Daily Post - 15.12.1941, Blaðsíða 3

DAlLY POST

IIP THE GARDEN
PATH
By George
To be fair, Germany has de-
cided to make a fresh beginn-
ing and begin next year’s cam
Paign against Russia from the
1939 start line. It is said that
Hitler cabled to Stalin, “Apo-
logies. No offensive meant.”
❖ :;<
A famous scientist has dis-
covered primitive tribes in the
interior of Iceland. Their
pleasures are simple, they
converse largely by grimaces
and grunts and have lived so
long in their private hunting-
grounds that they have forgott-
en why they migrated. They
indulge in elaborate ceremoni-
es relating to war which are
almost certainly connected
with those practised by larger
branches of the parent race.
# '’fi
lt rains in my heart, it rains in
the city,
It rains on my bed, it rains
without pity:
There’s rain on my knees, on
my coat
Hown my back,
There’s rain in my boots that
would float
A fishing-smack;
In the sky, on the skin, in the
soul, on the brain
1’here’s rain.
ÍTranslated from an Old
Icelandic Drinking Song).
* * *
When asked by Aunt Pris-
cilla why some soldiers carried
tWo rifles, the C,S,M, replied
that, when the owner of a rifle
Was ill, his mate had to take it
°ut on parade, thus proving
that, without a daily airing, ev-
en the toughest rifle’s constitu-
tion will suffer. Imagine the
horrors of a cold in the barrel!
* *
One knows Christmas trees
are scarce this year: one knows
soldiers like to see them, but
heware of Etta the taxi terror
^hen she offers to whisk
°H to show you hers.
you
Qper fiermanyZ
in Cowboy Bootsl
A tall. lanky American from
Texas, who is now a tail gunner
in an Halifax aircraft of
Bomber Command, wears 'ele-
gantly-designed cowboy boots
instead of the regulation flying
boots when he takes part in at-
tacks on Germany. He wore
them recently during two at-
tacks on Hamburg and one on
Berlin.
“They’re the most coihfortable
boots you can get, and no kid-
din,” he says, when the rest of
the crew chaff him about his
unusual footwear. The boots
come high above the ankles,
have a gay design of inlaid
coloured leather, and high
heels. At least, the heels used
to be high; now they have
worn low from constant, use,
and the leather tops are los-
ing their colour.
“You see. I’ve worn them
ever since I came to England in
June, and before that when I
was training in Canada,” he
says. • “I’m just waiting for my
father to send me another pair.“
His home is in Corpus
Christi, Texas, and he was a
student at the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas
before he joined the Royal
Canadian Air Force in Septem-
ber last year. In the same Hali-
fax squadron is another Ameri-
can who came over from Can-
ada with him at the same time
a former cement contractor’s
foreman whose home is in Mas-
no City, Iowa.
RADIO NEWS
Monday 15th Dec. Holiday
Tours no. 3.
Tuesday 16th Dec. Regiment-
al histories no. 9; Studio Vari-
ety.
Wednesday 17th Dec. Musi-
cal contrasts. Classics v. Popu-
lar.
Thursday 18th Dec. Studio
Concert and Talk.
Friday 19th Dec. Liberty
Hall no! 7,
Saturday 20th Dec. Storiesi
from the Operas no, 5.

Across.
1. Precise.
5. It lets soldiers out on 12,
9. Desert.
10. Problem,
11. Unkind.
13. Woven material.
15. Postpone.
16. Prevalent,
18. Stick,
19, Ward off,
21. Arm or leg ornament,
22. It’s useful in the bake-
house,
26. She’s getting married.
27. Entreat,
28. Rim,
29. With a saw-like 28.
Down.
1. It used to carry the
2. Special aptitude,
3. Let the head fall,
4. Hue,
6. Hitler’s first victim,
7. Afflicted,
8. Sprig,
12. Holiday,
13. Character in many
children’s story.
14. Likely,
17. A graceful sport,
19. Change,
20. Fury,
23. Jet,
24. Cattle,
25. Curve,
* 6 Ífl
beer.
:Ú
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