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HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.

AN INQUIRY AMONG WORKERS.

THE "NEUROTIC,"

"Nerves" may briefly describe the subject of a report issued by the Industrial Health Hewarch Boaril.

More than 1,000 people, ranging from office boys to directors, and including clerical workers in Gov-

DENSE FOG IN

LONDON.

WORST FOR FIFTY YEARS?

CHAOS EVERYWHERE.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1931.

"HAIR-CONSCIOUSNESS."

WHERE DOCTORS, AND TEACHERS DISAGREE.

Doctors and schoolmistresses differ widely over the theory of Miss A. M. Wright, headmistress of Win chester, Scondary School for Girls,. Huge areas in South London that schoolgirls are suffering from a, were riveloped one night Inst month by one of the worst fogs for

new disease called "hair-conscious. years. An Air Ministry officials," a result of the modern

shingle, told a London paper that while the fog, was the worst of the winter it was not the most severo over

It was

The shingle, she says, causes girls incessant anxiety, makes them squint, detract from their powers of concentration, and cows the seeds

of St. Vitum' "dance.

Here are some views on the sub- |ject:-

AMAZING CAREER OF

JOHN GULLY.

RACING OF LONG AGO RECALLED BY HIS SON'S DEATH.

FROM BOXER TO M.P.

Thoro was severed last month by the burial in London of Captain Phillip Gully what is probably the last remaining link between racing is wo know it to-day and the period a long period. But in several parts

of the wild and insensate gambling ernment departments and commer-of South London the conditions

that characterised the Turf 100 cial firms, factory workers, people could not have been worse,

years ago. Captain Gully, who

in administrative poste, and stud-

died in his eighty-ninth year, was a freakish fog. In great, impene

the last surviving son of John ents of both sexes, have been tested trable patches it drifted aimlessly for their pervous temperament by over South London.

Miss D. L. Beck, headmistress of Gully, one of the most remarkable Dr. Millais Culpim and Dr. May From the Croydon area it moved County School for Girls, Ealing: I characters who ever appeared on the Smith, investigators of the Board. towards Sydenham, Herne Hill and have noticed no such symptoms Turf and for whose amazing career Wimbledon, among my girls. Certainly none of the history of modern sport has The result of their inquiries is Nurwood; Morden,

Mitcham and Tooting then got a "The Nervous Temperament," pub taste of its afterwards it moved them is suffering from St. Vitus' no parallel.

John Gully began lide ne the ion lished by the Stationery Office at towards Lewisham and the Black dance, Girls generally find modern

heath district. Later it visited hairdressing more convenient,hent of a Gloucestershire publican 147 Hounslow, Windsor, Slough and thier, and neater. I personally years ago and was by turns butcher, Previous reports concerning con-Hanwell.

shall remain bobbed to the end of ditions of employment. have The worst for 50 years," was a the chapter. The shingle, too, is Prize fighter, publican, bookmaker, largely with the physical side. report from Streatham, where hun-safer than long hair for girls work-professional backer and finally member of Parliament for one of He the psychological element has dreds of, cars and buses were ing in the laboratory.

drawn up at the kerbside waiting

the Yorkshire divisions. To the been investigated.

for the fog to lift.

present generation is is hardly even a name, yet he won in the course of his curcor every classic race, including the Dorby twice, and was one of the outstanding figures on the Turf of his time. -

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dealt

Neurotio Tendencies, Questions such as the following

were asked:

Are you afraid of your em ¡ployer?

Do you like your work!

Can you eat in a restaurant?

Do you, after shutting a door, go back to make sure you have

done so 1

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In this district places of enter tainment were almost empty and the entire staff of a dance hall was out home.

An unknown san, attempting to cross Streatham High-rond at Streatham Hill Station, was knocked down by a ateam waggon and killed instantly. That occurred shortly before the fog grew even thicker and all traffic for miles along the road to Croydon was brought to a standstill.

Are you afraid of the dark!

Three tram-cars, their under Can you work in a noise? Imperfect mental adaptation to carriages overheated by the in- conditions of work," it is stated, cessant braking, necessitated by the "plays a great part in the produc fog, caught fire, but the flames were tion of illness as well as of in-soon extinguished. efficiency." The results of the in- vestigation give "first hand evi- dence as to the prevalence of mild A more serious incident of a neurotic tendencies."

similar nature occurred in Brock Some of the problems upon whichley-rond, near Stondon Park. the investigation bears are:-

The heavy (and in some firme ever increasing) absenteeism through sickness labelled "nervous break- down," or one of its symptoms;.

Tramway History.

At 0.10 p.m. an empty trom-car

on the Forest Hill-New Cross route burst into flames opposite Were-

chell-street.

,

Miss C. J. H. Cowdroy, head- mistr of Crouch End High School: I am inclined to agree with Miss Wright, but I think she goes too far when she says the signto causes lack of concentration and St. Vitus' dance. The shingle does not fit round the face naturally, and girls are always screwing their eyes round to find what is wrong.

Harloy-street hair specialist: hair-con Women will always be scious, and, bobbed or not, the majority of women will continue to pat their hair. I have found no bad results from the shingle, which has many advantages.

Miss H. Garvin Kingsley School, Belsize Park: I catirely diengree with Miss Wright, for I do not think there are any dangers arising from shingled hair. There is cer tainly nothing that can be called a new disease. In every school there are girls whose vanity lends them to think of their personal phenome, but this is not a now

phenomenon..

Harley-street psychologist: Thera is no evidence that shingled hair is the cause of St. Vitus dance or I have squinting among girls. never come across a case--yet I nee hundreds of women and girls with An official of the LOC. Tram-have everything to gain by the shingled, anir very month. They ways Department stated that there

fashion. was no previons case on record of a car being entirely, burnt out..

The driver and the conductor jumped clear, but the car, in the The selection, for positions of re-words of an official report,

was sponsibility over others, of those nulc

burned to the ground.' lo direct without undue strait to nerves". of rolleagues, and the othura;

Women Who Fear the Dark. The aim of the survey was to find out the incidence of nervous symp- toms in various groups and their mode of expression in work. It was discovered that;

Factory workers did not differ grently from.clerical workers; such differences as there were showed the factory worker legg stable than the clerk;

Students, both men and women, had a higher mercentage of nervous people than other groups.

Marooned.

*

"Denser than ever before in living memory," said a report from Herne Hill.

'Buses were marooned between Moon-lane and Denmark Hill for They nore than three hours. mirawled across the road at all Augles, we of them stopping with their front wheels actually on the pavement.

Outside Herne Hill station, whero The data offered no ovidence of difference between men and women; five roads converse, pedestrians were

in tendency to nervous symptoms; shepherded across the road in flocks

Those reaching positions of au- by the police.

thority tend to come from the people rointively free from nervous symptoms;

EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS,

January 22, 1931. ON LONDON! ---

Tolegraphie Transfor..... 114 Bank Bills, on demand 11 Bank Bills, 4 monthư”).

sight ....... Creditą, 4 months'

night

1/. 5/16 Documents, 4 months'

........1/- 7/16

sight......

Bank Billa, on demand 600 Oredits, 4 months' sight 040

ON

PARIB:--

Hyde Park Barrier.

ON NEW You:-

Hyde Park Corner presented an

ON

Though fear of the dark was com.impassablo barrier of fog at seven Toner among women than men p.., with the result that Knights. other fears were found equally disbridge, Piccadilly, Grosvenor-place.. tributed in both sexca

Seeing the Chief,

The investigators divide the usa- fulness of the worker into cate gorice thus: adjustability to equala, superiors and inferiors, and to gen- gral conditions of work. Here are some symptorug when a person is asked to mo his chief:

A mildly apprehensive nt firet;

"B," interested wonder; "C" shaky at this knees; "D" will prepare for the most improbable worat

Constitution Hill and Hyde Park itself were blocked with traffic.

No driver would venture through the harrier, and eventually the pressure was relieved by cars turn ing round and going back in the direction in which they had come,

With a slight lifting of the fox later in the evening, the position became much improved.

Fetry Mishap.

;

The ferry steamer Rose, while

Bank Bills, on demand 234 Credits, 60 days' sight. 241 BOMBAY

Telegraphic Transfor Bank, on demand

ON CALOUTTA:

Telegraphic Transfer... 1 Back, on demand

IN SHANGHAI :-

Tis, 75 Bank, at night vi.../#91% dis N YOKOHAMA :~-~~~-

On demand

ON MANILA On demand... 474

8130ARVER:-

On demand

41+

IN BATAVIA:-Ön demand.. 584 Or HairHong 2---

Baldon: On demand 2005 On demand. BANGKOK:--

Ox

orcing from Tilbury to Gravesend with 400 passengers fouled & num-O ber of tuga moored to a buoy on the Ewill feel he has done some Gravesand side. Owing to the fog thing wrong,

it was impossible to ascertain what "F" will feel all right if he has damage had been done, and it was donc apinething wrong, and knows decided to transfer the passengers what it is, but apprehensive if into the tags as precautionary nocout.

measure.

"A real capacity for directing The passengers left the steamer in and completed their other," say the investigators, "is mid-rivar,

rare. Hends of firms admit that journey to the Town Pier, Graves- Some of them com2, one of their chief difficulties is to end, in tugu. get people who can manage sub-plained of shock, but there was no ordinates well."

case of injury:

Norrons Bluster.`· "Differences of nervous behaviour towards subordinates are easily re- cognised.

"Some behave as if the group

On arrival at Gravesend the ferry boat was examined and found to be only slightly dazanged.

S.R. Hold-up.

The Southern Railway maintains they control formed in itself a ed a fog service, trains running superior of whom they stand in very late. The normal 15-minute dread, with the result that they journey from Charing Croes to have to prove to themselves that Lewisham Junction took in some they are not anfaid, and in doing instances over an hour. so assume a blustering or autocratic

manner.

Three hundred people in a Lon- don to Bognor steam train were marooned between Brockley and Honor Oak Park for two hours.

"Others show, their difficulties in a propitiatory manner expressed in

The train the 5.40 out of London speech, voice or atitudo, and worry their subordinates with futile criti-Bridge-which left at six o'clock. came to a standstill half a mile ciem and tactkas opposition."

geboudemmar Binkadomilladter niponkles thejéhenman ***** doubts after they have done a trouble. An electric train behind- trivial action such as turning off it, also crowded with passengers,

light, tocking door, etc., and was brought to a halt are compelled to go back and verify This is termed the "sentiment (a feeling of left d'incompletude" undono ").

it."

Meanwhile thousands of people bound for the Bouth-Eastern suburbe gathered at Cannon-street and London Bridge to find the line

blocked.

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[DRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.)

Ruusy, Jan. 21.

Paris New York Brussels Geneva

Amsterdam ∙Milaz⋅ Berlia Stockholm

123,87) 4.65 11/32 34.62

25.08

12.06

92.781

20.493 19.13

Copenhagen

18.16) 18.10 34.52 104 1927

40.05 102.25. 875 917

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"The Game Chicken,"

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THE ROYAL NAVY BENEVOLENT FUND.

FINE CHARITY WELL ADMINISTERED.

BUSINESS CAPACITY OF MODERN RATINGS.

Further, to make contributions, charitable funds. Thus it will be either directly or through the seen that, as the auditora certify, agendy of other benevolent institu- this is most moderate. tions, for the welfare of the families and dependants of such persons in case of necessity or dis- treas

Great as was the distress among

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those for whom the Trust exists in mediately subsequent to the war, when reduction of the personnel re- sulted in widespread need, the re-

From the eighth annual report port states that there has been no of the Royal Naval Benevolent material indication of any rod Trust, is gleamed some informationtion in applications arising under which, while it epitomizes the men tality of fleetmen of to-day, and their business ability in the field of charity for their fellows, as also the immense advance made in their outlook on life during the last quarter of a century, it also places

the above three objects, and it is regrettable to know that it is ap parent there is distress amongst ex-paval men and their dependents as notite na it has ever, freen since the Charter was granted.

The Admiralty Keeps in Touch. Some of the other enterprise concerned are the maintenanco, of Mayfield House Orphanage st Edinburgh (of which, by the way,

the report includes a number of in- teresting domestic illustrations), the support of the three local offices of the National Association for Employment of Ex-servico Me, which, since 1922, has found on

Marine ratings-last year it placed ployment for 91,487 naval and

in permanent employment 4,560, and found temporary employment for 1990 more-the Naval School of Motoring at Portsmouth, migration, scheme for oversças settlemania, etc. To indicate how this organization for the benefit of aaval men is con trolled by naval mon, the personči of the local committer is seen to

How splendidly the "Admiralty on record, the vastly changed nt- | haa backed Earl Jellicoe's scheme is titude of senior officers and of the apparent from the statement of the Board of Admiralty to men of the handsome Gnancial grants. When be all ratings, one in each being lower deck.

the Charter was granted then pensioner. On the central.com The inception of this vast organi- Board handed over £61,170. Then,mittee there are fifteen, of the total of 23, of similar status. The Ad- zation from the Grand Fleet Fund two years later a further £100,000 miralty keeps in touch-as it should, of the Great War years is distinctly was passed' to the Trust, while in in view of its large donations one of the most valuable services to 1929 two sums, in February and by a representative who is a retir men of the lower deck rendered June respectively, amounting to above, the predominant vote is.

[ed ́reaz-admiral, but, as shown by the first Admiraliasuno, Earl £50,000 and £12,500, make up a exercised by the representative rat- Jellicoe; while the assistance which total of £223,070 thus provided asings themselves. has been offered by other flag capital for its work, which netion officers, notably Admiral the Hon. defonstrates most effectually the Sir Hubert Brand and Vice-Aduir-confidence of their Lordships in the Sir H. T. Buller, with the whole sound sense, business capacity and hearted support of the Tate. Capt. knowledge, of lower deck men of Sir Lionel De L. Wells, has doubt-to-day. less largely determined the Ad-

Constructive Policy. During the year under review the

It is just on 100 years ago that he won the St. Leger with Marmiralty to foster and encourage the grave, and it will surpris even leaders of the men in the-to them ald stagera that thero has lived on new and unique undertaking of three objects have had expended to the last few days anyone closely personally carrying out this im on them the following sums: For connected with him. Very early in mense business of service, bene-relief of distress, £32,010; provision of employment and training, his career Gully found himself in volence. side a debtor's' prison, and was re- In the lucid and detailed sum £5,089; maintenance of children's lensed by the kindness of the mary of the aims of the Trust em- homes, £8,070, or a total of £47,085

Godied in the report, it is shown in all. celebrated Col. Mellish. fight the

that there are three primary bone. champion of the day, Pierce, known ficial objects undertaken, and these in pugilistic history as the Game the organization carries into effect under the Royal Charter confered

pop it in 1923. Chicken+

Distribution of financial relief is only one phaan of the work. The trust pursues a constructive policy in dealing with those who require In 1807 he and his famous fight

These are to provide relief in help-a policy which does not leave at Nowmarket with Oregon, and case of necessity or distress to the beneficiary in a condition of soon after became a publican in those who have served, or are dependence, but assists to raise him Lincoln's Inn Fields. Then he took serving, as ratings in the Fleet, above it. It avoids officialiam and particularly those who served dur: | patronage, and sympathetically to racing, and as "The Druid "ing the Great War or in connection, deals with all the casce submitted

His fare at the Corner (the great tells us in Fost and Paddock" therewith,

rendezvous of heavy betting men) was at its zenith about 1880 when be was betting partner with

Ridedale.***

Ridsdale, who was his confederate for many years, was afterwards found dead and penniless in a hay- loft. In 1840 Gully won the Derby with Pyrrhua the First, and in the sarve season the One Thousand Guineas and the Onks with Men- dicant. In 1854 he won the Two Thousand Guiacus with The Hermit and the Derby with Andover. For great many years he was assocat-' ed with the famous Danebury stable. when the Day family reigned there, and the betting that took place among its patrons was on a acale undreamt of in these days.

Very Successful,

Gully and his partners were im mense winners on many occasions by the succcases of their horses, and he soon became a large owner of property and a calliery in York- ahire, where he purchased a seat. Ackworth Park, and had himself elected as M.P. for Pontefract.

One of the many incidents in bis remarkable career was when he fought a duel with the celebrated "Squiro" Osbaldeaton," who, if he could not have taken him on in the prizo ring, was much his superior as a pistol shot. Osbaldo aton, however, consented himself with sending a bullet through Gully's hat, while he missed entire. ly. Botter through my hat than through my hend," mid the ex- pugilist, as he picked up his head- gear and surveyed the bullet hole.

lo The Reminiscences of Wil- liam Day of Danbury," Mr. Day, who know him better: thur, tost men, through his connection with the famous Hampshire stable, gives an unflattering picture of Gully, whom he says was "of a tyrannical and overbearing disposition, ex- tremely avaricious, and, like men of his clap, not overscrupulously nice in the acquirement of wealth."

"He never abruck a man with his fat after leaving the prize ring, but once with his elbow pushed ball & dosen policemen, who were stands ing in a row, down like so many ninepins. For what. reason he did this extraordinary fant, is not re- corded."

Times Have Changed,

Gully lived on until he was 80 years of age, but according to William Day he lost most of his fortune before his death. Buch a turf carver is that of Gully would be impossible in theso, days. Men: no longer gamble away their great patrimonies as they used to do in

of the list house " when the pub- lic used to back horses that were, if not actually dead, so good as dead, and the manipulators god to keep 2/0 15/32them in the market until they had 14. obtained every possible penny out 13 0/18 of them.

Training for Civil Life.

Also, to make provision for train ing for auch persons for civil life, and, assistance in order that they youtain suitable employment after leaving the sorvipe.

to its committees.

The expenses of administration of this vast machine for, ameliorn tion of naval (lower deck) distress is less than ten per cent. on ita income, which, ag already mention ed, includes some score of losser

Why they use the

the R.N.D.T. is the most wonder- In the words of a Inte First Lord,

ful and valuable naval creation of the century."-Naval and Military Record.

IRELAND'S OLDEST MAN,

FARM LABOURER BORN 118

YEARS AGO.

Killaguay (Enniscorthy).-Patrick Flood, the oldest man in the British Isles, died here on December 23, in the little old-fashioned Irish cottage where he spent the greater part of his 118 years of life.

Ile had never been in a train, tram-car, omnibus, or motorcar,

He was born in the year of the battle of Waterlop, married twice, had seven children and twenty-nine "grandchildren,

Until a few years ago he was active and vigorous and worked as an agricultural labourer, but his memory failed him recently, and he spent all his time in a chair before a peas fire.

One of his sons has been recbiy ing an old ago pension for moro. than ten years. Men in the locality more than who are themselves ninety years of age remember Mr. Flood as a grown tone when they

were children.

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