The Lantern Vol. 14, No. 2, February 1946 Helen Hafeman Ursinus College
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Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College The Lantern Literary Magazines Ursinusiana Collection 2-1946 The Lantern Vol. 14, No. 2, February 1946 Helen Hafeman Ursinus College Lois Goldstein Ursinus College Marjorie Haimbach Ursinus College Helen Derewianka Ursinus College Helen Gorson Ursinus College See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern Part of the Fiction Commons, Illustration Commons, Nonfiction Commons, and the Poetry Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits oy u. Recommended Citation Hafeman, Helen; Goldstein, Lois; Haimbach, Marjorie; Derewianka, Helen; Gorson, Helen; Marion, Kenneth; Reichlin, Herb; Suflas, Irene; Taylor, Charlene; Deitz, Barbara; Barker, Arthur; Nickel, Bill; and Shumaker, Betsy, "The Lantern Vol. 14, No. 2, February 1946" (1946). The Lantern Literary Magazines. 29. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/29 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Ursinusiana Collection at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Lantern Literary Magazines by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Helen Hafeman, Lois Goldstein, Marjorie Haimbach, Helen Derewianka, Helen Gorson, Kenneth Marion, Herb Reichlin, Irene Suflas, Charlene Taylor, Barbara Deitz, Arthur Barker, Bill Nickel, and Betsy Shumaker This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/29 THE LANTERN FEBRUARY. 1946 THE LANTERN February, 1946 BOARD OF EDITORS ~o. Vol. XIV, 2 GEORGE FRY H E LEl' GORSON EDITOR H ELES HAFEMAN B ETSY SHU;\lAKER l\ l ARGARET OELSCHLACER B US INESS MANAGER RON!\"lE SARE H ENR I ETTE "VA LK ER IREl':E SU FLAS H ELEN REPLOCLE, ASST. J OAI' \ .yILMOT FACULTY ADVISORS NELSON YEAKEL FRANKLIN l. SHEEDER M ART1:"l w. \.vIT"lER CA LVIN D. Y OST, JR. THE LANTERN is publishfd three times during the college year 3t Uninus College, College\'i1Ir, Pennsylvania SubKriplion, SO ctnt~ a year; single coriu, 2S cents. By mail, onc dollar per year. Page Edilorin./ - Beuy Shumaker 2 Dog Daze - Helen H afeman 3 Locomotion Lois Goldstein 5 T It e Battle il.J,\RJORIE H A1;\l BAC H 5 Thoughts at lVJidnight - Helen Derewianka 6 Tf/ e l-Iave n Race to Run - Helen Gorson 6 A Parable - Kenneth ;\farion 7 Darkness at Dawn - Herb Reichlin 8 R oom for Error - I rene Suflas 9 Elegy A JJ1 erlcana - Charlene Taylor 10 Will This Happen H ere - B"bm D,;" IO Last .Mission - Arthur Barker I I Free Trade - Bill Nickel 12 Love L eiter - BehY Shumaker 13 -\- BETSY SlIlJMAKBR Spring is coming! Although it is early in our school year. sIgns Ot sprmg arl;! already appearing on our campus, The signs lIlay be misleading and spring may still be some distance away. but "\t's comin', by gUill," \Vith it is coming that feeling of awakening-that knowledge that no matter how bali things have seemed, they are going to be better, \V ith it is coming also a disinterest in things of the past and a much stronger interest in the present. Soon will start the search for the first crocus to peep through the ground; soon also will come rUllIors of robins seen on the lawn, Afternoon hikes and after dinner sessions of baseball will before long become cOlllmonplace, [t seems as though it would be rObbing ourseh'es to allow these first impressions to slip away, There can be no finer time for trying our hands at writing. therefore, Poetry and prose alike sen'e as mediums for catching and holding the wonders of a new world, More than that. they serve as mediullls for transmilting enthusiasm to others perhaps less aware, The enthusiasm with which contributions were handed to the LA~TERN for this issue was quite gratifying. It is the fervent desire of the staff and of the present editor that such enthusiasm Illay continue and increase. Only in this way can be built up a magazine of which we may all be proud. This is the last issue to be published by the present slaff. Into the hands of a now-unchosen editor will be placed what we ha"e always considered a valuable trust. the perpetuation of the LANTERN. To that editor and his staff we wish the best of luck and just as much joy as we found in producing our series oi the magazine. -2- Dog Daze "Come 00, come on, !:cl up!" I ~houted. " \\"e like thi, that make me really appreciate being in the ,golta make that tram!" ~a\~. j\lo~ jU~1 ~ellied back on his haunches ana "You're J!oin~ to put tbe do~ in the ba~i!age glared al me defi:mliy. car. of cour-e?" the licket agcnt ;I~kcd in an em \Vhat's onc ~ailor a~am~1 a pup like that? phatic tone that Idt me only one po~~ihle amWN. After all I'd been throu~h al L :l\'ina'~ hou<t' that " Huh· Oh, SlIre, of coun,e." dar, I wa~ in no mood to he trifled with. Grahbing my ticket, I hurried off \\,ith ;\Io~e "Plea!>t. )' I o~," I beJ!Rcd de~Jl(rately. " \Von', and ducked behind a row of automatic checking you rlea~ jU~1 get up lhi .. once? Look, we're going lockeT'-. " I'm taking no .::hance~ on you getting home now. Yep. right hack to the nice old pet -ick again like ~ou did after yOIl rai'-Cd all that shop where you came from. After thi~. I won't rumflu~ in the ba~g;J.ge car coming up." I un ever pull you around any more. In fact, I won', ziflped m)" ha~ and ~hoved him in. " You're ,,"ouh have a darn thing to do with )"(lU if I can help il. thirt}'-nve buck~ to me. and I want you in tOP Now for the 1u\,'a Pete I!CI up!" condition whrn I take ~'ou back." lI. lo$C bt.'C:UllC deeply absorbed in $Iudying the ), lose whimpered a lillie, and J felt kind of glass pane,; that formed the ceiling of l'\ew 'York's ~rr~ for him as I zipped the bag part of the way Penn"ll"ania Station. for a Scottie pup, he wa~ ~hu t, If it hadn't been for La\'ina, t never would the ~l lIbborne s t critter I 'd come 011 YCt. have had all thi~ trouble, I don't know why she "O.K., thcn ~it there," I said di sgu~ted ly a~ I had to get SO darn sop hi ~licated all at once. There tried to wrap m)' arm around Lavina's picture \\"a~ a time when ~he would have ~one into raptures without dropping an)' of m)' million other pacbge~. o\"Cr any old mu!. ~ ow .. he had informed me that W here in a Navy hospital ward she expected me ~he wa" sorry but ~he JUSt couldn't ~tand a Scollie. to put a picture that hllge was beyond me. And Reali}' she couldn't! Dog~ with character, like I nill t:m't fij:;ure out why your girl', mother IHI ~ ,Afghan lI ounJ" ur SllI:tl'dog_the kind that go to knit rou a woolen hdmet when it:. nearly spring ~ well with tweed ~uits and pigskin gio\'cs-were and ),ou will never get near sea dllty agai n for the what ~he wanted. Can you beat tllat! La\'i na rest of your life because you're being discharged now in anything but ~ilk and sequins would be a next month. Oh, she's a well-meaning old lady, laugh, but in a tweed slIit with the hor~er look. , . I guess, even if ~he is a bit wack}'. }\Ilyhow she Ohhhh, I can't hear it! \\'hy, that glamour job gave me a swell cake to take back, !oO I can't kick. nCHr came any nearer to looking like the outdoor She was the onl}' one in that famil" that hadn't girl than I look like an admiral. :\ Jaybe she's given me a preny raw deal lately. heautiful, but sometime ....he sure i" dumb. Still, "Corne on, darn you," I shouted, a~ I yanked i wa~ sorT}" tbat thing~ sort of went pffft. I the lea~h and in rei!ular 1)low horse fash ion began could look forward to a nice steady diet of humhle dragging the growling puppie, who skidded along pie for a while, and in the meantime I had to IlIg behind me, .• I ha\'e to get back to Philly in time to that bla~ted dog around some more. return you." C<;ing m~' t-e~t spearhead tactics, aillled I noticed that I was becoming the center of at· Lavina's picture at the gatt and plowed through, t raction. People were standing laughing at me. o\t least it wa~ good for something. Her mother I mu~t have looked like a kid with a pull toy that had insisted that I take the picture anyway, 'cause had lost its wheels, and I was beginning to feel .. he knows how we alway.. patch things up in a pretty foo lish when ~ I o~e fi nally decided walking lillie while. \ Vith her cake in my other hand, I was easie r than toe nai l retreads and gave in . H e hadn't been able to say no. walked along behind me with the hurt look of a I shuffled on down the steps and into the train.