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Show PRIVATE MANN ("Eugene L. Mann oj W enalchee, Wash., at the uge of 65, has enlisted in that state and been assigned to M. f. duty. This is his third war. He i: the head of three corporations and spent the last ten days playing golf and arranging ar-ranging jor their operation in his absence." ab-sence." News item.) I Chuck my golf bag In the cellar-Hang cellar-Hang my golfing togs away; Tell my corporation staffs that I will not be in today. Put my slippers in the discard I'll not need the things for I've Joined up with the U. S. army I am only sixty-five! II ' Stick away my trusty driver Cover up my irons well; Tell my locker-room companions I'll be missing for a spell; To the boys down at the office Say I'm leaving 'em quite cold Once again I am a doughboy Who says sixty-five is old? in In the drawer put my golf balls I'D not need 'em any more; There will be no hooks or slices In my present type of war; Let my varied business interests Run along as best they can. For the third 'time in my lifetime I'm becoming Private Mann. I have five more years to travel Ere I'm three score years and ten; But my feet feel only thirty They're the dogs of younger men; Age is only what you make it On the links I'm pretty fit Half the effort spent in golfing Will suffice to do my bit. e i-argflti'ifc-- V joined up to fight the Spaniards Back in eighteen ninety-eight; was in the last world fracas. And I never join up late; This big war completely dwarfs 'em Now the main' bout makes its bid; n those others I was merely A "preliminary kid!" L'ENVOI So it's Johnny blow the bugle! I'm a real old hand at war; Tee up all those Axis partners! . . Private Mann is calling "Fore!" PRIVATE PURKEY ON THE USO DRIVE Prescott S. Bush, National Chairman, Chair-man, USO Drive. Dear Mr. Bush Like every other service man I want to do my bit to boost the USO witch is now making mak-ing a big drive for more dough to make life for us more comfortable, f the general public knew what the USO had done for the U.S.A. it wood be serprised. I got a idea for the whole story in a nutshell and here W is: GIVE TO THE U.S.O. SOS And the V. S. A. Will win the war P. D. Q. O. K. We used to sing about keeping the home fires burning. The USO Is moving the fires right into the camps and furnishing coal and' wood. It has brung all the comforts Df home right to the army and navy. Why, Mr. Bush, a jeep now lives better than a general used to and some times I gess when the war is over and I get back home I will be squawking how I miss all the comforts com-forts of army life. If you keep on doing so' much for us you will have to start a drive after the war to raise dough to see that we have as many comforts at home as we used to have in war. Good luck to the CSO which rates AAA with U and with I for what it does for the U.S.A. Oscar Purkey. j Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo chief, delivered such a glowing tribute to the splendid, bra"ve, humane qualities quali-ties of the late Herr Heydrich that even Heydrich, if he could have heard would have sat up and demanded, de-manded, "When do you start talking talk-ing about me?" "The whole town of Lidice was leveled to the ground and the name of the community extinguishid for-ivr." for-ivr." Nazi statement. Wanna bet? |
