THE PASSING SHOW

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21224, 21 September 1940, Page 11

THE PASSING SHOW

COMMENT AND CRITICISM

(By “ Free Lance.”)

Those bombs must have crept through during the changing of the guard. “Commercial Travellers Celebrate,” a\ newspaper declared. Give us news, give us news. Lloyd George is proud of his childhood days in Llanystumdwy. « can’t say the same. The clinging type of girl is said to be’ fast disappearing. In the dust on the back of a motor-bike? ; After police had piled sandbags round a delayed action bomb which fell between Buckingham Palace gates and the Queen Victoria Memorial, it exploded. The memorial was not damaged, but even after that escape Her Late Majesty was not amused. “At the morning services the Rev. Marsh will speak on the subject. ‘Now That the Depression Is Over What Lessons Are We Learning?’ The combined choir will sing, ‘Search Me, O Lord.’ ” American newspaper. * * * * “Mr Churchill stood on the chalk cliff 4: of Dover and looked across the Channel toward France. I saw him puff his cigar thoughtfully and silently as he turned his back on the sea.” Meanwhile, on the other side F*tW stood and gazed across toward England. Being a non-smoker, he meditatively knocked his knees together. We hope our milkman is not going to be changed under the zoning Though we have never seen him, we have grown to love him. There is determination in the wav he gallons around the house in the grey light of dawn, nicety in his calculation to a drop of what constitutes a quart, thoughtfulness in the way he tucks the bill under the billy so that the sight of it won’t unnerve us as we drowsily open the door to look at the weather, unbounded tact in the way he refrains from underlining “overdue.” We like our milkman. We are afraid a new

“Kilts still have their supporters."— 'Observer, London. We hope so. * * * . Riddle suggested by the coal strike. Q: “When is a miner not a miner?” A: “Most .of the week.” * * * * From a New Zealand newspaper.—“lt is scandalous to see these society women going about with a poodle dog on the end of a string when a baby would be more fitting.” * * * * If the threatened attempt to ruin the Houses of Parliament takes place on November 5 we may be forced into an annual celebration of Hermann Goering’s Day. * * * * A correspondent says a great deal of fuss was made because an office staff remained cheerful after their building was destroyed by bombing. He says if bombs destroyed the scene of his daily grind his grin would do for a toothpaste advertisement. * * * * * Somebody announced that he had planted a tree to mark the birth of a child and somebody else said it was a good idea. Somebody else, however, says the birth rate is declining so fast that by 1981 or some such time there will not be enough babies to keep the maternity benefit going. Which seems to add up to a country without trees. Even a Transport Licensing Authority is not without a sense of humour. When Mr E. J. Phelan had before him in Hamilton an application concerning an alleged semi-dormant service, the carrier in question was emphatic in denial. “I have carried everything in my truck except a goat,” he declared. “Why haven’t you carried a goat?” asked counsel. “I suppose because it hasn’t come my way,” was the reply. Here the Authority had a word to say. “You say your truck has carried everything except a goat?” “Yes,” said t.he carrier.

milkman may substitute for “overdue,” “You’re the driver, I suppose,” remarked “no money, no milk.” the Authority.