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You were suffering from an attack of nerves. And I'll tell you why all nervous feelings left you as soon as you were actually in the room.

You'd got something else to think about. You were no longer stirring up your glands by jall kinds of imaginary terrors.

"NERVES" are a kind of first cousin to fear. Reat fear is helpful-it's got a purpose. It makes us take care of ourselves when danger's about.

The "nerves" which masquerade as fear only mislead us they make us think there's some- thing to be frightened of when there isn't.

I wonder how many times you've been cross- ing the rond, failed to notice a car-then only just avoided it in time. And how many of us realise that it's fear-the real fear-which saves

WHAT AM I going to do for the our lives on these occasions?

Empire?

Men and women in Hongkong nust ask themselves that question

MEDICAL

EXPLANATION OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET "WIND UP," WITH FULZ DIRECTIONS FOR DEALING WITH THE SITUATION

WHAT actually happens Does this picture make immediate penalty of failure by in the blood of those chemicals

"inside us" is this: you shudder?

a contemplation of how little the which are poured out when we're

world in the long run.

towards us and we realise that

Then your

ceptible to infection.

we see the motor-car rushing adrenal glands are working particular deed will affect the frightened makes us, more sug- the driver has not seen us--or, harder than usual. perhaps, only just done so-and it's too late for him to pull up.

Quick as an electric current good it may be in moderation siderations as these. (and not altogether unlike it), and when used in the proper message is sent down the place) may turn an asset into a specialised part of the nervous liability.

But, as most of us have found BUT how can the subject out by experience, we get very

of "nerves" help him-. Abuse of anything (however little real help from such con- self? What's he to do when he

which volunteers are being called, emotions. They include fire fighting, air raid

nursing.

nervous system.

worry,

we

The

Many

never

upon him

..

and must give a practical answer As part of the new Empire plan of passive defence the greatest effort in history is being launched in Hongkong, as in other strategic

finds himself in a blue funk, and, Colonies, to organise for war ser- vice on voluntary lines.

THINK of the number of try as he will, he can't control The "Telegraphy" published on

times we've worried the trembling of his limbs, or Saturday a list of the services for system which deals with When we keep our fear over possible troubles until we the sweat which will moisten

This is in such close connec- we're abusing our protective in

mechanism on a hair-trigger were almost ill-troubles which, his brow?

the end, have

There's one tip I can offer any.

Let him precautions and first aid for those i tion with the adrenal glands apparatus.

one in such a state. materialised. who will have to be trained, and that, almost simultaneously with

"Don't worry-it may never concentrate on what's going on And it's exactly this which the enrolment of those who are al- the recognition of danger, they

happen." is a hackneyed but outside himself..

It doesn't much matter what, ready trained or semi-trained in begin to pour out their contents. many of us are doing when we truthful aphorism. And, what's various essential professions. For And it's the chemical made by

more, we shall find it a good deal so long as the act itself succeeds the women there is also A.R.P. and these glands which sensitises the THINK of the way we more helpful when we're "funk- in switching his mind. off him-

try to encourage each ing" some situation than either self. It speeds up all its responses, other when we've got to do of the two previous dicta,

If it makes it impossible for As in England, the Hongkong making it possible for you to get something

dread.

people look

to live (in advance) system is voluntary, and relies out of the way in time. Without phrases we're in the habit of disease, not in the way healthy through possible terrors he'll entirely upon a spirit of co-opera- this recognition of danger in using show what we're really people do, but with terror which find that the physical part of tion. In addition to these services your consciousness, and the thinking.

makes their lives dreadfully un- feur-the dry mouth, the shak- more and more recruits are always prompt secretion of adrenalin to

"Go on! He can't eat you," is happy. It's a well-known fact, ing limbs and the beating heart needed for the Hongkong Volun- which it leads, you'd never be a very usual method of en. which has never been adequately will cease to trouble him. teer Defence Corps, which are of able to move quickly enough,

explained, that individuals seem Why? Because by this device our General Officers Commanding once declared was the Colony's first possibly be as speedy as the so- victim of cannibalism.)

(As if the only to catch those diseases they're he's side-tracked introspection. No "thought-out" action could couragement.

penalty for failure was to be the afraid of.

Soon after he's succeeded in this called "conditioned" reflex. It's

Doctors and nurses go about the sympathetic system will the automatic response of your It'll be all the same in a hundred never considering the possibility

Or, again: "What's it matter? their work in fever hospitals calm down. body to the knowledge of dan years." Even if this were true that they'll catch any of the ill- ceive excessive quantities of The blood will no Inager re- ger.

means neces- nesses they're always in contact thyroid and adrenal secretion. difference between long time, and one can be very they rarely do. shake-up like the September crisis, the fear which protects you and uncomfortable during whatever I think the reason is to be unfortunately, to bring home to the the "nerves" which plague you? proportion of it one's alive.

found in the machinery I've majority of people here the urgent It's a small but very important

Such a phrase shows how we already referred to.

And it necessity of offering their services difference.

all try to avoid dwelling on the

secins more than likely that when fear is nagging at the sympathetic nervous system (it's this part which is utilised by the emotions) the presence

line of defence.

The big question, of course, is Will a voluntary service succeed? The Volunteer Corps and the Naval Volunteer Force

were successful, although they should be much stronger than they are. It takes a

in one form or the other. There was an immediate rush of volun- teers in September, and they would have been worse than useless had the crisis ended in war, for it takes at least six months to train a sol- dier.

While the period of training is less in the voluntary services for which recruits are now being called, it is nevertheless a necessity before efficiency can be obtained. That is why we should curol now. PIONEERS

A GIANT flying-bout, the largest

in the world, came out of the skios, Anttoned out on the waters opposite Kai Tak Airport. It was the most exciting aerial event in ouri history. Hundreds of people cheer- ed as the air-lincr gracefully land- od; later, hundreds clamoured to

be shown the new wonder.

Yes, it was n grand flight, a 41-

| ton mammoth of steel crossing 9,000

miles of ocean.

We could take more pride in it If it had been an Empire dying boat we were welcoming from England Instead of an ̈ American ship from California. How many months is) it since we first hoard that Imperial Airways was going to modernise the feeder service to Hongkong?

You would think that if Pan American Airways believo the China air passenger trado is worth dolog properly, it would also bo worth our while showing this con- tinant that we really have the planoa. Five major alr-lines have Kal Tak sehedules now, and Your plance do not compare favourably

with the others.

(which is by no

NOW can you see the sarily the case), a century is a' with. And, curiously enough, Then he'll once more feel con-

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THE "THINK PEACE" SOCIETY

JUST a few women in the North of

Mr. Chamberlain quoted Shakes- England, who have been worried peare and that is why the Peace by the number of their sex who will Soelety han for its motto, "There is harp the theory that war is bound nothing either good or bad, but think- to come, have started: a society Injing makes it so."

which each member pledges herself The entrance fee is merely nomlani, to believe we shall have pence for just enough to pay a club room. Each our and our children's time.

inember, under the penalty of a fine, Because the old-time theory that pledges herself to speak of peace as thought is purely abstract and inert being here for all time. If fear.or in its retalton to tangible things is fast dread of war enters her mind, she pussing into oblivion, we must know must keep pushing it away until it that what we think we often create. is too weary and weak to come back. The woman with a pretty hat which I remember a woman who had pleases her, would never have had it, beon bed-ridden some years, and had but that someone thought about mak-come to think she would never get ing it. All the clothes we, wear, the UP again. Then one day a friend of her, fother's came along and said to goods with which our houses are furnished, and even the food we eat, her quite simply "Don't you know have to be a thought before they des that we must either rise above n

thing or let it crush us?" Ivelop into actualities.

She hadn't thought of thol, but.

It is difficult to estimate the number when he advised her to form a men-. of girls who are Jilted in the end, fal picture of herself strong and well, largely because they began by think and to keep pulling it back if it at- ing their lovers were faithless, before tempted to go, she promised to try. infidelity ever entered the men's

"But," he said, "You must use your minds.

commonsense, -loo; To prepare for war may be to pre- you can to get yourself well."

You must do all. vent war, but to think peace certainly enn create peace. ?

Stx weeks after my friend's talks: with this man she was up and well, and has not looked back since... Just a minor ailment now: und, then, perhaps, but that is nil.KAS "Thinking Makes it So"

The World's Desire

The we be

Invariably work towards achieving consciously or sub-consciously." And

so, if we keep on making up our minds What can be done with health can That we shall have war and talk about It, chould it come about wo who think, thus will be largely to blame

be done with anything. If there are mufficient of us wishing to maintain (Continued on Page 5.)