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His resemblance to the fam- ous G.B.S. was the sum total of most people's knowledge of him. Yet Pavlov, this enigma, was one of the period's greatest-

.men.

H. G. Wells, in fact, said he was the most important of all. and compared him with Shaw to the latter's severe detriment, roundly declaring that our octo- genarian playwright mattered practically nothing beside the Russian octogenarian scientist.

But, then, I thinkt Wells at that time was rather annoyed with Shaw-and we can take his estimate with a grain of snit.

That still left Pavlov extreme, y important, however. And he was important because of his dogs. (Or, if you like, 'his dogs were important because of Pay lov.)

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PAVLOV experimented with

dogs and discovered thereby a great deal about the working of the brain-not only the doggy Stubbs Rd. brain, but the human brain.

He worked with dogs because they are patient and responsive, and because their intellect in many ways is- nearest in the animal kingdom. to our own.

EXPERIMENTED

We all have conditioned ro flexes a criss-crossm(193 of them. They are very impor- tant, too.

show him some food. He saliv Suppose you take a dog and ates his "mouth waters." That. But show him, say, a white disc, salivation is a simple reflex. and then directly afterwards present him with the food. Go on doing that, and soon his mouth will water when the white disc comes.

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His reflex la no longer simple; it has been influenced, condition- cd, by the Introduction second stimulus. A real and defnite connecting path has been opened up in the dog's thinking mechanism, his brain.

And that phenomenon can be directly to human applied

It is applied auto, affairs. matically all the time.

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HAVE you ever noticed that a

baby dislikes certain people or certain things for no appar- ent or totally inadequate rea-

The dog brain is a simplified? There the Conditioned

Reflex is working.

HVATOFF-The Committee of the human brain.

Russian Orthodox Community announce with deep regret the

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death of the late Vice-Chairman THE whole of Pavlov's scienti of the, Committee, Mr. Michael fic theories rested on one Hvatoff, in Manila on the 27th

simple discovery-a is usually the case with science's triumphs. This discovery was of a thing

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The

human property-called Conditioned Reflex.

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It sounds difficult, but it isn't.

He may have seen the person for the first time wearing some thing strange that seemed to him terrifying a pair of motor goggles, say. He may have be- come first acquainted with such a lovely thing as a rosebud, just when he was appalled by a loud and sudden noise.

He connects the two, and, what is more, goes on connect

out of his head."

With DOGS

PAVLOV

those intricate and delicate in struments, our brains.

This should teach the school master something: when - his boys become drowsy from his demanding a too-long-sustained effort from them, this Inatten- tion is not their fault, but hís!

Pavlov enabled us to put into strictly analysable, measurable torms, things about the human mind that we have been only able to talk of vaguely or even only guess at, before.

To understand is to have power-and heaven knows we havan't really understood our brains much yet!

We shall know one day now what harms our mind and what hoals it.

We shall be able to call up beneficial sleep at will; to under- stund properly and then to use and not misuse hypnotism..

We shall have at last the

authority, with facts behind us. to drum into parents the harm- He found that the slightest fulness of too much inhibition of distraction of his dogs' attention their children-that is to say, We may destroyed his experiments alto- of too many "don'ts!" gether. He had to start all over even have in the end the power again. And from this he de- to mould not only our brains, duced that noises of modern but our characters and our tem- civilisation really are harmful to peraments. humans.

One conclusion is certain. He learnt that too long a Pavlov's dogs have achieved im- stretch of learning or inhibiting mortality-their name will go on a dog's part led to boredom, down to history. and from there to actual sleep

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That, of course, opens up new ; methods of training babies to

hypnosis in others.

H. E. L. Mellersh.

ince art dialira pune the think HITTING THE LIGHTHOUSE

you want them to like and dis- like (as Aldous Huxley showed rather grimly, in his novel,

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A Tragedy of Bird Migration IT in night in a lighthouse in the far birds flying around the dome. They generally "striko" in haze and rals, North of Scotland, with the wind and, in the light of the slowly rc. howling round the tower, and the sea valving beams from the lantern, have The dogs can learn much crashing en the rocks two hundred the appearance of glittering objects. Even the conspicuous spots on the more than that, too. They can feet below. Up aloft in the lantern

breasts of the song thrushes aro com- learn to discriminate. A whistle the revolving light flashee four timespletely efaced. The call of the vari

ous species alters slightly during means food; whistle with flash every thirty seconds, sending its warn.

migration. doesn't mean food. They can ing to the passing ships. learn to delay their reactions.

Suddenly the dome begins to echo The clever startling becomes stupe If you gradually lengthen the with a curious sound as if some fied by the dazzling brilliancy of the time between the sign, whatever one were thumping on the outside. Hight. It will stand on the grating it is, and the appearance of the Gradually the

noise increases until and when picked up, will sit content- food, the dog will come to saliv- the successions of thuds becomes an

edly on one's hand. The skylark on the other hand usually strikes hard ate not at once but only when irregular drumming. The birds are and is instantly killed, its tiny corpse the interval is nearly up and thousands, driven by that migratory below. The redwing and song

"striking" the lantern. Birds in their flattering down into the darkness the food is just about to appear. urge which annually carries them That is a conscious self-con-hundreds of miles from Lapland to trol on the dog's part-Pavlov Scotland, from the Baltic to South called it Inhibition."

Africa. Thrushes, fieldfare, redwing Curlewe, lapwing, snipe, goldcrests, knots, redstarts, golden plover, turn. Fort of other varieties are attracted to small birds such as the warbler, whow stones, warblers, willow wrens, and a the light in a miscellaneous horde. wren, chiffchaff, blackcap,

Standing on the balcony with the birde whizzing around is a weird ex- perience. It is difficult to identify the

The statistics issued by tho Ministry of Transport show a big If an attempt is made to decline in the list of persons killed HANSEL UND GRETEL" analyse the deep underlying and injured on the roads in Great No. DA-1439 Elisabeth Schumann, Soprano,

causes of world unrest to-day, Britain last year as compared with ITALIAN SERENADE IN G MAJOR By-HUGO WOLF

the conclusion will soon No. DA-1304 Budapest String Quartet.

be 1934. The number of people killed BUT to get back to Pavlov und reached that the heart of the was 6,521, na compared with 7,343. his dogs. For, as I have suggested, those Conditioned Re- crisis les in the fact that in 1934-a reduction of 822. The flexes can be got rid of. among the great nations, number of injured was 218.708 in four are more or less 1935 and 231,603 In 1934-a reduc- satisfied with conditions tion of 12,805. These figures are they are,

particularly encouraging when it is while three are

remembered that the volume of profoundly discontented. Great

traffic on the roads has increased Britain, France. the United

enormously. According to the intest States and Russia-have-no-ambi-figures. the number of licences tion to enlarge the extent of issued for motor vehicles during the their present territories and twelve months ended on November responsibilities. On the other 30 last, excluding tramcars and hand "expansion" is the key-vehicles requiring trade licences, note of the policies of Japan, was 2,336,722, compared with 2,116,- 582 the previous year, an increase Italy and Germany. It is easy

of 220,140, perhaps to diagnose the disease. It is extremely difficult to sug casualties cannot be attributed to geat the correct 'remedy-at any any particular cause, but obviously rate in any detail. "Territorial the Ministry of Transport's efforts redistribution" occurs at once as to lessen the dangers from wheeled possibility to be considered, traffic have not been in vain. The But the subject bristles with year has seen the Introduction of difficulties. It is hard to ima- the thirty-mile-an hour speed limit gine, for instance, that the in "built-up areas," driving tests British people would be altruis for new applicants for driving licencea, and a number of other tic enough to hand over large

the safety portions of their Empire to

measures. Owing to good results achieved presumably others. It may also be doubted there will be a more resolute ap- whether any conceivable redistri-plication in fature of all the satety bution would in-fact satisfy the measures which have been recently expansionist nations. "Inter-adopted. The, figures for the com- nationalisation" of. colonialbined area of the Metropolitan possessions in general seems to Police District and the City of "ROYAL CROWN" offer a far more hopeful solu- London show that in 1935, as com

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tion. The mandate system of pared with 1934, there were 332 the League of Nations gives fewer persons killed and 3,998 fewer a practical model of what persons injured. This decline in the number of accidents in the has been achieved in this direction. Its two outstanding portance as evidence of the efficacy. London area is of particular: im- principles are (1) the welfare of the precautionary measures in- of the native inhabitants the troduced by the Ministry. primary over-riding purpose of administration, (2) the open

door for the trade and indus-these needs be satisfled without trial enterprise of all outsiders, any territorin alterations? For irrespective of nationality. But the Inst fifteen years with in- perhaps the proper change creasing virulence and strength lies not in territorial rend- for the last five-economic justments at all-but in nationallem has poisoned all

"economic international intercourse. internationalism." When Japan basie-foot of the modern world and-Germany-and-Italy are asks its political-and-economio ing for more land, the most unity. Building, on that reality, frequent reason they give for the outstanding need of the thoir demands are. (a) oppor- times is co-operation in Indus- tunities for migration of excess try and trade between nations,

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ALL sorts of complicated ex- periments were evolved by Pavlov from his first simple tests, and many strange, illu minating things he learnt about

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"I want this done very thoroughly. My bridge friends will `be here to-day, and you know how they poko their noses into

evary' corner

thrush

lantern's glare turns the blackbird one to hand quite readily, but the into a flying demon. He whirls round the lantern at breakneck speed, defy- ing anyone to catch him.

It is a curious fact that few of the

white-

throat, and gold érest, hit the lantern with, sufficient forces to cause death. They appear to flutter up to the light and perch on the grating.

But when the plover, thrush, sterling or manx shearwater hit the light they crash with terrific force. Some birds, when coming full tilt to the lantern, baulk when within a few foot of it and. rising alightly, get out of the dazzling raya. More often than not, they erash into the dome at a flat angle and are curried 200 to 300 yards by their own momentum bafore their shattered bodles fall to the ground or into the sea beyond. Others dive low (Continued on Page 7)

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Locat merchants would appear to be more interested in fair trade than a trade fair;

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If your number doesn't come up to-day it's not our fault.

· ធ :: By the same token-Your num- ber's up if it doesn't

Cinema heading: People Will Talk' at the Oriental." We always know that Vie Hugo wasn't no dumb!

To-night's the night when eligi

blo backolors take cover.

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Appropriately. enough, the

Aquarium Society is still angling;

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There is no truth in the rumour that no of these ponies with floral names, are to be exhibited at the forthcoming Flower Show,

Sanctions, didn't keep Macaroni from getting placed at the Races

The Week's Pessimist: The man ̈who wouldn't try to plek the "win- {ner out of a field of twot":