Evening star., 1941-04-02
The Coming
Tower
Connecticut MnemOniCs.

| The damsel whom dote on?)
I'm never sure which place I pins
for,
And sign along the dotted line for.
/ owe a man a SaWbuck in
! Rowayton Cor NorotonD-
He carries an eXpectant grin
And so his towns verboten-
I can't recall which township holds
! The Guy whom I would shun,
Which place will lap me in its folds,
| And from which town to run;
| Which is the spot my heart adheres
to,
And which do I fling Bronchial
cheers to?
A. BABINGTON SMITH.
| Oh, I owe a man a lot of dough
Who lives somewhere in Saugatuck,
But there's never a nickel that owe
| To any one in Naugatuck;
| But sent check to the latter guy
| And he never sent it back,
For try as hard as I may try,
| My mind has a double track
So you'll never get me to motor or
! walk
To Norwich, Norfolk, or even Nor
walk.
The Coming Tower records the
death of Bill Boyd of New Milford,
Conn. Mr.. Boyd's partner was Mr..
Mock, and although we never
listened to the firm, Mock & Boyd.
/ it achieved columnar fame, and
Mr.. Boyd, who set type for the
Gazette, is affectionately referred TO
/ in Joshua K. Bolles Father Was
/ an Editor"
In the Presidents Jackson Day
speech he observed that a President
nowadays works Is hours day A
15-hour day seems like vacation
| to daily columnist, especially if he
counts chauffeuring and unofficial
! pedagogy, without pay, as work.
/ X *
Hungary'S dictator, Admiral Mich
olas Horthy, is playing good poker
/ game" and there is every likelihood
that he can keep Hungary on the
/ sidelines in the war in the Balkans,
( in the opinion of John Montgomery,
former United States Minister to
/ Hungary. Sun. -'
/ If Mr.. Montgomery thinks that it
/ is good poker to stay on the sidelines,
/ he must have been Schooled in games
/ in which the only winners are the
/ kibitzers.
How these corporations boast, at
/ times. about the contentedness OF
/ their workers! They tell how long
/ they have been at it without strikes.
| Well, The Coming Tower has been
/ at it for a long time, too, and our
| contributors are so happy that -
never have they struck True, we
pay them twice or ten times as
much as they got in the old days;
and gladly would multiply their
pay by infinity.
|
Exception: A Well-knoWn con-
tributor called yesterday, who ap-
parently has struck. This is Baron
Ireland, author of "KraZy" and
many other successes, but not re-
Gently.
Mr.. John L. Lewis would bet
! ter settle the strike in the inter-
ests of aid to Newcastle.
/ On Seeing Lady in the Dark"
/ subtle chaos, deep and layered,
Within the teeming caverns Of the
! mind.
1t surges turbulent and strong, but
we
Reject the pattern Of the neither
/ depths.
We contemplate the surface. look
/ for stars
Afoat, to deck our days, and cling
to what
Is certain: while below with certain
strength
There struggles in the churning
mud the old
Forgotten LESSONS, writhing up to
day.
Command them as you will, the
| chick will break
| The shell. the tuber push its pointed
/ stalk, s
The corpse will leave the river-bed
to float.
REMIsLAD II.
! Next month-the fourth week in
/ May. if you must KNOWS, accord
| ing to Miss Anita Browne, director,
National Poetry Week. 1t is long
| beginning with MY Dear Poet" and
/ ending with the announcement Of
humorous quatrain contest. "One
/ Of the most constructive forces
in trying times" she writes.
sis keeping cheerful" The first
prize is 20 clans, or IS a line. With
out further ado, we submit:
If I were a realistic poet
And given to lyric rhymes,
You bet your life I wouldn't quots
A phrase like trying times.
No trouble to SHOW goods, Miss B.
E. g.:
I give you this here quatrain.
And you'll find it pretty plain,
bo:
In May will come the hot rain,
And now and then the rainbow.
Looks like 40 easy bucks.
X y X
! What Hitler thinks of the seizure
of the ships is being relayed to the
Justly celebrated Marines.
|
! X n
Well, saboteurs never we're blamed
for what happened to either the
HeSperus or the Julie Plante.
| r, P A.