OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16911, 9 December 1922, Page 22

OTHER MEN’S MINDS.

I enjoy jazz when it is good jazz.—Air E. Qoos.sens. BANDS AND BRAVERY. It is comparatively easy to be brave ; when there is a good band.— Lord Lee i of Fareham. TOO CHEAP HOUSING. We shall never get £3OO houses 'worth living in.—Air E. Evans (Property Owners’ Association). DIPLOMACY AND TENNIS. In future it may be said that the diplomatic victories were won on the tennis courts where Lord Balfour play- j ed.—Mr J. W. Gerard. THE ACID TEST. Doctors bury their failures in the cemetery, lawyers bury theirs in the Bankruptcy Court, but the architects’ failures stand for all times as a menace to civilisation.—Lord Riddell. IRELAND’S CHANCE. Ireland is free if she wishes it, and if she proves that she is fitted for it.— Air Lloyd George. FIRST SCREEN PRODUCER. J claim to have been one of the first persons in Europe to give a kinematograph display.—Lord Leverhulme. POINTS ON PRODUCTION. The people of Europe should be united not only to produce petrol hut to produce comforts.—Mr Ramsay AfacDonald. ART OF BRITAIN. Great Britain, like every other country, has its difficulties, but it also has the art of conquering them.—M. Titulescu (Rumanian Minister). DON’T FOOTLE. We do not want to become a nation of footiers, like another great branch of the Anglo-Saxon race.—Air F. A. Macquisten, AI.P. V ' PUBLIC SCHOOL DANGERS. One of the principal dangers of public school life was too much conventionality.—Air H. A. L. Fisher, AI.P. PRACTICAL IDEALISAI The League of Nations is the greatest piece of practical idealism this generation is likely to know'.—Bishop of St Albans. LIFE’S GREATEST PRIZE. The greatest prize of life is the feeling that one has been able in some small degree to help his fellow-men Bishop of Salisbury. AIORE WARS TO COAIE. We have not seen the last war on this planet.—Lord Lee of Fareham. SAME OLD RUSSIA. There is no change in the policy of Russia, internal or external.—Al. Litvinoff. WAR AND CRIME. That a man faced the enemy bravely is no reason for a reduction of sentence.—Air Justice Darling. DIFFICULT SURROUNDINGS. One, cannot be at one’s best when surrounded with photographs of bishops.—Rev H. K. L. Sheppard, OUR WONDERFUL A.B.’S. I At sea the sailor is the epitome of courage and resource; ashore a child can lead him.—The Duke of York. A!ORAL WEAKNESS. A man can be a scoundrel without breaking any law.—Air George Bernard Shaw. 1922 LASSITUDE. We have more leisure now in one year than our forefathers had in twenty.—Air George R. Sims. WHY AVORRY? I have never been able to understand the making of long faces in the presence of trouble.—Bishop of Wakefield. HOW NOT TO PROMOTE. Promoting a man according to the length of his service is silly. Y’ou might as well promote him according to the length of his nose.—Air Hehry Ford. EXERCISE v. COSMETICS. * There is nothing better than five minutes with a pair of dumbbells if a girl wants roses in her cheeks. It has the lip-stick and the rouge-pot well beaten.—Dr Alartha Tracy. DECLINING BOLSHEVISAI. Bolshevism is certainly on the decline.—Al. Branting, Swedish Premier. BREAK RAD HABITS, The best of all habits is to break our habits. Nothing restores our self-re-spect so much as the discovery that we can do without pleasures to which we have become habituated.—Air A. G. Gardiner. BRITISH’JUSTICE. j # British justice has done much in the civilisation of the world.—Mr Tait. THE GREAT GULF. The public cf England does not sufficiently realise tbe psychological gulf between tbe working classes and the other classes Air John Alurray, AI.P.