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OTHER MEN’S MINDS. ——•# Them is no real pcaoo.—Mr Philip Snowden. VALUE OP EDUCATION. It is 'foolish, policy to regard education primarily as machinery for tie earning of money.—Sir Sidney Lee. BACK AGAIN! Wo have thrust Kaiserism out of the front door, but it is already knocking at the back.—Bishop of Peterborough* PREPARE FOR ACTION 1 If any attempt is made to take away our right as British citizens, once mors 1 will call out the Ulster. Volunteers,— Sir Edward Carson. WHO’S WHO. Mr Fisher, the Education Minister, is a generous high-minded man, bat an utterly short-sighted, unstateamimliko politician.— I Captain Loseby, M.P. OPTIMISM. I We should he a very happy people in* deed if nothing stood between us and the millennium but the existence of Mr Churchill —Mr 0. A. M’Ourdy, M.P, ■ THE SPENDTHRIFTS. ;/ The country speaks as though, after Victory, nothing was left but to spend. --Lord Curzou. , ‘' ‘ I' 3 THE HOUSING PROBLEM. No matter angers the'people so much at the moment,' pspecialiy\'-spldiera returning homo, as a shortage of houses? —Mr Bonar Law. , r ’■' a ‘ BE READY. .. The sure way to secure peace is ■ be ready for peace.—lMr.J. B. dynes,? BAD ADVICE. -J Leave Russia alone, and’let her fight' her way to freedom.—Mrs Annie Besant. ’’ NOT READY. ' I regret wo are not in a political, position to establish at once Socialism, in this country.—Mr D. Carmichael. THE GOVERNMENT’S FEAR. 7; In asking the minors to give their pledge not to strike for three months, the Government were only afraid the workers would take direct action: to prevent troops going to Russia,—Mr G. Friend (chairman, London Trades Council). GOOD WALKING. For years I have walked four miles to work and four miles back each day.—' Judge Radcliffe. ■ THE FADED FLOWER. The flower of the nation’s manhood between the ages of twenty and forty' has gone.—General Sir H. S. Horrie. ■. SUGAR BEET. It was this country’s Free Trade principles which stopped the sugar-beet in-,, dustry from being adopted several years , ago.—Lord Denbigh. THE OBVIOUS. There is no subject which interests the British public to-day half so mud’, as the cost of living.—Mr 0. A, M’Curdy (Deputy Food Controller). ALWAYS DISSATISFIED. We are never satisfied with anything in this world.—Mr Straker, Miners’ Executive. A LIVING CURSE. People who cut themselves off from others are a curse to existence.—Earl of Sandwich. U)RD RHONDDA’S SACRIFICE. Lord Rhondda died for liis country as much as any soldier on the battlefield.—Mayor of Merthyr. LUCKY POLICE 1 The police now receive wages up6n which they can live comfortably without home troubles.—Captain W7 H. Tomasson, A “HOUSE’’ TO LEE. ■, 1 believe that at present -the Peace Palace at The Hague is one c,f the few, palaces to lot.—Rear-Admiral Adair, M.P. REFUSE TO PAY. People who arc asked to pay an ex-.-,,, ecssive price for a head of cabbage cr,/ ; any other article would do more' to remove profiteering by refusing to pay the high price than hv_ blaming the * Government.—Dr ’Acldfson. ■ "A STEADY STREAM.” IEGPONSB TO ADVERTISEMENT V W THE : “STAR.” H/TESSRS BOOTH, MACDONALD AND i’L CO. LTD., acting for a Customer, inserted » “Wanted" Advertisement in the ' “ Ster” (one insertion and one advertisement only) tor four threshing machine hands. The result ia told by the firm’* manager aa fo). mwai— At the time and place mentioned In the advertisement there were over a Boren Applicants, from which the re- \ quiied quota waa selected, and A f " STEADY STREAM OF APPUCANTS WERE TURNED AiVAY lUGB.T UP 'lO MIDDAY, vf>' XHE MORAL OP THIS IS PLAIN-. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN TUB S “STAR.”