PUBLIC OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 4 April 1928, Page 3

PUBLIC OPINION

A GIFT HORSE. " 1 hold with the proverb that tells us that we ought not to look a gilt horse in the mouth.” writes " Alpha ol the Plough” in the "Star.” " When the gift horse assumes the magnificent proportions of half a million of money the indecency of looking at its teeth, so to speak, is aggravated. No one gives away a great fortune in his lifetime without being actuated by a worthy motive and deserving our respect. A'et 1 am bound to confess that it leaves me colder than in strict justice I ought to be. It is not that I am indifferent to posterity. I think that Wordsworth said the right word on that subject when someone remarked to him ‘Why should T trouble about posterity? What has posterity done forme?’ ‘Posterity,’said Wordsworth,

‘ has done nothing for you; but the past has done much.’ ”

TELEVISION. “ Sitting in a darkened cellar in New York, a party of men saw a man and woman who were ill a room in London ; not only their faces but their movements were observed. It is true that the features were dim and blurred, but that is no consideration to detract from the worth of the achievement to the instructed modern mind. AA'hat the precise scope and utilities of the n--discovery will prove to be it is far too early to estimate, though speculation may run far a field. At least it is allowable to envisage a prospect that it will lend to some closer community between peoples far removed from each other by the older limitations of space —a process to which wireless speech has already contributed its valuable meed.”—“ Sunday Times.”