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DY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1943 (One Day Nearer Victory) THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNT AINEEk Past t rrodav, the Most Popular Story To Come Out Of the War A Best Seller For f Many Months. Read It Today and Every Week In This Newspaper. cigarette, "it beats the hell out of me what fate did mean for you. Dr. Garinger down at the high, school said years ago that it didn't write a formal education in on your bud get. Belmont Abbey found out that See Here. Private Hargrove! RF.. by Marion Hargrove what W.M.U. IIRVICt 5T fKWKA.Nl .,,! nsUITH, CLAR back in r.uv v untie 1 vvaa ouy- ' Earned the art of he army, ever gets ill nrovide anient tnrougnuue a li'd wintt-r. v r,;l,1s tTiat Private f.,..wn T nwtnn t asV :!411!620, is giv- Ill'llOW ttin ---- ram in the next regi- sive 3 progr , Goh1iu': ne P. . i Uw wVirt nnw tn SOS !" i" 7 Mv Stars: 1 ne duhu icau- Sergeant Gold- jt' 11- etlC i .....uwinr VHifHi n i inii jv !u, l-llii.n -r. I rl fhnf ho M.Vlrt .vBernanl snau mat .jff he wno can l rauico. ". jrtr srrg ant, is my con :;c tlu- army and to pos ." please go away and leave ,,1,.,'pK' to our studies. (HAI'TKR I knows what you re thinking and yourself with energy to each task he can't do anything about it. j no matter how small or how un You'll be inoculated against pleasant it is. You don't iret any- "I am the most underpaid six armed Siva," I snorted. "Look at me! I am the feature editor, the obituary editor, the woman's page editor, the hospital editor, the rewrite man, the assistant to the you weren't destined to be worth a city editor, the commissar for paste hoot as a public relations man for and copy paper and cokes, the cus a Benedictine college. The drug- todian of oral memoranda, the pub store chain in Washington said you lie's whipping boy, the translator had neither the talent nor the tern- and copyist of open-forum letters, for sodn-ierk'uiL'. And the castigator of the you certainly fizzled as a theater ushtr. Maybe fate don't know you." "May I hive a cigarette?" I asked, reaching before he could pro tect them. "Day after day 1 work my t'mgers to the shoulder blades for m ither thanks nor living wage. 1 am the feature editor of a prog ressive, growing newspaper. What makes it that? My heart's blood Army would make a man of you. I was in the Army in the last war. A top sergeant at eighteen. The Army did wonders for me.'' "That's not much of a sales argu ment," I told him. "Then again," he said, "If we must take up my whole busy day weeping over your sorrows, let's not burden the Army when it has a helluva job already. Concerning composing I the whole matter, I would suggest room staff, the guest artist for ail- that you apply yourself to making ing columnists, the tourist guide jUp the woman's p."ge right now, for visiting school children, the lest vii come down tomorrow press representative at barbecue : rooming and find someone ilse sit- your sergeant. smallpox, typhoid, tetanus, yellow where by buying soda pop or beer j makes it that! lever, pneumonia, and practically tor all the other ills that flesh is heir to. You'll be taught foot drill, the handling of a rifle, the use of the CTf) a mnclr f Vna ncml iarifiuc f mil!. tary vehicles, and the intricacies of;a,lck'nt "r("'" eveahade and began mos, underpaid brotherhood in the j military courtesy. "I would tire vou tomorrow," he t j- , sighed, "if anyone else could pos- Brodie Griffith, managing editor ; , . , t , f ,, , , ., ' .. . ... Isiblv straightep. out the chaos you f the Charlotte News, adjusted h.s . brouht t0 this office. In the Most of what you are taught will impress you as utterly useless non sense, but you'll learn it. You'll be initiated into the mys teries of the kitchen police, probab ly before you've been in the Army for a week. Possibly two days lat er, you'll be sent on a ration detail to handle huge bundles of groce ries. You'll haul coal and trash and ashes. You'll unpack rifles that are buried in heavy grease and you'll clean that grease off them. You'll stoke fires, you'll mop floors, and you'll put a high polish on the windows. You'll wonder if you've been yanked out of civil life for This. All your persecution is delibe- o ".o- alv -. Viiiv all !;i-j;rys. I'd um it all up in ..pa;r. :,e town red ior tne ,; your civilian week. Pay -..11 to the advice that is pouml into your defenseless 4 twenty-four hours a day. m idea of what Army life !p :o he like. Leave your open.'' . weeks from now, you will be :jr.ly disgusted with your sb. You will have been herd- ja place to place, you will landered in nakedness and irment tnrough miles ot phy- tiamina'.ii'ii, you will look privacy and individuality as i you left behind you in a : civilian society. ahlv you will have develop- mrdei'i'iis hatred for at least serfean: and two corporals. e and fume under nli r brutality and ii will wonder how no' ion can permit its army. Take it .o r it easy. beam of radiant ; b fore you: The i - are the hardest. : 4 .ir.il lip: iv )ci:y glancing through a sheaf of copy, world, you are the most overpaid, "Hargrove," he said, lighting a two-headed brother." suppers ot Hie unite a rsroinornooci of Plumbers and Steamlitters, the butt of the office iokes." Period," said Mr. Griffith, "New paragraph." "I lead a terrible, tubulent life," 1 wailed. "I am the man forgotten by Destiny." "If you will get your elbows otT my dest," he said, "the boy can put the mail on it. "What you need," he continued, sorting through a batch of letters, "is a tour of military service. The ting in your chair. Leave my sight." "There's not a letter there from New York," I asked, "with my name written on it in a delight fully illegible, feminine, and slight ly redheaded hand?" "Is there ever?" he snorted. "Let's see " ard he went through the stack. J'Well, my lad," he said with faint gfee, "at last we're getting some where. We know what Fate means for you. You can be happy now." He handed me a long, white, in nocent-looking envelope, addressed to me. The return address read, States to Marion Hargrove, greet ing! The boy across the table in the Piedmont' Grill lifted both hands and clapped his brow three times. He looked at the clock, then back at his breakfast, then back at the clock. "My name is Hargrove," I said handing him a cigarette. "Mine is I'iel." he s i d. "Melvin l'itl. Tomorrow- may- vou can make it 'Private' on the front." "So long as you're healthy," I said, shrugging a shoulder. "It cuts down on the income tax." "My hay fever," he wailed. "What will I do with my hay fever? In the jungles of South Carolina for maneuvers, with my hay fever! Oy!" "Just look at it," he said on the way to the bus station, "maybe a posthumous medal my grandchil dren will get. Private Melvin Piel, who gave his life valiantly and (Continued on page 12) ; V ii a rate, calculated, systematic. It is nl v been called i ,, . '. - , .,, collegiate practice of hazing, ap- wdl en awav .... .,' ... ;t oil r. in'P" to tne llm an(1 highly im portant task of transforming a ci vilian into a soldier, a boy into a man. It is the Hardening Process. You won't get depressed; you won't feel sorry for yourself. You'll just get mad as heck. You'll be breathing fire before it's over. Believe me or not, at the end of that minor ordeal, you'll be feeling good. You'll be full of spirit and energy and you will have found yourself. You'll look at the new men com ing in to go through the same hard1 ening period, and you'll look at them with a fatherly and sympa thetic eye. They will be "rookies" to you, a veteran of almost a month. For practical advice, there is none better than the golden rule of the Army: "Keep your eyes op. n and your mouth shut." At first, probably, you 11 be m-! clined to tremble at the sight of every corporal who passes you on the street. You might veil salute the first-class pi ivates. Then, when the' top sergeant neglects to beat you villi a k'omt they rub (II three or possibly1.,, . ' r , nnuie in hiui luiuie .iiiiiv imrtiiu- lary. They stand for the words "'Government Issue" and jusl about everything you get in the Army w ill be GI. liven the official advice. This story on the other hand, is not GI.) suit into the wounds, you might want to im to the other ex treme. This way madness lies. When corporals and sergeants are to be dealt with, always re number this: Make friendships first nrA ln.jrn tli irvUntr until latot he knowledge of thisln-....- .u,. i .. u.' -n , . oen u .s uie top seiL'eani, ll Mlitm '0ne5 u I I makfi vmi ovpn . , . . .... , ,. , ' ;be nest to leave the joking perma- "K.vard. I nless you relax i M ari TIP VtlV nnlinnn.. cm three weeks. assigned to your nt r you'll really will bear the ' ; - f the painful pro ! ii;.i-:iag yourself to an n w routine. In those .'u weeks you will get al- , '! :;!! r i'iiivd dose of con-: ar.il misery. You will be Itav. your barracks lest a:h of the war depart ill upon you. Y'ou will find unbelievably awkwnrH :l5my "hen you try to learn I k ami t ;r.;ns '. Y( n enn and drill, a '! iy. and when the ' correct or advise to -oar his throat 'are hands. You'll -' 'und of his voico as passed. The ' ti five you is the 'ne poor sergeant "va time too. He ectal Soreness to Relief New Easy Way u -it in Comfort Rtl is a quick, dcpentUbl. painim rectal sontneH J01 tich "7 alw accompany d?n-rThoi'i'- Brin toothing mmiort opon conUct, forma pre t.m ov, ,ort lrtli hJ datro7 fn i narara ntai np raw, .-. No oil - no trtu. to italn '? marantae. Dr tot rURMON RECTAL "H'S DRUG STOPF It can be very easy to start your military life on the wrong foot b giving your officers and nonconi missioned officers the impression that you're a wise guy, a smart aleck. Sodiers. like senators, "don't like for a new guy m shoot hi nioiith off." So much for the don't s. On 'h "do" side, the most important thi.-.u for you to watch is y ur ;itti:ude As a matter of straight and prac tical fact, the best thing that yi! can do is to reason that you ar going into a new job. The job is temporary but while you have it it's highly important. As, when you go into a new job in civil life, you do your darnedest to impress your employer with your earnestness, your diligence, your in terest in your work go thou and do likewise in the Army. As in your civilian job, the impression is made in the first few weeks. You make that impression, starting from the very first day, by learning as quackly as you can, by applying SPECIAL COFFEE H3J41-3J We HONOR the AMERICAN WORKER QUR employees are typical of the millions of workers in America. They're all-out to win this war! They're giving of themselves un stinlingly and they're giving of their earnings too: using 10 of their pay every pay day toward the purchase of War Bonds. America's goal is to have the nation's workers 100 enrolled in the Payroll Savings Plan. We Are 100 for VICTORY Welle hoe Corp, Waynesville Hazelwood
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