ECONOMY.

War Wit, Volume 1, Issue 7, 1 August 1941, Page 7

ECONOMY.

Joe was standing in the trench alongside “Sandy,” a Scottish Australian. Two Germans were walking straight towards them, and Joe was eager to have a shot at them, and get the matter over and done with. “Don’t, be so impatient,” “Sandy” told him. “They’re half a mile away yet, and we might miss them. Just let them come a bit closer.” Joe was getting more and more impatient, and when the two Germans came within a couple of hundred yards, he said to “Sandy”: “Blimey, a man could shut both eyes and hit them now.” “That’s all right,” “Sandy” told him. “Haven’t yer been told that we’re not to waste ammunition. Just wait until one walks in front of the other, and one shot will do for the two of ’em.” *. * * Women students at SydneyTeachers’ Colleges have been warned by the authorities that red dresses at dances excite the animal passions in man. It’s nice to find them acquiring useful knowledge like that. *.* * * •* Mussolini has the record achievement of having lost Libya twice in two months, first the British, now to the Germans. z * * * “Even their ammunition is crook, ‘Shorty,’ bursting before it hits the ground!” * * * Australian built pedal-car has rear wheel steering. At last, the back-seat driver gets a chance. * * * A leather hide was stolen? from the gateway of a Boy Scouts’ camp in Victoria. Whereupon, the Boy Scouts, no doubt, went ’ell for. leather. 1