1948-02-28 — Page 9

Are You Sure?

Auswers ou Pape 10

1. Apart from Uncle Tom Cobleigh

okt and the

grey mare, Would Widecombe Fair be complete with-

BUIL Brewer. Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Dan't Whiddon, Harry Hawke?

2. The first Christian martyr

in Britain WIL

St Augustine, St Alban; St George?

3. The Lani

was written by-

of the Barons

Lutton Strachet. Buheer Lyi- ton, Thackeray. Barrison Alus- worth?

4. How much gold' is there In 18 karais?

5.

there was the Which of first to be drunk in Britain-

Whisky. beer, ead, tea, coffee, cocon?

G. The second mountain is-

Highest

Manda Desi, Monnt God- win-Austen, Nanga Parbat, Kinchiujungn?

7. One of these shown J:1 for more than 2.000 consecutive performances....

Spirit. Me and

Mu

Bithe Girl, Charley's Aunt, Chu Chin Chon, Arsenic and Old Laer, Quiet Werk-End?

B.

1-

The first Palladium

Planet.

WALN

statue, mustr+hall, Ture metal, eccentrle clan?

Which of these might . . Scotsman wear on bin frack......

Balmoral, Inverness, Glen- party. Pibracht?

the

10. The In that was mretliare of Ben Johnson

and his friends was

Kit

Kat

Club Mermaid Tarern, Jolly Roger, Mitza.

3030303FFEE 2031 250635122 398 (EESTRALU ENTHEFTATENTIES TE

1956 Olympics

Scotland?

THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1948.

MEDICAL SCIENCE TURNS

TO HYPNOTISM

-YPNOTISM has come down off the vaudeville stage, out of the circus sideshow into the hushed, digni- fied halls of American 'medical science.

No longer regarded- with either fear or derision, hypno- tism is credited by the American

Dramatic cures

with new

trance technique

This and similar experiments 50 Psychiatric Association with convinced tough sceptical Army

hypnotism was come accomplishing "impressive re- lenders that sults" in the treatment of thing more than mere hocus-pocus that after. V-J Day 50 clinies were patients suffering from a com- set up throughout the anion to help bination of mental and physical neurotle veternus make a satisfac- allments-called psychosomatic tory adjustment to civilian life.

The linenses.

the new importance of alliance between the "black magic It first began to receive its of hypnotism and the "white magie" "legitimate", status when of metlical selence cannot be over- the United States Army became estimated. aware of its potentialities during the war.

new

A

·

SHELL EXPLODED German phosphorus shell exploded Hear A 27-year-old soldier. Though his eyes were uninjured, he was carried away psychologically blind.

thint and

In America 'it in estimated only 1 to 15, percent of sick ning have purely organic disease.

At least 6,000,000 other Americans suffer from some mental disorder.

PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH

One of the most valuable uses of medical hypnosin is in Inducing pain- less childbirth.

Both "foveal" and "Informal"

At an Army general hospital hypnosis are employed in such cases. In the latter the patients are not noted psychiatrist Dr Montague Ullman put the young

soldier put in a trance but mere), submitted

to power suggestion, into a hypnotic state and asked

It is this type of informal hypno- hit describe his harrowing tism which is gaining widespread

popularity In the United States.

Much of it is based on the work of English obstetrician Dr Granty

experience,

Then the psychiatrist told the soldier again and again, "You're cured, You est again."

L

When the soldier awoke from

the trance his vision why re- stored.

Later Dr Uliman made more experiments on the soldier dur- ing subsequent hypnotic tests.

"You've burned the bark of your left hand." it was suggests

Fored.

The Scottish Tourist Board Harry!

Olympic informed that the

Committee might welcone Grimes from Scotland an invitation to hold the 1956 Olympic Games in Scot-

Intui.

"A molten bit of shell hit it and glanced off."

To aki realism the back of the hand was gently brushed has with a

small flat nail file at room heat.

Where the file touched the skin a whiteness immediately appeared, followed 20 minutes later by a narrow red margin.

An hour later a blister began to appenr.

the This Intimation was made to Dundee Lord! Provost's Committee in #letter from the Tourist

Board would Manager waking if Dunder support an invitation from Scotland.

Support of the invitation has been Next day the outer skin slaughed agreed to 171 principle, but Dundee away from what looked like a second authorities are making further en-degree burn. quiries into the expenditure such an invitation would involve.

In three days the raw orea healed without a sear.

had

Rend.

Rend's method had its dest test in New York one afternoon in 1943; lerical woman log in labour.

Inn New Jersey hospital'a hys-

During the war, hypnollst Howard Klein even succeeded in extracting vital Information regarding Nazi ngents in Amerlen from a captured German submarine enplein.

Since then, Klein has tried come daring now experimenta on the human body.

In one of the most unusual cases Klein gives the subject in the trance Iwo small cuts on the hand.

Then, while they are bleeding ha tells the patient to halt the bleeding. from one of the culs,

to

The blood Instantly ceases. Klein then tells the subject allow the Brat cut to bleed and to hult the other.

In an instant the flow of blood is.

completely reversed.

RESPONSE

Dr Clark Bellows, director of the New York Institute of Hypnology, In an Interview, contradicted the im- pression that only the weak-minded respond to hypnotism.

He pointed out that idiots and im- beclies

subjects are impossible whereas the "strong-minded" can easily be hypnotised, if they operate, because of their ability to

concentrate,

CO-

-OTTO OLSEN

FROM HERE AND THERE:

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

"If Mildred isn't a bit more careful about her friends, she'll end up as Partridge. en casserole at 81. 6d, a go before you con

Strachey,"

say

Landscapes and other scenics can be improved by cropping to eliminate

unnecessary detalla, -

BE CONCISE

OFF HAND it is hard to think score of minor details, wearing

of a bigger bore than the thin at once his stray and the chronic story-teller who patience of his listeners. stretches every anecdote with a

ANTI-POLITICAL POSTMAN

too the

and especially

WHAT THEN?

YOUR NIGHTMARET Montreal. Sir

Cape Town.--A man with a ner- Will Ildred, A quick call brought Dr Blackwell

Air vou twitch of the eyebrows was steadily losing money for acarly chairman of the International Sawyer to her bedside.

owner year, and employees are worrying Dr Transport Association, said here that surprised to ind himself the He had rend

half of only

here over the Intest report-that 400 of Read's book, but decided to try the he would not be satislied until he of a whinle runboat at a sate

could breakfast in London and lunch when the auctioneer came to ask his them are going to be sacked, inethod anyway.

was

·OLYMPIC PRELIMINARIES

An anecdote should be con- cise, uncluttered by meaning- less trivia. And, while we sel- dom class scenic or landscapes under the heading of "story- telling" pictures, such pictures too, can profit greatly from

and simplicity

conciseness. One of the commonest faults is the tendency of beginners inclule too much in shots this type.

to

of

tho

New York. The race for cun Airways, awarded the contract Joss or foreign,

to ship the loot, sald he thought 22 British, visitors, have all had a new: President is warming up, but a nights would be necessary to fly the setback by the government calling in Michigan postman takes a poor gold to the Bank of England and at the 3,000-frane notes. Takings have view of the whole thing. He even larger number to carry already slumped by a half, since the over the Atlantic. gamblers have had to turn in those admits destroying 100 political America's share

in noles and walf for the state to refund Most of this gold was recovered

Simple composition, in fact, is the circulars because "there's

April 1945- from the salt mines In them. Three of the four largest basis of good scene shots. To get much of that stuff in Merker, in Thuringia, where it was gambling establishments in Nice are such composition the most effective

hidden by Germanus. maila."

working at loss, and one of three viewpoint should be selected for the is reported to be closing down soon. camera position. And, often a part Monte

Corio Casino has been of the picture may well be cropped

a in the final print.

Let us consider the picture repro-* duced here: first, as it appears in its entirety, and then as it appears If the we cover up the area outside The result was astonishing. Within New York. As the air traveller name. Bidding on the whaler Hek-

Dr saved five hours in crossing the At- tor IV, lying of Saldanha Bay,

tashed line with two pleces of paper a few quiet, reassuring words Sawyer turned the screaming woman

lantic It might some day be possible opened at £2,000 and soon twitched lo leave London early on Saturday up to £4,000, where bidding and New York, London's Olympic or our hand-cropping out the un-

wanted portions, into a calm, co-operative patient.

morning and arrive in Montreal late twitching stopped until the whaler Games have already resulted in sulkd

It is quickly apparent that was knocked down.

bookings for the previous Friday night.

June and July two tree at the right adds nothing to the NOT ON LARGE SCALE

MORE JUSTICE

trans-Atlantic air Rines reported. pleture. On the contrary. It serves THE THAMES SPARE BRIDGES

New York. The majority of Pan-American plans an extra daily to take emphasis from the light- An hour later, nimost painlessly

Johannesburg-Spans from Lo Anterica's child criminals come from flight to London during the week. house.

Without it, the picture en- without anaesthetle, the baby was born.

don's war emergency brides will homes broken up by divorce. That

American Overseas Airlines will In-closed by the dashed line better con- soon be carrying traffic across the has given barrister C. H. Morris crense operating schedules by five veys the feeling of loneliness which The mother turned to Dr Sawyer Kafuc River in Northern Rhodesia what he thinks may be a brilllent flights weekly. There will be few, if we associate with lighthouses. and said. "You chhugged my delivery if the London County Council

ac- idea. "Love from a

pirateswho

Similarly, by cropping the top of nightmare into the accepts tenders that

steal any, vacant sents on any airliner this Plans to give American other people's husbands and wives- summer. of my life.

the print, we improve experience

Why didn't

composition submitted. Londoners would gladly do their share of the breaking up. food for Britain's Olympic athletes in by "raising" the horizon-it no you tell me about this sooner?"

None So in Michita, Kansas, he is prepar- heartily

Charles longer divides our pleture in half. endorsed by every year

hombed; they are still there, tag a suit on behalf of ten-month-old Crustein,

gr food manager of the This too adds emphasis to the rocky Ilobby Wood. The baby will ask United States team. He will be glad coast, the melting snow along technique and that of formal hypno- but closed with barbed wire.

WHY FLY IT?

from £6.250 damages

young to supply it. But he knows of no tedges. New York.-SQty tons of gold, woman, who will be accused of official - British request. Miss D. All in all, it is easy to see

who coached the cropping has simplified the picture, worth £50,000,000, will be flown to breaking up his parents' marriage. Boeckinann, London shortly from Germany. "If I can get it through the higher American women's team in the 1936 eliminating those parts of the scene This is part of looted Nazi gold now courts." says Morris, "we can make Olympies, advises the committee not that add nothing to it. And, by stored in vaults of the Reichbank in philanderers pay and help to halt to send a women's team to London. eliminating them, it has focussed at- Frankfort. There are 50 tons more juvenile delinquency."

European women developed powerful tention on the bient

prospect pre- In the vaults, making a total of

BAD LUCK

physiques from dolag men's jobs sented by a remote lighthouse £27,500,000, but it will be down to France. Riviera gambling esla- during the war, she explains, and carly spring. America. An official of Pan-Ameri- blishments, already badly hit by the they will sweep all events.

John van Guilder.

American Hundreds of

Now turn to

women this

sis to make labour both easier and shorter.

But formal hypnotism-putting patients into a trance-ls not feasible on an extensive seale.

In other fields, hypnosis is curing children from stuttering, nail-biting, | cross-eyes, and helping adults to give up noking and drinking.

have Just bern

see the last of the bridges. were

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"YOU KNOW. WHILET J'A • GOING TO DO? I'M GOING TO WIN YOU

A NÉV CAR... FREE...

FOR NOTHING!

ALL I HAVE TO

DO IS....

R

"More Optimists"

Bu KEMP STARRETT,

THAT FOOL ARCHITECT

- SAYS IT'LL COST $12,000 TO

BUILD... I BETCHA I CAN ·

BUILD IT FOR LESS THAN EIGHT...

I KNOW WHERE I CAN GET LUMBER AN' STUFF FOR HALF

WHAT THEY'RE GETTING

FOR IT

AND, WHAT'S

MORE

the

how

THE OPTIMIST VALD THINKS A BOX-TOP AND "TWENTY FIVE WORDS OR LESS" WILL WIN

PRACTICALLY ANYTHING.

ISN'T IT A

·BEAUTY? IT

LOOKS EVEN BETTER.IN THE HOUSE THE IT DID IN THE

STORE/A

THE FOLKS WIO START OR LONG TRDS IN THEIR 17-YEAR-OLD MEAT GRINDER.

THE OPTIMIST WHO THINKS THAT BY KEEPING A BUDGET ONE: CAU MAKE OUTGO MATO! INCOME AND COME OUT EVEN. -

THERE'S AN OPTIMIST IN EVERY COMMUNITY WHO THINKS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS KNOW THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO GET SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.

"I BEEN EV'RY PLACE

AN' SEEN EV'RYTHIN'..

I'M GONNA

WRITE A BOOK

"AN AFTER IT'S

PRINTED I'LL

[GET A HUNERT]

GRAND FROM TH

MOVIES!

"THEN THERE'S THE ONE WITO TINKT BECAUSE HE'S BOUGHT A NEW RADIO JELL GET BETTER:

PROGRAMS.

SOME GALS ARE AS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT MARRIAGE AS A NOVICE ABOUT A HOT TIP ON THE MARKET. AND ONLY TIME WILL TELL IF EITHER IS AN INVESTMENT OR

A WILD CAMBLE..

Ledger-Syndicate.

THE OPTIMIST WHO IS GOING

TO FIX UP HIS DECLINING YEARS

WITH SOME GOOD SOLID LIMIRY

BY BUSTING RIGHT INTO THE LITERARY RACKET.....

"JUST LIKE THAT!:

11.304