OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16738, 20 May 1922, Page 18

OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

My born© is my Parliament. —Aiderman IT. G- Isherwood. RELIGION AND POLITICS. The Church must se© that religion ! permeates politics.—Bishop of CbelmsJ ford HUSBAND CATCHERS. 'i Those highly-expert husband-catchers. ! the Mid-Victorian, mammas.—Lady do Frece. MUNDANE VALUES. 1 Neither the Oxford accent not the | Grecian bend has ever yet saved a joul ! from perdition.—The Rev. J. Degen. OUR ASININE LAW. It is a pity the law is made to appear such an ass.—Mr F. D. Acland, M.P. SOLVING THE PROBLEM. It is the last glass on top of those which .have gone before which causes drunkenness.—Lady Horsley. BRAZEN NOVELISTS. Do not believe novelists are pleased with their efforts; they only brazen their faces before the world.—Mr Hugh. Walpole. WOMEN AND BABIES. Tli© average woman of the upper classes is just as frightened of a bnbv as she would be of an orang-outang.— Mr Claud Williams. OUR KINSHIP. England and F'ranoe are like a forest, the branches of which meet, despite any wall built up between them. Mr Rudyard Kipling. U.S.A. AND THE DOLLAR. Tlie uppermost thought in the mind of nearly all men in the United States is commerce. They think and act in a big way.—Sir Alfred Butt. THE GREAT NEED. What is needed is a Parliament of Labour, a re present a tive organisation of employers and workers in the whole field of industry.—Mr A. Henderson, M.P. PULL TOGETHER. If we do not pull together the Old Country will have to put up the shutters.—Earl Haig. LOOKING* AHEAD. I shudder at the thought of wliat the world will be like in 200 years’ time.— Lord Haldane. DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. I would rather that one man had too much than that a hundred families starved.—Mr W. A. Appleton. BALFOUR AND ZIONISM, Jf there ever was a formula loaded with dynamite it was Mr Balfour’s claration of Zionism.—Lord Sydenham. PEWS AND WRECKS. T wish some Samson would take up all our pews and put them in Scapa. Flow with the German Fleet.—Dr Jowett. GOOD-WILL AND SAFETY. It is not business that a nation should trust to the good-will of its citizens for its safety.—Brigadier-Gen-eral J. M. Gordon. THE WORKER’S TURN. The ordinary manual worker is now convinced that he has been led to disaster by false prophets, and be is turning on them.—Mr H. G. Williams. OF TO BRIGHTER FIELDS. I have no doubt that there will be a mighty exodus from the Old World to the New Western and Southern Lands in the near future.—General liobth. U SET ESS KNOWLEDGE. The Minister of Labour knows nothing about Labour.—Mr Austin Hop kinson, M.PATTRACTIVE DEITIES. Popularity and fashion .are two god** which sit side by side and draw a mighty crowd.— Bishop of Peterborough . INFLUENCE OF HOME. Whether the Empire remains white let alone British, depends on English homes—Mr W. Perkins, K.C- (Canada). FOUR ALE. A kindly name, with many pleasant recollections; but there is no fotuv&lo now.—Mr Syfmmons (Clerkonwell Magistrate). A GOOSE IVAR The great war led us on a wild goose chase after reality. The Rev. G A. Studdart Kennedy. CHEAP TERRIERS. 'Die Territorial Army in quite the cheapest instrument of defence in the world.—Lieut.-Col. H. Pag© Croft, FARMERS AND FEEDERS. Fanners only Represent a portion of the population, and the rest are out for cheap food.—Sir A. Griffith Boscawen, M.P. OUR ELDERS’ PREROGATIVE. It is supposed to he a prerogative cf elderly people to blame the younger generation for their frivolity and general inferiority.—Dean Inge. DANGER OF HUMAN NATURE. Ae all hope to see armaments limited, but human nature will remain the one unchangeable thing in the world Sir H. Rider Haggard.