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COMMENT & DISCOMMENT
Nebraska is getting into the lime
light, all because, in the closing days
of our last legislative session, a reso
lution was passed which appointed
John J. Neihardt poet laureate of the
ftate. The resolution attracted but
.little comment within the state, due
largely to the fact that there was no
salary attached and no perquisites, but
in the east and even across the pond
the editorial writers have been buzzing
considerably. Right now there is a
discussion raging as to whether it
should have been done. The State
Journal is quoted as 6aying that this
resolution is "the first official recogni
tion of a poet by a lawmaking body,"
and Beems to think that this is some
thing quite notable and is patting the
'whole Btate on the back because our
lawmakers had the courage and the
insight to do this thing.
The chief objection seems to be that
poet laureates have, a a rule, been
pretty punk poets. The New York
Evening Mail points out a whole
string of them Tate, Rowe, Eusden,
"Whitehead, Warton and Pye who
have had similar honors conferred
upon them in England, but who are
unknown save to the man or woman
who has made a study of literature,
and a deep study at that The Mail
apparently does not approve even of
the last two English incumbents of the
office, Alfred Alstin and Robert
Bridges. In fact, that newspaper
seems to be hard to Buit, poetically.
However, most of us are the same
way, although we don't brag about it.
In the good old days gone by, it was
something to be a poet laureate. The
position carried a salary and as a per
quisite a certain quantity of wine,
-which was supposed to have a fine ef
fect upon the muse. If, in Nebraska,
the old custom of payment were to be
revived, and a pitcher of wine daily be
accorded the poet laureate, a number
of men, and mayhap a woman or two,
would be sharpening their pencils and
calling upon their muse to get busy.
it might not be a bad thing to amend
the Volstead law to permit of daily
wages to poets laureate.
As for us, we refuse to get excited
over the appointment of Mr. Neihardt.
It is altogether probable that he knew
nothing of the honor the legislature
bestowed upon him' until after the ir
repressible legislature had accomplish
ed it and the governor had signed the
resolution. That's one thing about
our legislature nobody can tell what
it intends to do. This great distinc
tion probably will have no effect on
Mr. Neihardt, who will continue to
write splendid verse while the contio
versy rages and a long time after he
has forgotten that he was the first
American poet to be honored by a leg
islature. And such a legislature!
of culture, but has shown no indica
tions of wantig to leave. Further, he
is writing epic poems of Nebraska and
the west, and while his fame has come
chiefly from there, he has written
other things that rank well. Nebras
ka, as a state, does not run to poetry
very strongly, but there are those who
can appreciate such magnificent lines
as these:
One is moved to wonder how the
legislature ever discovered1 that there
was a real poet in Nebraska. Prob
ably the university lobby put them
next to it The resolution appointing
Mr. Neihardt has the sound of one
drawn up by either the rhetoric de
partment or the department of Eng
lish literature. It is still more remark
able that the legislators, after being
told there was a Nebraska poet wor
thy of the honor, should have gone
ahead and passed the resolution with
out at least two months of wind-jamming.
What is all the more remarkable,
Mr. Neihardt is a real poet, and a Ne
braskan. He has undoubtedly had
dozens of opportunities to leave the
state and live in the eastern centers
LET ME LIVE OUT MY YEARS.
(From The Quest (Macmillan).)
Let me live out my years in heat of
blood!
Let me die drunken with the dreamer's
wine!
Let me not see this soul-house built of
mud
Go toppling to the dusk a vacant
shrine.
Let me go quickly, like a candle-light
anuneu out just at tne neytley o its
clow.
Give me high noon and let it then
De mghtl
Thus would I go.
And grant that when I face the grisly
Thing,
My song may trumpet down the gray
Perhaps,
Let me be as a tune-sweet fiddle
string That feels the Blaster Melody and
snaps!
If you are a college man, or woman,
and you can't answer Thomas A. Edi
son's mental teasers, then you've got
an XYZ intellect Recently Mr. Edi
son said he found college products a
sorry lot.
A Cornell honor man saw an add in
a Sunday newspaper six weeks ago. It
read something like this:
"Six young college men wanted for
manufacturing development work;
need not have technical eduction; pay
$130 a month to star. Apply, Edison,
West Orange, N. J."
The Cornell man applied at the
plant Five other young men ap
peared at the same time. They were
received by Mr. Meadowcraft and Mr.
Stevenson, Edison's lieutenants, and
turned loose on the seventy-seven
questions. All failed. The Cornell
man could answer just half. There
really were seventy-eight questions,
but he has forgotten one of them.
From him the list was obtained
Edwin Roche Hardy, Columbia Uni
versity's 12-year-old prodigy, ventured
answers to fifty-three out of the seventy-seven
questions.
Some of his answers placed Talla
hassee in Tennessee, made Horace
Greeley founder of the New York
Herald, named mahogany as the hard
est wood and citric as the acid in vin
egar. The questions follow:
1. Who discovered how to vulcanize
rubber?
2. Who invented printing?
3. Who invented the modern paper
making machine?
4. Who invented the cotton gin?
5. Who was the most famous maker
of violins? -
6. Who wrote Don Quixote?
7. Who wrote Les Miserables?
8. Who wrote the opera "II Trova
tore"? 9. Who was "the father of American
railways"?
10. Who was Pizarro?
11. Who was Simon Bolivar?
12. Who was Solon? .
13. Who was John Hancock.
14. Who was Hannibal?
15. Who was Paul Revere?
1C. Who was Cleopatra and how did
she die?
17. Who discovered the Pacific ocean?
18. Who was the founder of the New
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19. Where is Labrador?
20. Where is Helena?
21. Where is Tallahassee?
22. Where is Copenhagen?
23. Where is Manchuria?
24. What is the capital of Pennsyl
vania? 25. Where is Magdalena Bay ?
EC. What is the highest mountain in
the world?
27. What is the longest river in the
world ?
28. What is the greatest depth ever
found in the ocean?
29. What is the greatest depth of tide
in feet found along tne North
American coast?
30. Where was Napoleon born?
31. Where was Lincoln born?
32. Of what are violin strings made?
33. What musical instrument do you
P'ay?
34. What newspapers and magazines
do you read?
35. Of what is porcelain made?
36. What substances are used in the
manufacture of sulohuric acid?
37. What are the ingredients of good
white paint?
38. How is celluloid made?
39. What is the hardest known wood?
40. What kind of wood is used for ax
handles ?
41. What kind of wood is used for
kerosene oil barrels?
42. In what part of the world does it
never rain ?
43. Name the countries bordering on
France.
44. Where is the largest telescope in
the world located?
45. What is a monnoon?
46. How much is a troy ounce of gold
worth?
47. At what speed does light travel ?
48. What is the best grade of cotton
grown?
49. With what substance is radium al
ways associated?
50. How far is the earth from the
sun?
51. How far is it by the shortest rail
route between New York and San
Francisco ?
52. How far is it by ordinary oceanic
routes between New ork and
Liverpool?
53. How is leather tanned.
54. How is window glass made?
55. How is artificial silk made.
56. Who discovered the laws of gravi
tation? 37. Why is the ordinary instrument
used in measuring temperature
called a Fahrenheit thermometer?
58. Name the three principal alkalis.
59. What is the difference between an:
thracite and bituminous coal?
60. From what country do we get
most of our cork ?
61. From what country do we get our If'
borax? j
62. From what country do we get our
figs? 10.
63. From what country Qo we get our 1 ill
platina? . ' I
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nere noes most ot our quicksil
ver come from? j
C5. What ia the greatest wool produc
ing country in the world ? 1
66. In what states are located our
chief copper mines?
67. What is copra ? !
68. What is used to cut the facets of
diamonds?
69. From what city do most of our
laundry machines come?
70. From what vicinity do we get most
of our codfish?
71. What are felt hats made of? I
72. If Rhode Istand is the smallest
state in the union, what is the next
and the next to that? I
73. Where does most of our rubber
come from?
What is zinc? .
What ia the name of the arid
found in vinegar? i
Where are condors found?
What fabric is usd in auto tiros?
Discovering a washout on rp.ilroadl
tracks, a man took off his red socks,
waved them and stopped tin approach'
ing train. Very simple. The engineer
saw the socks and thought there was
a vnsh out.
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