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Show THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE Pl'RKEY Dear Mom: I did not write you before because there is more work to be done in an army than I I 'J-- Jj"" thought, so this is I just to say I am " j 'Of well except for a UO little flu, some --JxN trouble with my ',m-VJP arches and the fact I can't get used to not being able to say "Okay, later," when I am told to do something. Training has started and I guess I am being trained to be a letter carrier from all the walking they make me do in all kinds of weather. A modern rifle arrived in camp today to-day and attracted wide attention. We expect to have several in time if there is no strike trouble. Only the top of my uniform was ready when I got here but the bottom bot-tom has arrived now. I am well and hope you are the same. Do not worry about me, mom, as I have to go to bed early and am too busy saluting to get into trouble, although if being in the army ain't being In trouble I don't know what is. Love, uscar. Dear Mom: I thought I would drop you a few lines to let you knjw I have not seen no fighting yet. I heard funny noises last night and was very nervous, nerv-ous, but everything was okay this morning so I guess it was all imaginary. imag-inary. They do not get you up by bugle no more In the army. They use an electric buzzer. I kept getting up and looking for a tx--4?C?' front door on my " '' " tent because IB ' ' "V-. thought it was I the milkman or somebody. Where ' 7s5r I made my mis take was going back to bed when I found no milkman, and Just yelling "nuts" to the buzzer the rest of the morning. The guardhouse is not a bad place and I will be out In a few days. Love, .Oscar. Dear Mom: I am out of the guardhouse which Aucui.iviicu UJ tlljr lUSfc ICUCT UUI I still don't like buzzers. If the bugle bu-gle was good enough for Grant Lee, Sherman, Teddy Roosevelt and Pershing, Per-shing, it is good enough for me. I was talking this over with a buddy and he says he thinks the buzzer is being used just to make the army mad. An army is no good unless it is mad, he says. Well the buzzer will do it. A bugle would make me mad at 5 a. m. too, mom, but it is sort of romantic. It kind of stirs you up and makes you feel like you was a fighter. A buzzer Just makes you feel like you was a stenographer. stenogra-pher. We hn.ve a couple of millionaires in my company. One of 'cm is a Rockefeller. It is a funny thing how no matter whether you are rich or poor your feet hurt just the same. The photographers are always taking tak-ing pictures of these rich guys but none of me but you know how I look anyhow so do not worry. I am well except for that buzzer. I can't help hollering "Come in" whenever I hear it. Could you send me some warm socks, a homemade cake and some dice? Love, Oscar. Dear Mom: Well, just a line to let you know everything is still okay at the arsenal ar-senal of democracy as it Is called in the newspapers. I am getting along well, except the coffee is lousy and the cream is plain sabotage. Another modern rifle arrived today, so I guess things are speeding up in the defense program. I nearly got in the guardhouse again. I asked the captain for a P typewriter so I Cpnr could write my rl 'cttcra tnat wav ' nd he said why n-X should I think I tr , c 1 rated a typewrit-f typewrit-f j er, I said, "Well, V I H this is a machine 1 war, ain't It?" He got very sore. Never mind the dice I asked you to send me. The camp is now full of 'em. Dice are the one thing which ain't behind schedule. Love, Oscar. THE DIZZY PACE (From the ConncautvIUe, Pa., Courier) Gresh's girls have measles. Me) Davis called on Harlcy Hills Monday. Mrs. Ruth Inman is up with an attack of lumbago. Our roads are so full of awful deep ruts that it is impossible to get by without a team along. Carl Hills was at the home of his parents, helping with wood. Fox hunters wert out every day last week running foxes |