Evening star., 1941-05-07
| The Coming
| Tower
POLICE REPORTER.

crowd.
Beyond the lines, the press card
in his hat.
Cynical? Sure-but not a littls
proud
He knew the chief inspector Just
like that"
He sucked up fact: the time, the
place, the quotes,
The dogs pet name, the carats in
the stone:
He wrote a couple hieroglyphic notes,
Said Thanks lot" and scurried
for a phone.
Time was when shots and suicideJ
were news,
freed cats and missing kids were
stories too,
But now, the man who told them
won't refuse
To own the truth: he hasn't much
to do.
He calls the desk as promptly as
before,
But cannot often match his staff
with war.
MILTON BRAcKER.
Your literary critic feels pas
sionately one way or another about
novels and biographies and even his
tories, when it comes Pulitzer prize
time, but he is apathetic about the
poetry prize. AS rule he thinks
that he is too busy to read poetry.
Often he is like a child who is prev
to the superstition that mathema tics
is black art: he throws up his hands
and says, Il can't read poetry" We
can read it, and We do read it, and
we are strong for Mr.. Leonard
Bacon's short stuff, like Rhyme and
Punishment but couldn't - or
didnt-get through his prize vim
ming Sunderland Capture 1t was
too long, we thought, but there was
some swell stuff in it.
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We are no book collector-years
ago we stopped collecting sour poetry
owing to lack of book space-but We
wish that We had started in 1917 TO
collect all the Pulitzer prize books.
y n
That Mr.. Westbrook Pegler de-
served acclaim for his Scalise eX-
posure we agree. Maybe next year
ne will get another Pulitzer award
for his attacks on Senator Wagner
and the Wagner Act That there
are labor rackets is true. But not
every minister elopes with a chdir
girl and not every ministers son Is
bank defaulter.
Any New York newspaper that
cares to win next years Pulitzer
prize may do so by continuous ham
merlng at the abuses connected with
automobile parking in NeE York. OF
course. such a crusade would take
the time of reporter and a photog-
rapher for about two months, so. as
1t would only make the city safer
and more comfortable for the ma
Iority of citizens, and the prize for
meritorious service is only $500,
nothing will be done about it.
1t is not only when the prizes are
awarded that alumni Of the Pulitzer
Building. better out wrongly known
as the World Building, think of the
great days of a great newspaper.
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Nutshell Stuff.
The America First Committee.
With just trace of phlegm, .
Declare they're not for Hitler,
But Hitler IS for them.
HOWARD DIETz.
According to Secretary Morgen-
thau they are already running short
Of s25 and $50 bonds. These srs
turned out by the Bureau Of En-
craving and Printing, and YOU don't
suppose there's a strike on there, do
you?
On IntimatiOns of Immaturity.
"hen was young, the years first
heat
Would make me think that life was
sweet.
l found it gorgeous and enhancing.
found 1t cause for song and dane
ing,
l found 1t stimulus for writing.
l FOUND 1t exquisite, exciting.
l found 1t beautiful and swell.
loved 1t and loved it well.
AND now. dear friends, I'm A.
And I still do. SAT,
A wireless to the New York Times
says that Matsuokas suggestion
mat President Roosevelt and Secre.
tary Hull visit Japan was mada
mainly for home consumption. Just.
as the artless Japanese have tt.
campaign oratory.
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Lines in a Blue Mood.
thousands OF houses alike in a row,
Pygmy souls without ebb or flow.
A makeshift wo-dimensional love.
Inc iron hand in the iron glove,
Never quiet. perpetual noise.
No roots at all; only transient ioys,
Blood in slowly widening pool,
Why are you looking for stars, YOU
fool?
LUCILLE SYLVESTER.
No corn vet, but out in Connecti-
cut there's months engagement OF
The Asparagus Is Green"
According to the alcoholic con-
tent-accent on the penult-tests.
you'll get no miles on a gallon of
liquor.
OF course, in winter quite the
other way. If your car has no
heater. you may tell the traffic DO
llceman that you had to drink a
little OF that 4-year-old Anti
freeze. F. P. A.
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