POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

* Prosperity is just around the corner for everybody—and the bailiff for only, some of-us. Heigh ho! • * * Lord Suo\vde.n has roasted the joint statement of MaeDonald and Koobjvelt. Just querulous. The .times ar* out of joint, aren't they? >i ■'# * While it has takeu the disarmament experts weeks of labour to define "aggressor," it wouldn't take Prance fiva minutes to find a flaw in it if she vera really trying. ■ •' » ♦ ' x WOT CHEE? Percy Flage, Esq.,—l did not fail to observo your comment on "French as Wrote." Kindly put me wise in 'your column, if need be, as to the signature, "T. the, D." It does not. appear to be French as should be."wrote," or is it "derniere English"? Thanking you, P. CHEPv. We leave it to our correspondent's linguistic intelligence and good tastCt * ' '* • k TRADE TIE-UPS. Now that Britain has "tied up" Iceland, also, with a commercial agreement, it is to be hoped she will not overlook reciprocal trade possibilities with Andorra—advertising for a couplu of princes the other day—and Albania, whose reigning Majesty, King Zog, is said to have ceased corresponding witli that old flame of his, a Viennese duchess abnormally endowed with -"it." * . ' * #..".'■ ■ HAVE YOU HEAKD THIS? » Dear Percy, : There's one bom every minute! How* ever, we'll try this one: Poor-Tjut-proud "Wife: I told all tha neighbours that the wolf oh the front porch was only our new Alsatian. ; Husband: ,1 know you did,.and now I've received a letter from the tax office ordering me to get a dog licenc* for it or pay* a fine. . . - ■:'■•'..■ "; ■•.'. EVE. ';. ■MII'iTANT MARIA. "Ally Munny": My Dear Flage,— You occasionally talk about the." good old days," but remark what happened to a perfect lady in Sydney a century ago, as republished in a trans-Tasinau journal of unimpeachable authority. It. is called a "Police Incident," and runs as follows:—Maria Muldoon, as vieiou3 as an. unbroken colt, was charged with, insubordination, to wit, refusing to wash, cutting brep.d and butter as thi«jk as the heel of a boot, and insisting in putting garlick in the soup, against the form, of the statute '.She was ordered. to the "factory" for six weeks. . \ «■» ■ » AEMY "DONK,',' BILLY. Flage,— That lonely "donk" of the British Army (Postscripts, Saturday last) must be "Billy of Gibraltar, who was mentioned in recent Army estimates. Billy is a handsome grey donkey, five years old, with a peculiar black line rising from, his forehead to the tip of liis tail. 'Every morning Billy starts work at seven, carrying wet clothes from- tho military laundry to the drying ground, and returning them to the laundry when dry. He signs off at three, and every wet day is a "holiday for himV "But that Billy is the only ass in the British Army, ,oi- any other army, for that matter —I know one better than that. "BATMAN.". ; ' ■ . . *• * * . ■ !• : '■' •■ ; A BAS PANTS! .' ~ ;-. Opposition to the new Hollywood fashion of women wearing trousers' merely echoes''the prejudice against such garments as wear for either sexv which lingered in England until little more than half a century ago. When trousers were first introduced in thts early years of last century many men refused to. wear them ,on account of their alleged association with, tho French revolutionaries, while others, particularly the Quakers, regarded them as "symbols of vanity and worldliness.'; As late as 1866, a Yorkshire chronicler recorded: —"In our Tetired northern dales,' the Quakers still hold tenaciously/to knee-breeches as a testimony against the- modern vanity of trousers, and I have often heard my fathei:—who could not endure trousers slathering about his legs—say that when he was. young the entire malo population, except sailors, wore kneebreeches, and that any man seen. in. trousers was at once set down as » ' ' mariner." ♦ * *'.■■■■.- IT'S CALLED "SELF-EXPBES- - SION." . Flage,—Harkeu to the sad. case of Jenny Brown! , . . ' I see too much of Jenny Brown, She's always tripping round the town, AVith paint and lipstick plastered down. Upon her youthful face. ■ She shocks her ma, but never cares, Smokes cigarettes and even sweajs— And everything that's new she dares. She sets a fiery pace. And in the street this little flirt . Flicks powder from her knee-high skirt, And lifts her head, so proud and pert,, High up into the air. •>' , . Sho always stays out late at nights, Long after we have dimmed our lights-* They say she even goes to fights; She doesn't worry where. Of boy friends she has quite a few-, ' < Each week she's out wtih someone new. They don't find out that she's untruo Until she's got their cash.' . Away she goes before they Know • That she is only fuss and show; They all stand wondering why, and so ■ Each fellow does, his dash. But wait until she meets a man— The type of chap that really can : Put her right back where she began, And slacken up. her pace— Ah, then, alas for Jenny Brown, She'll wander up and down the town With a disgusted sulky frown Upon her youthful face. • •■■■'■:■ E.N.T. ■*. ♦ ♦ COLD FANATICISM. ,■ That German tourist Duuedin-way, at great pains *to justify the Nazi pogrom against the Jews, leaves much unsaid which might undermine his case. Hitler's anti-Semitic fanaticism cannot be condoned. Take the case o£ Professor James Franck, eminent German physicist and Nobel Prize winner in 1925, who has resigned his post at Goettingen University in protest against tho attacks on the Jews. "W6 Germans of Jewish descent," he said; "are being treated as enemies and aliens of the Fatherland. We are asked to have our children grow up in the knowledge tliat they must not profess themselves to bo German." Professor Franck served in the World War until 1918, was wounded, and won several militiiry decorations, including the Iron1 Crossj first class. It is such a man whose indignation with the Hiikr taetu-.s as applied to the Jews'compels -him to register so impressive :i protest. It may: be added tbat of prominent Germ.'ins who have receivedNobel Prize awards eight have * Jewish ancestry. >