Evening star., 1941-05-05
The Coming
| Tower

Tower
Spring Thoughts in Foley Square.
When April's portside fingers
| Get their release in May,
And Audubon's sweet singers
His canvas cast away,
| Then Freudian WITNESSES wander
Through minds of strength and
force,
Then all the world is fonder
OF amorous discourse
And IL sadly ponder
| On the Judges in Divorce.
| I vision His Honor hardening,
While dalliance claims his dreams,
To evidence Of the darkening
| OF adorations beams;
And tears bead my mustaches
| In sympathy and in ire
That he, who too feels splashes
/ From the fountains of desire
Must hear of love turned ashes,
OF altar changed TO pyre.
o YOU who spend the daytime
In thought of evenings trystl
Our judges, too, in Maytime,
/ Recollect, like being kissed.
So. II the decades find you
Tired of the destined ring,
And chafe the cords that bind you
/ And rapture is on the wing,
Instruct your attorneys, mind you.
Not to try the case in Spring!
-AXIPHILES.
Tut! tut! From these verses please
don't be the gamer
Of any idea that Id spurn the
retainer.
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No popular music will be used in
the assembly rooms of New York
City schools unless approved by DR..
George H. Gartlan, director of mu-
sic. BY popular is meant currently
/ popular, for even when we were in
school we sang Columbia. the Gem
of the Ocean" and Marching
Through Georgia" For the incul-
cation of the cleanliness with the
well-known neighbor. We should
think that there would be nothing
more hygienic than Scrub Me,
Mamma" etc.
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What currently popular music,
sung in the public school assembly
rooms, gave rise to this 'censoring'
of songs? And what songs to what
music was supposed to be injurious
to the child mind, soul or body?
The lyrical censorship may make
heroes assemble and sing, but We
doubt 1t.
A Brief Tour Of Four States and
Two Great Cities.
California is nuder,
Florida's sfrewder.
Texas is cruder,
Maryland's Tudor.
New York is lewder,
But Washington's ruder
CLOUD O'CLOUD
To which may be appended:
In Londons sudor.
In Berlin no pudor.
From Mr.. Craig Thompson's cable
to the New York Times it is learned
of the new Minister of State, 1T Is
regarded by some as the beginning
of the end of Lord Beaverbrook-
and at the same time by others
as the beginning of his effort really
to assert himself-in this govern
ment." 1t is regarded by US as
nothing to bet on.
The Beaverbrook job is new one,
and Mr.. Thompson adds that no
body knows what a Minister OF
State does. In Gilbert,s "Barataria"
there were Ministers of State whom
the Kings, whose duties were de-
lightful and whose privileges great,
treasured beyond measure the privi-
lege and pleasure of running on little
errands for.
Now that the Supreme Court has
decided that there shall be no dis
elimination against Negroes by the
railroads. we wonder what q Negro
would do If some Alabama ticket
agent told him there was no parlor
car or sleeping car accommodation
for him. He could take it to the
Supreme Court, but he might have
to walk to Washington. The most
that they'll do for the Supreme
Court in some places, we conjec-
ture, is to promise in future to
speak Of James Crow
Youth. as observed in the great,
as far as population is concerned.
city is boy of II who sprawls over
two seats in a crowded subway train:
and three girls who walk slowly and
three abreast on the narrow side
walk Of Rector street.
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Well Gov. Lehman has vetoed the
Feinberg bill, which had the chang
ing of Labor Day to the 9th of Sep
tember instead of the lst, which
| happens to be the first Monday. Our
guess is that 1t will postpone the
opening of school: that it will not
reopen on September 2.
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The President wants defense ma
chimes to 60 on 7-day 24-hour-a-
day week Mr.. President, the Con-
ming Tower has been running that
way for years and, not to boast,
years. Especially as most Of ones
sleeping hours are disturbed by the
nightmare of not getting column
into print in time And while we
make no defense machines, every
columnist, as the President knows,
Is full of defense mechanism.
r. P, A,