FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 100, 19 July 1927, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By ‘-THE LOOK-OUT MAN" THE MOTOR Men are convicted for speeding, for negligent or dangerous driving, and even for manslaughter, but the motor keeps on killing. This is the very latest fatality reported: “When walking across the road near Courtenay Place morgue last night, a man, aged 37, was knocked down by a motor-car. __e was removed to the hospital and died from head injuries.” It used to be comparatively safe to cross the road once; now the pedestrian ought never to chance it unless he is a subscriber to The Sun and is covered by the £I,OOO insurance scheme. It will be noted that this Wellington killing was accomplished outside the morgue. One would almost believe the motor-car to have a thinking apparatus. If the death-rate from motor accidents keeps on increasing, the authorities will need to provide a morgue in every street. “XOT THE KIND ” Comment in this column on the number of immigrants who break the law soon after their arrival, and the need for deporting such unwelcome visitors, is backed by Mr. Justice Herdman. “You are not the kind of immigrant we want in New Zealand,” said his Honour to a young man brought up on 14 charges of theft, and he expressed dissatisfaction at the fact that there was a certain class of immigrant coming out who no sooner arrived than he commenced to lead a life of crime. This young man had come to .New Zealand under the public school boys’ scheme, and he had been admitted to probation for theft at Wellington soon after his arrival. He was sent to the Borstal Institute for two years. Another immigrant, convicted of. forgery, uttering and theft, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, his record also being a bad one. He had asked to be returned to England. It seems a pity that these people are not deported. The cost of paying their passages back to England would be less than the cost to the country of maintaining them in custody for two years—and New Zealand would be well rid of them. The immigration laws should be altered so as to provide for the deportation of such unsatisfactory immigrants upon conviction —at the expense of the country they came from. This would certainly assure greater care in the selection of immigrants at the other end.

TWO-FACED Dr. Raymond Passot, of Paris, claims in 20 minutes to make a woman look 20 years younger—by means of plastic surgery. Some women n- d no surgeons. So adept are they, that they can make themselves look 20 years younger in 20 seconds —by means of the powder-puff, lipsel and an eyebrow crayon. Almost every woman has two faces, anyhow—the one she wakes up with and the one she goes out with. And ill the opinion of almost all women almost all other women are just naturally two-faced.

THE NEW BIBLE Some extracts have been published from the Chicago University Bible, translated to read in “conventional” style. Eagerly we await the remainder, in the blessed expectancy of something like this: “Eve she was a shrewd dame, and she guyed Adam into eating that apple. “It’s a cinch to be some apple,” she says, “and Adam he takes a mouthful. Eve, she bolts the rest like a cowboy maltreating a doughnut, and then she had Adam good and hard.” “Old Noah was a shrewd navigator, with a Boston ticket, and he makes Mount Ararat without any trouble at all, sir; and, believe me, he had cornered all the animal supply, and he started a zoo which, was patronised by all creation. Gee! He sure coined the dollars.” “When Moses hiked up the Rockies after those commandment tablets, he sure had some climb, what with trippin’ over the long gown and whiskers which were then the rig-out. When he got back he saw a greenhorn relation had set up a golden calf to make pow-wow to for the good stuff, and he brought him such a belt over the think-piece with one of (he tablets that it smashed to pieces. That was the first commandment ever broken.”