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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION RfH See Here, 523 My Private Hargrove! rgx tu Marion Hargrove ..-se- ft THE STORY SO FAR: Edward Thomas Marlon Lawton Hargrove, feature edi-tor ol the Charlotte (N. C.) News, has started his story of a private's life In the army by giving prospective dough boys some solid advice on what coarse to pursue the days and nights before induction. He advises them to "paint the town red." On getting into the army he tells them "to keep your mind open" as the "first three weeks are the hard-est." Like a Job in civil life, says Har grove, it's the first Impress. counts. He has received his own indue-tio- n notice and with a number - " has completed the first day at camp. He Is stationed at Fort Bragg, N. Carolina. CHAPTER n A soldier stuck his head through the door of our new dormitory and gave a sharp whistle. "Nine o'clock!" he yelled. "Lights but and no more noise! Go to sleep!" "It has been, withal, a very busy day," I said to Piel, who was bur-ied with his hay fever in the next bunk. "It sure withal- has," he said. "What a day! What a place! What a lite! With my eyes wide open I'm dreaming!" "It's been a little hellish out to-day," I agreed, "although it could have been worse. We actually saw a corporal and he' didn't cuss us. We have eaten Army food twice, and, except for the haphazard way the pineapple was thrown toward the peas, it wasn't horrifying." "I am broken and bleeding," moaned Piel. "Classification tests, typing tests, medical examinations. I think I walked eighteen miles through those medical examina-tions. It's a good thing this is July. I would have frozen in my. treks with all that walking and exposure. Nothing I had on, except a thin little iodine number on my chest." "Funny thing about the medical examination," a voice broke in from down the line. "Before you get it. looked like Goldenberg's Basement on a busy day. A score of fitters measured necks, waists, inseams, heads, and feet. My shoe size, the clerk yelled down the line, was ten and a half. "I beg your pardon," I prompted, "I wear a size nine." "Forgive me," he said, a trifle weary, "the expression is 'I wore a size nine.' These shoes are to walk in, not to make you look like Cin-derella. You say size nine; your foot says ten and a half." We filed down a long counter, picking up our allotted khaki and denims, barrack bags and raincoats, mess kits and tent halves. Then we were led into a large room, whe we laid aside the vestments of civil life and donned our new garments. While I stood there, wondering what I was supposed to do next, an attendant caught me from the rear and strapped to my shoulders what felt like the Old Man of the Mountain after forty days. "Straighten up, soldier," the at-tendant said, "and git off the floor. That's nothing but a full field pack, such as you will tote many miles before yo leave this man's army. Now I want you to walk over to that ramp and over it. That's just to see if your shoes are comfortable." "With these Oregon boots and this burden of misery," I told him firm-ly,' "I couldn't even walk over to the thing. As for climbing over it, not even an alpenstock, a burro train, and two St. Bernard dogs complete with brandy could get me over it." There was something in his quiet, steady answering glance that re-assured me. I went over the ramp in short order. On the double, I think the Army calls it. From there we went to the thea-ter, where we were given intelli-gence tests, and to the classifica-tion office, where we were inter-viewed by patient and considerate corporals. "And what did you do in civil life?" my corporal asked me. "I was feature editor of the Char-lotte News." N "And just what sort of work did you do, Private Hargrove? Just give me a brief idea." Seven minutes later, I had fin-ished answering that question. "Let's just put down here, 'Edi-torial worker.' " He sighed compas-sionately. "And what did you do before all that?" I told him. I brought in the pub-licity work, the the theater ushering, and the printer's deviling. "Private Hargrove," he said, "the army is just what you have needed sgS Charlotte boys waved to us as they passed on their way to the ball park. Happy voices floated to us from the post exchange. The sup-per hour neared. The straw-bos- s private woke up, yawned and went away, telling us what would happen if we did like-wis- He returned soon in a truck. He motioned peremptorily to us and we loaded the cans into the truck. Away we went to headquarters com-panyand painted more garbage cans. It was definitely suppertime by now. "Now can we go home, Private Dooley, sir?" asked Lisk. I looked at Lisk every time the blindness left me, and I could see the boy was tired. The private sighed wearily. "Git in the truck," he said. Away we went back to our street. We stopped in front of our barracks and Pri-vate Dooley dismounted. "The truck driver," he said, "would ap-preciate it if you boys would go and help him wash the truck." We sat in the back of the truck and watched the mess hall fade away behind us. Two, three, four miles we left it behind us. We had to wait ten minutes before we could get the wash-pit- . It took us fifteen minutes to wash the truck. By the time we got back to the mess hall, we were too tired to eat. But we ate. On the way to our barracks we met Yardbird Fred McPhail, neat and cool, on his way to the recrea-tion hall. "Good news, soldiers," said Yardbird McPhail. "We don't have to drill tomorrow." We halted and sighed blissfully. "No, sir," said McPhail. "They can't lay a hand on us from sunup until sundown. The whole barracks is on kitchen duty all day." sa-lt was through no fault of mine that I was a kitchen policeman on my sixth day. The whole barracks got the grind. And it was duty, not punishment. It was all very simple, this KP business. All you have to do is to get up an hour earlier, serve the food, and keep the mess hall clean, i After we served breakfast, I found a very easy job in the dining hall, where life is much pinker than it is in the kitchen. A quartet was formed and we were singing "Home on the Range." A corporal passed by-ju- as I hit a sour note. He put the broom into my left hand, the mop into my right ... There was a citizen-soldi- from Kannapolis to help me clean the cooks' barracks. For a time it was awful. We tried to concentrate on the floor while a news broadcaster almost tore up the radio trying to decide whether we were to be in the Army ten years or twenty. We finished the job in an extreme-ly short time to impress the cor-poral. This, we found later, is a serious tactical blunder and a dis-credit to the ethics of goldbrick-ing- . The sooner you finish a job the sooner you start in on the next. The corporal liked our work, un-fortunately. Kannapolis was allowed to sort garbage and I was promoted to the polishing section. I was Themos Kokenes's assistant. He washed and I dried. Later we formed a goldbricking entente. We both washed and made Conrad Wil-son dry. . Pollyanna the glad girl would have found something silver-line- d about the hot sink. So did I. "At least," I told Kokenes, "this will give my back a chance to recover from that mop:" When I said "mop," the mess ser-geant handed me one. - He wanted to be able to see his face in the kitchen floor. After lunch he want-ed the back porch polished. We left the Reception Center mess hall a better place to eat in, at The old sergeant, his face beam-ing sweetly, purred, "Yon are now members of the Army of the United States. Now, damn it, shut up." you're afraid you'll pass. When you go through the examinations, you're afraid you won't." "I noticed that," I said. "I don't have any special hankering for a soldier's life, but I thought when I was going through the hoops this morning that this would be a helluva time for them to back out." "The little fellow who, slept down at the end got sent back," said a loud whisper from across the room. "One of his legs was shorter than the other. He's a lucky dog." "I'll bet he doesn't think so," said Piel. "At this stage of the game, I'm glad it was him instead of me." A dark form showed itself in the doorway. "I told you guys to shad-da- p and go to sleep. Do it!" A respectful silence filled the room for three minutes. "Look at me," said Piel. "Won't the folks in Atlanta be proud when they get my letter! Me, Melvin Piel, I'm a perfect physical specimen." Big Jim Hart, the football star whom I had known in high school, spoke up. "Don't go Hollywood about it, Piel. Just remember, Har-grove's a perfect specimen too. And just two weeks ago, when we were waiting out in front of the armory for the draft board examiners to get there, he had one foot in the grave." "And the other foot?" "That's the one he keeps in his mouth." "Yessir," said Piel, "the Army makes men." The discussion was interrupted by the reappearance of the soldier. "If youse blankety-blanke- d little dash-dash-don't shut your cuss-cus- s yaps and get the blankety-blan- k to sleep, I'm gonna come back up here and make yez scrub the whole blankety-blanke- d dash-das- h cuss-cus- s floor with a blankety-blan- k toothbrush. Now shaddap!" So we quietly went to sleep. This morning we took the Oath. One of the boys was telling me later that when his brother was inducted in Alabama, there was a tough old sergeant who was having an awful time keeping the men quiet. "Gen-tlemen," he would beseech them, "Quiet, please!" They were quiet during the administration of the Oath, after which they burst forth again. The old sergeant, his face beam-ing sweetly, purred: "You are now members of the Army of the United States. Now, damn it, SHUT UP." This morning our first morning in the Recruit Reception Center-be- gan when we finished breakfast and started cleaning up our squad-roo- A gray-haire- fatherly old private, who swore that he had been demoted from master sergeant four times, lined us up in front of the barracks and took us to the dis-pensary. If the line in front of the mess hall dwindled as rapidly as the one at the dispensary, life would have love-liness to sell above its private con-sumption stock. First you're fifteen feet from the door, then (whiff) you're inside. Then you're stand-ing between two orderlies and the show is on. The one on my left scratched my arm and applied the smallpox virus. The only thing that kept me from keeling over was the hypodermic needle loaded with typhoid germs, which propped up my right arm. From the dispensary we went to a huge warehouse of a building by th railroad tracks. The place "Straighten up, soldier, and git off the floor. That's nothing but a full field pack." to ease the burdens of your exist-ence. Look no farther, Private Har-grove, you have found a home." -P- a- This was a lovely morning. We began at daybreak and devoted all the time until noon to enjoying the beauties of nature. We had a drill sergeant to point them out to us. We marched a full twenty miles without leaving the drill field. Lunch, needless to say, was deli-cious. We fell into bed, after lunch, de-termined to spend the afternoon in dreamland. Two minutes later, that infernal whistle blew. Melvin Piel, guardhouse lawyer for Company A, explained it all on the way down-stairs. We were going to be as-signed to our permanent stations. I fell in and a corporal led us off down the street. I could feel the California palm trees fanning my face. We stopped at Barracks 17 and the corporal led us inside. "Do we go to California, cor-poral?" I asked. "Naah," he said. "Where do we go?" I asked him, a little disappointed. "To the garbage rack," he said. "Double quick." He thumbed John-ny Lisk and me to the back of the barracks. At the garbage rack we found three extremely fragrant garbage cans. Outside, we found more. Lisk and I, citizen-soldier- stared at them. The overcheerful private to whom we were assigned told us, "When you finish cleaning those, I want to be able to see my face in them!" "There's no accounting for tastes," Lisk whispered. Neverthe-less, we cleaned them and polished them and left them spick and span. "Now take 'em outside and paint 'em," said the private. "White. Git the black paint and paint 'HQCO-RR- C on both sides of all of them!" "This is summer," I suggested. "Wouldn't something pastel look better?" The sun was affecting the private. "I think you're right," he said. So we painted them cream and lettered them in brilliant orange. All afternoon, in a blistering sun, we painted garbage cans. The other HIIAft "When you finish cleaning those cans, I want to be able to see face in them." my any rate. But KP is like a woman's work never really done. Conrad Wilson marked one caldron and at the end of the day we found that we had washed it twenty-tw-o times. Jack Mulligan helped me up the last ten steps to the squadroom. I finally got to the side of my bunk "Gentlemen," I said to the group which gathered around to scoop me off the floor, "I don't ever want to see another kitchen!" The next morning we were clas- sified and assigned to the Field Replacement Center. Gene Shumate and I were classified as cooks. I am a semi-skille- d cook they say, although the only eKE r ever tried to fry was later used as a tire patch. The other cooks in- clude postal clerks, tractor sales-men, railroad engineers, riveters bricklayers, and one blacksmith ' But we'll learn. Already i've learned to make beds, sweep moD wash windows and sew a fine seam' When Congress lets me go home, wUl I make some woman a good wife I (TO BE CONTINUEDJ FIRST-AI- D to the AILING HOUSE ly ROGER . WHITMAN Roger B. Whitman-W- NU Featured You may not be able to replace worn homeowner's friend tens you by the REFINISHING OAK FURNITURE Question: I should like to do over dining-roo- suite of very dark my and massive oak. Should I take off all this stain (or varnish) down to the original wood? If so, what should I use? What should I get when I am ready to revarnish? Answer: Remove the finish down to the wood with a solution of phosphate, three pounds to each gallon of hot water. Apply with a dishmop, and, after the finish has softened, scrape and wipe it off. Then rinse off all traces of the remover with clear water and allow wood to dry.. If the wood is stained a dark color, you can bleach it with a hot saturated solution of oxalic acid. Leave this on overnight. 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During the summer of last year the house was repapered. Now the paper is creeping and tear-ing in the corners nearest the chim-ney. Is this the result of poor paper hanging, or the heat in the chimney? Answer: The condition is partly due to the heat of the chimney. More likely it is from unequal set-tlement; because of its great weight, the chimney is sinking into the ground, more noticeably than the rest of the house. Cracking at the corners where chimney meets the house walls will continue until set-tlement is complete. Cutting through the wallpaper at the corners will offset the wrinkling, but will also be somewhat noticeable. Water Trouble Question: I am having trouble with the supply and temperature of hot water. Because of the hardness of the water the heating coil is get-ting clogged up with lime, and the flow of water is insufficient. What should I do? Answer: When hard water is heat-ed, the lime is precipitated and ad-heres to the sides of water heater coils; this in time will clog the coil, cutting down the flow and making it necessary to use more fuel. A water softener unit installed in the water supply line will do away with your hard water trouble. Talk to your plumber about this. Painting Papered Ceiling Question: Would it be safe to paint over a papered ceiling with casein paint? Answer: It is generaUy risky to paint over wallpaper, for the liquid in the paint may loosen the paste If the paper is on firmly, it would be worth taking the chance the pattern of the paper may show through slightly. Condensation on Window Question: Last spring I bought a new house that has casement win dows and I now find that in the windows get all wet I Uiere any way to take care of'thh condition? Answer: Snug-fittin- g storm sashe.. generally improve such a condition You can get these sashes for in. stalling on the inside. 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Synthetic rubber Is defined as a e combination of molecules that form a substance having the chief characteristics of crude rubber. In 1938 the total of American-controll-rubber plantations was about 260000 acres, mostly in the Far East. These plantations produced 40,000 tons annually, or about 8 per cent of U. S imports. RFGGodrich (MANY DOCTORS , RECOMMEND V x THISTONIC i If You nire Easily", have low resistance!' colds and minor ills-- due to lack of w Vital EIements-naf- raf A & D VitaC try taking g Scott's Es sion daily the year around I National-- vey shows many doctors recomj: Scott's to help build up resistance, back energy and stamina! Buy S"1 ' today at all druggists Ajk IT'S GOOD-TA- --rife. Keep the Battle BolM With War Bonds and SP BUOUSEHOLD irlinTste A little horseradish and lemon juice mixed with mayonnaise makes a good sauce to serve with tongue. When dampening and rolling up the wash before ironing, put at the bottom of the basket the pieces you like to iron best and which are the easiest. That way, the last of the ironing will go fast and seem easy. If pillows are forced into pillow cases that are too small for them, the cases will soon wear out. If coconut is a little hard for desserts, soften it by soaking sev- - T, eral minutes in milk or fruit juice, ij ... Oilcloth covering for cupboard and pantry shelves is a real work-- saver. To keep crumbs and dust from collecting under the edges, seal them w.ith.c.ell.ulose tape. For the children's sandwiches add chopped raisins to peanut but-- I; ter, also a speck of salt, and use as a filling between slices of j; whole-whe- b.re.ad.. When making a dress sew the collar and collar-facin-g in place before closing the under-ar- m seams, so that the work lies flat on the machine. Clean powder puffs are handy for cleaning silverware; use one to apply the polish and another to do the buffi.ng.. . Old tires that can no longer be used, but without holes, can be made into chicken troughs and wa-- j terers. Cut the tire in half direct-- ly opposite the opening to make a chicken trough and you have two. . Dried fruit, if cooked in the oven, need not be soaked first. Cover fruit with water. Bake in a covered dish. Slow oven cooking seems to bring out the sweetness of the fruit. If sweetening is need ed, add a little sugar or honey. News fix BEmND&k By PaulMallonJ- - Released by Western Newspaper Union. NEW TAX PLANS PRESENT SERIOUS PROBLEMS WASHINGTON. How the average man will be able to pay a 30 per cent withholding tax, put the cus-tomary 10 per cent into government bonds, and live on 60 per cent of his earnings or less, is the main stum-bling block to the tax problem which the treasury is pushing off upon con-gress. In some instances, as with govern-ment workers, an additional 5 per cent goes to retirement, meaning that a single worker earning $50 a week would have to pay out $18.90 a week in taxes and live on $31.10 (allowing for the $12 a week basic withholding tax exemption). Wages have gone up, it is true. The official estimate of average weekly earnings (War Labor board) is up 10.7 per cent from September, 1942, to May, 1943. But the cost of living is officially calculated to have Increased 6.2 per cent in the same period. National statistics never accurate-ly portray anything more than a cold generalization. Most people think the cost of living, for instance, is up much more than the official estimate, which is weighted perhaps with many things they do not buy and cannot get these days. Also, the wages of many war work-er groups are up much more than 10.7 per cent while those of profes-sional,- clerical and white collar classes are probably not increased that much. But officialdom says there is ap-proximately 50 billion dollars of sur-plus money in circulation in the United States, and it wants to reach that reservoir of funds. The mon-ey, of course, is being spent, is in banks, business and pocketbooks. There is no taxation method by which it can be extracted directly, because of the unevenness of its dis-tribution. In the face of this situation, it is obvious that the treasury tax pro-gram will be viewed in congress as a rather theoretical ambition. No one there thinks anything like 10 billion more in money can be raised. It is likely that the bill if finally en-acted, will be less than half of the requested amount. HOW ABOUT SALES TAX? There is one way in which a large amount of new money could be brought in, from the surplus cash reservoir, but it has not much back-ing. This method, of course, is the sales tax. Mr. Roosevelt has always shared the common liberal viewpoint that such a tax lays more heavily on the poor than the rich. The fact is it now would catch those who have the money and are spending it. In normal times, the liberal argu-ment has a better foundation, but, ip these days when the surplus mon-ey is largely in the hands of war workers, the liberal position seenis to me to be antiquated. However, in view of Mr. Roosevelt's opposi-tion, it cannot be enacted. Clearly, the present income, cor-poration and excise taxes are near the workable endurance limit. You read and hear some liberal and un-ion claims continually that corpora-tions are making big war profits, but here again the national average is somewhat misleading. The big war producers like United States Steel, General Motors and others are making less. Contract renegotiation is cutting still further into war plants income. The national over-a- ll figure is bulged by such sensational increases as those of the railroads, for instance, which are making more money than ever in history. Consequently, it would not be sur-prising if congress failed in the end to enact any tax bill at all. IS LABOR DRAFT BILL 'DYING ON THE VINE'? The h compulsory labor draft bill is dying on the vine. The only one who could possibly re-vive it and put it through is Mr. Roosevelt. His persistent silence has discouraged the backers of the legislation. They now know they cannot get the measure out of either the house, or the senate military af-fairs committee even as far as the senate floor for public discussion. The only administration authori-ties who have forcefully advocated the measure are War Secretary Stimson and his assistant, Patter-son. Congressmen have heard ru-mors that at one time the entire Roosevelt cabinet wanted the bill, but apparently not now. WAVES STAY AT HOME The senate naval affairs commit-tee killed the provision permitting WAVES to go overseas, largely on the private recommendation of some naval officers. The committee members made some personal investigations of the WAVES organization during their recent vacation travels, and brought back splendid reports. However, to transport them overseas would in-volve complications of housing which probahly would cost more than their transportation would be worth. BONDS YOUR BEST BUY A reader has written me protest-ing my column urging that govern-ment bonds are the best investment obtainable by the average man in these times. He complains that citi-zens will have to pay the interest in taxes on the bonds they buy, and, therefore, are merely paying them-selves. Right, he is. But all the more reason for buying the bonds. He will pay his taxes anyway, but will never get any interest return from the government. The program w ill thus cost money regardless. High-H- Trial At any murder trial in Worce-ster county, Mass., the sheriff is required by law to wear a tail hat, cutaway coat, and carry a sword. |