BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 April 1935, Page 5

BREEZES

Almost. “Is he one of the landed gentry?” “Not yet, but Helen is certainly doing her best.” # * * *

Safer. “My papa’s a mounted policeman,” said little Pat to his mother’s visitor. “Is that better than being a foot policeman?” she asked. “’Course it is,” replied Pat. “If there’s any trouble he can get away quicker. ’ ’ * * * * Hardly the Occasion! The storm was increasing in violence, and some of the deck fittings had already been swept overboard when the captain decided to send up a signal of distress. But hardly had the rocket burst over the ship when a solemnlooking passenger stepped on to the bridge. “Captain,” ho said, “I’d be tho last man on earth to cast a damper on anyone, but it seems to me that this is no time for letting off fireworks.” .** * • “Happiest Passenger.” A blind man, the Rev. David Griffiths, is known to London railway offir cials as their “happiest passenger.” Ho has just lodged his first complaint after travelling 270,000 miles on trains during the past 30 years. But all he complains of is that his fellow passengers are too kind. “Not content with merely helping me out of a carriage,” lie says, “they try to lift me out.” Mr Griffiths is a lecturer attached to tho National Institute for the Blind. Last year he travelled nearly 20,000 miles. Although always unattended, he has never once boarded a WTong train.

The Eavesdropping Microphone. Considering how consistent and persistent an eavesdropper the microphone is, it is strange how little is unintentionally broadcast in programmes. The unintentional recording of sounds or scraps of conversation is not confined to broadcasting, and there is in existence a gramophone record of an orchestra on which, after the end of a movement, someone says quite plainly, “Thank you, "Wilson.” The recording of an important church festival some years ago had to be scrapped entirely because, during a quiet passage in a symphony, a feminine voice was plainly audible on the record, saying, “Now, tell me, dear, where did you get those stockings?” • « * * Enter the Fairey!

Sopwith tried and failed. Now T it is reported that another famous aircraftsman is to challenge for America’s Cup. He is R. C. Fairey, head of the firm of that name, and president of the Royal Acronanutieal Society. Oh the yachting side ho is V lceCommodore of ithc Royal London Yacht Club, owner of the ex-challenger, Shamrock V., and a new “J” class yacht, to be built next year is spoken of as Britain’s next hope against the American holder. An unusual feature of the new yacht is the use of Fairey’s specially constructed wind tunnel for testing sails. Already a new type of mast has been evolved, which will be tested out in the Shamrock this season. Mr'T. O. M. Sopwith, who attended the Royal Regatta at Nice, stated that ho would never again race in American waters under any conditions. ‘From now on I shall confine my yachting activities to European waters,” lie said He added: “It’s no use talking about the last race—that’s finished.” » * • * ‘‘Cancer a Symptom.”

The opinion that that ill to which the human flesh is a prey, and which orthodoxy calls the disease of cancer, is really but the symptom of a far graver and far more prevalent disease general degeneration —was offered to the Palmerston North Lunch Club last week in a remarkable address by Dr. Ulne Williams, of Wanganui. Orthodox medical opinion, ho said, regarded cancer as a local disease which ultimately, if not arrested in its growth, preyed upon the whole constitution. This lie held to be a misconception; cancer was no local manifestation with later constitutional developments. The accepted view was based on wrong premises. Cancer was in reality the symptom of a slow degenerative disease, begun often before birth. This degenerate process was due to several causes, of which? there were two major ones. . ... , First was the attempt of civilised man to live on diet from which the vitamins and mineral salts—Nature s protection from all disease had _p CCII extracted with meticulous power, foodstuffs were spoilt, denatured, coloured, so that they might be traded in more readily. The profit motive threatened humanity’s health. It was a terrible paradox that humanity should go to any length of ingenuity to exclude the essential constituents from its diet. / The second great cause of degeneracy Was self-poison, the penetration ot the system with poisonous matters because of careless living.