The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-04
MAY QUEEN

dUOul lIlt COLhEC LIVE charm allC
popularity of the members OF the
Girls Service Organization. The
only serious question has been
WHICH of them is the MOST at
tractive in her charm and person.
atty?
Our servicemen will have the
chance to give us the answer be-
tween now and Saturday night,
May 9th. At the monthly Formal
Dance that night one of the girls
will be crowned May Queen of the
Juneau USO, selected by popular
vote of the servicemen,
Each fellow will be entitled to
100 votes. All may be cast for one
girl or they may be divided among
several. In effect, this will permit
man to vote for his first, second
and third choices, rather than just
/ for one candidate.
| The winner will not be announced
until just before the intermission
at the dance. And the announce
ment win be simply the name OF
the winner chat is, there will not
be any listing of the respective
places of the other girls in the ball
loting.)
1t has been a. long time since we
had thought of the matter; but
during the past few days our brain
has been throbbing with the
rythmn of some lines of an old
poem that in our extreme youth
we used to hear recited annually as
May Day approached.
1t was entitled THE May Queen. u
and it was perpetrated Eyes, we said
PERPETRATED) by none other
than good old Alfred, Lord Tenny-
son; and we don't hesitate to saw
we believe them to be the gosh
awfullest verses ever written SER
iously by fellow who really ought
to have known better.
The refrain of this lesser master
piece of the Poet Laureate is For
I'm to be Queen O. the May, mother,
I'm to be Queen 90 the May" The
whole thing had to do. with the
gloomy fate Of a neurotic young
lady who was sure she was destined
for a practically immediate grave
and so wished to have her final
fling. while she COLD. Hence the
misleading CHEEKY note on, which
the poem opens: "You most wake
and call me early, call me early.
mother dear; Tomorrowll be the
'happiest time Of all the glad new
year"
If you happen not to have read
this literary gem, we can give you
line on the heroine's idea of the
type Of about hinge that was APP
propriate for thes6ccasion when we
tell you she planned to spend her
entire day In an orgy of picking
wild flowers! And why shouldn't
she Shoot the works?-for TO
morrow1l be of all the year the
maddest, n1erriest day. For I'm to
be Queen o. the May, mother, I'm
to be Queen O. the May" (Yet
folks, there are people who actually
claim that the world hasn't pro-
crossed a bit in the last hundred
yearsD
AS child we recall that for some
time we had the notion that an
early doom automatically attached
itself to any girl SO unfortunate as
to be honored by being chosen May
Queen-it seemed to be a necessar-
lily tragic fate such as inevitably
followed ones breaking mirror or
having black cat walk across his
path. During the intervening years,
however, this assumption has been
proven. faulty, inasmuch as we have
come to know personally several
May Queens who even today are
alive and who continue to appear
both handsome and healthy. Ac.
cordingly, we say: Do not be
alarmed, you ladies of Juneau, one
of whom is the mother of the Off
spring destined to be the USO
May Queen. Though we lay no
claim to psychic powers, and dear
old Lord Tennyson to the contrary
Notwithstanding, We urge you to
look forward to this coming week.
end with prospective pride, not