THE'PASSING SHOW

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21242, 12 October 1940, Page 11 (Supplement)

THE'PASSING SHOW

(By “ Free Lance.”)

ACCORDING to the Vancouver Sun, the authorities are investigating a ghost that goes about unmaking beds. A ghost has to get a sheet from somewhere, doesn’t it?

Her clothes ere so designed that she is always seen in the best places.

A fatal mistake to mix the crews of Italian warships, half German and half Italian. While they are deciding whether to scuttle or run the war will be lost. * * *

A professor of the University of California says that while the life span of idiots and imbeciles is brief, as a rule, they seem to live longer in California.

Which may or may not explain whatever it is about Hollywood.

A decree in German-occupied France compels Jewish shopkeepers to affix a notice to their windows: “1 am a Jew.” So we may expect before long to see empty shops bearing the tale: “He was a Jew.”

‘‘The leaders have not fixed the date of victory.”—The Rome radio.

We protest. This attitude has gone far enough. The losers are entitled to know when they will lose. All the mourning arrangements have to be made well ahead, also the pageant to welcome the conquerors. We can tell Adolf and Musso that if they’re not willing to tell us Der Tag or II Dayce we’ll take il battio and der wicketsch homio.

A Nazi plane was shot down in the grounds of a magnificent building. A crowd of men rushed to the spot and dragged the pilot from the blazing machine.

The young German shook them off. “When we take over England,” he boasted, “my Fuehrer will live in your big house.”

“That’s right, lad,” said one of the rescueis, that’s where we live our mental asylum !”

COMMENT AND CRITICISM

Two soldiers observed in Hamilton last week-end found that all is not bold that titters. Recent report: “. . . was sentenced to 14 days’ goal.” Of adventurous spirits? Kiwis in the Dominion are multiplying steadily. Can’t they get hold of a ready reckoner? Australia’s reply to Sir Thomas: He may know how to conduct an orchestra but he is not so hot at conducting himself. “Australia is sublimely self-satisfied.”— No wonder, Sir Thomas has left. “One of the world’s most backward and races.” What about Don Bradman, Tommy? “A town like Sydney and not a theatre at which a play is running.”—Not much need for a play with Sir Thomas around. “Its contribution to the war is incomparably less than that of Canada and New Zealand.”—Come, come, Sir Thomas! “The journalistic level of four newspapers out of five is the lowest I have encountered anywhere.”—Did we hear a story about press photographers ignoring Sir Thomas?

The Germans must by now be more adept than any other nation in making truth stand on its head. A fine example was in the message sent by the Bremen announcer to the Dutch, says the Manchester Guardian Weekly. In England, he said, as much as ten shillings was being offered for copies of Hitler’s speech dropped in leaflet raids. Men were “risking their necks” scaling trees to bring down the precious missives fluttering in their topmost branches. The cry of the English people he added, was “Hitler has not sent us enough copies of his speech.” The admirable and unusual character of this piece of German news is that it is all fact. People have been climbing trees to get the leaflets; they have been sold at astonishing prices (to the profit of the Red Cross).