LIGHT AND SHADE.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 40, 17 December 1920, Page 4

LIGHT AND SHADE.

By "Commentator."

In a claim before the Arbitration Court hy the Typographical Union for the 9s bonus, Mr F. Pirani speaking on hehalf of the employers, stated that paper had gone up from £12 to £70 per ton. This goes a long way towards explaining why footwear is so costly. A MODERN MIRACLE Extract from speech by uie Hon. E. P. Lee to the Chamber of Commerce confercnce : — "The policy of the Government is that there should be a main arterial road from Auckland to tlie Bluff. This is even a more ambitious undertaking than the road made by Moses through the Red Sea. A UNIQUE DISTINCTION. Mr V. H. Treatt-, the New South Wales Rhotles Scholar, is the fifteenth child of a family of eighteen. GO-SLOW POLICY. The only thing t-hat could make a Labour Party popular in this country is a little more labour. This at any rate seems to be the opinion of the Hon. W. F. Massey, whose clarion call is still more production. Methinks our Parliamentaiy representatives are the greatest lagg-ards in this respect. Six months work in one year can hardly he called setting an example. If some' of our representatives were paid by the day they would starve. To profiteer is human, to catch them i would he divine . Cme of the causes of the shortage of labour in this country is that there are too many automobiie d rivers and not enough barrow pushers. FROM THE "SOUTHLAND NEWS." "A Sydney cable states xnat the Assembly read a first tirne, after a disoraerly debate, the bill to incre-ase members' saiaries. Members have evidently been indulging in a "wee drap" in anticipation of a rise in salary, which seems to give weight to the suspicion that they are not there to see what good they can do the country, so much as to see what good the country can do them. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. The hostess is again asking, "How many lumps?" A NEW CODE. - A new idea for saving words was hit npon by a writer of an "Agony ad" in a daily paper the other day, the chief phrases heing : — "Willu dine'i"' Give dates suitu." One might wire a friend. "Willu meetme atrotunda ifu finduve time. But there is, unfortunately a Postmaster General to -consider, and his interests are rather to make us spend more on our telegrarns than to encourage ingenious methods oi sending two words for the price of one. PILOTS AND PACIFICISM. Ex-digger H. G. Giloert, Pastor of St. Paul's let loose the vials of hiswrathon Dr Gibb at the Preshyterian General Assembly recently on tlie suhject of paciiicism. He was ably seconded by the Rev. W. McLean, ex-Padre of 2nd Otago. In the end the venerable Doctor capitulatcd and practically admit-ted that he hadn t meant all he said. THE IRREPRESSIBLE SCOT. The following advertisement appeared in the Edinburgh "Scotsman" : — "A soldier who has lost his right leg is desirous of making the acquainta-nce of some one who has lost his lcft leg, in ordcr to become associated with him in the pur. chase of boots and shoes. Size 8." To we diggers it seems that though a "Jock" may have the misfortune to Jose a leg he never loses his head. R.I.P. In England there are recruiting posters everyv.-here, "Join the Arrny, and see the World." Having regard to the murderous assaults that are so frequent recruita must often be wanted for the Royal Irish Police and ihe posters in that case should rea.d : — "Join the R.I.P. and see the next world." Our local tonsorial artists have increased the price of a man's liaircut to Is 6d. What about a rebate for partial balchieais.