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Show f KM, m THE PRIVATE PATERS OF PRIVATE Pl'RKEY Dear Ma Every day they are checking out a bunch of us refugees from soft beds under them .ii ,r- 1 new rules releas i ing jiui()s who arc 73'K,,'J married, or 2 R i Kr' years old, or 5? ti-- needed at home. lt but they are still jr 5 passing me up JJhJ 'r'i like I was the u W-" army's choice for permanent K P duty. I look and feel more like a hardship case than most of the crumb hunters who are being released re-leased and I keep telling the officers that I am no more use to the army than if I was married on account of I am in love. Every time I argue that I am needed at home they just laugh at i me so I gess they must have investigated in-vestigated and found out that I always al-ways let you and pop bring up the coal and wood and was not no !hlp to speak of. When I think of how I used to squawk about tending the furnace it makes me sick all over. Believe me ma if I ever get out of this and back in my own home I will think it a priverlage to tend the furnace. It makes me soar to see a lot ol boys being released every day. But they certainly get checked up on and three days before they go they get a complete coine over by the doc tors again. I can't figure this out unless they want to be sure no jeep gets out of the army in any better shape than he was when he came in. I asked Sergeant Mooney and he said lt was the rules that every soldier must be exactly like he was when he was accepted. He said one reason why I could not get out was that I was in such lousy shape when I reached camp that it would be im possible for a army to ever get mt back in the same condition again Otto Bixby thought he was going to be released and he was all set and everything but after the medical med-ical inspection he was told he wood have to stay In the army. The rec ords of admission showed he had four teeth missing when he got in and they don't check with the fad he has six missing now. They won't accept his explanashun how hr last the other two. They just finished a big athletic field for us at this camp and we . rt got a regimental W s-m-cf 'ootDaU team on FiGXHs. wtch I am trying I "5w h' l ou' 'or ne re' iTQhYl I erves. In the Lji-Jhi "rs Bcr'rnmage 1 h illlrD-' k "0' 8 sPra'ned J : . ankuli tw broken AVbi.. iMiim toes, a dislocated arm, a soar back and two teeth knocked out but I still do not fee! no worse after it all than I do wher I get back from a manoover. I asked Sergeant Mooney how 1 done and he said I must of attracted attenshun becuz he knew the army was scouting the game and he saw a scout looking at me and saying he never saw anybody play the kind of game I did. Well, I will close now with lots of love. Your son, Oscar. P.S. I wish you would ask Nellie Peterson to write me oftener than three times a week. IT'S AN AGE OF SPECIALIZATION "WANTED employment for two young women in early twenties; I A B. degrees, intelligent, attractive, (whimsical, ambitious, literary. ! poverty-stricken. Can act, model, 'dance, sing, act, knit, sew, paint, decorate, act, sell, ride horseback, ' read to invalids, swim, act, play hockey, walk dogs, play bridge, teach, speak French, German. Greek, Russian, Latin, fence, act. direct, design, construct, act, cook, i mix drinks, play piano and ukulele, compose, act, wash dogs, parachute jump, play tennis, hook rugs, mind children, act, psycho-analyze, debate, de-bate, garden, photograph and act. Phone CHelsea 3-3059 between 5:30 and 9 p. m." New York Times. But how are you on ski jumping and horse-shoeing? Believe it or not, there is at 491 East 95th street, Brooklyn, a Society or the Prevention of Disparaging (Remarks About Brooklyn. I Three New Jersey judges have de j dared pinball machines obviously J nambling devices and denounced the I claims of operators and lawyers that they are nut. Here and there you find a court that can't be fooled. I Hitler is giving the New Order tu Fui ope and Asia and the dull thud of the falling bodies of tho beneficiaries benefi-ciaries is heard on all sides. ' It is culture by way of the firing squad and the better life against thr background of a stone wall. I "This war will decide the fate ol Germany, for the next 100 years."-. years."-. Hitler. 1 A year ago he said it would decide It for 1,008 years. What's a little j matter of 900 years to a micro- phone? |
