POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 73, 23 September 1933, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

-Remark, too, the unemployed fleherman who from day to day' finds it hart to get a bite. * ''*■.* | If Mr. Baxter is' right, that harden* ing of butter-prices at Homo is only * flash in the pan-try. Prances Perkins was right. The N.B.A. push IS on, and it i 9 Boosevelt who is being pushed—from one thing t« another, against his will and wish. •.-».. • '. Editorially a contemporary expresses tho opinion that our Legislative Council, as constituted, is more or lcti tho rubber stamp of the Government of the day. Certainly that is the impression it leaves. « # ■■ • .# SHORT* STOBY. Betsy i« a middle-aged, rotund Irish matron who docs charing and tuch jol>s for over-busy housewives in Bloomsbury, London. Said a mistress: Betsy, don't you. tvm worry ? Betsy: ,Phwat about, lady? ■ • • ♦ '■• LEIPZIG TBIAL. Keichstag- fire trial precautions *A Leipzig. From "Tho Post":— Intrusive aeroplanes will bo shot down. A few seats are available to the public. - But will the intrusive passengers b» awaro of the risk involvedt K.J.P. ' I ME, TOO. Dear JTlage,— It is with Tegret I.read that th# Australian aborigines are seeking representation iv the Commonwealth Parliament. By this plea they are showing that they have at last succumbed t* tho world-wide cry of sectional interests, "Gibbit, gibbit, gibbitt" and this time it's not a mere "''twkapinz," either. WINBH. . * , ♦ ■ • ,~ ARE WE PREPABED! Dear Percy,—With their habitual obtuscness, the champions of defensive preparednoes have quite overlooked that classical and potent weapon, tho pea-shooter. Legend notwithstanding, it was with this despised instrument that Achilles got it where he did, and tho latest researches prove that Ooliatii was kayoed in the same wanner. It was David who, using the pea-shoote? with which ho had Won the Kaiwarra Bight Shield three years in succession, first demonstrated the lethal properties of a skilfully-managed tube (no reflection on tho saxophone). A course of axO'griiiding, however, id a most dflßlrablo preliminary, on tho principle that, if the 'shooter fails, cohks, jams, or otherwise becomes' ineffective, the aggressor will still get tho axe Where tht chicken got his little lot. PARA BELLUJfc ' ♦ * ♦, SCHOOL'S IN, ,-, i Do you know that (1) There wero 61,1)24 eiucwas rtow* ing films throughout the world itt 1932, and of these 36,095 show talking pictures'.' • (3) Though some of the black bollst of Africa use flour to adorn their faces, they also use soot as our womenfolk use white powder! (3) Jerusalem has a Babylonian nama "Urusalim," of which "uru" means "city" and "Salim" the "god Of peace"? " , , (4) The oldest of King George V crowns is the one knoWn a* the,Bt-Edwai-d the Confessor Crdwn, '**<* Royalty has been crowned with it nneß--1601? It Weighs 51b. ':,,.. , ,-;■;:. (5) Existence of a girl hobo attay, of 230,000 is reported b£ th<s director of the tf.B. Women's Bureau of tho Labour Department* , . (6) A two-year-old Jersey cpw^of th» Hawkesbury College' stud W.W.) BsW joined the select ranks oflOOftlb butter producers! . . (7) Tho world's largest beer mash tub has been completed ill' Owauwy? It is 12ft high, store than im in dfftineter, weighs 32 tons, and will hold mash for 24,000 gallons of btn ats a single batch. " "': .' (8) Government figures disclose that every fourth woman in Cop'enfiageli is self-supporting! ' • - r (0) Last month Holland had * "Bulb Destruction" week for, ihe pttrs»6s| of reducing supplies and increasing prices? (10) IftSttranc* against kidnapping is now being underwritten by Lloyd's, London? The ~ maximum ~. amount of cover is £20,000 for an adult arid £10,000 ft>i> a cilia. • - .... .>: .•#.■,;» ■.'■#i.i -j...: #' - '■ ■- THIS ENGLAIfB. -itt. tforbesi .When^eveifythlHg'-.ili other countries seemed to, be standing on shifting sands' British' instltutl6ri» stood as steady as" a fock* Though roundabout it Unifeiti Smok* In slieer inidwintei1 furidusnessy Stark on the topmost, ridge the oak, Whose roots deep into rude eartfc' press, "'V " '. Whoso crest- toweM stftr-high^lts may; bend ; Before tHo gale, bttt, When in time, Tho turbulence sHall hare an ettd, It stands there, mighty in its pfitttlj, So England. ©own. tho'ccniurieS, When evil crept to wreak lt# WiU Upon her, from her couch of ease She rose, and fottght, »**' Btt*e*e4 ■ ■> till,- '■ •"'■ ■■-'■' "." ' Before her agciiy-tempered. rteel, v Her ancient shields ali.bruiwd ants ■'' ''red, ; ' ; '■""" '■'' "'" '■'■':'': She saw tho hosts of darkness fsel Back whence they «ame, discortifltßa, Another storm beftts dOwS tiift 'Hkfi!>: Its hampers on the : world's hoart "ng, .--... .' And gentle Hope is like to die", ""• v And Pear, high'throned, is lord an|; 'king.' There is a bitter weird to dree, ': *: But stiffening to each ringing shocks As in old days, and stubbornly, ■ England- stands Steady as a rock. ■ * * "•■♦'; ■' ■' ' ■ i PIXIES AT ORIENTAIi feAl^ " "Please, Mister1, Opeft the gate fW me!" I did as I was bid fey the wee chap, and through th£ dpen gate eataght a glimpse of the "WOMAN IN THE CASE/ a tiny tot about the sftme age as the little boy. She knew her " stuff, '< and wasted no time. Her greeting to> hint wasj, "Got^attjr money 1" His reply: ''Yes, 1 got a penny." "Well," said she, "I'll let you come with me and spend it." said the boy (eyed as yort and 1)> Heading: her out of the gate, his "nibs" Sftidi' "We'll go to that shop and buy iueh-and-sueh." "No!" said h» ladyship, turning the other way; "wf'lt buy so-and-so at this shop." AND ?fl*!S DtiX A raw deal, but he did ndt ef)i«*Ai To groan or to moan \*Ould not wend Itg A man's job is to git the ell*— Tho woman's is it spend it. RO«BNIIA*V i '" "■