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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1936.

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N eminent physician has

mnde a startling pronounce- ment without much fuss.

To the effect that the seat of the emotions was in a tiny part

of the brain known as the diencephalon.

(we've all got one)

is the reason why

Let me tell you something you love, hate, fear,

about the diencephalon. nounce it dy-enseffalon.)

(Pro-

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

worry

The top bulb became the im- portant one. At its front cornera which branched like a tree until it developed 'two hollow buds,

they become 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 ultimately became your brain. its functions are: Conscious The top bulb became the ore, thought and voluntary control brain, the middle bulb the aid 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

Hongkong Telegraph. job of the middle bulb was to

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control sight and hearing.

The tiny hind part of the fore- brain became the diencephalon: of the emotional drive that lies now looming large as the home

behind thought.

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What are the clues that have onabled us to track the emotions to their lair? -

adronals that are speculated by some to tako the major part These are tiny glands situated over each kidney.

In the emotion of fear it fa the thyroid gland-situated in the neck-that boars the brunt.

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

Scientiste 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

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character will be decided by chemical formulæ

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

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

They have spoken of the time when it will be possible to change a man's character by injecting in auitable propor- tion the active chemical prin- ciples of these glands, 60 that character.

will be decided by chemical

NOTES OF THE DAY London University, of a girl of the fore the entire problem now there is a group of drugs

loss of omotion.

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of the diencephalon. So? tiny formulæ and ʼn suitable balance A ense is cited by Sir Walter (I have dissected many) that it of endocrine, products from the Langdon-Brown (just retired barely weighs half a grain—a laboratory. Professor of Physic at Cam- sixpence weighs about three bridge), in a recent lecture at grains; yet it now proves to be The speculations of to-day are the deeds of to-morrow. Even ten who had an unusual tempera- of the emotions.

which can abolish" fear and ment from birth. She never CROSSROADS

showed joy, excitement, or fear. that the pituitary gland is the chemical action on the dience. Recent research is proving anxiety as a result of their When she knew she was dying key gland to an important phalon, Unfortunately they The withdrawal of Japan from "Well, we can't help it."

she said in an indifferent voice, group of glands which are dis- have other effects that are not Whilst the public generally the Naval Conference, and the now

tributed all over the body, known so beneficial, has long felt that Hangkong has inevitable termination of the When she died a tumour as endocrine glands (accent on far more European Civil Ser-Washington Treaty of naval limita affecting the diencephalon, was the first and third syllables). It vants than the size of the Colony tions, opens the way to a thousand found, and is considered to be is the "leader of the endocrine thing like that magic drug of We have not yet created any- and the duties to be discharged conjectures and the road to a hun-responsible for her complete orchestra."

the "Brave New World" of warrant, surprise will be felt at dred different possibilities in

But though it leads the or- Aldous Huxley, Soms, which the facts revealed in the an-political re-iments. But the Similar cases of disease in chestra, the diencephalon calls made life a holiday, a happy swers given yesterday to Mr. thing which stands out most pro- this area of the brain have been the tune, The diencephalon dream. M. K. Lo's questions regarding minently at the moment is the fact found in people who have suffer orders and the pituitary obeys. And when we do discover the

that Great Britain and the Uniteded from outbursts of anger, un- the Government personnel. The

reasonable fears, and tears.

As a key gland the pituitary balance restorers, so that we figures show that the total.num-general

States appear to be agreed on

has two actions on the other have only to take a pill (or an principles. Perhaps, How does the diencephalon endocrines: It either stimulates injection, or in stubborn cases ber of European employees is though it is still too early to de control the emotions? If we thom 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 fear, worry; when wo can correct--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, ›

and induce pleasant ones, what then? increase of approximately fifty speaking nationa even cloker The key is now being found Different emotions are charac per cent. At the end of 1923, together on the diplomatic front. in a tiny gland called the pitui- terised by the predominance of noblest part of our nature is the European, Establishment If a serious naval armaments race tary gland, which is closely different endocrine glanda. In born of trouble vanquished' and numbered 647, by the end of 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 "RetrenchmentTM Commission's" re- three-cornered "affair" it "would" "be port advocating substantial re-seems to be a belief abroad in Lon- little short of a disaster; but there ductions, the number had risen don that Britain and America have to 923, and now the total must come to some sort of understanding. easily be a record in the history It is certalu that co-operation bo- tween these powers is essential to of the Colomy. Mr. Lo did not preserve the interests of each In scek information in regard to the Far East in the event of from the total emoluments paid to the threatening encroachment European staff, but it is to be of powers. While there is no Im- some third power or combination. presumed that a progressive in- mediate fear of a naval race, there crease can also be shown under is already an indication that Great this heading. He did, however, Britain, and all the major sca powers, are about to engage in secure details of the salaries further building. We note that paid to the staffs of the F.W.D., the Daily Telegraph believes that the Colony's biggest department, the Empire may be called upon to and these revealed that the total alons in the near future; and we make grave and far-reaching decl-

last year was $1,725,519, as can belleve it. The time has come

Is it not possible that the

AMERICA'S NEW WONDER BRIDGE

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Eight Mile Track Across the Golden Gate Bay at

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San Frncisco

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A great bridge in Rhodesia down some 11,000ft from the shore, and others 1,600lb, each made of which has the third largest The engineers were fortunate' to cast bronze and capable of throw- 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 aplny outgrowth of rock from Thus, the busy Bay shipping will describes another vast engineer- the ocean floor, runs in an irregu- be warned at all times to keep away ing project now nearing comple- lar line from the San Francisco from the piers and anchorages. sido to Yerba Baena, and the span quarter now completed roughly follows against $805,823 in 1923, a very should bear its fair proportion of ACROSS eight and considerable advance, although the cost of upkeep of Imperial de American engineers are now com-

miles of swirling water that ridge. below the figure for 1931, when fences. We have pooled our re-pleting a stupendous bridge which Straight through the bedrock and able to pass comfortably under the over two million dollars were We must do the same thing in the populous and beautiful suburb. of drove a tunnel, in itself a major Neither, indeed, is likely ever to

sources in the economic sphere, will connect San Francisco with its soll of Yerba Buena the engineers bridge when It is completed. paid out in salaries to the P.W.D. staff. It has been cause Navy.

There are reputably only two ships, in the world to-day with masta so tall that they will not be

Gate Bay.

60 ft high and 540ft long, and con- is the Cunard White Star Majestic. for surprise to officials from

Steel used in ita construction tains a two-deck roadway, for motor- with its exceedingly tall maste, and other Crown Colonies, hotably

cost £4,000,000 alone, and in quan- cars, lorries and an inter-urban the other the American liner Lovia- Ceylon and Malaya, when ap- unless the posts can be abolished of the aggregate steel output of Eastward from Yerba Buena to water-line. The Normandie, with

|tity represented nearly 7 per cent, tramway system.

-than, which towers 215ft above the pointed to Hongkong, to discover or at least kept vacant for a con- the whole of the United States for the eastern base of the bridge and its 193ft forward mast, will pass. that this little Colony of ours has siderable period. The point the year 1998. One million, cuble the foot of Oakland's 37th Street under with plenty of clearance, such a large staff of European suggests itself, however, that it yards of concrete were used in set the construction problem WA's

The concrete central anchorage civil servants, and the figures might well be that either of the ting up the immense plers that simpler, once the concrete and steel of the bridge measures 92ft by 192. 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

support the structure and in build plers had been set in place. In ft at the surface, pleroes 235 ft. strengthen the oft-heard conten- in certain cases, or, at least, that Thirty million board feet of timber only one 1,400ft cantilever spar, height, 298ft, above surface, with 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 span 2,310 ft long. could, without sacrifice of effl- or kept vacant for a given 200,000 gallons.

consumed so far, has exceeded each.

The cables, supporting the sus Next comos. the huge concrete pension bridge are 28in wide, com ciency, be considerably curtailed, period, the occupants. could be

molo, bulit on wood pilings. In posed of 87 strands and 17,484 It is little short of preposterous replaced by non-Europeans. It Impressive as these figures are order to build this mole it was separate wires each, anchored in that a Colony of the size of is to be presumed that the Goy magnitude of the project, they do what is believed to be the largest solid concrete each. The pull on In conveying an idea of the physical, found necessary first to construct masses of 68,000 cubic yards of Hongkong should commit itself ernment will take auch points not adequately represent the en cafsson, ever made, mensuring 07 each cable normally has been. to the financial burden implied into account when it comes to gineering Ingonuity, the conseless by 197′′ feet, and containing a curl- estimated at $7,000,000lb." by the employment of so many give the question of amending problems that cropped up incassait dredging wells, 55 in number. As contract for the Inspections of the and patient labour, the innumerable ous interior series of huge cells of -The diver who was awarded the pensionable officers. Without the retirement regulations the ly, nor the human valuca that lie mud and rock were dredged off the main calsson in the middle of the question, there are far too many careful consideration which it behind these staggering katistics bottom and hauled away in barges, Bay receives a guarantos of £3,000 Europeans engaged on purely has promised. On the general it were, on the run," by which cafsson caused it to settle.

The bridge had to be built as the immense weight of the steal a year salary, and in addition he routine duties in various depart issue, the need for a reduction in is meant that now difficulties had Once these foolproof engineering ho descends beyond 100ft below

is paid a bonus of 5s for each foot. 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 effectively performed by local expenditure is too apparent to peared, since none of the engineers the progress of the work here was months this expert diver carned a 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 on the job knew exactly what con- automatic, and dredging continued princely Income. It was at the mitting civil servants to rotire on such prodigal lines, with The most exacting part of the had been reached, "whereupon the tions were necessary of the calsson after ten years' service, when retirement on pension permitted whole Immense task was the build- void was filled with concrete. Bunk 23611 below the surface woll Ltd. LTD. they are willing to do so, the at the esso possible in Governing of the span from the foot of Or, this East Bay more and at into the bedrock the

Government does not consider ment service, would soon find Midway between those points the ous bronzebolls will be placed, two enough, but his return to the sur- Rincon Hill to Yorba Buena Island, other points along the bridge enorm. The diver's descent was simple that this would be economical Itaclf in the Bankruptcy Court main-concrete anchorage was put of them weighing 3,000lb aploca (Continued on Pass A)

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