Elbow Jolts

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 32, 13 December 1948, Page 4

Elbow Jolts

... By Left Hand Corner Heading in city newspaper: “Seamen declare Victorian Coal Cargoes Black.” Well, they are, aren’t they? XXX “Water for State Tenants” (news head). So what. We’ll all need it soon if hotel workers’ dispute develops into a strike. XXX A church in Norwich, Cheshire, increased its average morning congregation from 30 to 200 by offering a bacon breakfast after Holy Communion. It seems food for the body has more pulling power food for the spirit. X X X Vastly increased population will give us a “sporting chance” of holding our country against the Asiatics, says Sir Howard Kippenberger, discussing a horridly gruesome bogey compounded of a revival of the “yellow peril” talk of the early ’3o’s and the “Red Menace” of more modern times. Maybe he’s right. Maybe not. But all my wife wants to know is who will house and keep this increased population, if we decide to increase it? XXX ' “Life in a military camp brings out the true traits of a man”, said Rev. W. S. C. Stephens, talking about compulsory military training at a W.D.F.F. meeting in the Te Puke district recently. Looking back on one’s own' military career one w*ould prefer to believe he’s mistaken. Surely that urge to do in everyone in authority from the Minister of Defence down to the cook and that horrible, horrible thirst cannot be true traits of my character.