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The collapse of the Ethiopian

Accident

People...

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Doctors fought to save the life of Wong Chung, aged thirty-five, whose arm was caught in the electric lathe he tended.. William Brown, aged ten, was run over and fatally injured by a motor-cyclist. Ah Ming, the amah, dropped and broke a priceless Ming vase.

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Dr. A. C. Alington, former head- master of Eton, recalls that when

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to your decision in time.. occur in the To test these two inter-related

traits, they have devised

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by Gerald Haylett

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The subject is required to trace

arc

There are special tests for flying weakness folk. If your eye has a of the inner muscles-if you "exophonle"you will flatten out too early when landing. If, on the other hand,

your guter eye muscles wenk-if you are "esophoric"-you will fly into the ground because you

do not flatten out early enough.

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Statistics show that pedestrians liable

ten years cena next.

Drivers are at their best between Women have

a good record. Girls between eighteen and twenty-one are better twenty-eight and forty-five.

than boys of the same age.

Or every one of them might have been "accident-prone," the new phrase coined by psycho- logists to describe a type more The driver of the lorry or the than usually susceptible to the

general accident-proneness. It is both connected with a pencil- car might have been care- risks of life.

established, however, that ac pointer on a printed circle. One less; the turner might have been Accidents can arise from any cidenta in factories tend to occur handle turns the pointer north- tired; the child might have been number of CRUSCS. One an in the first and last hours of south, the ather cast-west. playing "Last Across the Rond" record occurred because a silk work. the amah might have been stocking got caught up in the

a path along the printed circle. dreaming of opium. There chain of a motor-cycle. An-

A lead has been given in Lon- If the line he draws is very might be a simple explanation other because a man in a closed for every accident.

car got a sudden attack of don by the Board of Medical irregular, he is quite likely to claustrophobia-foar of being Health Research. They regard cut off his finger at a real lathe, shut in. A third because à as the main factor in avoiding

The Paris tram and omnibus edge of his sunshine roof and combined with good muscular system decided to select drivers by test. During that time the stunned when going over a co-ordination.

number of omnibuses and trams sistent pressure of an invader

hump-back bridge. utlsing the most modern forms

Thus, if you are crossing a has Increased by 80 per cent. of warfare, including methods

road and a car sweeps down on Accidents have diminished by outlawed by international con-

These are true accidents. But you at speed, quick reaction will 37 per cent.

The bulk enalde you to see it and deter- ventions, has given Italy virtual he and the present Archbishop of these are the rarities.

This is not due to a general in- victory in the first stage of her Canterbury were both Fellows of of accidents happen to people mine at once whether to go for provement in driving for other All Souls College, Oxford, the who have, through heredity or ward or back. Good co-ordina, vehicular traffic has increased by East African adventure. De- latter dignitary used to sing environment or

temperament, tion will enable you to carry out 218 per cent. and general accidents

have increased by 165 per cent. us, Charlie, the jected and disappointed in the "Come back to

a rich, deep voice, an inherent predisposition

Hthem, and most hapes which he pinned on joint king of us all"

Charlie, in the person of action under League of Nations Chaplin, has at last responded to home! auspices, the Emperor has been the appeal, and his popularity, in compelled to bow to the inevit-London at any rate, suggests that his sovereignty is at least as un- able, and has fled from the coun-disputed as was that of the Young try. The scenes which have Pretender, saya the Christian Alone of the followed his departure are those Science Monitor,

great stars of the early clemn, The greatest difficulty in denl- machine like the roller of a which might have been expected he still holds a lofty position in ing with "accident-proneness" pianola. A roll of perforated

a brass over fifty-Ave are the most in the tragic circumstances. the cinema skies, and there is lies in the fact that a man may paper, is passed over From the Unual incident, which much discussion as to what in the be prone to one type of accident drum. The subjects of the test to street accidents. Children under was the forerunner of the secret of his enduring success and immune from another. The have to stab the holes as they

From this discussion three main actual clash at arms between points have emerged. Many filma mah or boy who smashes your pass. If they hit enough holes, Italy and Ethiopia, has develop-appear to suffer from a lack of tea-set might be quite safe hand- they pass; if they hit the paper ed a war in which the defenders certalaty of direction. The authoring a garden fork. The Indian too often they fail.

has one idea about them, the pro- chauffeur who has driven your had little hope, apart from out-ducer another, and the leading cars for twenty years without But accident-proneness is not Actors are said to be bad drivers #ide help and such aid as nature actors a third, and the resulting scratching. the paint might be only a question of quick reaction-largely because they do their driv

is not always free death-trap for another motorist and good co-ordination. And at rush hɔum,”- might afford, of repelling the collaboration

from that artistic wobbling which when on foot..

for specific trades, specific lesta Real beginners have few accidents. invading armies. Declared the invariably results when too many

They are no careful. People who aggressor by the majority of the ecoks take a hand in preparing Psychologists have determined have been invented.

have a little experience are danger There is nothing of mathematically that one-third of At the National Institute of ous: they think they know more than nations of the world. Italy has the broth.

this in Mr. Chaplin's films. Is the employees in every factory Industrial Psychoogy, in London, they do. Kone her own way and by sheer author never disagrees with his are accident-prone, and incur at there are all manner of devices. Motor-cyclists are no more accident- force of might has accomplished star, nor his composer with his least two-thirds of the accidents One is intended for electrical prone than any other class of road- the first part of her task. producer, for they are all one and that happen in that factory. lathe workers. They are There was some hope, in August the same person.

Chaplin, running the dangers of But they have not as yet been quired to turn two handles, one often serious than those involving last, that the issue between the monotony, reaps the rewards of able to devise any test for with each hand. These are two countries might be suscept-consistency. Other players, chang- ble to mutual adjustment, par-ng, their characterisations with their producers, often disappoint ticularly after the Conciliation their followers by not giving exactly Commission found that neither what is expected of them. Not so SIDE GLANCES By George Clark total four wheels per ce Government was really respon- Mr. Chaplin, who always plays the sible for the Jalual incident. same character. Lastly, this charac- ter, the Tranip, the weak thing Then came the three-Power of this world who invariably con- conversations, between Italy, founds the things that are mighty, one of profound philosophical | Britain and France, in which is some difficulty was experienced significance. He stands for some- in getting a clear statement of thing universal in human ex- do the great figures: perience, as Italy's claims. The British and

of drama and Action, and in con- French delegations, however,

sequence has a perennial vitality. advanced a series of proposals as a basis for negotiations. These provided very wide port in certain quarters. First, economic opportunities for Italy the loss of Manchuria by China; in Ethiopia, protection of the now, the virtual wiping out of frontiers of the Italian Colonies, Ethiopia. Is there no and a four-Power Treaty with antee of the preservation of in- the "Open Door" but with main dependence by smaller nations economic advantages for Italy-in the face of a determined all subject to the maintenance aggressor? It would seem not. The apparent of Ethiopia's independence and The upshot? the subsequent consent of the doom of the League as an in- League. Italy, however, con- strument for the securing of tinued to pour troops into the justice by smaller nations. It country and insisted on impos-is a sorry and a tragic deduction sible demands, the while Musso-to be drawn, but no other seems lint was declaring that Italy possible in the light of what has would pursue her aims with happened in Ethiopia. Never Geneva, without Geneva, or was there the least justification against Geneva. All that has for Italy to make war on Ethio- happened since is known to the pin. She has ignored the rights world-the interminable wrang- of the case, and defied the world. lings in Genova, the partial im-The end may not be yet; but position of sanctions, and the meantime the Ethiopians have general

Ineptitude of the lost their country to a declared League, due to lukewarm sup-'aggressor.

Again, Mr.

guar-

"think I'll bring my, husband trotind, If he chooses it himself, he won't think it's too expensive."

re- user, but à motor-cycle crash is mere

other vehicles.

The British Ministry of Transport has discovered that the worst hours for London road accidents are those between 5, and 7 p.m.-the evening. rush whon 21 cent, of the

Although traffic In London is little heavier at this time than between 8 and 10 A.m. -the morning rush hour-this is ascribed by the Ministry to poor light, especially at this time of the year.

Psychologists, however, regard the fatigue of workers at the end of a hard day as largely responsible. A fatigued person is automatically acci dent prone.

One of the most obscure causes of accidents, however and of accident- proneness is the unconscious desire to experience them. You may say no one wants, to bo killed or injured, but the man who hates his work, the woman who despises her job, have an unconscious for, rather, a sub-con- nclous) urge to have an accident.

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Again, if a man. or woman worried over something in private Bife, concentrailon on the task in hand vanishes. If a person is suffering one of those frightful inner conflicts that affect the mental health of so many,- ho in prone to accident.

The psychologist, reading a news paper report on an accident, will consider that possibly the victim was doing work for which he was not Atted: a quick brain doing a job that required some one of a 'slower tom- perament and fooling outraged; a Blow brain forced to do work for which it was not fitted and being all- xious: a superior doing routine work and feeling depreanod.

When the work and the worker are really fitted one to the other, accidents will diminish. When caso in need of serious paychological treatment are treated psychologically as a matter of normal roadne, accident-proneness" will be not the latest discovery of the most unlightened psychologists but a relic of the dark agen.