POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 148, 26 June 1933, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chron tele an d Comment

BY PERCY FLAGS

M. . Kereusky declares that in the' Northern Caucasus peasants are eating the bark from trees. Fine preparatiou for a dog's life, » ''■»■■#■■■■. Perhaps the strongest sentiment at tbo Conference at the moment, is- a presentiment that quite- a .few most desirable things will not happen that ■were expected to happen. * ♦' . #■ , Taking of-wise spending (and nobody, but the politician does so .nowadays)) we' are looking forward" to the time when we can aay farewell to dull time! with appropriate good buys. * :• ' ♦ ' -:-f . . QUALITY COUNTS FIRST. '.' New Zealand may be (as. Mr. Ean« som . puts it) a ' marvellous * qountry, capable of producing, "ail those things necessary for human life and. comfort," but the spanner in the gears is that, her, competitors are doing just that on mostly a bigger and a better scalfli * * * THE BITER BIT. A crowded tram one afternoon, many, standing. A "nut" proffers a halfpound note: "One section." Conductor: "Card."' "No, one section." Conductor makes no remark, and' with difficulty fishes out nine shillings, and then, hands over the ticket and ten coppers! I could not help remarking: "Well, you got a bit of your, own back.?' TRUE BILL. * • » EXOTIC TIPPLES. ' Dear Flage,— How will one of those polylingual stewards in Bellamy's section of th« World Conference get on when < our delegates bTeast the barf Fancy- Georgs ordering a hokonui*; and Bob a long titokif. • He will probably yell in sixteen languages: "What a queer coupl« to bo here-!" And' he might bo right. SUNNY JIM. •Otago and Southland's "hard" hoin# brow. ißeer and raspberry cordial. * # * STABILISATION' PERPLEXITIES. Dear Flage,—As often happens, ft plethora of cabled matter on any particular happening overseas completely bewilders me. This time it is the World Economic Conference. I thought I had things clear in at least one respect, viz., currencies aro of two kinds, stable and unstable, but now, because a British Treasury official has intimated that the United States should not be ' placed in a position of closing the door to stabilisation, am I to refer to a stabled or unstablcd currency as the case may be, or is this a horse of another colour? If not, when we open tho stable door to let the unstabled inwill tho stabled bolt? WINSH. Dunedin. * : ♦ .». HITLER'S BOGY. It is rather hard on Hitler that that famed "flag" song, the official anthem of the German navy, should have been written, by a Jew. In ■ every school of thought, in every walk of life,- the Jew is to bo found in high positions. Observe this hurriedly compiled list: Disraeli; Router, , first news seller; Karl Marx; Einstein; the inventor of Esperanto; the one and only Bernhardt; Kreisler; Heifetz; Levitzky; Elman; . Mark Hambourg; Moisiowitsch; Sir Landon Eonald; Sir Israel Gollanea (reputedly tho greatest of English scholars); Lord Reading; Sir Herbert Samuel; the Rothschilds; and General Sir John Monash, in the latter part of the Groat War.' the leader of the Aus« traljan forces. True to Biblical prediction, the Jew must be persecuted, and is. In spite of that, his influence stretches to the four corners of tha earth. * ■'■ # ■■; ■ * ■ NEW STEIN SONG. A new "Stein Song," composed aftej dipping into "Relativity." Mr. Einstein convincingly shows That each, line to infinity goes And then it comes back On a different track, And joins on the end of its nose. Lines parallel are never so (at least so Einstoin said), And if the space is conical I think we 'r« bottor dead, But after reading Einstein, and weigh. ing this with that, I have come to the conclusion that he'l talking through his hat. Mr. Epstein, you often, will find Says his "sculpture" proceeds from his mind— It is his."artists eye" He sees his work by. (I should think it is terribly blin^!)' His "Night" looks like a nightmare, which is, finished with a curse, And his "Day^ gives me no daylight, but is positively worse, 'But just what do they represent!—l do nob know, dp. youT Aro they what we're evolved from, or what we're gping to? Yours, if^ the w.p.b. has disappeared . JUNIUS. • ♦ ♦ AT THE PARK. , Here's "Howitzer" again, full of ginger. Perhaps the Park was not quito soppy, enough for tho Eastbourne gulls oa Saturday. Bay affairs aro rather unsettled just now. Ask the new Mayor. The introduction of another Plank in the Bay policy was not quite sufficient, because ouc of them, "shivered this timbers,"1 and had to reti*e. "Stump" Claridge was able to land on Eastbourne on this occasion without swimming the harbour. Temperamental Fuller could not have' been quito himself. He scored oniy a mcasloy ten points. Dellabarca galloped home with the biggest fish of the day. He's a great forward, but transferred to the backs, was a Ush out of water. Skipper Coman keeps his feet, although the only way tc stop the whita vanguard is to fall on the ball. Tho two Planks were as solid as kauri until one was removed (as noted) in. a splintered condition. Tough luck for himself and tho side. Jack Lamason was charging over everything at tho finish. Maybe h» wasn't pushing so tigerishly in thij early stages 'as we thought. Alick McDonald must be chuckling just now. His boys look like paying a Gloaming dividend on tho straightout machine. Perhaps tho well-known boot im« poster so interested in the game will send the Bay kicker another pair of plates. The present ones seem to ba collapsing a bit. > Lots of the Eastbourne residents wore feeling very happy, when suddenly they decided to catch the early boat. ,' ■ "Bumper" Wright's boy is a chip of tKe old block. The: way he bumpeij over for his-try .was first class. Eef. de Clifton played a.'. populae tune on the old whistle. ,