HIGHER THINGS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 210, 29 April 1932, Page 7

HIGHER THINGS

AUSTRALIANS MUST BE PURGED FROM SIN. GOING TO NEW ZEALAND. We're leaving for New Zealand — • now! , . .... . A great authority has stated that "the eitizens of Australia need'to he purged." We don't intend to be in it, .writes L. W. Lower in the Sydney Sun. You see, either we stay here' and be purged, or we can fly on the fourL corners of the winds to the uttermost ends of the earth (or New Zealand) and there lead a normal life of sin. Or .en the other hand, we can stay here and . renounee everything and become a vegetarian and live sblely'- • on brandy, which ~is made from grapes.* * We would never go to . the races any moee— especially Randwick. We never would go to the dogs in the daytime. A ' If we were pushed, we would never come home late any more.. Matter of fact, once we got into the swing of it, we mightn't'come home at all. We could pound ourselves on" the chest and cry aloud, "We are not' fit to be alive, reckless, dirty, sinning mugs that we are!" ' ■ . ' We would get public-spirited,.'with the interest of the eountry at heart. We would be proud of our, iiative soil, pointinjg at it deumatically and saying, "What wonderful soil' to he buried in!" We would pay all our taxeEl, eyen if we had to starve (a bit of stafvation is nothing to us by nqw), .p.nd when we were passing. along Hamilton Street, we would look ih on 'the Income Tax Commissioner and "Say, "Listeh, we know We don't owe you any thing, but if ever you* rutt short, let us know. We can always sell our hody to the University." We would take a close interest in puhlic affairs and read things abodt the Water Board amending the^)rain Pipes Act and sit up and' say, "My Heavens, can this be true!" S'pose we'd finish up writing letters to the Herald. . " After that we'd cut our throat, having gone through the whole gamut of purged human emotions. It looks like New Zealand or* the utterinosts for us. • •••