1939-02-27 — Page 18

DELUSION... AND THE DICTATORS

The greatest and wisest men often show a ten- dency towards delusions. So said Dr. William Brown, Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy at Ox- ford, talking on the international situation from a psychologist's point of view.

This tendency, he said, showed itself in great self-assertion, intense egotism, ruthless desire for power, megalomania a feeling that people are combining against him.

"I think that the paranoiac, as we know him in medicine, always has a hereditary tendency. No one becomes a paranoiac without a bad family history, and paranoia in its cinplete form cannot be cured,” said Dr. Brown.

Dr.

Jim Wilde, former heavy-weight

"But," he added, "the paranoid champion of Wales, was cut by tendency can be detected in everyone broken glass and bruised when his of us at one time or another if we car crashed as he tried to avoid a are honest with ourselves." woman in one of the main streets

Brown again speaking as a of Swansea. The woman, Mrs. psychologist (not a politician). said Joanna Dumphy, aged fifty-eight, he was convinced that the latest of Wheatfield-street, Swansea, died war was not the last. in hospital.

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HEIR TO EARL LIVES IN-U.S.

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PRESENTED FROM

COURT

Heard in Highgate Police Court: Witness: The police think they can make a witness out of any- one. They can't.

It's like act- ing.

Another Witness: When a chap is not allowed into his own home. It's pretty disgusting, especially when he's left his hat there.

Motorist: When I saw there was going to be an accident I shouted, I suppose it is natural to either shout or laugh.

"In saying this," he declared, "I do not mean to be pessimistic. I am merely speaking as I would about a maniac-depressive patient. that All's right with the world. A THEY'LL THANK HIM It is of no use telling his relatives

relapse is as certain as anything

The Earl of Lindsay, representa tive peer for Scotland, who died at his London home aged seventy-one, is succeeded by his younger bro- can be." ther, the Hon. Archibald Lionel Lindsay, who lives at Manchester- by-the-Sea, Mass., USA.

AIR MAIL BLUE BOX

FOR MUSEUM

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AFTER 30 YEARS:

As for the dictators

Islanders of Tristan da Cunha, Referring too "forces on leash," most isolated inhabited place of the Dr. Brown said: Unconscious ur Empire, will on February 11 their ges which are demanding satisfac- tion have to be remembered. These gonally Sir Patrick Hannon, vice- first opportunity of thanking per- are not just skeletons in a cupboards chairman of the BS.A. Company, They are very live and potent forces. The tiger is there, and the

wolf,

The one remaining blue air mail and the jackal, and the snake. pillar box--the Post Office recently and we must not forget boxes has been presented to Hull decided to discard separate blue donkey!”

Museum.

OPEN FIREPLACES BANNED

So states a memoir of the geolo- gical survey of Great Britain / оп the water supply of the County of German architects have been in London om underground sources, structed that they must not in- issued to-day by the Department of clade open fireplaces in rooms other Scientific and Industrial Research. wise heated, since fuel About 500 wells provide half a spared unnecessarily." gallon of water per head per day.

M

BAR COUNCIL CANDIDATE

the

Only woman candidate in election to fill twenty-four vacancies on the General Council of the Bar is Mrs. Helena Normanton.

There are

for help rendered in their great famine crisis of thirty years ago,

Sir Patrick, in 1906, was director of agricultural organisations at the Cape. In October of that year a vessel passed close to Tristan and picked up the islanders' SOS.

The islanders' message was de- livered in Australia and passed through Lord Crewe at the Foreign Office to the Cape Government. Dr. Jamieson, then Cape Premier, asked the then Mr. Hannon to organise

Cannot be thirty-two candidates altogether relief. -All the Empire responded.

out of the thirty-seven gallons TUCK SHOP FOR OLD FOLK which the Metropolitan Water Board distributes to nearly 8,000,- 000 people.

including fourteen K.C.s..

FRENCH OFFICERS TO

VISIT BRITAIN --

Sir Patrick visited Tristan this month.

Tristan da Cunha (British), group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic, lie 2,000 miles from the Cape, 4,000 miles from South America. Tristan, the largest, is

Old folk in Beacon Lodge, Wal- sall's Public Assistance Institution, In addition, the wells give 4% are not, only provided with a "tuck gallons per head drawn by private shop, but are given 25, a-week owners mainly for industrial pur pocket-money each, if sixty-five serve of officers will pay a special circular, about seven miles in diame

poses.

years or over.

of

FAMED WILD CATTLE

Eleven and a half per cent. London County's water comes from underground sources.

At the beginning of the 17th cen.

tury, the memoir rocalls, most of

HERD IN DANGER

A number of French Army_Re-

visit to England in May under the auspices of the National Union of dera number about 100, and are

ter and rises to 7,600ft. The islan Reserve Officers.

descended from almost every nationality.

SHE COULD EAT HER HAT.

The famous herd of wild white

Wearing a smart "shape," made “NO BANANAS" SONG the streams through the town had cattle which has been at Chilling- entirely of savoy leaves, trimmed

become choked and partly buri T

and few of the public wells, such

Northumberland, for more with carrot and parsnip, Mrs. Sibley MAN HONOURED 700 years is in danger of won a hat parade at Forest Row

(Sussex) Women's Institute.

as Holywell and Clerkenwell, re- dying out. mained.

Their owner, the Earl of Tanker- About this time the first deep ville, owing to the burden of t

-taxa were opened, while in the 19th, tion, is unable to maintain them at

Supplies

began to

be taken his own expense and he is appeal-

the Thames, and its tributarie ing to the public to assist in pre-

London.

serving the herd.

These external surface sources He points out that when he auc- now provide the main fourca

London's water.

UNDERGROUND ARE.

SHELTER FOR 100

ceeded to the title in 1981 a similar situation arcée, but under the trus- teeship of the late Viscount Groy of Fallodon and others, an arrange- ment was come to whereby the Zoo- logical Society took a seven years

cattle park at:

Air raid sholtóra to accommodate lease of the wild 100 people bałow the carriageways Chillingham and maintained the at the new health contre at Wool- herd for that time. wich, were opened by Lord Horder, mont ended with the close of 198

This i

BEHEADED FOR TREASON

Heinrich Schaeffner, of Giessen, Germany, was beheaded yesterday in Borlin for high, treason.

Schaeffner, to; escapo punish-t ment for a minor offence, fled the country and joined a foreign telligence service. Nazis said he made several urneys to. Ger-

Irving Conn, composer of "Yes, We Have No Bananas," has been asked to play at the White House for the coming-out ball of Miss Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's niece.

WOMAN WHO SAVED

LITVINOV

Mrs. Mary

Bridges Adama, "four, the educationist,.

London hospital, saved Soviet Forðlen Etcret