Evening star., 1941-04-07
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Song.

Song.
BY WILLIAM WATSON.
April, April,
Laugh thy girlish laughter.
Then, the moment after,
Weep thy girlish tearsl
April, that mine ears
Like a lover greetest,
If tell thee, sweetest,
All my hopes and fears.
April. April,
Laugh thy golden laughter,
But, the moment after,
Weep thy golden tears!
How two reporters treat detail
always has interested us, perhaps
unduly. 1t seems that Secretary
Stimson quoted quatrain last
Thursday:
Now don't you try it, Mr.. Debs,
Don't tackle Uncle Sam:
Ten thousand thousand Johnny Rebs
Amt worth a tinker's damn.
That was the way it was quoted in
the New York Times. It was pre-
ceded by the interesting information
that 1t was verse written by
Henry w. Watterson when President
Cleveland was preparing to step into
the Pullman Company strike in
1894. In that strike the late Eugene
V. Debs was a factor"
The New York Herald Tribune
quotes it as "tinkers dam" and
precedeS its quotation with the same
information, except that it says that
the Secretary recited Jingle of the
day" failing to give credit to Mr..
Watterson. And it says that there
were protests by Debs and Gov.
John D. Altgeld of Illinois" There
are authorities for damn and
dam" If Watterson wrote it. our
bet is on damn" But as an Illinois
boy, we protest against calling John
Peter Altgeld John D."
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Book Review
Herewith loud and lustv cheer
For Harvey Smiths The Gangs All
Here"
Herewith another huzza for The
Gangs All Here" If you ever have
attended a university, or wish that
you had, or are glad that you never
have, it is book that has truth,
satire, and romping glee.
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During some recent repairs on
the Capitol at Washington, the fore
man of a steel gang was paid S267
per week for his labor-while inside
the Capitol the Congressman, busily
engaged in making the country's
laws, were drawing down 1892 apiece.
-Danton Walker in the Daily News.
Well, it is unlikely that the FORE
man gets s267 50 weeks a year. It
is also likely that the Foreman Of
the Nation gets much more than
s267, or even 81 ,267 week, and rent
free, too.
For the quotation from Mr.. DAN
tons column we are indebted to Miss
Allegra Joyce-Who might have
stepped right out of Millions poems
who feels that the paragraph
might have been headed: When
the foreman bares his steal, ta-
rantara!"
Human studies indicating that
vitamin B-1. the nerve vitamin."
may produce toxic symptoms
were reported by Prof. Clarence A.
Mills of the University of Cincinnati
Medical School-The New York
Times
Oh, dear, what can the vitamin B?
Spring Song.
I think that every one should know
do not care for ice and snow;
Nor do / cherish snow and Ice:
l don't consider them as nice.
I can't tell which I like the least.
l hate them north and west and
east.
Indeed, cannot tell you whether
1 hate them singly or together.
But sprlngtime. on the other hand,
l love to beat the very band.
like its warp, like its Woof,
ltS gentle rain upon my roof:
l Ike Its warmth. its bursting bud,
/ even like its ooze and mud.
like it south and east and west:
l like 1t better, well, and best.
But, whether in Vermont or Venice.
l love 1t most when playing tennis.
PAUL H. OEHSER.
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Merle Oberon to Star in Illusion"
for MISUNDERSTANDING Gazette.
It's the primal uxorial urge.
When, at the request of persons
in trade, the President proclaimed
that Thanksgiving Day was the
penultimate Thursday in November,
there were great jeerS, some of them
by the very boys who wanted busi-
ness to be better, and expected a
little extra Christmas shopping.
Now the Legislature of New York
and our guess is that the Connecti-
cut will do the same thing-has
advanced the Labor Day date to
September s. This, in New York,
is supposed to mean an extra S.
000,0 900 to Adirondack hotel keepers.
1t has other advantages. Schools
that are supposed to open the dav
after Labor Day won't begin until
September 9. The national singles
championships. at Forest Hills, will
be able to have the finals on Labor
Day.
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And don't forget that there will be
two long week ends this year, for
both Memorial Day and Independ-
ence Day fall on Friday. F.P.A.