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Show The Right Angle This seems reasonable enough. In the last war I know the feeling en-f en-f listed men had against those who v were still cashing in on their physical physi-cal ability to play some game. It was bitter. This time we are not at war. But In many respects camp life is worse than war, when it comes to the matter mat-ter of dull routine. This routine will have to be broken up. The only an-' an-' V swer is sport. With a million or two million men in camp, averaging less than $50 a month from private to lieutenant, you can understand how they would feel and their people 1 would feel about younger stronger athletes mopping up financially. finan-cially. 1 ' You may say this is unfair that the luck of the draft is all that counts. Well, the luck of the draft won't count with those fellows getting get-ting up at reveille and waiting for taps. Not unless human nature has changed completely. They didn't ask for it, either, but ' they got it. They are not going to start cheering for some young fellow fel-low around 21 or 23 or 25, making the headlines or getting big money, through physical skill, while they are carrying a gun or driving a tank or flying a plane for a buck a day and no headlines. |