POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11511, 6 October 1915, Page 5

POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

(From American newspapers.) Fighting in the air doesn't necessarily rai e the piano of modern waxfare.—" Wall Street Journal." Unpreparedness may ba defined as a system for making two dollars do the work of one. —"Boston Transcript." lEr Bryan's successive statements make it increasingly evident that he res'gned in a fit of passionate admiration .for Mr Wihon.—"New York Evening Post." Though an advocate of peace, Bryan seems singularly unable to hold his own.—" Philadelphia North American." Another "strictly neutral" newspaper is announced. It is to be conducted by Messrs Schweitzer, Kipper, Weiss and Stoehr.- ''Philadelphia Public Ledger." Some newspapers are still demanding the cessation of the German submarine warfare, but the tinted States has atked only that the submarines confine their to warfare. —"Philadelphia North American." The pacificist who early last year pre--1 dieted that there would be no European war may have been tadly mistaken, but he was no worse a prophet than the ahrmists who had that war scheduled tor the next year for nearly thirty years. The automobile makes Jonah's whale 'look like a very small fish, for it thinks nothing of swallowing a homestead'and sometimes it eats up the whole farm. " War is conducive to whiskers," says a New York paper. Are the so!diei's so deep in the trenches that, they no longer get a close share? Perhaps that strange and abnormally large jaw with the crossvtf4.se teeth foilud at Faifport is the only thing which has survived from some prehistoric politician. The hardest thing, to , define in Europe these days would be the terms of au honourable peace for all parties. They are now calling Villa a common cattle tliiet. He and his followers have been cattle thieving all along, but the new title argues that he is losing his gr'p on the Mexican imagination as a liberator. Turkey is beginning to fear that she ( may lose the place she already has in 1 the. sun.