OUT AND ABOUT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 55, 28 August 1939, Page 5

OUT AND ABOUT

, ' (By The. Outsider) .1 hear that., there has been ; som.s» pretty straj^t the "London clubs over the an£qrational ; situation lately. A friend of mine says that there was a good deal of feverish -stamping of spats and thrusting of gold-knob-bed sticks into the earpet when J. Stalin's late.-t bit of duplicity was under discussion. "What a ead the man is" said the oldest member. Another member said that the man Hitler was also a bit of a bounder. An Egg remarked that the whole affair showed how dangerous it was to allow men who had been to a good school to control public af_ fairs. Had Stalin or Hitler been old Carthusians, or even old St double dealing of this sort would have been absolutely impossible. He had been inclined to believe Hitler when he said that he wanted peace, but apparently it Avas a piece of Poland he meant all the time. Britain, olf course, would eventu-, ally muddle but it was a great nitv that she did not have a Hitler herself, ventured a Crumpet. That chap Mosley seemed a pretty isound sort of chap_ and had he been running, things Britain might have been in the front row of the queue, too. As it was there seemed an excellent chance that we would be Dan zig -with tears in our before long, but if we had had an understanding with Germany there was no reason why we shouldn't haye got Normandy back for the Empire. Certainly we would have had Calais. Another member woke up and said that anyone could have Calais as far as he was concerned. He remember, ed that in 1592 he had been over charged four francs for a shirt there simply because no one in the dashed place had troubled to learn English. In his opinion the French were a degenerate people and best left to their own devices. What he would like to see was the United States brought back to the Empire.

j Other members doubted whether this was practical politics as New Zealand had to have American motor cars, bulldozers and motion picture magazines, and "would not be pleased if she had to take them as ''Empire." if America was annexed who would pay for the war? * * # 9 One thing, the Whakatane prira_ ary school reps, can win something even if the senior and junior reps y are playthings of cruel fate. * * * * There is no doubt that the carni\al spirit gets one. The ladies Avho jazzed the other day on, the footpath outside the Ambulance cake stall to the strains of a concertina provided a striking example of Spring'is Here and all that. 9 * * * They tell a tale of one of our Bay oi plenty county officials who was down in Wellington recently attending a county conference, and who, when he approached a youth selling Evening' Posts, found the whole bag of copies thrust into his arms. "Mind them a moment, will you Mister?' 1 " said the pipestem-legged

lad and he dashed away. Our friend waited and waited but as the lad did not return he eventually found himself selling papers. He just let sales come he said. Had he had a couple of whiskies he might have gone the full "Evening Post." Here Y'are. Orl the wor news'' way, but* in cold blood he found it a bit difficult to make full use of the possi-t bilities of the situation. When the lad eventually did. return he simplychecked ever tlie cash with the number of copies sold '- and waved his benefactor awaj r , without so much as a commission of sixpence for a drink. They're tough, mighty tough/ these Wellington newsboys. at * * * There was plenty of girlish gig-* gling and so forth ringing down The (Strand last Aveek -after the lasses had had their hands and tea cups read at the Tennis Queen party. There were some startling revela_ tions about third husbands, dark handsome men who will be on board the Queen Mary, and warnings against green-eyed brunettes disheet out by the three mysterious Eastern ladies who peered into the future. Of course the problem is who were the but our lips arc sealed on that subject. OR SO WE HOPE Hitler flew through the air, With the greatest ofeeaste t But the landing Avas tough, Stalin stole the trapeze. «* , * 8H t * ; You'll notice it,, avas. -Ribbentropr" Avho ATent.. ~to ..Moscow, Gofirifti* wouldn't Jgo as the general situation there is iiot too favourable for gekw I crals.