This World of Ours

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 30, 6 January 1939, Page 2

This World of Ours

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JOHN

GUTHRIE

Dr. S. Morris: ‘‘Modesty has ruined more kidneys than bad liquor.’" a #% As a race the British have a 7 great respect for age, especially '1if it’s bottled. % a 3 French Diplomat Jules Henri: ‘‘During my ten years in Washington I drank, God help my digestion, 35, 000 cocktails as part of my duti fy.’ us uF GERMANY will shortly demand that her reparation payments for the War be returned by the Powers, including

£120,000,000 received by Britain and £500,000,000 received by Franee.-Cable item. And like the Jew in the play, Germany may willingly have her pound of flesh if she cen give us back the blood that she spilt, QDE by an English poet to a Tall, Noisy Girl heard at a Bottle Party, 3.30 a.m. : Sweetheart, in all your girlish charm you are Like laughter at a West End Cinema When lightning wisecracks flash and spurt and throng: Too loud, my Love; too late; and far too long. Not A Happy One HEN two natives were arrested, brought for trial, for | taking part in an attack on a Government patrol boat at Port Moresby, Papua, they begged tearfully to be executed. Sobbed one of the prisoners: ‘‘Don’t send us home! We want to be

hanged. What is life to us if we may not throw spears at policemen ?’’ Hamilton Diseppoints A member having pointed out that full-length costumes were not now wprocurable in the shops, the Hamilton Domain Board decided to revoke the resolution requiring bathers in the lake to wear ‘‘neck to knee’* costumes.-News ttem. Interviewed for this page on the matter, a well-known Waikato shopkeeper laughingly said: ‘‘We’re a bit short on neck to knee costumes.’’ . ‘‘How mueh_ short?’’ we

asked. ~ ** About 24 inches short from the neck down and about 12 inches short from the knee up,"’ said. the ead. Specialiy taken down to a popular sea beach to check up on this statement, a prominent member of the board, on seeing the latest swim suits said: ‘‘ This has been a bia surprise to me. I had no idea things had gone as far as this.’? He added meditatively: ‘"‘That’s the worst of living inland.’’

A shapely blende then rose out of the foam in front of him ond we left him dreamily murmuring those verses of Keats: "The felt I like some watcher of the skics when a new planet swims into his ken... ."?- % cS) % Lip Service HEN happy divoreed film stars leave Reno courthouses, freed after the strain of several weeks of married life, it is the custom to plant a thankful, lipsticky kiss on the pillars outside the court. Reno judges recently decided that the red smears on the pillars detracted from the dignity of the town, ordered them to be removed. ‘Soap and waiter was tried in vain, and it was not until several sturdy workmen appeared on the scene armed with blow-torches that the offending, marks were

erased, the pillars restored to their virgin whiteness. % % % Beauty hints TRONG exception to the remarks of the Minister of Internal Affairs, who criticised the wanton destruction of native flowers and foliage in bush near motor roads is taken, by one of our more prominent, and well-loved tree-chopping chaps. ‘‘It is all very well for the Minister to speak severely of pieces of bush clematis picked from the trees and left to wither by the roadside,’’ said this chap angrily, ‘‘but he knows as well- as we do that trees are getting to be pretty scarce in this eountry. The day is coming-if it is not already at hand-when a keen tree-chopper, going out with

his sharp axe, ean _ travel for miles without finding a really decent tree to hack down. It’s Reserve, Reserve, » Reserve everywhere he goes. Surely the Minister knows that this thwarted feeling is no good for our chaps. There they are, just dying to erack in at the forest and get a good — thrill out of toppling down a rare beauty and they find nothing but restrictions. Can you blame them if they find relief at last in turning to a few clumps of clematis and tearing them down, or nipping: the blossoms off a kowhai, or tearing out a few old ferns? "They feel better after this,’’ says the chap. ‘‘They feel good, they feel fine. The Minister ought to remember this before he goes round crabbing at them."’