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Show Kfhl.Phillipr W THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF PRIVATE TURKEY Dear Ma Every day they are checking out a bunch of us refugees from soft beds under them m 'tT" new rules releas- r,"5 ing Jeaps who are jS XJ married, or 28 ;fg years old, or needed at home, 7M y- but they are still W EZZIE passing me up QJhJ like 1 was the u 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 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 help 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 1 will think it a prlverlage 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 going over by the doctors 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 be came In. I asked Sergeant Mooney and he said it 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 impossible im-possible for a army to ever get m-back m-back in the same condition again Otto Bixby thought he was going lo 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 records rec-ords of admission showed he had four teeth missing when he got In and they don't check with the fact 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 got a regimental 3 tJfi fotball team on witch 1 am trying purZjl serves. In the Ejitfjl AJC Jf-l "rst scrimmage I srJTtT- - k 8' a sprained ff l ankul, two broken '"ikMiMBMM toes, a dislocated arm, a soar back and two teeth knocked out but I still do not feel 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. see 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; 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, 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. fnone neisea o-oujs and 9 p. m." New York Times. But bow are you on ski jumping and horse-shoeing? Believe it or not, there is at 491 East 95th street, Brooklyn, a Society for the Prevention of Disparaging Remarks About Brooklyn. Three New Jersey judges have declared de-clared pinball machines obviously gambling devices and denounced the claims of operators and lawyers that they are not. Here and there you find a court that can't be fooled. Hitler is giving the New Order to Europe and Asia and the dull thud of the falling bodies of the beneficiaries benefi-ciaries is heard on all sides. It is culture by way of the firing squad and the better life against the background of a stone wall. "This war will decide the fate of Germany, for the next 100 years."- HiUer- tJ J -A A year ago he said it would decide it for 1.009 years. What's a little matter of 900 years to a microphone? micro-phone? , |
