POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 6 December 1930, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

BY PERCY FLAGE

Chronicle and Comment

Charged -with having slain her husband, an elderly barman, the accused told the Judge that she could not look at her late spouse's nose without see* ing red. She was remanded in order to under* go a colour test. * • • A Beform M.P. up Auckland way: "The present situation was serious^ owing- to the low prices of primary products, on which the country relied. Tha Government had done nothing to solva the country's problems. It was essential that there should be a stable Government controlling' the country, and the solution lay in the speedy return to power of the Eeform' Party." As the solution propounded above is that'of almost every official Opposition in action to-day, it looks as though." there is something in the idea. Theyj all can't be wrong, surely. * «• # Cable note: "It is felt that England's first wicket pair, Hobbs and Sutcliffe, ar« not giving of their best ... as Vizianagram wants to win its matches." Well, anagramatically speaking, this is how it hit us: We know the easyanagram, The brightandbreezyanagram, • But hang it all! What's this they callin Ind—a Vizianagram? <** . * Our thanks to "M.C.S." The radio weather report recently included a startling comment on the stata of. the sea at G-reymouth during tha westerly gales: "Oh Gee! Rough!" announced the precise 2YA, to the astonishment of listeners. Of course, it may have meant "Overcast-Gloomy" as per schedule of abbreviations, but one prefers to think of it as a spontaneous tribute to the majesty of tha Tasman Sea beating on the wild West Coast. . ' . * ♦ ♦ Its collective mmd inoculated by th«j holiday instinct, the General Knowledge Squad parades with a far-away look ia its eyes. Nevertheless—did you know; that (1) Mr. Atmore will soon have a record collection of gold trowels and] keys if he goes on like this? (2) We have been wondering foi; days if somebody has purchased Mr* James Eoberts a silencer as a Christmas' box? (3) Will Eogers, American laughtermaker and good scout, is sure of a' nice cup of tea when nest he visit 3 England? (4) We would like to know how thati noble thoroughbred, Keform, is working under the new stable head man? (5) This intensively contracted ad« vertisement —"Exe. cookg., bkft., opt, lib. (or sep.) tab., perl, sup., best pos*. fac. sea, c. 1., b. h. and. c."—appeared in an English daily? (6) Sections of the Christchurch unemployed are working overtime—with! their mouths? (7) A level head and a stiff upper lipy and. not blind optimism, are the community's best defence these slump' days? (8) The rainbow-hued balloon of inflation sooner or later explodes with C nerve-shattering bang? (9) America, though she has he^ share of the world's gold, also has her; share of the world's workless? (10) Talking of compulsory, ablutions in Poland, it looks as though fireeater Pilsud'ski received a "bath" of the colloquial sort? * # * The Senior Government Whip report^ vociferously that there will be no fus* ion. The Opposition will consider a coming-together on its terms. It ie-. mains to hear what the constituency] says next General Election. Meanwhile; The- tumult and the shouting dies, To rise again from either side. Not theirs to make a sacrifice, So deep their stiff-necked partjj • pride. This is the very latest news: We will.not fuse! We will not fuse!" "We will not fuse!" shouts Mr,Munns. . •' . "Not likely, when we hold the reins* We are the people's chosen ones, And why should we forego our gains! Reform has merely got its dues. We will not fuse! We will not fuse!'' "We will not fuse!" roars Mr. Coates^ "For all their bluster, who can doubt' The present discontent denotes That Forbes and Co. are down ancj out? They are not fit to lace our shoes. We will not fuse. We will not fuse.'* Thus round the countryside they stump With party back-talk insincere, Each hoping that the great big trump Will be dealt out to them next year. But this may be the voters' views: . "We shall refuse! We shall refuse!'< * * * Hours have wings, fly up to thjj author of time, and carry news of our; usage. All our prayers cannot entreat one of them either to return or slacken! his pace. The misspents of every inins ute are a new record against us in! heaven. Sure if we thought thus, waj should dismiss them with, better re« ports, and not suffer them to fly awayj empty, or laden with dangerous intelli* gence. —Milton. ' « » ♦ The following lines, which appeared over the initial R. in the Press somej fifty years ago, seem wonderfully appropriate to the late terrible B-1011 catastrophe (writes Walter Chick in tho . "Spectator"). They had reference*; when, they were written, to the victims' ■ of an Alpine accident, but it is the ■ same spirit of high adventure which;1, : leads one man to attempt the "con-: quest of the air," and another that of' Everest. "They warred with Nature, as of old [ with Gods. ! The Titans, like the Titans, too, theyj fell. .» Hurled from the summit of their'hopes;' and we ' Who sit at home, and by the peaceful hearth, Bead their sad tale, made wise by thai event, May moralise of folly and a thirst . For barren honour fruitful of no end. Yet still methinks we were not what we are Without that thirst for venture, and the scorn, That ought should be too great for mortal powers. Such sons still hast thou, England; bo thou proud To have them, relics of thy younger age. i Brothers in hope, in triumph., and-lifi deaths'" ' .; ■••*."■ ■ .