POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1940, Page 10

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

Not so, Melisande. Munitions plants are perennials—not annuals. * # * America has her bases, Britain her I destroyers, and the Axis people a | pain in the neck. * * - * We can import hair-raising crime radio serials, but, thank Heaven,, no "tommy" guns. * * •flit's a queer world (comments Hawhaw) in which English fishermen actually welcome the appearance of a Hurricane. * * * Rome newspaper (last month): England has always been the real and only enemy of the Americans. . . . Even if they could forget their struggle for independence, they could not forget the war of 1812! * # # . GERMANY V. THE REST. A. U. Stria, run out 0 C. Slovakia, c and b Hitler .... 0 P. O. Land, c Stalin, b Hitler .. 10 D. Enmark, run out 0 N. Orway, c Quisling, b Hitler .. 1 H. Olland, retired hurt 2 Is. Elgium, st Leopold, b Hitler .. 3 Luxe M. Bourg, b Hitler 0 F. R. Ance, c Mussolini, b Hitler 20 G. B. Rritain, not out • ■ 20 A. Merica, to bat. Total (for nine) 56 Close of play. (With acknowledgment to "Manchester Guardian.") * * * INFORMATION DEPT.. In reply to C.S.M. (Hawera): The inventor of dynamite, Alfred B. Nobel, a Swedish scientist, died in 1896. His fortune, about £2,000,000, was bequeathed to the founding of a fund, the interest to be yearly distributed to those who had most contributed to "the1 good of humanity." The interest is divided in five equal shares, each amounting to £8000. The distribution takes place on December 10, the anniversary •of the founder's death. The five realms in which the prizes are awarded are physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The first award was made in 1901, the man honoured being W. C. Roentgen, a German physicist. * # * DE LUXE. , ; Berlin correspondents have been an- ■ ticipating for some time the latest , finery of Reichs Clotheshorse Hermann [ Goering. For the erstwhile Field Mar- ' shal had a new job, and therefore a new uniform, to fill—the Hitler-ap- '■ pointed post of Reichsmarshal. When . tubby Goering finally emerged in hjs ; splendour last week, the spectators were rewarded. On the golden, knotted epaulets of Hermann's obsolete 1 Field ■ Marshal's uniform was a burnished spread eagle clutching the swastika, imposed on the crossed gold batons of his former rank of Air Marshal. In place of the ordinary Field Marshal's baton, the Reichsmarshal carried a de luxe baton tipped.with; the Reichsapfel, or imperial orb. . \ * # * HITLER'S SECRET. According to latest news to hand from fifth columnists, Hitler and Goering have been having daily conferences on the question of aerial attacks on Great Britain, and the subject has caused them serious misgivings. The loss of hundreds of planes and crews has sorely perplexed them both, and the daily attacks on Germany and 1 other occupied territory by the R.A.F. has been something that they never conceived to be possible. On the occasion of their last meeting Hitler had "a brain-wave and thought he saw the ; solution of the problem of diminishing • petrol supplies, due to the destruction ,of oil refineries and storage tanks. Turning to Goering, he said: 'Seeing that we lose every day from 50 to 1 150 or more planes, we will only half fill the tanks of our machines, thus ' making our supplies last twice as 1 long." Goering replied: "Just the very 1 idea," so now the pilots set off witft '■ only enough petrol for the outward ■ JoUrneV' JULES VERNE, JUN. **■ . * i MORNING TEA MONOLOGUE. ' What shall we yarn about today? • It's your turn, any'ow. You lay: 1 Back on your seat, all umpyterbed, 1 Spill not a nice or naughty word. ■ Leavin' me for to make the pace " Till I'm beet-rooty m the face, ■ An1 when I've said what I 'aye told : Mostly I find my tea is cold. Uv course, most uv the girls like m« 1 Ain't got no techerneek, you see. • It's jest a gift, I s'pose I got From my. dear Ma. She 'ad a lot To say to Dad, both day-'n-night; 1 What sometimes ended inafig M. No fists, uv course, dear. But my Mum i She 'ad 'im underneath 'er thumb > And fingers, too, what tells me • that : I've much uv 'er beneath my at. ' But still, when all are said-'n'-done, ' There's nothink noo below the sun, But all the same I'd like to 'ear ' You dis-cuss on the price uv beer— ' Specially when it is watered well. ; Will 'Itler finish up in ell? ■ With Gbrein' sniv'llin* on 'c s eels ' An' Gubbles burstW into squeals? 1 Take Windy Churchill, Funnyface: 1 Do you believe by 'Eaven's grace ■ 'Ell rousin'ly come out on top, Which means the Nastis take a flop? ■ Do you^tand for short slacks for girlt An- sissy lads with permed-up curls?. Or vitalmens C, D, or A ... 'Aven't you gotta word to say So I can peek into your brain? ■ 'Onest-I can't tell pearl from plain. * * * ASTOUNDING DRUG. These extracts come from an article in a London weekly of this year. TheXnder, J.W.H. (Nelson), suggests they may interest readers in view of the 5u epidemics that raid this country from time to time. Read on— _ ■ Pyridine is a drug modern scientific • methods have extracted from coal tar ' and pyridine, in case you don't know, ■is the basis of M and B693—the rather • cryptic label of just about the most ' abounding drug in medicine. M and B ■ stands for May and Baker, two re- . search scientists who were working on • a drug to fight pneumonia in a London laboratory. One by one they gave. ' mice pneumonia, then shot an injection '. of the particular drug they were experimenting with into their blood- ' streams. When the mice died, the scientists went back and started again. i The 693 rd mouse so treated did not die. It made a miraculous recovery, and the chemical formula they were, looking for was found! They called ■it M and 8693. Since then M and 8693 1 has cured a number of believed hope--1 less cases of pneumonia and meningitis in a remarkably short time, and has gone a long way towards taking the terror of the 'flu (in England). Hundreds of the B.E.F. who went down with influenza during the cold spell early this year were dosed with it, and almost without exception made overnight recoveries.