Show WITH BUB NOW it IN THE SERVICE beut clarence anderson extract from boiu private letter the following extract explain explains why anderson Au derson is bark baek nt at tile ho old game instead of ca cavorting orting aro 0 round und among tho the clouds I 1 am supposed to be perambulate peram bulat ing OR around in the thin blue air basing huns and being bein chameli chased and nd shot at by them well they inform mo me that I 1 cant alv any buy more on account of ier vertical altig intiso or some such thing I 1 put in for transfer to infantry they boy looked up my qualification ird and here I 1 am in the u tant int generale generals department running a print shop its eort sort of a jis ais to say tho the least and still ill it might have hao been lota lots worse I 1 am real busy these daa davs a but riot of so busy that I 1 lian have 0 time to sot act up nud and take notice when bergt mgt brought in tho the mail and I 1 espied tho the paper from my old ola sum hum town 10 io read every mery word ord in it even men to the kidney pill Is 9 and was surely surprised to see how the fellows from home are scattered satt ered all over the U S 8 and in foreign reign countries they are all sing ping their share though and the experience is well worth the e if a man gets homo home alive again nd if it be doc doe ailt ho he has done a glorious thing thin and his life or limbs kave ive not gone for nothing ellry one 10 will agree with me on that lint iut I 1 am sure I 1 wish you could see ie conditions as they are over ire ere what a land it must have sen on before the hull got in his work ork but ever every one here is cheerful chear 1 and even happy not bog g the terribly terrible hardships hards hipa that they boy have haie gone thru the people at homo home would have hane choir eves ees opened ened could they see the wonder lot 1 spir t the frenchman shows hen ho he goen goe to war it is not with a band and tho the population bid him good goodbye bye ye ive seen spell many any of them leavo leao for the front fron t allne ae trenches they RO go to the niton tation with all their equipment on their air back and their wife and kids in tow when its time for the train to pull out he lie kisses them all around anil and climbs aboard with a emilo smile on oil hia his face tho the family cepl and carry on they smile as brightly as ho lie and wave wae goodbye good bye byo to him gee but they hai 0 got ba backbone abone lot me tell you yet but then been in tit tile war longer than we have hao and ad tomo come to look upon it as more or less of a necessary ond 1 I 1 suppose but what will they do when it is over there are no tin healthy husky men alft only children women nud cripples yet they smile through it all is the tile greatest patriot lem tent lu iu the world di da the women complain if thoy have to do the tho meanest tasks not a bit of it why only yesterday esterday 1 1 I saw an old lady sweeping out the tile gutter in the tile main street sho she was at least eighty years of ago but she plugged right along another had hat a great big horse hitched bitched to a big two wheeled heeled cart she was gathering up the refuse and it into the tile cart but they seemed to think it tho the most eve everyday occur occurrence ronce there are fey few if any molly mollycoddles coddles among our french friends the tho are oot not tolerated things in general look prett bright oer here these days and maybe well not bo be over oer hero here long or than a couple of or years ears more friend gifun doe know so much about walking into paris decee days he is chiefly concerned in minding his eye our boys boe are walking into them quite consist antly but the worst tiling thing about our boys is that the they want to lick them alono alone and in one day thayre too darned forward for their own good but willie hun knows darned drued well ho tic is licach now and their newspapers are changing their t ae to 0 o fit the new condition |