POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 99, 23 October 1942, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PESCY FLAGE

Kingo: Notice in shop window: "Save clothing coupons by dyeing." Well, that, certainly would be one way. * * * Representative Martin Smith (Washington): "By the end of next year the control of the skies will be solely in the hands of our planes and God's angels." * * * Caleb: I have always understood that the mothers of Wellington ranked among the world's best matchmakers. Why, then, the present shortage of matches in our country? * * # Bulldozer Graft: A crowd of women shoppers entered the tram at Bowen Street. A man with his two sons rosa from their seats with the remark: "Come on, boys, let's take the central playing area." * * * THE RED COCKATOO. Sent as a present from -Annam — A red cockatoo, Coloured like the peach-tree blossom, Speaking with the speech of men. And they did to it what is always dona To the learned and eloquent. They took a cage with stout bars And shut it up inside. „ , —PO CHUI (772-846). * # * SIMPLICITY. Japanese patriotism, the blind collectivism of the tribe, is a simplification, it is an attempt to turn our turbulent and varied humanity into one enormous animal, with twenty million legs, but only one head. There is an utterly opposite kind of simplicity that springs from joy; but this kind of simplicity is rooted in despair. —G. K. CHESTERTON. «■ # *' TAKES THE BUN. Mr. Flage,—Please to hand this week's radio announcer's bun to the gentleman at So-and-so station who on Tuesday night introduced a Purcell song as "If Music be the FEED of Love, Play On!" Where does the Broadcasting Department acquire its announcing staff? LISTENER.. * * * MORNING TRAM. I like the in trip in the mornings,. The company's good all the way—■ There's always a greeting And pleasure in meeting The "bonhomie" boys of the Bay, There's always a jester that's witty Indulging in good-natured chaff. Some mirthful provoker Or wisecracking joker Who raises a general laugh. So tramming to work is a tonic, No matter how worried I am, I start the day brighter And duty seems lighter Because of the wag in the tram! —H.G. Island Bay. * * ♦ "VICTORY BUT NO BREAD . . * The Berlin reaction to the Hitler appeal for winter relief is succinctly summarised by an American correspondent at Stockholm. He describes the food situation in the Reich "as a vicious circle. White bread and fat rations are to be reduced further, the meat allotment will be increased—but only because there is insufficient fodder, and the peasants must slaughter their cattle. He says the last grain reserves which were stored in the Exposition Hall in Berlin are gone. The total grain yield, due to the severe winter and clammy summer, is 40 per cent, below normal.