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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1937,

"Preparedness"

A

What

time of day

do you feel

at your best?

RE you one of those

people who wake up all merry and bright, whistle on your way to the bath, and spill wisecracks at [breakfast?

Or do you feel like something the cut has brought in when you

first open your eyes?

OR

Perhaps you belong to neither and got up at six feeling fine.

Ever been to a: matinco and come out with a headache? Or had a bilious attack? And with it have you had a headache, or haven't you? The answer is "Yes,"

Well, in both these cases you feel like the morning after, don't you? Of course you do. Because the causes are the same. Bad blood.

In the first case, bad air caus- ing bad blood; in the accond, bad digestion. And, see here. -neither you nor I can afford to

be poisoned..

If we are, we lie all night in a stupor (no! not alcohol--our own pet polsons)-and wake up with a head

we have not.. deserved.

Now it takea somo folk pretty nearly the whole day to work (b) There is something circu- this off. Luckier ones are them- of these groups, You may be Bleycled four miles to the lating in your blood which pro- selves by noon.

Once you have got going-per-

one of those people who just garage-pretty nice life except duces fatigue. wonder, as they stare about when there was one of those them, why they were ever born, something-or-other fogs.

want to feel haps by lunch time-you feel IF you thinking, with regret that they

fit on waking, don't Did he get tired by the even better. By then, you see, your make up your mind to be care- are face to face with another ing? Not he. What did he do circulation has recovered its ful for twenty-four hours only. darned day,

to keep himself fit? (Laughter.) night stagnation. Personally, I am a Group 1 Nothing. Did he think it was

No one but a bone-hend believes Ever had a really good snort- he can alter his body in that man. I like the early morning, all the fresh air he got? Might ing nightmare? You

know, time. Not long ago I was staying in be. (Early morning grouper.) the kind which haunts you even a house where most of the other guests were obviously not of my ly they have got a guilty con-

I hate suspicious people. Usuni- after you are awake. way of thinking. They dragged science. No. 3, having replied next day you wonder if some better by Christmas, well, per- At intervals through the And if you are not 100 per cent. themselves into the dining-room, looked with disgust at the food, firmly that he regarded eleven thing dreadful is going to happen haps I will eat some one's hat. a.m. as quite early enough for us to you-then you remember with and turned baleful eyes upon nie to discuss, suddenly asked me relief that it was only a dream." It is mostly don'ts:-

and my plate.

3.)

TC-

THE first person I up- proached scowled, ask-

EVERYBODY

Follow this scheme out for a whole month and noto results.

come in

Don't eat late at night. Don't sleep in a hot bedroom, Don't have too many or too

heavy bedclothes on your bed.

Well, if you have, do you remem-

Don't fill your lungs with bad I decided to try to find out if what I was getting at.

Was I suggesting that he al- ber how tired you felt on wak- air or tobacco smoke immediate- most people feel us I do, or if I

ly before going to bed (go out. am in the minority. So I asked ways had a hangover when he ing?

Frightening dreams take it side and breathe deeply for five the first three men I met what woke up? Because, if so, I was a time of the day they feel at their liar-he was a teetotaler. (Group out of you because you have minutes-better still, go for a best: and (if possible) reasons

been working in your sleep, i.c., walk and when you for same. No diagrams Other people I asked were 75 your imagination has been keep drink a glass of cold water).. quired.

per cent. "best in the evenings" ing your body on the go.

And you can't work any part 25 per cent. "early mornings." President Roosevelt has made

of your mind without tiring the it known that he may ask the ed me whether any one who had

THEN there are another cells of your brain. Therefore, lot of people who wake nightmare produces one kind of

By the way, do you drink cold Appropriations Committee for ever been born felt at his best in up tired and get going by mid- hangover.

water when you wake up? If his back on me. His reaction tired and are still tired when it the early mornings, then turned day. And still others wake up

dreams, you don't, you should. was definite enough. (Group 2.) is time to go to bed again.

Though many people. What makes the 25 per cent. The next was a motor-driver.

These people are always tired, can't tell you what they dreamed wake up fresh? Becaust they about-some don't even know are not poisoned-neither do He said he went to bed at ten They say they were born tired. that they have dreamed. What they worry in their sleep (ie.,

But there is a cause for it, they do know is that they are nightmare). right enough. First thing for fagged out on waking.

My friend the motor-driver, them to do is to recognise that

And they blame this or that when pressed, gave his bicycle- there is something the matter thing--including their ances ride the credit for his magni- tors. (They will tell your that, ficent early morning feeling. It is all right to feel tired as a family, they are all tired And is he cheerful all day? He is. when you have done something, on waking.) but it is all wrong to have a good

Frankly, I don't believe it. night's rest and wake up more of course, some people inherit tired than when you went to bed. more fragile nervous systems.

There are many reasons for than others. These

the chronic fatigue of this kind. But people who crumple up more you wont't get rid of your own casily under stress. particular variety until

Moral: If their family is like have found out the cause of-it-this, more care is required to avoid undue strain. If it is all

further funds with which to construct warships. The Ameri- can naval building plan, as laid down for the 1939 fiscal year, was not sensationally extensive two battleships, a few cruisers und destroyers. And the de- velopments of the past few months, it may be imagined, have altered the official view of international affairs to a degree; which makes further arming advisable. Not that the United States, is preparing for with anyone in particular- President Roosevelt has made that clear. In fact he avoids the word "preparedness," hav- ing no desire to admit that there is anyone or anything] against which to prepare. It seems rather futile, dodging a phrase or a word like that when the implication in any move to speed re-armament is so obvious,

war

Is It True?

Some of these statements are right, some wrong. Do you

know which

فيان

1. Oysters are vegetarians. 3. Mozart

not start learning music until the age of

seven.

3. Morgarine is made from animal fats.

4. On

the average, forty books a day are pulilished in Great Britain...

5. The second highest moun- tain in the world is Kinchin- jungo, in the Himalayas.

6. One of Britain's greatest writers was once a brick-Inyer. Answers at foot of Column Seven.

with them.

you

are

AND now which group

do you belong to? If my-eye, well, all the more reason you are one of those who feel they are not as fit as they should for the sufferers to find out why

mouldy when you wake up, have you any idea why?

be.

There are two possible rea-

Bons

UT supposing it is not BUT

their mind which

(a) Your mind has been work- makes them bad wakers? What was prepared to build warships, ing while you sleep and it has is likely to have gone wrong may be taken as an attempt to taken it out of you. correct misconception.

Nor should it be imagined} However, President Roosevelt that the American hints of and his associates have no wish bigger and better fighting ships' to create mistaken impressions to come mean for a moment that abroad. They have made that she is endeavouring to match Wa clear, too. Americans do not Britain's naval

with their bodics?

Anthony

Weymouth

Was-It-True?

(See foot of Column four.)

1. Right. They feed on the wear and tear of seaweed and scu-grass. 2. Wrong. He play- et before the Emperor when he Was alx years old. 3, Wrong, Usually from coconut oil. 4. Right. 5. Wrong. Mount Godwin-Austen, also in the Himalayas, is 100ft. higher. 6. Right. Ben Jonson.

BRAIN, BRAWN and WAR

E live to-day in such a continual arrays of tanks, clouds of aeroplanes enemy. The age that produced the atmosphere of intensivo discus- und ever more deadly forms of gas knights produced the castle, and in sion of

of all matters relating to war Is the consummation of that long attacking castles knights were able programme that it might well be assumed that process of effort by which the human to meet extinction in the form of a

want "peace at any price," a minds which will jump to this understanding of most of the main field

There will be some suspicious we had attained a sound and loglea brain has sought to dominate the deluge of molten lead, limo or Greek

en masac.

any

years

al

prominent politican said

destruction 19 It the conclusion. The fact is that by implications of this important factor dominated

has Fire, and to pass from life with os other felds of human uitle chance of showing thelr other day by way of answering her actions and her attitude of in the history of the

race.

activity.

knightly qualities as if they had the pacifist complaints of those the past several

For in war success has never come been caught in a cloud of mustard the Yet a glance at, the writings of

even some ardent pacifists reveals through possession of those "manly gas. United States has incitly ad- that some of the simplest lessons qualities," but through the control who want to see American mitted that parity in that direc- have not yet been grasped.

But was the warfare in which the of a greater range of the forces of knights engaged really so romantic nation la, marines and warships tion is something she does not deplores the use of polson gas in carry their conquering cagles into in shining armour not because this Thus, H. M. Tomlinson, when he destruction, The Romans did not at all? The knights went sheathed withdrawn from the Far East worry about. It is just as well, warfare, might be taken as repre- the realms of their enemies because was a romantic garb, but because in It seems that the however, that President Roose sentative of that numerous class who they were strenger or braver nion the way they were getting all the velt should have made clear at seem somehow to think that the In- than the barbarians. The deciding advantages the metallurgical science United States is trying to steer this time that it is not the cidence of such devices has made factors were better arms, discipline, of that day could devine to aid man's a safe and sensible course in the British building which caused war infinitely moro brutal and dis superior tactics and the science of task of destroying his fellowe.

and fortification-all the products of the matter of armaments, which, him to consider expansion of the union Chivalry, has gone

be revived."

These armoured knights would declares

H. M. human intelligence. American programme.

ride down the lightly armed infan- while not alarming to

Tomlinson in "Mora His Idiot."

St George himself in a

The Romans were victorious as try, break their ranks, and slaughter gas attack they brought a power of order and them at leisure, ull the development Ination, will at the same time

Taken literally, the American would choke himself to death with thought to the task of slaying their of archery, pulling the necessary indicate that it is unwise for policy with respect to naval con- out sighting the dragon. Saladin toes. That is to say. they used factor of unfairness on the other struction seems to be: Everyone charging a tank becomes a suicidal their brains to devise methods of side, and allow the foot men to shoot any foreign force to tamper with else is building, so why shouldn't

fool

combat which would involve situa- down the knights before they had a This sort of view is all rather very tinas where the skill and strength chance to use their lances. American Ilves and property. we? This may not satisfy surprising. But it can quite readily of the barbarians would be of little Similarly, any of the expedients of

It is everybody. The pacifist element has been that the United States should held, I vaguely thought out, theory An Old Story.

reasonable be seen to rest on the tenaciously nvoll.

the military art in the days of the past look very stirring and romantic that somewhere in the past victory

wo feel some concern with the state fell in some

examine them more closely. vociferous, and it is quite pos of affairs in the Pacific. She some nebulous qualites called "the

A flank attack" depends for its suc- sible that its words, added to

To bring the maximum factor of cess on bringing an overpowering unfairness to bear on the enemy, to irruption has large interests there, in manly virtues.".

of men on "an exposed the widespread, if fallacious, Hawail, the Philippines and The Decisive Factor

manoeuvre him into positions where wing of the enemy's organisation. belief that American

his finest qualities will count for Isola-other islands, to say nothing of,

nothing end to crush him by ex- Taken in the Rear tionism is still the outstanding investments on the mainland of! But what is the real and supreme pedients that leave him the minimum) --

Asia. These must be protected. "manly quality" the quality that chance to reply is tho

To "take the enemy in the rear" point of policy, might have And what more natural thans ralact man above the beaster meaning of the military

means to seek to shoot. In the back caused misunderstanding. Thore-that sho should wish to be ready

The power to think,

Even in the most romantle days a crowd of men heavily engaged in That quality counted in war away in history war never was a testing front. An ambuscada has Its main foro President Roosevelt's an-to meet any challenge to her back in the morning of time, counted ground, unspoilt by invention and value in the opportunities it allows

interests and rights in any in all the wars of the past and in all mechanism, for the manly virtues, of killing numbers of the nouncement that, though ho was sphere and by any power? Why the most romantle episodes of his- St. George need not have waited for before they have even the time to not socking "preparedness" he not admit it?

tory. What we are witnessing to the twentieth century to choke him put a hand to their weapons. In the day in the evolution of awesome self to death without sighting the (Continued un Page 8.)

romantic fashion to

art.

end

and

enemy