Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, 6 October 1921, Page 17

Answers to Correspondents

P.J.C. —As far as we know Mr. McKnight’s book is not sold in New Zealand. Better get one of our Catholic booksellers to order it for you from London. We had a copy but we lent it some time ago to a prominent controversialist in order to encourge him to make more of the Carsonia question. Our writers are letting the day-lies escape too easily on their reluctance to publish the truth about the Orangemen. Anzac. Letters like yours excite our- sympathy. Of course , you were ashamed to sign your name to the production. What you want is a rest, and a long one. It is said that fish food is good for the brain. Go and camp for a wecfc beside a dead whale and then you may be able to understand that a British crime is even worse than a German one; because the British criminal is a hypo- . crite and also because the German crime, was as a rule invented by the British hypocrite—alias, day-lie man. Don’t eat all the whale. There are a few others who could _do with a bit. Inquirer.— We did read somewhere or other, some time or other, that names influence characters but we, took it with a grain of salt. We have also heard people say that the name influences them in picking a horse to ■ ' back for a race. There may be a little in that. We could imagine a horse called Isabel, or one called Eleus, winning the New Zealand Cup, but we do not think anybody ever dreams that the winner has a name like Marianne or Gatha. H.F. The object of the , Self-Determination for n Ireland i League is to assert and . support Ireland’s right to determine her own form of government; ’ without any outside interference. If you want to tell the Irish people to accept - what you think good for them go and do so elsewhere, but you are an imposter and a delusion as a Leaguer. , Get out >of ? it, my . son ! / Get out of it or- have sense'! . Biodh ciall agat 1 * ‘ ; r ( . r ~