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Show Railroad Employes Make Fine Record During 1943 approximately 45,-000 45,-000 Union Pacific employes purchased pur-chased $15,510,500 in war savings bonds, or an aiyterage of $345 for each employe who subscribed to the payroll savings plan during the year, according to Walter Wilson, Wil-son, chairman of the railroad's war savings bond committee. This is nearly $4,000,000 in excess ex-cess of the amount of employe purchases during 1942, Wilson said, and exceeds the 1943 quota by more than $3,000,000. Employes, according to Wilson's monthly report, wound up the year by purchasing $830,882 in bonds through payroll deductions and $50,309 in bonds in cash purchases, pur-chases, making a total bond purchase pur-chase for December of $881,191. In division ratings, the Colorado division came back into its own in December by pushing the Washington Wash-ington division into second place with 8.6 per cent of Colorado payroll being invested in bonds and 91.9 per cent of employes purchasing bonds regularly, as against the Washington division report of 8.5 per cent and 70.1 per cent. The Oregon division remained re-mained in third place with 6.6 per cent, the Nebraska division in fourth place with 6.2 per cent. are only small portions of all but potatoes, brown bread and exceedingly exceed-ingly potent mustard all tasty and no less than an American meal in the Btate-s for twice the cost. Conveniences that we are used it o are lucking so often here: plentiful plen-tiful water for showers that work, water closets that flush and ure clean, mirrors and towels, available avail-able taxi senVice, drinking fountains, foun-tains, street signs and, of course, lights. But you soon accept things as they are, cuss and grouse a bit but realize how lucky you are to be an American and shut up! They have ra i 1 transportation down to an exact art for the purposes pur-poses for which they need it: many stops, cheap fares, and conveniences con-veniences for passengers making (Continued on last page) With the Colors (Continued from page 1) the usual short hops. My praise really, is. enthusiastic when it comes to the English system of rail travel. The people are as people all over the world are: different as cloud and marsh-muak yet as much alike as scales on a fish; interesting and differing only in outer veneer; nice and, in spite of characteristic dislikes, pleasant people! (From a January 8 Letter) What we are studying now is very much the same as we have been having; they are just using repetition ' as a mallet with which to pound it into us. It is a good idea though, for they are playing for keeps over here! It is interesting, inter-esting, though, and I don't mind attendance even though I "gripe" about it as much as anyone. As one of the instructors today said, "The American army should be the best educated bunch of men in the world if any of the material soi-ks in!" I still am trying to formulate an opinion about this country. As the English themselves wish, I don't want to get set in my ideas -for this is wartime Britain, and not the British Isles of peace. Now it is a conglomeration of green, wet grass, warm, weak beer, cohesive salt in the shakers and bicycles; of square brick buildings and homely girls; of inefficent plumbing; plumb-ing; knickers and socks; friendly, quiet, matter-of-fact people and fish and chips. It is lovely, stubborn, stub-born, eager and reserved, frugal, inconsistent, well-meaning and resentful re-sentful of intrusion. It is so divided divid-ed country and city, highlands and water-high, advanced, and retained, retain-ed, rich and poor; .the differences are exceptionally marked in the people, the area, and in the conditions condi-tions of living. The Americans ha,ve arrived and definitely left impressions of over-wastefulness, ' of fun, ' and, though not too often admitted, of efficiency. The most rabid of jitterbugs, that I have seen was an Englishman of tihe Royal Engi-' neers; the loudest and rowdiest crowd was a mixture of English and American boys, whooping it up in a pub as friends.. The British aren't able to, but they in-, sist on, matching us on all-bills, although many have found that acceptance of treats with no return re-turn makes, little or no difference with the effusve Yankees. The natives are very exact in explanations explana-tions and directions to the traveler: travel-er: "You cawnt miss hit", they say, (though it seldom works out). I've been in to the town near here twice, each time early enough to see a bit of it and, incidentally, to buy a few parts for a dilapidated dilapidat-ed cycle that I picked . Up for. 3 from supply in this squadron. However, the darn thing is going to cost me more for repairs than a new one (if available) would. But you really need one to get around in the "usual" dispersed area about us. BUD |
