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Show p55 ANOTHER LETTER FROM PRIVATE PURKEY Dear Mom: The cake and things you sent arrived ar-rived okay only I did not get none on account of my buddies opened them. The trouble with the army is that you can't keep a separate mailing mail-ing address. Well, everything is going go-ing along good and life in the army ain't so bad once you make up your mind it can't be any t.w good. We have movies here but no screeno, so you would not like army life, mom. We have hostesses here, too. I thought a hostess was somebody some-body you found in airplanes, but in the camps a hostess is a lady who has charge of the entertainment ZF.)' 1. frfl side of life and I ViJ think we may ' vzstT even get rumba , f ffy lessons in this 1 3 war. There are If quite a few host- l J esses here, but do UlUi not worry about me, Mom, ai they are all pretty old, some even as old as 38 and 40. I don't know who is picking them, but It ain't Billy Rose. At first I thought the Camp Fire Girls were being drafted, too, but I found out the government wants the soldiers to have as much amusement amuse-ment ai they can get in the next war, including double features, swing music and Mickey Mouse. They even have cafeteria lunchrooms lunch-rooms for visitors so if an outsider gets poisoned they can't blame it on the regular army cook. More rifles are arriving and I guess maybe by the time war comes almost every soldier will have a gun. Do not keep sending me heavy underwear as you have my tent full of it already. Love, Oscar. Dear Mom: I am getting so I do not mind being be-ing here at all and. my morale would be good except I didn't keep getting newspapers and reading the news from Washington. I have got around to the point where I am used to taking tak-ing orders and to facing a war if there is no way out, but what is all this stuff about going to the aid of China. Greece and all nations everywhere? ev-erywhere? In one breath I am told I will not be sent out of the United States , and in the next I TJf"' I hear cuntrie fjA v 'n trouble any- tV-Wffitj wnere can dPenl Vi?Xjr on help from me, A and if all this is ' j- f 1 so, I keep asking f j myself why I did- ' n't Join the navy to see the world, which I may have to see anyhow. What is all this lease-lend stuff, and do I go with the lease? Also could you send me some newspaper article explaining what is being lended. I hope no tanks are being lended as we are still using Ice wagons wag-ons here. If we must lend something some-thing let us lend first sergeants as there are too many of 'cm around this camp. The food here could be better. I haven't had a good Juicy steak yet. Are they lending them to somebody, too? Well, do not worry, as I am getting get-ting used to everything and am very happy today because I learned Otto Bixby, who was my boss at the store, has been drafted, too, and will be here, too, any day now. Love, Oscnr. Dear Mom: Bixby, my old boss (who was such a stinker), just arrived and is in my company. am going to work hard now to be a T!r3 sergeant, or at iyAr:J) least a corporal. K'Tv f" I will write more later. V?.:y j Love, hlKJ I Oscar. I OVERLOAD Modish ladies may expect Curvature of spine and neck, And toward moving turn quite passive pass-ive If costume jools become more massive. mas-sive. J. H. Nilcs Add Things for Which There Is No Explanation Outside the Psychopathic Psycho-pathic Wards: Miami, where more naked women are visible on the beaches than anywhere on earth, Is featuring Sally Rand in a night-club disrobing act! And the people are (locking to see hcrl Seymour says that Italy Is shaped like a boot and that its generals are shaped like heels. The greatest understatement In history: Sherman's verdict that war is hell. ALL SET If the war ends, as almost everybody every-body expects, with every nation on earth broke, busted and flat on its uppers, the world has at least an appropriate post-war song for us all: "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching." |