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THE HONGKONG TEL

THURSDAY MARCH

19357

GHOST" TRAIN TESTED

NOISELESS RUNNING AT 70 M.P.H.

LUXURY RAIL

TRAVEL

London.

A "ghost train" running at over 60 miles an hour left Euston for

Yellow-Eyed Demon

JEALOUSY AFFLICTS ALL HUMANITY

EXCEPTIONS ARE FEW

By Lupino Lane

Most of us are jealous in some

Leighton Buzzard one morning.degree or ather, but few of us caro

·So alient was. the running that to admit that we auffer from one of gardeners working on the adjoin. 'the most natural of human attr- ing railway allotments heard noth-butes. Ing.

This was a petrol driven ralicar with pneumatic tyres. These tyres are the secret of its performance. It came back from Lélyhton Buz zard, a distance of 40.2 miles in 42,6 minutes. It can accelerate to 50 m.p.h. in a distance of a few yards, and in emergency pull up from that speed in 130 yards on a' xlry rail.

Inaldo ench tyre are two inner tubes. If one of them is punctured a whistle sounds in the driver's cabin and he slows up, but con tinues to the next station. He can change a wheel in seven minutes. There are sixteen wheels; even if they were all punctured he could "crawl" along at 40 m.p.h. Under- neath the Inner tubes is a rubber bane.

The maximum speed is 70 m.p.hu, and the "erulaing" speed 60 m.p.h. The angine is a twelve-cylinder

Jealousy, in whatever "form. I exists, may as a rule be traced back. to childhood. I remember once go. ing to a house where there - were three children. The parents were very fond of all three, but meat especially did they deto on the youngest. With the sensitiveness which children possess to a marked degree any little extra attention which was given to the youngest produced a fit of sulkiness in the other two. They resented not the fact that the youngest was getting something which they could not have, but that it was getting the share of parental attention which they rightly looked on na theirs.

Children like limelight. There is the natural desire to show off their good points, to show how clever they are in a desire to attract the attention of those they love.

Aren't adults the same? Don't most of us like to show off a little?

petrol engine of 240 horse-power;Of course we do. Where some of

the gear-box has four speeds in elther direction. The car has a driver's control cabin like the con-

The Austrian Tyrol still remembers Andreas Hofer who was executed by Napoleon's order 125 years ago, for raising

band of Volunteers and realating invasion

ning-tower of a submarine, project. ing from the roof of the car at the motor end. This enables clear view in both directions along the track. With the motor behind, it is possible for the passengers to ses ahend and on both sides, giving An unparalleled view of the country.

LACK OF VIBRATION

The sensation of speed is much less; only the speedometer con- vinces that the car is travelling at over 60 m.p.h. In test runs the highest speed reached was 67 m.p.h. The lack of vibration or shock is remarkable, resembling the

per- formance of a luxury car on a smooth road. The car accommod- ates 50 passengers, and is fitted with air-conditioning, electric light- ing, and safety glass windows. It has a luggage compartment.

The wheels are of. pressed steel disc type, and steel flanges being silenced by rubber inserts, while contact with the ruil is actually made by pneumatic tyres of 36 inches diameter.

This type of car has already been running for four years in France and the French colonies, and has covered over two million miles in these services.

It is being tested in this country

at these are Abyssinian chiefs who, is alleged, ara moblining for war

us go wrong is in feeling that tinge

of envy when we meet anyone a little more talented than ourselves. "Oh?" we say, "I could do that particular thing if I cared. There's nothing particularly clover in that." All the time, of course, we know that we can't, that In this one thing someone else excels, and se we attempt to minimise their per formance. How mean of us--but how human!

MEN AS BAD AS WOMEN

Men are as bad as women in that respect. Ono has only to go into a club or place where men congregate to notice that in some things men are as jonious as the opposite sex are alleged to be. Some sporting event has taken place; someone has done a fine light under very trying conditions, or put up a good show in adverso conditions; that is quito enough for someone in the crowd to remark, "Oh yes! Very good perhaps, but there was everything very much in it myself.” Why?

The reason is often that the Ilmelight has temporarily dis- appeared from his sight to be awitched on to someone more at- tractive-more interesting, At once he resents it, and his only method of climbing back into the sun is by decrying the other per- apn's activities.

Accuse this man of jealousy. You would raise a storm of re- sentment at once, and truly in many enses, this spiteful attitude is not conscious. It is the process of time over a period of disillusion- ment.

The inferiority complex is res- ponsible for the jealous urge, too. A person who has failed at most of life's achievements, big or little, is just the person who makes the remarks calculated to belittle.

As they strive to pull down any edifice of fame or popularity, they feel for the moment a sense of the power that has eluded them through their ves. If they cannot con- struct; they may destroy; to them either is power, however tem-

porary.

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In the successful, they sce glimpse of what might have been; lacking the will-power or even the character to emulate, they enden. vour to bring the performance down to their own level by destruc- tive criticism in order that their; own achievements shall not appear too mean by comparison.

IF WE ARE HONEST

If we are honest with ourselves we have to admit that there have been times when we would have given pounds to stand in some- one else's shoes, to have done what someone else has done. If that feeling be genuine appreciation and admiration of the achievement, then we have done right, for we may have learned something; if it has been followed by a feeling that perhaps it wasn't so clover at all, that we could have done the same with the phenomenal luck that the other fellow had, then we're wrong, What do the majority of us real- ly want?

Don't we want as a rule to stand head and shoulders above the masses, to become an outstanding fellow in some walk of life, to gain the plaudits of the crowd, to corner. the money market or figure In Society? Of course wo do.

All three are laudable ambitions in themselves, for they are based on a human nature as old as the hills. When, howevor, in a desire to achieve these summits, we be- Ittle the efforts of others more auccessful than ourselves in the race, becauso wo know how Im Possible it is for some of us to elimb, further, then that is jealousy, and a small-minded form of jealousy, too. B

by the LM.S. Railway In conjunc tion with Armstrong Siddeley Motors (Ltd.):

M. Pierre Laval, Foreign Minister in the French Government, photographed during discussions with Hon. Arthur Henderson in the office of the League of Nations in London, England. These two

are the kay-man in disarmament maiters.

The honeymoon of the Duke and Duchess of Kent nears its conclusion with the trip of the Rayal Couple to the West Indies. Layout shows scanes of the voyage to Trinidad. Left, the Duchess enjoys a stroll on the bridge, while, Right, her husband makes the acquaintance of those who prefer the swim- ming pool-in particular a young natator. Below, the Duke and Duchess are seen on the lawn at Goy. ernment House, Portau-Spain, with Governor Sir Alfred Claud Hollin. It is hoped that the Duke of Gloucester, on his way to the West Indies, will mest the honeymooners there. He has not seen them

since before their marriage.

Mind If wanin tired but thankful crowd of naval officers and men who were descending the Jacob's ladder of the cruiser Richmond at San Francisco as ibis photo was taken. - For they were the 64 surv vivors of the dirigibla Macon crash who were rescued by the Richimand. The Macon went down in the

Paddle Ocean off Monterey, Cel. Of her 83 men, 31 were saved in night rescue by warships.

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