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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1997.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1937,

REAL SOCIAL SERVICE

The St. John Ambulance Brigade recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, when the Queen reviewed representative contingents in Hyde Park, a Commemoration Service was held in St. Paul's, and a brigade of nurses marched past Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace. It is very unusual for the mem-

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efficient service from all classes of the community. Last year in the United Kingdom they treated 20,448 road accidents and 120,000 patients. Throughout the Kingdom, in all trades and professions, the St. John Ambulance men are ready to give first-aid whenever nc- cidents occur. In the coal mines, for example, there arc emergency stations at every pit- heud, and in every shift there are miners who have become proficient members of the Brigade. When Londoners con- gregated in their thousands to watch the Coronation procession, the St. John Ambulance men were standing along the edge of the crowd ready to give expert attention to anyone in need of it. Their presence was taken

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there

The new Imperial Air- ways Aying boats and (right) the De Havilland Albatross are the first aircraft prepared by. Britain for an Atlantic service.

H

E was one of those extraordinarily dim- cuit people who will crab everything. And

he was trying my patience by explaining to everyone else just why Atlantic flying would never be a success.

"Take this Atlantic air race," he started,

"You see, United States ex- ports sny, No! It isn't safe.' And of course it isn't safe. You can't expect aeroplanes to fly that far-3,000 miles, isn't it?--- and still be safe."

My spirits dropped as he turned to me. I knew exactly what he was going to say: someone says it to me almost every day.

"Now tell me: would it be safe, as a commercial risk, for me to Dy to America to- morrow?

That is how people will talk about the Atlantic. Those heroes-so many of them ridi- culously foolhardy--who have flown or have falled to fly the Atlantic have given people a rather distorted idea of its dangers. It would not be safe for you or me or anyone else to fly from America to England commercial, an ordinary farc-paying passenger at the moment.

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CTUALLY the risk, under proper condi- tlons, would be quite small, but it would obviously not be just as safe us from fly- ing from London to Paris. And when people ask me whether it is safe to fly across the Atlantic, I take that criterion.' So do the experts of Imperial Airways.

NO!

You CAN'T

Fly the Atlantic

says

J. STUBBS-WALKER

The Mayo "composite aircraft" is one experimental solution of the problem of taking of with a sufficient load of fuck. (Pictures by courtesy of "Modern Wonder," in this week's issue of which they appear.)

they want to know, if it is safe enough to send an expensive aeroplane and five men across the Atlantic regularly, why isn't it safe enough to send passen- gers.

Which is ridiculous. One crash by an Atlantic aeroplane carrying passengers, even if the passengers were saved, would do a lot of damage to the future of this last link in the chain of world air travel.

Besides, no country in the world can really say it is ready with the right kind of equip-

ocean

The position now is that, ment to make these Imperial Airways have started journeys with passengers. Im- flying experimental mail services perial Airways and the British Air Ministry would be the last on the North Atlantic route. to claim it. The long-distance They will not, at first, even carry boats that will be setting off mails, and the idea of passengers from Foynes, on the Shannon, flying over the route for at least to Newfoundland were not de- the next year is preposterous, signed for Atlantic work at all: If ́passenger flying between Bri- They are just long-distance tain and Canada is possible even versions of the flying-boats within the next 18 months, I which are already being used shall be surprised.

to operate the Empire speeded. up alr routes.

But when you try to explain They weigh something in the that to the confirmed crabbers, neighbourhood of 20 tons

loaded for Atlantic flying-yet their maximum commercial load will not be more than 1,000 Ib.-44lb. of every 45lb. of the machine's total weight is "non- commercial." Obviously, at that rule, no air line is going to make money.

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VEN the very fast new machines, the first of which is only just fly- ing, carry little more pay-load. They have been bulit, In the Arst place, purely as expert- ments. Land planes, they may have very big advantages over the flying-bonts--but they are not the kind of machines In which anyone would expect to fly across the Atlantic.

So many things have to be decided before the air voyage from one side of the “pond" to the other is anything like prac- tical for you of nie,

No one is quite sure, yet, about weather, and things liko that. Everything possible has been done to. find out, and the most intensive organisation of weather reporting ever made

HALF-STARVED BODIES

ANGLAND is on the threshold of the

Adence. They make the most out-

Fads of the Diet-rageous statements without one single

Mongers

scrap of scientific evidence to back them up, but because these "facts" are thundered forth with impressive solemnity thousands of misguided people belleve in them.

The chief result of this propaganda is that England is in danger of be coming a f

nation. Every half-starved doctor has scores of women patients who have slimmed themselves into p of nervous exhaustion. All they need is more and better food lo

has been working for months now.

But still, operators are per- fectly well aware that, before they know enough to make the route "cast iron" they will need at least a year of operat- ing experimental routes regu- larly.

After all, no one knows yet which is the better journey. round the top end of the ocean to Newfoundland, or across to the Bermudas from the United States,

are The two routes being flown, and in a few months time advantages and disadvantages

will begin

show up.

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JET." complains the

"Y crabber, persistently,

people like Dick Merrill can do it direct from New York to London. Why can't Imperial Airways? "

Imperial Airways, misery, would just hate to lose their several thousand pounds worth of flying-boat or nero- plane on a purely freak flight,

dear

Merrill, I admire. His last flight was the first really sen- sible commercial venture ever made in the way of Atlantic fly- ing. He had a definite job to do, and was going to earn a lot of money 11 he was successful, He chose an acroplane which at least had a reasonable chance of doing the job--and the in- ancial side of the 'whole flight justifled him in taking fairly serious risks.

But nothing could justify a big company, carrying perhaps mails. even

in passengers, taking anything like the risk the American commercial pilot did. Besides, no service is of any real practical use until it can be run with real regularity.

Air France, most progressive air transport frm to tackle Atlantic flying, has been oper- ating across the South Atlantic for well over a year now.

TS pilots know the route inside out, and the weather-so much better in that part of the world than it is in the North-has been "learned "perfectly.

Yet, until they have developed and thoroughly tested com- pletely new machines for the passenger route, they have no intention of taking fare-paying

over passengers

those long. water stretches.

There is nothing to appeal in Atlantic flying except sheer speed; that is why perfect regularity means so much.

It will, whatever people say, be an extremely uncomfortable Journey. Fifteen hours in an aeroplane, however nice the aeroplane, cannot be anything but exceedingly tiring. There in nothing to do, and nothing to seo but sea.

Unless the urgent traveller- can rely on his plane leaving Southampton "on the dot," he will never risk being delayed. by bad weather. He will be sensible, and take a fast, com- fortable ship.

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IRCRAFT operators, faced with these un- pleasantly thoughtless people who excel in their crab- bing activities, know only too well that the ifttle man who. : keeps urging them to do things. is the most violent critic if, perhaps, something goes wrong through too-hurried organiza- tion.

greatest campaign for physical fitness that this country has ever seen. It is to be hoped that, side by side with propaganda on the subject of as a matter of course, for the exercise, there will also be a little commonsense' education on the sub- accustomed to see ject of diet. public are their familiar black and silver

Is "bad" for them, and so deprive So far as diet is concerned this is themselves of a very valuable and uniforms wherover

are the day of the crank and the faddist. picasant jiem of food. dense crowds. At race-meet-Food reformers may have effected a

certain amount of good in some direc- According to Schedule mate inga, cinemas, football matclics, tions. They have helped to abolish air displays, the St. John Am- gluttony. They have encouraged us Or someone with gastritis is told to restore their nerves to health, but bulance men are always in at-to cat more fresh fruit. They have take no starchy foods, and this advice they laugh at such advice and des

helped to emphasise the necessity for is advanced as proof that starchy mand tonics. tendance. There

another drinking plenty of water. But it is foods produce gastritis. Could any-

Insomnia is another curse that is aspect of their work which is safe to say that the good they have thing be more ridiculous?

frequently caused by underfeeding. done is far outweighed by the harm. Another sin of

the

food faddist is Your well-fed man can always sleep. not so familiar to the public.

For instance, they insist that certo cut down the bulk of our meals. Hundreds of thousands of people re- The self-imposed duty of the tain foods are "bad" for people. No They work out complicated suma gularly take drugs of various kinds Brigade is to render public ser can easily be digested is bad for any that the human body needs just so system enough honest work to keep wholesome and palatable food that dealing with calories, vitamins, and to cure constipation, which is often

such-like abstractions, and decide enused

by failing to give the digestivo vice wherever there may he healthy person.

many calories and vitamins a

ny. it busy. public danger. For this reason The whole ense for thesc

"bad" Then they look for foods that con- #day.

We are in danger of forgetting that it has established nearly seven-foods is based on the fallacy of argu-tain a high percentage of vitamins, eating is one of the chief joys of lite

Ing from the pariicular to the gen-und teen hundred emergency huts eral. A man with diabetic tendencies) value, and have a high calorife The fragrant aroma of well-cooked

and foods that

with unholy food, the subtle flavours that tickle and first-aid stations along their advised by his doctor to cut sugar glee, they announce that if we eat our palates, the satisfying feeling of from his diet. Immediately hundreds to many ounces of these foods a day modest repletion-these are things of main motor roads at points of healthy people decide that sugar we shall be absorbing all the calories which we never tire. which are known to be danger- |———

And vitamina we

and anything Here is my recipe for making your- ous; working in conjunction won official and public admira-

fa excess is

self an expert on diet. First, note Fortunately, people like Imperial Their ultimate is that we whether any particular foods dis- with these is a fleet of 313 motor tion. Apart from what might should swallow each day two or three

Airways have more sense than to With you. Our bodies have i

pay much attention. Not even ambulances waiting to be sum- be termed its normal work, it essences of food, and so save all the is wise to pander to them.

iny tablets containing concentrated little liices and dislikes, and it when the French Air Minister tries moned by telephone. This does a great deal in the sphere time we at present waste over meals.

but luckily falls-to organise a But let your own body decide.

suicido race between probably un- Unfortunately, they forget one vital Ignore the trumpetings of self-ap necessarily sketchy summary of of public health, witness its big- Un the activities of the Brigade in scale vaccination campaigns and fashioned contraptions that prefer to what you ought to eat.

point. tour bodies are

quitable neroplanes flying from. very old-pointed experts who claim to know

New York to Paris. its immensely valuable infant go on working in the manner for the Old Country will suffice to welfare centre

Having eliminated from your menus activities. In which they were originally designed, the foods that definitely upset you, show the magnificent work which this way, the officers and mem- Furthermore, our stomachs are very eat anything else you fancy. Do not its members are discharging out (bers of the Brigade are per-nergetic little fellows. They actuai-ent overlarge meals, but eat them of a sense of civic responsibility. forming essential work under empty for too long a period and they

them frequently.

Weigh yourself Here in this Colony, the Brigade, the inspiration provided by the send out messages of protest,

once a fortnight. If your weight shows an Increase, on a smaller scale, but none the knowledge that they are doing Too Docile

take a little more exercise and a little leas wholeheartedly and efficient much to alleviate pain and

lers food until you get back to normal.out anything, but take slightly less of' ly, discharges its multifarious suffering amongst their fellow-

For the purpose of weight-reduc- everything. That will work just ang tion, it does not matter a button what well as any widely advertised “diet”*** duties in a manner which has "men.

foods you leave out. Do not leave

is sheer

dislike idleness. Leavo

The astonishing thing about food faddista la Uscir supreme self-con-

-To-day's Thought- HE who knows most, grieves

most for wasted time,

--DANTE.

A Wimpole Street Doctory.

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