Hot air-Courtesy
Media
Part of Panorama
- Title
- Hot air-Courtesy
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1939
- Subject
- Courtesy
- Rights
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- Abstract
- A rhetorical story about the importance of manners and courtesy to the development of mankind.
- Fulltext
- loss, the repatriates ms1st, 1s more than made up for by the benefits of the share-the-play system which are best symbolized by the rejuvenated right fielder. That normally graven image receives, in pesapallo, more fielding chances in one game than his American colleagues see in two weeks. for the privilege of playing for clubs-in the face of endless opposition from the soccer and track associations and the sporting editors, who grumble that it takes potential stars away from the two sports with the greatest spectator interest. It is not only sponsored by schools, labor unions, Army camps, Civil Guard Associations, and kindred organizations, but also receives a substantial subsidy from a Government entranced by its widespread appeal and low cost. -Robert Sel!mer, condensed from The Rotarian. If further proof of pesapallo's basic soundness is needed, it can certainly be found in the rapidity of its rise and the firmness with which it is entrenched in Finland. It has in 20 years gained 100,000 players-35,000 of whom pay dues 52 * * * HOT AIR-COURTESY Drn you ever hear tell of Marshal Foch in Detroit, which tale has to do with the "no courtesy" movement? Well, the marshal was visiting that delectable spot in about 1921, when up came a member of the "no courtesy" league. "You know, marshal," said the member, "you Frenchmen, with your flowing manners, do not impress me. It is all just so much hot air." "Maybe," replied the marshal, "but perhaps you have noticed that pneumatic tires, though filled with nothing else but air, enable automobiles to pass over the bumps in the road with comparative ease. So, too, is it with life-good manners, though only possibly hot air, enable us to pass over the bumps of life without undue joltings." -Viscount Castlerose in Sunday Express, London. PANORAMA
- Date Issued
- IV(8) August, 1939