MOANING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 96, 4 December 1939, Page 8

MOANING

THE FASHION TO-DAY

AWAY WITH THEM

The sport of the day is moaning. The fashionable music of the moment is to make a dismal sound from the stomach, out through the larynx —a noise that imitates a groan. "Thingsarbad . . . AngoinagetAverse" is what the groan sounds like. Wind soughing through the crevaces of a deserted haunted bush, is a veritable breath of optimism compared Avith the moaning of presentday grouchers. After all the Avholc world is haA'ing a bit of a stir up. Things are in a deA-il of a mess in some places. But if there are any spots on the earth AA'here cheery optimism should be positively rampant, they are New Zealand. Australia and South Africa. Our blessings are so profuse that it avoulcl be sheer Avaste of time to count them. And yet we have the mourners AA'ho are tiwing to give us the jitters. Thank heaA-en there are still a feAV courageousjliearts that refuse to beat at panic pace. Let us all try *to imitate them, and if aa*c can't bring ourselves to shout aloud with elation then at least Ave can offer the charity of our silence. AAvay with the moaner. Absence of Men. At Friday's meeting of ladies representing AA T omen's organisations in the Whakatane County the chairman Avas asked by Mrs Haultain: "Why is it proposed to form a patriotic council by Avomen- A'v not men to be on it at all?" Ihe chairman, Mr J. L. Burnett, said that the ladies aa-ctc called together because the societies they represented Avere in touch Avith the people of the county and he added that, should the suggestion of the formation of a Red Cross Society in those districts Avherc groups did not alreadv exist be adopted, then men could figure in such bodies and be nominated for the County Council.