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Some ten years ago. Professor inge; and, as with everything pre- Kroh wrote an imposing book called sented to it, the mind may enlarge Subjektive Anschauungsbilder bei upon these pictures, they call them Of course the Jugendlichen. One of his conclu absolute images. sions is that the "eidetic" disposi-elements of these images were origin. tion is frequently found in young ally caused by sensory excitation, so people, though the nature of the that one horn blind sannot have a ocality in which they live is an colour image, nor one born deaf an disposition. When we get behind the Greek adjective, we find, that the expression simply means being able to call up images in the mind: at the same time we can, perhaps, sympathise with professors who have a weakness for Greek which supplies them with such neat and harmonious words. Surely any fond mother would prefer to read, in a

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LONDON, May 11.

between During the fighting Japanese and Chinese forces in the It used to be, thought that these neighbourhood of Shanghai, last images were always leas vivid than year a party of members of the perceptions, but we know that such St. John Ambulance Brigade Over- is not the case. One need only ad- seas stationed at Hong Kong, vert to the vividness of dreams and volunteered to proceed to the region hallucinations to realise how in-of hostilities to give assistance to dependent images may be of exter- nal stimuli.

the wounded. The offer was accept- ed and the detachment set out on March 2, taking with them a com- Effect on Morbid Minda.-

plete medical and surgical shuip These images play an important

olent and courageous service was part in the miseries of morbid went and a motor ambulance. Efi- people. With most of us they are rendered by the Brigade, and whan transitory. Thus, whilst the blottheir teak was completed repre- ting-pad on which I am writing sentative bodies of Chinese sought remains fixed giving me a clear im to express their appreciation by pression as long as I look at it, the the presentation of trophies and moment I turn away from it and try to get an image of it, this image is a veritable will-o'-the-wisp: it vanishes quickly. Still it would not

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school report, that her little son gave promise of eidetic talent than that he showed imagery ability. In fact when we do try to replace many of the Greek words, given to us by scientists, we seem to drop from the world of beauty into the streets of humdrumness, easy in an aeroplane, to fancy our

Chinese Minister's Visit. selves soaring with the poet's lark:

"Bird of the Wilderness, blithe-be correct to say that all perceptions

The trophies are at present on the in London, st are stable, and all images are un exhibition: Hail be thy matin o'er moorland | stable. Perceptions of low inten-museum at St. John's Gate of the

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sity, the distat chirping of Order of the Hospital of St. John but when we are in

a flying-bird, vary extraordinarily; while of Jerusalem. They consist of an machine, how can we get away from the fixed images of morbid people elaborats and beautifully designed the smoke and the thud of aran become aggravatingly stable.ilver incense burner presented by factory!

Those who have the cidetio disthe Citizens' Association of Shang Last week we were talking about position have an amazing abundancesi, a silver shield from the com the image produced as part of a of images constantly in their made-mittee of the National Hospital for sensation. Many psychologists pre- a point of interest and importance Wounded Boldiers, and an engray- fer to call it the percept. There is to parents and teachers, an eideticed sliver plate from Chinese Boy

reason for their choice. This child often meets with little sym Beauts. They were inspected ya image is the immediate result of apathy in the home and with still terday by the Chinese Minister, and sensation caused by an external less, for his absentminded vagaries will eventually be sent back to stimulus, for instance if the head in the matter of fact routine of China. lamps of a motor are turned on in school. front of me I see a light; if a gong is struck I hear & musical tone.

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It is stated by Colonel J.L Not many parents are aware of these fundamental facts of psycho- Sleeman, Chief Commissioner Bri logy. More knowledge would deve gede "Overseas, that the service 01 detachment represented tha lop more sympathy, and more sym-the But I may experience in my con-pathy surely means more love in the first occasion since the Great War that a voluntary ambulance had sciousness fanges which cannot be home. traced to any immediate external This power of being able to call been actually engaged in the zone stimulus. On the wastes of the up images marks striking contrasts of active warfare. Three hundred Indian Ocean or in the depths of a in individuals; it is unequally dismembers of the Hong Kong Bri- Lundon fog I may clearly visualise tributed, nor is it equally powerful gade expressed willingness to go to the sparkling lights of the Hong in the same individual in all the Shanghai, but it was necessary for Kong Peak. When my eyes are sense domains. Some call up visual financial and other reasons to limit They were closed, or when I dream, I can see images with great case, others audi-the number to 82. visions or I can hear melodies which tory images, and others images of warmly welcomed and assigned to are in no way caused by the world movements. The first type more a temporary hospital in the-Cicon- at the moment it may be a very readily becomes an artist, the wei University which they organiz silent or a very dark world-outeide, second a musician, the third is life's ed and staffed. Almost at once 200 me. For such work produced in the actor. So the question has your patients were admitted, and with workshop of my soul many paycho child an eidetic disposition is more in a few days the hospital was

able to accommodate 500 cases. logists prefer to reserve the term than a mere academic one,

Thousands of Wounded Treated.

Many thousands of wounded were treated and the casualties present- treatment and ed problems in nursing quite beyond the average. of those which voluntary ambul- ance workers are called upon to The deal with in normal times. members remained at the hospital until the need of workers had be come less urgent, and a number then stayed on for further service in a hospital in the French Con. cession. They were away from Hong Kong nearly two months. On leaving Shanghai the motor bulance of the Brigade, which had been taken, there was, presented to the Shanghai authorities to re- place one that had been put out of action during the fighting.

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The construction projecta, under the President'e plan, will fit in with) construction programmes in the states and those planned by private where such procedure would not re-

salt in a decrease in employment.. corporations. The government pro- jects will be of a public nature and they will not compete in any way with private enterprise.

Purchasing Programme,

A federal construction programme

In his massage, the President will necessarily be attended by

programme, it was asked fon authority to impose taxes purchasing

to finance the programme and he pointed out, and the President in told Congress that the Government dicated that the Government should and private industry should adopt pay a fair price for its equipment.

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"The work of the St. John Ambai- ance Brigade in the United King dom, where it has a membership of over 60,000, is well known to the public, but it is not generally known that there are about 12,000 ambulance workers in the Brigade Loversed. They are called upon for a wide variety of duties. Excellent work was done in India during the, rioting between Moslems and Hindus, and recent reports have mentioned cases of spear and arrow wounds in Africa, heat stroke in Australia, earthquake services in New Zealand, and frost bite in Canada. All the work is volun-

a shorter week and a decent wage Restoration of fair prices is import-tary, '

In the hall at St. John's Gate, for the shortened week. He reiterant in the rehabilitation of all in-

where the trophies were on view” ated his previous assertions that dustries, the President said unfair competition and fuinous As part of the general construc- yesterday, there now hang three over production should be elimin- tion programme, the House of He tattered flags of the Order which ated. Me

presentatives to-day passed and sent wera rogently discovered in the The President the Muscle Shoals as loot in Malta by the French Tower of London. They were seiz- Bill which provides for improve during the Napoleonic Ware, but ment of the Tennessee River, and the frigate in which they were ship- the completion of the power project ped was captured by the British. that was begun under the Wilson For over a century the dage, rolled Administration.

up and forgotten, were stored at the Tower: When their character was realized It year they wa handed over to the Or

The programme, as outlined, mat with general approval except the suggestion that there should be some limitation in the operation of nati-trust laws. These lawe have been rigidly applied and the Ad- ministration in understood to hold The bill provides for reclamation that there might be some relaxation of flooded lands and re-forestation (Continued at font of next Volumn) of non-productive areas.

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