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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER

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8, 1936.

Stratosphere Atlantic Flight Planned

Why Dictators Are Ruthless

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HAT makes Hitler and Mussolini so filled with pride at their own prowess and ability, so brutal and ruthless to their enemies?

The question was asked by Dr. S. Vere Pearson, speaking on the causes of fear at the Land Valuation Conference at Caxton Hall, Westminster, and he de-i clared that the answer was fear -fear of dethronement from their position of power, and fear of actual destruction and deall for themselves and their party. Envy and pride, he said, were the obverse of the coin of fear.

Fear, and Dr. Pearson, was a state

of mind induced an IT

against danger, real or

and there were terrible

protection

Imaginary, apprehen-

sions about nowadaya producing armaments and war. That fear was not the primary cause of war, for behind the fear was danger, chiefly danger of want and loss of liberty:

With fears, he said,, went hate and Vanity und there were 10-day peculiar forces tending to produce group fear. It was at the bollam of the narrow nationalism which was thut so general to-day-the fear rivals across a border were de termined to take the bread from their mouth.

Lack of freedom, he said, bred og gressiveness, not to say tyranny, and atred, but, given equal opportuni- ties, the perverse psychological state, of a crowd would disappear. Crowds were depressed and became fearful because of the monotony of industrial civilization. Repressed people.form- ed the backbone of Fascist and Communist movements.

Dr. Pearson said that man could be happy and healthy if he learned lo obey the laws of nature, which in- cluded certain hitherto largely un- recognised economic laws. Many man-made the inco

lawn could go, and when cconomics

by laws of

were

and allowed to work consent the logic of existence, a happy social co-opera- tion, could have full play. Then, would the word "property" be pro- perly understood, for, taxes being swept away, what a man produced would be his, and what the com- munity created would go to the community, to be given back in services according to the payments madc.

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CANADA'S NEWEST TRAINS

EEPING thoroughly abreast the the times, the Canadian Pactile Railway is putting into commiss- ion four semi-streamlined Hightweight trains which will operate on the day runs between Man- *treal and Quebec, Toronto and Detroit, and Edmonton and Calgary. At present these de luxe trains are on tour for públic lispection in Ontario, Quebec, and Western Canada, where they will be seen by

many thousands of residents.

Economical in operation and approximately only half the weight of a regular standard train of the same equipment, the trains, which consist of the Jubilee 4-4-4 type locomotive (3000 class) mail and express enr, baggage and buffet car and two first class coaches, murk a distinct forward move- ment in modern transportation in Canada. Thoroughly air-conditioned the cars at all times are sup plled with clean fresh air and will be found comfortably warm in winter, and pleasantly cool in лitmumer. In the pictures above are shown the new train, and parts of the first class conchi, buffet cor and ladies lounge.

WHEN BRITAIN WOULD NOT

ACT AGAINST JAPAN

Former U. S. Secretary Of

State's Revelations

IT. ACTUALLY HAPPENED!

Hanımond, Ind., Oct. 1.

It really happens ence in

while!

Joe Cross, fireman, skinnfed up a popular tree in his yard and straddled a limb needing amputa- tion. He sawed it through in record time only to crash to the pre-ground with it. Just a matter of

sitting on the wrong end of the limb-United Prean.

London, Supt 28.and international co-operation to

efforts vent the success of her policy was

vital,

BRITAIN RELUCTANT

"I was finally convinced from his

HOW unsuccessful

were made to persuade Britain to join the United States' active policy against attitude the British Government was Japan's policy in Manchuria in reluctant to join such a demarche and February, 1932, is revealed in 1 therefore pressed no further.", he Mr Henry Stimson's "The For says. - What a man produces, he said, In-

Eastern Crisis," which is pub-Nine-Power Treaty against Japan but Mr. Stimson proposed to invoke the cludes the interest-earning wealth he has put aside to aid Turner pro-

lished to-day.

believes the tatluence of the City of} duction, So quarrels between Capital | Mr. Stimson, then U.S. Secretory of London was an obstacle to British and Labour will vanish. They are Stales, writes, he thrice spoke to. Sic action. founded on illusions. Th a con- John Simon, then British Foreign Adence will arise when the common Minister, on the Trans-Atlantie tele- interests are no longer found to phone, urging that Japan's action im- clash with individual interests.◄ perilled the whole world peace system

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Australia Tells The World

"We Should Do It in

Six Hours"

New York, Sept. 30. CLARENCE CHAMBER-

LIN, the famous United States airman, is planning a stratosphere flight from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Land's End or London

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dute is fixed, and at present No Chamberlin and his bride are touring the South collecting funds for the fight. When, and if, It takes pince, the adventure will be a "stratorphere honeymoon," Mrs. Louise Chamber- in is familiar with the air, having been hostess in a transport liner be- fore marriage.

Chamberlin's two-seater Lock- heed monoplane is already named Miss - Stratosphere." Hid is confi- dent that the transocean flight con be made above 'the clouds ai height of 35,000ft.

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Its 1,200-h.p. engine, is super- charged, and capable, Chamberlin says; of a speed up to 500 miles, an hour above the normal "eeiling,"

"It," he says, "ive make the 1,850- miles hop from St. John's to Land's End we should complete the journey (In alx hours. To London would take

from ten to fifteen."

Chamberlin is following in the steps of Wiley Post, the experimental Alleg in the stratosphere. He hopes to pave the way for shorter Night across the formidable Atlantie,

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His young wife says, "I won't have time to get seared--and, anyway, am never afraid when flying with Clarence."

Childhood Fantasies

SOME COMMON ASPECTS

Some of the more common fan- tastes of normal children, such as dreams and the games of "Let's pretend were explained by Dr. Ruth Griffiths, of Bath, in a paper on the "Significance of Fantasy in the Nermal Development of Childhood," at a British Association meeting re- cently.

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Fantasy activity represented transition stage between infancy and the later more Intellectual develop- ment. Fear and aggression appeared to be complementary attitudes, due possibly to a central feeling of in- security.

Fear and aggression fantasics might become so extreme as to evolve environment and also ideas of cruelty ideas antagonistic to the child's directed towards persons actually loved. Mutillation fantasles were common, as were ideas of death and disaster, of buildings falling, and of

fire and so on.

Such Ideas in less furtive and in less assertive moods might be turned against the child himself, leading to idens of death and injury. Terror dreams, or fearful fantasies from which a child turned In lcrror, might also result.

These alternating attitudes of cruel and intense resistance to the general environment and the subsequent complementary sense of failure, of Impolence and general self-feeling, seemed natural at this period of childhood, although often complicated by circumstances.

ANNIVERSARY SOON This shows, says Mr. Stimson, America was willing not only to

The beginning of Sydney's elt- collaborate with the League, but act borate preparations to celebrate, The study of children's fantasies

head. The acceptance Powers at Geneva of the principle of Captain Cook's landing in Aus were many characteristics of adult by the in 1938, the 150th anniversary of showed that childish thinking was

not dissimilar to that of adults. There' non-recognition of territorial acquisi- tion as a result of aggression was due tralia, have stimulated the evolu-thought evident." to America's

ica's insistence.

tion of many bright ideas among Dr. Griffiths regarded fantasy not Mr. Stimson pays a tribute to the its citizens, to tell the world so much as an avoidance of reality value of subsequent British co-opera- about it..

as a means whereby the child mos- tion, but says the 'chlef defect of the

tered in plecemeal fashion the prob-. League is that it is tied to the Ver has ever been.-built," one Pro

"Erect a tower higher than lems presented by his environment. sailles Trealy. Thus it "was made

the agency of an attempt to preserve Bono Publico advises in the the status quo in a situation which re- press, "with a coloured light on quired change and growth."

He urges the need of Anglo-top, powerful enough to be seen American co-operation for the main-100 miles away." tenance of world peace-Myter.

COVADONGA MUST PAY WIFE £50 A MONTH

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SCOTLAND'S

Another wants to start a chain letter OLDEST NATIVE

to travel round the globe bearing the

message that Australla is 150 years IS 106 YEARS OLD

old. A third, capitalising the revived popularity of the scooter, especially

in Melbourne, suggests, an interna-

tional scooter race from Newcastle to

Sydney, a

a distance of 100 miles.

Dunkeld (Perthshire),

Sept. 20.

One man, according to Austral THE oldest living Scot, Miss Isabella Miller, of Boat of News, has offered to jump from the

big

harbour bridge, manacled "for a Murthy, Caputh, near Dunkeld, consideration." Somebody eise pro is 106 years old.

She herself will cut the cake

with

poses a balloon ascent into the stratosphere, or higher if possible. the 100 candles at the party to-night Other suggestions include the trans-and her one regret is that hor formation of Fort Denilson, a harbour brother, Daniel, of Kensington-pin

land, into a sort of Luna Park sur-Camden Hill, London, who is 95, will mounted by an bigger than the Statue of Liberty.

enormous figure, not be present. Finally there is a vocal suggestion:

New York, Sept. 30. THE Count of Covadonga, eldest son of ex-King Alfonso, was ordered In New York to-day to pay his beautiful Cuban wife £50 aat 12.1 a.m. on January 28, 1938 tion of Queen Victoria's visit to the

month alimony.

She has not seen him since 1914.

• Miss Miller lins a clear recollec-?

(the actual date of Captain Cook's highlands in 1844. Sho visited the He was also ordered to pay her should rush into the streets and open speaks of the time when no bridge landing at Botany Bay), everyone great 1051 exhibition in London and £150 for hor counsel's fees.

The alimony order is temporary writer naively adds: "If we can't tell changed stage coaches by ferrying places and sitout, Australia"The spanned the River Tay, and travellers pending trial of her suit for the world in this way, we can at least across the river. Annulment of the marringe. - tell each other." ..

She was born (In 1830) in the house in which she now lives and where, except for eleven years In

NEVER SMOKED, SHAVED OR SWORE London, the has always lived.

HE HAS JUST DIED. AT

92

Richard Stanton, aged 92 years, has just died at Adelaide. He often declared, says Austral News, that he had never smoked, never been intoxicated, never shaved nor had ever been guilty of swearing.

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He also claimed to be the only person in South Australia who had shaken hands with Queen Victoria.

She sull reads her newspaper withi- out spectacles, Inils socks and walks unaided in the garden daily. She has just completed six pairs of socks for Caputh Church sale of work to- morrow, N

The most cherished possession in her garden is a large helly tree, which, her father planted as a small sapling on the day of her birth.

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