Evening star., 1941-04-09
The Connino
Tower
The Piraean Spring.

sunshine and conditions were
ideal for air and land operations.
fAthens had two afraid op-
erations, the second lasting As
minutes.-United Press, to the
New York Times.)
Deep from the sweet warm heart
Of spring
A single bird is trillinp
How fair and gay the golden dayI
How clear the sky for killing!
LUCILLE SYLVESTER.
1t is the week of May 4 that is
Music Week, and Secretary Cordeu
Hull, Prime Minister w L. Macken-
zle King of Canada, and 10 Ambas-
sadors and Ministers of Latin
American countries have gone on
record as indorsing the inter-Amer-
lean aspect of Music Week. And
why not? Which of them would go
on record as being opposed to the
lnter-Amerlcan aspect of Music
Week? Some of them might even
have somebody write something for
them to say over the air-Something
about the man who hath no music
IN his soul, etc. And how it hath
charms to soothe the savage breast,
which at the moment of going to
press, Is savager than Congreve in
his philosophy ever dreamed of.
OF the 81 indorsers of Music Week.
how many of them spend two hours
year listening to music, even on
the radio. We'd like to see some can
did statesman, if that isn't a contra
dlction in terms, get up and say that
he can't tell one tune from another
and that mostt weeks concerned with
art, music, poetry or sculpture are
the bunk, and as commercially and
artlflclany made as prune week or
baked apple week. Music is among
the n-boostable arts. Also:
When Music, heavenly maid, was
young,
Not boosted she, but played and
sung.
Book Review.
This should repay you, or I don't
know whatll:
Milton Silverman's Magic in
Bottle N. D. PLUME.
Not being radio addict" boasts
N. d. Plume, II used to think that
Gabriel Heater was some sort of ap-
pllance for an automobile. But why
shouldn't the people who turn him
off in the middle of his broadcast be
called Gabriel Snubbers?"
MamalOugues From One Third of
the Mothers.
To plain people like us life could
be very dull And worries you've al
ways got plenty! A mother and
fathers got TO have their pleasures
too. and even the children know it.
/ had last week such experience.
One afternoon my girl was sittin'
doin' homework, and all of a sudden
she comes out with Nom, let us all
go to the movies after superior
and me and pop and the kid. That's
by boy They got Screeno tonight
| too
No, my child I answered her.
It's impossible. Screeno I would
like to play, too; but if I can't af-
ford l can't afford. Anyhow. in the
afternoon the movies is cheaper
II sometime could arrangep
But every person in the family
needs their recration, she saws.
Why couldn't we have tonight plain
vegetable supper? When you 90
down to buy don't bring up no little
piece even of meat or fish. Just a
snack we will have She meant,
with the difference we could afford.
Even if you are low-income group
you need enjoyment-she was lust
like lecturin.
l could see how the child was
Wlshln'. 1 mean it-so pitily she was
lookin' at me. And it's the truth nv
huooy and l don't get enough a
change. l don't ever get no rest
neither. Even. once in a moon. I
lay down, one ear I've got in the
other room. You know-a motherl
Well, it all commenced to work on
me; and I forgot my strictness-
eVerything's gotta balance, with the
money and with the meals. I said
TO myself, so we won't have tonight,
like it should be a just-so, weighed
out supper. What will be? Nothin'.
/ Well live!'
And so we went. I was hopin'
one of the family would be lucky,
We come near-only was missin' one
little number JEAN SCHICK,
More enduring than brass, in the
lllustrlousness of its graduates
Felix Frankfurter, John Kieran. Ir-
win Edman, to name three at ram
dom-is the Townsend Harris High
School. The hope is expressed that
1t shall not wholly die.
Another strike which is menacing
New York is that of the men who
are holding up that REMEMBERING
plan. $500 Fourth avenue and $500
Fifth avenue are not yet at Thirty
fifth street.
Bingen. the celebrated birthplace
of Caroline Nortons soldier of the
Legion who lay dying in Algiers. has
been bombed. 1t is now time to
have soldier at Keustendil say,
For I was born at Skoplje, at
Skoplje on the Kriva"
Halle Selassie . who five years
ago was just another rex-king.-
New York Post.
A little redundant, amt it?
Tomorrow is publication day for
Collected Edition of Haywood
Broun.." The Coming Tower will
reprint. in honor and loving re-
membrance of first-rate newspa-
perman. and a friend, one of his
columns from the (Harcourt, Brace
&, Co.: $3.50 book r. P. A.