Down Here And Up There

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31659, 20 April 1968, Page 12

Down Here And Up There

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The New Zealand Government refused to allow s ’ r ®- ®': the ploughing champion, and officials money out of the country for their stay in Rhodesia for the wo^'< * ships near Salisbury. Officials tn Salisbury countered by offering to pay their expenses. The British Government stopped two competitors from sending their ploughs. We are sorry that politics have been dragged into the event but we will not allow them to interfere with the true spirit or the competition,” said Mr R. de Haas. —News item. Don’t drag your nasty Politics Into my nice clean Game, That’s What he said. The Two don’t mix. I hung my Head in Shame, I dragged my Politics away. Making no Protest or Delay. If only I had understood The Justice of the Case, Why Games are wholly pure and good, And Politics so base! If I’d been conscious of the Sin I NEVER would have dragged Them in. Up there, upon that Higher Plane Where Games and Sports are played, There’s Purity, and They disdain The Politician’s Trade, Except when looking for a Hand-out, They bring free Tickets and the Band oqt! Scientists just do not know what |s sending th»»e tantallslMly mysterious signals from the depths of gpace—but they are pretty sure they are not messages from lnUll|ient civilisations. “Only a stupid civilisatioir would waste an that power just to attract attention,” said one astronomer.—Washington report. And only a Stupid Astronomer Would make a Remark so Daft, If They picked THAT up in the Depths of Space, The Little Men must have laughed. Till the Tears ran out of their Isotopes At some of the Ways that OUR Highly intelligent Civilisation Has found for wasting Power.