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Show fhl.PhiIiipr PEri ATE Pl'RKET IN ROME Well, all jeeps lead to Home and j here I am all tangled up in more monuments, statues, museums, art galleries, forums, circuses, colos-seums colos-seums and old ruins, including King Emmanuel than I ever seen In one place. But the balcony of the Palace Pal-ace Venezia gives me the biggest kick on account of it was that balcony bal-cony which did a lot to get the world into such a mess. If somebody had only of captured that balcony 10 or 15 or even 20 years ago what a difference dif-ference it would of made to Italy. (Also to me, eh?) The first thing I did was to go to the Palace Venezia to see the place from where Mussolini talked Italy into a state of daffiness and talked himself into and out of a good job. I wanted to see it on account of as a kid I seen so many newsreel pictures pic-tures of the big bum throwing out his chest and making faces which i was mistook for the face of Superman Super-man and always bellowing like a mad bull. Well I got to report I seen lots of better balconies, but I guess maybe none which ever got so many people in so much trouble. j ! The rail was a little damaged from ! pounding and there was deep ruts in the stone floor from Chesty strut- ting up and down for 21 years. Also there was a bad smell which the 1 Italians apologized for because Ben-! Ben-! ito had only been out about a year I and nobody could remove the smell i of a guy like that in so short a time. I got a kick out of the Colosseum. The Colosseum is not no movie picture pic-ture house and it ain't no restaurant like you would think. It is a early model of the Tankee Stadium with a little of the Tale Bowl thrun in. It looks all shot to pieces but not as shot to pieces as the Yankee Stadium after a outdoor fight. Sergeant Ser-geant Mooney explains to me that it is thousands of years old and was where the Romans played games back before Bennie give up the idea the only good outdoor sport was making funny salutes. I also seen the Roman Forum which is the place where Julius Caesar got the knife from some fellow fel-low by the name of Brutus and I stood on the spot where Mark Anthony, An-thony, who Is no relative of Dr. Anthony An-thony of radio fame, delivered the famous funeral spiel and asked everybody ev-erybody to lend him their ears. Well, he was a better guy than Mussolini, who did not ask to borrow no ears but just talked them right oft the peoples heads. I also seen Romulus and Remus and I got a lecture on it from an ex-Fascist leader who is now just picking up a few cents here an there, but the story is too deep for me. It is all about two kids and a wolf which gave Italy its start never knowing that some day two salutes and a polecat would almost give Italy its finish. Well, I never seen a city so glad to get captured. In fact the people was pretty sore that we didn't take then sooner. The King got out right after I got in, but he is such a little fellow nobody noticed he was gone and some think he is still here. Well, I will have to close as I still got about two hundred more statues to see and also the bridge where a man by name of Horatio wrote a poem about a bridge which I read in school. Everything Is okay here. Do not worry. It is the big push in France what counts. Yours, OSCAR PURKEY, Pfc. Elmer Twitchell tuned in on the Orson Welles bond drive radio program pro-gram and found it stirring indeed, but somewhat confusine. In fact. Elmer got so mixed up that, wanting want-ing to do his full duty and not being quite certain what Orson was saying, say-ing, he played safe by buying all the bonds possible, calling for a ninth inning rally, giving three cheers for Hollywood and writing in a letter approving a change in the economic system. Marshals Von Runstcdt and Rommel Rom-mel are reported to be in disagreement disagree-ment It seems that Von Runstedt thinks General Montgomery is not much of a general and has tried to tell Rommel so. Premier Stalin says the invasion of Normandy is one of the greatest military feats in history. We had an Idea he would like it. Excuse It, Please Each time I gaze upon my garden I feci I should beg nature's pardon. There is one governor whose name we can't help regretting will not figure fig-ure in the presidential race. Governor Gov-ernor Hickcnloopcr of Iowa. It would have been the joy of the columnists. We already had a campaign song: Vote for Hirkenlooper And get a superdooper! What is happening to the Germans in Italy now would be senEational if it were not for what is happening to them at other points. |