Show r Phi r rN Mv TilE THE END E D IN EUROPE The war started by a screwball with a screwball book and a screw screw- screwball screwball screwball ball philosophy fought under a screwball emblem in a screwball cause ended in a screwball manner The German surrender was like a aI panic hour on an ant hill I The became the gander- gander I j 1 gallop and the rabbit It was I the first surrender in military his his- history history history tory that resembled a slide for home without touching second or third I I It was not so much an unconditional unconditional surrender as an I al dive I I The Junkers became Tankers As you watched watch d the Nazis give up you were seeing one of f the great I circus acts of all times The attempt I of f Superman to leap from a I foot platform into a row of or empty beer steins stems i I It was the first time our side ever had to employ whirling dervishes to keep track of events There was never a finish like this except the time the house flies fell fe ll Into the egg eggbeater What a spectacle 1 I The army that tha t terrorized millions when it had the th e upper hand became strictly an ag ag- aggregation aggregation g of of safety solely They The wanted but one new weapon A skid non-skid army shoe The went to pieces piece s like a paper napkin in an electric tan fan Its only question was May we w e surrender with positively no wait wait- waiting waiting waiting ing Or must we phone and make a ar reservation r serva tion It was not a surrender It was jusa just jus justa t a notice to us that we were to have I unwelcome guests for dinner There was no dignity no color colorno no manhood in the Nazi picture The books all aU called for field mar steals drawing up impressively and an I handing over their swords with ap ap- appropriate appropriate appropriate words and ar d music All U that tha t the Allied generals had to do was to t o tag the marshals as they came into int o the bag feet first For once there was no material for fo r great paintings There is no appeal in a picture of of men turning ling into int o mice A LAST WISH Let me go out in the hills of m my y boyhood Amid the and the home home- Breathing the air of my forefathers forefather s Seeing the sun sink behind an old of d mill Let me cross the great divide I As a crossing of familiar pastures pasture s I ILet Let the last scent be that of men mead d I o The last sound that of a r will For in the end having all I ha haVe r t little Nothing consuming me like the spell spa Il of boyhood The love of farm and fireside and an d dear ones Please God let me go now as a through an old lane CAN YOU REMEMBER ER- ER way back when wIlen a man was tOs considered consider ed J well diced fied if he had money And when u a man would face ace without It pro pro- protest protest pr test a prospect of o doubling his llis income for fot forthe f 01 the year ear Noise Abatement Week has come co me and gone and we fail to notice an S permanent results As we see it noise abatement applies to the fel fellow fellow low who drives exclusively by elec electric horn the apartment house vo vocalist calist the stooge or orthe the radio programs and the pest just back from a fishing trip wants to describe it to you WHAT President Truman began ting the budget News budget News Item Pile the praise praise- And dont don't begrudge it Someone somewhere's CUT a budget Bob Hannegan is becoming post postmaster postmaster postmaster master general for less z r year than he gets as head of the th Democratic national committee Yes but think of the fun he ail wil have at letter carriers lette c rr ers ers' outings plans at Washing ton It is announced put high on tin list of first things to be Fishing tackle electric fans flashlights band instruments pi pianos pianos pianos anos cash registers and movie pic pie ture equipment Back to normal normalcy cy Three Thirty Truck Loads o 0 Meat Seized By Police Headline Police Headline V The truck drivers of course climbed down and demanded Lemme see your ou points |