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Show I have had a good bit of experience and have cooked for over five years, and also have been in the restaurant business myself in my own state-California state-California and, as you are our senator, sena-tor, I implore and insist that you havo me put in the armyj as I was turned down in California 'on account of a slight physical defect; but which in no way will interfere with me as a cook. As J have three brothers in the army and about twelve cousins, some as high as captains, and my grandfather grand-father was Captain C. Thomas of the civil war; my father also served in the navy, so why shouldn't I have the chance to do something, too, as my folks all call me a slacker and I want to snow them I am not? I gave up my business in California Califor-nia only a couple of months ago because be-cause "taunts of my parents were too much for me. Now, senator, do not fail me in. my one ambition. Captain Fit?; Gerald immediately looked up Mr. Thomas and will probably find means of granting his desire. IS CALLED SLACKER; WOULDjMR ARMY Local Cook, Once Rejected, Demands Place in Troop Kitchen. Because his folks call biin a slacker, and for various other reasons which appear ap-pear to him sufficient, Robert A. Thomas, a cook, who gives his address as the Luxor hotel, Salt Lake, demands he be admitted to the military service of the United States as a cook. Recently he wrote a letter to Senator Hiram V. Johnson of California, in which he set forth his complaint and his request, re-quest, and the letter was subsequently referred to Provost General E. H. Crow-der, Crow-der, who in turn sent it to Captain F. V. Fitz Gerald, draft executive officer for Utah, who received it yesterday. It says: . T am writing with one purpose only, and that is to have Provost General Crowder put me in the United States army at American Lake as a cook, as |