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Startled, you look up from your contemplation of the shop window.

You seo a car awerving vio- BY-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.

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Patience Ending?

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 faco with a policeman's notebook. You have witnessed an acel-

44.

This rate in 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.”

But in the matter of testi- mony this net 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.

I SAW IT WITH MY

dent and your testimony is re- quired.

You

You were there. You BOW what happened. You heard THERE IS particular signific-what happened. You have the

ance in the declaration in evidence of your senses.

KNOW. 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.

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 senses will bear false witness.

It is interesting to recall that, as recently as December 12 Inst year, Mr. Chamberlain certainly had no intention of giving such In the complex business of an 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 "no re- quirement of such aid exists in any treaty or pact with France."

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 în 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, cs- pecially in view of happenings on the Pearl River in the south, on the Yangtao in Central China and at Tsingtao and Chefoo in the north. The tactlessness of Japanose consular officials who demandled an explanation of the "unwarrantable action of H.M.S. Birmingham" in refusing to allow puppet officials to boardin British steamer outside terri torial waters, and telling the British naval authorities that "similar incidents should not sccur in futura” will not ald, Japanese relations with Britain.

OWN

neяs

EYES"

account of the thing through interrogation

while

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-

objective accuracy.

observed is not only very incom- having a 50 times greater range portant from the point of view of

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 celling or resting had occurred in the lecture room. on the table. So powerful was the "sugestion" 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 Incidents which had not occurred the ceiling. 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-

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.

To these spontaneous inne- servation, to this susceptibility curacies and omissions of a "free to suggestion, must be added n narrative" must be added the thoroughly unreliable memory.- pencil poised. The destiny, the errore resulting from "sugges- tion" through questioning.

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, three- Bruce Moore in How to Inter- quarters in a week and four view)

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. Augus! A. Thomen, the eminent Americon physician, whose views, Lord Horder ways "successfully chal- lenge. the most severe criticism.”

DO YOU BELIEVE—

1 That the consumption of Iemon julee or vinegar la 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 forld complexions dre not usually healthy?

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

That it is sensible to expose children to measles, whooping cough, chick"n-por, scarlet jouer, on the presumption that they tolll get them anyway?

That a high, forchead is a possitive sign of intelligence and culture?

That

marriages between. persons of opposite characteris- tics and personality traits are more able to be successful and happy than others?

The policeman stands with his

freedom, the honour of some fellow man many depend on one word from you.

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:

Your Card

(1)-No. The idea that if one drinks the julee of a lemon after a Vinegar, which is diluted scetle": heavy meal, the excess food will not acid, cun indirectly cause a loss of "turn into fat" is unadulterated non- weight occasionally, by deranging sense. Lemon juice has no such the digestion and the appetite. Such property.

ja method is obviously ill-advised.

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

(3),—Yes. What is often con- aldered an exquisite complexion by the lalty is recognised as a definite sign of illness by the doctor. A cer- · tain type of heart disease often pro- - ducts, in girls especially, a-remark- ably beautiful complexion. A pleas Ing, rosy complexion is not always an index of good health.

(4).No. It is quite 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 'nuch cir- cumstances can produce only | exhilarating reaction In a healthy

person.

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(3)-Ns. The common fallacy of exposing children to Infee Con on the presumption that the itness, what over 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 reasons:

(a): A mild case may, and often does, develop into a serious

one.

Ch). It is not quite thườ’that, all should have these alimenta ¿during – sorne, perlod of their

existence,

(c): The serioumers of these allmentti

is always greater; the younger (Continued on Page 4)