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Patience Ending? THERE IS particular signific- ance in the declaration in the House of Commons yester- day by Mr. Neville Chamberlain that Great Britain would place all her forces at the disposal of France in the event of that ally becoming involved in war.

It is the first time a British Premier has made that declara- tion. There are many people who believe that had Britain as firmly made its intentions known to Germany in 1914 there would have been no Great War.

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the pavement towards you; you sce a cyclist Bung into the road. way; you see horror sketched on

some man'q' face.

You hear the thud of a fall- ing body, the crash of breaking glass, the grating of metal against metal. You rush for: ward to help.

And so you come face to face with a policeman's notebook.

You have witnessed an acci-

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This rate is modified by form-- ing associations: links between one thing relative to another and with such assistance your memory more or less adequately meets the practical requirements. of everyday life.-

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But in the matter of testi mony this fact itself may be yet. another source of error.

For unfathomable personal reasons you may remember cer- tain irrelevances with complete clarity while forgetting the real- ly crucial points.

You will remember primarily things that affect or interest you. Things that are creditable to you will make a deep and lasting impression on your con- sciousness. Discreditable things, on the other hand, you will for get with remarkable speed. thoroughness and convenience.

SAW IT WITH MY

dent and your testimony is re- quired.

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You were there. You what happened. You heard what happened. You have the evidence of your senses. You KNOW.

But do you? Are you SURE?

Look at these two lines:

Both

are exactly the same length-but they don't look it. Your eyes deceive you. And in the same way, again and again, your genses will bear false witness.

It is interesting to recall that, as recently as December 12 inst year, Mr. Chamberlain certainly I had no intention of giving such In the complex business" "of unequivocal statement of observing something that is British support for France as happening, that is an incident was given yesterday. On that involving several factors pre- senting several sides, it has been occasion, in response to a ques-found that the average eye-wit- tion whether, in the event of Italy embarking on warlike operations against France, Bri- tain would give military aid, the | Prime Minister replied some- what cryptically that "nd re- quirement of such aid exists in any treaty or pact with France."

The significance lles in the fact that the assurances Mr.) Chamberlain hesitated to give before his recent visit to Rome havo been forthcoming after. that visit.

Britain's policy shows signs of hardening against both Italy and Japan.

In the European sphere, the wreckage and rape of Catalonia must have a terrific effect on public opinion in Great Britain, the more so in view of the boasts in Rome that Italy |achieved the victory that drove

the Loyalists across the fron-| tiere into sanctuary in France.

In the Far East, there aro many signs that patience is rapidly nearing exhaustion, es- pecially in view of happenings on the Pearl River in the south, on the Yangtse in Central Cliina and at Tangtao and Chefoo in the north.Tho tactlessness of Japanese consular officials who demanded an explanation of the "unwarrantable action of. H.M.S. Birmingham" in refusing to llow puppet officials to board a British steamor outside torri Torial waters, and telling the British naval authorities that eimilar Incidenti, aliould not occur in future", will not: afd Japanese relations with Britain..

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ness account of the thing through interrogation while observed is not only very incom- having a 50 times greater range plete, but 40 per cent. inaccurate. than narrative testimony, is. 550

times more inaccurate. Experimenting along these lines Professor Wolters, of A class of young girls having Reading University, asked a just seen a film were asked if group of his students to describe the lamp in the picture was hang- a small dramatic incident which ing from the ceiling or resting had occurred in the lecture room. on the table. So powerful was the "suggestion" that not one An accurate and full report answered correctly that there required just ten essential points. was neither lamp nor table in

The average number correctly the picture. reported was 3.5 and, on the average, there was one complete-

About 50 per cent. stated with remainder assurance

ly false addition to each account. great certainty that it hung from

ceiling. The Incidents which had not occurred the and which were materially im- affirmed with equal possible in the situation were re- that it rested on the table. ported with complete assurance. To this initial weakness of ob- To these spontaneous inne servation, to this susceptibility curacies and omissions of a "free to suggestion, must be added a narrative" must be added the thoroughly unreliable memory. errors resulting from "sugges- Tests show that the average innate tendency is to forget half It has been estimated (by of all that is learnt in an hour, Walter Van Dyke Bingham and two-thirds in eight hours, threc- Bruce Moore in How to Inter- quarters in a week and four view)

that testimony got fifths in a month.

tion" through questioning.

5-Minutes Medical Exam.

How

[OW much do you know about

yourself?

Put "Yes" or "No" to the fo!- lowing questions and check your answers by those in the follow- Ing two columns, where the facts

are

given by Dr. August A. Thomen, the eminent American physician, whose views, Lord Horder says, "successfully chal- lenge the most severe criticism."

DO YOU BELIEVE—

1 That the counmption of ICmon juice or vinegar is 4 simple and effective method of reducing one's weight?

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2 That it matters if you are plump at our 407

3 That individuals with high colour or fiore complexions are not usually healiny?.

4 That a person should not bade while he is warin?

* That it le sonzible to Expose; children to measles, whooping cough, chicken-poz. scarlet fever, on the presumption that they will get them anyway?

6′ That o high forehead is a positive sign of intelligence and culture?

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7 That marriages persons of opposite characteris- ties and personality trails are more liable to be successful and happy than others?

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There is no reason to believe that the facts you salvage in this profoundly subjective man- ner from the bog of your innate forgetfulness are the most im- portant from the point of view of objective accuracy.

There is no reason to believe that they are even facts.

So when you looked up from your contemplation of the shop window a mass of impressions crashed into your brain. Your brain could receive only a pro- portion of those impressions. It could retain only a proportion of what it received. What it re- tained was confused and distort- ed by all the intensely personal trains of thought set loose by the situation.

On this blunt, uncertain edge the scales of justice balance.

The policeman stands with his pencil poised. The destiny, the.. freedom, the honour of fellow man many depend on one word from you!

some

but...are

You may speak that word

you, can you be, SURE?

Dr. Thomen Marks

The correct answers to the ques- tions in the preceding columns are:

(1)-No. The idea that if one

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drinks the juice of a lemon after a Vinegar, which is diluted acetle heavy meal, the excess food will not acld, can indirectly cause a loss of "turn into fat" is unadulterated nen- weight occasionally, by deranging Lemon juice hos no such the digestion and the appetite. Such

a method is obviously ill-advised.

(2)Yes. For one to be over- weight at middle life is definitely disadvantageous. Within reason, the shorter the waistlino the longer the lifeline,

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(3)-Yes. What is often con- sidered an exquisite complexion by the laity is recognised, us a definite sign of illness by the doctor. A'cer- tain type of heurt disease often pro- duces in girls especially, a remark- |ably beautiful complexión. A pleas- ing, rosy complexion is not always an index of good, health.

(4)-No. It is quile safe to go. in bathing when one is warm, and any unusual happening is to be re- garded as due to some other cause. To bathe in cool water in such cir- cumstances can produce only an exhilarating reaction in a healthy person.

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(3)--No,The common fallacy of exposing children to infection on the presumption that the fitnesa, what- ever it may be, is mild in its nature, and that sooner or later they will contract it, is to be emphatically condemned.

The notion is wholly fallacious for: the following reasona

|(0) A ̈ mild coze, may, and often

dors, devolop into a SCTIOUS)

one.

(by It is not quite true that all

should have these silmenis- during some period, of thair. Vexistenca,

(c) The seriourness of these alimonia:

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