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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1936.

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MONDAY, NOV. 2, 1936.

BRITISH CIVIL

AVIATION

The Governments of most

of

the leading nations of the world have spent money lavishly on on couraging civil aviation. The British Government also has as- sisted private, enterprise to buil up national air services, but on a much more modest scale. Ac- cording to statisties quoted in the House of Commons some time ago, the British subsidy paid per ton-mile was only half that paid in' Germany, less than a quarter of that paid in France, and about a fifth of the amount paid in Italy, The total British vote for civil aviation last year was £639,041, an-incresise-of-£93;704-over that for the previous year, due mainly to Improvements required to facilitate night flying. In spite of the comparatively small sums pro- vided by the Government, British air services are advancing rapid- ly. A report recently issued by the Air Ministry on the progress

of civil aviation in 1935 shows

most encouraging developments in

all respects. The statistics given

How to Be HAPPY

when OLD

JEAR of old age is one of

the deepest fears in human nature. It is a fear that goes back to primi- tive man. And it may be the last fear to be conquered by modern man.

Yet there is no adequate or Jogical basis for this fear, for it is one based on a blind Instinct and not on reason.

Old age can be the most beautiful chapter in life. The Is usually associated with long years exist chiefly in the appre- hensive minds of the young and The middle-aged.

I write that as an old man

But directly I make that clas- silention I am aware of an inner protest. "Old?" says old Ego, what honsense is this? Don't you touch your toes every morning? Can't you run a good quarter of a mile without get- Ling winded? Have you ceased to enjoy a run, a dive, and a plunge??

It is when, my Ego talks like that that I have no answer, In years, being close on 70, I am what the very young think of as "ancient," and the middle-aged as old." But that is nll, Old- age has not very much to do with the years: but it has a great deal to do with our minds.

A man is as old as he thinks. To-day, because to the eco- nomic insecurity that was al- ways the lot of the majority (a fact we are apt to forget) there is added the persistent Year of war, fear of age increases.

There is a story of how Rodin. mitted fear of age to dominate the great French sculptor, per-

his, creative years and polson his mind.

old age was upon him, Rodin

When the hour struck, when

faced the disaster of a war and,

wringing his hands, fled from France to England.

But the years were not the

-To-day's Thought- GROW old along with me, The beat is yet to be

-ROBERT BROWNING.

by

Sir Herbert

Barker

catastrophe, nor the war. The trouble was that Rodin had no philosophy with which to meet old age.

For such people' old age 19 a terrible thing, but for nobody else.

That may seem a wide and sweeping assertion. Perhaps it 15. Yet who will dispute the fact that the real armour against misfortune is within cach one of us?

As Sir James Barrie has put it: It is not Life that matters, but the courage we bring to It."

It is because old age brings for most people who have ved full and sensible lives a full philosophy that it can be the most lovely phase of life.

Why do people fear the years? Why do they forfell the joy of the years of full bodily and Intellec- tual vigour by casting over each day the shadow of the fear of to- morrow?

It is because' old age has been' identified with great evil and, generation after generation, man hus accepted the assertion.

And the old have remained rather reticent: they are not given to proclaiming the truth. Namely, that the foy of life depends chiefly upon the quality of memory.

young are often very old: the d are often young.

Here, very briefly, I will try to tell my readers How To Be Happy When Old. It is necessary to pass this information to them before they are Old Age Pensioners, for then it will be too late.

The art, then, of getting the best out of old age is to ignore it com- pletely, to east away fear, fear of sickness, of want. of the loss of dead ones, and to live one day at a time.

Love te, and make love the nainspring of all your actions, and you need have no fear of what is to

When one is old one no longer anticipates old age with fear. It is upon one, for the calendar bear:: witness_to_the_fact..................___And_one__be_Live, whlic you have vigour, so

looks In the mirror and wonders Is this face the face of one who old? Am I an old man7

Save for the evidence of the

In years, one might dispute It. fact, one has every right to dis- pute it.

What most people think of as old age is a state of mind.

The

that no day is wasted.. Love le and you will become Life's lover.

It is only necessary to glance at the outstanding old among us to recognise the supreme truth of, this.

At over eighty Sir Oliver Lodge continues to work hard his scientific laboratory. The 1: Poet

Do You Dream Too Much?

one.

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In ancient By T. S. Denham

official

Secondly, there are the purposes of the incidents, and it is these which may be traced back to unsuspected

"The art, thon, of getling the best out of old ago is to ignara il plotoly.

"Live

·

com-

so that

no day is wasted."

Laureate turned to a new carcer when most men would reckon their life's work done. He died at eighty- two. Until the end he sang. th

Masaryk, until a few years ngo President of Czechoslovakia, re- tired at eighty-two-and, having handed over, rode into the country, on his horse.

Edison, at eighty, was still work- Ing, sometimes as long as twenty hours on end. And I could.go on citing other Instances, Including that of my lamented friend the lale Lord Moynihan, vigorous at seventy and only defeated at the last by a broken heart.

The whole point is this: that the axchitecture of old age is the task of the rest of life. I imagine a man or woman who has done much harm to others has an age old without joy. For it is when we have time to survey the years that are past that we can look with. keen, critical eyes at the part we played throughout them.

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There can be no harsher court than the tribunal of self-judgment when it sits in age upon the errors and omissions of the years of activity.

In a way, each of us gets the old age he deserves. And when I write that I am not thinking of material rewards, but of those consolations that no man can steal from another,

in the report are eloquent in their testimony as to the progress made. The traffic returns show that the number of miles flown on the regular Empire, Continental and IE study of dreams is most domestic lines rose from 4,557,000 times every court had its

fascinating

For just as the bee gathers honey in 1984 to 8,412,000 last year, dream interpreter, and many shrewd where people are talking together or unaccomplished desires of waking while the passenger mileage in- pronouncements were made by these and producing a hum of conversation. life. The man whose He is one long against winter, so we, too, nil the creased from 29,162,000 to 12,- gentlemen, who were at least versed He wakes to hid the rain beating round of financial worry dreams storehouse of our futures with the 260,000. The number of pas- not in what the modern world knows that he is in a.crowded street along bonfire of bank notes. In his dream

in a knowledge of human nature, if on his bedroom window, He dreams that he is in a field making a huge trash or treasure of our choice.

For when the heat of the day is sengers carried increased from as psychology, To-day We 135,000 to 200,000, and the air many eminent

have which a fire engine dashes madly the wealth of his workaday mazina passed and evening is conie, vo shall draw upon whatever we have mail from 250 to 714 tons.

selentists studying with its bell clanging out the alarm, tion is his. The dreams, and their _Andings

and he wakes to find his alarm clock The woman who has a rival far garnered through the years. amount of freight carried in-interesting and useful reading,

ake ringing on the little table close to more beautiful than she and who Then to whoever has stored his creased from 1,172 to 1,898 tons.

his head,

hates her intensely dreams that she heart and brain with sweet and In other words the number of

Generally speaking, a dream is Bedclothes that slip off cause is doing this rival a good turn. In noble things, with charities and an expression of a hidden wish or dreams of exposure. A sigh at the dream he is superior to her dally kindnesses, and whoever has passengers increased by 48 per longing that cannot be realised in waking causes the sensations of a fall rival, and this recompenses her for drunk deep of the beauty of the cent.; the weight of mail by 186 ordinary waking life. But there are through space. A man who breather being inferior in waking life. world, will know, a deep content.

a number of dreams which seem to heavily now and again may dream

and fulfilment, cent. during the course of the stimulants. year. The number of pilots with

per cent, and of freight by 62 per be-due simply and solely to external that he is floating on air or upon NIGHTMARES AS WARNING ...

the surface of the sea. FEELING SUPERIOR

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bedroom. A man dreams that he is in a busy restaurant

Class "A" licences current at the Many a dream is caused by a end of 1935

was 3,353, an in-noise in the crease of 200 on those current at |

the end of 1934; while the

the dreamer may find some sort of

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Really frightening dreams in witch the dreamer murders someone else or is chased by frightful animais or

But what of those who have celf Sometimes pains and aches due to is in the death awaiting execu- | Hi-health cause queer dreams, In- tion may in the same way be traced nothing but a memory of a market- digestion pains in the chest cause n back to thwarted longings or re- place? · number of those pilots with gliding movement last year. At dream in which the sleeper is pressed fears of waking e. IL

It In They will be empty in the evon- Class "B" licences increased from the end of the year there were stabbed in the chest by a huge in tracing back this connection that ing of their day.

For in old age, beyond the mini-- 498 in 1934 to 588 at the end of 31 registered gliding clubs, with negre armed with a spear. 1935. At the end of last year a membership of about 1,009. In all these dreams some kind of relief from the mental distress they mum of needs, there is but one

cause him.

want. The old desire to be loved. there were 70 light aeroplano The Government programme of events to

external stimuli may cause certain

happen in the dream On the other hand such dreadful! To bo old and unwanted-and clubs, of which 42 were parti- expansion for the Royal Air Force world, but there is much more in a dreams are sometimes a sign of Im- who has not seen this tragedy? cipating in the Air Ministry's made heavy demands upon air dream than this

pending Ill-health or disease. Con- is not always a sad commentary: scheme for affording financial as- craft manufacturers, but, in spite be analysed satisfactorily into two suggest the advisability of having|

Most dreama, however queer, may tinuous nightmares should certainly upon the young and vigorous, sistance to approved clubs. The of this, 1935 set a new record in parts. First, there are the actual a medical overhaul.

For, as one poet says, "Human love needs human meriting." average total membership of these the neronautical export trade. forms of the incidents, and these may Dreams that disclose the future are loved as we deserve to be loved. clubs during 1935 was 9,112, and The total value of the exports last be traced back to happenings that puzzle many people; that they When Browning wrote that the at the end of the year 2,489 year was £2.721.441, which was previous day, or a day or so before etasalcul instance is that which saved who lived and loved to the full.

have impressed the dreamer the actually occur cannot be doubled. A best is yet to be, he wrote as: members held pilota Class "A" £662,774 more than the previous that. licences;

the life of William Harvey, the dis- the corresponding record set up in 1929. All in all, Thus a man dreamed that he flew caverer of the circulation of the

No man can do more than that. figures for the previous British civil aviation is in a In an aeroplane to a farm house. He blood. When a young man he sei And no man doing that need усаг were respectively 5,814 thoroughly healthy condition; it is was not an airman, but the day be- out for Padun, but the Governor of shrink from the hand of Time, and 1,823. A grant of £6, growing steadily and rapidly and fore he had attended an air pageant, Dover would not let him proceed. For Time can touch lightly and the

and the aeroplano had been encourage gliding bad its further progress seems

im saying that he had dreamed that dreaded contact may become at the a stimulating effect on the sured.

pressed upon his mind as a means the Dover to Calais boat was wrecked end a bonediction from which none: of getting about.

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