SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 18, 27 October 1939, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

confetti. It is an unfortunate substitute for the rice which was used as a symbol of prosperity. -Rev. Foreman Coz. * * a ROUTINE is the besetting sin of the modern business world.-Noel Wilkinson. * * * NE who looks at the crisis from last September to the present day must be impressed by the manner in which the moral issues of the crisis have been sharply defined — notably by Stalin's Judas stroke-Dean Walter Robert Matthews of St. Paul’s, before the outbreak of war. * * % E have been blackguarding Russia for the past 20 years, and I see the Dean of St. Paul's is reported to have described Stalin as Judas. If Stalin is Judas, who is supposed to be Christ?George Bernard Shaw. %* * % WE should all benefit permanently in our general health if we spent, with discretion, five or ten minutes every morning bare-footed on the grass, carrying out simple but purposeful movements, such as walking, leg, arm, trunk, and breathing exercises. Go out early and find that piece of grass -be it lawn, field. or park, by the cottage, house, flat or tenement. Mother earth has her own particular dewy thrill and healing power, and, combined with purposeful exercises, it means better health. Try it for a week, and you will refuse to miss. the exhilarating effect of dew and exercise — Captain S. J. Parker, Chief Inspector of Physical Training in England. * BA * A’ old lady asked a Park Attendant, "Do these flowers belong to the primula family?" " No, madam," replied the Attendant proudly, " they belong to the London County Council.""-" The Schoolmaster." * * * O-DAY’S soldier is a better fed man than his eighteenth century counterpart. A middy wrote home to his mother at the end of that century: "We live on beef which has been ten or eleven years in a cask, and on biscuit which makes your throat cold in eating it owing to the maggots, which are very cold when you eat them-like calvesfoot jelly or blomonge, being fat indeed . .. We drink water the colour of the bark of a pear tree, with plenty of little maggots and weevils in it, and wine which is exactly like bullock’s blood and sawdust mixed together.’’- " The Manchester Guardian." A BANE of modern society is the throwing of