Evening star., 1941-05-14
The Connino
Tower

Leaning over the gate Of my
neighbor's orchard.
Passing the time of day with his
bent-backed pensioned horse,
Which would take his ease among
the windfall apples,
Knee-deep in cool grass:
He would come siding over and
nuzzle my hand and have me
scratch that place, back of his
ear, which he couldn't reach
himself,
Any other way.
There was a time
When / could loaf by my brook
with a good heart,
And enjoy the flicker Of may-flies,
The rainbow dance of dragon-flies,
And the Micky- Mouse like shadows
of the "ferrymen"
Refractad on the stream-bed,
AS the "ferrymen" scurried back
and forth over the surface.
Distraught professors.
Demonstrating the theory Of sur
face-tension
Trout t-defying.
There was q time
When I could SAVIOR nlacs, moon
light, bread and cheese,
Beer and the Siegfried Idyll,
And the laughter of friends;
When l could feel that my job Of
debating innumerable letters,
All about defective titles to real
estate,
Was harmless and perhaps edi-
flying;
When I could waste time without
feeling either futile or guilty
Or both;
When I had time to be kind and
loving;
When could hear Wagner's music
without imagining the fatulent
extasies Of Hitler;
When 1 could eat bread and cheese
without thinking of hungry chill.
dren;
When I could see the moon with
out thinking of that same moon
over London;
Write letters all day long about
defective titles, without feeling
like a demented professor,
Demonstrating surface-tension
In the Jaws of the swapping trout.
A. DARLINGTON SMITH.
OF the late Haskell Cof1n the
Herald Tribune's obituary said:
Looking more like college pro-
fessor than an artist" 1t happens
that our helter- -skelter acquaintance
ship includes many artists and many
college professors, and offhand we
can't tell you one artist that looks
like an artist, however an artist Is
supposed to look, or one college pro-
fessor who looks like college pro-
fessor, however a college professor
is supposed to look.
One month from yesterday will be
Friday, June 13, and many grad
uating class has voted to have its
exercises on the 18th or the 18th.
We have yet to hear Of one that Will
defer the exercises until the l4th.
The Bill of Rights, Etc.
Sir: have just been told that my
conclusions about the war are based
upon ignorance, misinformation. and
British propaganda. Several super
ior intellects, handily immune to the
hypnotizing influence of Winston
Churchill, are now working upon me
to free me from my mistaken be-
lief, that enough aid to Britain Is
the only important need in the world
today. They tell me. too, that was
misled on Election Day and that If
shout loudly enough and altogether
please, we could shout Norman
Thomas and appeasement into the
White House, and 'raus nit F. D. r.
AL of this excites me. for in my
own private copy of the Constitution
I find an important clause, in my
own handwriting, and 1t reads like
this:
"P. S. The right Of every citizen
to be confused, ignorant and misled,
shall not be abridged"
Up to now all l had to do to vote
was to walk into the barber shop
and say, Give me quick once-over
ballot on which the name Roosevelt
appears" But these superior in
tellects now demand that tell why.
If I do not know why intelligently,
my vote could be void.
Did vote for peace or appease-
ment and who wants to know?
wanted F. D. R. I still want him,
led or misled, hot or cold, peace or
war. Who doesn't?
F. A. S. JR.
Pullman cars no longer have out
landish names, but the descendants
of the r-christeners-in Chicago
they used to say that George M.
Pullman gave his daughter, Florence,
$4,000 a year to name them-now
put names to dresses that women
are urged to buy.
To Secretary Morgenthau: How
about us boys who dwell far from
the nearest bank or post ONCE? Can
we buy bonds from the rural car
riers?
n
That Hess was sane is likely. Our
rumorist tells us that before he left
Germany he sang to Hitler, And
I'll be in Scotland afore ye."
F. P. A.
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