POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 141, 17 June 1931, Page 10

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGS

ECONOMIC SLEUTHS.. Almost every week a new cause foS the world depression is given full publicity. .This may confuse the mind of the average citizen^ but at least it . shows •' that the subject is not being lost sight 61. I.#*■ ». ■ • , ',- UNTHINKABLE.' , Sir Jphu Eortescue's Btrong J\idiet> ment of Lord Kitchener is so terribly; disillusioning that we^bould as readily: believe that the N.Z. Welfare League oxposes of. the Soviet's world-wid« machinations are not based on exclu* sivc information direct from Moscow. ■■■.'■■ * . -.-.. *■' .'•*' ;' .-■-..■■ IT'S UP TO CHRIST ABEL. : We are anxiously waiting to hear thai supernatural significance Christabel Pankhurst and her clerical co-adjutors will attach, to that whirlwind which toraj holes in Birmingham." .-.'.•.. . .. JUST. HUMAN NATURE.' ..'■ It is alleged that Moriz Bosenthal, a man of culture in the U.S.A.,.printed this ono; anyhow, it-is appropriate to a mild local controversy on the subject, of a "modernist" painting in, out current art exhibition: "There are only, two kinds of critics —good and bad. A good critic is one who writes well about me, and a bad critic is one who does not." » #■,» . GAITERS. That broadminded cleric, the Bishop of Durham, is apprehensive that if the diaeonate were given to women it would .probably be the preliminary to their admission to the priesthood, even to the episcopate. A solemn warning. ** You aro right, dear Dr. Hcnson, anent . that slippery slope, And good churchmen must bo careful not >to tread upon the soap; That would land them in the bosom of the feminist agitators. All the same, we'd love- to see a nica she-Bishop in her gaiters. *# i * TOO BAD! For a change, a noted English clericS has come by information which reveals that' Germany, not France, King Zog, or Kuritania, is the i\ 1 danger to European peace. It's only too true. ..' Germany is a bad land unquestionably, as we have recently discovered for ourselves. And curiously enough,. the Fatherland does not shrink from attvertising the fact. Have you not heard of Wildbad in the Black Forest? Would you dream of putting up at the Bad Hotel, Wildbad? Suppose you did carry arteri i-scelcrosis around with you, would any imaginative person want to nursa it at Bad Nauheim? Printer tourists, • unless in sheer bravado, would, Burely, refrain from staying.-in Bad Ems, even though that wicked place boasts a. new golf course (of 18 holes). Aud Bad Wildungen, near Cassol—that sounds not only bad but worss. Now don t say you had no warning. DANDY GANDHI. \ ' This is what is known in the pr 6« fessiou as a "follow up" story anent the shrivelled Mahatma's wardrobe* which is no more than a homespun; ■ loin cloth and a homespun blanket. Well, Gandhi has for years decided that he was never made- to be ornamental, but ho did not always think so. Pictures taken in 1890' when ho was a law student in England show that he wore fashionable suit:,, stiff shirts wing collars, and bow ties. At that time he made a brief attempt to rival his Westorn1 classmates1 in appoarance aswell as in studies. Ho went to Bond Street to have a dross suit fitted. Ho bought a silk top hat. He wrote home for a sold watch chain (to-day he piaa hi» watch on his robe with a safety pin). In the mornings he did and undid his tie until it was just right, and parted his hair-on the right.side-with vfastidious care. Subsequently^ the hau; took to doing the PfjfVTrfM^kuli as tho shining top of the Gandhi skull reveals. * *.■.."*■. HIS WANTS, A JOB. Fiold-Marshal Ludendorff is among the prophets as well as of the out-of-work war-makers. He professes to sea enough to promise a .rich red war 19 Europe next year, but the restless old flre-oator could not see through tnaf "spoof" of the alleged gold maimfncturor—a business which cost Ludendorff thousands he could ill spare. We've heard from Ludendorff again.: j He seems to have gone off again After the manner of Big Bertha, _ Which shoots for miles, and sometime* further.. In quite a lot of words he tells, Cassandra-like, of how he smells Blood, citoyenncs, upon the air— Atlanties of it everywhere! \ . With Europe continently forced Into the hell-broth holocaust. Be nonchalant, dear clients all; This tragedy may not befall. _ These days, 'twere well to keep in 1111113, Most prophets have an axe to grind. They broadcast quito horrific views To get tho headlines in the news, Or, scribbling to sell, they hand out stuff ' , Which goes like wild fire, sure enouga| Or else —ivhioh puts them out of courts The wish is father to the thought. The gaunt F.-M. is in that class. . ' He's just a priceless sort of ass . Who, on the West Front, camo a propel; -. And most unmitigated cropper. Now, high and dry upon the shelf, • .lie seeks a chance to right himself. ' As an Old Moore, he's rather worao:' It would havo saved his pride an! purse Could he have sccu through that old trick Of being sold a nice gold brick. * * * BROWNING PIKATJSD. So much of Robert Browning's pootry, is too didactic ■ and involved for manyj oven of lovers of the high Muse tjuifc it comes as a surprise to hoar that thij author of " Sordollo'' oneo enjoyed - extraordinary publicity in the St»tes. —of all places. It is almost as astounding a fact as though a Gertrude Stein reading circlo were established in Taihapc. However, the discovery anent Browning was revealed in London several months ago. America's .regard for foroign literary property rights haa never been exactly a strong moral characteristic. There were-, for example, thoso pirated operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, and, more recently, half a dozen French plays translated and "remodelled" for the sensationmongers of Broadway. So Browning's poems were pirated ... by tho Chicago Railway .Company in tho early 'seventies and" printed on the back pages of the company's monthly timetables! As 10,000 of these time-tables wero circulated every month, it will be seen that the, poet got a great deal tif free publicity. Unhappily for the cause of. the aesthetic, tho only Browning Ihey know'in tho States to-day. W tho automatic of that name, .