POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 127, 31 May 1941, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

In other words, Mr. Eden: After the war—what? «■ «• * We still dip our lid, but there's nothing romantic in headlight dipping. * * * Fred: Then there was the motorist yesterday who thought he would get screws with his number-plates. * # * Proper name for Hitler's air-borne divisions! THE VULTURES!! SOME MOA. * # * s Fun in the ads. (Birmingham paper): c "Owing to circumstances beyond the -. control of the Institute, Mr. , il M.A., will lecture this day at 2.30 p.m." I * * * v TRIBUTE TO A QUEEN. c "London Bridge is falling down, a My fair lady." fi Be it said to your renown ■1 That you wore your gayest gown, s Your bravest smile, and stayed in 0 town II When London Bridge was falling down 1 My fair lady! MARY WINTER. "Montreal Star." c # * * ™ NAIVE. s An 0.8. E. winner, aged only 16, s was married last month in Aberdeen. n She is a. Southampton telephonist, :- Evelyn Harmer, who carried on for s three hours at her switches in a n bombed office with an unexploded f bomb only one hundred yards away. i She married a Pilot Officer, 23 years v old. When the ceremony was over, i the young bride commented: "I'm glad it's all safely over." t * * • | TOUCH-BLAST SHELL. c Shells so sensitive they explode on t striking paper have been made by the . U.S. Ordnance Department in the proP cess of perfecting airplane armament. Their disadvantage is that they are t dangerous to handle. According to Army report to a Congress Committee, ': ordnance experts are now concentrat- ' ing on a shell safe to handle but sensi- „ tive enough to explode on contact with the fabric of an aeroplane's wing. Successful tests have been made with 20 m.m. and 37 m.m. shells. A 75 m.m. gun, such as used by ground troops, - has also been fired successfully from large bombers. * * ♦ QUAINT CLUBS. Americans, of course —and here are a few more, sent by Emmett Walpole, back latterly from S.uva. More than 100 babies were said to be born in covered wagons. These make up the membership, real and potential, of the Covered Wagon Baby Club, Modesto, California. There is a flourishing Poet Laureate League, Inc., the Philadelphia unit of which recently went on record in favour of a bonus or pension for every poet and shorter hours and better wages for part-time poets. (How about N.Z.s hard-work-ing versifiers?) Boston has a Fat Man's Club, which was organised more than twenty-two years ago. The Bene- • volent and Protective and Completely. i Universal Order of Fred Smiths of I America is another organisation out j with a vigorous purpose. Lastly, in Sing Sing there is a Murderers' Club with membership exclusively restricted I to those who have occupied the* death i house, but who were saved by com- ; mutation of sentence before they had ; to walk "The Last Mile." * •» * ; SCHOOL'S IN. Do you know that — 1. The first woollen factory in Eng- [ land was set up at Winchester by the Romans to supply cloth for their armies? 2. The vicar of one London church ; has added 10s to his marriage fee if confetti is used ... to cover the cost B of cleaning up after the ceremony? i 3. Forty rabbits will eat as much ; fodder as a dairy cow, and only four ; are required to out-eat a sheep? : 4. The most prolific fish is the ling, ' a member of the cod family, which sin one spawning period will lay ' 26,000,000 eggs? ! 5. Ravens, squirrels, and hawks are 1 being sold as "game" in the French > city of Lyons? 6. In the great snowstorm in 1927 '■ seventy sheep were buried in a drift on Dartmoor for three days, when three got out alive? 7. Created in 1831, the French Foreign Legion was first intended for service in Africa and the French colonial empire? 8. At the behest of perfume manufacturers science has tried, unavailingly, to extract the natural oil from the flower in order to produce a genuine lily of the valley scent? 9. Helen Keller was born blind, deaf, and dumb, learned several languages, took her B.A. degree, and raised over £300,000 for the blind? 10. The length of a year is 365.242 days, and the circumference of the base of the Great Pyramid is 36,524.2 inches? * * * SHEEP AND LAMBS. All in the April morning, April airs were abroad; The sheep with their little lambs Pass'd by me on the road. The sheep with their little lambs Pass'd me by on the road; All in an April evening I thought on the Lamb of God. The lambs were weary, and crying With a weak human cry, I thought on the Lamb of God Going meekly to die. Up in the blue, blue mountains Dewy pastures are sweet; Rest for the little bodies, Rest for the little feet. But for the Lamb of God Up on the hill-top green, Only a cross of shame Two stark crosses between. j All in the April evening, I April airs were abroad; I 1 saw the sheep with their lambs, And thought on the Lamb of God. KATHARINE TYNAN HINKSON. This poem is a request number . . . from Grannie, aged 80, who is still hale and happy. * * * FROHLICH! That is the Germanised name Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") now wears and bears. This was discovered in an autobiography of his which reached America a month ago. It is titled "Twilight Over England," and, according to one well-known New York critic, the book is a typical Fascist hotch-potch of anti-Semitic, anti-Brit-ish outpourings. There was interest only in the preface, which provided dossier details. Scarfacsd Joyce was born in 1906, the son of an Irish father and British mother. Educated by the Jesuits in Ireland, Joyce became a Fascist in 1923 and joined Mosley's bunch of hoodlums. Now j "Frohlich," he orates in his book: "A British victory would put an end to all prospects for ever of social justice and fundamental economic reform." He adds: "There are two guarantees, for me sufficient: the greatness of Adolf Hitler and the Greater Glory of the Almighty God." ~