Show 6 y I r Seas THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE PURKEY Dear Ma I wish you stop worrying about me as I am all right accept for fallen arches flu chilblains a limp in both legs and indigestion But I feel a lot less like squawking since I talked to an old timer up here who was in the last war and from what he says I gess we have all modern improvements up here now He says in the last war the draft army just had tents like they camping out with no wooden no-wooden wooden floors and no electric lights and he says every time you was not in bed you was standing in wet grass or orin orin orin in a mud puddle He says tents did not have windows windows win win- dows and screen doors like we I. I have today and that in rainy weather a soldier r I had to live like a amud amud mud turtle He says he didn't see no wooden floors from the time he left home until the army got back from France It Itis Itis Itis is hard for me to this as this camp is a regular building project and there is almost as many carpenters carpenters carpenters carpen carpen- here as soldiers They have all the buildings finished by bythe bythe bythe the time the war is over i they get getgood getgood getgood good weather and dont don't walk so far far- for nails Army life is a big to me ma on account I always had hadan hadan hadan an idea from the story books and pictures that most soldiers had saddle saddle sad sad- dle dIe horses to ride I aint seen no horse since I got here It is strictly a bunion derby army as I sed be be- four I wish army uniforms fitted better What t the army needs is ismore ismore ismore more tailors I got a hat that is big enough for a coat and a coat so tight I cud use it for a hat There is no glammer here like in inthe inthe the movies of army life Almost everybody here needs a shave and haircut and this goes for the generals generals generals gen gen- who are homely old pelicans pelicans' and dont don't look nothing like the generals generals generals gen gen- in pictures accept Wally Vally Berry I The boys here tell me the training I am getting is good for me but I Ido Ido Ido do not feel no better than when I started training even if I am in better better better bet bet- ter shape like the doctors say say- sayI I rather be out of in private life than a perfect 0 r ri ri i i men in the army I sleep good but not for long on account of the rule that makes a soldier get up at daybreak day day- break break- I never seen so many sunrises sunrises sunrises sun sun- rises in my life Gee ma I am half through a days day's training before you and the folks are out of bed back home I be in better shape for fora a war if I cud sleep an hour longer S If I 1 in a war I not squawk but what is the sense getting an army up so early when there is nothing to do but just what you done the day witch cud be bedone bedone bedone done better in brighter any any- how 0 S SI I am glad the winter is over The first robin was seen in a army chicken chick chick- en pie here yesterday and four baby chicks hatched out of a half dozen eggs in the mess room last week Spring ng cant can't cum to soon as I have had outdoor life in cold weather er and do not care for it even if it does make healthier i Well I must close now ma as I have got to go walking again in defense defense defense de de- de- de of my country Cud you send me some more socks as my feet wear right through them the first miles Love I 1 I Oscar S OBSERVATION Theres There's nothing makes a man yell Ouch Like sewing left upon a couch Merrill Chilcote Add similes as nonchalant as the average American talking about an appropriation of SLIGHT ACHIEVEMENT Results are so flimsy From things done by whimsy Merrill Chilcote New York has had a drugstore strike which crippled the drugstores so badly they were unable to handle anything but drugs and medical sup sup- plies S The Turks closed the Straits to the crooks as it were Hank Ford says that a flivver airplane airplane airplane air air- plane will soon be as easy to operate operate op op- erate crate as the first auto used to be But its it's going to seem strange to see the air full of with feathers feath feath- ers on em |