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Show THE PAYSON CIlliONICI.E. Cl drA See Here, Hargrove! private Marion Hargrove uavici Kathleen Norris Says: Prhate Marion former editorial employee of t Carolina newspaper, has been I Into the army and is receiving He has C training at Fort Bragg. classi-togethe- r assified as a cook. This with a more than usual to of KP duty have caused him well acquainted with the pretty kitchen. Private Hargrove oleoma rather well versed in the Single of goldbricking and other .jjattlme. He claims, however, or the bull sooting the breeze 't i, the soldiers favorite recrea--ofl this stage of training some we s are experts in the art. As the story he is discussing this. iy in the midst of the fiery hell, and there were still peaches on it. He tried to sneak into the tree, but the enemys bullets found him. He was carried behind the lines. Just as the stretcher bearers laid him down, an enemy shell exploded in the center of their little group and none of them were growing there ever seen again. This happened at exactly ten oclock on the morning of November 11, 1918 one hour before the Armistice was signed. CHAPTER IX e time, the evening bull worn themselves into a eflnlte routine. If Corporal is there, he lectures on how a the Army; if its Private ;e Clrkin, he tells how he direct the intricate traffic 3 of Radio City Music Hall was assistant chief doorman Unless Private Henri hell start a violent ,nt among the butchers over cut a steak. Jiuflln will talk for hours he beauties of the lakes in ita. Grafenstein will deliver Pietei;es on hw he would run the in football team; Pappas, erlabamas Crimson Tide. 11a-- . ti will sermonize on the and treachery of worn-natcses-lav- als i Geld-toppe- g six-da- lich isf however, the sessions have nore and more under the , Merton Hulce, a ,1 Private ''h.V lad from Muskegon, Hulce apparently ; 12 (Ifop at kissing the Blarney yards ijje must have stolen half him. large carry with shghtlj's chief topic of conversa-rder- s icjg mothers fabulous family, 01 nJII',ths, all of whom seem to aeshed in every war that His grandfather who ATTERVlon Coast Guard miery sdaptain in the utbreak of the last war, was n coins fe(j duty at guarding mu' lumps and such for the dura-thwar. ling to Hulce, one of the is guards with his grandfa- etail was approached late 1 by an officer of the guard. shouted the sentry, and the n, Advance to be mlCalted. ggij the sentry, and the non cdyance1dH,The sentry, the again ame within a foot of him. d( one-ma- fr iie s a- -P- Next to the Bugler, I suppose the battery clerk has the goldbrickinest job in the battery. You could cut his pay to ten dollars a month and hed still be defrauding the government. Just watch the battery clerk for a while and you start wondering why hes in the Army, when hes so evidently cut out to fit the leaning end of a WPA shovel. While the rest of the battery is earning its daily bread with sweat, the battery clerk sits in the orderly room with the powers that be, typing the daily worklist with original spellings for all the names and wondering how long it is until lunchtime. Our battery clerk is a beardless youth named Howard Miller. I tripped over him yesterday evening on my way back from a hard days work and stopped to chew the conversational fat. Junior. I asked him, how does your conscience feel about this goldbricking schedule every week? Dont you feel a twinge on payday? Corporal Miller made a move to draw himself up indignantly, but decided it wasnt worth the effort. If youre Insinuating that I dont have to work youre off your bean, sonny. I do two or three times as much work as you happiness boys. After I yawned and sat down. listening to Ussery shooting off his mouth fifteen hours a day, I can take yours. Go on with your fantastic story. Boy, said Miller, the responsibility is enough to kill an ordinary information man. Im a bureau for the whole battery. I have to know who everybody Is, where everybody is, where everybodys going and how long hes going to be there. I have to know the answer to every dumb question you guys come popping up with. Wheres my mail? When do I get my furlough? Where are we going to be sent when we get shipped out of here? Why didnt 1 get a weekend pass? Why was I on KP again today? Every sort of question you could imagine! Quit popping your guns, laddie, I told him. Thats no grind for you. You use the same answer on all the questions: How the hell proc to the st oosen e, l, and a. raw, tr, mucot ruggist t Ision wit ust liket cough or, stirred and sighed heavily. All right, I prompted him, "so information buyoure the reau. So what do you do in the line of actual work? Work! he shouted. Thats what I do work! Why. I have to write all the letters and keep all r LET midst of this fiery hell he the files and keep duty rosters up to date! I have to make thousands PATV ch tree with peaches grow-- of rosters of the battery every month irou up "That, I suggested, should take r iluggnte officer reached out and least two or three hours every at the rifle from guards mint! the What do you do to while away day. tive. Sin hours of the day? fore you as an exceedingly uncom- - the other tedious He was quiet again for about a rd."ce "jsition for the guard, minute. Then he arose. Ive got of war. He might ing gentle18 time a pretty hard day ahead of me toto swell 6 been sentenced death, feel I he said. morrow, Hargrove, astes goodjj. gtood there just lookng wont mind if you excuse :nerousfaCuar(j for fully a minute. hope you You have to get plenty of JHMT'uld yu lave done, he myself. when you have a job like sleep if an terrible voice, flllle mine." id got your gun like that? When you have a Job like trd trembled for a moment yours, I growled, you can sleep ad Buhbvered. I would have and day. night mbining back, sir, he said, like -i- tafights oojid the officer stood there, stuck his head The top sergeant nded. out of the supply room and becktold who that oned with his arm. grandfather, Come ere, now about sixty-fivhis you! was He to asked says. I dropped my stable broom in the ck into the Navy three street and hastened toward go as a captain. Being a battery him, as one always doe when sumin him With the back. s is kick. rces today are two of his moned by the top Private Hargrove, he "Well, of his grandsons. jW4two r this is a for said, day had two uncles in the last you. Of whom fared exceeding-the- n "You mean youre going to let you take a practical me go out and drill like the other t. Neither tired himself fellows? first crossed the ocean "Noooo, Private Hargrove, he playing the clarinet in a said. I mean Im going to let you band. The Germans turn in all your equipment. You s the boat once and the are no to be a rookie, Prilonger the side were stuffed with vate Hargrove. You are going to s. Hulces uncle rode back be an important working cog in the Still playing his clarinet, great wheel of national defense. the goldbricking uncle, You are leaving us. e er uncle served as a Whats the deal?" I asked. dlse trip across. Carrying a Where do I go and what do I do? HliFdnd. t.e deck, he was heck- - The sergeant chuckled and leaned apoRubk81 times by a person he back In his chair. He sighed ecf to loathe. r. Eventually the statically twice. Would you ie wor.de ith the Smiths rose to like to know, son, or wouldreally you Uncle Smith rather put it off as long as you lcated vVint overhead and wrapped can? the co'.d'c-lHe Ing rassa;. the hecklers neck. I said thankfully, Well, "you lesirntaU of the war ln be o me out as a cook, cant sending 1 helps C t because I dont know anything g grand was the cousin, grand-IEF ...raker about cooking." with b0y. Serving in the The sat back and sergeant a ."etteltes, he grew suddenly drummed happily on the table. "relief Wi Great gods! I shouted. doming- Looking out Im V vnch, he saw a Try it. peach tree not going to be a cannoneer, am I? one-ma- espe-witho- n ut red-lette- ITvW3 kay-sliev- . k i 't WNU Feature. -- M ,A Ask Your Grocer for . . . CREAM of the WEST L When your pantry shelf contains Cream of the West breakfast worries vanish. Its delicious, it takes but five minutes to cook and you provide the family with important I n 'wn xv v F ' nutritious elements Vitamin B, Vitamin A, Phosphorus, and Calcium in their natural state. Too, it has a flavor all its own and is unrationed. Everyone was amused and amiable, and nobody seemed to feel iml the formality or dignity of the dinner hud been jeopardized." y would I know? He was quiet for a while and I thought he had gone to sleep again. I was all primed to hum Chow to wake him up, when he Call :y back. Beil Syndicate. he saiQ No, Private Hargrove, after another long pause, youre not going to be a cannoneer. Were going to give you a job where you can use your natural talents. There was a distinctly sadistic tone in his voice. 1 waited. "Youre going to be a first cook, Nut he said fondly. Hargrove, cook! A head a cook. just plain A king in your own kitchen, a man of responsibility. Aint that lovely? I "You cant do this to me! returned. when breath my roared, Its against every decent human law! I dont know anything about cooking! I want to be a cannoneer! Sergeant Goldsmiths eyes wan- dered guiltlessly to the ceiling, "You dont know anything about huh? Thats bad, boy. cooking, thats bad! Why, youre supposed to be on shift right now." I said, I couldnt Sergeant, fry an egg right now if it had di-- 1 rections on the package. "Youre in the cooks battery, aiet you? You've been going to cooking school and youve been sent to a kitchen for all these weeks, Youre supposed to be graduated any day now. What have you been n A These Are Smart Women by iTORT SO FAR: IAYSON. UTAH MONTANA CEREAL C;0. Billings, Montana By KATHLEEN NORRIS ' than one hundred twenty men and working in a single department of a Washington office, have voluntarily renounced all ideas of going home for Christmas. They are leaving the Pullman cars for the servicemen. One of these young women has an offer of a free trip to California, where are her mother, father and small son. But she wont add to traffic congestion, and perhaps prevent some boy from his last home leave. Not MORE Son, he said, youre going to make a perfectly breathtaking Horrible Example. I had nothing more to say. doing in the kitchen I put you in? I explained, Making jerk-ad"chopping celery, peeling onions. They say I get in their way. They say I keep spirits too high and production too low. the sergeant I feel for you, said. I deeply sympathize. Youre going to be a mighty unpopular little boy in your new home. If that supper tonight dont melt in them boys mouths and send them clamoring for more, theyll either massacre you or run you over the hill. Thats one thing the boys wont allow bum cooking! Sergeant Goldsmith, sir, I imCant somebody else plored him. go in my stead? Somebody who can cook? Look at me a digger of ditches, a mopper of floors, a scrubber of kitchens, a ministering angel to undernourished grass plots, but a cook never! You dont know what youre Son, doing to me! he said, youre going to Hormake a perfectly breath-takin- g rible Example! Then he rose and walked back into the supply room. "Thomas, he said, check in this yardbirdi equipment. Sergeant Israel looked up from Thirty-Twrecords. bis Form Dont he like his equipment? Check in everything but his Get clothing, the top kick said. a truck to take him to Headquarters Battery, FARC. Sergeant Thomas W. Israel looked up in faint amazement. I looked In sheer bewilderment. They had to figure some way to stop his cooking career and save the morale of some battery as would get him as a cook, said SerSo hes being geant Goldsmith. palmed off to Center Headquarters as a public relations man. The word buddy hasnt come into popularity yet in the new army. I suppose that if there were such things, Maury Sher would be mine. Sher and I occupied adjoining bunks when I was in Battery A. Private Sher is a smart and likable Jewish boy from Columbus, Ohio. He went to school at Southern California, until he learned that all the worlds knowledge doesn't come from the intellectual invalids who usually teach the 8:30 class. Then he went back to Columbus, had an Idea patented, and built himself a restaurant shaped like a champagne glass. Came the fateful Sixteenth of October and Sher enrolled for the SeHis applilective Service System. cation was accepted last July and, since he had been the successful proprietor of a restaurant, he was classified as a promising student for the Army cooking course. The two of us got together whet he was sent to the Replacement Center here. We started an acquaintance when I topprd all his Jewish Jokes and began teaching him how I was attracted to speak Yiddish. by his native intelligence, his pleasant personality, his sense of humor, the similarity of his likes and dislikes to mine, his subscription tc supply of cig PM, his arettes (my brand), and the cookiei he constantly received from home. So we became more or less constant companions. We made the rounds here together, went to Chareyes al lotte together, made the same waitress in Fayetteville, and swapped valuable trade secret! in goldbricking. o well-stocke- d gco-go- o (TO EE CONTINUED) c'e. R-- hbFop Buy this Christmas. Another girl lives in Salt , Lake City when she is at home; two brothers, both in uniform, will be there this year. But Rosemary wont. She will eat her Christmas dinner in Washington, D. C. The spirit that inspires these exiles, tired to death of the rush and strain of living at the capital, hungry for home quiet and home love, promises well for a better world after the war. Mary Bailey of Hot Springs. S. D., has another good idea for wartime economy; an idea that I wish every woman who reads this would pass along to clubs and social organizations everywhere. This is quite a place for conventions, says Marys letter; and as a hotel hostess I have to handle large groups and get ready for big banquets. Lately I have been working on the cafeteria system when these affairs take place. Our big dishes now are duck, turkey or chicken, and with these, as you know, under the old system, went generous helpings of mashed potato, dressing, gravy and vegetables. Even in the old lavish times it used to make me ashamed to see how much of this good food was untouched, masses of it scraped away; perhaps a little white meat and the vegetable eaten and nothing else. No Waste in Cafeteria. We now form a leisurely line, and file by a smiling row cf volunteer girl waitresses, who give everyone as much as he likes but no more. On the wall behind their heads I put a sign; Take all you want. But we like plates in wartime. The first time we did this," the letter goes on, my figures showed of the food. a saving of wanted women of the only Many that half of the broiled was a serving; most of them refused gravy, potato, dressing entirely. Everyone was amused and amiaLle, and nobody seemed to feel that the formality or dignity of the dinner had been jeopardized How aLnut this, federated clubs and Lions and Kiwams and Rotary members, club managers and hotel stewards? Isn't this winter a good time to try to introduce so eminently sensible a rule? Fleda Mai tin of Dallas also has good ideas for this winter's particular problem. My family is two girls in a high school-agshe son, a good, tired, patient husband, and mv mother. Pop gets home for lunch, so we sit down six every day, and we have a filling meal. Whatever ingenuity and brown tickets can do is done then. But no more serving dishes go on the table Serving d.shes waste food and mean more washing. Each late is filled in the kitchen, with due reference to personal tastes, and whatever is left isnt shifted from pan to plate and back again. Cooks Two Meals at Oner. When I boil or bake anything prunes, potatoes, bread pudding, good-nature- one-thir- d n war-work- e p slew, beans, I make at least twice too much for the current meal. This saves work and heat. And isnt it a good feeling, coming home tired from Red Cross work, to be able to think, There are the beans, and the applesauce, and the cold biscuits to toast, and all I need stop for is lettuce. I like to have every meal lap over the next, or the next but one. We like Suppers are simple. cornmeal mush with raisins and top milk. We like milk toast, waffles, jelly pancakes, rice, macaroni, deep fruit pies. We always start with soup, and if the family dimly recognizes in the soup the beans, the spinach, the cauliflower, the boiled onions, the crust of French bread, the chicken bones and the duck gravy, Shr?ening tnUkt lukewarm - eosUy bn CoVer doubled in weU-gr- e . hour. and sev i bulk. bout nvlnutea- vr n v, Won 'bani'j ok r tha "Ur, Sil nd D fi CM v' York-- re. 'narfe yelk Uie Witb hath a .tom. ve; A tho eiv ill,,- .6,-- Iei rta ;;r7ocCet ae V and the good hot thick soup will continue to be our first course all through the winter. No butter except with breakfast. And were saving fuel by the Chinese expedient, which is to wear warm underthings. Chinese doesnt heat his ctls smooth-rn oUgh to pe and beat at least the family never complains, A Day ntrAnnfl Y 8nd mv W MU01MK hou-e- he keeps his person warm. So I've found good solid flannels, and even the girls have accepted sornewnat modified versions of them, and confidently expect to keep away from coughs and colds because of them. "In short, ue're challenging the situation instead of sinking under it. And as thats what our boys are doing everywhere," concludes this valiant letter, it gives us a feeling of kinship with them to keep up our end." And finally, from Montgomery, Ala , comes a last hint, perhaps as The Robert important as any. Browns of that town found themselves strangled by petty debts when the news came from Pearl Harbor. Them son was railed to the colors; their daughter took a job. They looked the bills in the face, and found them something over two thousand dollars Yes, just grocery and dentist and tailor and frock simp and club and milkman over two thousand (Jolla is Ti.iy knew that pi,, twar times are not turns thru;.), which to struggle aid up. at the th( w.ti deb' rate of ahnut $301 a na nth. It meant S-- I di: eomf-- t, t But they even nil ba r: a did one of it. And do ng it. th'-the most m ; h.u: tti.ngs anv mother arid fatuer and sotcr tan do for the boys who art- e lining home. A woman Ohio, in has rr ved her farndy downstairs for the winter. Conserve Housework and Fuel in Home "Our only bathroom is upstairs, which somewhat complicates," says her letter. "But I have a small electric stove for that room. Otherwise our two upper floors wmnt Dad and be heated this winter have made a comfortable bedroom of the pad01--! my daughter ha a wide couch in the old study, anc the two small grandsons have the warm riin.ng room for playroom anc i ii-- '.iwurw 'ernrig. Young-down- 1 nursery NOW WEAR YOUR PLATES EYERY DA- YHELD COMFORTABLY SNUG THIS WAY Its so easy to wear your plates held all day place by this larly when comfort-cushio- regu- firmly in n a dentist' formula.' I. Dr. Wemet's plate powder form 1. World Urgent wiling plate powder. Recommended by dur.tisid for over 30 years. 1. Dr. Wemet's powder is economical ; a very small amount lasts longer. 4. Made of whitest, eoetlies ingredient so pure you eat it in me cream. Dr. Wernet's plate powder is pleas- between soothing "comfort-cushion- " plate and gums lets you enjoy solid foods, avoid embarrassment of loose ant tasting. plates. Helps prevent sore gums. All druggists 30f. Money bade If not delighted. iPPiiPPP |