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MONDAY, AUG. 3, 1936.

EMPIRE SHIPPING PROPOSAL

Even to those who may not be actually afraid of thunder such storms often occasion serious mental or nervous dis- turbance.

Fears in the very young, if allowed to take firm root, may cause much mischief In later life.

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A child who, in the or- dinary course of events, would not be frightened of thunder and lightning may acquire the fear from nervous parent or nurse: hence we should be careful in our attitude to the young, endeavouring always to set a good example not only by words but by deeds.

Those who feed their chil dren's fears, if it is thundering,

THUNDER?

By

A Leading Psychologist

by remarks such As "That No Apparent Cause comes of being a naughty boy,

more

super things, or a terror of sharp ob

jects, such as neelies and glass, Such morbid fears are termed and of animals which creep and

crawl. The fear aroused is intense

Fear of heights is said to symbolise overweening ambition associated with. timidity. Folaa

of closed spaces expresses a shut-in attitude to life and exactly fits one who has chosen the path of loneliness rather than co-operation. Afraid of Books

E are human mirrors

Wcontinually reflecting upon

the outer world what is within ourselves.

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The most unexpected objects can inspire horror,

One of my patients, whose occupation was of an intellectual. nature, suffered from an intense fear of books, for which he could give no adequate explana- tion.

It was not until a lengthy analysis revealed a long-forgot- ten event of tris early youth, when his grandfather, a man of

violent temper, hÅÒ pounded him severely upon the head with n

book, that his troubles were relieved.

Many pho. bins Indeed can be traced

to some emotional and disturbing ex- perience In childhood time of life when the in- dividual is most highly impression- able. These experiences, however, may not even be recollected by the person concerned.

Know your own particu lar fear, study its "works," and how it has come into being; then even if it can- not be mastered it may be more readily controlled. Fear is encouraged by in- feriority feelings.

Therefore cultivate deliberate- ly and systematically an at- titude of mind which will tend to weaken the harmful impulse.

A remarkable photograph of a lightning dash

Unfortunately, there is no cause, even though we are con- Many have been the suggestions

scious of the innocent nature of certain cure for the phobia advanced whereby Britain might overcome the competition from Tommy," may do grievous harm. E are children of the cen- the phobia and the apparent which is inborn, and which is due not to individual factors at Should alarm be shown, try turies of evolution. We absurdity of our behaviour.. foreign subsidised shipping. Sir

A natural and proper fear, all but to racial and physiologi- evoked, for example, by the "big al ones. Charles Hipwood, Director of the to explain clearly and kindly

bad wolf" would not be classed International Union of Manufac- how the storm has come about are but children even when we

Nevertheless, the burden can turers, and formerly of the Board and why there is no reason to are grown up.

Thus certain fears which ap- as a phobia; but in the case of be afraid." of Trade, has just put forward a To keep fears entirely out of pear to have no adequate cause a mouse the situation is other be eased by facing it squarely. a child's life is, of course, an in our own experience and which wise, since the mouse is a per- plan which, if adopted, would

would it be seem childish to our more ad- fectly harmless creature. affect Hongkong in common with impossibility, nor

Familiar phobias are the fear all parts of the Empire. His sug-desirable--but never exaggerate vanced reasoning may really be

racial heritages bequeathed to of open spaces, closed spaces, gestion is that there should be anthem.

us from the days when our heights, dirt, solitude, blushing, Empire-wide system of protection Usually Outgrow Them world was younger, less en the dark, fear of touching for shipping, covering goods as

lightened, and well as the vessels that carry TEARS which are inborn will stitious. them. Believing that nationalism usually be outgrown unless and protectionism have come to there is moral and imaginative phobias. stay, Sir Charles points out that mismanagement. many nations, for perfectly legi- Sometimes thunder is feared timate reasons, are determined most in spite of the fact that and out of all proportion to the complete. to possess adequate mercantile the individual fully realises that marine services, and where con-lightning is more dangerous. siderations of national defence are When deep psycho-analysis is involved, no expense will be spared undertaken a fear of being in achieving that aim.. He doubts punished by death or injury whether a mere war of subsidies during the storm may be dis- would lead to any conclusive or closed. satisfactory result, and therefore There are, of course, many suggests a totally new kind of other things than thunder which protection, with a new technique give rise to fear.

NE of the least known but most The hare who flees distracted-ONE of its own. It is admitted that

indispensable jobs the Navy un- this system would not be easy to ly in front of the headlights of dertakes is mapping the "Highways construct or work, and that the a car, the miser who hoards up of the Seven Seas," On the average. willing consent of the Dominions gold for an old age that never £100,000 a year is spent by the

Adntiralty in making the sen and India would have to be obtain comes, the "stick-in-the-mud" for Britain's shipping, and indeed, ed. Moreover, all kinds of dif- who fails in life because he is for that matter, for the whole world,

A long list, yet by no means

Highways of the Seven Seas

safe

ficulties and dangers, from retalia-over-cautious, the individual because the charts the Navy maker tion downwards, would have to be who nurses some trivial and can be bought by any nation.

which he is In essence, however, absurd fear of

dealt with.

There are eight ships engaged in it is claimed that the plan would ashamed-all are arred with this ceaseless task, which has been be simple-firstly, that, subject to the same brush. agreed qualifications and excep-. tions, the selection of sea trans- port was to be left to be. deter-

The

How the Navy

knowa dangers are still sometimes to be found."

to

As soon as the rock was found the Admiralty issued . "Notice Mariners, directing the correction of mariners are another way in which the Navy helps the world's shipping.

they for the information contain ใส

Makes Maps for charts to show it. Such notices to

waters.

the World

of

the

vessel sailing the

Sir Charles Bays it need not shock, grasp how tremendous a thing/mer work. Four others are abroadi! harbours, and at river mouth, sand-est Indies, and in the Far

or surprise the United States or fear is and how long we have into practically every Japan; these countries were quite really lived throughout naturally going to take as much life-trec..

of our trade as they could, what-

ever we did or refrained from doing, and if they saw that the

British Empire was united and NOTES OF THE DAY

really meant to act, they would

be prepared to talk business. In

buy

cor-

not

published free to all. These notices contain vital information to shipping, which cannot wait for publication in and they are the usual manner, century around ever since 1705. A large staff going on for over a

seas, from 70,000-tanners, such as Britain, but it is never finished, skilled map-makers has to be kept available to every

Normandis Vessel is going to drawing up new charts and revising Queen Mary and the

In ad- This year one

down to grubbiest tramp.

the And what about you?

by old ones. elaborate the work commenced

have dition, round our consts are certain Now confess it-haven't you

In the home waters, which

Home- stations which regularly broadcast the New Zealand.

Government been accurately charted for a dread of something of cats, Captain Cook around the coasts of mined by considerations of price of walking in the dark, of water, has lent a surveying ship especially thing like a century and a half, the data contained in the notices, and any

surveying other urgent news. most vital part of the and ufliciency alone; and, second-

A surveying officer's life la ly, that all the resources of the or of any one of a number of for this work,

In what are known as the "home vessels' work does not lie in deep other things?

navigate Mariners can Empire should be used to sup-

the stormy seas of the North Atlantic, the port this principle. Anticipating Such fears can be explained, waters" around Britain four survey

lian the approaches to the hurricane-swept waters of

wheru

East, to scheme, but only when we are able to begun their sum. no sense of danger. The without its excitement, especially in

themar and their calling Lakes

nd-where typhoons are upon shipping and treacherous shifting sands and

escape. Not have to be re-charted annually, before the vessels can our bight of the seven seas. In recent banks 1

years they have been charting in the Wrecks, derelicts, alterations in the very long ago the Challenger herself Persian Gulf, the Indian Ocean, the contour of the sen bed, the silting up struck a rock 300 miles south of the of eirannels and river mouths de- entrance to Hudson Strait, but suf- Red Sea, along the coasts of Africa, of ri

vigilance, and fered little serious damage. unceasing the mand in the West Indies, and along

cause un enormous amount of Great Barrier Reef of Australia. to rection in oli charts. More than a SEA-BED CHANGES. mention only a few areas.

quarter of a million alterations in

A party of officers from that ship spent a very adventurous winter The finest surveying vessel afloat the old charts have to be made

short time back, for they were pro- com-annually. The British Admiralty has de- is the Challenger. She was

Still it a surprising what new die-vided with dog-teams and lived like. pleted at Plymouth, and has central

Five Eskimos for many months, doing im cork have coveries are made every year. any negotiations on the subject, cided to build a new survey ship heating, and layers of the qualifications and exceptions to carry on research work at sea. been placed between her metal plates years ago a huge 100-fathom hole portant shore work. Much work has the to minimise the intense cold of tho was found in the North Sen. It had to be done from the shore on occasion, to be allowed would naturally The ship will be called

Atlantic. She has been en-long been reported by fishermen, but in the erection of beacons and similar land- take a foremost place, and it is "Research", and will be of non-North

650 raged in the Far North, charting confirmation of its existence was not conspicuous objects to net an

for modern. suggested that if the parties knew magnetle construction. Of

proving the necessity their own minds, an agreement tons, the "Research" will have an the practically unknown area lying found till 1931. Then again, by no murks for the surveyors on board, An

have yet, for

inac mutually satisfactory could be auxiliary engine and will carry between Labrador and Greenland. means all the rocks have been found aris, zone, of the early ones, two

recent years. Three or three centuries old, are no enough fuel to give a cruising This is because a new ocean route to

Britain has been opened up be been roer 4,000 new ones reached. The scheme, in its pre-radius of two thousand miles at tween Hudson Bay and Liverpool. years ago an unlocated rock sank curate that salient features are as. sent form, looks rather nebulous aix knots. Her hull will be of The maritinic survey of Labrador Lord Moyne's yacht, Roussalka, in much as seven miles out of their trus

position. and inconclusive, but its author teak, and fittings which are or alone is a gigantic task; it will take Killary Bay, County Galway.

In other cases the passage of time NOTICES TO MARINERS

has so affected the contours of the could no doubt claborate it should dinarily made of iron or steel will the necessity arise. On general be of brass, bronza or some other WHERE PERIL LIES

The local inhabitants said it had son bed, sometimes as the result of the Bloodslate Rocks, or through a steady rise or fall of the violent earthquakes on the ocean bed; grounds, it may be said that, any non-mugnetic alloy. Only about

The United States has also done foundered on plan which calls for intensification 600 lbs. of ferrous metal will be of restrictions would be regret- uued in her whole construction, some charting in this area, but by but Lord Moyo was unbind can floor, that old charts are useless.

of the West Coast of South tablo at a time when the great Including scientific staff and off-far the most surveying work in the on the evidence supplied by the cap-

although

other countries chart their surveying ships, the Beaufort, to America to give an example, at need is in the other direction.cers, she will have a complement world is done by the British Navy, tain, the Admirally sent one of Ita

tima soundings indicated over 200 But if other nations show no dis-of thirty-one.

The work of the "Research" own coasts. British Admiralty agents oxamine the spot, and there,

can be

found in every big world port,

port, enough, was an unknown rock, Lord foet in a cortain spot. To-day the former 27 feet. More remarkable still, in LTD. position to compromise, then there

will be little loft for Britain to do will be world-wide, but it will and in one year over three-quarters Moyne said, "The discovery of this depth is only four and a half fathoms,

were million charts

sold.reck near an anchorage in most probably begin in the South- of but to take such steps as she ern Indian Ocean. According to Naturally the Navy benefits most, times mach frequented by the British another place a supposed depth af deems prudent in the interests of a report published in The Times, and about 400,000 charts a year are Navy. is a remarkable example of the 1608 feet has shrunk to eight and a

E. R, YARHAM,. F.R.GS.. the preservation and expansion of the programme mapped out for issued to it by the Hydrographic fact that even in the most carefully half fathoms,

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