"CAN THERE BE AS SUCH" AL STEIN
Sweet tree sweet tree, be thou a Palm
or an Elm; or any that groweth from the
soil; for thou are lucky that the soil
loveth thee enough to bear thy fruit;
and thy fruit is lucky for being as such
if there is as such. ■ •
■■■; Sweet fowl,sweet bird, be thou a Dove
or ,0 Raven, or any fowl that inhabit the
air; for thou art lucky that the air
should love thee ' enough to support thy
wings in flight; and thy wings are lucky
for ' thy body- must pleasure thee with
such, if there is as such.
Sweet wind,r sweet wind, mysterious
and strange, be thou an .East wind or a
North yind; why dost thou blow." Is it
that thou art angry, or dost thou smile
instead, of frown; dost" thou give thy
thanks ,to anyone? thou should thou
should be thankful to thy Father in
heaven; as all the world should be, for
there be as Such, as Such'as my Father
in heaven. - - ••
bweet stars sweet stars, whether thou
| art a Southern star or a Western star,
: dost thou fued with thy brothers, the
: East and North? Dost thy kill thy bro
: ther that protects thy sister, or is
there such as caring for thy sister, or
: such as this.
j Hot sun, sweet sun, dost thou heat
! really burn the earth, or do we imagine
< thou,art the hottest of all? Dost thou
smile, or dost thou cry. Is thy time thy
: own or dost thou have as such, to do as
-such. ; .
Sweet love Sweet love, dost thou love
.me as I love theej dost thou think of me
as I think of. thee; be thou an new love
; or an ;old love; Oh fair and gentle love
gentle as the swaying tree, w-arm as the
silent sun, 1 mysterious as. the howling
wind, bright as the fueding stars; tell
me dost thou love the lips thou kisseth;
dost thou feeleth emotion, or is there
as such, to feel as such.
The trouble with some of todays smart
children is that they don’t smart in the
right places.
SMALL
.NOISES
Urging people to buy tickets to a j
play it didn't plan to put on, a parent- i
teacher association in Bethesda, Md., I
based its pitch on the argument that j
tickets for the non-existent show would j
enable purchasers to spend one more nice j
quiet evening at home, yet contribute j
money for school projects.
A man ran into a diner in Seymour, i
Conn., and ordered a pot of coffee. He j
rushed out with it and extinguished a j
fire under the hood of his panel truck, j
A man in Nyrum, Utah, was arrested :
for.drunken driving after a highway po-^
liceman found him -asleep in the saddle 7
on a horse traveling’ on the wrong side i
of the road. : • ... j
Sheepishly withdrawing his report I
! that an 800-pound boiler had been stolen j
jfrom.his home,.a man in Harlingen, Texas j
i explained to the police that it was in a j
. closet, where he had "mis-laid it." j
. ’ A history teacher in Graham, N.O. ]
igave a test with .this question: "The i
! Graham city council is largely composed j
: of A) Idiots; B) Ignoramuses; C) Ne'er- j
i do-wells; B) You Call it, you got it."
SPORTS
..QUIZ.. 1
(AFPS Weekly Feature)., j
. 1. Gene Tunney, former world’s‘heavyv j
weight champion, lost just one out of 63 j
bouts. Who beat him? i
2, Who was the tallest boxer to hold !
the heavyweight title?
. 3. Only two American League baseball !
players hit home runs in each AL ball j
park in 1857. Who were they?
t 4* Who was the last American golfer j
to win the British Open championship?
5. Who holds the record for the best j
indoor mile by an American?
Answers to Sports Quia on Page 8, Col- j
umn 2- i