FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 737, 9 August 1929, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By “THE LOOK-OUT MAN.” WHO’S WORRYING ABOUT tomorrow: There’s one day in all the week I regard as my day. That’s the day the cashier comes On his rounds — it’s Friday. Folded banknotes, crisp and ..clean; Silver shillings jingling. City crowds on Friday night. Joyously commingling. Shopping and a movie show, Pleasure in its heyday. Cast your troubles to the winds, Friday's here — it’s pay day. —-RIKKO. * * * DAYLIGHT SESSIONS Parliament is making a great break from tradition today in starting its sitting at 10.30 a.m. and concluding for the day at 5.30 p.m. This may have been done before, but not according to definite plan. The House has, in fact, adopted the principle of daylight sittings. It should now he possible to see daylight through Parliamentary debates, if not through the results thereof. PICTURES FOR ONE The Hon. E. A. Ransom has discovered that the doubled primage proposed by the Government will merely mean that New Zealanders all round will have one less evening at the pictures a year. If Mr. Ransom does not restrain his unexpected perspicacity someone will be telling him exactly what a conclusion like that means, and also that if he pursues the argument the inverse way the reduction of the existing primage would give us all one more evening at the pictures, for which in these days of Broadway beauties we should all be duly grateful. SNOW DRIFTS How romantic for passengers on the Limited express to travel through snow in the King Country! Unfortunately most passengers at that period of their journey are deep in that stertorous slumber which does so much to make present-day travel an interesting and refining experience. Anyway, life is miserable enough, without seeing snow on a bleak night in the King Country. A colleague endorses this view, for he was the man who hopped joyously out into the snow one night at Taumarunui, and put a snowball through one of the station windows, for which he was duly mulcted in costs. * * * DOCTORS IN POLITICS There are now no fewer than 18 registered medical practitioners In the British House of Commons. This number represents an increase of 50 per cent. The medical profession rejoices over this electoral manifestation of its popularity in the United Kingdom. And great things and good work are expected from the 18 doctor M.P.’s. The direction which their beneficial service may take has not yet been fully outlined, but it is hoped that some of their work will be directed along social reforms. Although the total includes members of rival parties, they all will form a Parliamentary Medical Committee. This committee will be reinforced by two medical members of the House of Lords. In striving to serve the country as a whole the doctor M.P.’s, it may be hoped, will not overlook the lay politician’s need of medical advice. There have been occasions when several members of Parliament, not Scotsmen, have shown urgent necessity for a surgical operation to get wisdom put into their heads. PERIL ON THE FAIRWAY Sad news that two spectators were hit by golf balls in the final of the Victorian championships, won by the Aucklander, Sloan Morpeth. It is sad not so much for the reason that the spectators probably suffered some physical pain as for the fact that the Interference in one instance gave the New Zealander a bad lie, while in the other it helped his opponent back on to the fairway. Thus it is a clear inference that the spectator in each case was one of those despicable partisans who would descend to any trick in order to .embarrass the other side. The cables neglected to state what observations were made by Mr. Morpeth when his ball glanced off the spectator Into the rough, but he must have been very forbearing if he maintained his silence. A similar incident in an American championship produced a patch of purple language from the suffering golfer. Indeed, a contemporary chronicle wrote rather neatly that he was "as wild as a hajvk.” The Sun's golf expert notes that in a club where swearers were fined, according to the intensity of their language, members were heard to remark that they had slammed the Is 6d ball into the 2s 6d lake. In this instance the L.O.M. thinks Morpeth would have been quite justified in saying he had hit a 5s spectator.