POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 80, 5 April 1932, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment BY PERCY FLAGE Unless we are very much mistakei Finland will be mostly one large head- ■ ache to-morrow . morning (Finnish" time). Aspirin merchants have largely increased their stocks in expectation. • • * FAME- THRUST UPON THEM. To honour the names of the men who' elected To die for their fellows a shrine' was erected. But instead it's resolved to honour tha ' city By enfehrining the names of the building committee. , , HELICAN. • •■■.'• ATTABOY! From a lately-arrived Sen Franoiscci. "Chronicle":—"As scon as the Lindbergh baby is recovered 'The Chronicle' will let all the people of the Bay Region know the glad news* Two red flare bombs will be fired .from the. tower of '.The Chronicle' building, Fifth and Mission streets. They! will be parachute bombs, which will float high in the air for several minutes, and. should be visible in clear weather all .over the Bay Area. If. the news' comes in the day time, the detonations of the bombs will tell the story of the Lindbergh baby's recovery." What steps '/The Chronicle 1? would take if "Lindbergh junior were John Rockefeller pore or the Chrysler building, or Calvin Coolidge, Heaven only knows. • ♦■■.'■■♦ PHAR LAP'S DADDY. Percy Flage,—A Captain Hogg stateg that Night Raid (in his opinion) cannot be the sire of Phar Lap (per Press reports).' Oh where, oh where has my ■ daddjj strayed, Oh where, and, who, can,he be? Captain Hogg declares-^; .isn't'Nighf Eaid ... ' Oh-who!/then tell us, is he? Idontkno. ■*'■'.* * CONSISTENT, ANYHOW. Two excerpts from a letter to ouij Editor indited "by a body of business men who clearly are concerned about the future of. God's Own Country, which.' is reported to bo in a devalera mess: Sir, —Four months ago the elector* returned a strong party to put tho affairs of the country in order. To the average man in the street, all that haa been accomplished by oui; Government has been to appoint ~~ several Commissions to do the work which the' Government was elected ' to do. - ' And this from the concluding nara-« graph: * Is any Cabinet capable of spending the people's money without a financial committee of experts to check ,' every item of expenditure? If such, a policy had been in operation since 1919 wo venture to say our national debt would be at least £50,000,000! 'less than it is to-day. As an argument against the Govern* ment-by-commissiori habit, this communication is commended to the earnest attention of all patriots. •.- '.■■■• * i GOETHE CENTENARY. ' Dear Percy Flage,— Mr. Goethe will now say a few wordt to us:— "The world sometimes seems to us like _ a cracked bell from which we can' get "noise, but not music." J'Much that we need is withheld,' while, on the other hand, much that is alien to our nature and an impediment to our progress is forced upon us. We are deprived of what happy circumstances have bestowed upon iis;we tiavej to part with our personality piecemeal, until at last it has gone f.-om us altogether." "I hate all bungling as I hate sin-1 but I have a special hatred of political bungling which entails misery and rum upon millions of people." One can scarcely believe that that voice is a hundred years old. It sounds like 1932. ROSE "NEATtt • • ♦x AN OPTIMISTIC MOSAIC. By A. Plagiariste. Roll on thou darkened days of deep > depression, ■ For thou must go. A thousand sighs will hold thee but" in vain. " • , • Some love,to moan, but no • The sun is rising, and "will soon h% bright again. Stand not-upon-the order of thy poina But gqt theo hence. ■ - <l! V AH things here change, and yield1 thsir place to new . .'. . * J Thou Black Bat of Pretence! * , Thy worn out rags and tatters ■ ia" oblivion bestrew. For lo! A brightness gleams on yonde* v hill; Thy doom is sealed! The march pf Progress tramples the» to dust; Thy wretched harvest to .Time % sieklS yield; • i The dawn is breaking, and roll on* thou MUST. - • ■' . • • SANGUINARY .EUGBY. As you may have ' come to knowj Rugby, as played 'in France, is regarded as second only to< the American football game in its ferocity. A season, or two ago, at least two French play; ers died as the outcome of unbridled1 ' savagery on the field. It would appeal: that things are not improving, if we can judge by a recent incident at * match near Porpignan. A spectator, furious at a decision of the referee,drow a revolver and fired two 'shots at him. Fortunately, the abnormalist " fan " was not a dead shot: one bullet passed through a man's hat, but nobody was injured. If the controlling body in Franco fails \o put a check on such bloodthirsty exuberance on and , off the field, reforees may be compelled to have recourse to bullet-proof underclothes, having taken the precaution to see that' their will was in order prior to leaving home. Under Victorian rules years ago, before the tiger was tamed, the gentleman with the whistle periodically came face to face with the unpleasantly unexpected. On one occasion," when we wore very young." (as A. A. Milms hates to be re"minaed hb wrote), we witnessed the umpire, a conscientious -and competent chap, punctured with factory girls' hatpins as he left the field after the Amazons' team had' taken a sound beating. At the conclusion of another hair-raising, final, the controller of the game, while being spirited away in a hansom, was waylaid, torn from the cab, clubbed into unconsciousness, and finished up in the hospital. And thirdly, and last: a team-mate of ours, a hairy-chested halfback with an ungovernable temper, indignant 'at what he deemed a flagrantly:- unjust decision, "put the umpire out"—arid himself, too . . . for life. Can any readers match these with New Zealand examples? ■ -~.. ...