Heard and Said

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 83, 11 October 1912, Page 1

Heard and Said

That the agitator ia undoubtedly the curse of the country. That we call upou the Government to deport at onee —if not sooner — Messrs. Lindegreen, the new organiser of the Massey Reform Party; Joe Lesiua, barracker-in-chief for Bung; and Canon Garland, of the Bible-in-Schools League. That there are others, Pryor, of the Employers' Federation, for instance, who could be added to the list. That one and all could be easily spared, 'and* none of them ever would be missed—no, they never would be missed. That if deportation is the medicine prescribed for Semple, surely these other agitator'"Johnnies should be'made to undergo the same drastic treat men:. That the Ananias editors of the capitalist papers should not be overlooked either' when this remedy is being handed out, -That'under tho "useful information" heading in the snippet newspapers ope gleans such knowledge as- "Cardinal rtichelV- had a great antipathy to cats," '-Xucretla Borgia positively could not abide her relatives," and "'John D. Rockefeller shudders at tho fi'ight'of a dollar in another man's possession." That most folks have antipathies, and almost everybody hates something violently'; it seems born in them. That the press prevaricators of th-*? Dominion hate nothing so much as they do the truth, unless it be Bob Semple and the Federation. That the political ''boss," the man at ' the back of machine politics in America, is a principal character in a play recently staged in Sydney. That in one speech the "boss" says: '"There's only one crowd that allows 'grafting 1 ' to go on,'and that's the bunch of long-eared sheep you call 'the public/ ""*'" *" '""'" ' ' 'gjjha-t "jAjAo'' truly is a fcongrel ' 1 atA.X Jt.L_W*_fe___A- J '»nd_M *nd >fajo)*d, dtWnW'rfWßSr #«&# and Social hucksters, by govefnnienta, trusts, and the poweis that _c, in a maimer to make the angels weep. {That Archibald, the* child specialist, ' thinks the time will come when we will keep our boys at school until they are at least 16 years of age. That we think the time will come w hen they will not finish their school, college and university education till they have attained to man's estate. That Archibald says: "There are men ''" who look upon a boy as an asset, aud therefore send him to work as soon as possible, but they are inflicting a wrong." That lie went on to explain that although a boy might be fully grown jß.t 17 or 18 years of age, he had ,-jjiiv 65 per cent.' of the strength he would attain at 21 years of age, and fjy being given a man's work, had his proper development arrested. That however heartily the majority of parents nowadays desire to give their .son? a full and complete' education, .economic pressure compels them to withdraw their boys from school at 14 years of age,, and send them into shop, office, mine, factory, etc., to <*am a little to" lighten the "load of •finaffSial burden entailed in their upbringing. Thirt a health journal tells people "how +o he when asleep." •That jf it could persuade them to tell the Jjpjj-bh when awake it would be piping real service. tiie manager of a New York theatre? cn S a 2 e d 20 chorus girls for a mu-ica. l - c 9 me< fr » 20 »»n utes - That an intent «üb-editor headed an account of work: "Quick at figures." That H. G. Wells has j U st\^ hed () a novel under the title of "The >* ar - That it is a unique literary production, i inasmuch as the author has adopted the simplified (?) spelling. That the following i? a sample sentence: "It wozonthe'furstdai ov the nyu yeer." That when the transcontinental railway

from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie is completed, the trip from Rockhampton, in Queensland, to Geraldtoii, in Western Australia, will be the second longest continuous railway journey in the w r orld. That the rails will extend for a distance of about- 4000 miles,'thus approaching closely the record established by Russia's trans-Siberian railway and beating the Canadian Pacific line by nearly 1000 miles. That New Zealand is of late lAding the British dominions in unenviable directions. That what with jailing boy conscripts, trade union leaders, adult anti-mili-tarists and anyone else with conscientious scruples, it seems as if everyone troubled at all with a conscience will soon be in jail. That "God's Own" will soon become known as the "Devil's Own Country." That a well-known free-lance journalist gives it as his w*ord that Hansard reports as published in the Dominion «re a perfect farce. That- there is probably no other country in the world in which members of Parliament are allowed to tinker with jofficiftl reports as they are in New Zea.^That Han'sari «uaj»t to be as accurate ass a phonograph » «* reproduction of the proceedings in Parliament, but in New Zealand it ii a fraud and * a fake.