NOTES BY THE WAY

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4403, 10 June 1933, Page 5

NOTES BY THE WAY

(By Rambler)

The nations of the world cannot come to an agreement of reducing expenditure on armaments. The first thing to do is to disarm suspicion.

Boiling the whole thing down the Economic Conference is really a meeting of debtors and creditors. The trouble will be that all the Governments of the world are bankrupt and in debt to the J. P. Morgan and other banking institutions.

The new organisation called the New Zealand Legion has been charged with being a secret society with Fascist leanings. Bad government drove Italy to Fascism, Russia to Communism, and Germany to a dictatorship. New Zealand . . ?

The Irish Communists are launching a campaign to smash the Empire. Russia, a very much bigger country than Ireland, has been trying to do that for ten years, but John Bull is still holding up his end.

Te Kuiti has been on the* map lately. The finding of a £IOO note in a dental surgery has been made the most of by all the papers of the Dominion, and this news must help to improve the financial stability of the town.

There is something more tangible in the giant crabs that have been seen on the Australian coast. Imagine crabs two feet across lying three deep over an ocean bed" twenty-three miles long. A chance for Zane Grey to exploit the crab fishing sport for the benefit of the people of Australia.

The following is from an old copy of The Nation defining a journalist: A good journalist is one who can expand the material for a paragraph into a whole article, but never does so if be can avoid it; who is widely informed, but respects the limits of his information; who is violent in expressing his opinions, but reasonable in forming them; -and who seeks to win the agreement of his readers, but would rather inspire their indignation tha'n their indifference.

Messrs. Forbes and Masters will be late for the Economic Conference. Things will be rather dead till they arrive on the scene. I notice that the Empire delegates are to have a preliminary conference before the big crowd meet. Perhaps our delegates will be glad they are late, for there are some matters concerning exchange and the Ottawa Conference that require ironing out.

It is an awkward thing to run out of benzine somewhere about 2.15 a.m., eight miles from home, after dancing till two hours after midnight; to wait till 4 a.m. in the hope of a passing car with benzine to lend, and then to have to leave the car a derelict and arrive home at 6 a.m. An hour in bed, and then to work. Talk about the hardships of the early pioneer% of the King Country after this.

The sea serpent is reported to have again made its appearance, and there is a wide difference of opinion whether this hoary old ocean snake ia something real or has its existence in a vivid imagination prompted by an extra strong brand. The sea serpent either does not like the sun or has a decided antipathy to man, for whenever he sights a ship he goes back to his ocean depths. Until a real snaky sea serpent has been captured there will remain a strong belief in his non-existence. Several that have been sighted in the past turned out to be tree trunks.