POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 12

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

We read that Hitler, has assured re« presentatives of the suspended newspapers that he has no desire to gag the opposition Press. They are at liberty; to print anything he pleases.

Keading "between the lines, the only real -difference between the Morgana of today and the buccaneers of yester-. day is that the modern victim does- noi walk the plank: instead, tho "bears'* of Wall Street arc soolcd on to him.

INTIMATION. "D.8.," "5.P.T.," and "Alured."—.' That almost incredible- coincidence did not cseapo our' eagle eye, but ethical, • considerations .precluded comment. Thanks all tho same. , "D.8." adds another book to ouf library—a concoction of his owu^ "Breakfast in Bed," by Amelia Love.,

APOLOGY PENDING. /: Ldrd Stanhope in reply to the Snow* den barrage—as cabled:— The Conference 'would begin with great disadvantages. Its work had been carefully prepared by the Pre-; paratory Committee, jete. Diplomatic frankness, we think, caaj bo carried too far.

A WEE HEARTACHE? Dour Flage,— . Bead this. Culled from a local radi* programme:— ■ ■ y , Organ, Terence Casey, "I'm . Lonely" (Coatos). ' ; So soon • ■ , 1 . ■ L.D.H. ' (Absolutely no connection with "Baby*- . ■ . „ austin.") .. .. ■ '

RATHEK CRUSHING. '; Prances Pqrkins, Secretary of' Labour, in the Boosevelt Adminis-, tration, is a blunt, frank person, and asks those qualities ia" others— especially official callers. The other day a .'business visitor addressed. Madamo Secretary in stilted, high*: sounding phrases. "I am not sur«, what you mean," replied Miss Perkins." "Can't ,you explain yourself without using two-dollar- words?"-

SUAVE GENEROSITY. "Auld Reekie," who took up thai cudgels so effectively to defend her, brithcr Scots against tho charge of j being traditionally "close," may ex-, tract some comfort from this true story)1 concerning Marcel Proust, philosopher-! aesthetic. To the doorman at hi*] hotel Proust said: — "Qan you lend me fifty francs?" .• "Certainly, Monsieur Proust." "You may keep them; they were iiw tended for you."

ANCIENT AUTHORS. I Flage,—To /inflict further "kickI*] into column 8 what.about repuUishinfT; those nifty lines on old Solomon and David? I dug them out of an oversea*! journal. King Solomon and King David Led merry, merry lives. With many, many lady friends And many, many wives; I Eat when old age crept over them, j With many, many qualm?, | King Solomon wrote the Proverbs i And King David wrote the Psahni* i I haven't had a plurality of wives, but later on, when I can think of noth- ) ing else to do,- I'll begin to write. It! looks so easy. ISIDORE McFLAGE. ■

' . SCHOOL'S IN, ; v ■Do you know that: — ; (1) "Prodigal Son" does not occur i»i the Bible text, but only in the chapter/ ■ caption of Luke 159 i (2) Thp Louis Ligett Company, which.' ■ . operated a chain of 450 retail drug ■ stores in 35 American States, has filed a voluntary petition, in bankruptcy? (3) A six-fooj; clergyman and a 42----inch midget have given notice of intention to bo married in, Los Angelesf (4) Tho Chinese Emperor, who built j the Great Wall, and employed every, able-bodied man in his kingdom oiii tho Wall's 1500 miles, also burned all the books of classical Chinese literature? (5) The new colour, "Eleanor Blue,-' a soft greyish tone, was that chosen by Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt for her, inauguration gown of rystelle velvet? (6) According to Router, a 19ryear-ol<l girl ia suing two men at Budapest,, alleging they ate tho~"fathers of her, twin children? ■ (7) Egyptian inscriptions might still have been a mystery but for Napoleon's campaign, and the chance finding of tho.Rosetta Stone? (8) As at March 31, last year,, Loin don's civic debt totalled nearly; £133,000,000? (9) ' Benjamin Franklin thought thai eagle too common as a national emblem for tho U.S., and proposed the turkey, as- a- typically American bird? (10) Mussolini and Kcmal Pasha flatlvj refuse- to allow any of their young diplomats to marry foreign beauties?

TO A CONSCIENCELESS BORROWER. You, Sir! I wish you, if you please, Pants that go baggy at the knee* No matter how you press 'cm, and On wet nights may you have to staui From Lambton out to Miramar Jammed in the usual crowded car. May your hot-water bag give ouU At midnight when the wild winds shout, May your roof drip on Sunday wheiij The plumbers are- at church, and then I hopo the morrow brings a note To say the train or ferry boat Conveys to you your ma-in-law, Who talks' like an inverted Shaw, And as a stayer is true and tried As Phar Lap, once our boast 'nni? pride. May terriers nocturnal scratch To shreds your favoured pansy patch,; And black bugs go; hilarious Among your cinerarias, , And if'the lad in: the top flat Should thump, the sax., or things like that, . '■ • V. .Abandonedly till late at.-night, That's first-class.; It will serve you' right! ■,',■■ May your next letter to "The Post Be just "received," and may a host Of inhibitions fierce descond To muzzle you, world without end. Now," Mr. Sponger, slim and slack—* When do I get that half-crown back?

ESPEEANTISTS GO MODERN. Dear Flage,-r-Tlus appeared- in a high-souled contemporary of yours the other clay, so it must be true:— Some biological notes, on New Zea* land artists at home and abroad were given by Miss Coralie Sniy.thson, who displayed a number of prints of typical work drawn from copies of "Art in New Zealand." ... The boys' iii our dump who have been taking a course.of Freud and\Havolock Ellis would like to know whether tha lady could bo persuaded to repeat th« ICCtIUC" PSYCHOLOGIST, j