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The
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up
By a Special Medical Correspondent
P you knew you were
coming into a million
would to-morrow,
you
have any difficulty in tumbl ing out of bed to-morrow into a new day?
Bed is warm and the world is cold-to most of us anyway.. Cold in more senses than one.
you get the
in
morning?
you can MAKE yourself wake if you
It denies us ap many of the want to
things we want.
SLEEP HAS
Thongkong Telegraph. regression. Regression
THURSDAY, January 14, 1037
means
three functions: rest, repair and what the psychologist's call retreat; retreat into the dream. world, where the mind can coil itself up to emerge stronger for
If your room is warmer than your bed-or at least as warm--- and your bath is warmer than your room, the sildo into wake- fulness should be easfer,
Air-conditioning when it lo general will aimplify life in that respect.
Learn to enjoy actively both falling asleep and waking. ART they are both natural processER, It should not be difficult.
Meditate for five minutes be fore relaxing into, sleep: on the joys of sleeping and of waking again to a new day.
Get it clearly into your mind whether you really want to rise at an carly hour and what for... If you really want to get up, you will; if you merely wish but don't want, you won't.
IT IS A GOOD thing to train your subconscious mind to wake you at the appoint- ed hour, and this you can do by making a clear decision before you go to sleep.
Once trained, this faculty of waking at any hour-the Ger mans call it Kopfuhr (the clock in the head)-Is always useful, besides being a step in the con- trol of one's subconscious facul- ties.
WHETHER YOU
fuhr," allow at least five minutes use an alarum or your "Kop- for waking, so that you enjoy the process,
may
To jump abruptly out of bed at the tinkle of an alarum is bad for body and mind. The young may be capable of tolerating it, but it does no good.
Make it warm with expecta- face-then you are apt to linger High spirits and low spirits tions, and your trouble will not a little with your dreams; you follow a definite cycle which you Stubbs Road be in tumbling out but in are a little unpunctual with Hife: can discover for yourself if you you do not keep your appoint- jot down your moods from day Lumbling in.
ment; you make a little gesture to day. of defence ("after all I have my
When you are low-spirited dreams"); and you stay a little and in the low phase, you will longer in bed.
need more sleep, which you can You say to yourself and you conveniently get by going to bed may even deceive yourself"It a little earlier. You will have isn't that I don't want to get up perceptibly greater difficulty in rising and will need all the morn I just can't.”
ing help you can get. know But, deep down, you perfectly well that you can, but When you don't want to. If life be- phase you will have less or no you are in the high
came sufficiently interesting, dificulty in rising. It may even well, that would be different. be necessary with some very active people to stay in bed a RECENTLY DR. little longer than is desired. Hersey, at the University of
PHYSICAL We all dream. Those who are Pennsylvania, has not aware of their dreams are the each individual has his own warmth, too, is a help. Cold merely exempt from the dis- "emotional-energy" cycle, which bedrooms and bathrooms are a varies from one week to three sore trial. Better be comfort- turbing dreams that interrupt months, but averages four to ably zestful than healthfully born again. a new life. sleep.
1. L. P. YEARNINGS
The Independent Labour Party, extreme element of British politics, is making efforts to align itself once again with the main Labour Party, in the hope of presenting a united front to other political bodies. Four years ago, the I.L.P. with drew from the Labour Party on the ground that the constitution and policy of the Party imposed restrictions on the type of Socialist activity favoured by the extremists. Having. since ploughed a lonely furrow, with no real influence in British politics, these Leftists are now
the day to come.
The first five hours of sleep take care of the rest and repair of body cells. The other three hours provide your nightly dose of dreams.
People who have led excep- tionally full lives-like Nano- leon and Edison-have not need-
that dose. They have not needed dreams because their
lives provided the stuff we ordi-
nary mortals.dream about. Five hours was enough for them..
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TURN ON YOUR back, stretch your arma and legs, twist and stretch your trunk, yawn and take a few calm, deep breaths; not as a penance or as an exercise, but for sheer plea-
sure.
YOU HAVE BEEN
Into a new day and Is that so bad?
FORMOSA TO-DAY.
Japan's Jumping-Off Place For
Southern Asia.
SQUEEZED OUT
are
authorities.
of Formosa, a very considerable défence base, and the Istonds of the Pescaderes; not very many miles away, are completely closed to all foreign ships.
tion, achievement and hanni- but with the confessed hope of
ness, the more you dream. The leading a revolt within the frustrated person is a day Labour Party and thus securing dreamer and a night-dreamer By WILLIAM TEELING | are supported in this by the Consular in the South the adoption of a more challeng- and he needs a bigger dose of
SETTLEMENT FAILURE ing policy. Mr. Fenner Brock-dream-dope before he can face (Reproduced from “Overseas," the
Next to the Chinese come the They have
ANOTHER HONGKONG? way, the General Secretary of again the world that he finds magazine of the Overscas League)
too bleak, too cold, too real. He THE Japanese have held Formosa Japanese themselves.
for over forty years. It is their made many attempts to colonise the
people from Army officers told me quite frankly the I.L.P. goes further still sleeps longer but worse.
oldest colony and it is interesting to country with poorer see what success they have had in Japan, but in forty years they have that they intend to make Takao the They when he states that he and his
50 only,
far,
one got The oldest inhabit-
colony Hong King of the future. Zestful, happy, positive-mind- dealing with it. followers are prepared to tryed successful people who know ants of Formosa are the aborigines. functioning, a settlement of about a intend to make the Chinese from which has only China trade directly with Takao. There are now about 150,000 of these hundred familles, and find a basis of common what they want and where they people left, scattered up and down been in existence two years and is They intend it to be their base for their own trade in the Southern netion with the Communists. are going-have no trouble in the island, but mostly on the eastern subsidised from Tokyo.
side. They have not always been
The reason for the failure tend it to be a great naval and serial hemisphere and, above all, they in- lucky in their treatment elther by colonising schemes is that the The main differences between getting up of a morning.
Chinese or Japanese and massacres Japanese standard of living is higher jumping-off ground for South Chinn for the Philippines and for the the 1.L.P. and the Communista But if you've got the wrong in the past have been numerous. than that of the Chinese and they
*Pacific. To-day, however they live in are consequently handicapped in
of hitherto have arisen from the job, or (more likely) the wrong
It is only since the incident separate districts as much as possi- marketing and in everything else.
Manchukuo In 1931 that the Japanese former's opposition to any attitude to your job; if you see ble and are being educated entirely it is the same story with regard to
have become so completely nation- They are now alliance with the so-called demo-only its routine and boredom as Japanese by Japanese policemen, small trading in the towns and, as cratic elements of the Conserva- and not its opportunities; if who act as teachers. When they a result, they are only a little over alistic in Formosa.
come down to the towns, they have 200,000 Japanese in the island of trying to insist that all Chinese shall These people are almost learn Japanese in the schools. They tive and Liberal Parties for the there is something you fear to their own small compound, where Formosa.
they can spend the night, bring their all either Government officials, clerks are trying to pacify the inhabitants shopping and rest. They the in offices, or are working for some with a mild form of self-government, Popular purpose of forming a
(or some ble though this is much to the annoyance only people in Formosa who are be- Government factory Front. The I.L.P. has further finitely set itself against having coming completely Japanese, and are Japanese concern) in the tea in- of the Army, but bit by bit-and
incapable of resisting it.
dustry, lumber trade or the fisheries. very definitely-they are pushing all of the Again distinction has to be made country and there
foreign business firms out held to the view that peace can- lot or parcel with the Reds. It
is not one between Japanese born in Japan and missioner in the Jale of Formosa not be maintained by pacts be- is a fortunate circumstance for
The Next come the Chinese. There are Japanese born in Formosa.
who feels that either his mission or tween capitalist. Governments, the Old Country that the official
und In over five millions of these They | Japanese, both in business
longer. The country is full of but only through agreements Labour Party adheres strongly have come to Formose in different Government offices, insist that the his hospital is safe for very much best positions must go to people troops and the barracks are the most view to controlling them the coming directly from Japan. They up to date and most Western that I negotiated between working to constitutional methods in fur.waves over many generations. With
Japanese decided that there must be consider that a Japanoce who has
have seen in the Japanese Army, and class Governments. Thus Mr.therance of its aims and objects.us few wealthy Chinese in Formosa been born and bred in Formosa considerably better than our own in Fenner Brockway envisages the It differs, admittedly, from the as possible. They, therefore, dis- may have lost some of his Japanese
courage any
setting up ideals, and so he often finds I almost in business on a scale, and con-
us difficult to get work as would al time when all the Leftist ele-Government now in power, on
Formosa
The Chinese in Formosa have been have sent their sons back Business Interests in Formosa ments in British politics will many points, but, as was shown sequently almost all the richer better class Chinese born
services and for policing the streets. unite, contending that the unity in the recent internal crisis, it into China to settle there and make insisted that the Government should allowed to form a militia for social their own fortunes. This leaves all first try out the most suitable but they are not allowed to join the
af the of the working-classes is abso-is prepared to make common the positions of importance and all industries at the expense been Army, nor are they allowed to bear
the management of big concerns in | taxpayer. When that had
arma. Japanese told me that no- lutely essential to the defeat of purpose with any party in de- the hands of Japanese.
done, big business began to stop body can bear arms for the Emperor the National Government at the fence of constitutionalism. It is
The five millions of Chinese who in and take over. I visited some of
what are their next General Election. The obvious that the I.L.P. is begin- still remain are therefore, almost all the big ter estates, and it was of who is not a complete Japanese.
of a working-class type. These interest to find that the Japanese fea You ask them
trade can only compete with the ideals of colonisation and they say: outside world when the yen is "We will not be successful as coloni, point which appears to be over-ning to realise that it has people are permitted to
peacefully, and so far have been
fact that sers until we have mode all For-- neither power nor influence allowed to have their own Chinese devalued, and it is also looked, however is that whilst
been the I.L.P. may desire to come amongst the people as a whole; plays and processions. They have in more than one industry they have mosung Into Japanese. They must given good roads and law are to be certain of a protected Japanese have Japanese mentality and Japan- ese Ideals." Generals and colonels. in under the Labour banner ones hence its anxiety to link up with order, and they consider that on the market where they sell at a more orfessed to me that this might take.
whole they are a great deal better less fixed price and make a proft again, the Labour Party wants those whose prospects are de off than they would be under Chitiese with the surplus. They have been yet another fifty years and, judging
wor lords, Anitely brighter. Its main nothing to do with it. The mere objective appears to be the over-view, have another advantage. They Many of them, from their point of fact that the ILP. is also an throw of the present Govern can go to the Chinese mainland and xious to link up with the Comment, but, even for that purpose, pretend at first that they are Chinese a considerable profit out of Formosa, mosa' has been greatly improved and such as the oplum trade little about this and says that the impossible for an ordinary For- munists should suffice to demon- it is unlikely to be welcomed subjects. They then engage in Ille- the Army, on the other hand, cares is efficiently run; though it is almost
gal activities, strate the absurdity of any re-back into the ranks of the and smuggling, and when arrested only reason for holding Formosa is mosan to rise above the levit of a The Army is now labourer. That is Japan's policy in by the Chinese authorities they claim a strategic one. union with Labour, which has de- Labourites.
Immunity as Japanese subjects and making out of Takao, the biggest elly all colonising schemes.
.
carry on
Hongkong.
CHINESE MILITIA
dumping goods in foreign countries at the Japanese as colonisers by their cheap enough rate to handicap the own standards, it must be said that
they have been fallures, world.
It big business hopes soon to make But one must concede that For
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