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What Do Belgium and Holland Mean to

HE commander of `a nation's destinies to- day is faced with the problem of making decisions with no historical back- ground on which to place reliance.

The

emergence of the aeroplane as a supreme en- gine of war has changed considerations of defence.

Premises based on past wars (the favourite teaching ground for strategists) lack the funda- mental factor of the modern air weapon.

The Power Of Wings

SHALL WE DO

WITHOUT

BRITAIN'S SLEEP?

SAFETY?

Asks

Captain Norman

MACMILLAN

Gerninny, on the other hand, from her narrow northern cor- ridor of sea-board lying opposite our Grimsby Lo Newenstle

coastline, could raid every im

portant city in the United King- dom, except perhaps in the

extreme southwest.

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How often in the past few HE who does not know the

technicalities of avia- years has it been asserted that tion, who is ignorant of the new there is urgent need to powers that wings have given to our aircraft factories and base seaboard.

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Dream Time--Fox Trot

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Jay Wilbur's Orchestra.

Jay Wilbur's Orchestra,

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8814 I'm a learner in love-Fox Trot Jay Wilbur's Orchestra. The Scene Changes Fox Trot...Jay Wilbur's Orchestra.

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Every time I look at you-Fox Trot

FRIDAY. SEPT. 4, 1936.

WILL ROOSEVELT

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BE RE-ELECTED? The United States will soon be in the throes of the Presiden- tial election campaign. Already there are indications of a more than usually keen struggle to de-

whether termine

President I nearly let Love go slipping through my fingers-Fox Trot.

Roosevelt shall continue in oc- Got to dance my way to Heaven-Fox Trot.

Jay Wilbur's Orchestra.cupancy of the White House. "Straw votes" taken from time to time concede, in the main, that the Democrats will again suc- Johnson's Orchestra.ceed, although the odds on Roose- .. Johnson's Orchestra. velt have shortened somewhat latterly. There is, in fact, a

war, is a danger to his own aerodromes away from our east German territory only through general consensus of opinion that people.

and south-east areas, a require that one narrow strip-unicss ment so patently logical that (and until) we had squadrons Why does the British Governor Landon, although ad-

one is left astounded that the based in France. mittedly not such a well-known

Government continually af

precept has not become practice personality as his opponent, is

already? firm that it regards the likely to put up a big fight for

inviolability of Belgium and Belonging to

Holland as essential for the the liberal wing of his party, Mr. protection of Great Britain? Landon does not believe in un'

The occupation of Belgium of reasoned denunciation the

by the German forces in 1914 New Deal; he knows the farm-was part of a definite plan of ers and the ordinary citizens of campaign laid down long before the Air Arm had emerged from the great Middle West too well the chrysalis stage. It formed to fall into that error, for these an essential element of ground people appreciate the many bene-warfare.

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fits which the Roosevelt adminis- A sweeping movement tration has brought them. through Belgium was a tactical Moreover, he is a sufficiently necessity to strike at France shrewd man to realise that mere and at the Channel ports,

Does the same consideration destructive criticism will not get

apply in aerial warfare? him anywhere. His platform, therefore, outlines his ideas of I do not bellere it does. I how the worst defects of the believe that certain countries of which Great Britain is one New Deal can be overcome. He could be forced to capitulate does not pose as a Messiah, but, through air war alone, if they to use his own words, as "a plain themselves were inadequately man" thoroughly reasonable armed in the air.

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middle of the road American. But I do not subscribe to These are the impressions gain-the thesis that German pos-

session of coastal red by a special correspondent of

dromes in Belgium and one of the leading London jour- Holland would make Ger- nals who has been making a

many a stronger air Power study of the outlook on the spot.

against this country. This observer concedes that Mr. Landon stands quite a good

Swift Destruction CAN those who agree that We must move back suggest that Germany would wish to move forward?

We could not blockade Ger- many's aircraft as we blockaded her fleet before. And in the centre of that narrow strip stands refortined Heligoland.

Take another theoretical as-

pect.

If German squadrons flow Tactically, it would be bad policy for either Germany or across Holland and Belgium to

Low Countries declare this Britain to place air forces in attack Great Britain, would the Holland or Belgium. Such an act of war, even though no advanced position would render bombs were dropped? them open to swift destruction.

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Would our statesmen retallate

The traditional British con- by sending British squadrons ception of a forward Teutonic across. the same neutral ter sweep into the Low Countries ritories before these States had has vanished with the coming made some declaration? of the aeroplane's supremacy.

tional law.

tain.

By A. Doctor

N American scientist says

AN

that future races will be able to do without sleep. "They will be able to work through the twenty-four hours.'

But a great American doctor, Crile, has told us, "Sleep is vital not only to give the cerebral cells a rest, but to enable certain organs to complete their elimination of waste matters." Animals kept awake and without sleep, even under the best conditions, die in seven to ten days.

Sleep is, after all, only a phase of the conselous brain. The real mind already does without slumber ant works all the 24 hours, even when we are unconscious from any cause-- sleep, injury, disease, concussion, or under anaesthesia.

If this were not so, and if the eir- culation and respiration were not kept going by the independent

system, wx sympathetic ganglia should die when we dozed.

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THAT is why we may sometimes

Dur

wake up in the morning not only with a fresh brain but with problems solved. The jab has been going on all through the night, and science. many a knotty pelat in Invention

in the dawn.

born in "inspiration &c. lng been "I should go to bed and sleep on R," the writer heard a doctor say WOR a worried person who once to

trying desperately to find a way out of a tight corner. And sure enough in the morning the colution suddenly enme to him.

During the night's sleep all those Jumbled Impulses were sorted out way by the subconscious and the was shown to the conscious brain on the waking,

Sleep

Is by no means a waste of time as some think. "We waste half our lives lying in bed and snoring away the hours," someone hus com- plained (though as regards the latter accusation he might speak for him- self alone) "Think of all the things we might do it we did not have to go to bed"

* THE probability is that could we work do without sleep our would not be half as good as it is, Slumber is not waste af ume..

The psychologist knows that the reactions, dreams, automatisms, mind pictures, day-dreams, inspirations, and revelations are impressed or re- pressed complexes and impulses embedded from the outside; they have sunk from the conscious to the the unconscious, and paralet from day's gatherings.

We can even, to an extent, register them, and a famular example lies with the ability some people have to make a note mentally of a thing.. forget it completely, and resurrect it at the required time.

Another instance is in the site of those who can always make them- selves wake up at a given time.

We shall never be able, with satis faction, lo do entirely without our

by-by time."

Plain Clothes Weddings

By

A Clergyman RECENTLY I officiated at

an American wedding and was impressed by the un- usual simplicity of the business.

In the United States there is no need to publish the banns extend- ing over 15 days. All that the Ameri-

can has to do is to answer a few questions at the City Hall and then

get a licence.

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is, at this juncture, rind from this world, therefore, at any rate, vening territory. distance, difficult to forecast the that section of it which is liberal

Delay would give a time ad- of The inviolability

the vantage to Germany, in air war neutrality of Belgium and Hol- all important. It is a pretty land is of greater advantage to problem, but, whichever way the Germany than to ourselves. It

On presenting this to a justice of would form a bulwark for her answer lies, one thing is cer-

peace, a mayor, a clergyman, or any can be to the west, for it is n principle

other authorised person, he If Germany were to decide married at a moment's notice. of international law that the sovereignty of a State extends that a plan of campaign would to the air above its territory. necessitate flying over neutral

CHURCH weddings are the excep- territory-as in 1914 it meant ton rather than the rule in the The passage of war aircraft marching through it-that plan United States. If a religious cere- above the territory of another can be prepared within her own mony is desired, in nine cases out of nation without permission is at frontier at the present time with ten the wedding takes place at the clergyman's house, but some couples any time a violation of internn- as great effect as if she posscas decide to have the ceremony either in

ed the intervening land.

their own newly furnished home or in that of the bride's parents. In time of war it would be-

Aerodromes that lie within

As you would expect, the wedding party consists come n violation of neutrality the western frontier of Germany is very informal. The and constitute an act of war, —such as

Sylt, Kiel, Hanover, of the bride und bridegroom with two serve the New Deal and to exeven though no bombs were Munster, Cologne--are both Persons to net as witnesses.

The bridegroom wears an ordinary chance of election, but says that tend its implications to the full. dropped. Thus. British nero- near enough to Britain and far lounge suit, the bride a servicenblo President Roosevelt has just as

could not fly

over enough away to provide the best dress or costume ("mult" in Americon terminology), but she never omits a good a prospect of being return-Obviously, the success or other planes

Belgium or Holland without strategic situation under all beautiful bouquet of flowers.

How ed; he goes further, and remarks wise of his revolutionary experi-trandgressing their neutrality. conditions. that if times are bad, and if seri- ments cannot be determined at If the neutrality of these two There is no important city in orange blossom, no retinue of brides- ous trouble should break out in this stage. No man can work countries were respected by us, Great Britain that cannot be molds, no pages.

The party at whose wedding I Europe, the people are likely to miracles in a great Continent like Germany's geographical post- reached by German bombers oficiates made an appointment with

tion would oe strengthened operating from within their own

me on the telephono and arrived at. revert to a strong and experienc- the United States within a spaco

against air attack for more than frontiers.

my house a few hours later na nr The outside ed leader to tide them over. It of four years.

if she were to occupy the inter-

ranged. After the licence had been Liverpool, for example, lies examined and found in order the within the radius of action of ceremony was performed. Air attack on Germany from aeroplanes able to carry 3,000lb.

cor- 30 miles an hour in both direc overthrow of Prealdent view that it would be all for the only through. restricted Roosevelt would certainly be sur-best were Mr. Roosevelt again ridors of entry-one in North- tions-an unlikely circumstance

France

(from the would not prevent them from frontiers of Switzerland to reaching their target. observer would regret any such given a fair chance of carrying Luxembourg) and the other be

From Aberdeen to Plymouth, development. President Roose- through the policies to which he tween the north of Holland and

the story is the same. velt has had to fight-hard to pre-and his party stand committed. the south of Denmark.

very simple! No morning coats and sputa, no bridal vell and

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outcome of the election, although in thought-will incline to the the west could then be waged of bombs. Even a head wind dispense with it, others have an

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informal one in their new home potato-crisps with green peas, rolls where creamed chicken, patties, and and butter, coffee, fee cream, and cake take the place of our familiar ham and tongue, skind, and jellies. But no toasting!