Saint Ursula Academy - Scroll Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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As 'No 0t!1er Muff. .. And we drank his health with honours For he done us fvery proud. Forty Singing Seai1zen -Noyes. Yes, proud was I that it fell to my very privileged lot to interview the eminent poet, critic, novelist, and lec- turer, Doctor Alfred Noyes, speaker on the INIary Manse College Alumnae lec- ture series on October 17. Before my meeting with him I imagined the famous man a somewhat formidable personality. Is it any wonder then, that I feared I might, with mean- ingless sputterings, enlarge upon my stupidity at any moment while question- ing so learned a gentleman? What effect do you think this war will have on literature in general?y' I queried, marveling that I still had breath enough to address him. That's a hard question to answer, because it depends largely on what effect it will have on the peopleg but I feel safe in saying that it will do one of two things: Either produce more vile and evil literature, which will in time lead to another war, or it will definitely im- prove. I do not think there will be any middle coursely' My next question was, 'KWhat is your favorite sport, Doctor? 'KWell, I havenlt had too much time to follow any sport, but I used to be quite good on my rowing team, you know. I quickly sensed that I had provoked a secret pleasure and, with that as a cue, I continued to ask about favorites. This led to the inevitable, 'fWho is your favorite American author? HEmerson is by far the best, much better than Edgar Allan Poe,', he stated with a chuckle. Many writers favor a certain one of their works, but it is not necessarily that which the public interprets as the H -- MARY ANN VOLLMAYER '43 author's best. Alfred Noyes is not ex- cepted in thisg for when I asked him what he considered his best work, he said emphatically, The Torch Bearers by far. I took ten years to write this, and only ten hours to write The High- wayrnan and everyone reads the latter. lNIy great wish is that some day students will discover The Torch Bearers, and that it will be read in every classroom. By now my time was running short and my final question was not yet sub- mitted. K'What type of literature',', I asked quickly, would you suggest for students who wish to follow a literary career? I would suggestfl he began, that they read as much as possible of Tenny- son, Stevenson, eve-n some of Chester- ton, and of course, Emerson. And by no means would I have them read any of this 'mucky modern poerty'! Reluctantly I rose to leave. Doctor Noyes shook my hand and I thanked him for his time. Had I been one of the poet's Forty Singing Seamen, I would certainly have drunk his health with honours, for Alfred Noyes 'chad done me very proud! U Alfred Noyes THE SCROLL 7

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Servant of Mary. .. Rev. Gerald Dunne cc ILlVIARY,H servant of lVIary, is not only the title of Father Dunneys new book, it is a de- scription of Father himself. It isn't very often one reads a book one week and in- terviews the author the next, in fact, it isn't very often one finds a well-known author in one's own home town. But it can and did happen in Toledo. I know, for it happened to me. The book Gil- mary -its author? Reverend Gerald W. E. Dunne, Litt. D., instructor of religion and mechanical drawing at Central Catholic. After I had ensconced myself in his office, Father began to talk on his favorite subject, poetry. Simply and clearly he stated his ambition: Very early in my career I set out to attempt the perfect wedding of sense and sound . . . If a man has the ability in word, music, and thought, why not express the greatest thought in the most musical way?U In Gilmary', this ambition, we believe, has surely been realized. - ELEANOR JACOMET '43 Often we have wondered, when others have criticized Edgar Allan Poe, why, if his poems aren't good, do we waste our time studying him? Father answered this by explaining that Poe had the per- fect expression of rhyme and rhythm, but that his poems lack that deeper meaning utterly essential for truly great poetry. Father said, HI was always sad that Poe had nothing to say, and that lesser poets said things so unmusicallyf' According to Father Dunne, Father Abram Ryan, the poet priest of the South, occupies one of the highest places in American literature. HFathe1' Ryan has written one of the three greatest lyrics in the English language, I would not say his f'Song of the NIystic is the third greatest, nor the greatest, but it is one of the three greatest ever written in Englishf, For years Father Ryan has been neglected-chiefly because of the lack of material concerning his life- -but now he is coming into his own. It was interesting to learn that Louis J. lVIaloof of the New Orleans Times Picayuneu has been gathering material on Father Ryan and now has enough for several volumes. He expects to pub- lish the life of Father Ryan in the summer of 1943. I put my benefactor literally 'on the spot' when I asked him to name his favorite poem in Gilmary. In com- mon with every other writer, he ac- knowledged that he possesses a fatherly feeling toward all his poems-still, he tried to pick a favorite. After leafing through the volume, pausing now and then to read a few lines, he admitted he had a tender spot for K' lOknoi. I felt I was a poet after writing this, he said. 'Oknoiu deals with the scrupulous soul and will not for this reason, per- haps, have a universal appeal for the general public. No one can fail, how- ever, to recognize the philosophy, the CContinued on page 44D 6 THE SCROLL

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letters of file law. .. XXX-K For the past sev- X - eral years we have 5 ' been running around A A in an alphabetical ' ' maze. So many new organizations with f 4 lengthy names have X, 1 been created that their sponsors and Q 4 the newspapers have ' M found it not only 'Q convenient, but ab- solutely necessary to identify them, whenever possible, by initials. No doubt the general public is acquainted with many of the abbrevi- ations: AFL - CIO - OCD - WAAC - WPA - OPA and many, many more. For our purpose here, however, we shall touch only on several which are very closely related to the war effort. 0 1' 1111 How many of us really know and understand what the wartime ofiices created by the President are doing? First, let us take the OPA. What does OPA mean? Office of Price Ad- ministration, of course. In charge of this very essential office is Price Admin- istrator Leon Henderson, who has suc- ceeded in placing a ceiling on canned foods, dried foods, clothing, shoes, furni- ture, fuel, new automobiles, and some services. hir. O. D. Wearley is in charge of the Toledo Office of Price Administra- tion and is responsible for the enforce- ment of government regulations in re- gard to ceiling prices in the Toledo area. There are many price regulations, but the most important of these is the Gen- eral Maximum Price Regulation. Un- der this, the ceiling prices on all mer- chandise controlled by it must be posted in all grocery, drug, and department stores. If these prices are not posted, or -CAROLYN KINSEY '44 - PADDY PURCELL '44 the store Hoverchargesf' you, your gov- ernment has requested you to report this violation to the Toledo OPA office. A year ago the OPA had only thirty- four price schedules. Today there are two hundred and thirty-six price re-gu- lations, nine rationing programs, and 1'ent control in one hundred and ninety communities, embracing a population of over fifty million persons. The latter program will soon cover the entire country. Rationing programs ,currently in effect concern sugar, gasoline, fuel oil, automobiles, rubber boots, work shoes, typewriters, tires, farm machinery, and bicycles. ln October 1941, Prime Minister lVIackenzie King of Canada announced the Canadian government's adoption of an overall ceiling on prices, wages, sal- aries, services, and rents, in fact, prac- tically everything. While the Dominion plan differs in many details from ours, we really copied our Ceiling Price Reg- ulations from our Canadian neighbors. Next, let us take the WPB-War Production Board-with Donald lil. Nelson in charge. This office controls the production and distribution of all essential materials needed for winning the war. The WPB has issued an order re- garding the distribution of canned foods by the packers. On October 8 of this year, the WPB ordered the shutdown of 200 to 300 of the nation,s largest gold mines, in order to release man- power for work in copper and other vi- tal war metal pro- ductions. 29' -f 'I 1 . -1 President Roose- .I 1 velt recently created 11 -1 -' the Economic Stab- :H . ilization Office, with -8 THE SCROLL