POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Issue 17, 20 July 1936, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronide and Comment

By Percy Flags,.

: King Edward's winning way seems to have infected his racehorses, too. ; Apparently Wellington is not justi- , fied in throwing stones. at Auckland's glass-houses. • ' ■ Those Samoans have the true business sense: they are not selling their .■ goodwill for nothing. : . ' ». * « : News note: ."No sooner were the : ' Oklahoma escaped felons back in custody than two Minnesota homicides ,' broke' gaol." Well, murderers will ; out. ; PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1. : Who is the greatest villain? Who is he. . About whose baseness we can all . agree? . I think that monster, if the truth ba told, Is he who pays acall and leaves a cold, D. J. DONALD. " '*. * « QUINTS "MAKE" THE ENCYCLO- ; PAEDIA. ..'■■■ More fame has come to the Dionne quintuplets. They have been entered In the 168-year-old Encyclopaedia Brilannica. Along with kings and queens | and other men and women who have • made (and unmade) history, the quints appear in that august compendium, all properly articled, pictured, and indexed. "Why the parents (and Dr. Dafoe and the faithful nurse) are not similarly honoured is beyond our comprehension. INQUIRY DEPARTMENT. "Schnozzle."—On the surface, tha question of Jewish immigration and sales of land to new arrivals are the causes of the disturbances in Palestine. The underlying cause is the resentment of the mass of Arabs at any sort of industrial progress. The Arabs regard all immigrants as interlopers, and •are nervous of being crowded out. The Arab population of Haifa, Jaffa, and Jerusalem, all centres of Jewish enterprise, increased by an average of 60 per cent, from 1922 to 1932, and the total' Arab population has risen from 50,000 in 1919 to 400,000 this year. Emmett Walpole (back in town).— Etruria is not the only foreign name on the map of England. There is an Alexandria near Loch Lomond, a Waterloo near Liverpool, a Friock* heim in Angus, a Portobello near Edinburgh, an Aspatria in Cumberland, t and quite a number of Biblical names, such as Joppa, Jordan, Hebron, Nini»- , veh, and Bethesda. It is easy to go . to Jericho in England,1 for there are , six of them, and oh the ordnance map ; are to be found six Paradises. SPACE-SAVING. .'■■•'"■' In a news article in Saturday* "Post" a story was told of an extraordinary and elaborate plan conceived in Soviet Russia to reduce the space I necessary for preserving the contents of books and manuscripts. The idea ,is to make microscopic copies of all- [ reading matter, and have each page t magnified and thrown on a large . screen for the benefit of the reader. . jThe British Museum once possessed a machine with a similar * purpose which would have given the Russian plan points and a beating. This writing gadget was invented by the late William Webb, a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society. He produced 20 different sizes of script, the smallest of which could have reproduced the entire contents of the Bible 59 times in the space of a square inch! ' Of course, a very high-powered microsscope was necessary to read tha Writing. Webb destroyed his machine some time before his death, but most of the slides on which the writing appeared still exist. * • . » i .'..;. WE DON'T BELIEVE.IT. There was a man— ' ~ ■ Now please take noteThere was a man, Who had a goat. That goat he loved— My word he did-* That goat he-loved ' . ;. Just like a kid. ' : One day that goat • Grew frisk and fine, . Ate three red shirts From off the line. That man he grabbed him , By the back And tied him to the Railway track. Just then the train Hove into sight; That goat grew pale and Green with fright. ' He heaved a sigh as. Though in pain. Coughed up those shirts, And stopped the train! ALLANAn. Lower Hutt. # » » "HOWITZER" BROADCASTS. Mainly with the aid of Pollock* head and feet and Lambourn's hooking hoof \Petone pulled the white tiger* from the top of the tree on Saturday. Athletic are out in front at the moment with Poneke and Old' Boys joining hands to upset the leaders. On Saturday next Petone will do their darnedest to shake the complacency of the Red and Black contingent This wind-with-you: business didn't work out on Saturday as all the points were scored in the teeth of tlje breeze. Two wrongs don't make a right, but is it right that there should have been four Wrights on the Park on Saturday? Actually there were five: three in the Old Boys, one in Poneke sixth grade, whilst Papa Wright was also present, no doubt hard put to decide which to cheer: the deep blue of his old club and the pure (before the game) white of his family team., "Bumper", would probably explain at meal time that it's an old Petone custom to "lash" the leaders, even when they are out of the running themselves. Service, without civility will be the order of things on Wednesday next, when police and "posties" join in their annual all-in clash. (By the way, mounted police will not be allowed in the arena on horseback.). Should history repeat itself, and the weather be just too bad, the game will not be played indoors—that is, officially; (You get our idea?) Ned Barry has been appointed a commission to find ways and means of keeping the "bobbies" in front, ii*. is likely to co-opt (good word, that!) Hull and Fell. This may mean a Hulluva fall for the Posties. It is reported • that the lads of the ' bags are showing great form in their house-tc-house calls. No truth in the rumour that the P. and T. fifteen have gone into camp; for the final days. They; will probably finish their intensive training tonight, and rest tomorrow, with perhaps a little blackboard talk at the P.O. to top 'em off. Where and how the Police will take their final workout is wropt in mystery. The usual reticence of the "foorce" still obtains. Tomorrow our last.. words on Wednesday's big charity game. Don't miss 'em!