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"NERVES" are a kind of first cousin to fear. Real 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

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thing to be frightened of when there isn't.

I wonder how many times you've been cross- ing the road,, 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?

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Men and women in Hongkong must ask themselves that question

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WIAT actually happens Does this picture make immediate penalty of failure by in the blood of those chemicals "inside us" is this: you shudder? Then your contemplation of how little the which are poured out when we're --and must give a practical answer. we see the motor car rushing adrenal glands are working particular deed will affect the frightened makes us more sus-

towards us and we realise that

harder than usual.

perhaps, only just done so--and

world in the long run.

But, as most of us have found out by experience, we get very

ceptible to infection.

BUT how can the subject

As part of the new Empire plan of the driver, has not seen as-Or, passive defence the greatest effort in history is being hunched in Hongkong, us in other strategic Colonies, la organise for war ser vier on voluntary lines,

our protective

of "nerves" help him-

finds himself in a blue funk, and,

There's one tip I can offer any Let him one in such a state.

it's too late for him to pull up. · Abuse of anything (however little real help from such con- self? What's he to do when he

Quick as an electric current good it may be in moderation siderations as those. (and not altogether unlike it), and when used in the proper message is sent down the place) may turn an asset into a THINK of the number of try as he will, he can't control The "Telegraph" published on specialised part of the nervous liability.

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

mechanism on a hair-trigger were almost ill-troubies. which, his brow? This is in such close connee- we're abusing

the in

.end, have never They include fre fighting, air roid precautions and first aid for these tion with

materialised. the adrenal glands apparatus. who will have to be trained, and that, almost simultaneously with

And it's exactly this which happen." is a hackneyed but outside himself.

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

It doesn't much matter what, endy trained or semi-trained in begin to pour out their contents. any 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- nervous system. nursing.

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 Hongkang making-it-possible-for-you-to-get-something we dread. The Many people look upon him. to live (in advance) system is voluntary, and relies out of the way in time. Without phrases we're in the habit of discuse, 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 ti. In addition to these services your consciousness, and the thinking.

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

worry.

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 one of able to move quickly enough. our General Officers. Commanding No "thought-out” action could

ance declared was the Colony's first

lue of defence.

possibly be as spectly as thu s called "conditioned" reflex. It's the automatic response of your body to the knowledge of dan

The big question, of course, is: Will a voluntary service succeed? The Volunteer Corps and the Naval ger. Volunteer Force were successful, although they should be much NOW can you see the difference between stronger than they are. It takes a shake-up like the September crisis. the fear which protects you and unfortunately, to bring home to the the "nerves" which plague you? majority of people here the urgent) It's a small but very important necessity of offering their services difference,

In one form or the other. There was an immediate rush of volun- teurs in September, and they would have been worse than useless bad 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 efliciency can be obtained. That is why we should enrol now.

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A GIANT flying-boat, the largest

in the world, came out of the skies, flattened out on the waters opposite Kai Tak Airport. It was. the most exciting aerial event in our history. Hundreds of people cheer. ed as the air-liner gracefully land-- ed: later, hundreds clamoured to be shown the new wonder.

Yes, it was a grand flight, a 41- Lou mammoth of steel crossing 9,000 miles of ocean.

We could take more pride in it if it had been an Empire flying boat we wore welcoming from England instead of an American ship from California. How many months is 41 since we first heard that Imperial Airways was going to modernise the feeder service to Hongkong?

You would think that if Pan American Airways believe the China air passenger trade is worth doing properly, It would also be worth our while showing this con- tricht that wo really have the planes. Five major air-lines have Kai Tak scheilutes now, and our

couragement. (As if the only

"Go on! He can't cat you," is happy. It's a well-known fact, ing limbs and the beating heart. explained, that individuals seem Why? Because by this device penalty for failure was to be the to catch those diseases they're he's side-tracked introspection.

afraid of.

Soon after he's succeeded in this victim of cannibalism.)

Doctors and nurses go about the sympathetic system will Or, again: "What's it matter? their work in fever hospitals calm down. It'll be all the same in a hundred never considering the possibility The blood will no Inoger re- Even if this were true that they'll catch any of the ill- ceive excessive quantities of (which is by no means neces- nesses they're always in contact thyroid and adrenal secretion: sarily the case), a century is a with. And, curiously enough. Then he'll once more feel con- long time, and one can be very they rarely do.

years.

fident.

uncomfortable during whatever I think the reason is to be Try this-when next you're proportion of it one's alive. found in the machinery I've panicky.

Such a phrase shows how we already referred to. And it all try to avoid dwelling on the seems 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

GRIN AND BEAR IT

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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 Saclety has for its motto, "There is harp on the theory that war is bound nothing either good or bad, but think- to come, have started a society in ing makes it so.'

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

member, 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 relation to tangible things is fast dread of war eaters her mind, she passing into oblivion, we must low must keep pushing it away until it that what we think we often create. is too wenry and weak to come back. who had I remember a women The women with a pretty hat which pleases her, would never have had it, been bed-ridden some years, and hud but that comcone 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 father's came along and said to goods with which our houses aro furnished, and even the food we.cat, quite simply "Don't you know

Umat we must either rlee have to be a thought before they de- Uning er let it crush us?" Ivelop into melualities,

above

She hadn't thought of that, but Il te difcuft to estimate the number when he advised her to form a men- of girl who are listed in the end, tal picture of herself strong and well. fargely because they began by think- } and to keep pulling it back if it al- log their lovers were faithless, before tenanted to go, she promised to try. landelity ever entered the men's "Bul," he said, "You must une your

commonsense, too. You must do all To prepare for war may be to pre- you can to get yourself well." vent war, but to think peace curtainly can create pence,

|ininds.

The World's Desire.

The things we believe to be we

Six weeks after my friend's taika with this man she was up and well, and has not looked back since. Just a minor, ailment now, and then perhaps, but that is all..

Invariably work towards nehleving. "Thinking Makes it So".

conretourly or sub-consciously, And

I do. If we kiep on making up our minds What can be done with health car that we shall have war and talk about | be done with anything. If there are It, should it como about we who sumelent of us wishing to maintain think thus will be fargely to_binme...

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