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WITHOUT PREJUDICE

NOTES AT RANDOM

(By

T.D.H.)

A modern pessimist has written that the music for the concert of nations is written in promissory notes.

“Our greatest national problem is whether we shall build warships or friendships”- —is a growing American view of the disarmament question.

At its last stop-work meeting the Seamen’s Union decided to do something about unemployment. Why -not begin by stopping stop-work meetings ?

“Every normal boy of the ’SO’s wished to be a pirate. The record of warprofiteering indicates that many of them acnieved tho ambition.’’—lt should be added that this is purely an American opinion.

Worth noting: “Less than a third of the world’s population is white. And only about 10 per cent, of these act that way.”

A correspondent of a Christchurch paper suggests that cats should be registered. This looks like an opening- for another Order-in-Covncil under the War Regulations.

Current admonitions on economy have been taken to heart by a Wellington. South resident who desires to dispose of his surplus wardrobe, and makes this appeal in - a local contemporary:

WANTED Sell, five Collars, two with size 2{- x 16, and two with size 16, one 2 x 16, all in good order;

collars too big for owner; any money

accepted. The writer is open to accept offers for two bone studs, a partly-worn boot-lace, and half a bottle of ammoniated quinine. Certain Labour secretaries and politicians are also understood to have hats on hand for disposal that they cannot get their heads into.

Test team-picking was quite a popular occupation in England a month or two ago, and the selectors had quite a lot of gratuitous advice —as well as abuse hurled at them. One young cricket enthusiast sent in the following team of “H’s,” a side which he thought capable of beating the Australians: Hobbs, Holmes, Hallows, .Hearne, Hendren, Haig (captain), Ilardinge, Hubble, Hitch, Howell, and Hardstaff. A weary recipient of many similar suggestions admitted that the team had possibilities, but satirically added that it would be strengtherfed a little by the inclusion of Harmstrong—if the Australians would lend him.

Those who have experienced difficulty with the pronunciation of Lympne, the little town at which Lloyd George and M. Briund occasionally meet to adjust their differences, may derive some assistance from the following rhyme:— There is a young fellow of Lympne, Whose ways are remarkably' slympne. For he often asks Briami And Lloyd George to tea and Thus keeps himself well in the sw-ympne.

In the little book he has just published. Sir Arthur Pearson has a striking passage on the dreams of the blind, “in my dreams.” he writes, I am never blind. Then I see as I used to”; but he adds that if people whom he has known only since he lost his sight figure in his dreams they are, unless he has become very intimately acquainted with them, people whose faces are indistinct, "though somehow I know who they are, T. have never dreamed about a place that I did not know before I was blind.”

A type of cable news the public ia getting very tired of: — London, morning. Mr. Lloyd George went up in a balloon, London, afternoon. The balloon burst in mid-air. London, evening. Mr. Lloyd George fell in Essex. London, next morning. It is authoritatively denied that any misadventure befell a balloon as cabled yesterday'. ’ London, next afternoon. There are conflicting stories about Mr, Lloyd George’s ascent in a balloon. London, next evening. Mr. Lloyd George did not go up in any balloon. Ho has not been invited to.'and if he were, he would not go.

“I am pained, sir,” writes Dr. Bumpus, “to see tho flotation of a new political party jeopardised by the refusal of the Mayor to preside over a meeting in the Town Halt. His Worship’s decision removes the certainty that there will be at least one other person present in addition to the organisers of the meeting. It is mistaken on political grounds. In’ the classical studies of my youth, nothing impressed me mors than the profound observation of Horace, in his life of Alexander the Great, 'Divide et iinpera’—in a free translation, sir, Ihe more the merrier, or every Oppositionist under his own umbrella.’ On economic grounds I grieve also to note that our worthy Mayor has missed an opportunity of replenishing the municipal exchequer; W’e have a carefully graduated scale of charges for our 1 own Hall, varying, 1 believe, from -£2 lor a prayer meeting to .£2O for a dog show. Instead of obliging each successive occupant to endanger the dignity ,of the Mayoral chair bv making invidious distinction* in his ‘patronage of the I own Hall gatherings, it should be laid down that on payment by tho lessee of an extra 05 per cent, rental the attendance of the Mavor will be thrown in; lor 85 per cent, the Mayor will attend in top hat and frock coat; 50. per cent, and the Mavor Wilf preside, in ns robe- and ~h ” Here is -a way tor the Mayor to escape embarrassment, and at the same time add to the revenue of the corporation.-

Mention of Lord • Kitchener in the cable news recalls the eircumstance that 1, s sister Mrs. Barker, formerly of not' dead, but was a prisoner m Ger many Sometimes such convictions and Cremation. k piece of verse by J- J - °’ Con ’lt t ’ which is not quite <*> gruesome ns the title might suggest: Ah, me! I feel Quite blue 'J’o lose these billets-doux. Emblems of broken vows, All caused by lovers rows. Oh, why did some oad tats Estrange me from my Kate I 0 Mary, dear, and Ellie!. And Josephine and Nellie! Ah, loved ones of my youth! Dear memories,- forsooth i Fair locks and faded flowers— Dear bygone, happy' hours! But no more must I tarry, To-morrow I’m to marry. I fear my young wife’s ire, So throw them in the tire.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19210813.2.23

Bibliographic details
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 274, 13 August 1921, Page 6

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993

WITHOUT PREJUDICE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 274, 13 August 1921, Page 6

WITHOUT PREJUDICE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 274, 13 August 1921, Page 6

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