RAILWAYS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17407, 4 November 1930, Page 6

RAILWAYS

(To the Editor of the Herald.) Sir —Bavliss lms luul his tilt at ■ “Faimscrcw,”' lot’s hope he will not suffer” like that knight who went atilting at a windmill and returned with a sore head. Not to say that like effect will result from tilting at a wind hag. Another "filter” we are reminded of is Mark Twain’s Yankee at King Artliui s Court, who found his tin suit riot to his comfort with the warm weather coming on.' . ~ We’ll say that Sir Francis is the brainiest man in New Zealand and knows a lot, hut as my old boss used lo say: “What’s the use of knowing such a lot when what you know ain’t so.’’ There is a saying in the Arabic: “Never tell all you know, for be who “ells all be knows often tells more tba.ll be knows.” Perhaps Sir Francis has not beard it: will his admirer kindly pass It on? The tintinnabulation of the, bells may sound ever so sweetly in ,]. IPs ear, but one must remember that one bell does not make a carillon, lo burst into poetry again, let us hope the next time the bell chimes it will ‘‘ring out tho false and ring in the true.” ,[. IP’s proposal to curtail motor traffic may lie dealt witli 'by quoting what the merchant Legendre told Quesnny: “I.aissez faire. Laisse/. aller.” In case ,i. B. has not studied Maori that means, “Let things alone.” As our Gisborne economist, W. L. Rees, put it : “The doctrine of unrestricted uompetitiou (which has been compared in its nature and action to the celebrated law stated by Dr. Darwin to exist among the lower orders, “the survival of the fittest”) lias been proclaimed as the, very soul and spirit of commercial life. It lends a spur to energy ; excites the inventive facility, and produces n very general state of bodily and mental activity.” Only in the competition give the rail ivaymen fair play. Do not fix their rates for services at Id per ton mile (when it (tests 3d) and expect them to show a profit. A chance remark by rnv friend Paddy (Kelly just overheard: “If Mr. Bayliss ,‘vcmld say less he would sthray less.’'’ \u v re voir. Yours, etc., FANG SCREW.