1952-12-06 — Page 6

DISCOVERY

WE ASPADE OFSENDEAVOURZANDRACHIEVEMENI

Whoosh!

-and the jet pilot is saved

E jet fighter pilot of the future, who aban- dons his disabled plune in a battle fought at heights where no human can survive, will no longer risk death by ejecting him- Helf into the open.

ile will float comfortably to earth in a sealed, whale. shaped capsule protected from extremes of tempera- ture and pressure.

And if he alights on the Ren he will snugly await rescue in it. A mid-

get lifeboat on water, it is packed with food, water, and rockets.

The cockpit capsule has been developed by a U.S. aircraft company.

IT

Father can prove it.

DLOOD tests are now so

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1952.

CHAPMAN PINCHER

X-rays find

A

a new, use

microscope NE W reliable for settling which magnifies with disputes about the identity X-rays instead of with light of a baby's father that they has been built by Cam- are being used in about bridge University scient- 2,000 Danish paternity cases ists. every year.

PRESS-BUTTON contains all the controls and

instruments found in normal cockpl1, and under nor mal conditions it is a permanent fixture in the acropione. capsule rests on a rocket charge blood expert, issued the first full and is expelled from the fuseinge report on the medico-legal use when a button is pressed.

of blood groups recently."

14:2

Dr P. H. Andresen, a Danish

His evidence shows that a man wrongly accused of being the father of a child has about a soveu in ten chance of proving innocence,

To keep it on an even keel three guiding ins j the tall open automatically the moment it elected, and within seconds of-leaving the plane a small primary slow-down porachute The mother, baby, and alleged father are legally bound to provide blood samples in dis puted paternity cases in Den- mark. An attempt to introduce Buch

opens.

When a safe speed, is reached, tension on the small chute pull, out the main poruchute, which lowers the carth.

capsulo gently

If the capsule becomes a life- boat the motion of the waves works a ventilation pump,

was

a Jaw in Britain defcuted in 1939 when the chance of proving a man'e In- nocence was only one in ten.

The Hom Blood Стовра (tarkwell, 27. d.).

up.

claim.

as

twice It is already good as the best optical for showing microscope

fine details, they

But its main advantage 'Ues ir enabling scientists to study the inner structure of non-transparent creatures while they are still alive.

many

A powerful beam of X-rays is passed through the microscopie creature, and produces two highly magnified photographs.

When these are viewed through stereoscople glasses, the hidden structure of the creature can be seen in three dimensions.

The microscope has been. built by Drs V. E. Cossielt and W. Nixon at the Cavendish Laboratory,

PROBLEM PROVIDES

OWN ANSWER

THE FIRST specilie an-"

ildote for morphine is now being made.available to doctors.

Scientists at a Becken- hom laboratory make the antidote from-of all things-morphine Itself.

LIGHT

means more EEL PIE

THE EELS of Britain's THE

rivers and ponds de velop greatly enlarged eyes before setting off on their, long journey to the Sar- gasso Sea, where they lay their eggs.

Such eyes can be of little ure in the lightless depths where these Arhos-spawn. But it they are exceptionally' sensitive, they might serve to direct the fish to The correct spawning depths by -forcing them to escape down.

wards from the glare.

This theory now gets rece support from experiments in the Lako District.

Ass Rosemary Lowe, reports that the big-eyed cels always

choose a da: night for their spaward trips, hiding up under stones by day. They always avold moonlight, except when the river is so muddy that no light can penetrate.

Experiments in an artificial river built in the cellars of o castle showed that ceis, can be deflected from their

course by underwater lights,

When tried in rivers, the lights were so successful in diverting coli into trips that they enuld be profitably used by Nshermen.

JOHNNY HAZARD

I'M JOHNNY HAZARD, COUMER FOR FAR EASTERN

| DIAMONDS, LTD. ARE YOU... MR. PETER WESTLEY?

FED

THAT'S RIGHT! DA YOU..... YOU HAVE...

THE GIFT FOR

POOR *FUNCH?"

"PUNCH?" IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL MISS SHERMAN?

How rhythm (H&C.) gets to work on us

HY does the tiddiy-

dum,

by

When your body is stimulated the oxygen. content of the

tiddly-dum by a slow rhythm the oxygen blood.

content of the blood fulls Doubling the tempo pulled rhythm of the rapidly. The brain cannot work the oxygen strength back to railway train lull

Stepping you at a full capacity without a rich nerthal (see chart). 'to' sleep? Why

are oxygen supply, so slow rhythm it up to 25 a second pushed I

calm mental

and almost to the maximum amount people excited

the Induces

that the blood could possibly drowsiness, noise of a rapid

When the rhythm is "hatted hald. roll?

up" the, oxygen-content rises far above the normal level of the resting body. Your brain and body get an extra-rich supply of oxygen. So, you feel alert and vivacious.

drum-,

cores's

Why does a repeated by a loved one's hand soothe u troubled mind?

by

These questions are answered two London doctors who have spent months investigating on tho

the effects of rhythm human body.

This chart summarizes moln findings:-

their

་

Any ral-n-dat-tat of more

tni l than 30 taps a second back to normal.

For some unexplained reason a medium beat of 15 per ecconi depressed the oxygen strength

the

These effects seem to occur as much as a slow beat of 5. automatically in most healthy Increasing the loudness of people, whether the rhythm is sound had hardly any effect.

The doctors report

almost due to a repeated sound, a flashing light, or a succession of identical results from experi- gentle touches on the ments in which then and women looked at flashing lights or were skin.

TEMPO CHART

OXYGEN STRENGTH

BEATS PER SECOND

0102XM120E30

Charting what happens to your oxygen content as you snooze in a train or listen to five.

EVER SINCE SHE WAS A LITTLE GIRL ..... ENTRUSTED TO MY

CARE WHEN HER

PARENTS PIEV!

Dr John Lovatt gently tapped on the hand with

Dousl

and Dr Robert a steel

Schneider, who make machine.

these claims, tested 58

healthy mer and

Rod operated by J

DOWN, "DOWN

women aged 18 to 38 Su diversion they tested a

at the Maudsley Hos

pital, Denmark Hill,

SE

A 20-year-old man's oxygen- strength as a woman stroked his hand. While each person I plunged more precipitously listened to a tapping than with any other rhythm, sound transmitted reaching its most soothing level through a loudspeaker, at four strokes a second,

the doctors measured Rhythms apparently, afteet a changes in the oxygen-mechanism in the brain which strength of the blood. sets the pace for the whole

They were able to do nervous system. This "pace this without injury by maker" then servis slow-down using an instrument to ar speed-up orders to the lungs

the blocd and heart. on

In

the trans-

cused vessels

Comparative tests were made Their parent skin at the base on 51 mental patients. of the fingernails.

symptoms became temperarily The doctors found so much more pronounced that. that D tom-tom-like the doctors belleve slow rhythms" tap repeated five times might be used in the consulting-

a second almost invari- room

ably caused a slump in lagnosis.

By Frank Robbins

1 RAISED HER AS MY OWN... AND NOW....... WHEN SHE'S OF AGE TO COME INTO HER FATHER'S FORTUNE...THIS HAS TO

HAPPEN! T

TOUGH TIME FOR THE ACCIDENT TO HAPPEN!

IF IT WAS

AN ACCIDENT!

cases of

dificult

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1st Prize

in the

British Empire and Commonwealth Bottled Beer Competition

at the

Brewers & Allied Traders Exhibition

at Olympia, London.

•November 1952

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