INCOMPREHENSIBLE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 716, 16 December 1933, Page 4

INCOMPREHENSIBLE

There is no doubt that there is a rebellious and revolutionary spirit abroad to-day and that the old acquiescence in the dicta of authority is being flagrantly ignored. Two cabie messages received yesterday furnish examples of this. A Brisbane message states that 'a wrestler, who had been knocked unconscious outside the ting when he became obstreperous, -'failed to do so when called upon to return to the ring and was disqualified." Another message, this time from New York, records that a prisoner, condemned to the electric chair, incomprehensibly refused to allow himself to be saved from aciite appen'di'citis in order to be executed three months later. We can imagine nothiiig more dish'eartening -than for a wrestling aiidience, thirsting for blood, to

be fiouted by ah unconscious ■ wrestler refusing to return to the ring while the gentleman who preferred to die by appendicits rather than by the electric chair, plainly did not deserve the paternal care lavished upon his passage into the hereafter. The naive note of surprise at the unreasonableness of human nature in which these two messages are couched provides two of the best examples of unconscious humour that have -brightened newspaper sub-editing for some time.