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Show Pace Seven The Cache American. Lojran. Cache County, Utah See Here, FSg Private Hargrove! Y(k Marion Hargrove by 111 It STORV (O FAR; ot Uw at Prlviu kUrloa According to the sergeant, U (lurloM (V. C.) ladurwd Into (he nay, took u4 ke toil k Urt there ot kit tptre" momrBlt ee RP Rely. He ktt likri Ume eel, tweeter, le tdvue prex perine kcwtkkeyt le "pturt the Wet rrd" before Mtrlut ltd core la Ike army le keep aa apea mled" at Ike krti ikree aeefct are Ike hararet. Hu rot, tael attltameal le HP It Ike ( tpalr ef hit terfeael eke ketieeei Har (rove eiil aever leant le he a crark eoldier. h.t tail eipertrare eat a rifle letpecOoa la thick he fared kadly. New be keilat a aew eplaode toaeeraiaf la raak. rUAPlEB IV Selectee Joseph C. Gantt, late of Liberty, South Carolina, came out for reveille thi morning with grin you could have used for foot rule, lie held both hi arms against the front of hi shirt In queerly trained posture and blushed happily every time someone looked at him. "The heat' got the boy, I told Gene Shumate. "Look like the best ones always go first, That ain't the heat, said Cookie. "He seems to have a cramp In his r arms. We looked at Gantt's arms again. Then, for the first time, we noticed two shining r stripes on each sleeve. Gantt was a corporal nowl "Heavena to Betsy, we shouted In unison for his benefit "Is that punk a corporal? Corporal Gantt acknowledged the tribute by joyfully changing his color to a holiday Citizen-Soldie- Citizen-Soldie- i rookies from the back counties, be said, had been known to go like this: Halt halt halt! (You can believe it or leave it: I never question what the sergeant says.) There was one rookie guard, he said, who halted him, questioned him and allowed him to pass. After he had gone several steps, the sentry again shouted. Halt!" Sergeant Taylor came back and wanted to know politely, of course-h- ow said the come. My orders, say to holler 'Halt' three guard, times and then shoot You're just on your second halt now! The other popular expression Is f call that goes the up the line to the guardhouse when a guard takes a prisoner or meets ny case not covered by Instruction" (General Order No. 8). If the guard Is on the seventh post he sings out Corporal of the guard! Post number seven! The guard on the sixth post picks up the cry and it goes down the line like that There's the story about the officer of the day who questioned a new sentry, as officers of the day frequently do In order to test the sentries. Suppose, the OD asked, that you shouted halt three times and I kept going, what would you do?" waa The apparently guard stumped by the question. Finally he answered, Sir, I'd call the corporal of the guard. The officer of the day gloated. So you'd call the "Aha! he said. corporal of the guard, would you? And just why would you call the corporal of the guard? This Ume the answer was prompt To haul and decisive and correct away your dead body, air! Heroes are born, not made. There' one Job here that Is nothing but goldbricklng In Itself. Thats the latrine orderly detail. You go to work after lunch and spend the rest of the afternoon watching the fire In the water heater and feeding it regularly every two hours. The next morning you sweep and mop the washroom and spend the rest of the Ume until lunch watching the fire again. All In all, you lead a lazy, carefree existence. somewhere There waa a slip-uyesterday. I was latrine orderly instead of a KP. It was probably the mess sergeants idea. The boys started out after lunch for an afternoon of drilling in the warm Carolina sunshine and learning to drive trucks across ditches. An hour later, I decided to take a casual look at the boiler. When door, a I opened the furnace-rooblast of strong brownish smoke struck me to the ground. I lay there for several minutes, tapping my forehead thoughtfully, while more smoke poured out. When it still hadnt slackened after five minutes, I crawled under the layer of smoke to the boiler. There the sickening vapor was, pouring nonchalantly through clinks in the door. ' Dont come telling me about it," Davidson. Ma said Sergeant Take out the pipes and clean them. All of them. I had to see the top sergeant to When I reget my instructions. turned to Sergeant Davidson I was happy again. "Ma," I told him, the top kick says for you to supervise the job. The sergeant was furious with rage and frustration. I grabbed a screwdriver and he grabbed Private Downer, who had a black mark by his name for not wearing his identification tr.g. The three of us started work. First, put out the fire in the boiler. Shake It down, throw ashes on it. It still burns. Shake it down more, throw sand on it. Still burns. Close the bottom door, shake it down more, throw ashes and sand on it. Curse it After too long, it dies. The man who devised the system for connecting an indoor boiler and an outdoor chimney should be parched with his own pipes and stuffed with oily soot. Unscrew a pipe, lift it gently, coax it from its socket Easy does it Careful there. When you have it almost out inhale for your sigh of relief. Crash! The whole network of pipes bounces off the floor scattering ashes and soot over half the p Heavens to Betsy, we shouted In unison for his benefit. Is that punk a corporal? red. The grin widened until his ears hung perilously on the brink of his lips. It took him half the morn- ing to sober his spirits to working conditions. Corporal Gantt has been in the Army exactly four months. He had been an acting corporal for three weeks before be got bis stripes. Heaven grant him strength for the ordeal ahead. The term "buck private was explained to us this afternoon. It refers to the Old Army Game, "passing the buck. The sergeant is first called on the carpet for a mistake In his platoon. The sergeant seeks out the corporal and gives him a dressing-down- . The corporal passes the buck by scalding the ears of the private. The private doesnt even have a mule to kick, so he cant pass the buck any farther. He keeps it. That makes him a buck private. The Army, I find, has many subtle ways to trap the unwary into volunteering for work. First there was the sergeant over at the Reception Center who came through the recreation hall one afternoon calling for "Private Smith. Four men answered. All four were put to work picking up cigarette stubs. On the call, Anybody in here know how to handle a truck? dont speak up. The last three were seen later pushing a hand truck up the battery street to haul rifle racks. Corporal Henry Ussery is to date the most dangerous conscriptor. This week he came into the squadroom to ask if anyone was good at shorts admithand. Three ted that they were. "Report to the kitchen, the corThe mess sergeant poral laughed. says he's shorthanded on dishwashers. citizen-soldier- Rs One of the most solemn and responsible trusts of a soldier," Ser- geant Curly Taylor said today, is his guard duty. Sergeant Taylor, who has been in the Army for nineteen years and probably knows more about guard duty than any man In Fort Bragg, is teaching us about guard duty now. The soldier is called to this duty about once a njonth. For a period, he is on two hours, and off four hours, and he walks his post In a military manner, guarding the peace and possessions and safety of a part of the post. He is responsible only to a corporal of the guard, a sergeant of the guard, an officer of the day, and his commanding officer. The guard, or sentry, is known chiefly to the reading and moviegoing public by two expressions, Halt, who goes there?" and Corporal of the guard! Post number three! The former, Sergeant Taylor said with his best poker-fachas given the Army considerable worry at times. twenty-four-ho- 1 the UI at guard is instructed to give the halt kn knl order Nr, three times and then shoot 1I1111M Hirirott, liU Kathleen Norris Says: When Mother Gets L vica running your loud mouth about I'm the nice sergeant who always gives you the wrong clothing sizes and hides your laundry and does all those awful things you've been telling about me I proSo help me, sergeant, I never named thee but to tested. praise. Somebody's been trying to poison your mind against me. I am also the nice sergeant" he said, who is going to let you earn your seventy cents today. Take off your fatigue blouse, my man, and prepare to sweat Today we make progress. We are going to unpack rifles." It seems to me that when the manufacturer prepares to pack box of Army rifles, his cruel streak comes out at its worst From the look of the rifles, he has his daughter prepare a compound of molasses, pitch, and used motor oil the gooier the belter. He slings each gun into the resulting mess, sloshes it around for a while, and ihtn lays it neatly into the box. You use a swab about the size of a tablecloth to wipe the grease from the rifle. When youre halfway through the first rifle, you have to use the gun to the grease from the cloth. When you have finished, you need a large coal shovel to wipe the grease off yourself. There Is nothing so conducive to itching as the inability to scratch. Just when the grease mixture covers your hand to the point where you cant see the outlines of the fingers, that left nostril starts tingling. At first it itches only a little and you decide to suffer it So you don't wipe your hands on the seat of your trousers. Instead you pick up another rifle and your hand sinks to the elbow in the goo which WTaps it This is the stage where your nose gets peevish and impatient and decides to itch in earnest. Finally, you decide to give in. You wipe your hands an operation which takes a good three or four minutes You lift for satisfactory results. your hand to scratch your nose, only to find that your nose isnt itching any more. I was doing fairly well this morning, even when you take the itch into consideration, until the mess sergeant happened to stroll by. Hello, little man, he sings gaily, with a horrible gleam in his eyes, Youve not been around to see me for a long time. Aren't mad, are you? I look at my hands, at the rifle, at the old shoe, and at the mess sergeant. I hold my tongue. Health is wealth. We miss you terribly in the kitchen, he coos, even when you go griping around that my food is the worst in the Army. I just saw the first sergeant and I asked him to let you be a KP just as soon as he can spare you. Oh, we're going to do wonders to that kitchenware, you and I." He pats me on the forehead with ominous tenderness and departs. three-year-ol- molasses-pitch-axl- e a Job Bell SodicaU -- WNU A SERIES OF SPECIAL ARTICLES 'BYTHELEADINO correspondents VA Every 7lh Cirl A Spinster? By Aram Scheinfcld (WN(J irwil F0atutTkr9jik with rr Wfkij) For the first time In history the United States la confronted with a big shortage of potential husbands. The situation already is so serious that one out of every seven girls now seems headed for splnsterhnod. And if we add to this the young widows and divorcees who wont be able to marry again, we are threatened with a standing population of millions of women six, seven, eight million, no one can estimate exactly how many who will have to go through life without husbands. This simple fact la social dynamite. It can rock the foundation nf ear social system and attilndrs toward sex, rut down our population, change our American way of life. Those who best understand the dangers ahead our population ex perts, sociologists, economists and are genuinely con psychologists Harriets laths is only one of o million : Harriets sons or only tiro o l cemed. They have seen throughout million, but they ora there, uhers Lnrls Sam Hants them, filling to the brtm in Sweden, EngEurope, notably their microscopic part of the Ulantc effort that is hot. land, France and Germany, the grave changes that have accompaBy KATHLEEN NORRIS nied marked reductions in the pro38 portion of men to women. They is one of know that unless we begin planning many women who speedily and realistically to meet schedule the unbalanced situation of the two finds a wartime aexes, it is going to be difficult to somewhat distracting. She moral and works maintain our present-daa lathe from seven at social standards. until midnight; You can't blame the situation on at night comes home exhausted to the war. It will make things worse, but it Isn't the primary cause. Long drink a cup of coffee and sleep before It started, there had been a until perhaps nine or ten. Her steady drop In the ratio of men to husbands hours are from women in the United States. If the eight until four, nominally, war .ended today and we could recall to life and health every one of but he often works until early our casualties, there still would not evening. Thedaughter teaches be nearly enough men to provide in a night school and folds bandhusbands for all our girls. ages for the Red Cross every afterMen Less Resistant. noon. Harriet goes to market at There are two fundamental causes about two o'clock, gets her own supfor our man shortage. One is bioper at six, leaves something inviting logical, affecting the whole civilized for Larry, and goes off to work. world: the fact that males are inLinda and her young man usually herently weaker in resistance to disjoin Larry for dinner, but they have ease and death. The other cause is to hurry off, too, to their waiting Harriet, your problem is that of peculiar to the United States, and classes. The ions of the family are many women today, and while I results from our having used up the in the navy. don't always advise them as I do Sometimes I ask myself if we are you, still my usual suggestion is artificially created male surplus the happy group of ten years ago, that they continue to work while the brought in by past immigrations. Most dramatic is the biological writes Harriet government needs them, and let the My lovely factor: Males enter the world with girl, my boy twins, were other members of the family come the cards stacked against them. No busy and content then with home- to appreciate two things. One is matter how we might equalize con- work, Scouts, movies, comics, radio, the pleasure and excitement that ditions for both sexes by abolishing helping mother make doughnuts, Mother gets when she is paid for war, or eliminating accidents and going off for long picnic trips in the what she dotj and has her own added strains on men males are old car not a cloud, and not a money to spend, instead of managdestined to die off at a faster rate. bomber. In the sky. Now it's all ing somehow on what is left from That fact now is known to apply higgledy-piggledlaundry not home, the payment of household bills. And not only to human beings, but to tailor called and gone away again, the other is the realization of what most of the animal kingdom. From dust everywhere, telephone not an- clever management, patience, conservice an ordinary mice to elephants, from birds to swered, marketing a long, slow centration, files and fish. In almost every speprocess, weekly letters to the boys home demands if it is to be comfortcies the male Is biologically less re- often a real burden to write. For I ably and smoothly run. For these two things Mother has long waited. sistant, and has, on the average, a like to put in little jokes and clippings and show a certain amount of shorter life span. Harriet Helping Win War. spirit and courage and they simply One of the most interesting experiThe third and most important conments on this point was made at the arent there! sideration that Influences me in adBut now let me explain why I vising Harriet to stick to her Job, New York aquarium, with guppies, the familiar little tropical fish that am working. I will say honestly is that we are fighting a great war that, while I would make any sacgive birth to live offspring. Exwinning a great war, I dare to say pectant mamma guppies were rifice for my country, and am indeed now. We are winning it because a placed in one tank, and after their facing the possibility of the supreme constant unbroken lifeline of ships hundreds of progeny had been bom sacrifice of my sons lives with what is moving steadily toward the battle and had grown for a certain period, philosophy I can, the money ques- fronts; the lonely islands they were counted by sexes. It was tion also makes a difference to me. of the Pacific and of Alaskas waWhile alam can I put working I found that the females outnumbered ters, the ports of England and Rusmost two hundred dollars a month sia and China. the males two to one. One of the reasons for this much toward the mortgage we have carOur boys watch for these ships; higher survival rate of females is ried on our home for 17 years. I they know when they come in. They that males are more likely to enter never thought of attempting to raise would know it, instantly, and with the world with inherited defects. An- it until I got this war job. Other the first chill touch of doubt in their other is that the female organic bills have been paid; we are solvent courageous hearts, if that line mechanism is better able to adjust for the first time in our married stopped. They need to feel they MUST feel that every one of us to sudden internal upsets or external lives. here at home is behind them. That adversities. Savings to Meet Peaces Drain. Among infants dying in the United I blame myself now for the old, in America the forges and welders States before their first birthday, at slipshod years when I never was and cranes and tackles and smeltleast 25 per cent more boys than quite caught up with monthly bills ers and foundries are smoking and girls are carried off. During child- and regarded a mortgage as some- roaring day and night; that the railhood this mortality ratio drops, but thing about as essential as a roof. ways are hot with the pressure of at maturity the male death rate Now I feel differently. Now I feel thundering trains; that sweating goes up again, and thereafter the that we may have some years of crews are swarming on the docks, death toll among men is at least 25 serious social upset after the war; shouldering the great bars of steel, per cent higher than it is among hundreds of women losing jobs, thou- the crates and boxes and barrels, women. By the time the sands of men seeking them, certain and that ships are sliding from the the principal marriage years, war businesses that are booming to- ways, taking to the deep seas, as are reached, the original surplus is day completely extinguished; peace- ships have never in the history of completely gone, and thereafter time enterprises slow to start up the world been launched before. women This can only go on if we do all outnumber again. It will be a great comfort increasingly men. to me if I can say then that we we can and more than we can to One remarkable fact is that as the own our home clear of incumbrances keep the tremendous machinery and that I have some money safe in moving. Harriets lathe is only one expectation of life has been exof a million; Harriet's sons are tended, women have profited more war bonds. than men have. From 1900 to 1941, My husband and daughter want only two of two million, but they the expectation of life at birth had me to stay home and keep the house are THERE, where Uncle Sam been Increased by about 15 years in the old way. That means careful wants them, filling to the brim their for males, but 17 years for females. management, money shortage, and own microscopic part of the titanic no more payment on the mortgage, effort that is war. Up to this present generation, we which is now down to $1,300. Larry If Larry, the husband, and Linda, bad more than enough men always can give me about $65 a month for the daughter, did their share of the to go around, with "seconds, as household expenses; Linda pays odd housekeeping, the marketing and well, for young widows and divorbills sometimes telephone or gas, managing, the problem would be cees. We were still able to draw and for her own lunch and clothing solved. It is not fair to leave to npoa the heavy surplus of foreign-bor- n costs. Now and then the boys send Harriet the entire burden of buying males brought in by previous Ma a special check, but most of and booking, cleaning and planning. immigrations. Now the situation for their money goes to government As it is she is doing most of the American girls Is something like bonds. I didnt say, but you may work at home, most of the buying, usplaying Going to Jernsalem, have inferred it, that counting pay and also filling a most important of men Instead With chairs. and overtime, I am being paid more war job and helping to make life ing each turn of the years, additional than husband and daughter together. safe for everyone she loves after know that is only temporary, but the war. This is an overbalanced men have been yanked away aud more girla have been left to stand I would be glad to make good use of schedule; but the fault is not it while it lasts. alone. ( Harriet barnes, y eight-year-o- ld far-awa- y The sergeant yelled ont of the winat me, so I dropped my broom and went upstairs. dow Five paces away, he turns for a he Blabbermouth! snorts. I suppose hes good to his mother, though. The sergeant yelled out the window at me, so I dropped my broom in the battery street and went upstairs. He was sitting on the foot locker, thoughtfully rubbing his chin knife. with the handle of his mess-kbattery area. Ralph Oxford got called up to the After half an hour of scrubbing battery commanders office this and wiping the interior regions of morning, he said, and do you all the pipes, theyre ready to go know what the Old Man gave him? All but one of them are up again. Ive got a pretty good idea, I in place and the last one Is ready said. If he gave him what he gave to be fitted. Careful there! Easy, me when I got called up, it has four now! Watch out! Catch it! CRASH! letters, starts with an h and ends The boys come in from the drill with an 1. field at 4:30 and head for the showThe sergeant closed his eyes and ers. There is no hot water. shook his head. Oxford isn't slowly of that Hargrove, Get a load a sore thumb to the platoon like they fumB, in an unnecessarily nasty you are," he groaned. Oxford got He gets a job where all manner. a red stripe to wear around he has to do is throw a shovel of hisbright sleeve. coal on the fire every two hours. "Oxford's no fireman, I told him. And then when we come in, there Youre dern right be aint, said aint no hot water. There ain't even the sergeant "Starting with today, out bum the Throw fire. no Oxford and Zuber and Roff and s Maciejewski and Pappas and I grinned weakly as I reported to are acting corporals! the supply sergeant for work. You I knew there must be a moral to must be that nice Sergeant Thomas all this, so I waited for him to go W. Israel I've heard so many nice on. things about. Now, why couldnt you have been he said. I'm one of those six boys? he asked. No, little man, the nice Sergeant Israel youve been (TO BE CONTINUED) parting shot it Mihal-akako- s, |