The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1924. BAVARIAN BATHOS.

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 135, 26 March 1924, Page 4

The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1924. BAVARIAN BATHOS.

German .humour is of the broadest and coarsest, as its alleged funny papers indicate. Fritz is of the unconscious humourist type when he is really., funny. He is more sentimentalist • than humourist. He loves noise.:and bombast. That is why he rattles the sabre. He likes the ring of it. He is boastful and bombastic, because bluster is a noisy clement. Next to beating something weaker than himself, as he proved what time he was a Hun in Belgium, he loves to heat the big,drum. These, an; not exaggerative phrases. There, are ample proofs. There is a quite modem instance—right up to the moment, details of which v;ore cabled from Munich, the! centre of all Gorman plottings, no later than yesterday. -It is (.he story of the organisation and purpose of that new politicomilitary body in Bavaria with the ridiculously high-falutng title of the Steel-Helmet League of the Front Line Soldiers. The bathos of if!