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Never before has there such intense interest in Astrology. Many thou- sands of people, particular- ly women, regularly seck to interpret their fortunes. What have the stars to do with tuck?
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Dr. Nandor. Fodor Research Officer, Inter- national Institute for Psy- chical Research, tells you! in this article.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1938.
Has Hitler Changed
His Mind? Chancellor Hitler's recent Augsburg speech recalls Signor Mussolini's outspoken demand
The hope ever burns in us that something
very pleasant is awaiting us and that the sooth- sayer whom we consult will con- firm this secret anticipation.
From astrology we expect to find, with authority, that we were born under a lucky star and that therefore all will be well with us.
If we do not fare too well we may excuse ourselves and blame unpropitious constellation. that Germany shall be given a If we do fare happily, luck, we place in the sun with the return will say, was no accident, it was of her African colonies. The our rightful heritage.
the
* BUT can it be true, ask
Above are some of the twelve Signs of the Zodiac. They are (reading down) Aquarius, water- bearer, January 20 February 19; Pisces, Fishes, February 20 to March 20; Taurus, Bull, April 21 to May 22; Gemini, Twins, May 23 to June 21; Loo, Lion, July 23 to August 22.
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would colonial problem
be difficult if the only .question at
a group of psychical researchers the sceptic, that our in Holland has undertaken an issue were: Ought Germany to character, our latent powers, our experiment. regain the colonics she lost in possibilities in life,. depend on These research workers have World War? But it is the rising, in an imaginary had horoscopes cast of new-born complicated by a further consi- diagram, of a planet or of a con- babies, and the horoscopes have deration. How great is Ger-stellation which is trillions of been sealed. In 20 or 30 years'
miles away in space?
time those scals will be broken. many's desire for colonies?: I would answer them thus:
If the lives of the babies are This is a question we have asked | Supposing statisticians all over found to have developed along ourselves heretofore in these the world were to classify the the lines predicted in the horo columns. The Christian Science characters of millions of indivi- scopes we shall have important Monitor's-views-in-the-matter duals according to the signs in confirmation of the old astrologi-
their horoscopes; and supposing cal formulae. certain heavenly signs and cer- trials of
are interesting:
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WHAT exactly is it that
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do?
astrology How can it assist us?
Astrology is of help in under- standing the tendencies of our lives and the difficulties which we have to overcome.
In certain seasons when less water flows down from the mountains the swim is easy, at other times it is more difficult. It is obviously to our advantage that we should know which are the propitious seasons, for our Torts. That is where, through our knowledge of astrology, we. seek help from the stars.
"Superficially the answer, is tain fundamental appears unlikely Signor Musso- coincide beyond the possibilities
of chance? lini should not be acquainted
Would not that prove the with Germany's policy. But claims of astrology? You must there is a further point: As agree that it would. European statesmen see it, if But we need not wait for such
It is as if we were swimming Germany does not soon expand a colossal classification. In some into a colonial empire, she may remote age the work was done, in a river. We are limited by reading to-day the banks and the current, but move immediately in Central according to the position of the we are swimming freely. By a Europe. It is obvious that, be stars is actually based on the great effort we may even swim tween an excursion in the knowledge handed down by those across or against the current. neighbourhood of Austria, which prehistoric statisticians. borders upon Italy, and an ex-
To afford a check on the find cursion in Africa, Signor Musso-ings of those ancient astrologers lini would undoubtedly profer | that Germany should try the responsibilities are greater than, latter."
their resources for bearing them. Whitehall and the Qual Such an argument suggests that Germany would not desire d'Orsay cannot quite forget that Herr Hitler has written an colonies in any circumstances.
But, why, you may ask, should elaborate outline of the policy he Herr Hitler is himself a German- our psychic make-up be govern- would wish Germany to pursue, speaking Austrian. It would be ed by huge masses of matter and it would appear not to quite natural for him to long whirling in the depths of space? The answer to that we do not include the owning of colonies.bafore dll else for a reunion of
all the "Germanies," which know. But we can say that Herr Hitler's objections to an would mean a policy of expan-physiologically we are affected energetic colonial policy were sion first of all in Europe. And by the most dlatant nebulae.
We are constantly subjected twofold. In the first placo, it that, though this is not the view to-a bombardment by cosmic might lead Germany into con of the Monitor, indicates that the rays. These rays are released flict with Britain, whose friend-recent Budapest discussions
in the building-up of new solar ship he has declared over and might be aimed at just such an
| Anchluss,"
systems. They batter us with over again is essential to the
terrific force. prosperity of Germany. This, Such are the elements of 1 Without natural adaptation however, would not in Itself in-situation which it is taking all we should be incapable of aur- dicato more than that Germany the powers and subtlety of wiving this bombardment. would be willing to delay the analyse. There are, apparently, European statesmanship to demand for colonies if Britain three possibilities. Germany were unalterably opposed to it. may be using the demand for
THIS very quality of
human..
adaptation It does not necessarily mean that colonies to prepare a bargaining proves a fundamental principle Germany does not want colonies ground for a request for some of astrology: that the stars have if sho can get them.
thing else of more Immediate an influence over our lives. interest; Herr Hitler may have That this influence is not puro But, anya the Monitor, Herr been forced from his earlier ly physiological is suggested by Hitlor has also said that overal position by the pressure of his certain observations regarding European nations are entourage and of public opinion; our closest heavenly neighbour,
ho may genuinely have changed the moon. pyramids standing unsteadily his mind. If he has, enormous Sleepwalkers are strangely upon their points, with small modifications have taken place in affected by its raya. In asylume territories at home and hugo the long-distance policy which patients become unmanageable empiros abroad, and are there Herr Hitler formulated in "mon when the moon in full. Woar fore fundamentally weak. Their Kampf."
the son dying patients have been
WITH BRITISH
SHIPPING?
"MAN
conservativa
ANY of our long-established shipowners are Innately and should be thoroughly ashamed of the kind of tonnage they have built in the last few years to serve important Empire routes,” says A. C. Hardly, author of
of "Seaways and Sec Trade," in an article in the cur rent issue of The Crown Colonist. Here are some extracts from what is probably the best aurucy of an alarming position that has been published for some time.
OVER the principal Colonial
over
Soma If the most, successful of British shipowners are those from whose lips the word subsidy falls but seldom and this again, is perhaps the middle line where the operators of fleets are prepared to follow speed increases but slowly and to carry out improvements strictly with- in the framework of economical operation.
For subady plays but a small part in British shipping. Together with the three Scandinavian nations and the Dutch, we caslly fill the bottom of the list in this respect.
At the top one finds, admittedly, nations like Japan, Italy and the United States, while even Poland, her citizens, naturalised or not, in the United States, and her stream of westward Immigration dammed since 1924, must satisfy a national vanity as well as become independent of the sen iransport of other nations by building up a State merchant marine. Continental Competition
with no overseas interests other than
sea-ways looms, in growing proportions, the shadow of foreign competition. Where this comes within conference or trade agreements it does not constitute a serious menace as regards freight rates, although superior speed may result in the
TN this respect she has found a offering of a faster and hence a European ship building industry, competitive schedule within the barely convalescent, from the worst economic illness to which it has ever framework of the agreement..
her money, whatever the ultimate been subject, more than ready to take effect might be of the presence of such ships on world trade routes. They are not as yet competitive on any Empire routes, on many of which the four relatively unsubsidiñed nu- tions listed above provide leent services.
More speed, better equipment, and attractive passenger accommodation can be made available by subsidy whether this is direct and open, say. in the form of a grant for mall carry ing or whether, it takes the form of loans for construction.
The
magni-
Mall subsidies can usually, at best, be thinly disguised, but building The Norwegian, as explained earl!- grants cun assist in the aggrandiseer in this series, is the tramp owner ment of nation's mercantile marine de luxe of ingenuity and imagination: ho in a number of ways.
Swede, with the Dane, Most obvious, and from the nation's builder and the liner operator, the point of view, most practical, is the latter In particular specialising in
financial easing of
constructional frult ships. burdens as a reward for strengthen- ing decks at strategle point for the fitting of quick-aring and anti-air- craft guns, and in certain respects for the fitting of actual gun-platforms
fore and aft
Auxiliary Naval Vessels
on
The Dutchman is the pledder, con- solidator, and, when opportunity oc- curs, the lightning devapper, As witness, for example, the new Hong- kong-Java-South Africa service, shortly to be reinforced by three fine fast motorships, one of which is now completing in much-subsidised Ger
many.
ONE
NE has actually seen in a certain
Rival British owners say that the Mediterranean port, as long as ten Dutchmon is in receipt of Govern years ago, a merchant ship fresh from ment assistance. If so, it is difficult her bullder's yard proceeding lo discover where and how, except in trials with a four-inch gun on a com-
the case of the big trans-Atlantic plete pintform on the forecastio, with Nieuw Amsterdam. But is not the a similar unit on, the poop.
Queen Mary, by the same token, Speed is a natural concomitant of result of taxpayers' money, and the such "auxiliary equipment, and this Normandie, to an even greater exent may in part have been the dominant perhaps, the property of the French factor behind the ble speed-up in nation? Each, too, reflects national many classes of tonnage, particularly characteristics to an extraordinary trult and small passenger ships, for extent; the British ship, very solid beyond normal commercial considera- and unimaginative, built up on the
traditions of the post:
st: The French- tions, during the last few years.
The aggressive nation which seeks man full of imagination....the suave grace of the perfect hoteller, the ship to use its mercantile marine for naval of tomorrow; the Dutchman blending purposes alone, but thinly disguises the stolidity of race with the mo- the ships as merchantmen, is com-dernity in design which is now sweep- mitted to a colossal, no less than a
ing Continental countries. costly, building programme. And at a limic, too, when most shipyards will be already well occupied by pure naval construction work.
Position Of Holland
ITOLLAND is certainly full of The above shows the top and the
Imagination, too, when it comes to bottom ends of the scale. The truth the development of trade routes. As an owner of and participator in a lies, probably, somewhere between the two extremes, as it always does. Colonial Empire, herself, she oppre- Many of our own long-established clates the need for communication, Compira itself. shipowners are innately conservative not only within the Empire and should be thoroughly ashamed of the kind of tonnage which they have bulit in the last few years to serve important Empire routes.
Fine Services To Dominions
the ollier hand in the magnifl-
cent Empire food ships running
Thus, her ships are powerful rivals to established British lines trading between the Straits Settlements and Australia. More than that, since 1931 they have added to their network of services
out from spreading
Jove, and have linked Hongkong with South
and East Africa, providing the only through service with any pretensions to the Antipodes via the cape or via of comfort in the passenger sense and Suez or Panama there are cargo of speed for passengers and freight. liners without equal anywhere in the world for speed and power..
Some of these latter owners have, it should be mentioned, neither the doubtful advantage of services weighted with tradition nor the spectacular pomposity off boards of directors stultified by nobility.
As this is being written, trials are taking place of the first of three big new diesel-driven ships to link theso two Empire key points with a trans- portation system faster and more luxurious than has ever been known before. In 50 years, more or less, per- haps the malls on this Iong Journey will be carried by fast flying boat, but in the meantime, Holland, without any visible subsidy, is carrying them in fast ships."
observed to breatho their last when the tide begins to ebb. The route has been a long story of According to certain schools careful development, for, on April 18, of thought there is a consider-1831, the steamer Houtmon left Batavia for Palembang, Mauritius, able difference in the germina-Durban, Port Elizabeth, and Cape tion of seeds and growth of town. Sallings of a similar nature plants dependent on the parti were scheduled to take place twice a cular phase of the moon at the month while at that time the desir
ability was considered of combining the service with a connection to Hongkong, Saigon and Batavia,
time of planting.
the
ed in relation to us. To them world-pump, considerable of thin
SUCCESS
The discovery of cosmic rays is comparatively recent. There
Trade Following Tho Flag may, of course, be other impor tant radiations. It may even be THE main profect of the line, It was announced, "is the developing of that the heavenly bodies have
Importation of East Indian pro- an unsuspected life of their own ducts into South Africa, for which In relation to this life we may purpose the first saling will carry be no better placed than the sampler of every
East Indian produc
Trade Indeed microbes in our body are situat-of any importance.
follows the flag, and in our life may be as inconceivable appears to have been achieved. as the life of the stars is to us. Naturally, such services are all fur- Yet theas microbes are prob- ther competition for our own ship- owners and add to the worries with ably seriously affected by our which they are already faced on the physical and mental states. They main lines as much as on the small may be more forecious if we are feeder routes, manau, khan stay phot languid and low in spirit. They, Empire le peculiarly dimcult to sub
The widespread shipping of the may feel uncomfortable and un-sidies, and, by the same token, vers enterprising when we are full of prone to competition. Some of the fight, nire with enthusiam or services of the Empire are so small ind obscure that they seldom make burning, with rage. · 10
themselves heard, yet without them
line
To the stars we are as these very microbus. If we do not understand them and their in. Huence that is no oxcuse for our
disregarding them.
the bit mal nes could not hope to get their cargoes During thei beangan unmistakablo tendres for foreign tonna to or minh
years
has