IN PASSING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20005, 23 November 1927, Page 13

IN PASSING

WRITINGS AND SAYINGS OF PROMINENT PEOPLE. An ounce of pushfulness is worth more than a ton of learning.—Mr F. C. Bartlett, of Cambridge. I know of no country so efficient in regard to its land drainage as Great Britain.—Lord Bledisloe. This is a free country at present, but there are a lot of fools trying to spo.l it.—Mr Pope (a London magistrate). Youth is supposed to have lost its way, but sometimes I wonder if the older folks have let the home fires burn low.—Mr J A. R. Cairns. I have a decided objection to women serving on juries as at present constituted, and more particularly in murder trials.—Mr J. W. Pickles. Sunday trading affords unscrupulous traders an opportunity for unloading undesirable ano, in some cases, dangerous goeds.—Mr J. W. Clark. The one thing that keeps many sincere, upright, decent-hearted people outside the church is the miserable quarrelling of those inside it.—Bishop of Whitby. British credit and prestige depend as much as do Jewish credit and prestige upon the success of the Zionist movement.—Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, M.P. When the time comes for a voluntary lengthening of school life it will not, in my judgment, constitute a great educational reform.—Lord Eustace Percy. Greyhound racing is nothing but a mass production of betting for the benefit of the bookmakers. The practice is demoralising.—Mr W. Davy, Lord Mayor of Manchester. Some people seem to suggest that I am out to overthrow the established tenets of beauty and canons of art. This is far from any purpose of mine.— Mr Jacob Epstein.