Show I 1 WN notes of 01 a newspaperman peter donald forwards the story about three GIs just back from overseas who went into the au automat and found that the only available table was one that was occupied by a spinsterish female wan wanting ting a little privacy they dec decided aided to sit down hoping by means of cc conversation to make her finish up and leave in a hurry the first gr GI said boy life overseas sure was tough I 1 have a bath in eight months think bad said the second secand 1 I even wash my hands in four weeks we were so busy the tha third added 1 I change my underwear in live five months at that point the old gal looked up and said would one of you stinkers mind passing the salt the government has stopped horse racing in america we wish it weri wen as easy to stop americas horses an american citizen of f german ancestry was walking down P powell 0 well street in san ban francisco w when hen he was stopped by a soldier who asked can you tell me the way to chinatown 1 he replied yes of course it Is two blocks over and two blocks to the left but you dont want to go 50 there because you are a jap the soldier replied and you yon are a german Z the citizen said illow bow did you know the tha soldier replied 1 I know because ive killed billed a lot of them the list last two months in italy and im on my hayhome way home to seattle the citizen of german ancestry looked at the uniform of the soldier and saw on it a presidential citation the purple heart an and a a few other campaign campal cn ribbons telling this story about himself he be said boy was I 1 em barras the soldier was of japanese ancestry and a member of the famous looth infantry edward Stettin lus who is certainly the most modest and democratic 0 of f our secretaries of state used to visit the broadway night clubs occa signally elo sio nally a few years ago one night he went into the old paradise with a male companion headwaiter Head walter albert berryman scanned them with an apara appraising ising and unrecognizing eye hello ello albert said stettin chello dH ju lus dont ont you remember me oh yes fibbed bibbed albert trying to place the man as he showed him to a none too good table the part I 1 like Is that who was then only chairman of V U S steel knew headwaiter head walter albert but albert know himl him I 1 ernest hemingway went to tc chicago years ago after working in kansas city he had lived in oak park and was an old schoolmate of 0 ted cods now working tor for warners at the time tod was working tor for the chicago herald ex aciner as a reporter and hemingway hoped tod would try to te get him a job on the paper tod went in to speak to frank carson the city editor he told him all about hemingway what a good writer he be was he said he worked in chicago but he knows it knows names ete etc car carson caron on looked up and ho humid adms do s he know any chicago coppers no said tod well I 1 dont care how good a writer he is replied carson our reporters have to know the chicago coppers so hemingway get the job instead he went to canada worked on a toronto paper and from there started his bis climb it if it been for his not knowing any chicago policemen hemingway might still be working on the chicago paper all ali this talk of what to do with German yand of course it Is more than talk it 11 la is a grave great problem reminds we me of this ibis tale an apostle of c conciliation once asked the late georges clemenceau Clemence aa it if his hatred haired of the germans was based on knowledge have hare you ever been to Ger mally he inquired no monsieur replied the tiger deer 1 I have hate not been to germany but bat twice la in my lifetime the germans have been to t france this as good gd as the westinghouse ln In im gag but its going the rounds among the icky set met and makes me lck ick were broom mates we sweep together dust us two it happened at an army training camp reports irving hoffman the ne sergeant bad twenty recruits lined up tor for fatigue duty they were not as energetic as the serge sergeant aut thought they should be so he tried to cure them ive got a nice easy job tor for the laziest man present he barked will the laziest man ral raise a his right hand nineteen men raised their right paws why dont you tolse buur hand inquired the sergeant ol of the lad too muth trouble he cl drawled |