1938-01-08 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 8, 1938.

SEEKING CAUSE

OF GENIUS-

$10,000 For Brain Research

MENTAL TESTS FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN

London, Dec. 27,

British Anti-Air. Raid Department Reorganised On Service Lines

Air

There is to be an expansion and organised central control, able to recorganisation of the

Raids tackle more effectively many Precaution Department.

more difficult problems of air

of the

de-

It will remain under the Home | fence. Office, but it will be established on TRANSFER OF PEOPLE is distinctive lines, a civil department He promised, when the bill v

with a service basis.

Why will one brain do the work of an Einstein while another “defective"?

:

In an effort to solve this problem, an investigation costing $10,000 and lasting five years is to be taken.

passed and the new

was

organisation

FIRE & EXPLOSION AT GUNPOWDER FACTORY

Building For Cordite Shattered

HOUSES SHAKEN 3 MILES AWAY

A mysterious explosion occurred Wing-Cmdr. E. J. Hodsoll, who at work, much more investigation of recently at the Royal Gunpowder has been in charge of the depart-such large measures as the pro-factory at Waltham Cross. under-ment hitherto, will become chief of vision of shelters and the arrange- the Air Raids Precaution Staff with ment of evacuation of people from the title of Inspector-General. "target areas."

The work, which is being under taken by the Burden Mental Resear ch Trust under the auspices of the British Medical Association, has been made possible by the generosity of Mrs. R. G. Burden, the Warden of Stoke Park Colony, Bristol.

In addition to the $10,000 for this reasearch, Mrs. Burden has also given substantial sums to finance other research work at the colony.

The chief object is to discover the causes of mental differences and to study their inheritance. Aspects of the work include:

He will be responsible for the ur gent work of advising local authori- ties on protection schemes and for the widening work of research.

It occurred in a stove, or build- ing, used for drying cordite, which was shattered.

No one was injured, although several workmen complained of -shock.

Small black-outs in certain areas had given very useful experience and shown the weak spots of schemes.

Houses three miles away were Now there would be many experi-

shaken. A flame which shot 90ft. Mr. C. W. G. Eady, who has ments on a much larger scale.

in the air could be seen for five hitherto been secretary of the Un- No air-raid precautions could en-

miles. employment Assistance Board, will sure immunity and there must not The following War Office state- be appointed chief of the administra- be excessive concentration on pas-ment was issued. tive side of the Precautions > De-sive deferice. partment, becoming a deputy under- The best protection of London was secretary in the Home Office,

a strong and vigorous Air Force which would tie the enemy's air po- wer down to defence of its own country.

The Home

Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, announced these changes on the third reading of the Air Raid Examination of 3,400 schoolchil-Precautions Bill:

He concluded by insisting that the dren. Compilation of records from He presented them, amid general provisions of the bill and the further 1,000 "defective" patients consecu-applause, as a means to convert what developments to follow would be ef- tively admitted to Stoke Park had been hitherto a small and im-fective in stopping panic. Colony.

provised department into a strongly

Formation of a collection of 130 defective brains and 90 normál brains so that the significance of

physical differences between indivi- GLBOE-TROTTER

dual brains can be fully examined.

An intensive study is being made

of tissue differences' in the higher

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centres of the brain, and a special Former M. P. Planning

examination of the part of hte brain. concerned with sight is, now being planned.

of

The general intelligence brothers and sisters will be compar- ed, and the connection between men- tal welfare and physical health will be studied during the examination of schoolchildren.

Tour

measures

An ignition occurred in a cordite stove. This quickly developed into an explosion which shattered-the building, Precautionary prevented communication of the re- sulting fire to surrounding build- ings.

The fire was got under control by the factory's fire brigade in a very short time. There was no loss of Em- life and no one was injured.

Relatives Anxiety

Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, Under-Secre- tary for Home Affairs, wound up ployment will not be interfered the debate with some interesting in-with.

of formation on the possibilities shelters and upon the example which the Government was setting in the protection of civil servants:

PRECAUTIONS FOR PARLIAMENT

cordite stove is a building about 20 by 25ft. Estimates of the amount of cordite drying in the shattered building vary from 50 to 150 tons.

Dispersal was the watchword of air-raid policy, but there must be

The explosion occurred when public shelters for people caught in shifts of workmen were changing. the streets and for those houses About 20 men were going out of- could afford them no protection. the factory gates and men replac- The standard for a public sheltering them were in an outbuilding

of Lancashire Radcliffe Division was that it should be proof against putting on special safety clothes.

one

At 87, a former M. P. is planning Photographs of defective and of normal brains will be compared. Age, a tour of the West Indies.

for more than half family history and mental and phy- Globe-trotter 1 sical characteristics of the individu-a century, Mr. Theodore C. Taylor, als concerned will be taken into who sat for

If told of his plans as gas, blasts and splinters.

a A few minutes later some of them account.

he pored over guides in a West End building it must be strong enough would have been near the building.

Shelters to withstand collapse.

People in the district who had hotel.

In the relatives working at the factory. Pioneer of labour co-partnership could also be improvised.

example, 4% hurried to the gates. They were Workers of City of London for and distributor to his more than £1,000,000 under his pro-acres of cellars had already been in- immediately assured that no

had been hurt. fit-sharing scheme, Mr. Taylor stillspected.

Government departments had al- A worker at the factory said, “I controls the firm of woollen manu- Changes In Brain Structure In certain mental diseases gross facturers with which he has been ready taken considerable measures was about 200 yards from the stove to protect their staffs against gas when there was a terrific, blow." changes in the structure of the brain associated for 70 years.

In the new buildings Even at that distance it made me are observable.

There are, how- He lives at Grassington, near and injury. ever, many cases in which hitherto the Lancashire border, but travels to at Whitehall they were putting up duck my head to avoid the blinding no accompanying structural altera- his Batley mills, 30 or 40 miles away, a solid roof of concrete, some floors light.

and "A second later there was an ex- tions of the brain or the nervous most days of the week, and puts in of reinforced concrete below

dividing the structure into a num-plosion and I saw the roof of the system have been observed; and in full office hours.

ber of sections to stiffen it and stove shattered. Burning pieces of which no explanatory alterations of

debris dropped almost on top of me. metabolism or the biochemistry of

limit the effect of explosion:

There would also be air-raid pre- "Workers are not allowed within the body have been found.

cautions for the Houses of Parlia-20 yards of the building while cor- dite is being dried, but an official ment. of a the

After this final reassurance the had just been taking the tempera- firm bill was read a third time without|ture of the stove. He must have

thad a marvellous escape

The intensive research which is now being undertaken will therefore be particularly welcome, and its eventual results will be awaited with great interest.

He has outlived four co-directors whom he brought into the company to help him in applying his profit- sharing principles.

He is a great-great-grandson. man who was apprenticed to woollen trade in 1762. His was founded in 1845, with a capital a divisio The experience gained should be of £250 and an eight-day clock. of important use in determining When he succeeded to the princi- the future trend of preventive or pal interest in the business in 1892 curative measures in the fields of he paid out a brother and a cousin mental deficiency.

in order to give the workers a share. in the profits they helped to create.

capi After paying 5 per cent. on tal, further profits for dividends are declared at a uniform rate per cent. on capital and on the year's total wages.

PITCAIRN ISLAND'S ENVOY MARRIES

Coronation Visitor

Bonuses are distributed in the A letter received in San Fran-

company, cisco from Pitcairn Island reshape of shares in the ports the marriage of David which rank afterwards for dividend. Dividends on capital since the be- Young, 61, the Island's repre- sentative at the Coronation, to ginning have averaged 11 per cent., Mrs Edna Christian, widow and bonuses on wages about 9 per about of Fletcher Christian, the third cent. Employees now hold direct descendant of the leader three-fourths of the capital. of the Mutiny of the Bounty.

Christian-left Pitcairn Island the Anti-Opium Campaign, and, al- and his widow went there re most single-handed, in the House of cently to reclaim family proper

Commons, beat the traffickérs their own grounds,

Mr. Taylor was a world leader of

Those who know.... Insist on

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