A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

TRY—AND SEE.

If you haven’t, been associated with a party or a Church,> mavhe you are a member of a committee or a club.

But whether it is a Church, a committee, or a club, probably you have noticed that the fellow with the biggest grievance against the organisation is the fellow who attends the least regularly and does the least work.

And it is noticed by the obsorvanl that he generally comes late and leaves early, and rarely comes at all if there is a difficult situation to he faced.

Perhaps you have noticed, too, that these same fellows always decline fo take office, but never decline to criticise those who do.

If their opinion lie invited by the inesideut, they modestly decline to :ake part in the discussion, but if the should overlook them lliev

threaten to resign. IT everything does not run as they wish, they say very little at the meeting which lias been called for the express purpose of settling the matter, but they talk a great deal after the meeting.

It is noticeable also that whether these people talk outside or inside, it is never to encourage, endorse, np-

prove, or applaud. And generally, when you look up the subscription list, you will find that theirs is long overdue. When a committee, a Church, a chib, or a party gets enough of this typo of supporter, it progresses backwards.

Are you the type of supporter that hinders, or the type that helps? It is easy to do either, but it is better to help than to hinder. ...Try—and see.

—M. PRESTON STANLEY.

What! Fifty guineas for a tobacco pipe? Yes, that was the figure demanded by a London tobacconist recently for an elaborately carved .Meerschaum exhibited in his Bond Street window. Some pipe that. But a smoke out of* a shilling briar would taste just as good I It’s not the pipe that counts. .It’s the tobacco you stuff it with! Purity is the great thing The purer the tobacco the less nicotine it will contain. The foreign tobaccos are full of the stuff. That’s why their constant use is so bad. The purest tobaccos of all arc the New Zealand. Their comparative freedom from nicotine is largely due to the toasting of the leaf. You can smoke them till the cows come home, and no harm done. There’s a brand to suit everybody. Those in most request are: “Cavendish” (the sporting man’s favourite), “Navy Cut No. 3” (another delightful medium,) “Riverhead Gold” (a sweet mikParomatic) and “Cut Plug No. 10” ( a tobacco the vetern smoker will enjoy because it is rich, dark, full flavoured sort). They are on sale by all tobacconists.