POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1944, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

Cooking by radio is a possibility now; being investigated. Hitler too? * * ■ ■■■.*' • Found guilty of assaulting a restaurant waitress, a Chicago man was sentenced to kiss her hands and feet in front of the Court. WHAT'S IN A NAME? "Military defaulter" is a long name for a little thing. Why not GERMANZAC? —Leo. * * . # "LOST" £1000. Investigating a report of a robbery at the home of Kazimierz Ansiewicz in Liverpool Road, Enfield, detectives discovered £1000 nidden in an old'fashioned piano. Ansiewicz had rereported that £1030 had been stolen. He told the police later that he forgot he had put the money in the piano. Ansiewicz deals in secondhand cars. He said he needed a large sum of ready cash on hand. * * * ' BRITISH BOOKS. A report by the Publishers' Associa-. tion (London) on the current state of the book' publishing trade in relation' to coming demands, expressed concern about the growing scarcity of books and the industry's inability to meet even the present demands. The report points out that the number of books disposed of last year—more than 1,800,000 —exceeded the number printed by almost 50 per cent., and adds that even the present output cannot be maintained if there is any further withdrawal of labour. To meet the present and more particularly ■ the heavy additional post-war demands for British books, the report sets out two lists of recommendations which Jt urged on the Government. The publishers ask that the paper quota should be substantially raised now to.allow increased quantities of books for export. fl. • »■:'■■ * THREE-MILE FALL. Spinning wildly, a Fighter Command Beaufighter fell more than three miles after a moonlight dog-fight over Holland, and then, pulling out of the stall only 2000 feet from the ground, 6hot down an enemy fighter. _ The Beaufighter, intruding at an airfield in Holland, was attacked headon and got into the stall at 21,000 feet, after a seven-minute dog-fight. While the pilot struggled with the controls, his observer, trying to clip" his parachute into position when the spin forced him into the top of the cupola, pulled the ripcord of his parachute and was instantly enveloped in yards of silk. The sergeant-pilot said: "We must have gone round 15 times before I was able to pull out of the spin." * •» * . s KINDERGARTEN. Racing up and down the floor, Happy, noisy, round the door, Boys and girls age three and four—• Kindergarten. Sitting quiet in a row, . Eager all to, see and know, Listening to a soft voice flow — Kindergarten. Chalks and pencils in their hand, See that eager little band, Dearest treasure of our landKindergarten. —A. M. Cumming. Lower Hutt. * * * COINCIDENCE. Dear Percy Flage,—Today, August 15, is the anniversary of Napoleon's birthday. The "Little Corporal's" natal day calls to my remembrance the fact that Wellington's famous: adversary was born in 1769. Two other notorious peace disturbers were not very long in following him. Kaiser Bill first saw the light in 1859, while Hitler made hisLunhappy appearance-in- 1889. Note the final numeral 9 in- their-re-spective years. ' This coincidence also serves to remind me that the present war broke out in September (nine letters), 1939. There are nine letters in the name of Churchill, nine in Roosevelt, while a similar number are contained'in the name of Mac Arthur. While we must not forget the point of invasion—Cherbourg Peninsula! AnytWnginit? -J.A.W. ' Pahiatua. , ' .