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Show JlfSj ! f fhl.Phillipr F PRIVATE PURKEY WRITES AGAIN Dear Ma-Well Ma-Well when I first got called In the draft I was told no soldiers wud be sent to Europe and that I was just going to get a year's training just in case but everything I here on the radio sounds like I am not up here just for fizzical kulshur. I see the lease-lend bill is all but past and all I am still wondering is if I go with the lease. Nobody In my divishun seems to no what the lease-lend bill is all about except that it is for all aid to England short of war and the boys say you can be a midget in this army and not be too short for war, so I gess if war comes there is no way out for me, mom. I am still getting a lot of instruck-shuns instruck-shuns in how to saloot and from all the emphassiss put on salooting I gess there are some people who are so old-fa sn-ened sn-ened they think this war is going to be as polite as the last one. I am gradually getting used to going around with a gun. At first this felt very funny as all my life I was brung up to avoid weapons. The life here is pretty confining as I sed before and how I wud like a week end auto trip to no place special! spe-cial! It wud also be a big kick to be abel to talk back to people whenever I wanted to like in sivilian life. Up here if you talk back to anybuddy you wind up in the gard house. I got reprimmandid for smoking cigarettes while marching. The cap-tin cap-tin was very sore and sed it wuz against the rules and he sed it was bad for my lungs also. What made him sore was when I asked him not to worry about my lungs but start worrying about my feet Well, mom, now I know why they went over my teeth so carefuly in the draft test I could not understand under-stand why the doctors made so much fuss about my teeth but it is all clere now since I got some of the beef the army uses in beef stew. The cows they get it from must be half elephant, ele-phant, ma. I wish Mr. Nuddson of the defense bored wud do something about getting sharper knifes for soldiers. sol-diers. If this army life dont do nothing else for me, mom, it will make me appreshiate good coffee. I gess they use tobacco leaves for coffee in the army. The boys say the cook dont know how to make coffee which I gess has ben true all through the history of armies and navies and I dont see why the U. S. dont have a secretary of coffee just like a secretary secre-tary of war so a cup of Java will taste like a cup of java and not like a hot brake smells. I still got that chance to join a tank corpse like I wrote you but dont worry as they are still using ice wagons for tanks and I wud look pretty going to war in an ice wagon. wudn't I, ma? Well this is all for now so I close with love. Oscar. THE CHILDREN'S HOUR Between the dark and the daylight. When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupation occupa-tion That is known as the Children's Hour. I see there beside the loudspeaker The innocent, sweet little dears While stories of gangsters and bump-offs Are brought to their infantile ears. From four until seven they sit by the programs' appeal. ap-peal. And hear of the gats and the gun molls And terrible mobsters who squeal. Cowboys and horses and rustlers, Love and the wages of sin, Kidnapers, death and destruction. Maniacs, arson and gin. The serial, ah, how it grips 'em I Enveloping all in its power; If the kids ain't in jail when they're fifteen Then no thanks to the air "Chil-dren's "Chil-dren's Hour." Mary Holland Gordon. Probably whenever anything goes WTong with Hitler be exclaims, ex-claims, "It must be somethui I hate!" 1 We take no stock in Fiorello La-Guardia La-Guardia s statement that he will not run for mayor of New York again Ssr.vT,isintoogood-pe and his fire helmet isn't nearly worn e e e Add similes: he looked as uttered ut-tered a. if he had been prolee. 1 bj the Nail.. V |