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Show THE LETTERS OF ALL-OUT AKLENE Dear Terry: It is nice getting your letter, but I wish you would not gripe so much about conditions at home. How can we girls do our best in war unless we know that our husbands and sweethearts are contented and happy? hap-py? If you want to keep our morale up you men must do the best you can to keep the home fires burning while we are away at war. I know you have tried to get Into uniform and were rejected lor physical phys-ical reasons, and I think you should take it more philosophically. After all, this is, more than ever before, a woman's war, and I am not sure it is the kind of struggle you should be in. Believe me, life in the army is tough and full of hardships, and you know very well how unaccustomed unaccus-tomed you are to such things. You must remember, Terry, that you have always taken life comfortably. comforta-bly. We girls have to get up at 5:30, drill hard and accept severe discipline. Some of us were talking about it only last night and there was much comment on just how much women should expect from men in modern war. Many of the girls feel the same way I do about it. Mrs. WiUoughby, one of the married women at this camp, for example, says that all she wants to know is that her husband hus-band is looking after things at the house all right. She got word last week that he was eating out in cheap restaurants a lot instead of cooking himself up some good food at home, as instructed, and it undermined un-dermined her morale terribly, she says. Then there is Mrs. Druffle, another an-other married enlistee, who was doing do-ing splendidly at camp and was in line for promotion when she suddenly sud-denly went all to pieces. It developed devel-oped that it was due to news from . the neighbors that her husband, Geoffrey, was not taking the Pomeranian Pom-eranian out for walks regularly. I am more worried about you than if we were married, my dear. The ration news bothers me no end. Are you getting enough to eat? And are those places where you and I used to go for those lovely steaks and chops open now? I never eat here in camp without worrying about you, and I was tempted to wrap up a chop and mail it to you this noon. Well, bear up the best you can, write me often and knit me a sweater sweat-er or two. I know how lonely you must feel, but duty is duty. This is an all-out war and I am going all out in it. No other course is thinkable. think-able. You are my pin-up man, and it is the thought of what a nice boy you are that keeps my spirits up. Take care of yourself, don't worry wor-ry too much about what the future may hold for me, and if you really want to bake me a cake go ahead. All my love, Arlene. TO THE SPARS Twinkle, twinkle, little Spar, Pulling hard to win the war, Mastering the old half-hitch, Learning which boat-end is which. Qualifying with an oar. Always saying "hatch" for "door," Knowing downstairs is "below," Saying to a man "I'll row!" Learning all that matters most Of affairs along a coast, Marking what the service teaches As important at the beaches. Twinkle, twinkle, little Spar, Finding what the few things are That a Coast Guard boy can do That a woman can't do, too. "New York's 2,200 restaurants and 144 hotels have made a pledge not to raise prices above the April 4 to 10 level and to have no dealings with black markets." News item. Wanna bet? "The Skin of Our Teeth" and "Dragon's Teeth" are two Pulitzer prize winners, and it strikes us that the awards must have been made this year by the American Dental Association. Elmer Twitchell, in Tact, thinks that in keeping with the dental note, the prize for fiction should have been announced as going to "Dragon's "Drag-on's Teeth" by Uppers Sinclair. Uncle Sam has at last got around to breaking with Adm. George Robert, Rob-ert, high commissioner of Martinique. Marti-nique. This automatically releases the entire script for comic opera. Huh! "OPA Chief Prentiss Brown emphasized em-phasized that the success of the program rests upon the American people. He called on them to refuse re-fuse to pay prices above the ceilings ceil-ings established." News item. AU right? A customer goes into a market, finds no attention paid to set prices and refuses to pay. What happens? The proprietor shrugs his shoulders. The customer notifies the OPA. Then he sits back to await action. ac-tion. But In the meantime how doc he eat? |