronger for ---I just can't."
ing help you con get, the day to come.
But, deep down, you know
When you are in the high The first five hours of sleep perfectly well that you can, but take care of the rest and rennt you don't want to. If life be- phase you will have less or no came sufficiently interesting. difficulty in rising. It may even well, that would be different. be necessary with some very active people to stay in bed a RECENTLY DR. little longer than is desired. Hersey, at the University of
- PHYSICAL has discovered We all dream. Those who are Pennsylvania, not aware of their dreams are the each individual has his own warmth, too, is a help. Cold merely exempt from the dis- "emotional-energy" cycle, which bedrooms and bathrooms are a varies from one week to three sore trial. Better be comfort- turbing dreams that interrupt months, but averages four to ably zestful than healthfully born again. Into a new day and.
a new life. Is that so bad? five weeks. sleep.
I. L. P. YEARNINGS
The
of body cells. The other three hours provide your nightly dose of dreams.
Independent Labour Party, extreme element of British polities, is making efforts to align itself once again with the main Labour Party, in the hope of presenting a united front to other political bodies. Four years ago, the I.L.P. with drew from the Labour Party on People who have led excep- the ground that the constitutiontionally full lives-like Nano- and policy of the Party imposed leon and Edison-have not need- restrictions on the type of ed that dose. They have not needed dreams because their Socialist activity favoured by
lives provided the stuff we ordi- the extremists. Having since
nary mortals dream about. Five: ploughed a lonely furrow, with hours was enough for them. no real influence in British politics, these Leftists are now
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miscrable.
TURN ON YOUR back, stretch your arms and lega, twist and stretch your trunk, yawn and take a few calm, deep breaths; not as a penance or as
an exercise, but for sheer plea-
sure.
YOU HAVE BEEN
FORMOSA TO-DAY.
Japan's Jumping-Off Place For
Southern Asia.
but with the confessed hope of ness, the more you dream. The leading a revolt within the frustrated person is î dav-i Labour Party and thus securing dreamer and, a night-dreamer By WILLIAM TEELING are supported in this by the Consular in the South the adoption of a more challeng and he needs a bigger dose of
ing policy. Mr. Fenner Brock-dream-dope before he can face. (Reproduced from "Overmas," the
way, the General Secretary of the 1.LP, goes further still when he states that he and his
again the world that he finds
Zestful, happy, positive-mind- ed successful people who know what they want and where they are going-have no trouble in getting up of a morning.
followers are prepared to try and find a basis of common action with the Communists. The main differences between the I.L.P. and the Communists But if you've got the wrong hitherto have arisen from the job, or (more likely) the wrong former's opposition to any attitude to your job; if you see alliance with the so-called demo- only its routine and boredom cratic elements of the Conserva- and not its opportunities; if tive and Liberal Parties for the there is something you fear to purpose of forming a Popular
magazine of the Overseas League)
authorities.
SETTLEMENT FAILURE Next to the Chinese come
Japanese themselves.
of Formosa, a very' considerable defence base, and the Islands of the Pescaderes, not very. many miles away, are completely the closed to all foreign ships.. They have!
ANOTHER HONGKONG?- from
Army officers told me quite frankly one colony Hong King of the future.
oldest colony and it interesting to country with poorer peoples
years they have that they intend to make Takso the
SQUEEZED OUT
arc
In
only,
10 far. gat
They
too bleak, too cold, too real. HeHE Japanese have held Formosa
for over forty years. It is their made many attempts to colonise the sleeps longer but worse.
see what success they have had in Japan, but in
The oldest inhabit- dealing with it. ants of Formosa are the aborigines. functioning, a settlement of about a intend to make the Chinese from There are now about 150,000 of these hundred families, which has only China trade directly with Takgo. the Southern their own trade in people left, scattered up and down been in existence two years and is They intend it to be their base for the island, but mostly on the eastern subsidised from Tokyo. side. They have not always been
The reason for the failure of hemisphere and, above all, they in- tond it to be a great naval and aerial colonising tucky in their treatment either by
schemes is that the Chinese or Japanese and mussacres
Japanese standard of living is higher jumping-off ground for South China, for the Philippines and for the than that of the Chinese and they Pacife. in the past have been numerous.
To-day, however they live are consequently handicapped in
It is only since the Incident of It is the same story with regard to Manchukuo in 1931 that the Japanese separate districts as much as possi- marketing and in everything else. ble and are being educated entirely.
They are now as Japanese by Japanese policemen, small trading in the towns and, as have become so completely nation- who act as teachers. When they a result, they are only a little over allstic in Formosa. come down to the towns, they have 200,000 Japanese in the island of trying to insist that all Chinese shall their own small compound; where Formosa. These people are almost learn Japanese in the schools. They they can spend the night, bring their all either Government officials, clerks are trying to pacify the inhabitants the in offices, or are working for big though this is much to the annoyance with a mild form of self-government, shopping and rest. They
Government factory (or some only, people in Formosa who are be
Japanese concern) in the tea in- of the Army, but bit by bit and Front. The IL.P. has further finitely set itself tigainst having coming completely Japanese, and are
dustry, lumber trade or the fisheries. very definitely-they are pushing oll Again distinction has to be made foreign business firms out of the
and held to the view that peace can- lot, or parcel with the Reds. It incapable of resisting it.
country
ont there is not between Japanese born in Japan and missioner in the Isle of Formosa not be maintained by pacts be is a fortunate circumstance for
Japanese born in Formosa. The who feels that either his mission or Next come the Chinese. There are tween capitalist Governments, the Old Country that the official
over. five millions of these. They Japanese, both in business and in
The country is full of but only through agreements Labour Party adheres strongly have come to Formosu in different Government offices, insist that the his hospital is safe for very much
positions must go to people onger negotiated between working-to constitutional methods in fur-waves over many generations. With best
view to controlling them the coming directly from Japan. They troops and the borracks are the most Japanese decided that there must be consider that a Japanese who has up to date and most Western that I class Governments. Thus Mr. therance of its aims and objects. wealthy Chinese in Formosa been born and bred in Formosa have seen in the Japanese Artay, and dis- may have lost some of his Japanese considerably better than our own in Fenner Brockway envisages the It differs, admittedly, from the as possible. They, therefore, dis-
courage any Chinese from setting up Ideals, and so he often finds it almost Hongkong.
as difficult to get work as would a
CHINESE MILITIA In business on a big scale, and con- time when all the Leftist ele-Government now in power, on
almost all the richer better class Chinese born in Formoan, sequently
The Chinese in Formosa have been Business ments in British politics will many points, but, as was shown Chinese have sent their sons back
interests In Formosa allowed to form a militia for social unite, contending that the unity in the recent internal crisis, it. into China to settle there and make insisted that the Government should services and for policing the streets, their own fortunes. This leaves all first try out the most suitable but they are not allowed to join the
expense of the of the working-classes is abso- is prepared to make common the positions of importance and all industries at the
the management of big concerns in taxpayer. When that had been Army, nor are they allowed to bear arms. Japanese told me that no- lutely essential to the defeat of purpose with any party in de- the hands of Japanese.
donc, big business began to step body. can bear arms for the Emperor the National Government at the fence of constitutionalism. It is The five millions of Chinese who in and take over. I visited some of who is not a complite Japanese.
You ask them what are their The obvious that the LL.P. is begin-still remain are therefore, almost all the big tea estates, and It was of of ព working-class type. These Interest to find that the Japanese tea next General Election.
carry outside world when
on trade can only compete with the ideals of colonisation and they say:
the yen 1 we
"We will not be successful as coloni- point which appears to be over-ning to realise that it has people are permitted to
pencefully, and so far have been out influence allowed to have their own Chiflese devalued, and it is also a fact that sere until we have made all For looked, however, is that whilst neither power nor
to be certain of a been given good roads and law on
ta protected Japanese have Japanese mentality and Japan- esa ideals." Generals and colonels the I.L.P. may desire to come amongst the people as a whole; plays and processions. They have in more than one industry they have mosans into famines. They must in under the Labour banner once thence its anxiety to link up with order, and they consider that on the market, where, they sell at a more offessed to me that this might take
whole they are a great deal: better less fixed price and make a profit. again, the Labour Party wants those whose prospects are deal than they would be under Chinese with the surplus. They have been yet another fifty years and, judging dumping goods in foreign countries of the Japanese as colonisers by their main war lords,
cheap finitely brighter. Its
they have been failures, nothing to do with it. The mere
Many of them, from their point of word enough rate to handicap the own standards, it must be said that objective appears to be the over-view, have another advantage. They fact that the ILP is also an throw of the present Govern can go to the Chinese mainland and If big busincas hopes soon to make But one must concede that For ment, but, even for that purpose, pretend at first that they are Chinese a considerable profit out of Formosa, osa has been greatly improved and subjects. They then engage in lie the Army, on the other hand, cares. eficiently run; though it is almost munists should suffice to demone 16415. unlikely to be welcomedgal activities, such as the oplum trade Utile about this and says that the impossible for an ordinary For strate the absurdity of any re- back into the ranks of the and smuggling, and when arrested only reason for holding. Formoss is mosan to rise above the level of a.
xious to link up with the Com-
ummon with Labour, which has de- Labourit
ग्र
Is
The Army is now labouror. That is Japan's polley in by the Chinese authorities they claim & strategic one. Immunity as Japanese subjects and making out of Takao, the biggest city all colonising schemos.
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