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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER, Ashland, Oregon See Here, Private Hargrove! ’ I 'HESE orange crate bedside * tables are useful and easy to make; they are very decorative, too, when fitted out as illustrated. These were lined with green oil cloth cut, fitted and pasted, as shown. The full skirt pieces were tacked to the top of the sides and by Marion Hargrove THE STORY SO FAR: Private Marton Hargrove, late ot the editorial «ta# ol lhe Charlotte (N. C*.) New«, ha« been Inducted Into the army. clanlSed a« a rook and hai «pent a lart* «bar. ot hl« “«par." moment« on Kt* duly. He hat taken time out, however, to advl«* pro«- perliv. doughboy« to “paint th. town red’* before Induction and once In Ihr army to “keep an open mind'* as th. ••first three week* are the harde»t.” Hi« eeastant atslgnment to KF 1« lhe dr- «pair ot hl» sergeant who beli.ves Har grove will never learn to be a crack soldier. Ill« last experience was a rifle inspection in which he fared badly. Now he begin« a new episode concerning ad vancement In rank. CHATTER IV LINE crate with OIL CLOTH -TACK CHECKED SKIRT TO <S©tS WHITE FRILL ' EDMS COVER FOR TOP lapped a few inches around the back. A top cover with a 3-inch frill was then added. The bed spread is trimmed with 5-inch frills of the muslin and 1-inch straight bands over seams and for the monograms. ... NOTE—These bedside tables are from BOOK 7 which also contain 31 other thrifty home making ideas. BOOK 2 con tains a complete alphabet for making monograms similar to the one illustrated. Books are 15 cents each. Send your or der to: MRS. RITH WYETH SPEARS New York Bedford Hills Drawer 10 Enclose desired. Name IS cents .......... each for book . Address CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT PHOTO FINISHING BEAUTIFUL 4»« PICTURES from 11« A 120 negatives. 3l«x4^ from all smaller sizes, 3^c EA. Rolls 8 exp. 30c—12 exp. 45c—16 exp. 60c—36 exp. $1.25. Get price on enlarge, on portrait paper, copies made from old. new pict OVERNITE SERVICE. 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He held both his arms against the front of his shirt in a queerly strained posture and blushed happi ly every time someone looked at him. "The heat's got the boy," I told Gene Shumate. "Looks like the best ones always go first" "That ain't the heat” »aid Cookie. "He seems to have a cramp in his arms.” We looked at Citizen-Soldier Gantt’s arms again. Then, for the first time, we noticed two shining stripes on each sleeve. Citizen-Sol dier Gantt was a corporal now! "Heavens to Betsy," we shouted in unison for his benefit "Is that punk a corporal?” Corporal Gantt acknowledged the tribute by joyful ly changing his color to a holiday According to the sergeant, the guard is instructed to give the “halt" order three times and then shoot. Over-enthusiastic rookies from the back counties, he said, had been known to go like this: "Halt halt halt! Ka-POW!" (You can believe it or leave it; I never question whut tile sergeant says.) There was one rookie guard, he said, who halted him, questioned him and allowed him to pass. Aft- er he had gone several steps, the sentry again shouted. “Halt!" Ser geant Taylor came back and want ed to know—politely, of course— how come. "My orders," said the guard, "say to holler ’Halt' three times and then shoot You're just on your second halt now!" The other popular expression is the come-a-running call that goes up the line to the guardhouse when a guard takes a prisoner or "meets any case not covered by instruc tion" (General Order No. 9). If the guard is on the seventh post, he sings out, "Corporal of the guard! Post number seven!" The guard on the sixth post picks up the cry and it goes down the line like that. There's the story about the officer of the day who questioned a new sen try, as officers of the day frequently do in order to test the sentries. "Suppose." the OD asked, “that you shouted ’halt" three times and I kept going, what would you do?" The guard was apparently stumped by the question. Finally he answered, "Sir, I’d call the corporal of the guard." The officer of the day gloated. "Aha!" he said. “So you'd call the corporal of the guard, would you? And just why would you call the corporal of the guard?" This time the answer was prompt •nd decisive—and correct. "To haul away your dead body, sir!" Heroes are born, not made. There’s one job here that is noth ing but goldbricking in itself. That's the latrine orderly detail. You go to work after lunch and spend the rest of the afternoon watching the fire in the water heater and feeding it reg ularly—every two hours. The next morning you sweep and mop the washroom and spend the re«t of the time until lunch watching the fire again. AU in m!. you lead a lazy, carefree existence. There was a slip-up somewhere yesterday. I was latrine orderly “Heavens to Betsy," we «hooted instead of a KP. It was probably in unison for his benefit, “Is that the mess sergeant’s idea. The boys started out after lunch punk a corporal?" for an afternoon of drilling in the red. The grin widened until hi» warm Carolina sunshine and learn ears hung perilously on the brink of ing to drive trucks across ditches. An hour later, I decided to take his lips. It took him half the morn ing to sober his spirits to working a casual look at the boiler. When I opened the furnace-room door, a conditions. blast of strong brownish smoke Corporal Gantt has been in the I lay struck me to the ground, Army exactly four months. He had there for several minutes, tapping been an acting corporal for three my forehead thoughtfully, while weeks before he got his stripes. more smoke poured out. Heaven grant him strength íor When it still hadn't slackened aft the ordeal ahead. er five minutes. I crawled under The term “buck private” was ex- the layer of smoke to the boiler. plained to us this afternoon. It re- There the sickening vapor was. fers to the Old Army Game, "pass pouring nonchalantly through clinks ing the buck." The sergeant is first in the door. called on the carpet for a mistake "Don’t come teUing me about it," in his platoon. The sergeant seeks said Sergeant "Ma” Davidson. out the corporal and gives him a "Take out the pipes and clean them. dressing-down. The corporal passes All of them.” the buck by scalding the ears of the I had to see the top sergeant to private. The private doesn’t even get my instructions. When I re have a mule to kick, so he can't pass turned to Sergeant Davidson I was the buck any farther. He keeps it. happy again. That makes him a buck private. "Ma," I told him, "the top kick The Army, I find, has many subtle says for you to supervise the job.” ways to trap the unwary into vol The sergeant was furious with rage unteering for work. First there was and frustration. I grabbed a screw the sergeant over at the Reception driver and he grabbed Private Dow Center who came through the recre ner, who had a black mark by his ation hall one afternoon calling for name for not wearing his identifica "Private Smith.” Four men an- tion tag. The three of us started swered. All four were put to work work. picking up cigarette stubs. First, put out the fire in the boiler. On the call, "Anybody In here Shake it down, throw ashes on it. know how to handle a truck?” i don’t It still bums. Shake it down more, speak up. The last three were seen throw sand on it. Still burns, Close later pushing a hand truck up the the bottom door, shake it down battery street to haul rifle racks. more, throw ashes and sand on it. Corporal Henry Ussery is to date Curse it. After too long, it dies. the most dangerous conscriptor. This The man who devised the system week he came into the squadroom for connecting an indoor boiler and to ask if anyone was good at short an outdoor chimney should be hand. Three citizen-soldiers admit parched with his own pipes and ted that they were. stuffed with oily soot. Unscrew a pipe, lift it gently, coax "Report to the kitchen,” the cor poral laughed. “The mess sergeant it from its socket. Easy does it. says he's shorthanded on dishwash Careful there. When you have it almost out, inhale for your sigh of ers." relief. Crash! The whole network "One of the most solemn and re of pipes bounces off the floor scat sponsible trusts of a soldier,” Ser tering ashes and soot over half the geant "Curly” Taylor said today, battery area. After half an hour of scrubbing "is his guard duty.” Sergeant Tay lor, who has been in the Army for and wiping the interior regions of nineteen years and probably knows all the pipes, they’re ready to go more about guard duty than any up again. AU but one of them are man in Fort Bragg, is teaching us in place and the last one is ready to be fitted. Careful there! Easy, about guard duty now. The soldier is called to this duty now! Watoh out! Catch it! CRASH! The boys come in from the drill about once a month. For a twenty- field at 4:30 and head for the show four-hour period, he is on two hours, and off four hours, and he "walks ers. There is no hot water. "Get a load of that Hargrove," his post in a military manner,” they fume, in an unnecessarily nasty guarding the peace and possessions manner. "He gets a job where all and safety of a part of the post. he has to do is throw a shovel of He is responsible only to a corporal coal on the fire every two hours. of the guard, a sergeant of the And then when we come in, there guard, an officer of the day, and ain’t no hot water. There ain't even his commanding officer. no fire. Throw the bum out." The guard, or sentry, is known chiefly to the reading and movie I grinned weakly as I reported to going public by two expressions, "Halt, who goes there?” and "Cor- the supply sergeant for work. “You poral of the guard! Post number must be that nice Sergeant Thomas three!” The former, Sergeant Tay W. Israel I’ve heard so many nice lor said with his best poker-face, things about." "No, little man,” he said. "I'm has given the Army considerable the nice Sergeant Israel you've been worry at times. running your loud mouth about I'm the nice sergeant who always gives you the wrong clothing sizes mid hides your luundry and docs nil those awful things you've been tell ing about me " "So help me, sergeant," I pro tested. ”1 never named thee but to praise, Somebody's been trying to poison your mind against me." "I am also the nice sergeant,” he said, "who is going to let you earn your seventy cents today.’Take off your fatigue blouse, my man. and prepare to sweat. Today we make progress. We are going to unpack rifles." It seems to me that when the manufacturer prepares to pack a box of Army rifles, his cruel streak comes out at its worst. From the look of the rifles, he has his three, year-old daughter prepare a com pound of molasses, pitch, and used motor oil—the footer the better. He slings each gun into the resulting mess, sloshes it around for a while, and then lays it neatly into the box. You use a swab about the size of a tablecloth to wipe the grease from the rifle. When you're halfway through the first rifle, you have to use the gun to wipe the grease from the cloth. When you have finished, you need a large coal shovel to wipe the grei^te off yourself. There is nothing so conducive to itching as the inability to scratch. Just when the molasses-pitch-axle grease mixture covers your hand to the point where you can’t see the outlines of the fingers, that left nos tril starts tingling. At first it itches only a little and you decide to suf fer it. So you don't wipe your hands ' on the seat of your trousers. In stead you pick up another rifle and your hand sinks to the elbow in the goo which wraps it This is the stage where your nose gets peevish and impatient and decides to itch in earnest. Finally, you decide to give in. You wipe your hands—an operation which takes a good three or four minutes for satisfactory results. You lift your hand to scratch your nose, only to find that your nose Isn't itching any more. I was doing fairly well this morn ing. even when you take the itch into consideration, until the mess sergeant happened to stroll by. "Hello, little man," he sings gaily, with a horrible gleam in his eyes. "You've not been around to see me for a long time. Aren't mad. are you?" I look at my hands, at the rifle, at the old shoe, and at the mess ser geant I hold my tongue. Health is .wealth. "We miss you terribly in the kitch en,” he coos, "even when you go griping around that my food is the worst in the Army. 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They never spoke, but tach watched the other. One man left work daily at four o’clock. The other toiled on till six or later. Some months passed. Then the harder-working of the two ap- proached the other. "I beg your pardon,’’ he said, "but do you mind telling me how Mind'll Sweetness you can clean up your work every Let thy mind's sweetness have day at four o’clock?" its operation upon thy body, "Not at all," said the other man clothes, and habitation.—George "When I come to a tough piece Herbert. of detail, I mark it, 'Refer to Mr. Smith.’ I figure that, in a depart ment as large as this, there is sure to be a Mr. Smith. And 1 must be right; those papers never Th« anappiaaf Mtaxinlnt known, and come back." th« world’« m<*«t widely distributed ftH.tl i»r < m ! u < 11 A d««h thia piquant The harder worker started to re uuca 41v«« a rar« flavor to any food. move his coat. TAB AM ’O thOMBMBftBf r«t of "Brother," he said, "prepare for nusatrr c twi« for mor« than 7S y«aral action. 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"If he gave him what he gave me when I got called up, it has four letters, starts with an h and ends with an 1." The sergeant closed his eyes and slowly shook his head, "Oxford isn't a sore thumb to the platoon like you are,” he groaned, •'Oxford got a bright red stripe to wear around his sleeve.” "Oxford’s no fireman,” I told him. "You’re dem right he ain’t," said the sergeant. "Starting with today, Oxford and Zuber and Roff and Maciejewski and Pappas and Mihai- akakos are acting corporalsl" I knew there must be a moral to all this, so I waited for him to go on. "Now, why couldn't you have been one of those six boys?" he asked. (TO BE CONTINUED) r any HAUTI indiana WHOLE GRAIN ä Kellogg's Com Flakes are restored to whole grain nutritive value of Thiamin (Vitamin Bi), Niacin and Iron, as rec ommended by the U. S. Official Nutrition Food Rules NUTRITIVE VALUES OF THIAMIN <vnAM,N “O NIACIN AND 7A* utofMu/ Kellogg s Corn Flakes —fruit—and milk cream. or f
