DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 91, 8 July 1927, Page 12

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

I SUN SPOTS (Copyright, 1927.) gOME scientist lias at last discovered what is making all the trouble. We had wondered why we couldn’t make both ends meet or even one of them. We have always been troubled with housemaid’s knee and dandruff, to say nothing of lesser ills. Our friend hasn’t paid us back what he owes us and the income tax collector gives evidence of a new attack of insanity. Crops also are not terribly good and one or two screws are loose. We had been assured by various persons that the Republican party was to blame for all this. The Republican party and the high tariff. Others asserted that it was the extravagantly short dresses worn by the flappers. A new kind of gas has been introduced to the town and the blame has been laid on it. I am just in receipt of a letter that claims that all human ills are due to the fact that there is no suitable tax on land, and a very vehement friend of mine asserts that the whole difficulty is with the currency. The doctor tells me that my thingamajigger that connects the duodenum with the esophagus has got tangled up with the pancreas, and that consequently my right toe is giving trouble. I am also assured that it is the absence of vitamins in my food that is putting things on the blink. But now all these various theories are swept aside. No more can the Ku Klux Klan be blamed for causing all the trouble in the world. Because the whole thing is attributable to sun spots. WTien we have one kind of spots “something happens and when we have another kind of spots something else can happen. That’s all there is to it. All we need to do is to regulate the spots in the sun, which is a very simple matter for a professional regulator, and all our troubles are over.