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Show fhl.PhiIlipr p PRIVATE PURKEY IN LOVE AND WAR Dear Ma There is not much to write about and anyhow even if there was the top sarge wood not give me time J? i enough to write I f Sijc about it. I am V J)(r .;; well and feel 2 S stronger than ev- KKN"t er witch puzzles r IB 7 ; me on account of --yCk f ' if I did half as ' much work when I was in civilyun iife I wood be a fizzical wreck long ago. I gess it must be that a jeep goes on doing whats asked of him in the army knowing it won't do him no good to kick and he knows he wood get no sympathy if he got run down. I see where we declared war on the Ballcan states Bullgaria, Roo-mania Roo-mania and Hungaria. When it first come over the radio that we declared de-clared war on three states extra it sort of jarred me on account of we was already fighting so many states that I am always one or two states behind. But when I found out it was only Bullgaria, Roomania and Hungaria I felt easier. I got no friends in none of them and the only Hungarian I knew played in a orchestra witch was pretty bad. Everybody Ev-erybody is in the war now so a few more do not make no difference I gess. Well, mom, do not worry about me as from aU I hear it is softer being here in the army than being a plain civilyun. The situation back home is very heartbreaking to me. New York and a lot of other cities is so dark nights it is more lonesome going out after dark than it would be to stay home. ... Gas is going to be harder than ever to get, the government is talk- , i in m abut taking j I I tires away from - jjl I everybody, all VyC Vinsi parking lots at JWj) the beaches have jHtf'J' been closed at ds&Xf n'S' an there yT' ' is talk of forbidding forbid-ding bus travel except on business, so it is just a laugh now when anybody talks about keeping out of the army so he can do as he pleases. Gosh, mom, I gess you and pop take more orders right now in a day than I get in the army in a week. All people in civilyun life have got on me is that they don't have to peel potatoes. The radio keeps talking about ceiling troubles back home and I still hope nothing has happened to your ceiling yet, although you did not answer my last letter about it. I hope you are all fixed on priorities also whatever they are. Everybody seems to be having them. Sergeant Mooney says I need not worry about having them as I had them when I was a boy. John Bennett is in my outfit and he is always good for a laugh. He says he just ran across the most ' --" jH cookoo jeep in the army. He i' says he saw him with a homemade jfUJ 1 fly trap catching I L flies. At first he $y,rr thought he was - just nuts but when he seen him doing do-ing it four days in a row he demanded de-manded a explanation and found the nitwit was catching them to feed a pet frog which he keeps in his tent as a mascot. It takes all kinds of men to make a army but this is the first time I knew it also took a fly trap and a frog. Well this will have to be all. I get pretty homesick at times of coarse, mom, and I wish I could get back to see you and pop often- er but on the other hand I don't gess I could stand life back in a city with so many restrickshuns and with everybody giving orders about one thing and another. Your loving son, Oscar. ... "Petain Deplores Rising Discontent." Discon-tent." Headline. And how the rising discontent ' must deplore Petain! WE CAN'T BELIEVE IT According to reports Tm hearing, The motor car is disappearing. About the change I'm in the dark . . . Just try to find a place to park! Merrill Chilcote. Boy War Bonds IS IT JUST IN FUN? With all the bulletins, warnings, radio talks, etc., being made to save tires and gas by slow driving, one has only to stand on almost any open road in America to see that thousands of drivers are brazenly ig. noring the whole matter. This driver driv-er should be put well near the top of Fifth Columnists, and, what's more, the police are almost as guilty in their lackadaisical attitude about him. |