Show F o ofee See fee Here I Private Hargrove 4 by 1 Marion Marton Ha SE I F- F 1 y l STORY stonY so FAR Marion feature editor of a fore forn er ii Tore na as newspaper bas been in carol rill tD army and Is 15 IsIc r ng iota toto the innS training at at ort ort Bragg He hu b I r e nd coupled SS ned cd as a cook to Ic t assignment to KP hate hl hater Ulm quite qute fan alar with the Co n nde ne r de e E lot lotI Q d Euhen Re He has also learned a dt finer point of gOldbricking t I the ire ether favor or to te sold er pa pastimes Umes of learned all of the pop lar army I ps as He has beco ne sell ell 5 rap eap number of other I a with Ith ill dated the Ibe first trainIng period dra draws wS rs-JS rs R cd lu lIs close this ng starts to break Is lust Just starting 0 himself Barro I Irs fed teD day ten day 1 t CH PTER I II r 5 enough to drive e a man to You get a ten day furlough head for fore Ive e v I ork iou ou mooch 11 on an ultra s ank hotel ou gu dui due say b to to your elf that for those all out CIVIl days you w vv Il 11 be an you will squander our sub sub- sube ace e m r 1 ing you will get gel altogether the fact that ou out ous t s sold solder er And then v what hat hap hape e ou wake up at Sl sir o a clock elock no Iter how haw late you stay out the I before Then ou au can cant t go gov v sleep You have to buy en enor enors or ors s es of cIvIlian food to Sep up lip with your Army appetite ou au look In shop windows s and see seea a d give your wisdom teeth but you think of our purse m in inI inma I ma of 36 a month and the inner mner as aD COD you au that you ou can t tord tord ord them You Void d like very much to put on I our civilian clothes Just for a IDge ange but your our friends think you youk youk aI I k so 50 pretty m in y our un uniform orm that On t let you ou pull the old blue bluee me e out of mothballs It lint t bad aU all the v way ay through V of j sigh For Instance I walked out of the thea del the other day and ran into a e of 01 the boys from my own o bar In N No e v York on a three da s We exchanged the bed bedi i on the smallness of tl ii e eId ea eId Id and I sa v a sparkling a ty to spread a th ek ck layer of I could make the lad think 1 was one of these filthy rich pro prof f J Ju Jw w u 1 0 a OIl of wake up at 6 o 0 clock no mat mathow how bow late you ou went to bed Then can cant t go back bak to sleep ten tes yoU so often read about m an papers The kind that go about flash ng S I ngI iCA b bis lIs before unsuspecting Sadia ad adia a Won Wont t you have lunch with Ith me Then ben I added qu to te casu I Im rn stoP here at the ther 1 r i 1 JUs eyes popped faintly but a sod ODd solder sold er never passes up a free ale al We wert t back into the hotel Into the terr smart d n nI room I sm am led condescend y I the Ibe ter Ier to make him himIe Iv I v as a cash customer at the Ie Id and he led us to a table 7 1 m Dl afra d you au 11 find the food foode e depressingly dull I 1 told my de myde in arms No or ory y tongues The seem n plain but wholesome s Won Non t you try the breast 1 guinea hen v Ith asp a s p of Onion D 11 Re Rene ne 1 I dDn dont t care If I do he saId ail t particularly particular about r t heat 1 eat My nerves are all shot I 1 re ref f a r ly New York tires dreadful I have to run about Ins eon that volens-that sLat s Lat n for wally willy from one n club to an 1 r friendt brush ng up on old friend t And I m gett rig ng so tired of ti i have i and I part es Won t a slug of hootch w vv th me e tot got to have one edhe gulped nervously and ed he nod d do t care If he did I no d 0 tb sat on that he was g In bi aU all the propaganda about clubs ho hoS S is and 1 par Ira a roan man of simple tastes my f 1 Sa Ca d lit laIl ng both eyebrows s pre my face that bored I 1 Can t stand these iI silly mIxed I 1 Ike ke my 1 quor stra to Scotch y Scotchy i 1111 alter a ie fe roan man Myself he saId who ho had been CF t J a h hs grow s ngy d standing face shoulders and fetched tai tny kny flagons of the Old Enemy lace face 1 sank a 1 at the s i managed a to keep up a sophIst 14 kont I took asp a s p of ef soda soCa and be 1 C glass Well here s 5 look I r alou and go gong ng down me I ant on the tl corn he sa d wine the e toast I downed the yel loh n and so s d d he I bungled twos two though and had to use two gulps I shuddered V o 0 lent but he d do t see He had turned h s face and was cough rig ng vuth I th real fen fervor or e managed to get through the theme me mewl l all right weakened though we c were by the fire inter I cant con to Impress h m The ally of ly I h t was vas h s reminder that I would be spend ng v rig ng on kitchen police We parted when hen I told him I couldn t get out of a on I had to attend at 2 30 I had sum Impressed hIm and w th the thea a d of Providence I might be able to borrow money from h m occa occasionally back at Fort Bragg The meal cost me nothing but the fifty cent t p was as staggering If worst should come to worst I could al nays hock my watch If 11 I had a av v watch atch A Th with Day all its roast Vermont turkey Its p es and Its cand es and free c ga garettes was as just another day to me Phooey to It Our mess sergeant one OrvIlle D Pope was d cheerful when he awoke me on m the morning Please go awa away I said sald Just go away and let me gent curse Oh Private Hargrove he cro crowd ed ede we e have so m mich ch to be bethar for So very v very cry much We have food and warmth and freedom Food we e ve e got I growled In eluding potatoes with to peeL TIus is my potato thIS morn rig ng I don t need coal for warmth when hen I m bath ng myself in sweat And freedom See I am laughing b It lS is mg Day and I am peeling pota potatoes potatoes toes and wash ash ng d for the org orgy Phooey to Sollie Buchman the cook who WaS ws a student WIth me in 10 Battery A strode up humming that maudlin old grammar school song about over the river nver and tl ti rough the woods to grandfather s house we wego wego go goIt goIt It IS a glorious day drooled Pro gate vate Buchman It does my old heart good to think of the expressIOn on those bo boys s faces when they see t ti at Thanksgiving d Repress yourself Poppy Pappy I asked hIm It is not to th of the d I am th nit ng of the sinks overflowing wIth d dIshes left by those gluttonous hogs It was not enough that we had trays to wash ash Nov Nove ue e have to have Improvements No Nov v we e have to have china plates And cups And soup bowls bols And s h I ha hate te progress Bet er leave ti e a lad alone Pap Pappy Pappy py s Sergeant Pope He is pouting and ill wll not enter into the spirit of the day He has done wrong and IS as paying for lt it now Private Buchman and the mess sergeant busIed themselves at the 0 ovens ens I sat there ferocIOusly Jab bmg bing at potatoes and muttering wildly Three times I scowled at atthe atthe the sergeant but he wasn t looking Maury Sher my bosom compan companIon companion Ion from the cooks battery came racing m in through the back door Maury was slated to 10 be transferred to a cook s Job at Mad son Barracks New a ork and anc would be leavIng the folio v rig ng day If you OU have come to extend the season s greetings comrade I told h m wearily kindly do not trouble yourself To paraphrase D any fool who goes about w th Happy Thanksgiving on h sIps s 1 Ps should be bebo bebo bo led m in h s 0 oun n slum gull on and bUrled buried w vv th a GI breadstick m in hIs heart Do not attempt to cheer me meI meI I m not going to Mad son Bar Barracks Barracks racks he shouted I m staying here RIght here in III the Replace Replacement merit ment Center I I m go ng to be a mess sergeant m the antitank battery A Amess Amess mess sergeant I was day da over a huge choco chaco chocolate late nut sundae the other n at the ServIce Club cafeteria when John Johnny Johnny ny Lisk walked In with someone mho vho was a dead ringer for SImmons Jones of the Charlotte N e es s staff Anyone who is a dead ringer for SImmons can cant t be an anybody body but Summons Jones Joncs I so soI soI I gay gD e a the to 10 v wh sUe The two saw me and came over It was S all rIght He looked as If the t two ta a th he needed most at the moment were a haircut and a k nd word ord of sympathy He had the look of utter fut 1 ty kno only to those r ho have been m in the Army for less than ten days Well boy I asked him Ium how do you 1 ke the Army And you youdon youdon don t need to I 1 e about it itI I don t 1 think I 11 e ever eer er get used to It he sa dIve d I ye been pushed and cro crowded ded and yelled at for a week now and it doesn t get any better Maybe I was just born to tobe tobe be a CIvIlian You should ha e hay a seen Johnny and me when we got m I told him That s been only four months ago and here we ve are being condescend condescending mg ing and fatherly already Them were the days eren t they John Johnn n Lisk sighed deeply S don t know the trouble at all he said When Hargrove and I had been In or four days they slapped us on KP and almost killed us first th ng Then the next day they put the two of us to cleaning and painting GI cans until past sup supper per Der t me S knocked on wood Well they must have forgotten me I 1 we ve been m in the Army a week already and I haven t been on LP hP yet You wIll brother saId Johnny You will Hargro Hargrave e said S wIll you please stop look ng at my ha r I rim n t go ten feet w v shout being reminded to get a ha As soon as I can find a m nute I U ll get It cut Are you really having a hard hardt t me of It I asked h m Well after aner that talk I got from you ou before I was inducted I thought I would be go rig ng through hell for forthe the thc first weeks The way you au talked v as terr terrifying to say the least So I prepared myself for a much rougher time than I m really getting The drill rig ng ism Isn t bad at all I suppose my dane ng t I as helped me there An Anwa wa I e even een en se my myself myself self at lt it But the get gett rig ng up and dressing m in ten minutes I ll II never be able to todo todo do lt at Everything is all r l 1 lit it comes to the leggins I struggle w vv th those th untIl I m and I never do get t tl em on m in mt int t me I lust Just tied them on for reveille and sneaked back and andI andI I G I can t go ten feet without being reminded to get a haircut he saId put them on properly later I ye ve tried every way v ay poss ble but I Just can t get anywhere with them How are the fellows I asked hIm NIce bunch of boys I was surprised at them he saId People I we ve never seen be before before fore and they all go out of theIr v ay to help each aU er When v e were first inducted there were a lot lotof lotof of fella felIo vs I d seen poss pass bly once or tWIce before m in my 1 fe and we e all acted as If at Ife we e d known each other since we e v ere bab babes es esThen Then too I ye ve already run across some of the boys I know Johnny here is attached to our bat battery battery tery for rat ons and quarters and so soIs sois Is Buster Charnley They do as much as they can to show me the ropes and help me along during thIS awkward akward per od ad odA A Read ng through the camp news newspaper newspaper paper the other day I noticed sto stories rles ries written by T Private Thos lie lle Tom Mulvihill Thomas pity and various vanous other authors whose v hose names bore start rig ng resemblance to Thomas ll 11 or The collectIOn of 1 and Journal st c but ons ens to the Fort Bragg Post were all marked by the same flair flail for rhetoric the true gift g l lof of gab and a certa n rich and gor gorgeous gorgeous sent mentalIty In the mIdst of a factual story about a group 01 oft I college g rl choristers coming to Fort rort Bragg for a concert the steady Journal st c strain would suddenly burst into brill ant and maJestic phrases such as The Eat Bat BattalIOn retreat on hall w 11 burst golden sound next Tuesday night when the angelic voices of th lovely Zilch College young ladles ladies present a recItal or the Gen General General eral s I 1 the tUe e a year old son awed aed by the solemn ty of the on clung to his Ius daddy s hand through throughout throughout out the Impress we ve es esTh esTh Th s as 15 what Is known as the Mul 11 Touch I The 11 Touch lS is ed edat edat at Fort rort Bragg by the Pub Pubic I c Rela Bela Belat tons t ens cc s t table table able whirling dervish Black Tom 11 a fantast e c and unbelievable able lush tyro who came from Ne v jerk ork C ty by way of Salt Lake C t Utah II 11 of the great head I and the shaggy locks of 01 the lumber ng walk alk th the man of a thousand faces and a thousand I vo va ces 11 Is the c Re lat ons ens air Oice ce s one spark of true glamour our hope of immortality l IS everywhere at all allt allt t mes Out of every hundred photo photographs photographs graphs taken at rent rort Bragg om c alar al or personal profess onal or am It atcur-It IS safe to say that the flex ble face of Private II III l wIll beam out at yot yolo from ninety I five of them Photographers have no idea of how he gets into the thep thep p but a picture of any Ree Rec hall m in the Center will show h hell l pl g ping pong He s the one nearest the camera U II s next greatest talent Is his ability to create wildness and confUSIon at will His desk drawers bulge and sp ll 11 great quart quant ties of unrelated papers old notes news newspaper newspaper paper clipp and we rd personal effects His v ork ng schedule and methods are cl ci c and unfathomable unfathomable able He can wrIte SIX stories stones at once using every needed typewriter In the building TO BE CONTINUED I |