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J . See Here, ) Private Hargrove! ^ by Marion Hargrove TAB- Prl?>U llirl? I U i ..... BftTf rovi, former ampiper feature edi tor, km* been Inducted Into the armjr end la neurlns hie completion ol knile training at Fort Bragg, N. C. He hae keen detailed at cook and la addition hit failure ta matter tome od the lunda mentalt of arm? training have retailed la eoatlderable extra HP duty for him. Be hat alto learned the laer polnta of "goldbricking" and "thootlng the breeze." Bargreoe hat become editor of a tectlon ad the camp paper aad these duties knee kept him away from a lecture series. At we pick up the story, hit sergeant la assigning him once more to KP for this Infraction. Hargrove It trying ta explain. Be speaks: CHAPTER XIV "Sergeant, for days I round up news from battery reporters. There is always too much or too little. When there is too little, I have to write what is needed. When there is too much, I have to choose which battery reporter is going to horse whip me for leaving his copy out." "The chaplain is right up the street," the sergeant said. "Then I have to edit all the copy, delete all classified military intelli gence and take out all nasty cracks at first sergeants. Then I have to write headlines for all the stories and place them in whatever space I can find for them. Then I must draw everything up into pretty little pages. This is tedious and nerve racking work." "The chaplain will give you a sympathetic ear," the sergeant said. "I will give you only KP. Does anything you are saying relate to what we're talking about?why you weren't in the mess hall yesterday afternoon?" "I was getting around to that, ser geant. On the day before the paper is issued, I have to go into Fayette ville to keep a careful watch over the printers, to see that they don't put Third Regiment news on the Fourth Regiment page. If I am not there, they may even mix head lines and put church notices under ?Service Club Activities.' It is neces sary that I be there." The sergeant coughed. "I feel for you, Private Hargrove; I deeply sympathize. I wouldn't think of put ting you on KP?" "You wouldn't?" I gasped eager ly. "Don't interrupt," the sergeant barked. "As I was saying, I wouldn't think of putting you on KP?if you hadn't committed a breach of eti quette by failing to RSVP the invi taion. You didn't tell us you weren't coming. Or why." I was dozing peacefully at my typewriter the other morning when there came a knock on my elbow and a bright young voice shouted "Hey!" at me. I looked up into the impish, cheerful, and unquenchably mischievous face of the boss' daugh ter, Miss Sidney Winkel, age four. Miss Winkel was dressed like the Navy and looked entirely too ener getic tor such a drizzly morning. "I'm to be the Valentine," she said, "and Johnny's going to take my picture and you're to take me up to the Service Club and carry Johnny's things tor him and wait lor him to get there so you'd bet ter put on your jacket and cap and let's go. "I'm going to have my picture taken with Spud Parker," she add ed. Spud Parker is the general's son and is considered quite an eligi ble bachelor by the younger set. "There's Tom in the cafeteria," she said. "Let's go see Tom." Thomas James Montgomery Mul ?ehill, Ptc., was apparently making hia morning rounds in search ol news. He was, at the moment, en gaged in his daily research in the Service Club's <toast and coffee. "Hello, sis," he said. "Hello, Mc Gee. Pull up a chair. McGee, get the lady a drink. Something tall and cool. Such as a chocolate milk. What's the deal, sis?" "I'm to be the Valentine," she said, "and Johnny's going to take my picture and old Hargrove has to take care of Johnny's stuff until Johnny comes and I don't like him anyway because he makes faces and sticks out his tongue and says sticks and snails and puppy-dog tails that's what little girls are made of and he's not my boy friend any way." "No punctuation," I said. I wag gled my ears and stuck out my tongue at her. "The next time.I cppje," she said, "I'm going ttf fifing some soap and every time he sticks out his tongue t'in going to put Soap onTt because II ran I nice to stick out your tongue." She emphasized her state ment by paralyzing my wrist with her fist and sticking her tongue out at me. "Let's have no unnecessary vibra tions, McGee," said the Lieuthom as, looking up reproachfully over his glasses. "Coffee is five cents the cup." He beamed at her. She beamed back at him. "I have seven boy friends," she said, raising one forefinger delicate ly and rubbing the other against it in a highly jeering gesture. "I have seven boy friends and you're not one of them and you're not anybody's boy friend." She hit me this time on the elbow and I made a horrible face at her. "Myaaah," I said. "Who wants to be your boy friend anyway?" "I wish you wouldn't blow smoke," she said. "It makes me cough and it's not nice to smoke anyway. Old cigarettes!" I wearily crushed my last ciga rette in the ash tray. "Women, the eternal reformer," I sighed. "It wasn't like this in the Old Army." Miss Sidney Winkel took off her sailor cap and arranged her big red hair ribbon. "You're a nasty old thing and you're not nice like Johnny and Tom and Lieutenant Meek and Captain Wilson and all my other boy friends," she said. After a pause she added, airily, "And Ma jor Long and Captain Quillen, too." "Myaah," I sighed, wrinkling my nose more violently. "Oh there's Johnny," she sudden ly cried, "and he's going to take my picture and?" She tripped off with a bewitching smile for Bushemi and a running line of babble. "No punctuation," I said to Mul vehilL "It's a woman's world, McGee," he said, reaching for another slice of toast. "Get him away from me, Bu shemi!" roared Private Thomas James Montgomery Mulvehill. "He's got that gleam in his eye. Get him away!" "You're just being difficult, Lieu thomas," I told him. "Just sit down and relax." The Lieuthomas laid his enormous frame on the bunk and started slapping his knees in utter despair. "What kind of deal are you try ing to swindle this time?" he asked. "Let's be reasonable, Private Mul vehill," I said, patting him reassur ingly on the shoulder. "As you know, I am now working on Captain Winkel's sympathies to get a fur lough sometime in February . . . the first half of February." "I know what's coming," he screamed. "And I won't do it! I can't do it!" "Now, as you know, furloughs are laden with little expenses?neces sary little expenses. To help me along with the load, Sergeant Sher and Private Bushemi have already made philanthropic little loans. I have your name on my honor roll here, Lieuthomas. What's the do nation?" The Mulvehill cringed and edged away. "What do you need?from me?" "Well," I estimated, "I should say that ten dollars." "Great gods and refugee chil dren," he gasped. "Ten dollars he says yet! Why don't you ask me for my life's blood? Six dollars he owes me already and now he's asking? oh, I can't stand it! I can't stand it! Take him away!" "My life's blood," he moaned. "Where's the six I lent you two months ago?" "That was only five weeks ago," I reminded him gently, "and I've already paid two of that back. Three weeks ago I paid it back." "Yeah," he protested, "but you borrowed it back the next day." He rose and paced the floor. "What are they doing to me? My life's blood they would draw from my veins? Thirty-six measly little dollars a month I make?and he wants ten dollars! Maybe I'm Win throp Rockefeller I should lend out ten dollars a clip! Thirty-six dol lars, and he wants half!" "You see, Lieuthomas, a sad and work-worn creature?an Alice sit-by the-flre whose only hope for the fu ture is in the faint glimmering hope of a furlough. Day after day, week in and week out, I have worked my frail fingers to the shoulder blade to make things pleasant for you and Bushemi and Bishop. I have patched your quarrels with the mess ser geant. I have saved you from the terrible wrath of provoked Rebels. I have sat here at night, sewing but tons on my blouse so that you wouldn't have to wear it hanging open on your merry jaunts to town. Money could not pay for the things I have done for you and Bushemi. And now this. Ten dollars between me and spiritual starvation?and no ten dollars. How sharper than a serpent's tooth." "Don't talk like that, Hargrove," he said, his voice cracking. "Put me down for ten." There was a little note stuck in my typewriter when I came back from prowling for news. It looked like Private ("One-Shot") Bushemi's typing. "The stockholders of the Union of Hargrove's Creditors," it read, "will -hold ? business meeting . this evening abeet. seven o'clock in the latrine of Barracks No. 2, Head quarters Battery. Please be present or we will beat your head in." It was the day before my furlough, so I got the general drift. The vul tures who were contributors to the furlough would probably stand around frowning and figure out some sort of budget for my vaca tion. I could picture the blue-nosed demons slashing away at my enjoy ment. The meeting had an unexpectedly small attendance: Maury Sher, mess sergeant of Battery D of the Third and chairman of the ways and means committee of the Union; Pri vate Bushemi, principal stockholder and president; and Private First Class Thomas James Montgomery Mulvehill, chaplain. Private Mulvehill beamed. "Ser geant Hart sends his regrets. He has a heavy heavy in Lillington. He is with us in spirit, though." "Come in, drip," said Bushemi. Sergeant Sher got down to busi ness. "I've got to hand it to you, son," he said. "Gone through this much of the month and still haven't tried to get any of your furlough money back from the chaplain! We're all proud of you." "Shucks," I blushed. " 'Twern't nothin'. I was able to bum a ciga rette here and there." "McGee," said Mulvehill, clearing his throat, "you leave tomorrow for New York, where there are many snares to trap the unwary. Don't buy any gold watches in the park or any stolen furs anywhere. You know, I presume, about buying the Brooklyn Bridge." "Now, we don't have any restric tions about the way you use your money," said Bushemi. "Only last time you spent too much money ?ei taxicabs. You'll have to use the buses and subway more this trip. All the shows you want to see, all the books you can buy?but taxicabs only for very special dates." "Somebody has been exaggerat ing this taxicab?" I began. "Taxicabs," Sher broke in, "only for very special dates. You may go to the opera once if you sit down stairs and twice if you sit in the Famile Circle. You are not to buy more than six theater tickets. In uniform, you can see all the movies you want for two bits each." "And be conservative in tipping the waiters," said Mulvehill, tapping his glasses on the window sill. "Very conservative. Short-change them, if necessary." "Tell him about the budget," said Bushemi, with unnecessary impa tience. "As the matter stands on the fur lough deal," said Sher, "you owe Bushemi 22 dollars, me 10, Mulve hill 10, Hart 10. That's 52 dollars. Counting the ten you'll wire Bushemi for before the week's over, it's 62. Wiih what money we have taken from you and given to the chaplain during the past few weeks, you should make out all right." "Must I be treated as a child?" I asked. "When you get back broke, Mc Gee," said Mulvehill, "you are not to eat breakfast at the Service Club. You are not to take out any post exchange books. You will get your cigarettes from Sergeant Sher, who will ration them out to you as per budget." Sergeant Sher, Private Bushemi, and the other members of the Union of Hargrove's Creditors would have been quite pleased at the sight. In stead of spending their money lavish ly on taxicab sightseeing trips and expensive shows, I was dining Quiet ly in a conservative grillroom with the Redhead. We weren't even dis cussing ways to spend their hard earned money. "Little man," she said, "will you please ask the waiter for more water?" "I beg your pardon," he said, rather unctuously. "There is a fif teen million gallon shortage in wa ter at this very instant. On the other hand, madame, all supply ships to Great Britain use Scotch whisky as ballast for the return trip. Perhaps madame would like a glass of Scotch whisky?" The Redhead lifted an eyebrow. "I wonder," she said, "what they use in the finger bowls here?rub bing alcohol? I do not want Scotch whisky. I want water." "It is as madame wishes," the waiter said, bowing from the knees. He walked away and returned again to lean against a poet. The Red head drummed her fingers on the tablecloth. "Don't be afraid of him," said the Redhead. "Ceil his bluff." (TO BE CONTtMUEO? .!?> "Let's-J>e reasonable, Pvt. Mulve hin," I said; "As yon know, I am working on Capt. Winkle's sympa thies to get a furlough." "Little man," she said, "will yon please ask the waiter for more wa ter?" IMPROVED 11 ~J UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday i chool Lesson By HAROLD L. LUNDQUUT. D. D. Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicam. (Released bur Western Newspaper Union.T Lesson for October 10 Leason subjects and Scripture texts so lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. REVERENCE FOR GOD LESSON TEXT?Exodin Matthew 4:10; 6:0; John 4:23. 24. GOLDEN TEXT?God ia a Spirit: and they that worahlp him rauat worahip him tn spirit and In truth.?John 4:24. The first three commandments bring man into the presence of God, where he is taught how to worship God in spirit and in truth. "The first commandment (Exod. 20:3) bids us worahip God exclusive ly; the second (w. 4-8) bids us worship Him spiritually. The first commandment forbids us to wor ship false gods; the second forbids us to worship the true God under false forms" (Farrar). The third commandment (v. 7) indicates that true worship will deal reverently with the name of God. Israel had lived among the Egyp tians, a people known for their wor ship of images, and were about to enter into Canaan where there were many false gods. The Lord was therefore careful not only to forbid the worship of other gods, but also to forbid the making of images of any kind, whether they represented the many gods of heathendom, or were attempts to symbolize the true God. I. The Command to Worship (Exod. 20:3-7). God first claims the entire devo tion of man. If He ia Jehovah, the Lord God, it is obvious that there can be no other god before Him. He is a personal God (v. 2) with whom it is possible for man to have fellow ship. He must come first in our thought and our love. The second commandment ex pressly forbids idolatry in any form. The injunction is twofold. (1) Men are forbidden to make any material likeness which to them represents a being to be worshiped. It matters not whether it be an image or what men believe God to be like, or the image of an angelic being, a heav enly body, in fact, "anything that ia in the heaven above," or on the | earth?such as a man or animal; or I under the water?such as a fish. (2) ? If such objects have been made ei ther by ourselves or others we may not bow down to them, nor render ) any service to them. Let us all ex amine our religious ceremonies and practices in the light of God's com mandment. Observe that obedience to this command brings rich blessing to "thousands" (v. 6), whereas disobe dience is a curse not only to the man who disobeys, but also to his descendants. The careless, vain or irreverent use of God's name is forbidden (v. 7). How common that practice is today, even among Christian people. If we do not actually use His name, we use some slang expression which stands for His name. Now we turn to two passages from the Gospel of Matthew to see how Jesus practiced these command ments. n. Hie Example of Christ (Matt. 4:10; 6:9). To the temptation of Satan, offer ing rich reward for an act of wor ship to himself, Jesus gave prompt and effective reply by quoting Deu teronomy 6:13. Thus He gave His approval to the command that all our worship and service is to be given to God. This spirit shows itself in the rev erent devotion of the prayer (6:9) which Jesus taught His disciples. The name of God is to be hallowed? that is, to be regarded as holy. No one set a higher example of that than our Lord. Himself God, He was obedient to the" Father, even unto death, always doing those things which pleased Him and hon- i ored His name (John 8:29; Phil. 1 2:8). III. The Manner ef True Worship ' (John 4:23, 24). God is to be worshiped in spirit and in truth, pot in dead formalism or by empty ritual. There must be reality in such devotion. One would suppose that a truth so obvious and vital would long since Jiave completely saturated the life of the church as well as of the in dividual .believer. "God is a Spirit, | and they;that worship him must wor ! ship hlnii. in spirit and in truth." Even today, countless men and women still believe that worship has something to do with place (w. 20, 21) or race (v. 22) or some other external device or formula. What a pity, when the gracious and delight ful way to worship is through per sonal spiritual communion between God and man. Deadening formalism is not our only enemy. There is the powerless preachment of modernism?and in all honesty must we not admit that. even some so-called fundamentalism has'in many respects lost the true spirit (if the faith for which it rightly contends. We see then that the command ment of God regarding reverence is ; nol juxi a'law ofi a faded page in [ an ancient manuscript. It is a liv- : tJW*/ yftdl rtattty,' operativs today. at* ' V r/- <4 h.. i ? - I You Can't Keep a Good Ship Down The Japanese bombs on Pearl Harbor which ignited a war flame in America also disabled every United States battleship in the Hawaiian area and destroyed 80 naval aircraft of all types. 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Damage and corrosion to the superstructure of the Oklahoma are quite pronounced in this picture. Inset: Some of the navy ship yard workers are women. Dorothy ffaiuaiole, Hawaiian, is shown cutting steel to be shipped back to the mainland. ?? ? f I m" w* ?nay mito?rtgtyq Valuable parti of the 26-year-old Arizona are salvaged daily by divert thoun ascending from her sunken hull. Salvage icork it in progress else where also. A bridgehouse from a sunken ship off Stolen Island is hoisted to a barge. Some of the vessels dam- i aged at Pearl Harbor J required extensive ma chinery and intricate JS electrical overhaul ing at toell as re floating and hull repairing. No oal re pair yards took full ad- JH vantage of these inherent . delay* to inttall ntimer k out modernization fea g*. turet and improve ||l|y>, ments. Left: The Ktj. main deck of Hg|E^ the California is ^ shown rising ^ from her fal ^ len post ^ lion. 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