POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 124, 22 November 1932, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

"Amos-V-Andy" thinks that that scheme of Mr. Forbes to place on tha banks the responsibility of deciding tho exchange question may,fairly be dascribed as "passing the buck." * * * ;' Headings in a contemporary:— SHOP BEOKEN INTO. TEEACLY FINGEB-PRINT CLUE. The detective's dream come true. * * * IT GIVES ONE TO THINK. ['Anon". vouches for the truth of this one:—This is quite a priceless thing. It was said rapidly to me ona day by an ardent lady who visits mental hospitals, and wanted to lure me into doing the same. "And you know, such numbers of them (the inmates) are so nice, and so sensible, much saner really, than many of those one meets outside these .places.'' So that's what's wron« with the world! HECTIC HOSPITALITY. .From the social column of tha Middleburg (South Africa) "Echo'i-.— The most popular dance of the even* ing was the "Barn dance." Before I got through with it I was calling it the "Darn dance" for several lively dancers kicked me—well never mind where—still I was as much a culprit as they were at the end. ' Yes, but which end? ' . *\ * * APOLOGY PENDING. From a provincial contemporary. No more convincing proof of tha rditaipyshrdl shrd schrd cmfw shr d ma rapidity with which Napier is returning to her former business area can b« ' provided than the presence of tha huge crowds in Emerson street on Saturday night, states a Napier exchange.. vve quite refuse to believe that tk« Aapier exchange put it that way. ■■■■■■*■ ♦ » '■ ; THIED TIIIE WAS LUCKY. There can't be much in omens, otherwise punters would not have had such a successful day at the Carterton races ou. Saturday. The 7.50 was packed to the hat-racks when it set out. With -two engines hauling, it made excellent pi-ogress to Upper Hutt. The weather was congenial,, and so far as can be ascertained, everyone was in high spirits. But the auguries began to play up when the train- faced the grade to Kaitoke. The first effort failed, notwithstanding that the engines did their best. Back they came, to make ■^second attempt, and again they were discomfited. . A supreme' third attack on the hdl proved successful. But there was a bright side to the twenty minutes' delay. Passengers enjoyed, besides the thrill, a dress-circle view! of some choice spring scenery, and the bands on their way to a competition at Masterton kept their heads, and sounded no discordant note. Some backers, terrified at the prospect of miss-' ing Eedtop in the first heat, won-' dered sarcastically why the Department' had not tried out the mammoth new engine on the trip, but then, there is^no pleasing such people. . * • ■ * ■ ■« CRICKET IS LIKE THAT. One swallow does not make % summer, but that young giant Nagel1 made a mess of a strong English side yesterday. However, you", can. never1 tell about that Melbourne wicket; Seven, -when looking good and fast, it has a habit of taking on fiery qualities dig-, concerting to the best batsmen. And' these sensations are very much a part of cricket. Speaking without tha book, we recall a more-or-less stock lefthander called Young, who played for Esses, skittling a "hot" Australian, eleven on a plumb wicket for under 20 runs, or some such incredible score. Warwick-Armstrong, in. his prime, tied up the cwarn of English batsmen, in a Test match on. a perfect wicket, securing 6 for 35, off 24.5 overs, with ten maidens. His . victims were Hobbs, J. T. Tyldesley, G. Gunn, King, Hirst, and: Self, not one of whom reached double figures.! "Governor-General" Macartney, in another Test match, routed the Englishmen on a "batsman's paradise" to the tune of 7 for 58, his "bag" including Hobbs, j. T. Tyldesley, Sharp, MacLaren, and Hirst. Goiricf back to ISS2, we find the great Spo£ forth bringing about England's first defeat in a Test (under first-class batting conditions) with a bowling record of 14 wickets for 90 runs. Cricket history is studded with similar achievements. Beverting to the ganre in Melbourne: if that rain has cracked the wicket and a nice hot sun bakes the top into a crust, to-day Woodfull and his men axe likely to find the going tough. * * * CHARACTER IN FACES. ." Hoover aud ' Eoosevelt in the_ news Their pictured faces showed; "Who won?" the women askefl, Sb 4 then, . • On being told, they glowed. They said, "Boosevelt is just the maa|; We like his face," they said; "His eye is kind, his mouth is firm, He lias a handsome head. A sensitive and nervous man To bear so great a load; But still he'll bravely go, and straight Along the rugged road. Now. Hoover's look we do not like, So soft, and yet so hard! How cunningly, in games of chance, He'd reckon^every card!'i "His policy—the- men began, But straightway they replied, "Oh, bother that! His eyes are not Like Roosevelt's, kind and wide. Eoosevelt's a dear!" Such was the-i* word, ._.'"■' They'd sing no other song, For that is how the women rote, And can you prove them wrong? ■ a» *- * ♦ YELLOW SHADOW ON WHITE HOUSE. Dear Flage,—Your note on the appar* ent "tie-up" between Hoover's successor and William Randolph Hearst gives a new significance to the Presidential ballyhoo. Sane Republican journals in the States united to warn Eoosevelt of the danger to America, and himself, of deferring to this newspaper megalomaniac. What, asks the "Sau Francisco Chronicle," are the Hearst "policies" which are the price of his support? There is a long list of them, but here are two:-— . An exaggerated and jingo nationalism more blatant than Mussolini's, 1 which would exile America from mankind; make it the chief obstacle to the preservation erf peace and the restoration of prosperity; earn, tha hatred of the nations, the contempt of the judicious and the condemnation, of posterity, and commit us to an orgy of armament. The second is:— Refusal to take part in any common efforts to safeguard peace'in the world; the fomenting of wars, and of the' suspicions, ignorances, prejudices, fears, and jealousies which breed wars, and the diversion of uncounted treasure to a vast army, navy, and air fleet, wherewith to defy an. outraged world. It makes one feel sorry for Frankll* already. ■WILLY- NILL3;