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WHAT DOCTORS CRASHED SAY ON SIRENS PLAYS WITH

AND SLEEP

How many hours of sleep can we lose without harm? This is what a large part of the population, kept awake nightly, by air raids, wants to know, writes a London correspondent.

The medical answer, though tentative, seems to be that we habitually sleep more than we need and, within limits, a little less sleep may do us no harm.

I think more than ever that Mr. Gordon Harker is a representative Londoner.

A doctor I talked to admitted: the attle and all that sort of thing. "English doctors have not studied After that we try to live, as nor the subject.

mal a life as we can.” "It seems that German doctors have," he said. "You have heard the stories of the German me- chanised troops who are given a orug that keeps them awake for 48 hours. But I don't think it can be said that anyone here is a spe- cialist on sleep.

"Now doctors have their chance to examine the effects of lack of sleep in a large number of people. Let's hope they will take it.

"I believe less sleep wit, do little harm. For instance, young people who spend half the night at dances don't seem to feel any I effects from it."

"I seem to remember when was young that the morning after the late night felt a little vague," I told him.

Relaxation

The man of affairs takes slightly different attitude.

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Mr. W. J. Brown, the Civil Ser- vice leader, can go to sleep at will, "The art of going to sleep," he told me, "is physical relaxation. You unbend every muscle. When you start unbending your muscles de- liberately you will be surprised to find how many are tense.

TOY 'PLANE

In their bungalow in a South-East England rural area Mr. and Mrs. Whit- more were sitting down to breakfast when, through the window, they noticed a man limping along the

· road towards them.

He wore a drab uniform and had only one boot, and, when he reached the bungalow, he an- nounced: "I am a German officer, I have had the misfortune to be brought down."

Gave Him Tea

Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore asked him in and gave him bread and butter and tea.

He was grateful, played with a toy 'plane belonging to the- Whitmores' little son, and Jaughed when they showed him a cartoon of Hitler.

He said he did not know the

exact district in which he had landed, and wanted to know how far he was from the Thames.

He was caught in a search. light and could not get away, he explained.

For two years, he said, he had when "As you achieve physical rela-lived in Manchester, and xation, mental relaxation follows. he was asked if he were married Once this happens you can go to he replied: "My wedding next sleep.

week. Just my luck."

"I snatch naps in my chair in this way whenever I have a spare That was enough for a doctor.moment. It is not as good as a "It probably wasn't the lack of night's sleep, but it's wonderful sleep that was

troubling you what a difference it makes." either," he said pointedly. We agreed for my character's sake to leave it at that.

After Three Hours

It is true that neither doctors nor psychologists know what is the cause or the nature of normal sleep. There are at least four theories. One is about accumula- tion of acid products of meta- bolism, another about oxygen stored by the cells, there is a "toxin theory" and a theory that

The controllers of large staffs?

When the Whitmores handed him over to the police he shook hands with all of them.

I asked Mr. W. B. Neville, gen- | 66) eral manager of the London Co- operative Society.

He said, "People are adjust- ing themselves, If they miss sleep they are going to bed early to make up for it: People have been suffering, from lack of sleep - that is quite clear. But: the general attitude is that we've got to adjust ourselves and see that we shall not be thrown out of our stride.

"So far there has been no ser-

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Sportsmanship

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sympathy, except for our

explains sleep as something that ious inconvenience to our night- own kith and kin can happens. in the nerve cells.,

work departments. Some have have no place among us Most of these are abandoned, been affected more than others,

and and the popular theory at the mo, but, generally speaking, we have until war is over mant is derived from the Russian | got through without much troble." done." Pavlov's experiments in condi- tioned reflexes. Sleep, say the

modernists,, is one big physiologi- ITALIAN

cal inhibition,

It has been found that we sleep soundly only for the first three

hours. After that the depth of

think.

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Lord Queenborough makes this declaration in the "Monthly-Mes- sage" of the Royal Society of St. George when he writes:

"We can no longer tolerate, with patience the extension of chival- rous. not to say quixotic,

sleep is very slight. Maybe we A conversation at Euston Sta-treatment towards enemy airmen. need the later hours less than we tion with two French sailors who Every further breach. of inter-

Middle-aged people find sleep of General de Gaulle was

had come over to join the forces national law and civilised; practice the by the enemy must be ruthlessly less and less necessary to them. subject of evidence. given at aquntered. History is full of stories (generally Clerkenwell Police Court.

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men who needed a minimum of sleep. Napoleon is the classic ex- ample of the man supposed to be able to go to sleep at will, taking an hour's nap in the middle, of a battle if he felt like it..

There is a school of Napoleon fold them England would - lose But we no longer have the fans who say he had stomach ache the war, and they should go right to follow our inclinations- at Waterloo and lost the battle, back to France,

in the name of our own life as because he lost his power to sleep. Bargero, who said his sym- a nation we must return, blow Psychologists would say that was pathies were with England, was for blow, with harsh and iron because he lost his self-confidence. fined 40s, and a guinea costs. determination."

Blow For Blow Victoria, was charged on re- "Our native traditions, of fai mand with using insulting words. play and generosity to an op- Evidence was given through ponent are deeply ingrained in us. an interpreter by the French sai- To abandon them, even now, is lors, who alleged that Bargero hard and distasteful,

Sleepless London

I asked all sorts of people how or whether they did without sleep.

London has been one of the sleepless towns this last week. Who is the representative Lon- doner? Naturally, the greatest of Cockney comedians, the man whom Londoners recognise as one of themselves. I mean Mr., Gor- don Harker.

I found him making a film. It

was between two air raid alarms, but shooting was going on merrily at the studios in Denham:

How does Mr. Gordon Harker do without sloep? The answer (seems to be he just sleeps.

"I got home as soon as I can from the theatre," Mr. Harter says, and I just go to bed. I shaven't been later than 2 aằm.”

That was when, at the London theatre he is playing in, they had dancing on the stage since the alarm went on some hours after the show was over, and the audience couldn't go home.)

GIRLS WERE RIGHT TO

REFUSE 6 MONTHS' JOB

Girls had a right to refuse work when they were required by an employer to bind themselves for six months, This is the upshot of a decision of the um- pire of the Court of Referees in Warrington, which has brought to light a remarkable story.

Last December. a Warrington period of six months. clothing firm's premises were The girls refused to, accept this destroyed by fire, and girl opera- condition, since a week's notice tives-members of the National on either side is the recognised Union of Tailors and: Garment practice in the industry, and the Workers were suspended until Labour Exchange, suspended bene the employers obtained new prefit pending a decision by the um- mises-and machinery,

Six Months' Clause'

pire at the, Court of Referees. -- *Two, individual cases, wære sub-f mitted to him; and the umpire has upheld claims for benefit.. “I have a reinforced basement In the meantime the girls were In-Issuing His declaton,, the um and we've put a couple of camp offered similar employment, pire atqtes that if the six months beds down thero," Mr. Harker, through the Labour Exchange, service clause of the prospective says. "But.we haven't; been down with another Arm, and wero employer was enforceable f it impossible for there yet. Steady nerves? I don't willing to accept until they found would render think so. I. qquldn't see the point that the prospectivo employer the girls to return to. their aldr [of staying up. ning

would not accept them suve on employer, as they wished to do "We've been careful to take all a written undertaking to remain when he resumed business atte the proper precautions -sand in in his service for a continuous the fire disaster.