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Northern Advocate, 22 March 1934, Page 4

TIMELY TOPICS

MASS MANNERS. The new' movements everywhere for mass regulation and control, from bacon imports <o motorbuses, are bon ml to have an effect upon national manners; Standardisation is no vice it what is standardised is itself admirable. The danger lies when the regulations themselves arc undesirable. Several Londoners have boon recently complaining about the mass manners of bus conductors under the new* regime. Bus conductors, individually considered, deserve the highest praise. . , . The remark of the conductor avlio, when a crowded bus skidded and spun completely around in a crowded thoroughfare, . . . stemmed panic among his passengers by ejaculating; “Here w-e go round the Alulberry Bush!” is typical of his calling. But recently conductors have been trained to shout loudly and mechanically, “Hurry up, please! Hurry along there!” to passengers avlio, jammed ■together, find further haste impossible. Reiterated parrot calls that cannot be obeyed . . . should be revised. “Time and Tide” (London). <4> V A> WORDS OF WISDOM. Virtue debases itself in justifying itself. —Voltaire. <♦> <♦> <s>&<s' TALE OF THE DAY. Patient: What shall I take to remove the redness from my nose? j Doctor: Take nothing—especially j between meals. j