ADVENTURE UP TO DATE.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1924, Page 1

ADVENTURE UP TO DATE.

LONDON, April 20. Captain R. AY. Campbell, author of "Private Spud Tamson” and other books, addressing the Glasgow Liberal Club mi the romance and humour of travel, declared that men are growing bald thinking about what to do with their sons. Mothers wanted Jimmy and Johnny in -lay at home, and, bv staying, endure genteel poverty in the congested old land —and. all the while the open road was I lie secret of success. The war had almost killed wanderlust. There was a slump in “Robinson Crusoes.” "Scarlet Pimpernels,” and “Buffalo liills.” The national nose was getting llattcned out on the window of the "Bitroo (Labour Bureau). The heroic adventure was "doon the road tae draw the dole. Canada was "too near.” Australia was "nwef waarm." New Zealand "no big enough.” and in America ’you’ve got the work ower hoard. ’

Captain Campbell went on: li' we are going to save the Umpire that "soli sitilf” has to be blown skyhigh. A nation like ours must not bend the. knee to the 10 per cent “mush” of long-haired men who grow mad on economies, who get sea-sick on the Fairy Queen in Port Dundas Canal (laughter)—who have never shoved tlieir noses over the top of the C:\mpsie Hills, and whose only remedy for serious commercial depression and impending bankruptcy is innuendo, intimidation. and tlie bomb. If we limit the travels of our Youths between Jamaica Brig, Glasgow, and St. Goorge'sroad they will degenerate into a race of bandy-legged chimpanzees, with no teeth, and the national dish will he changed from porridge to “jeclly saps” 'bread and milk) •and mince.