Evening star., 1941-05-20
The Coming
Tower

Consider If eternal spring would
pail
A lifetime of an ever budding earth,
The swallows singing everlasting
mirth
And constant flowers at the garden
| wall.
Rosebuds on end, the never ceasing
call
OF friendly doves, the symphony Of
birth,
No winter clouds, no summers sultry
dearth.
No dying pageant Of decadent fall ...
'Tis not of crisped leaves nor f1eecy
SHOWS
Since bards first uttered song do
best they sing
But Of the vernal span when freshet
flows,
Trees spring to leaf, birds, winter-
freed. take wing:
Earth comes to life And yet
the poet knows
Spring never ending were as never
spring.
JOSEPH ALGER.
"A high explosive bomb" cables
James Mac Donald to the New York
! Times. made large crater in the
| football field"-one of the playing
fields of Eton. on which. according
10 a statement attributed to Well
! ington, the Battle of Waterloo was
won.
Eton College has been hit In q
raid, for the third time. And may
be Thomas Gray. in his "On Dis
tant Prospect of Eton College" had
something with:
To each his sufferings: all are men,
Condemned alike TO groan:
The tender for another's pain,
The unfeeling for his own.
Well, you could fear the Greeks
ferentis or ferentes. There is auth
ority for each; our authority for
which is that Of Prof. E. Adelaide
Hahn, who adds that Joseph Cum
mings Chase not only has taught
drawing, but he still is doing so At
Hunter College. AS for poet pro-
fessors. there is, of course, one of
the best of The Coming Towers
contribs, Prof. Irwin Edman of the
department of philosophy. Columbia
University. But perhaps the best
known Of all professor poets" adds
Adelaide, was the late A. E. Hous-
man of Cambridge. One of my pro-
fessors, the late Charles Knapp of
Columbia, wouldn't believe me when
I told him that Housman was a
poet; and Old Ed Anthony wouldn't
believe me when I told him that
Housman was scholar"
Add poet-professors: Connect
cuts Lieutenant Governor, DR.. Odell
Sheppard, of the department Of
English, Trinity College.
Speaking of Virgil, everybody
sings arma, but not all virumque.
Heils and Kisses.
At the Trans Lux they hiss him.
but up at the Ninety-sixth Street
Theater where "Sieg i'm Weston" is
being run off, they clap him every
time his thin Tipped acidulous face
appears. They also clap the swastika
banner rising over the EifTel Tower.
They roar approval Of Hitler enter
ing the old railway coach at
Compiegne, where his meaty-faced
officers are sharp contrast to the
thin painfully strained faces Of the
French. Hitler struts with the
insolence of a mean little boy who
has triumphed over his betters.
It is taut, strained audience. You
feel the tenseness as you watch the
panzer units crushing France
beneath their wheels The tanks are
like great she-devils, fierce and ugly,
with a curiously Germanic embon-
point. Their offspring, steel helmeted,
gnome like, are constantly IN at
tendance. darting about them, run
ming protected in their wake, leaping
I'D on their projecting hips, rising
out of their heads to scan the sur
rounding countryside. They are Ike
the shaving NibelungS of Rheingold.
When these soldiers are at ease,
stripped to the waist, scrubblng
themselves. they are no longer
splinters Of steel. They are bony
immature boys with lined weary
faces.
The blond boy to our right stared
as we gulped over the British pris-
oners while the music was a dlrge-
like rendering of that song about
hanging shirts on the Siegfried Line,
PLAYED in a mournful minor key.
Across the aisle stout, dark haus-
frau, garbed in innocent pink, looked
like one of the tanks in fancy dress.
She heaved and murmured with JOY
as she clapped the roaring guns and
Stuka diving planes. Back Of us an
| elderly man of Yorkville type sighed
audibly, Ell! Eli" No frenzied ap-
plause came from him. We stole a
look as We went out. His hands
were clasped over a heavy cane and
again he sighed. A sorrowing old
man thinking back to the Germany
Of long ago. B. ROSS.
"All-day parkers" in business dis
tricts are chiefly responsible for
traffic congestion they deplore, was
revealed by a preliminary analysis
| made public by the Regional Plan
Association-New York Times.
Why the quotes? They're all.day
| parkers.
Fathers Day. June Is is the day
when pop pays that second income
tax installment.
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