Sayings of the Week.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 18, 2 November 1910, Page 3

Sayings of the Week.

Bra*. a»d Pipeclay. I. KNOW that officer* have to walk like telegraph poles and imitate railway semaphores when they salute. Also, I recognise that they have to wear an immense amount of brass as well as pipeclay. 1 have every respect for those imported ornaments, for they have to superintend their pop-guns.— Mr. A. TV. Hogg, M.l‘. Anticipatory Education. W e want a mission to be sent from New Zealand to spy out the lands, the educational domains of other people, so as to 1 realise what is being done in the way of anticipatory education. The Norina! ‘ Schools will have to undergo a drastic reorganisation, and instead of the mere academic training and the race for degrees, the work must partake more and more of a technical and practical character, so that skilful and not mere academic teachers may be turned out. — Hr. H. H. 'Hill, Inspector of Schools, Hawke’s Bay. The Juggernaut of Cheapness. Tile juggernaut of cheapness had been Responsible for thousands of lives among the industrial workers.— Sir •/. Rundle. Safety in Numbers. During the lifetime of the present generation, of its successor, Australia would have a struggle for her position in the Pacific, for the mastery of which a great national struggle would lake place. When that time arrived. Queensland, with 500,000, population, would be nowhere. If. by spending £35,00(1.000 in the next 20 years they could add 5,000,000 to the population, the money would be well spent,— Mr. /I'idson, Premier of Queensland. , The Woman's Burden. Not only in the cities,;but in the .country districts, there are thousands of habitations that .are not fit to be.occupied by men. Women, aud children. tThere are thousands of homes in New Zealand that, have .-practically no .eoin;onienees£ which ure ea.l.ciilafedbtir:reduce the burden now resting ypon. women in Regard to domestic work ; no hot or cold water appliances, and no bath conveniences. Thus., the womaii finds the burden of her work in; creased owing to the defective character of the house.— -Mr. T. K. Taylor, M.l‘.

Impending Socialism. In the near future they would have to face thc'dangor of an attempt at 1 the wholesale nationalisation of all sources of industrial wealth; Who; having capital and life interests in industry, was going to calmly and weakly submit to such -revolutionary methods?— Mr. TJToiderlivh. Sydney. Town Planning. • If there were a proper department for laying Of!' tewTis. as was the ease in Germany. and would be. lie hoped, in England, there would be a groat improvement. The result in Germany had been to make the streets beautiful. The streets here ought to have been widened on some proper plan, and the cost charged to the people whose properties had been improved by it.— Kir Robert Sloat. Self-Help. The Maoris are year by year doing more arid more for themselves, and it will not be many years before the .Maori .Mission will not be much of a burden upon the European section of the Church. We want to cultivate the Maoris to a sense of their responsibilities, and of the fact that they ought not to live entirely upon their pakeha brethren.— Canon MacMarray. * * » • Not Wanted. Colonial materia! need not apply when military officers are wanted in this couniry.—Mr. Malcolm, M.l‘. The Fijian Socialist. The Hindu, who is swarming into the Fijian’s country, has been disciplined by thousands of years of threatening famine into handling his property and cultivating it. He is making a good thing out of Fiji. He is prospering where the

Fijian is stagnating, because he is a freeholder while tlie Fijian is a Socialist, The Hindoo is increasing in numbers, anti the Fijian is decreasing. That is what happens to a Socialist community.' All socialistic races will die, just as the Fijian is dying.— Professor Macmillan Broicn. * < * * Good for Tourists. I cannot imagine any trip in the world where a person could see so much and get such good accommodation for such reasonable charges as one can in your country. There is no tendency to see how much they can make out of you.— Dr. C. E. Cum min ya. Diverse Problems. He need hardly say how interesting they found it to meet their professional brethren on the great London and provincial journals, and to see at close quarters the skill and daring with which they handled problems so diverse, and each in its way so momentous, as an absorbing criminal ease on the one hand and the sweet simplicity of the latest form of taxation on th* other.— Mr. IF. If. Triyys, Christchurch, ut the. Press Conference.

Beauty and Interest. Jamaica is .the.most beautiful spot I have seen, and New Zealand is, the most interesting.— Dr. Cum miiiys.

The Causes of Crime. Betting and gambling were responsible for.more misery and-bred more, criminals than drink. The betting laws, affected .only, the poor; he.lmprd spoji -they, would be amended to stop the rich man from gambling.— Mr. Justice Ptiny. The Military Housemaid. If they knew of it. the people would not tolerate gunners acting as maids of all work to staff officers. What right had a gunner to be a domestic servant or housemaid? It was most absurd. —Ifr, 7. E. Taylor, M.P. The Stepping Stone. The English had a sincere regard for the Germans, but nations on the march to greatness were apt to find war an inevitable stepping-stone to higher things. All political cries dwindled into insignificance compared with national safety.— Lord Curxon. Church aud Labour. There was something wrong when the Labour members of the House of Com mons did not include one churchman. The Church must be more sympathetic in its attitude towards the aspirations of Labour.— The Bishop of London. Means and Meanness. Some people give according to their means, and many give according to their meanness.--Dr. Waddell, Christchurch.

Intellectual Lasinea*. Intellectual laziness was what kept the masses down. Every man had the inherent power to direct hu own abilities and energies, and it was because he had it that he was capable of growth and progress. He must think, and think big. The self-directing man did not allow his thoughts to be directed by heredity, environment, or the stars; he thought what he wanted to think, and if his environment did not suit him he made a better. —Per. M, Walker, Auckland. The Panama Canal. 1 can safely predict that upon the opening of the Panama Canal the world will witness a material aud commercial development along the 8000 miles of coast line reaching from Northern Mexico to Southern Chile, which will not only attract the attention of the world, but astonish even the most doubting critics of its possibilities.— Mr. John Barrett, Washington.

The Value of Advertisement. When I was a bachelor I didn’t know anything about medicine, so when I was ill I always bought medicine which was advertised. I don’t know whether everybody in the audience will agree with me. but I think that little instance proves that when the general public know nothing about a thing they will support it, if it is advertised. I didn t know anything about medicine.— Lord Chelmsford.

The Maori Garter. To the Maori in his primitive state the feather of the huia was a mark of great distinction. None but chief’s or chieftainesses were permitted to wear it. For instance: If a commoner in Great Britain in the early days wore a badge of distinction such as the Order of the Garter he would probably have l>eeii decapitated. So with the Maori and the huia feather. It denoted that the wearers were people of high class and high rank. Now, however, the Maori is imbued with the pakeha idea of the glitter of silver and gold.— Mr. 'l', tilevens, Mana vatu. Too Much G.K.W. A housewife undertook to keep an account of the household ex;>enditure for her husband, who on looking over the account came to the entry: ‘‘G.K.W., £lO 5/7.” Asked for an explanation of the mystic initials the lady replied that

they, meant “Goodness knows what.’* How much of our money goes in goodness knows what? We haven’t got thrift, the thrift of our forefathers, the line stalwart pioneers of this Dominion, ami of Australia. We want more of it.— llev T. Tait, Christchurch. A Hint for Sherlock Holmes. Men and women the \vorld over betray the sport they follow. You can tell shootist-a by the unmistakable squint of their left eye; cricketers by the crescentlike curve of one leg; bowlers by the elevated position of the left shoulder; footballers by their premature stoop and slightly extended hands; and tennis players by the somewhat limp appearance of an arm —right or left as the case may be.— Mr. B. ('. Warncs. Pel one.