POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1944, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

! Chronicle and Comment BY PERCY FLAGE The merry month, of May—"Deep ia the Heart of Taxes." _ -::- . «• « The reason some people quieten down when they, are older is because they have more to be quiet about. ■::• •::- * To know what you, prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to whatthe world tells you youopght to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. —R. L. STEVENSON. SONG RATIONED. The use of the Horst Wessel song in Germany is to be "severely rationed in future. It is to be played only on "special occasions," and- even then only by permission of the Nazi authorities. The song has beep the official anthem of the Nazi parties, for 14 years. ' . •::- ■ * » HALLELUJAH! Responsible natives are worried at the, rapid growth of separatist Bantu churches in ' South ' Africa, of: which: there are how" about 520. Some of them have fantastic names. There are, for instance, the Apostolip Messenger Light World Church in Zion, the African Casteroil Dead Church,, the First Church of God- Asia in Efese Church in South Africa, the Brethren Holy Apostolic Prophet Christ Church, of God of South Africa. Contributor: "West Africa." ■8* •>!• « FRENCH LOSSES. Paris radio announced recently that since the Franco-German armistice at least 15,000 French citizens had been killed in air raids and 20,00.0 injured. Sixty towns had. suffered heavy damage. People left homeless totalled. 200,000. More than 500,000. houses and public buildings had been destroyed. Nothing remained of the French army or the French fleet. France today had 65,000 tons of merchant shipping, compared with more than 2,000,000 tons at the armistice. Fifteen thousand tons were in Indo-China. and 1,135,000 tons had X been sunk, seized, or blockaded iii neutral ports. : •;:- -~ * * INFORMATION. Dear Flage,—Could you please settle the following question for us? We ran a sweep on the Hutt-Petone Rugby game score, and we are in doubt as to whom. to: give the sweep. The two nearest scores were 11-8 and 12-9, all in favour of Hutt. The correct score in the game was 11-11. Many thanks for your decision, which will be final.—Yours sincerely, AJ.T. Share the prize between the two competitors, 11-8, and. 12t9, who came nearest to the result of the game, 11-11. •» «- » . MAME McCLANCY. ' What shall we 'aye today—a bun, A sandsige, dearie, if there's one, A scone or two, or funny calces Such as a little nooweed makes, Why not some coffee for this time Which seems some'av.a orful crime, • Though Bill 'as gone to it like—well That norty word I mussun' tell. 'Owever, our P. Em, I 'ear, Is all for tea, dear, ev'ry year, What makes 'im 'elp 'im fit, An' always buil's me' upper bit, Tho not enuff to make me weight To 'eavy, that would rouse me 'ate, But any'ow this coffee's punk . . . What are a skinner an' a skunk? ■::- 4:- *- ■VICE HAUNTS VANISH. Some of the notorious -East End haunts of London's underworld have gone for all time—because of bombing. Whole streets through which it was not safe for policemen to walk unaccompanied are a scene of desolation. Children, returned from evacuation araas, have turned them into playgrounds. ' . Places which sightseers came many miles to view will form the sites for huge new blocks of flats when plans lor the rebuiding of the East End are put into effect.