WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
SKIPPER DREAMED HIS CREW WOULD
MURDER HIM
He bound them up and slaughtered them
we talk of dreamless sleep, ALTHOUGH
psychologists say we dream every night. But only a few of our dreams are remembered.
film Research workers in America made a record of facial expressions during sleep. Face muscles were found to be always moving, other suggesting speech, fear, pleasure and emotions. It was proof of continuous dreaming, Thought activity during sleep has also been confirmed by the encephelograph. This instrument records minute electric currents produced by the workings of the brain.
But his signals ****** ignored and he swore that
this WAN
clear God's displeasure
the
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sign
Selling a
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1958.
The Third Man
Man Of
WITH
British
London,
ITH the Liberal Party annual conference con- cluded it seems like a good time to take a look at this "third man" of British politics.
A year ago Liberal fortunes Later I spoke to a prominent began to pick up. Their show- West Indian whose welcome of ing in parliamentary by the judicial sternnets was tem- elections improved and the pered by uncasinoga, word "renaissance" acquired currency, whenever the Liberali were mentioned,
ing
Throughout the winter
in March with their of
There's no disguising the fact
He told me:
can't help
The
But, as me, passes, the shrill
Politics
-Peter Burgoyne's.
NEWS FROM BRITAIN
Another
П
most appropriate substitute British Travel and Holidays for confetti at weddings. Association bragging that From the Far East has come Britnin heads the rest of feeling that reprisals will be the iden of throwing sugar- Europe as a tourist earner, taken.' Reprisals, he meant almonds-they would be Im-.
mediately whipped up, by they against West Indians,
They have
Just finished The danger la not so much sweet-hungry children,
tolling up the 1957 Bgures and maintained the upsurge, climax-
violent reprisals.
Correspondent sug-
that delightedly announco nrat by-election gain in nearly severity of the sentences already gested rice, the ancient symbol
earnings from tourlem topped meted out will scare off poten- of fertility; then gave the game thirty years,
tial "avengers."
away by confessing his interest £100 mililon. More than
third of this was In dollars, in firm of rice importers. prejudico Rice was ruled out by a cor-
But,
the says
otherwise who recalled might well build these young respondent
jubilant Association, Britain is one bridegroom had had to thugs into martyra.
Far-feteed? Then did you abandon his honeymoon to have going to have to make some big wants to keep ever hear of Horst Wessel? Hen ductor remove a grain of rice changes if she
her lead. from his car. was the pimp and street-corner
joho became the Another
that pointed cut bully-boy.
Topping the list of almonds and hero of Hitler's well-directed sugar
developments are; thartur
Eventually the "forst could well, alun a bride. Nucis. Wesse!"
Best suggestion so far-soap anthem ranked along
Easter passage through Cus- with "Deutschland aber Alles." Ankes. Their sponsor champion- toms for foreign tourists; more
ed them thus: "These,
that the two big parties, Con- alarmed. Not that they thought
servative and Labour. were
for a moment that the Liberals would sweep the board.
that
a
champions of cncial
This fear was particularly A Poorer Place
read to the Conservatives whose fortunes at the time were on ย razor's-edge.
Labour, too, denounced Liberal revival,
They did fear, though, It is probable that babies passing vessel.
the resurgent Liberals, cm- and animals also dream.
boldened enough to contest During sleep, their expres of
of constituen- be-greater number Reen
10 cause Nions
"muliny." cles, might split the big party are often
votes disastrously, change.
By now the previously Inoffen- lve and well-loved skipper was Ile decided his Derby-winner dreams oc- quite mad casionally
off but prisoners must die. come more often a nocturnal win- crowbar he rained blows on his helpless crew. Then he finished ner proves to be an also his grisly work with an axe and evidence harpoon, There is no that we Curi see into the future in our dreams. But there have been many cases of intellectual efforts during would have loop which
surpass been dient to "when awake, Coleridge com
post more than 200 lines of his poem "Kubla Khan" during a dream.
Jan.
stories and lays lots for have come in dreams, including the plot for William Archer's The Green famous thriller Goddess." Well-known mathe- malian J. W. Dunne always kept a pad and pen at his bed side. Like many scientists he problems was sure that many could he solved during dreama when the mind is free from Ume. In the murning he clear- ly remembered the solutions to problems.
From Heaven
Was
In 1940, David Parkinson of the Bell Telephone Laboratory In America dreamed he Aring an electrically-controlled sketched the A.A. gun. Ile device next day and it was used by the U.S. Army.
But dreams can lead ip
In
that
our
necessary
ellate would serve the double good hotels to the ture of some bedrooms; reform purpose of Auttering delicately 5.000 extra like a venison upon the bride of Heensing laws which, among cleansing the other restrictions, make it im- and eventualy church
possible for a visitor to get a
possible drink
in many parts of the
but this was is a poorer place for his effects of soap-flake throwing country on a Sunday; extension
B case of crying out before death.
being hurt.
the
KAVANAGH died This week, And Britnin
pains," No mention of the
in heavy rain.
Kavanagh was radio Tourism script-writer. Thal's the cold fact of it. But to millions of
4
WHAT'S happened
of statutory Summer Time until
the end of October,
'But the British Government Is going to need a lot of con- to vincing before such changes are contemplated,
In a way he was like Chur- What good vid British even seriously cooters late
Just as the maniae cuplain was becoming suspicious of the Loys, and was tying them up,
Since the early spring, how- the "Mary Stubbs came along-
over, the political balance ot side his ship. Her vapiain, "a
the nation has changed. Prime friend of Stewart's, was horrified
Miner Harold Macmillan bay Belluns be was an Institution. by the scene. There had been no reason for the
worked! murders opart
wondres 71 restoring for his Conservatives. from the caplain's-dream-The-support.
regarded in with Ant he is pressing his ad- crew hind
hard; launching great affection and had allowed vantage
nation-wide recruiting-campaign. themselves to be tied up in arder to humour him. Stewart for the party and prefacing it died in an asylum 20 years later. with a "meet the people" stump
of the country.
Peculiar Dress
On
A dream also had a part in another
strange sea story, the mysterious disappearance of the British steamship Waratah. 25 vayage she left Durban Un July 24, 1000, bending for Cape Town. All through the follow- day, sho took the saune
steamer course as the
Clan Macintyre and
from was seen that ship.
After night fell, however, the Warnuch was never seen again. In December 1011, a lifeboat ship hearing the name of the was washed up 011 the New Zealand coast, but no bodies were ever recoveted. Various theories were put forward to ac
the ship's disap- rount for
dis- pearance, but inest were
tragedy, as they did in the case counted by experts. The Board
he
of Captain Willian Stewart, who small brig, the commanded Mary Russell, in 1820. A frail, plous and kindly man, the cap- tain had a dream in which thought he had received message from Heaven warning him that his crew were plotting to murder him and seize ship.
л
the
from The brig was bound Barbados to Cork with a crew of six men and three boys. Also aboard were two passengers, a Baltor named Raynes and a boy named
It Hammond. Raynes who would tead the the mutiny, according to captain's dream.
was
So rooted was Stewart's con vielion of spending disaster
various that by
rusen, succeeded in roping up all the men. Then he tried to half a
ho
the
of Trade inquiry Into mystery declared that fhc
chili and Montgomery in tha! his career was justled by his
work during the war.
He was a New Zealand Irish-
but somehow
could any
special; -"deflant, tap the very zany sort of humour that has sus nined the British for cen- turies; the sort of humour which gives other nations the idea that the British are just slightly mad.
young
insularity? Here's
the good argument
ROUND-UP
ROYAL PLANES
OLIDAYMAKERS will soon be able
to book sents on
the
This new-found Tary popi- larity is likely to take greater toll of Liberal fortunes than of Labour's. For all the signs were that former's fresh support was From his perpetually
tumbled the characters drawn from dissatisfied fringe- mind Conservativer rather than from and situations of the most "Queen's Own Plane" for a Ruytl fight to the Continent. Two
famous radio show Britnin hax unhappy Labourites,
ever known-ITMA.
of the Royal Flight Viking airliners which have carried the Queen, of the Labour supporters are always The name Is made up of the Duke of Edinburgh, their children and other members more likely to express their initial letters of "It's Thai Man Royal Family thousands of miles by air, have been demobbed. dissatisfaction by cefusal to Again." At the show's inception With the adoption of the more economic four-engined Iferon air- vote than by
on the eve of the second World craft for the Royal fleet, the bigger, roomier Vildings have been olteplance.
What man" War,
was Adolf sold to Independent civil operators. Now two of them have joined Provided that from now until Hitler. When Hitler was dead other Vikings in the holiday feel of Tradair Limited, the Indo- the next general election Mr and the Third Reith in ruins, pendent company which operates coach-tour fights and charter Macmillan con sustain the up- ITMA was still on the air. Now services from Southend Airport. In place of the Royal furnish- surge support for the Tories, its nose-thumbing good humourings, which included a writing desk with a telephone, divans and I believe that when the nation no longer epitomised the spirit dining suite, the Vikings will be re-fitted to carry 30 passengers KODS to the polls the Liberal of resistance the Nazis, but for cut price inclusive holiday tours abroad. But each aircraft "revival" will be seen to have the sardonic attitude of Britons will carry an embossed plaque to remind travellers of their past
In the brave new world of the glorles. socialist planners.
transfor H
adle real effect.
Stern Measures
Waratah had cupsized in a gale. THIS
British THIS week the
courts demonstrated
If you ever heard ITMA CABIN CRUISER
you'll know what I mean. If not, then accept my apologies able to tell you for not being who was all about.
THE British Maid. a £5,000 cabin cruiser launched at Fellxstowe, THE
Suffolk, is to be used as a demonstration boat on the other side of the Atlantic in an effort to attract orders from American Only one man could do so "weekend" Ballors. Built on "factory lines" by a Hertfordshire He unmistakably that racial that comedian of rare
firm, It is estimated that the Americans will buy the cruisers at star prejudice which
the rate of 100 a year. Sister vessels of the 38ft, British Maid are exercises Tenumy Handley, the
ITMA swhose death in
to be exhibited in London and New York. brought the show to a close.
FEWER WOMEN
There was one passenger ol
did survive. the ship who was. Mr Chinde Sawyer, who deglared that the Waratah was rolling sa much that sometimes passengers were flung about and injured. He begun to think of leaving the ship at Durban but changed his mind until he had a vivid dream. "I saw a man," he said "dressed in a very peculiar dress which I had never before, with a long sword in his right hand. In his other hand hand a rag covered with blood, I saw that three times in rapid succession."
БЕСП
This frightened Bir Sawyer so much that her booked a passage A ou another ship at Darban.- dream had saved his life.
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itself as violence will feel the full weight of the law.
Nine youths who had
sys-
genius
of
1940
tematicells beaten up colours Soap And Rice
migrants were esch. sentenzed
to for years' imprisonment.
תיותקן
for State scholarships for mature APPLICATIONS by women
students, granted to men and women over 23 who could not laws take a university course at the usual uge, have fallen by 50 per The sentences and the judge's NEW tougher
covering litter-louis in cent in two years, says a Ministry of Education announcement. Of blistering remarks were great prominence by the news Britain have sparked a con- 25 successful candidates in 1958, there was only one woman, Mrs papers. There could be little
troversy in the August cor- Jean Spink, a medical research technician. Since the scheme began In 1047 there have been 318 scholarships awarded-232 to men doubt that the judge WDS
columns of speaking for the great majurlly
respondence
and 00 10 women. Most awards have been made in the English, about the economics, politics and history groups of subjects. "The Times"
of decent Britons.
Low
which bows to the famous Victonan masterpiece
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in the Scottish Highlands
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STATE
DEPT.
"The Chinese are bluffing-it I've got all our allies scared why should the Chinese be any different ?"
Froll
With you
every hour of the day...
FROM BREAKFAST TO BEDTIME -THEY MAKE LIFE SMOOTHER
-AM-sitting-in-the-Board-Room-of-British Timken. Limited, of Duston, Northamptonshire, discussing. with its Chairman and Managing Director, Sir John Pascoe, why so many of the good things of today are taken for granted.
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hearings which do their job so well that the general public are blksfully unaware of them.
If you go
A quaint conversation perhaps to hold with one of Britain's tending industrialisis. AITLAN whose job it is to produce bear- ings which keep the wheels of
tube, International Industry turning any smoothly. Yet it is not entirely inappropriate.
GOOD THING
to work by bus, train, IT car, or by other wheeled vehicle,
almost you
certainly have this firm's bearings beneath you. They have helped to build the roads, your houso nu your furniture, They are a yound you machines in the factory, in the after th
reer, in the home.
They are used iry growing 0 make the ino of the products that come u rolling mills and
A bearing is a good thing which la rather ilke the back ground music in a cinema: When il is good few people notice it; when it is bad," It Jars and the customers complain. So long as your food and bearings do their jobs, they are Stom Jorgotten. When they fall, In- steel works. The modernisation dustry is jolled on its heavy
heels. You and I feel that jolt of British Railways depends on thom. Practically atl Our 100.
modem aircraft fly on thean That is why conference
and our defence equipment which opened at British Tim telies on them.
2
and
ken's headquarters this week is A subsidiary, Fischer Bear- important,
Ingy Co. Ltd., of Wolverhamp The company's representatives
orat ball 101. tuma have come from Western Europe,
cylindical roller bearings, the Middle East, the Americas, including miniatures weighing a and Australasia,
discuss bearings and the part they play in our lives every day.
10
even
Choisandith of an ounce, for olher delicada gyroscopes and instrumenta
HE'S PROUD
Very few of us know anything Bearings are indeed a major about roller bearings,
industry today; a world wide are older than industry in which Britain is a although they” recorded history.
Their begin thrustful ploneer. nings probably go back to the unknown genius who discovered the wheel. It must then have been a short step to the use of
"Directly or indirectly," saldi means rollers as
of moving Sir John, more than 60 per heavy loads, and thus to the coat of our total production is first primitive roller bearing. exported. With the co-operation British Timken mike tapered of Industry, we have devoted rolle bearings. weso use much effort to reducing out conical rollers which, having a range of sizes and to standardis wedge-like action between inner ing our products with a view to for more and and outer races, can carry all paving the way. kinds of lande,
more automatic production. This The idea of tapered roller is particularly important in view bearings la also not new. It was of the coming Free Trade Area,” in 1707, just 101 years ago, that
Sir John is justifiably proud
firm, which bas John Garett of Gloucestershire. factories at Daventry, Birming But it was not until the coming ham, and South Africa, se voll of the motorcar early in this as at Duston, has found no joh century that tapered roller bear- too big or too small,
A Cornishman, Sir John left ing manufacture becamo established industry.
the first patent for such a bear~
ing was granted to a certain that his
Cambridge with an Honours
In the last 25 years, the degree in Mechanical Engineer- Ing. Then he switched to finance. manufacture of tapered roller "I wanted to make sure that as bearings-and that means Bri- an engineer, I would never be tish Timken Limited has really blinded by the aclence mushroomed. Since the early accountants," he said, "I joined 30s its labour fofte has multi- the firm in 1930 ae Finance. plied more than 20 times with an
of
enormously increased products. Director, and graduated to look- ing after the whole shooting match"
vity.
ONLY ONE
In the lost four years, its rato of cupital expenditure has ex-
Outside the factories, the Sports and Athletic Club. offers employees recreations that rangoo from cricket to archery, froma football to chom.
ceeded £1,000,000 per year. And
The firm's show attracts the the reuson for all this is that history has been repeating itself. finest horsemen in Britain; ita
In the remote past, transport Flower Show rivals that at Chei- was revolutionised when it was sca. There are displays of cattle and agricultural machinery, a found that by fitting wheels to
Bird Show, B vehicles, they could ruff along Dog Show, n Instead of sliding. During the Rabbit Show,"
Sir John does not suggest last few decades, modern indus- that life would peso to roll it try has similarly found that there were no bearings. Man managed presumably before - hẹ mounting them in rolling rather invented the wheel, but he now than sliding-bearings.
wheels turn more easily by
British Timken factories pro- manages the better for British
Timlen Limited. daco boorings at a rate of many
Sir John is convinced that millions por annum, using the British craftsmanship; toch most up-to-date methods. They nicians and engineers are not operate the only production
of
line in Europe for the fully only producing bearings which made the indlustrite of the automatic manufacturo
world run supremely, smoothly, tapered roller bearings. Their but in so doing, are playing i bearings are made in great significant part in the nation's, varlow up to 10ft. In diameter economy. and five tons in weight':
The firm her won a unique place in industry by the intro- duction and perfection of theen
Alan Bestic
-(London Rxpreit Survion),
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