SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 228, 26 September 1945, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

QLICK TRAVEL Alf: Your paper says this morning: “Typhoon in Japan." How did he Jfcel there so quick? Ho ran at Palmerston North on Saturday, where he got an oval ion. Us: Typhoons do travel qukkly. Some backers some days don’t think so, but some typhoons are faster than others. THE INVENTIVE ERA. It is interesting Io note that the Government is to look into transport co-ordination. None of us arc very fully alive yet io the vast change rapid transport is going to bring. Auckland to Welington in one hour mears that a horse like Typhoon, which Alf teems to think is in Japan, would he able to win the Manawatu Cup and the Auckland Cup in the same day. It might be possible for a Wanganui Rugby team to clean up Wellington in the morning and Auckland in the afternoon. There will be no end to this business. If there is not sufficient, hotel room in Palmeiston North for the next Wellington Regimental reunion, we could even think of holding it in Sydney, perhaps even in Cairo, where the Regment would be among familiar scenes. Craft from the sea will come crawling up the beach al Castlecliff, into the sheds and stores at Imlay, then go crawling back again, perhaps even over to Sydney, to load some leviathan of the air or of the deep. Whhi of your harbours then? We each of us will have our little “pair of wings' and the question we answered in the census paper last night: “How long to get to work’ will be answered very differently when the next census is taken. Apart from that, we will each have a little radio set. carried in breast pocket, in hand-bag or something, and we will be able Io listen in to what, “those people” are saying about us. We will five in glass houses, be able to listen to what even the King and Queen say to each other at Buckingham Palace, when they are alone. What we wonder is, will it be a belter world? Will it mean love, kisses ard toleration for everybody by us? Will Mrs. Jones, of Poverty Flat, be any happier fm- knowing what Mrs. Smith, of blue-blooded St. John’s, has to say of her Will we feel better because we can peep behind the scenery and learn lhe inner thoughts of men we are not sure of? Or will some pessimist come along and spoil all this, and give, to those who want it, power to block our wave-lengths? When we think of what man is doing in this era oi. invention, we wonder why men waste time discu sing holidays, and whether a husband is really on holiday when he takes his wife with him, or whether the wife is on holiday when she goes with her husband. Wherever you go, the world will be able to watch every move you make, listen Io your inner thoughts. This is lhe era of progress, but will it be for better or worse?