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Show THE TYPICAL YANK FIGHTER Sergeant William Mettlen, Omaha Stacks Up With All the Required Dimensions.. How would you look if a slacker back in the States had taken your job .. and married youi sK " girl? No, thai A. didn't happen tc -" Sergeant William pmJfrt Mettlen of Oina- 1 "A Ln if W"S told to Ira- 4 Lk $ ne'ne that " mi r5, if while signal corps y.M p hotog raplierf Ag&fo!i were taking his t, picture to repre-is repre-is f sent the "typical bJL'V American fighting-man." fighting-man." The photographers, pho-tographers, on an official mission from the government, scratched their heads a long while before they thought of anything that would make him look fierce enough. If you wunt to be "typical" you wil', have to stack up as follows: Height, C feet 10 inches; weight, 160 pounds; hair, light brown, and eyes, blue Mettlen's other specifications are thai he enlisted when nineteen years old while still a freshman at' Nebraska university uni-versity ; that he was cited four timet for bravery ; that he Is as active ln th American Legion now as he was in th Sixteenth Infantry then, and that, lc addition to being a typical American he Is Scotch-Irish. "Second Annual Tour." Spurred by the success of Ha toui of Europe Inst summer, Hyde Pal post of the American Legion ln Chi cngo has arranged for Its "second an nual tour" of the battlefields ani principal cities. The party will stan in the early part of June. A trip t Nice and Mone Carlo, excursions t Alpine mountains, a voyage down th( Rhine, nnd several days in Paris ar among the attractions which are mak Ing it hard for Legionnaires to "keei their minds on their work." Ask $15,000,000 for Hospital. Sixteen million dollars have beel asked from the federal government bj the American Legion, for construe tlon of hospitals ln New York state - Just the Thing. "A discredited ball phiye. Is going Into vaudeville to vindicate himself." "What sort of act would you suggest for that fellow?" "He might deliver a monologue, telling tell-ing hw ever since 1 e was a Uttle boy he wanted to own a farm, nnd conclude con-clude his act with a song and dance by 'the wife and kiddies.' " Binning, ham Age-Herald. Ylien a humorist has, after yean secured a large audience, he wants t be taken serious!. |