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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1939.

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|Patience, Ending?

shop window.

You see a car swerving vio lently, lurching drunkenly over the pavement towards you; you see a cyclist flung into the road- way you see horror sketched on some man's 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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I

SAW IT

OWN

dent and your testimony is re- quired.

You were there. You saw what

heard happened. You

evidence of your senses. KNOW.

But do you? Are you SURE?

THERE IS particular signific- what happened. You have the

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.

Look at these two lines:

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

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 Fou. 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 got with remarkable speed,. thoroughness and convenienco.

WITH MY

WITH

EYES

There is no reason to believe that the facts you salvage in this profoundly subjectivo 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 facta.

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

times more inaccurate. Experimenting along. these lines Professor Wolters, of A class of young girls having Rending 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 So when you looked up from had occurred in the lecture room, on the table. So powerful was your contemplation of the shop the "auggestion" that not one window a mass of impressions An accurate and full report answered correctly that there crashed into your brain. Your required just ten essential points. was neither lamp nor table in brain could receive only a pro-

The average number correctly the picture.

portion of those impressions. It reported was 3.5 and, on the

could retain only a proportion of About 50 per cent, stated with what it received. What it re- average, there was one complete-

In the complex business of observing something that is happening, that is an incident involving several factors pre- found that the average eye-wit- senting several sides, it has been

Both are exactly the same length-but they don't look it. Your eyes decefve you. And in It is interesting to recall that, the same way, again and again, as recently as December 12 last, your sensea will bear false year, Mr. Chamberlain-certainly [-witness. had no intention of giving such an unequivocal statement of British support for France as was given yesterday. On that occasion, in response to a ques- tion whether, In the event of Italy embarking on warlike operations against France, Bri- tain would give military aid, the Prime Minister replied some- 000 what cryptically that "no re- quirement of such aid exists in any treaty or pact with France."

INCENOHL'S CIGAR STORES "LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE"

Thursday &

Friday

Last Two

Days

of

Maizee's

Sale

The significance lies in the fact that the assurances Mr. Chamberlain hesitated to give before his recent visit to Rome have 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- tiers into sanctuary in France,

In the Far East, there are many signs that patience is rapidly nearing exhaustion, ca- pecially in view of happenings on the Pearl River in the south, on the Yangtse in Central China and at Tsingtao and Chefoo in the north. The tactlessness of Japanese consular officials who demanded an explanation of the "unwarrantable action of H.M.S. Birmingham" in refusing to allow puppet officials to board a British steamer outalde terri- torial waters, – and", "telling: the British naval authorities that "similar incidents should not occur in future will not aid fananose relation with Britain.

situation.

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

ly false addition to each account. great certainty that it hung from tained was confused and distort- Incidents which had not occurred the ceiling. The remainder ed by all the intensely personal and which were materially im- affirmed with equal assurance trains of thought set looao by the

that it rested on the table. possible in the situation were re- ported with complete assurance. To this initial weakness of ob- To these apontaneous inac- servátion, 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 tion" through questioning. 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, three- view) Bruce Moore in How to Inter quarters in a week and four

testimony got fifths in a month.

that

5-Minutes Medical Exam.

HOW

[OW much do you know about

yourself?

Put "Yes" or "No" to the fol- 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 Harder says. "successfully chal- lenge the most tovere criticism." DO YOU BELIEVE-

or

a

1 That the consumption oj Lemon Juice vinegar is simple and effective method of 'reducing one's weight?

2 That it matters if you are plump at over 407

3 That individuals with high colour or florid complexions are 'not usually healthy?

4 That a person should not bathe while he is warm?

5 That it is zenelble to expose children to modales, whooping cough, chicken-pos, scarlet fever, ca the presumption that they will get them anyway?.

· That a high forehead lz is positive sign of Intelligence and cularrer

between

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

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

You may speak that word---- but...are you, can you be, SURE?

Dr. Thomen Marks

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

(1), No. The idea that if one

Your Card

drinks the juice of a lemon after, a Vinegar, which is diluted acetic heavy ineal, the excess food will not acid, can indirectly cause a loss of "turn into fat" is unadulterated non- weight occasionally, by deranging sense, Lemon Juice bas no such the digestion and the appetite. Such

a method is obviously ill-advised. property.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

USTO CARS

SAL VALDES TER

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

(3)—Yes. What is often con sidered an exquisite complexion by the laity is recognised as a definito sign of illness by the doctor. A cer- tain type of heart dispose often pro- ducts, in, girls especially, a remark. ubly beautiful complexion. A pleas- ing, roxy complexion is not always un Index of good health.

-- (4). —No., Itis,quito anfu to go In_balling when one is worms, and any unusual happening is to be re- garded as due to some other cause. Td batho 3n. cool water in such clr- cumstances can produce only exbliarsting reaction in a healthy, person..

Measles:

(5).---No. The common fallacy of exposing children to infection on the presumption that the lines, what- ever it may be, la mild in its nature, find that sooner or later they wlli contract it, is to be esophatically éondemned.

The notion is wholly fallacious for the following reasons:

(a),

mild case may and often does, develop into a seriotis

one.

(b) It is not quite trud that all should have these ailmente ́during some period of their: existence.

(c). The seriousness of Ujese Adele'n waya grouter/

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