1936-01-17 — Page 20

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1986.

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PERSONNEL

N eminent physician has

ment without much fuss.

To the effect that the sent of

the

the emotions was in a tiny part of the brain, known as diencephalon.

Let me tell you something about the diencephalon. (Pro- nounce it dy-enseffalon.)

Originally

about eight months before you were born- what is now your nervous system was a tube of nervous tissue, closed at either end.

(we've all got one)

is the reason is the reason why

you love, hate, fear,

worry

The top bulb became the im- portant one. At its front corners it developed two hollow buds. which branched like a tree until they became larger than all the rest of the brain put together.

As you developed the top end of this. tube ballooned out into

This front end of the fore- three little bulbs. These bulbs brain is called the cortex, and Conscious ultimately became your brain. its functions are: The top bulb became the fore- thought and voluntary control brain, the middle bulb the mid- of your muscles. brain, and the last bulb the hind- brain. The rest of this tube of tissue became your

nervous cord.

Each bulb took on different functions. The hind-brain took over the control of the heart, stomach, and lungs. The main job of the middle bulb was to control sight and hearing.

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What are the clues that have enabled us to track the emotions, to their lair?

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adrenals that are speculated by Home to take the major part These are tiny glands situated over each kidney.

In the emotion of fear it is the thyroid gland-situated in the neck-that bears the brunt.

Love is the result of a har- monious interplay between all the endocrine glands.

Scientists have long dreamed of the possibility of changing

"They speak of the time when it will be possible to change a man's char- acter by injecting the ac- tive chemical principles of glands, so that

character will be decided by chemical formulæ

The speculations of to-daj are the deeds of to-morrow."

human tempera- ment by modify ing the action and strength of these glands,

"They have spoken of the timo when it will be possible to change a man'a character by injecting in suitable propor tion the active chemical prin- ciples of these glands, that character will be decided

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by chemical

of the diencephalon. So tiny formule and a suitable balance'

A case is cited by Sir Walter (I have dissected many) that it of endocrino products from the Langdon-Brown (just retired barely weighs half a grain-a laboratory.

The speculations of to-day are Professor of Physic at Cam- sixpence weighs about three bridge), in a recent lecture at grains; yet it now proves to be the docts of to-morrow. Even

loss of emotion.

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MILES OF THE London University, of a girl of the key to the entire problem now there is a group of drugs :)

which can abolish fear and ten who had an unusual tempera- of the emotions. ment from birth. She never Recent research is proving anxiety as a result of their showed joy, excitement, or fear. that the pituitary gland is the chemical action on the dience

Unfortunately they When she knew she was dying key gland to

an important phalon. The withdrawal of Japan from she said in an indifferent voice, group of glands which are dis- have other effects that are not

"Well, we can't help it."

tributed all over the body, known so beneficial. Whilst the public generally the Naval Conference, and the now

of the When she died tumour as endocrine glands (accent on has long felt that Hongkong has inevitable termination

We have not yet created any. far more European Civil Ser-Washington Treaty of naval limita affecting the diencephalon was the first and third syllables). It

the "Brave New World" of. Ridin' Up The River Road-Fox Trot, Jan Garber & His Orchestra. vants than the size of the Colony tlons, opens the way to a thousand found, and is considered to be is the "lender of the endocrine thing like that magic drug of But though it leads the or- Aldous Huxley, Soma, which and the duties to be discharged conjectures and the road to a hun-responsible for her complete orchestra.”

possibilities. in "TOP HAT"

warrant, surprise will be, felt at dred different

pulitical re-alignments. But the Similar cases of disease in chestra, the diencephalon calls made life a holiday, a happy

The diencephalon dream.

And when we do discover the. .Eddy Duchin & His Orchestra. the facts revealed in the un-thing which stands out most pro this area of the brain have been the tune..

swers given yesterday to Mr.

minently at the moment la the fact found in people who have suffer orders and the pituitary obeys.

balance restorers, so that we As a key gland the pituitary have only to take a pill (or an ..Ray Noble & His Orchestra. M. K. Lo'k questions regarding that Great Britain and the United ed from outbursts of anger, un-

has two actions on the other the Government personnel. The States appear to be agreed on reasonable fears, and tears. "BIG BROADCAST OF 1936”.

Perhaps.! principles. figures show that the total num-general

How does the diencephalon endocrines: it either stimulates injection, or in stubborn cases when We can fear, worry; ber of European employees is though it is still too early to do control the emotions? If we them or inhibits them; it puts on even an operation) to get rid of close on a thousand-975, to be more than guess at the outcome, knew that, it might help us to either the loud-pedal or the soft abolish any unpleasant emotion and induce pleasant ones, what then? correet and that in the past the effect of the present crisis will mould human temperament and pedal. twelve years there has been an be to throw the two great English-prevent insanity and breakdown.

even cloner-

Is it not possible that the The key is now being found Different emotions are charac- increase of approximately fifty speaking nations

on the diplomatic front. in a tiny gland called the pitui- terised by the predominance of noblest part of our nature is per cent. At the end of 1923, together

In born of trouble vanquished and establishment If a serious naval armaments race tary gland, which is closely different endocrine glands. the European Richard Himber & His Orchestra, numbered 647, by the end of is to be avoided it is very necessary attached to the under surface hate or aggression It is the fear conquered?

that the two Governments forego 1931, some six months after the all rivalry. If the race became a port advocating substantial re-little short of a disaster; but there seems to be a belief abroad in Lon- ductions, the number had risen don that Britain and Amerlen have to 923, and now the total must come to some sort of understanding. easily be a record in the historyIt is certain that co-operation be- tween these powers is essential to of the Colony. Mr. Lo did not preserve the interests of each in seck information in regard to the Far East in the event of from the total emoluments paid to the threatening encroachment

some third power or combination European staff, but it is to be of powers. While there is no im- presumed that a progressive in-mediate, fear of a naval race, there crease can also be shown under is already an indication that Great Britain, and all the major sea

A greal bridge in Rhodesia down some 11,000ft from the shore, and others 1,6001b, each made of this heading. He did, however, powers, are about to engage in

which has the third largest The engineers were fortunate to cast bronze and capable of throw- secure details of the salaries further building. We note that

single-span in the world was discover that a rocky ridge, a sort ing their warning note a mile away, opened last month. This article of spiny outgrowth of rock from Thus the busy, Bay shipping will Lpaid to the staffs of the P.W.D.,the Daily Telegraph believes that

describes another vast engineer the ocean floor, runs in an irregu- be warned at all times to keep away

the San Francisco from the piers and anchorages. the Colony's biggest department, the Empire may be called upon to make grave and far-reaching deel-

ing project now nearity comple- lar line from

alde to Yerba Buena, and the span and these revealed that the total sions in the near future; and we

tion.

quarter as now completed roughly follows

There are reputably only two last year was $1,726,519, as can belleve it. The time has come

OROSS eight and a when every part of the top of miles of

ships in the world to-day with water that ridge. swirling against $805,823 in 1923, & veryhould bear its fair proportion of

masts so tall that they will not be considerable advance, although the cost of up-keep of Imperial de- American engineers are now com-

Straight through the bedrock and able to pass comfortably under the. below the figure for 1931, when fences. We have pooled our re-pleting a stupendous bridge which

Neither, Indeed, la likely over to over two million dollars were sources in the economic sphere. will connect San Francisco with its soil of Yerba Buena the engineers bridge when it is completed.

We must do the same thing in the populous and beautiful suburb of drove a tunnel, in itself a major paid out in salaries to the equally vital matter of an imperial Oakland, on the other side of Golden enterprise. The tunnel is 80ft wide, approach California waters. One 60 ft high and 40ft long, and con- is the Cunard White Star Majestic, Gate Bay. P.W.D. staff. It has been cause Navy.

Steel used in its construction tains a two-deck rondway for motor with its exceedingly tall masts, and an inter-urban the other the American liner Levia- for surprise to officials from---

cost £4,000,000 alone, and in quan- cars, lorries and

than, which towers 215ft above the other Crown Colonies, notably.

Eastward from Yerba Buena to water-line. The Normandle, with Ceylon and Malaya, when ap-unless the posts can be abolished tity represented nearly 7 per cent. tramway system.

of the aggregate-steel output of pointed to Hongkong, to discover or at least kept vacant for a con- the whole of the United States for the castern base of the bridge and its 193ft forward mast, will pass

The point the year 1033. One million cuble the foot of Oakland's 37th Street under with plenty of clearance.

problem Was The concrete central anchorage that this little Colony of ours has siderable period.

ting up the immense plers that simpler, once the concrete and steel of the bridge measures 92ft by 192 such a large staff of European suggests Itself, however, that it yards of concrete were used in set the construction

set in place. In ft at the surface, pleroes 235 ft civil servants, and the figures might well be that either of the support the structure and in build plers had been now disclosed must tend to conditione mentioned may existing the approaches and anchorages. that section of the bridge there is beneath, and rises to its tallest strengthen the oft-heard conten- in certain cases, or, at least, that Thirty million board feet of timber only one 1,100ft cantilever span, height, 298ft, above surface, with The cables supporting the Bus consumed s0 far has exceeded ench. tion that the European personnel if the posts cannot be abolished went into the woodwork, and paint and five other spans of 500ft width each main spah 2,810 ft long.

Next comes the huge concrete pension bridge are 28in wido, com- mole, built on wood pilings. In posed of 37 strands and 17,164 could, without sacrifice of effi- or kept vacant for a given 200,000 gallons. ciency, be considerably curtailed, period, the occupants could be

Impressive as these figures are order to build this mole it was separate wires each, anchored. In It is little short of preposterous replaced by non-Europeana. It in conveying an idea of the phyalent found necessary first to construct masses of 68,000 cubic yards of that a Colony of the size of is to be presumed that the Gov-magnitude of the project, they do what is believed to be the inrgest solid concrete each. The pull on Hongkong should commit itself ernment will take such points not adequately represent the en- caisson over made, measuring 97 each cable normally has been The diver who was awarded, the to the financial burden implied into account when it comes to gineering ingenuity, the ceaseless by 197 feet, and containing a curi- estimated at 87,000,000lb..

and patient labour, the innumerable sus interior series of huge cells or by the employment of so many give the question of amending problems that cropped up incessant dredging wells, 66 in number. As contract for the Inspections of the pensionable officers. Without the retirement regulations they, nor the human values that lie mud and rock were dredged off the main cafsson in the middle of the question, there are far too many careful consideration which it behind these staggering statistics. bottom and hauled away in barges, Bay receives a guarantee of $8,000 The bridge had to be built, as the immense weight of the steel 4 year salary, and in addition he is paid a bonus of 5s for each foot Europeans engaged on purely has promised. On the general

le meant that new difficulties had Once there foolproof engineering he descends beyond...100ft below. routine duties in various depart-issue, the need for a reduction in it were, "on the ran," by which caisson caused it to settle. ments which could be just as the Government's administrative to be met and solved as they ap- preparations had been completed, the surface. In the period of three It was at the effectively performed by local expanditure is too apparent to peared, since, none of the engineers the progress of the work here was months this export diver earned a

on the job knew exactly what con- automatic, and dredging continued princely Income. men.. On the question of per- need emphasis. A business run ditions would have to be overcome. until the desired depth in bedrock period when almost daily inspec The most exacting part of the had been reached, whereupon the tions were necessary of the calsson sunk 285ft below the surfaco 'well mitting civil servants to retire on such prodigal lines, with after ten years' service, when retirement on pension permitted whole immense task was the bulk vold was filled with concrete.

ling of the span from the foot of On this East Day mole and at into the bedrock.

The divor's descent was simple they are willing to do so, the at the go possible in Govern Rincon Hill to Yerba Buena Island, other points along the bridge enorm.

(Continued on Page 4) Government does not considermont service, would soon find Midway between those points the ous bronze bells will be placed, two enough, but his return to the sur that this would be economical itself in the Bankruptcy Court. main concrete anchorage was put of them weighing 8,000lb apleca

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