HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12724, 20 August 1919, Page 4

HERE AND THERE.

Mr John Storey, leader of the New South W ales State Labour Party, speaking iu support of the selected Labour candidate, for the Paddington byelection, strongly denounced revolutionary Socialism (says the “ Sydney Morning Herald Mr Storey said that if the policy of the revolutionists were endorsed immediately it could not be carried into effect. In fact, even the revolutionaries were so law-abiding that they were afraid Of the "War Precautions Act and its regulations, and obeyed it. \et they wanted people to believe in their doctrine of upsetting society. “ I am,” he continued, “an evolutionary Socialist; but if I find you trying to shoot up Australia I will shoot you. I say to men who come from other parts of the world and preach revolution: ‘lf you don’t like \u strati a, get out. I respect you. 1 welcome you; but if you 'talk * about spilling the blood of my children and my wife and relations, "then, by heavens! I will have a shot at you.’ ” Ihere was no actual revolutionary Socialism iu Australia. There were only a lew people who did nothing more, than talk about it, but would do nothing when the pinch came. They, -iois ever, misled others, mostly young People. into wrong ways of tlmiking. 1 11 have none of them,” Mr Stores' CO -ni l <<an< T the Labour movement will have none of them. We are evolutionists, not revolutionists.” Dr Alington, head master of Eton, told a meeting of the Workers’ Union at u Jie college that, an emineftt scientist having discovered that using the right hand developed .the-left side of ' the brain, it was decided at Eton to start the buys writing with the left hand m order to develop the right side or the brain. Another eminent scientist, however, found that if thev developed both sides of the brain at once they became idiots, and the experiment was hurriedly discontinued. Lieutenant Omar Locklear, formerly with the air service of the United states Army, recently gave a demonstration, said to be the first in the annals of flying, of catching a dan"nng rope ladder from a second aeroplane, and climbing into the craft from which it hung. The feat was done at an altitude of 2500 ft. He has leaped rrom one plane to another in the air before, but never made an ascent from one to another. The performance was one of the features of the day’s flyingevents bold at Atlantic City in com nection with the Pan-American aeronautical convention.

A volume might be collected of innocent but barbarious perversions of the English language. The latest comes fiom the projectors of a new Siamese newspaper, who have distributed the following notice:—The news of English we tell the latest. Write in perfectstyle and most earliest. Do a murder git commit, we hear of it and tell it. Do a mighty, chief die, we publish it, and m borders of somber. Stall has ® a ph l,66n one_ college, and write like ixipling and Dickens. *Wo circle every town and extortionate not for advertisements. Buy it. Buy it. Tell each. °f M>n its greatness for good. Ready on Friday. Number one.

, James Oantlie, the surgeon, preached from the pulpit of St Peter’s! Vere Street, London. W., at the evening service on Hospital Sunday in June. Speaking chiefly on preventive measures in disease. Sir James touched upon typhus fever, the muzzling order and dog madness, and rats and bubonic plague. So rare had typhoid become, he said, that when a case was discovered in London all hospital students were invited to study the case. At one time, said Sir James, the Church looked askance upon the theories tof geienfists, but scientists had shown that ™ey supported the tenets of the Church. He concluded with a tribute to the women serving in the hospitals. Even among our enemies it was agreed that the British nurse was supreme. A strong point was scored by Mr E. C. Banks at the Auckland Educational Conference, in the course of a reference to the under-payment by the Education Department of its officers (says a northern paper). “ I noticed the other day an advertisement for a chief inspector of schools,” he said, "at a. salary of £650. a year. The Director of Education in this country gets about £9OO a year. In my private capacity I happen to be a director of the New Zealand Farmers’ Bacon Company; it may interest some of you to know that we pay our manager £I2OO a year. He deals with some fifty or sixty thousand pigs, and we think it worth that sum to have them dealt with properly. To a man dealing with over 100,000"school children, the Department offers the princely sum of £650!” The origin of the name “Blighty” is given in the “Australasian.” The word is from the Arabic “Wala” (dominate), through “ Wali ” (Governor), and Wily at ” (Government). In India, “ Wilayat ” acquired the meaning of “country” in general—and “foreign country ” in particular—and the adjective “ Wilyati,” to mean “foreign.” And the foreign country most affecting India in these latter davs is Europe” and especially England. Therefore “ IVilavati ” connoted England to coin, mon Indian parlance. This word in the Hindu patois—owing to preference of " b ” to “ w’’-—became “hilati,” pronounced “Watty”—and by the British soldiers ft was called “ blighty.” Sir Robert Hill, who has been appointed Medical Director-General of the Navy, is the man who was responsible for the health of the Grand Fleet during the war. At one time he reduced the daily percentage of sickness among the thousands of men in the ships that made up that great force to the remarkable figure of 0.67. He was on the staff of both Jellicoe and Beatty as the principal medical officer of the Fleet, and after the experience of Jutland, he had to reorganise almost from top to bottom our method of disposing of the wounded in a naval station. t The Berlin Corporation has caused hundreds of portraits and busts of the ex-Kaiser to be removed from municipal offices and schools to the attics. The same has been done with portraits, of the Imperial family. In a lecture on “ Th© London Child and the Kinema,” at the County Hal!, Spring Gardens, London, recently, l>r C. W. Kimmins quoted from essays written by 6000 children, showing that 25 per cent, mostly girls,- liked domestic and fairy stories, 15 per cent preferred adventures, th© children of th© poorer districts were keen on serials, •'< per cent liked “crook” stories, 3 per cent were interested in love stories, and only 2 per cent in educational films. Girls -were more interested in domestic and fairy stories, and boys in cowbo> and adventurous films. The lovo interest starts among girls at th© age of eleven- Explaining why she had never been to the kinema, cue child wrote: “My sisters went, and three days after wards t.ne had scarlatina and the other measles.” Another wrote: “It is not healthy, sticking inside a hot place taking other people’s breaths.” Dr Kimmins stated that a committee of psychologists would soon be appointed to inquire into the educational value of the film.

At the time during the war when the German submarines were doing the most damage amongst British shipping, a young lady on a holiday from London went for a stroll along a part of the northern coast of Devon. She had a camera with her, and, never thinking of the prohibition which had been placed on its use, she took a photo of the hay beneath her. After developing the photo she was surprised to find! a. number of small black specks on it and by applying a magnifying gla«j came to the conclusion that they were’ submarines. She immediately sent the photo to the Admiralty, and as a result. one of the Germans’ biggest sub* marine bases in Britain was destroyed. The lady was rewarded with a substantial cheque: For Children’s Hacking Gough. Woods* Great Peppermint Cure.