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The Very Idea!

EXPLANATIONS AND APOLOGIES

By George

WING to an omission on the part of the post- man we were not present at the Governor's Ball on Mon- day but then most of the clite were not. Anyway we were very busy and trust that this. excuse will serve as an apology to those who looked forward to our pre- sence.

A feature of the evening was

The report that our colleague Mr. Kelly, Was present at the ball by express invita- tion in recognition of hla gallant rescue attempt on Mon- day are slightly exaggerated but he was one of the select gate- crashers who were allowed to remain.

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Mr. Norman Davis splits hairs at Geneva, and Mr. Anthony Eden supports him. In what cir 66LEEP that knits up the heart muscles are so made that, as eumstances can tangible results

Sravelled love of carether must always be on the go, emerge from such a spirit? It does, but do we know how it they get their rest in between each Mutual Assistance Pacte may, as does it? Till lately we have known breath and beat. A narrow mar- Mr. Davis asserted, be V the mandate of the Darmament Though all of us, when we

eutalde practically nothing about sleep. gin, but enough. Conference, in themselves. But

Why can't we rest in the same

The well, do it every night, we do not economical way? A Mr. Davis admits of the need for learn by experience here. In fact probably in that we are so intense guarantees of execution within the general experience is that they alive. Being fully conscious all UDisarmament Treaty, and If older we grow the less we alcop, the day is a tremendous strain and mutuni asaaitance pets appear though the more we wish to: Now we pay for it by blacking out all Xthe safent guarantees of execuat last we are beginning to find out the night or at least if we were

tion, resistanco to mere considera- Htion is anomalous to say the least. we are beginning to learn why we bodies

a fow of sleep's merels at least really good business men with our M. Litvinotf is

should pay

these really

inviting need sleep, and on the other hand essential debts night by night as acceptance of the

principle that why, when we feel we need sleep they fall due. every man's

hand should be most, it cludes us. against an aggressor-his schemo

Sleep is not merely rest: it is implies no more and no less. He' may be charged with thinking ments carried out with healthy essential, and that brings us to the renovation and repair. Experi- It is clear, then, that sleep is an chiefly of the Soviet's skin, but undergraduates showed, this add second question which research is that In itself la по argument

fact. For the first three hours beginning to answer: Why, if we n Paul Jones which set the stone against the prisciple he defines. If his proposals offer security for after falling asleep the metaboliam so need sleep, does sleep so often rolling and served as an intro-

of the body actually increnses.

escape un? the Soviet, they may offer se-

If we need air, we It in clear what this curity to all, if all come in.

But when the

means. breathe. If we need sleep, why duction to many sparring part- officials the United States declines and are gone, then the cleaning and eyes as we open

and clerks shouldn't we be able so close our ners who were waiting to fall Mr. Eden treads in Mr. Davis's repairing staff have to get to work. let nature do the rest?

our lungs and into a clinch. footsteps. He may believe with It has been known for some time M. Litvinoff that until the nations that wounds heal quicker If the of them and of animals has shown time when the Poak was feeling

Some people can, and the study

Coming as they did at n nssurne all the obligations that go with the ideal of collective patient can sleep, it is only after why so many of us can't... Steep in the housing depression more than responsibility for peace. perman. the first three hours or so that the an act of attention. You have got

shift your attention. With a little, the invitations to the ball ent peace can never be establish deeper centres of the body, after to ed: but he also knows that there tidying up the mess we have left, animals and

somo men nature have started another back-to-the- is no comfort for anyone Inside Can themselves turn in and rest. seems to do that for them. They Peak movement consisting of those Ruch an undertaking

This explains why, though while the

a know how to attend to her orders people who received an invitation Phone 27778-9 Stubbs Road United States remains determined. Pero may get on for a long and submit. They do not cling to where they never expected one and Lime on three or four hours of being awake. But "brain workers" others who expected one but never sleep, in the end he usually finds have taught themselves tinter-received it and have now got to himself nervously overdrawn. If fere-nover to submit to Natura you take no more than three hours without asking why, or at least pretend how indifferent they are. sleep you are living on loans becoming self-conscious about it. advanced from your deeper nervous That kind of attention is fatal. England's team for the First system, and sooner or later you Test, or rather, the nomination will have to meet the overdraft.

Think how you are riding o of fourteen players for the Trent

bleycle and, at least when you are Of course, people do vary in learning, you will probably tumble Bridge game, hardly qualifies the their need of sleep, but probably off. Think how you are remember- Selection Committee for the not nearly as much as we have ing school of daring experimenters supposed. It balances out in the stammers, or the fingering of

long poem, and the tongue The only choice that might be end. Ile who regularly cuts termed interesting ls that which nightly hours due to sleep will stumble. This is an Llustration theplano passage, and the fingers us fallen apon R. Farnes, Cam-probably be found sooner or later of what some psychologists have bridge and Essex. There is hart- repaying them by days and even called the Law of Reversed Effort. ly one other member of the likely weeks a-bed. attack who looks

The more you think about trying Kritain's decision to make no Bradman-beater.

2 possible

the leas you can do the trick. unless it

ANOTHER REASON.

The reason he attended, we payment whatever to the United Geary, who doubtless impressed

Our minds to-day are trained gather, was that having spoiled his States on June 15, when the next the selectors at Leicester

Research has disclosed another more and more to analyse every- few reason why we need so much sleep. thing. We are always trying, an only everyday suit by jumping in- instalment of the war debt in- | weeks ago. Larwood is out be Most of us think if we sleep well we say, to follow a line of thought. to the harbour he was reduced to |terest falls due, is one which has | cause. despite early huzzahs, we sleep all night through "like a That frame of mind is fatal to going about in evening dress and been forced upon her. Had its foot has not yet recovered log." This Is A mistake. Asleep. You must, na It were, dilate there was only one function on not been for the passing of the from the strange injury that in- drugged man, a man who has been the mlad, see things largely a Monday where he could decently Johnson. Act, by which no dis suggestion made that secret in-

capacitated him in Australia. Atortured may sleep with death-like little out of focus-before sleepwear that, tinction is drawn between for-fluences played a part, that Lar-sound sleeper. It has been found has quite extraordinary power of Immobility-not the healthy, will come. That analytic attention mal defaulters and token payers, wood's absence is attributable to that the usual spell of steady steep keeping us awake. Britain would once again have another "friendly gesture" to the is generally not more than

Lessons in Journalism made a payment. As inatters Australians,

This, then, seems the reason dimiss minutes. are, she has been left with the

THE NEWS EDITOR. why After that the sleeper shifts we sleep so badly. We have

Gur control over

minds alternatives of meeting all the

himself, alters breathing,

The news editor is a very clover comes that we cannot stop them thinking: man. It takes interest charges due. totalling

much nearer to the surface of con- we can't switch over, declutch. We

clever man to do $262,000,000, or, since a token

sciousness, generally 'turns

ag little work ha he does in such over. Keep on saying, “Oh, how I wish I payment would not remove her,

Then once more he switchbacks could sleep," but really

to be busy." a long time and yet always manage. Equally absurd, too, is the re-down from the category of an actual port, from quite another sphere rocks himself. That is why it is

into sleep. In short, he to go on thinking, defaulter, of making no payment of current interest that Red important to sleep in the dark and, at all. The resolve to adopt the troops have crossed the Man-even more important, in the quiet.

a policemian, the news editor stands latter course makes the question churian border

So a few hints on how to sleep, on one of the lowest social planes of and occupied Every light, every murmur is prob- or rather, how to avoid keeping vegetable life and is seldom seen of getting down to a final settle- Tungtaishen. Moscow's

denia ably attended to, ment one of urgency. The pro-was scarcely necessary. TheIt has been found that long be-first thing is attention: learn to attacked.

Loneself awake............. may....help. The out. in daylight_for_fear_of_being. Soviet's policy in bability, indeed, is that the should be well understood by this will tauten if a light is brought That is the truth behind watching power in his little sphere and

the Far East) fore the sleeper wakes his muscles shift that.. It is half the battle. British decision was largely time. Moscow based on the hope that it would and, far from hiding her fears, rouse himself long before he knows the other pictorial tricks for over-exercises it ruthlessly. Never be

expects trouble near him. He is beginning to the sheep go through the hedge and expedite negotiations with this makes preparations to meet it it. Sound is an even worse dis- coming sleeplessness. end in view. The point to be when and/or if it comes. But turber. Nature leta us close our

ing allowed to forget that he was stressed that there is no ques- the Soviets are doing anything eyes but never our cars.

But do not count them with onco a reporter, he practises the tion of Britain repudiating her but seeking a clash. Their mill- always ready to notice a suspicions your mind says, "What! 50 alreadying tribe.

We are a limit of, say, 100. If you do meanest tricks on that long suffer- obligations. That is made per-tary limitations are best known to sound. Sleep, therefore, in the gone and I'm still wide awake! fectly clear in the latest Note, themselves. As to the imborstill hours is a sleep of a higher At the century it suys with self-potent faculty is sarcasm and while Next to sleeping, his most In this connection, it must be anda, this obviously depends rouses we slip deeper,

tance of such provocation pro-quality. In between the semi-congratulatory triumph, "There, I industrious reporters have been remembered that ever since she upon the source,

Our ears knew———” It has really been using their spare time sharpening made her first token payment,

report "All clear," and for a few looking forward to being stil pencils or brushing their hair in Britain has taken the stand that

minutes we anatch #profounder awake at the 1001 A far better the office he has been known to rest.

way is to pay attention to the stroll casually up to them and say: It sounds a resticas business, but background of we must remember that Nature's Nearly all the while, behind your finished your toilet and spoken to basis. She is, however, willing Mr. Neville Chamberlain might sub-pair are not ours

thought. "Look here old man, when you've The suggestion by a reader that ways of balancing up wear and re-reasonable thoughts, there is pass the girl on the phone, I wonder if and anxious to negotiate a remit certain defaulted bonds to muscles, for instance, and the

The great lunging a stream of thought-pictures, you'd mind slipping down vised agreement. The trouble the United States Treasury

(Continued on Next Columne.) has been that past approaches part payment of war debt obliga

Shuukivan. There's been six mur- ders there this afternoon but don't have not produced anything like tions strikes a piquant note, al-

bother if you're busy. I expect we unanimity of view between Brit- though it is not thereby rendered

ean cut it out of the Daily Dodan ain and the United States as to any more helpful., Unfortunately,

to-morrow." the figure acceptable. Finland bonds of the United States within

perhaps, these bonds 610 has been cited by America as the

not the only war debtor to meet its

meaning of the funding! obligations in full, and it has to certain of the States in the agreement, They represant loans been stated that an agreement South, funds employed in ghung with Finland would be used as a the North and the Federni idea. "yardstick" in respect of other As they are repudiated by the debtors. Against this, we have borrowers, there is double reason to put the fact that even a

for refusal by the Federal au- "Finnish model revision" would

thorities

recognise their not meet the, British viewpoint. validity. There is, of course, no

telling what would be Such a settlement would be ton's reaction is the event of

Washing- based upon a virtual cancellation British Chancellor making a col- of interest charges. Coupled léction and mustering the nerve with other adjustments, this to present them. They might be would bring the British oblign accepted as a tribute to bravado. tion down to something like two And again, Washington might be billion dollars. Even this sumonly too glad to get hold of them, would, in Congress's present

ut any price, to put an end at last temper, be regarded as profligate this skeleton in the cupboard of to the constant outdragging of generosity. Precisely what American International finance. Britain would be prepared to offer has not been disclosed, but

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it is said that Sir Frederick can conceptions. How to bridge Leith Ross, when he visited the it is the problem of the moment. States last autumn, proposed a But two things are clear in re- tenth of two billion dollars, pay-gard to the British attitude- able in a lump sum. Although there is no intention to repudiate President Roosevelt has shown the debt, nor is there to be any himself more hospitable towards departure from the principle of the debtors' case than Congress, the Balfour Note, by which Brit- the British offer of last autumn ain declared her intention of left him and his subordinate secking no negotiators cold. It is clear, debtors than she requires to more from her therefore, that a wide gap exists meet her obligations to the between the British and Ameri-United States.

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"I'll give you just, two minutes to get off my property."

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This creature has inordinate

to

If you will notice them. Look at that easy, aimless procession. In

a few minutes It has drawn you in und you are asleep.

Another help is not mental but bodily, and so perhaps more help- ful in this age of education when we find it so much easier to do things with our bodies than with our minds, Change your breath- ing. Listen to a sleeping person, Ilia breathing, when loud enough to be heard, to the opposite of con- selous breathing. When you are very conscious of your breathing, when you are nervous, you hear the breath drawn in, not the breath sent out. It is tho sleeper's breathing out that you hear. A snore is only a very BUCCOssful breathing out. But nil deep-sleep broathing is a sort of reversed gosp.

Try it next time you sleep badly. Don't dnsh #t it. Gradually change over from noticing your breathing-in to attending to your breathing-out. Don't be too in- torested. Pay also a little casual attention (the attention of a lazy person in a garden to birds skim- ming over a pond) to those vague, Inconsequent pictures which Bre passing through the back of your mind.

You will have mastered the art of shifting attention. You will bo abicop before you know ft.