Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-29
The Coming
Tower
Pattern for Defeat.

Pattern for Defeat.
Hire big hall. Let the band do It's
worst
With a hybridized song called
America First"
Pack in the thousands arriving In
taxis-
Probably charging the fare TO the
Axis.
Welcome the rooters,
Fifth Column tooters,
Communist hooters, pacifst shoot
erS,
Adding new words TO THE Star
Spangled Banner"
"O'er the home OF the knave"-in
the Muscovite manner
While camouf1aged bomb-throwers
blissfully below
Three rousing cheers for the Red.
White, and Yellow'
(Says Mr.. Laval TO . drilling
called Quisling,
Telegraph Hitler-the hell-pot Is
sizzling'D
Hire a big hall. With a eulogy
windy
Bring out the flying boys, Wheeler
and Indy.
Listen! We're sure to be collared
and eaten
Since Ireland's revolted and Eng
land is beaten.
The cable is parted,
Hatra linJal ara Oh
Then let us delay while the Swastika
Fellow
Gives three rousing cheers for our
Red, White, and Yellow"
(Says Wheeler to Indy, Its all to
my choosing:
I think I've discovered the secret Of
losing")
Hire big hall. Tell In musical
strains
How We can't make munitions or
cruisers or planes;
Then vaudeville number they call
Pro and Con
BY the Musical Lewises, Sinclair and
John,
Ouj SdChClOLn ana dSIleSI
| Open your sashes,
Commit hari-kari with japanese
gashes
And moan as you die in a mush soft
and mellow,
II don't want to live. I am red,
white and yellow"
(Says Knudsen 10 Stimson, In spite
of the suction
We seem to continue increasing pro-
duction.) WALLACE IRWIN.
In Germany there have been
orders to use daisies as a butter
substitute. 1t never will be known
from them how successful the sub
stitution is, daisies being charter
members Of the secret service.
OF course, you might say that the
Germans don't know on which side
their bread is daisied.
Indivisible by Any Number But
One, and Itself.
Sir: Maybe I'm quibbling, but
what is this indivisibility the Isola-
tionistS are talking about with
liberty and justice for all? To hear
them tell it, The Isolationists fear
the influence of Hitler bombs upon
this united and peace-loving land.
No guns, no hits, no terrors.
But Hitler bomb is a sweet
bouquet beside the explosive power
| Of law to extend industrial man.
agement to the boys on the as
sembly line too. Let a labor leader
ask for more bread per worker and
Zowie! the echo sounds and re-
sounds ominously throughout every
front Office in America. Let labor
leader ask for jalopy per worker
and every heart in the upper brac-
kets begins to leak at every valve.
Americans with all the liberty and
| justice that the country affords
hate their President with a deep
and abiding hatred for daring to
spend good tax money to keep mil
| lions of Americans from starving.
like that Never Never Land OF
peace and harmony and no bad
Hitler If you shut your eyes real
tight-but where is it2 How do
we get there? And who takes us?
Lindbergh? F.A. S, Jr.
- ~
In PM there is paragraph to
the effect that the editor of this
department is not exactly hand
some" Ha! The libel was written
by Frank CLittle Eyesore'D Sulli-
van, who, if our attorneys are half
the men they are owed money for
being, will already have communi-
Gated with the writer of this al
legged scurrility, vilification. and a
tendency to break down confidence
in the national defense.
OF Kate Condor. contralto, who
died day before yesterday, the obit-
uaries said that she appeared with
De Wolf Hopper and Jefferson De
Angels, which is true. But what
many recall with pleasure was the
season OF revivals given at the Park
Theater, when she was Katisha.
Ruth, and Lady Jane in the Gilbert
and Sullivan comic operas in which
Mr.. William Danforth, Mr.. Herbert
'ooSiouo allu mAoS 1ldQyS CdIQ-
well also acted and sang, also I'M
forgetably.
Tomorrows Coming Tower will
contain a Memorial Day speech,
made 81 years ago by a Massa-
chusetts jurist, Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
In brief, we are for the freedom
Of the emergencies.
X X
Slogan: Buy bond and bust
the bund.
p. p. A.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inr)
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