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There should be no doubt that prompt treatment is wiser than neglect. Use 2?oan's Pills. Doan'e have been winning new friends for more than forty years. They have a nation-wid- e reputation-Ar- e recommended by grateful people to country over. Ask your neighbor! 'Rg3 See Here, fy Private Hargrove! Km tu Marion Hargrove " THE STORY SO FAR: Private Marion Hargrove, former feature editor of the Charlotte (N. C.) News, has been In-ducted into the army and completed the first few weeks of his training at Fort Braej. Before getting Into the army, Hargrove advises selectees to "paint the town red." Once in, "the first three weeks are the hardest" so keep "an open mind." Hargrove has had plenty of trouble learning the fundamentals of army Ufe and as a result has spent a good share of his thinks t s , Classified as a cook he sereeant doesn't agree, experience. H.s ortlon of the civilian on this score. CHAPTER VI When Junior comes home from camp on furlough or for the week-end, he probably will throw out his chest, pull his shoulders almost out of joint, and speak a sort of jargon entirely unintelligible to you. There is no cause for alarm; Junior is merely exaggerating to show off his familiarity with military life. You will not be consoled by this knowledge when he begins speaking this unknown tongue. In order to understand some of his conversa-tion, you might tear out this page and tuck it away in the drawer with your recipes and patterns. Goldbricking is an Army term sig-nifying in a word, loafing. In its strictest sense, it means avoiding your fair share of the work, thus making the load harder for the oth-er boys. When Junior uses the term, however, it merely means hid-ing from the work in the first place or stretching an easy job out to make it last as long as possible. Batting the breeze is the military equivalent of "bullshooting." v Police, as nearly as it can be ex-plained, means "to clean up" or "to keep clean." Examples are kitchen police, or kaypee, canteen police, and police the area. Fatigue duty is work that is not actual military training, but a part Minneapolis bar, laid down his copy of the Bartender's Guide and sat up on his bunk. "Didn't you know?" he asked. "Zuber's girl's come down from Rochester. They're go-ing riding." "That's a fine thing," crowed Clarkin. "I haven't been for a spin since I've been here. Get your shoes on, Hargrove. And straight-en your name plate, McGlauflin. We must make a good impression on our guest ..." -f- sa- "You sure are a pleasant sur-prise, ma'am," Clarkin prattled on to the pretty girl in the front seat. "Fancy Ben Zuber even knowing anybody like you. You should see the homely looking things he brings to the dances here." She smiled a polite thank-yo- u at Clarkin and glanced sharply at Zu-ber. "I never could even get him to the dances at home," she said. "He wouldn't even look at the girls at all. Would you, dear?" "No, ma'am," groaned the mar-tyred Zuber, who spent almost all his evening hours writing letters to Rochester. "Just to look at Ben," said Mc- Glauflin, "you'd never think such a g boy could raise so much devil. It constantly amazes me." Private Zuber's eirl friend's smile Frenchmen swarmed The a'und us, selling everything fro-ste- amer trunks to combs. Twenty of us boys pooled our pocket money to buy ipack:ot cigarettes for fifty cents. What are spend your first pay you going to on?" "Oh, I suppose I'll" "First payday I had I went out a pack of ciga-rettes and bought myself almost all and lay awake night smoking them. Best cigarettes I ever tasted. By the way, how s the food at Fort Bragg?" "I find it very" - "Over in France we used to take and swap it to our drinking water the French for wine. It was a toss-u- p which tasted worse--our water or their wine. Ah, them was the days Like your uniform?" "I think it's very" "Nothing like the ones we wore. There we were, in the hottest part of the summer, with these woolen OD's, Russian high collars, wrap-around leggins, and all the works. How do you like my costume? "Well, confidentially" "This field cap ain't the one they issued to me. I lost that one and had to help myself to this one. I wouldn't tell you where I got it. I used to get into more potato-peelin- g work for not getting this, collar of the turnabout method of getting the dirty work done. Fatigue clothes are the blue denims worn for extra duty. Regular uniforms are called OD's, an abbreviation for "olive drab." GI is short for "Government Is-sue." GI soap is the yellow laundry soap, a GI brush is a hard-bristl- e scrubbing brush, and a GI haircut is the regulation style which sac-rifices s of Junior's wavy locks to cleanliness and sanitation. The PX is the post exchange, or canteen, a enterprise which sells practically everything the soldier needs. Three times a month, canteen books of credit tick-ets may be obtained in denomina-tions from one to five dollars. Ten per cent of the proceeds from these are returned to the battery fund, which is used to buy nonessentials for the battery. The old man is the battery com-mander, who may also be referred to among yourselves as the BC or the skipper. The top kick is a first sergeant, the chief of the battery's noncommissioned officers. Jawbone is an apt word meaning "credit." A Jawbone corporal is an acting corporal, who has neither the rating nor the pay of a corporal. A guardhouse lawyer is a legal expert who knows all there is to know about the laws and rights of soldiers, he says. The Congressional legislation for mili-tary discipline is contained in "the book," a manual of court-marti-known as the Articles of War. The 96th Article of War, which you've heard about, is the one which pro-vides punishment for "conduct un-becoming to a soldier." When you are sentenced for a number of vio-lations simultaneously, they "throw the book at you." Over the hill is an artistic way of referring to unauthorized absence. This is another expression for AWOL. Food is chow or mess. Stew is slum or slumgullion. Salt pork, which you rarely see in the Army, is called lamb chop. "They lam it against the wall to get the salt out of it and then they chop it up into the beans." To fall out, soldiers vacate the barracks quickly, before the ser- - was not so spontaneous this time, and there was a baleful gleam in her glance at poor Benjamin. "What have you been doing, dear?" she asked with terrible gentleness. Private McGlauflin went on glib-ly. "Tell her about the time you got tight in Fayetteville and tried to take the policeman's hat away from him, Ben!" The one-gi- rl audience was shocked. Her expression, as she looked at Zuber, was one of anxiety and doubt. Clarkin began again: "And the terrible fight he had that time ooof!" McGlauflin gave him a hearty dig in the ribs. To make sure that it had registered and created sufficient horrible curiosity in the feminine mind, he repeated it. Private Zuber, guiltless but help-less, drooped his shoulders further as the terrible ride continued. "Here's the Service Club, dear," he finally said. "Shall we go in and have something to drink?" He gave the three of us a pathetically be-seeching glance. "They don't sell lemon extract in there, Zuber," I suggested. Clarkin, McCIauflin and I exchanged looks that purposed to show a hidden knowledge of another terrible para-graph in the collapse of the soul of Benjamin Zuber. We sat at a table in the Service Club drinking the sodas our victim bought for us. Clarkin looked long at his glass of water. "The sight of water," he re-marked, "reminds me of what the sergeant was telling Ben last week about daily bathing." McGlauflin took pity on the inno-cent Zuber, who was dying for a cause he knew not. "We'll have to be going. We have things to do and I imagine you two young peo-ple want to enjoy each other's com-pany." "Yes," said Zuber's fiancee slow-ly. "Ben and I have SO much to talk about." Private Zuber shud-dered and his shoulders slumped tragically. "We certainly have enjoyed the afternoon," crowed Clarkin. "Love-ly time." The three of us Clarkin, McGlauf-lin, and I went whistling down the street, little caring what the mor- - "Over in France we used to take our drinking water and swap it to the French for wine." fixed right, too. Looks right dis-tinguished, doesn't it?" I looked at the modernistic clock on Ward Beecher's parlor table. I took my eyes off it quickly, lest he tell me again about how he won it at the firemen's convention. "Well, Ward," I said, jumpng des-perately into a gap in the conver-sation. "I've enjoyed talking to you about my life in the Army, but I have to get along uptown again. I've got " "Sure thing, fellow," said the man. of letters; "it certainly is interest-ing to hear from a soldier in this army. I could listen to you for hours." "Hey, Hargrove," he yelled as I started up the street, "next time you come, remind me to tell you about my job as a pilot in the old war!" When a sergeant tells you that it's the little things in life that are im-portant, he's not just saying it. A sergeant who impresses that one corny slice of homely philosophy upon a rookie's mind is giving him one of the most important lessons of his Army life. The soldier has a thousand and one small things to remember in his everyday life. Most of these he forgets at least once before a non-co-etches them vividly on his mind with kitchen duty. One of these small things is the row mignt Drmg. to nmsn the after-noon, we short-sheete- d five bunks in the next barracks. -fa-- One of the first people I looked up when I went to Charlotte on leave was Ward Beecher' Threatt, who writes a column of sorts for the Sat-urday edition of the Charlotte News. "Well, Hargrove," began the post-card philosopher, "how's the Army agreeing with you? I've been ach-ing to find out what you've been do-ing." This was a subtle slam at my column. "Well, all things considered " I began. "Nothing like the Army," said Ward Beecher. "I wouldn't take a million dollars for the time I spent in it. Nobody'd offer me a million anyway. Have you got a rating yet?" "Well" I began again. "Lord, did I have my ups and downs! Got all the way up to ser-geant three times and was busted three times for the good of the service." He paused to light another cigarette and I thought I saw an opening. "Let me tell you about the trip over," I said. "We left the " "We started a crap game on the train," said Threatt, "and I had to wire home for money before I got to Rock Hill. Have you had a pay-day yet?" "We'll have one" I started. "On that ocean voyage," he broke in. "I went for fourteen days without a cigarette. I followed one man all around the boat waiting for him to throw away a butt. Instead of throw-ing it on the deck, where I could have scooped it, he flung it over the rail. I followed another and just when I thought he'd be ready to throw it away, I asked him for the butt. The told me he had three different kinds of colds and he threw his cigarette over the side. He didn't have another, he said." "Did I tell you about our first day at Fort Bragg?" I asked him. "We landed at Brest," he said, "and we had to walk up one of the longest derned hills I've ever seen before we could drop our suit- - identification disk, or "dog tag," of which each man wears a pair. Dog tags are supposed to be worn at all times. A soldier will wear his tag all through the day, taking it off only for a shower. After he takes his shower, he probably will forget to put the tag back on at least, if he has a memory like mine. He never misses it until the next morn-ing when he's taking calisthenics. Then he doesn't know that he doesn't have it until he sees the sergeant come over to him, look for the tag and write his name down in the lit-tle black book. At retreat, the afternoon inspec-tion of the soldiers, I always check everything before I fall out for the onceover. Are my shoes shined? Is my rifle cleaned and oiled? Is my name plate pinned straight over my left shirt pocket? Can I get by with this morning's shave? Do I need a haircut? Are all my pockets but-toned? When I make sure that is as it should be, I sigh with satisfaction and fall out. The battery assembles in a neat precise picture of mass formation' The battery commander orders the top kick to "Prepare the battery for inspection!" The top kick opens the ranks and the lines straighten out to perfection. From where I stand everything looks perfect. The battery commander begins his inspection Until he gets almost to me I feel a most smug to think Uiat for once I've stood retreat and not fallen short somewhere To bask in my own perfection, I sneak forbidden peek at my gun and Then, to my horror, I see tTO. shiny strands of stainless steel just below my belt-- the chain on ha dadblasted dollar watch! Your who,, day can be spoiled by doodads such as that marring the neatness and simplicity of your miform. Back t0 the kitchens, Dulcy! There's one good thing, however about forgettmg to take off yo nonkosher watch chain for retreat or to put on your leggins for reveille or to straighten the shoes ' bunk! After the first tim you" member them! re TO BE CONTINUED) "Over the hill is an artistic way of referring to unauthorized absence AWOL." geant gets really mad. To fall in, they take their places in ranks. A yardbird is the lowest form of animal life in an Army camp. Under the common law, he is rated as one rank below a buck private. The yardbird, for this misdeed or that shortcoming, spends most of his time in menial labor about the battery area. When Junior refers to a yardbird, you will notice, he is invariably speaking of someone else, was our afternoon off and we were lying around in our barracks, too lazy to dress for a movie or a trip to the Service Club. All of us were, that is, except Private Zuber. With an enthusiasm and energy for-eign to a cook's afternoon off, Zu-ber was applying a blinding glaze to his shoes. This finished, he con-nected an iron and began sharpen-ing the creases in his trousers. "Going somewhere, I take it," asked Private Clarkin, the Jersey milkman. Private Zuber grinned happily, and nodded. He donned his fresh clothing, gave his necktie several unnecessary tugs, and combed his hair for the twelfth time. Private McGlauflin, late of the f O Released by Western Newspaper Union. INDEPENDENT TJ. S. VOTER IS DECIDING INFLUENCE THE INDEPENDENT American voter exercises the deciding influ-ence in political elections in the greater number of states and the na-tion generally. He owes allegiance to no party; looks beyond the party label; is not interested in party tradi-tion or the glories of the past. He is interested only in the immediate present and in the future. Of the present he wants honest in-formation definitely expressed as to what is being done, or has been done. He wants that in the form of facts, not as condemnation of one party by another. Given the facts, he feels himself fully capable of de-termining whether or not those re-sponsible for a condition should or should not be supported. If there is to be condemnation he prefers to do his own "viewing with alarm." For the future he wants to know definitely what policies each party proposes. He wants those policies expressed in words that can have but one meaning. He is quick to detect "weasel" words in any plat-form, and resents any effort on the part of any party to be "all things to all men." He demands honesty of purpose, honestly expressed. With these two things, an honest and definite accounting of the im-mediate past and present and an honest statement of the purposes of the future, he will decide for himself what party and what leaders repre- - sent tne Dest interests 01 nis state and the nation. When we have that kind of po-litical action by all political parties we will obtain an expression of the wishes of a majority of American voters and the Republic will be safe. The independent voter demands hon-esty in the party he will support. He will not knowingly countenance double dealing. ... 'PERMANENT' PEACE PLANS NEED SERIOUS STUDY VICE PRESIDENT WALLACE has proposed President Roosevelt as "permanent" chairman of the post-war peace conference. That "per-manent" would imply that the job of peacemaking is to be a long one, and it should be. It would imply that the ideas for peacemaking as proposed by former President Hoo-ver will, in general, be applied. All of the many problems for which solu-tions must be found cannot He con-sidered at once. They must be de-cided one at a time. They cannot be dropped into a hopper of hate and ground out as a peace product by a war-ma- d world. In his book, "The Problems of Lasting Peace," and in his addresses,- - Mr. Hoover has pled for that cooling off period after immediate needs have been cared for. If we are to have, as we are demanding, a permanent peace, arriving at its final terms is a task that will last for some years, and one that will call for a high degree of statesmanship. To name Presi-dent Roosevelt as chairman of that conference would accord him a high honor. . ATLANTIC CHARTER WE ARE INCLINED to think of the Atlantic Charter as defining the policies and purposes of 32 Allied nations. In reality, it is not that. It has been signed by some repre-sentative of each of 32 nations. It has not been officially approved by the government of any one of these nations, including the United States and England. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill pro-posed it as what, in their opinion, should be the policies and purposes of the Allied nations, but it cannot become effective and operative with- - out the approval of congress and par-liament. It represents what Presi-dent Wilson's 14 points represented, the policies and purposes of individ-uals. What congress and parliament may say about the Atlantic Charter is something else again. WHEN TOUR PAPER ERRS REMEMBER THIS ... JUSTUS CRAEMER is state rail-road commissioner of California. He is also a newspaper publisher. As a railroad commissioner he deals largely in figures. As a news-paper publisher he must answer for errors in his newspaper. Combin-ing the two vocations he did a bit of figuring, the astronomical kind he uses as a railroad commissioner, and finds there are more than three million chances for an error in pro-ducing one issue of an average eight page newspaper. He quotes those figures as an alibi for the occasional error in his newspaper. He can, and does, prove the statement to the satisfaction of any critical reader. I SHOULD LIKE to pronounce the punishment for Hitler and Mussolini. It is that they be marooned together on a small, uninhabited, coral island, provided with sufficient food and wa-ter to keep them alive if shared equally, and see which would live longer. We might make a sporting event of it and gamble on which one would die first, either from being talked to death or from failure to receive his share of the food and wa-ter. A percentage on the bets could help provide food for their victims in Europe. THAT EXPERIENCE has value was recently recognized by the house of representatives. It passed a bill in which the senate did not concur, providing that a bureaucrat must have had not less than five years of business experience before he could have a job as a bureaucrat. AMERICAN TROOPS in the South and North Pacific have necessarily applied the old Western Indian adage to the Japs. The only good Jap is a dead one, for he must be dead be- - fore he will quit. j Old Salt Had Turned Tables on the Captain The old sailor had retired sea. Each morning a youngste,;, ' in the village knocked at his t' went in, and soon came out a After this had gone on for f" time the curiosity of the aroused. "Tell me," said oneoftherr inquisitive ones to the "why do you visit that old T' every morning?" "Well, sir, he gives me a if I say to him, 'The captain See you immediately on', deck,' " "And what does he say to t- h- "He says, 'Tell the captaij". go jump into the briny deep!'"", 'ft 5 ? V "t" TtvSI Clearance "How do you like the way I've fixed up my den? What would you say it needs as a finishing touch?" "A match." Headlines: "Japanese on the de-fensive." But they're still most offensive. ith Trunks, Elephants Can Smell Two Miles Elephants have a sharp sense of imell in their trunks. To catch listant scents they raise their xunks high over heads, and when ,he wind is right can smell a hunt-- r two or three miles away. A ull-gro- elephant has a trunk ive to seven feet long. It is an 'overgrown nose" but also takes ;he place of an upper lip. With it in elephant drinks about 40 gal-on- s of water a day. Once, in London, an elephant jut her trunk in her mouth to blow lown some water and, by acci-len- t, bit off the end, a piece about i foot long. Keepers supplied her with water from a hose and tossed ,'ood into her mouth until her trunk healed over. Exiles' Contribution The nine governments-in-e;- ; London have so far contribulei the Allied nations 450,000 soldiers, 27,000 aviate:': 000 seamen, 240 naval vessels about 2,300 merchant ships. Swayed to Sleep Members of a tribe of tre dwellers in the Philippines sleei on a swaying rope of vines. ' |