Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-01 | Page 6 | Lament of a Private

Lament of a Private. In the army they call me a private. It is a misnomer. There is nothing private about me. I have been examined by fifty doctors and they haven't missed a blemish. I have confessed to being married and having no children. 1 have told my previous occupation and my salary. 1 have nothing in my past that has not been revealed. I am the only living thing that has less privacy than a gold fish. I sleep in a room with countless other men and eat with about PC-o. I take my baths with the entire detachment. detach-ment. I wear a suit of the same material and cut as cVion.'Un"! other men. I have to tell a physician when I kiss a pretty cirl. I never have a single moment to mv-fc-elf. And vet thev call me a "Private!" Private: What the? Xew Orleans Times-Picayune.