NEWS BY MAIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12904, 3 July 1936, Page 8

NEWS BY MAIL.

MARTYRS TO THE IVATLESS CULT Rather than wear liats when going to and from business two boys refused good posts in Sheffield (Rug.) recently. it is noted in a report issued by the Sheffield Advisory Committee for Juvenile Employment. “A vacancy was notified for a boy with a secondary school education”, the report reveals, “but not necessarily possessing the matriculation or school certificate. A commencing sal airy of £IOO a year was offered, and two apparently suitable boys were submitted. 3he employer was very pleased with both and would have willingly have engaged either on condition that lie wuld wear a hat when going to and from business. “Both the boys relused the condition and the parents when appealed to ret used Lo compel their sons to wear hats, even though it was pointed out that the vacancy offered held excellent prospects” The report neglects to state whether the jobs were - with a hat manufacturing company.

RFITBLICAX ELEPHANTS Once an elephant, always a Republi can. This in ‘effect is the result oi a recent legal decision in Rochester, New York. „ The decision foiled an attempt of the PeoplTs party of East Rochester, a political organisation of 'Democratic origin, to use the elephant as its political emblem. Legal confirmation of the sole right of the Republicans to own and-use the eleph ant as their political symbol upholds the usage of thro "-quarters of a century (says tlie “Manchester Guardian”). Shortly after the Civil War, Thomas Nast. a cartoonist of “Harper’s Weekly.” first represented (lie Republican party as an elephant in one of his' drawings and the idea “.stuck.” It wars Na«t sv-iio also through lift cartoons gave the Democrats. tho donkey as their parly emblem.