SHORTWAVES
HE world to-day is not suffering from any lack of general information. It is rapidly going to rack and ruin because ninety per cent. of that information is the wrong sort of information, and has come to mean the exact opposite of what it originally meant when it was slowly and painfully evolved in the brain of some exceptionally intelligent citizen --H. W. Van Loon. 7 bi a T cost three shillings to kill a man in Caesar’s day, the price rose to £600 a head in the Napoleonic Wars, to £1,000 in -the American Civil War. Now it is costing us something like £12,000,000 a day-and all we want is one man.-Glasgow Herald. * bo * ‘THE Japan-Manchukuo Women’s Association has recently decided to estab- . lish institutions to train women who are seeking marriage on the Continent. Besides pistol and rifle shooting, they will be given lessons in the rearing of in-fants.-Japan Weekly Chronicle,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 124, 7 November 1941, Page 3
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154SHORTWAVES New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 124, 7 November 1941, Page 3
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