NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1929, Page 7

NEWS AND NOTES.

THIS TAXED WORLD. “When you get up,” said Lady Cynthia Mosley (a. British election candidate), “a taxed alarm clock awakens you; you light a taxed gas mantle with a taxed match; you put on clothes with taxed buttons; you wash in a taxed basin, and you share with a taxed razor, and if you are shortsighted you put on. your taxed spectacles. At breakfast you boil your taxed kettle or saucepan. There is t „ied wrapping-paper round the cheese, Uie cocoa and coffee are taxed, and so' are the sugar and jam. The cup you drink out of is also taxed' and the saucer, the plate, the jug, the -bowl, and the knife.” THE SPIRIT OF CRICKET. “The spirit of cricket is always whipering in our ear, ‘make the most of you chance; you’re in, its you turn; but one slip and out you go,’ and once out there is no return—not till the second innings. 1 always think the second innings—to which there is no real parallel in any other game—is a marve.lous piece of English invention, a chance to make good even if we have failed at first.”—Lord Gorrell, in the “Cricketer’s Annual.” THE CONFLICT. “We should face ’ all science in a spirit of truth, with candid inquiry, and without fear. But let religion put us in touch with the inner sources of life, and give us an attitude of trust towards this great universe. I would clear theology of all antiquated notions and theories which have been rendered incredible by the advance of knowledge, and I would hold theology, even when so cleared, as open to revision with further advance. This is not in any way to surrender the claim of faith to go beyond science, which, of course, it must do. There need be no conflict between science and religion; the conflict is between science and an antiquatheology. Let us accept the best science for living sensibly, and the best religion for living deeply”— f lbe Rev. T lthonuda Williams, in the “Evening News,” of London. ..

THE LOGIC- OF BRITISH ELECTION

“The Liberals will probably' complain that, although they obtained isome nre-eighths of tne votes cast for each of the other parties, they secured under one-fifth of the number of seats; but their xx>ll was swollen by: the numerous driblets contributed by a large number of hopeless fights. In any ease no arithmetic can obscure two facts—the first the undoubted triumph of the Labour Party in certain parts of the country,-, and the second the' utter failure of the Liberal’bid for at least a strong representation in , the House of Commons The votes cast appear to have averaged nearly eighty, per cent, which shows that many' of the new voters recognised at least their primary duty to use the privilege granted to them. Although, therefore, the element of luck inherent—perhaps not undesirably—in our electoral system favoured'the Labour Party on this occasion, and, allied to the norriial swing of the pendulum, and to inevitable local grievances, enabled.them to score a considerable success, there is no ground for supposing that the country has „ abandoned its tradition of moderation.”—“The Times” (London).

TABLOID FOOD. “It, has often been fancifully suggested that synthetic food in tablet form, will eventually replace our natural diet. This is extremely improbable, for two reasons. In the first place, an average person needs 21 ounces of concentrated food each day to supply the energy required by the body', and in the second place our digestive systems are so constructed as to be unable to work on concentrated material only; a .certain amount of undigestible ‘roughage’ is always required. It is unlikely that .we shall obtain all this in a few tablets!”—Dr. S. Glasstone, author of “Chemistry in Daily Life,” in the “Daily Chronicle.”