THER DAYS, OTHER WAYS

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22895, 16 December 1939, Page 17

THER DAYS, OTHER WAYS

(SPBOAIX* WHITTEN FOB THB FBZSS.) [By WHIM-WHAM.] *■ The pioneers could no more have thought of this of school of the high-speed _ bombing felane.”—Dr. C. E. Beeby, Assistant Director of Patron, at the opening of the Christchurch South Immediate School. early Settlers of this land handicapped in many ways; >®ne finds it hard to understand T Their simple Notions nowadays: hwleed, it seems absurd to call Such People civilised at all. k Education, Industry, i In Art and Letters, Science, Trade, t? Sport, in Foreign Policy, ■' Those early Pioneers displayed gTack of up-to-date Technique Which one can only call Unique. Sie Armies of their Period used . j! Absurdly antiquated Means; ‘’O.Navy they had heard of cruised . In search of Mines and Submarines. thought in Terms of Battles won dashing Sword and Gun.

So unprogressive was their Time, So dull and limited their Brains, They never thought that Men might climb The Sky in bombing Aeroplanes: Destruction on the modem Scale Would seem to them a Fairy Tale. I hear you say, This bitter stuff Is out of Place in decent Verse. But think, when Things are bad enough Comparisons will make them worse; Our Age should surely be the last So wag f a|J&S