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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 12. 1969.

Sartorial

Sartorial

Philosophers once concerned themselves with debating the spatial relationships between angels and pin-heads. In the present context of earthly overcrowding, the egg-heads might as profitably apply themselves to considering the well known "Sartorial Paradox".

As stated by Sartorius it reads: Twenty-two wogs will be found to fit snugly into the pocket of one of God's Own Countrymen.

A word of explanation:

In your Salient 11 it was stated that the average New Zealander's annual income was $US1763, while that of the average Indian (or wog) was a mere $US79.

So?

Where does Catch-22 come into this?

The scientific climate of our time demands a lest of the Sartorial Paradox, simply performed by bringing together wogs and kiwis in the ratio of 22 : 1, inserting the former into the pockets of the latter, until the Paradox be proved or disproved.

Still more profitable to provide the wogs with pockets in which they may stuff themselves to their heart's content.

There can be but one answer to this of course: 1% AID.

Dave Andrews.