POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 103, 4 May 1933, Page 10

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLACE

Ypstcrday's local election results suggest that quite a few non-Labour candidates had not made provision for a rainy day.' * ■,■#■■ * Adverting to the extremely smnri poll yesterday, probably O.K.'s iuvisiblo audiences could not bo discerned because of the rain. ■*" ♦ ♦ Germany may or : may not be /it see* ond-elass nation (see Hitler's pro* nouncement), but she is making at first-class ass of herself in some re» spects. • * » PLAYING SAFE. Britain is leaving nothing to chance, i.e., to the World Economic Conference. Remark how &he .is multiplying her , trade treaties in Europe and abroad. In other words, while trusting iv God. she is keeping her powder dry. ■::■ * « MUST WORK FOR IT. Hitler has assured the now Nazi-con-trolled trado unions that ho will giva them bread, but judging by his, compulsory roadmakiug proposals, he wil? sec to it there is.,,no loafing on tin job. a « tt HALVES AND QUAETERS. A London professor divides marriages into four classes, with the following conclusions; —"One- quarter is ideally ' happy; a second quarter is more happy, r than unhappy; a third quarter is mora unhappy than happy; and' th'o fourth quarter is absolutely miserable." Still, it mostly depends^!oil one' better Half. ' ' a .■*.., # BACK-SCHATCHING. "Jauus," in the "Spectator" (Loif •- dou), notes without comment thjs comradely exchange of literary amenities:— ''Little Victims," by'Bichard Bumbold. "A remarkable book"—Bichard Aldington, "Sunday Referee," February 26. '-'Aldington is a man to be admired." —Kichard Rumbold. Same paper, sama day, same page. ■ #■'■■• ♦ THE FALLEN EAGLE. J.H.G.'s salute to Hinkler. How still ho lies—his flights ftre o'eii His soul now seeks a fairer1 shore, A loftier height, subliiner deeps, The caglo rests, and resting, sleeps. He's gone, but still his spirit flic* Along tho highways of the air, That so the fledgling eagles shall/ rind seas moro blue, find skies inorQ fair. I #;..,« ♦ SENORITA THE MATADOR. Mr: Flagc,—Talking of bull-lighten -J-and you wero last Saturday—picas* do not run away witli the idea that this picaresque (is that the w'ordT)j sport is the monopoly of the more male. Permit me to introduce Senorita Juan« ita Cruz, a lady of Spain as you may; guess, who last ■ month made a most successful debut in an Andalusiau arena. It was, indeed,' a literal howling success, judging by the reported pnuclcmoninm that ensuod when thofair Juanita brought down her second faurus. So delighted were the authorities that the lovely matador was awarded the high honour of receiving an car and the tail of each animal, cut off fov Jicr by the presidente of the display himself. -'' There 'a a' woman like a dew flrop!" as Bfcbbie Browriinf might have said. BOLERO. ••• ♦ ' ' ANSCHLUSS. It is reported from' Vienna that tho Nazi strength in Austria has made marked advance- in the last year 'or two. A substantial - straw which! ■ I shows the way the political wind is, blowing. France is afraid of the prospect, her protege, the Little Entente, hates to contemplate it, but it looks as though Anschluss" is inevitable. Union between Germany and German Austria is on the way. ' Apart from tho tics of-blood, language, tradition, and geographical juxtaposition, Austria needs it urgently. She has been dismembered. Shut by tariff wklls of territories with which Vienna onco did business, a ham-strung Austria is literally starving to death, and union* with Germany is her only prospect of salvation. So wo may expect the Nazi spirit to develop in intensity in proportion as the economic pressure heightens. •" i * MORNING TEA MONOLOGUE. Well, »ow that they are reelly 'ere, ■Wot uv our bran' noo council, dearf They look a pretty haverage bunch, The sort who must go 'ome to lunch. An' kiss the missus, at the gate, For reasons which I needn't state. Good steady blokes, who'all desire To try an' set: the Thames on fire» Or the 'Utt Hivor, just to prove They're 'aid to stop when once they, move. , An' yet I'll bet, as I'm alive, When we 1-cach 19-35 We'll bo fed up with 'cm, an' shout To have the most of 'em 'caved out. We're jest like kids in things lik», these — The masses 'as poor memmeries. My word! That balanced Budget trie* Some'ow it 'asn't seemed to "click." I ain't a Douglas Crediter, Or a finanshul hediter, But if then- ain't a catch iv that Surplus of Coatcs, I'll cat me 'at. It's funny that no word 'as came From the Old Dart about that same, When you'd expect a round uv cheers Eesoun'din' through the hemisperes. But no—not one kind word to greet From hovcrseas that Blondin fe«t; . Jest a dumb silence like the grave When bands should1 plfty an/ flags should , wave. That 'a^> significants for me. * t ■ Is this me second cuppor tea? * » ■# ■ ADVERSITY. Listen to Samuel Johnson on a subject, which has a topical application: — Every man is rich or poor, according to the1 proportion between his desires md enjoyment. Of riches as of everything else, tho lope is more than the enjoyment; while ,ye consitlor them as the means to bo isod at some future time for the at.ainWnt of felicity, ardour after them .ecurcs us from weariness of ourselves, jut no sooner do. we sit down to enjoy >ur acquisitions than we find them inmfficiont to fill up the vacuities of life. .Naturo makes us poor only when wo • vant necessaries, but enstom gi^es tho lamo of poverty to the want of supcrluitics. ■ It is the great privilege of poverty; o bo happy tmenvied, to be healthy vithout physio, secure without a guard, md to obtain from tho bounty of sature what tho great and wealthy are ompollcd to procure by the help of art. Adversity has over been considered as he state in which a man most easily, iccomcs, acquainted with himself, par-" iculafly being free from flatterers. Prosperity is too apt to prevent us . rom examining our conduct, but ,a« dvcrsity leads us to think properly of ur slafo, it is most beneficial to us. 11.