General News

Mt Benger Mail, 26 October 1938, Page 4

General News

Cause and Effect Nine-year-old, having political-ly-conscious parents and ia } so a radio in the home, was taking a keen interest in the election, although some of the finer points were rather .beyond her. why do all the Labour people laugh at the National Party family bonus scheme?” she demanded ol her mother. “Is it because Mr Savage is a bachelor?”

Heil! Herr Hitler would probably not be amused if he could learn ot the ingenious device adopted by the junior clerk in a business concern, whose duty it is to make out a list of staff members absent through illness. At the moment, of course measles is the principal cause of absence, and this week the youth submitted to his astonished superior a neat table, showing, under “measles, ordinary, a certain number of absentees, and then under a neat swastika, another figure. He blandly explained that the swastika stood for “measles, German.”

11l Deep Disguise. Four British ships at Auckland together recently carried Lascar crews and the waterfront had a large representation of native crews. The serang of one ship was rather proud of the fact. Naming the four ships he threw out a comprehensive arm, saying “All my countrymen.” The second engineer of another had climbed from the depths of its engine-room and, liberally plastered with oil and dirt, held a brief conversation with a deck officer who was entertaining a young lady visitor. After the l engineer had left, the visitor turned to the officer and remarked with interest, “You know, he speaks quite decent English, doesn't he?

Health and Happiness. The healthy person thinks quickly, moves briskly _ and acts promptly, his circulation being free from toxins and poisons that hamper the activity of his brain and muscles, says Dr R. Cove Smith, former English Rugby captain, writing in the Pathfinder. His outlook is bracing, his mind happy and his presence a joy to those about him. His work is efficient because he can concentrate without the pains and aches of his body continually obtruding upon his mind and sapping his energy. He is keen, alert, confident and full of the joy of life. Far too many people are listless and apathetic because they fail to realise the serious import of impairing the efficiency of the human machine. To use the machine wrongly in a manner for which it was not designed is the surest way of wearing it out too soon.