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Chords, accords and discords.
That we have all to be " strafers " or "strivers."
That farmers are the best prepared to run risks.
Of a solid America, after all its apparent flaccid fluidity.
That it will pay us as a nation to be more inquisitive in future.
That the eutlook for food will not improve for two years after the peace.
That male workers as a rule resent welfare work as an unwarrantable intrusion.
That, supposing the war were to finish this year, industrially it would be A.D. 1967.
That the spirit of the taxi-cabby has come well-nigh to breaking him in public esteem.
That Bapaume, Peronne and neighbouring towns are not yet ideal places of residence.
That workmen go "all out" very often if they know a job has a high priority rating.
That noise from Preston's trams is but little less trying at nights than that from its trains.
That wood-pa.ved roads are in a bad way and will get more so, as there is a great shortage of blocks.
That unity remains strength, and that each new member of the C.M.U.A. means an addition to both.
That the Government has renewed order's for new tettin wagonS and some more makes of petrol wagons.
That the .A.S.C. Rugby Football Club remains a. company of tryers,' although one try short 12 days ago.
That many men themselves requested to be let work over the Easter holidays on overhauling in the depot, and that their patriotism was recognized.
That an acre of average land will produce 1 ton of oats, 8 tons of potatoes, or 5 cwt. of bullock (hides, bones and all), and that the last effort takes 2 years.
That nearly 1000 Foden and other 5-tonners were recently transferred from munitions haulage in the United Kingdom to "higher up" work in France.
That the German military lorries when empty proceed back to the railhead or depot in threes, two hauled behind each working engine, in order to save petrol by the higher load factor thus obtained. .
• That the ill-conceived county-council passenger tax by way of toll on wage-earning users of motorbuses and motor ehars-h-banes will annoy borough ratepayers who expect occasionally .to be allowed, to use county 'roads in return for their heavy contributions to county rates. • Of eyes both in and on potatoes.
Of still more men joining for going.
That potato sacks are incredibly dear, That Germany's scale is becoming fractional.
Of muddles in tractor-licensing at Winchester.
That " solvent." naphtha must be a good trade fuel.
That a stay or web can be a cross one to advantage.
That "45" has in part come, but under various -guises.
That the Canadians got over the Yimy ridge and farther away.
That certain spare parts for Fords may become scarce soon.
That 200,000 British magnetos are asSisting to defeat the Boche.
• Of 8000 r.p.in. with a new motorcycle engine during a bench test.
That some trades are now seeing more of the back of their money than of their money back.
-That the riches of India .of -.old .are..a.S. nothing to those which the,-0:S.A. is ready to pour out. , That an approved depbt.in any. town should be as near as possible to the point bf convergence of the maintraffic routes of' the district. • That se.yeral British ,W..D.,'subsidy-mcdel makers will be offered'nothing back When their vehicles have seen the war. throUgh, due not to luck but excellence.
The Swanker's Grace.
(With apologies to Bobby Burns), . • • Some hue a car' An' hae 'weak hrms, ' An' they canna crank it ; We hae no car An' we hae the caps, Let us therefore swank it By "Hoek."
Nursery Rhymes for Present Times.—No. 8.
There was a little Boy, , And he had a roller skate ; He flew along the highway, • Travelling in state. He_spied Motorbus, At id thought he'd hang behind ; He knew he shouldn't do it— That he didn't mind.
The tiriver couldn't see, AM soon increased his pace ; The Boy was very happy, Smiles were on his face.
The story isn't done, Though I'm coming to the end ; The Bus turned round the corner, But not our little friend. .