FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 213, 28 November 1927, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By “THE LOOK-OUT MAN” BACK TO HIS PIGS A pig ianner, arrested for being drunk while in charge of a motorlorry, pleaded to be allowed to get back to his pigs.—News item. Said the farmer: “Your Worship, *tis but now and then I come into town to mix up with the men; ; The rest of the while, 1 mingle and talk On the farm with the pigs that I'm feeding for pork. “An’, I’m find-in’, your Worship, it’s cheaper by far With the pigs in the stye than the men in the bar; For the stuff that we drink in the bar may be fine. But music to me is the sicill of the swine. “O let me go back to me friends on the farm, For there there’s no beer, and I won’t The pigs are awaitin’, their milk and their grain — O let me return to me porkers again V* So they fined him a “fiver,” and homeward he wends To mingle again xoith his teetotal friends — And to dance with relief the most joyous of jigs To the loud-squealed applause of his greatly-pleased pigs. WHITE GIRLS AND CHINESE Tlie case of white girls mixing with Chinese at Remuera, referred to in The Sun last week, is another reminder of the yellow peril to white womanhood. There is only one thing to do, and a Government with any pride in the purity of race would | have done it long ago. That is to pass legislation making it a criminal offence for a coloured alien to consort with white women. It is said that the Chinese mostly get hold of these women when they are young—after plying them with drink. If there are women so lost to self-respect as to associate with Chinese, the shame is j theirs, and they are deserving of little sympathy for what befalls them. But the living consequences of such association are the shame of the country and a reproach to the community whose laws permit it. * * * HEARST SUSCEPTIBILITIES The Hearst newspapers, always seeking sensationalism, are now busy endeavouring to embroil the United States and Mexico. Their latest allegation is that President Calles contributed £20,000 of Mexican money to the British miners’ strike fund in 1926; also that he sent £50,000 to Arcos, Ltd., to aid the Soviet propaganda against Britain and worldpeace. What has happened the Hearst Press, which was so notoriously anti-British and pro-German before the United States entered the war, and tried so hard to machinate a cause for war against the British? The Hearst Press would willingly have given ten times £20,000 to cause the British miners to strike in the days when such a strike would have been fatal .-> Kngland. Its tender susceptibilities are now very touching, but it will need to think of something stronger to influence American opinion to the point of war-fever against Mexico. Documents have been reproduced allegedly supporting the charges, but those who know the unscrupulous methods of the Hearst Press know that documents can be faked as well as “news.”

NATIVE STOICISM The action of the Morere Maori who acted as his own surgeon and amputated a troublesome leg with a razor is illustrative of that stoicism which is frequently found in native races and was particularly a trait of some American Indian tribes. Less frequently is this found with whites, yet there have been instances among them, even in recent days, of amazing ability to suffer physical suffering and survive. In one case an elderly man dragged himself several miles over terribly rough country in outback Australia with a badly smashed leg, enduring several days’ starvation and waterless agony, and he recovered. In another case a man chopped off a badly-poisoned left hand with his tomahawk after having applied a ligature, and tramped 120 miles to the nearest doctor. He was assured that only early amputation had saved his life. More tragic was the story told of the finding of a settler's body in the north of Tasmania. It was found suspended in mid-air, with the left arm. hacked through to the bone, extended almost full length into a hollow branch of a dead gum-tree. The man had stood upon the back of his horse to explore the tree for a parakeet's nest —and the horse had moved on while its rider had his arm in the hollow. The hacked arm and a knife on the ground below told how the unfortunate man had striven to free himself until he bled to death. These, of course, were compulsory cases. The Morere Maori could have obtained surgical skill, but apparently he considered himself to be quite qualified for the job—and he actually buried the amputated leg after the operation!