SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 41, 5 April 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

HE fear that reduced incomes will be reflected in decreased happiness is life’s great illusion. Lamb, Wordsworth, Carlyle and Meredith all began poor, but one can only envy their outlook on life--Angus Watson. * * bd O not be deceived into imagining that time is working for us. Time.is neutral and will be on the side of the strongest. We must annex it.-Paul Reynaud, French Finance Minister. * * [t is the middle-aged and elderly who are finding this war so deeply distressing, while young people have a happy disregard of danger and difficulty. Many hard things have been said about this generations as about most generations of young people, but they are showing up uncommonly well. Even the " Lovelies" with their pink fingernails and red lips are doing a job of work and doing it well-wThe Lancet. * * * I DO not see that there is any need for any soldier who has any guts to be lonely, particularly on this side of the Maginot Line.-Old Soldier in the "Yorkshire Post." ; * * * I DID not think it was a real hedge; it looked to me like camouflage.-Airline pilot who charged one when landing. * * %* [ET me down as lightly as possible, boys. I always played ball with you. Now you should pitch me a slow one and let me hit it. I’m checking out simply because I’m old and tired.-Ex-train robber Roy Gardner in a suicide note to the American Press. * * * A VERY leading solicitor informed me that there is not one of his clients who is paying his super tax out of income, and that, should the line be drawn and an accounting be made, the financial grief would pass all belief-Lord Castlerosse. * * * APANESE ministries are leading a brief and restless existence lately. One of the hardships of their war economy is said to be a serious shortage of aspirins.-Australian Broadcaster. %* HAT we'd like to see in the movies in 1940: A picture about a céuntry doctor who is an old rip, who gets drunk, neglects his patients, and overcharges the poor. A prison picture about a convict who escapes from the "Big House," but gladly returns to his cell when he finds nothing but prison pictures playing in the movie houses outside.-B. R. Crisler in the New York Times.