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IF A PLANET HIT THE EARTH..

night of the fall and for several

SMALL planet, pre- for some time, although on the viously unknown, was subsequent nights brilliant

discovered on the night of October 28 last, and was found to be moving towards the earth.

Then we learned that three days later it passed us at a dis- tance of 400,000 miles, making the closest approach to the carth of any known celestial body.

green, gold, and crimson twilight hues were seen in England and elsewhere, caused by fine dust corrled high up into the atmos- phere by the explosive impact. Weird Effect

WHEN the spot was eventually reached it

It has been said that this was was found that the trees in the the narrowest escape the earth surrounding forests had been has ever had in the period of blown down to a distance of astronomical observation. about 20 miles by the force of

What would the effect have wind when the meteor fell.

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FOWAY, MARCH 18, 1939.

FORMULA FOR SAFETY

It is a frightening thing to contemplate and calculate the price the world is going to pay for the stubborn addiction of Balions to policies of non-co- operation. There have been plenty of examples in the past to warn responsible leaders off the road on which the present race of competition is being run. But although there are a few with vision enough to foresee

A great crater, perhaps 50 They had been stripped of their miles in diameter and a mile bark, and most of the branches

This crater, in Arizona, described in this article, was caused by one of the greatest meteorites which ever hit the earth. The picture was

taken from a height of 5,000ft.

deep, which would have resem- had been scorched as though by bled the larger mountain traters the heat of an enormous furnace. on the moon, would have been produced on the surface of the

earth.

Destruction

1

My Golden Rule for

IF you ask a doctor to examine you, one of his first questions will be, "How do you sleep?" Your answer will tell him more than he can find out with a stethoscope.

My own dealings with doctors have been restricted to exuminations for Insurance. I do not remember ever inking medicine from a bottle. But every night of my life, unless I have good reasons for avoiding it. I take a deep and coplous draught of the most powerful medicine known 10 science. I steep.

In prescribing this remedy to my friends I know what to expeel. Somi will tell me that they cannot sleep. Others will say, "Yes: but how do you make yourself go to sleep?"

DON'T COUNT SHEEP

Do not make myself go to sleep. Anybody who tries, to make himself do anything at all, even count sheep, once his head is on the pillow, is certain to keep himself awake.

What keeps people awake is not the body but the mind: The impulse to sleep comes regularly and rhyth- mically to all normal human beings. The body is always ready to rest at

About 1,000 reindeer were the proper time. But it cannot do killed. Eye-witnesses told of so if the mind is busy with worry,

excilement, or tear. the appearance

of fiery flame

The worst fear of all is the fear much brighter than the sun,

are of wakefulness. People who giving off great and violent ex-afraid of insomnia are the only true WITHIN this arca de- plosions, followed by a tremend-insomnlues.

struction would have ous cannonade, like an artillery the ultimate unhappiness for been complete, and all visible barrage, lasting for several for sleep, but they all seem to involve which they are headed, circum- landmarks, such as hills, valleys, minutes. stances have dragged 'them along and rivers would have disappear- with those whose lack of judged. ment and recklessness lead them to desperate expedients.

Had it not been for a certain aggressiveness-and- aquisitive ness, mingled with fear of paralysing competition and even attack from some other quarter, [Japan might have won a men-

sure of co-operation from China nine months ago which would have been of inestimable value to both countries. As it is she has plunged the two nations into

a maelstrom from which

The weight of this meteor is estimated to have been 130 tons. The explosive blast of exces-

The earth bears the scar of a sively hot air after the impact more violent impact in the Great would have been felt the whole world over, and serious destruce Meteor crater in Arizona. tive effects. due to the blast and Pierced the Rock.. the heat would have occurred over an area of some thousands

of square miles.

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THE SLATE METHOD

SLEEP

By

CARL

BRISSON Famous Star of

Stage and Screen

enjoyed my usual two hours of walk- ing in the lanes before rehearsal at 10.30.

Bed is no place for thinking. People who drive off their problems until they get there have only them- selves to thank if they keep them- selves nwake, I have a friend who says he can straighten out all the worries of the day once he gets. be tween the sheets. I can do better: I can abolish them.

There can hardly be a more nerve- racking profession than mine.

of wrong

Hours

exertion and excitement at the end of the day are notorious as the cause of wakefulness. Some people cannot sleep after reading an exciting book or working out a cross- word puzzle. How would they feel after singing and dancing in front of an audience and then perhaps talking and eating for a couple of hours after that?

IF

SOFT PILLOWS

I can sleep, so, I should think, can anybody, unless he is down right it.

Occasionally, for the sheer luxury of it.

I have tried reading In bed, But I have found that the greater the intellectual demands of the book the less I wa

wanted to be bothered with it.

recom-

So to my wakeful friends I rec mend hard books. And soft pillows. Not that soft pillows make much

When you

have difference to me.

stayed in all sorts of hotels and pro- fessional "digs" you scarcely notice the difference between down and straw. You can sleep on a clothes- line.

Indeed, a little discomfort is pro- bably good for the tardy sleeper. A lepid bath, leaving the victim a little domp and chilly, makes him enjoy the comfort of bed and often sends him off.

If there is one golden rule for sleep, this is it: Once you have closed your cues, do not open them. Any normal person who will lie for 15 minutes in a dark room with his eyes closed will almost certainly fall asleep.

NOTHING TO FEAR

arc

I have heard of a good many recipes

too much brain work at the very time when the brain should be resting.

ND If he does not sleep, what does They are all variations of the sheep A it matter? Some people counting process.

afraid of missing a night's rest. I see nothing to be afraid of in that.

have missed many, because I had something more urgent to do. Once bedlime was well past, and my body had become used to the unusual de- mands I was making. It stayed awake and energetic all-next day until bed-. time came again. Then it was ready and enger for sleep. I believe that no harm was done.

THE only use that I can see in such THE

devices is that they may possibly take the mind off the four of lying awake. There is, for example, the siate

method.

You shut your eyes and imagine a

let

your state. Then you

an unscen

THIS is a vast

large shaped hole with thoughts wonder, while

rub it

the

oul.

raised rim about one mile in hand writes on the slate every Sleep is merely a recharging of the If the planet had struck the diameter and 600ft. deep caused thought that rises. But before the

human battery. If you stay up all to-night you will sleep to-morrow earth in the middle of one of by a collision probably a few unseen hand gets a chance to com-

The night, or

that. the night after the oceans, waves of gigantic thousand years

when a plete a sentence, you ago dimensions would have carried meteor or comet which weighed

state cleon.

Nothing is more certain than that game is to keep

I tried that once, but soon went

you will eventually fall into a good, destruction far and wide.

and awake about 1,000,000 tons

always sound, healthful sleep, hit the back to the method I had In 1908 a large meteor hit the earth.

used. No siate was needed, but the refreshed.

same. As was much the process

If you would sleep well to-night earth in a remote forest region

put yourself in the proper state for Bleep. Lie down in a dark room with in Siberia.

It pierced through the hard soon as I found myself thinking. I stopped thinking. Nothing was worth

your eyes closed and breathe slowly. No news of what had happen- sandstone rock and the heat thinking about except sleep, and that both may emerge permanently ed reached the civilised, world that was generated produced so was the last thing I wanted to think deeply, rhythmically, as you do when you are asleep. And If you catch yourself thinking about anything at all, even sleep, forget it.

handicapped economically and certainly with hurts which it

great a quantity of steam that about.

Daylight awakened me-I have the whole of the meteoric mass never needed an alarm clock-and I was shot out again with explo- sive violence.

When You Feel "On Edge"

will take years to heal. The [thetic aid will be forthcoming. cost of such a war as this is Her future, economically, is incalculable; for the people will more hopeful than Japan's.

There is no record of what continue to pay for its conse- But this not the end of the the effects of this explosion quences all through the weary discouraging tale. Look at the were, but as this meteor was And rest of the world! There is a several hundred times heavier years of reconstruction. if Japan believes that by victory dangerous stirring of armed than the Siberian one, its de- must be a very fortunate and, that breathless feeling, when

forces in Germany, Poland, structive effect must have been

Incidentally, uncommon, person she can extract from China the Austria and Lithuania; there is serious up to a distance of 100 who never has the nerve-ricking ex- millions she will need to rehaa bloody conflict in Spain, still or 200 miles.

perience of feeling "on edge." The majority of us are subject," at some bilitate herself and the pro-threatening to involve other

time or other, to thai trying strung- in the horror; every The planet that passed near

up feeling which makes us "want to vinces she occuples, she is sadly nations mistaken. The fallacy of that power is pouring its wealth into the earth at the end of last scream," or which causes everything to expect to eliminate this state al- assumption has been proved armaments; distrust is in the October was a small body, prob- to seem so depressing. It is too much

eyes of every man who walksably not more than one mulle in together, but we can alleviate it. to require argument the frontiers of his homeland. diameter. Its weight would be

Different people require different here. The best Japan can hope Only a few fant voices cry for somewhere about 1,000,000,000 anodynes," the reason for this being for is an armistice upon which an

two-fold. First, people vary in their attempt mutual under-tons.

and do

not,

con- temperaments

too often

the same

the trouble so often varies and must therefore be differently prouched. The obvious thing to do Is to find the most effective method for oneself, and here are a few from which a choice may be made.

Some people are subject to what is commonly called "palpitations,"

a handful sec Roughly speaking, we cati- sequently, respond to to try, once more, to build for standing. Only

the world is building. its mate that its weight exceeded methods; and, secondly, the cause of permanent peace and under-that

that of the Arizona meteor by standing. And though China own ruin. has suffered injuries which have It is too late now to talk of as many times as that in turn wrought an iron hatred in her disarmament. But there is still a exceeded the Siberian meteor, chance that individuals can dis; and by comparing the results of soul against things Japanese, solve to some extent the dis these two impacts we can ob- the philosphy and psychology trusts and antagonisms which tuin some idea of what the re- of China's people are such that ride this civilisation down by sults of the collision with this co-operation, freely offered, may endeavouring to improve rela planct would have been! still be acceptable under some tions through personal contact We may say, perhaps, that the speeding round the sun at a rate circumstances. As for China, and the written and spoken earth has had a narrow escape. of 19 miles a second, was not an she will survive despite her word. Unfortunately the ef- But was it really so very nar- easy target to hit, wounds, and repair the fabric fort is of little avail if it is one row? If a marksman aimed at If we were given the oppor- of the nation on whatever sided, and is (frequently mis-a Gin. target and missed it by tunity of shooting a planet at ground is left to her, concen- interpreted as a sign of weak-26ft., we should consider it a the earth from somewhere out trating on the development of ness. But it is still worth try pretty bad miss. It was by the In space a few million miles resources as far removed from ing. The world must put a same relative margin that the away we should have to make throats of future attack as stop to war and the depressions earth escaped.

some very careful calculations possible. If she must lose her which follow inevitably. And

to ensure getting our planet northern territories, she still the only formula which contains Not So Near

anywhere near the earth, has wide and fertile lands in the scrap ofhisefulness is that south and want. Because me based upon, co-operation and *****E* planet "could have How much less, then, is the

Aboutual faith. Every Convert to

given us a much closer, probability of our being hit by bella main, lý ctep away shave without dyferlous cause sich a body as the result of pure

for alarm. The cartin's her 7 até achanceT.

the

heart bents furiously, the whole nervous system seems to jangle, and the muscles of the face and roots of the hair tingle. Palpitations may, of course, be due to some organic trou- ble, in which case a doctor should be. ault only from nerves. consulted. But very often they re-

Beneficial Deep Breathing

The most effective way to deal with an attack of nervous palpitations 18 by deep breathing. The moment you feel that strung-up teeling com- ing on, stop and take a deep breath. But it must be a very deep breath.: Breathe in slowly and deliberately,. hold the breath as long as possible,

then breathe out,

Deep breathing is not merely for the physical beneßt, though that cer- tainly enters, its chief reason is to cut off the on-coming excitement and this it does almost unfailingly, all other action and thought are sui- pended; you can think of nothing else and do nothing elso. but the actual. motion of taking in and letting out air. The result is absolute and almost Involuntary calm, which acts as check to the nervousness, Count up exciting

to ten between the breaths, this also to keep your mind

thoughts,

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