Children often have far more sense than their elders.this simple truth was demonstrated rather dramatically during a civil defense exercise in a small town in canada. Most of the inhabitants were asked to take part in the excercise during which they had pretend that their city had been bombed. Air-raid warnings were sounded and thousand of people went into special air-raid shelters. Doctors and nurses remained above ground while police patrolled tehe streets in case anyone tried to leave the shelters too soon. The police did not have much to do because the citizens took the exercise seriously. They staued underground for twenty minutes and waited for the siren again. On leaving the air-raid shelters, they saw that doctors and nurses were busy. A great many people had volunteered to act as casualties. Theatrical make-up and artivicial blood had been used to make the injuries look realistic. A lot of people were lying ‘dead’ in the streets. The living helped to carr...