Show phillipi P THE LETTERS OF ALL OUT ARLENE i dear terry it is nice 9 getting etting your letter but I 1 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 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 1 know you have tried to get into uniform and were rejected for physical reasons and I 1 think you should take it more philosophically after all this is more than ever before a womans comans war and I 1 am not sure it is the kind of struggle you should be in Belie believe veme me life in the army is tough and full of hardships and you know very well how unaccustomed you are to such things 0 you must remember terry that you have always taken life comfortably we girls have to get up at 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 1 do about it mrs willoughby one of the married women at this camp for example says that all she wants to know Is that her husband 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 der mined her morale terribly she says then there Is mrs Druff le another married enlistee enli stee who was doing splendidly at camp and was in line for promotion when she suddenly went all to pieces it developed thit that it was due to news from the neighbors that her husband geoffrey was not taking the pomeranian era niazi out for fir walks regularly I 1 am more worried about you than it 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 1 used to go for those lovely steaks and chops open now I 1 never eat here in camp without worrying about you and I 1 was tempted to wrap upa 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 or two I 1 know how lonely you must feel but duty is duty this ts Is an all out war and I 1 am going all out in it no other course is thinkable 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 dont worry too much about what the future may hold for me and if you really want to bake me a cake go ahead I 1 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 ill row rowl I 1 learning all that matters most of affairs along a coast marking what the service teaches As A s important at the beaches twinkle twinkle little spar finding what the few things are that a coast guard boy can do that a woman cant do too new yorks 2200 restaurants and 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 dragons 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 fact thinks that in keeping with the dental note the prize for fiction should have been announced as going to dragons teeth by uppers sinclair 0 uncle sam has lit at last got around to breaking with adm george robert high commissioner at martinique this automatically releases the entire script for comic opera huh OPA chief prentiss brown emphasized pha sized that the tha success of the program rests upon the american people he called on them to refuse to pay prices above the ceilings established news item all right A customer goes into a market finds no attention paid to set prices and refuses tu pay what happens the proprietor shrugs his shoulders the customer notifies the OPA then he sits back t to awalt await action but iu in the meantime how bow does he eat |