Evening star., 1941-04-18

III he Coming
II Tower |
To . Boy Born April Is, 1923.
Decide decide dumping, my son
Tim,
A birthday boy who is tall and slim,
May your birthday be, as your past
was, pleasant,
And let this be your birthday pres"
ent.
1t is, as some astute editor has
observed, PEOPLE who make news,
and certainly there is far more
news in the Army training OF the
president of the New York Stock
! Exchange, who gives up salary
| of S48, 900 a year for one of S21 a
month than there Is In man who
gives up salary of 500 month
for one of S2l a month. Also, many
boy who got 500 a month or less
may find it tougher to get job, any
|
Martin will.
In Yesterdays news Mr.. Ben Gross
spoke of Jack Benny's definition
of a mug-wump as high spot OF
the Quiz Kids show-"A bird sit
| ting on a fence with his mug on
one side and his wump on the
| other" Nor was 1t new, nor was
novelty claimed for it, when 1t was
used last fall in campaign speech
by President Roosevelt.
BaIIade of Temporary Dependency.
My Tyres in the attic still undusted:
Mute. where the camphor and
cobwebs cling;
Scorned by this bard who Is too
disguised
To ioin in the seasonal plugs for
Spring.
Do Messrs. Kaltenborn, Williams,
Swing
Spread, with their ominous vocal
thunder,
Ethereal Mildness? No such thingl
II were a crocus I'd stay down
under!
This year is vernally bankrupt
busted.
The starlings bright, iridescent
| wing
Seems somehow tarnished and
slightly rusted,
! And Pan is merely puppet king.
What though the blossoms are
burgeoning,
Who stops to notice them now,
wonder,
| When summer a shower Of bombs
may bring2
If were a crocus I'd stay down
under.
Call me defeatist, though once I
trusted
My muse in an annual lyric fling,
| Call me a poet maladiusted,
Doomed to be rated as seventh
string.
Futile epithets lose their sting
When threats of horror and death
and plunder
Are making the echoing velkir
ring.
II I we're crocus Id stay down
under.
ENVOI.
Folks, these lugubrious rhymes I
Are a dandy escape and a good
obtunder
I'm feeling better e. let others sing
IF were a crocus I'd stay down
under"
N. D. PLUME.
Next week at the Experimental
Theater will be produced Not in
Our Stars" To our knowledge this
is the third play to be taken from
those two lines spoken by Cassius-
Barrie's Dear Brutus" and Rachel
Crothers' ourselves" Now for
''The Fault" and "Underlings."
In yesterdays Herald Tribune
Mr.. Mark Sullivan, writing of the
Presidents Tuesday press confer
ence, said, "The newspapermen in.
| cluded some from out Of town to
whom the event was a highly ap-
| preciated novelty-among them a
New York olumnist-commenta
on the affairs of Broadway, Holly
wood, the drama and associated
subjectS-to whom Mr.. Roosevelt,
in the course of the conference,
paid delicately graceful attention"
Later in the story Mr.. Sullivan
mentions the presence of Walter
Winchell, so maybe that is the
columnist meant. But If Mr.. Sulli-
van didn't want the German press
to know who that columnist was
he shouldn't have let people know
whom he meant.
He said he stole q $50 typewriter
from the Jewish Community Gen.
ter to further his ambition to be-
come man.-New York Times.
He was 10 years old, and we don't
see how the possession Of a type.
writer would have speeded up those
two years, though in fairness to our
usually well-proofread contempo-
rary 1t should be added that the
head was Steals to Be Policeman"
Though why the possession of a
typewriter would help him to Join
the constabulary.
We are more sensitive than Mr..
Joseph Schenck appears to have
been. We have wanted to put down
a dollar or two for entertainment il
we have invited eight or ten persons
to dinner, in the hope that we might
nick one of them for maybe ten dol
lars. But we'd go vermillion in the
courtroom If witness implied that
he wasn't entertained; au contraire.
Hardly a man is now alive who
remembers the name of this depart
ment's favorite candidate for his
tory's forgotten man-the friend of
Paul Revere, who was told to hang