SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 23, 1 December 1939, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

HERE isn’t a thing produced from the soil that we cannot use in industry. Name anything grown on the farm and I will tell you an industrial use for it-Henry Ford. * * * I find it odd, my biped self, that these Peace-loving rodents do not use our rational And righteous arguments of guns and gas. For, though black rat with brown rat disagrees, And individuals quarrel in the mass, The rat is resolutely international. -From "The Writing on the Wall," by Siegfried Sassoon. * * * HE fact is that there no longer is an Open Door in China and the indications are that there never will be again.-Luther A. Huston. * % x VERYBODY wants a natural-looking girl now. Her hair mustn’t be too curly. Mascara’s taboo and lipstick is out-John Powers, employer of models. * * * [N San Francisco there is only one race. The race of the living.-Wéilliam Saroyan. * * * ‘THE modern crooner keeps on peevishly asking: "Why am I blue?" The answer is (a) that he is neither red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, nor violet, and (b) that nobody cares, anyhow.-A. A. Thomson, in a Strolling Commentary in the " Radio Times." * bad * EAVY as this trial is and bitter as is the setback to our hopes, it is not the end of Western civilisation or one of those creative principles of mercy and of justice on which the best of that civilisation is built. It is good to think that in common service and common tradition there is one of the continuing strands of that civilisation which has survived so many shocks and which will survive even this sore disruption. — Sir Hector Hetherington, Principal of Glasgow University. y * * * I HAD an unprecedented experience to-night in the black-out. A postman asked me the way.-A writer in the "Yorkshire Post." * * * ‘T HE old lady, turning up at the last moment, was with difficulty fitted with a gas mask. She seemed reluctant to leave the depot, and at last inquired, plaintively, "And now, where do I get my gas?"Manchester Guardian.