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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFII, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1937.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1937.

REAL SOCIAL SERVICE

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

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

E was one of those extraordinarily dim-

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cult people who will crab everything. And

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

"Tako this Atlantic air race," he started.

"You see, United States ex- perts say, '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."

110 My spirits dropped as 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

America to- to fly to morrow?"

That is how people will talk Atlantic. Those about the heroes so many of them ridl- culously foolhardy-who have flown or have failed 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 an ordinary commercial, fare-paying passenger at the moment.

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CTUALLY the risk, under proper condi- tions, would be quite small, but it would obviously not be just as safe as from fly- And ing from London to Paris. 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 loud of fuel, (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.

One Which is ridiculous. 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- these occan

The position now is that, ment to make 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 the flying-boats Eain and Canada is possible even versions of within the next 18 months, I which are already being used to operate the Empire sperded- shall be surprised.

up air 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 lb.-44lb. of every 45lb. of the machine's total weight is "non- commercial." Obylously. at that rate, 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-lond. They have been built, in the first place, purely as expert- ments. Land planes, they may have very big advantages over the flying-boats--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 or me.

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

HALF-STARVED BODIES

NGLAND is on the threshold of the

greatest campaign for physical Fads of the Diet-rageous statements without one single

fitness that this country has ever seen, It is to be hoped that, side by side! with propaganda on the subject of exercise, there will also be a little commonsense education on the sub-= ject of dict.

Mongers

fidence. They make the most out- scrap of scientific evidence to back them up, but because these "facts" are thundered forth with impressive solemnity thousands of misguided people believe in them.

The chief result of this propaganda

public eye, and the occasion drew

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 cidents

occur, In the coal mines, for example, there

are emerg ney stations at every pit. head, 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 As a matter of course, for the public are accustomed to see

is "bad" for them, and so deprive is that England is in danger of be- their familiar black and silver

So far as diet is concerned this is themselves of a very valuable and coming a half-starved nation. Every doctor has scores of women patients uniforms wherever there are the day of the crank and the faddist.pleasant item of food.

who have slimmed themselves into a dense crowds. At race-meet- Food reformers may have effected a

of nervous exhaustion. All certain amount of good in some direc- According to Schedule state ings, cinemas, football matches, tons. They have helped to abolish

they need is more and better food to Or someone with gastritis is told to restore their nerves to health, but air displays, the St. John Am-gluttony. They have encouraged us

to eat more fresh fruit. They have take no starchy foods, and this advice they laugh at such advice and de- bulance men are always in.at-helped to emphasise the necessity for is advanced as proof that starchy mand tonics. tendance. There ig another drinking plenty of water. But it is foods produce gastritis. Could any-

Insomnia is another curse that is safe to say that the good they have thing be more ridiculous?

frequently caused by underfeeding. aspect of their work which is 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. Iundreds of thousands of people re- work out complicated Bumsgularly take drugs of various kinds The self-imposed duty of the tain foods are "bad" for people. Ne dealing with calories, vitamins, and to cure constipation, which is often

wholesome and palatable food that, Brigade is to render public ser can easily be digested is bad for any such-like abstractions, and decide caused by falling to give the digestive

healthy person.

that the human body needs just so system enough honest work to keep vice wherever there may

many calories and

day. The whole case for these "bad" Then they look for foods that con- public danger. For this reason

We are in danger of forgetting that foods is based on the fallacy of argu-tain a high percentage of vitamins, eating is one of the chief joys of life. it has established nearly seven- ing from the particular to the gen- and foods that have a high calorife The fragrant aroma of well-cooked teen hundred emergency huts eral. A man with diabetle tendencies value, and, chuckling with unholy food, the subtle davours that tickle and first-aid stations along the 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 so 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.

and vitamins we need, and anything Here is my recipe for making your- which are known to be danger-

self an expert on diet. First, note ous; working in conjunction won official and public admira- Their ultimate ideal is that we whether any particular foods dis- with you. Our bodies have with these is a fleet of 313 motor tion. Apart from what might should swallow each day two or three agent we likes and dalikes, and st

tiny tablets containing concentrated ambulances waiting to be sum-be termed its normal work, it essences of food, and so save all the la wise to pander to them.

But let your own body decide, moned by telephone. This does a great deal in the sphere time we at present waste over meals.

Unfortunately, they forget one vital Ignore the trumpetings of self-ap- necessarily sketchy summary of of public health, witness its big-

Acalo vaccination campaigns and faisioned contraptions that prefer to

point.

bodica are Our

very old pointed experts who claim to know the activities of the Brigade in its immensely valuable infant go on working in the manner for

what you ought to eat.

Having eliminated from your menus the Old Country will suffice to welfare centro activities. In which they were originally designed. the foods that definitely upset you, show the magnificent work which this way, the officers and mem-ergetic little fellows. They actual eat overlarge meals, but eat them Furthermore, our stomachs are very cat anything else you fancy. Do not its members are discharging out bers of the Brigade are perly dislike idleness. Leave them frequently. of a sense of civic responsibility. forming essential work under empty for too long a period and they Hero in this Colony, the Brigade, the inspiration provided by the send out messages of protest. on a smaller scale, but none the knowledge that they are doing Too Docile less wholeheartedly and efficient much to alleviate pain and ly, discharges ito multifarious suffering amongst their fellow- duties in a manner which has 'men.

be

vitamins

sheer greed. in excess is sheer

I busy.

Weigh yourself once a fortnight. If your weight shows an increase, take a little more exercise and a little

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. The two routes aro Low being flown, and in n months' time advantages and disadvantages will begin to show up..

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complains

the

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

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Imperial Airways, dear misery, would just hate to lose their several thousand pounds. worth of flying-boat or nero- plane on a purely freak flight. His last Merrill, I admire. flight was the first really sen- sible commerciai 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 if he was successful. He chose an aeroplane which at lenst had a reasonable chance of doing the job-and the fin-. ancial side of the whole flight justified him in taking fairly serious risks.

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

in passengers, even 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 firm 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 la 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 passengers over those long: water stretches.

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

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 is nothing to do, and nothing. to see 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 little man who keeps urging them to do things is the most violent critic if, perhaps, something goes wrong through too-hurried organisa- tion.

Fortunately, people like Imperial Airways have more sense than to pay much attention. Not even when the French Air Minister tries- -but luckily fails to organise a suicido race between probably un- zaltable aeroplanes Dying from. New York to Parts.

-To-day's Thought- HE who knows most, grieves most for wasted time.

--DANTE.

less food until you get back to normal. out anything, but take slightly less of For the purpose of weight-reduc- everything. That will work just as The astonishing thing about food tion, it does not matter a button what well as any widely advertised "diet."" foddisis is their supreme self-con-foods you leave out. Do not leave

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