SHORTS FROM THE TALKS

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4676, 1 February 1945, Page 3

SHORTS FROM THE TALKS

Extracts from talks and commentaries in the 8.8.C.’s overseas shortwave transmissions:— The Blasted Vine Bears Fmit. “Talking of miracles, blast is .a funny thing. It lifts the front door off its hinges anil dumps it neatly in the (lining room; it' takes the drawers out of chests and leaves them on the stairs, and hangs the fire tongs in the apple tree. But it leaves the clock on its bracket in the hall, crowned by a fallen picture and festooned with plaster from the ceiling, yet ticking

luerriiy away and ringing the Westminster chimes every quarter as it' nothing had happened. And as tor freaks: there is a grope vino in the green-house that half a century ot careful training under glass could never persuade to produce one bunclrof ripe grapes. But now the greenhouse is nothing but a tangle of iron work, the vine is flourishing like the green bay tree in the wind and the rain, and the grapes are ripening for the feast.” —Joint Carter. Yale’s Welsh Descent. ”1 chose Yale, out of all the American universities,- because its magnilicent library contained the Jincst collection of the material f wished to investigate; but it meant a little to n.o that the University had been set on its feet By a Welshman, Elihu Yale, who is now buried in Wrexham. One ot the colleges at Yale boasts a replica of Wrexham Church Tower.”—Rev. W. T. Davies. Too Big By Half? “Tiie Canadian Mounties like their men big. A resident of the Fiji Islands had heard about this requirement and decided to apply. The Fiji Islander was a man of good military bearing, for he had been in the Australian Army for four years. Admittedly, he would have been a magnlicent figure as a Mountie, and there would have been few people who would have dared to give him any back talk. .Still, a man can be too big, oven for the bounties, and this one was. The R.C.M.P. regretfully turned him down —ho stood nine feet, ten inches tail.” —Gerry Wilmot. Sins of Omission. ‘‘lhe old lady, as I’ve said, was very devout, and she said, shaking her head, ‘l’m afraid this war may have been put on us because we havenot been alt we should have been in the past.’ ‘How,’ I asked, and got a surprising reply. ‘Well, for one thiug,’ she said, ‘wo didn’t iiuish off the Germans as we ought to have done when we had the chance last war’.”-—. Tom Clarke.