Show MANICURES WALK J W BURRS FIRST JOB AFTER REACHING CAMP HOTEL piter FAILED TO GIVE III SHEETS SHEET SALLOW PILLOW SLIPS UNO PILLOWS FOR HIS BED BUT HE camp fremont june 12 parowan carowan times timea dear editor it seems to be quite customary for each and every soldier to write some form of scripture to the times therefore in n order to keep keel up the reputation I 1 will send these lines telling telline of my experience since lea leaving ing my home town we arrived in camp march fth and were just a at in time to connect with ill dinner nee we felt more like cannibals than sol soldiers diera and if one of theof chev officers flears had pen scoped our appetites he would have sent us back I 1 we ate everything but the dishes and would have eaten them if it been against the rules they teed feed the soldiers sol diera in cafeteria tyle style and this is the big advantage aa vantage you on dont hove have any cheek check from the tram train we marched to the detention detent iou camp where they put us in quarantine for twenty one days davs this was waa a great place you didot have to be afraid of book agenda or collectors at two ne lie lined up and marched arched in over to the store house boom to get our blankets I 1 looked all around for a red capped porter but find one anywhere I 1 wound up by bv carrying my own stuff then one of the petty officers as signed us to our tents tenia my tent mate was thomas carney it was quite a coincidence that I 1 met him at the recruiting office in salt lake I 1 was next assigned to the aeten tion camp post postoffice office I 1 never dreamed that I 1 would get to be a man of letters white while my voice may never have been much in the line it was very successful ce ful when it came to singing out the names on letters the fellows told me that once in a while they could understand me after supper we lined hoed up at the barbers to have our hair clipped he took a pair of 00 clippers and separated our heads from the hair and after looking at some of the boys I 1 decided that all they needed to make them look real desperate villas a suit of stripes and a number at nine we were ordered to turn in I 1 did not know what I 1 was to turn in all I 1 had gotten was abed a bed and almost a hair clip somebody put me wise and said eaid that they wanted me to go to bed at home I 1 usually start out about this time but then I 1 remembered that I 1 at home the old saying is as you make your bed BO be must you lie in it I 1 made such a bum job of nine mine that it was all I 1 could do to lie in it it until then I 1 discovered I 1 had forgotten to get some sheets a and pillow I 1 yelled veiled for the porter but as nobody answered I 1 surmised that he had gone home I 1 go to sleep word about I 1 a in at 6 5 30 in the morning I 1 heard a couple of bugles and somebody yelling out of those tents you soldiers I 1 thought they had found a german spy apy or something until tom toia told old me it wait waa time to get up I 1 imagine what they wanted of us as so early in the morning I 1 thought carney was playing a joke on oa me so BO I 1 turned over fur for a little 11 snooze pretty won soon chief boatswain came in and wanted to know if I 1 thought I 1 was rip van winkle I 1 told him I 1 leave any 5 30 call but in a few minutes he be convinced me that I 1 should sever myself from the hay I 1 want to hurt his feelings so ao I 1 got up when I 1 got fiot my eyes opened I 1 0 bened my eyes again chief had been an employee of the pacific gas and electric co and I 1 had how baw led him out once for getting the kitchen dirty when he came to fix our stove I 1 would have riven given anything to have been able to recall that ballout baw lout but I 1 realized that it was too late I 1 also realized that fr rom now on I 1 would spend most at of my time in the kitchen I 1 got washed walled and dressed and started to walk around the camp when somebody called me back and told me to make up my bed I 1 ask ed him if the chambermaid had quit I 1 also told him that thail I 1 received my sheets he said I 1 would ret get them as soon boon as the war was waa over and I 1 was home again I 1 was surprised to find myself up and dressed when I 1 had bad decided to stay in bed and have my break breakfast fat bro brought light to tee me but as long as aa I 1 was waa up I 1 decided to stay up then one of the men handed me a broom and told me to manicure the walk in front of my tent I 1 explained to him that I 1 used to sweeping the sidewalk of the hotel where I 1 stopped but he told me that this was in an entirely different hotel and that it was run on the navy plan after I 1 had swept I 1 went in and shut abut up the alarm clock which I 1 had set for 10 30 then they blew a bugle for swedish exercises I 1 thought it was enough exercise getting up in the middle of the night but bat as long as they thought differently there was no use discouraging them after this thia we went into the mesa men hall for breakfast and the only thing that could have kept me from eat ing would have been lockjaw lock jaw mine was waa one digh that need washing it was licked clean little did I 1 realize the significance significance of wine some of the petty things I 1 pave have been relating but friends they are all essential because of the feet fact they must have discipline and learn to 0 economize we thought those things were hard bard and that they khey were just killing us off instead of making men out of us but they lad had to have a building point and today the exercises seem simple to us there seemed to be a sentiment at it among the people at home when 1 left there aas was no use in taking so many say of our young boys boya from their homes of production and really y I 1 felt that way myself but friends there is IB a big fundamental cause that we are not all wised up to but when the time comes we will all change our minds and say my I 1 we are glad they took our boys boya I 1 when they did if the mothers could cast their vea eyes over this magnificent body of men that took part in the sing song sing festival yesterday their hearts would overflow with joy just jost to think that they had sons physically ht fit for such each an occasion there we marched in regimental sections which consisted of seventeen hundred soldiers soldier to the regiment and sewn seven regiments competing if the mothers could have seen these men in marching order yesterday I 1 know they would have felt like we a all did that there enough germans in the world to 0 walk our frames mothers those of you who have sons in the army dont worry about the them for far they are a all going to return of course the united states maylow may lose some men but everyone from tom our or little country is 13 going to comeback because we are made up of the wrong kind of material to ever lot let a german aibe aipe ipe his feet on us I 1 weigh now pounds and I 1 feel fee as if I 1 could boodle haindle three or four squire heads we are am now connected with our bayonet drill and if may of you men folks in iron iran county t think bulk that pick and shovel work is 13 he ha rd I 1 will glady ly exchange with you merely to convince you that it i suit ent a drop in the bucket to bayonet drill work and it la a the most es ea santud agential thing we have had MY if yon mont get the squire head he at get you so BO the drill is interesting and we naturally take to it to et ct our own hwo ives well wall friends I 1 rejoice with this thia spirit and feet feel lika ilk myself for being is a soldier in the he engineers cal 11 to all JACK GURR 1111 1 |