CURRENT TOPICS OF THE DAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 January 1915, Page 3

CURRENT TOPICS OF THE DAY

(from various sources)

It M ust be Irish

It's a long way to Tipperary, it's a long way to go ; ■ . It's a long way to Tipperary,' to the mt sweetest girl I known ; MM Good-bye Piccadilly, farewell Leicester Square, - It's a long, long way to Tipperary, but my heart's rigKt there. * ; "Tipperary," which soldier and If ■CIJ- i ull allke are sin Sin& and 9 which has become identified as th« war song par excellence at the present time, owes its popularity to an Australian singer amUi crpwd of Glasgow trippers. ' when first Polished WJrSi ff*iure ' bu* the Publisher, after^considerable coaxing, induced Miss Florrie Forde to sing * it at the Isle of Man when Douglas and other Manxian pleasure resorts were crowded by the Glasgow Fair holiday maker. proved to be the psychological moment and its success w&s electrical. The Glaswegian r trippers, who have a good mixture of Irish in their blood, made the song their own and carried it wherever they went and back with them to Glasca. From that eventful July night the popularity of the song has grown until % Tipperary" is to-day in worldwide. Florrie Forde has been for many years a great favourite on the music hall stage and concert platform cf Great Britain - She is a native of Australia and made her first, appearance in Sydney at the old Polytechnic. .*.■ *■ ■ . * Christianity Supplanted Bishop Weldon, lecturing at the Educational Conference in ■•*'_. London, analysed German '* Kultur" as antagonism to Britain by Germany. It meant that not only two systems but two theories of education were being fought as rivals. The German professors had been inspiring the mind and soul of the Germans with ambitious dreams about the conquest of the habitable globe. The result was State worship. The highest duty of a citizen was self-sacrifice to the- State, but State worship went further, In Germany it was above religion. If the interests of the State conflicted with the law of Christ, then it was Christ that must go. * « « If it is True The simple-hearted New Zealand tradesman who hangs out signs to the effect that he is now open to be taken down by every spieler who infests the country deserves all he gets. At Fielding . a " well dressed stranger " enter~M ed a shop and borrowed a cheque r form, having " left my check book at home." According to the yarn, he filled the cheque out for £800, tendered it to a bootmaker for a single pair of boots, and got the change ! The exhilarating part of the yarn is in a small country bootmaker keeping say £799 on the premises ready to paty out on cronk cheques or any other kind of cheques. The tradesman who hands out money like that to a stranger should be taken to two competent medical men by force. ~~" Fisher to Have a Rest ' The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher has placed his resignation as a member of the Executive in the hands of the Prime Minister, although it will take him a few more days toclear up matters in connection with the different departments over which he has had control. "I received Mr Fisher's resignation," said Mr Massey, " with great regret and I am certain that a very large majority of the people of the Dominion recognise that he has done excellent work both-'as- a representative of the people and as a Minister of the CTemjki I eel cer*am that the tiaJßfc no^ far distant when he w"fil aga^n be called into tne councils of the Dominion. I should like to add that Mr Fisher has held office up till this date at my special request, as there were a number of matters that required his personal attention, " particularly as Minister for Customs."