The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-20
LUCKY cUYw
By Arthur Walter Grahame OF
the Vigilantes

By Arthur Walter Grahame OF
the Vigilantes
I'm drafted" exclaimed the File
Clerk, tragically.
Drafted, hey?" replied the Con
struc.ion Boss. "Gee, you're lucky
guyw
''Luckyv shouted the File Clerk.
What's lucky about having to 60 in
the army and perhaps getting shot?
l don't see you running down to the
recruiting Office and enlisting."
NO." replied the Construction
Boss, trifle sadly. But if it wasn't
for the wife and the three kids you
would see me doing just that little
thing.
Say" he continued, "some of
y'u roI~g fellows make me tired. |
served in the Spanish-American
War, and It didn't kill m lit made
me q better man in every way. Oh,
yes, SNOW that the Spanish An e,i-
can War wasn't much of a show
compared to this one, but we heard
few shots fired, at that"
1T isn't only getting shot that
worries me-" said the File Clerk II
don't want to 60 around saluting
every officer ! meet-just % If i
wasn't - good As they are! Anyway,
what fun win ! have in the army?"
you'll have all kinds Of fun-of
the kind Of fun that is food for
you," returned the Construction
Boss, producing . sack Of Durham
and proceeding to roll a cigarette.
"And - for saluting oficers-that's|
. privilege, not . Disgrace"
1T shows that you are members
Of the same profe@ion-brothers in
arms. The officer is just a much
bound to return the salute as you
are to give it. And if you don't like
being . private you can be IN officer /,
If you are a good enough man. We
need all the officers we can get-all
you have to do is to prove that you
have the stuff"
"Well, I don't want any of it,"
said the File Clerk. Little old New
York is good enough for"
eyes, little old New York, eight
hours a day in an Office, a couple of
hours in movie theatre or a bum
in the evening a trip to
Coney Island on Sunday and all of
zen dollars week. That's fine life
for man, isn't it?
"1n the army you'll get up in the
morning feeling like a real man.
You'll 60 through a half-hour of !.
'etting-up exercises 80 take the kinks
tut Of your muscles. BY the time the (,
'ugle goes for breakfast you'll want
t, and you'll get a real breakfast.
Then you will start in on the work ,
# the day. You'll drill, and you'll
lrill hard. You'll know what it |
means to sweat, and you'll learn
What good drink water really is. [
lou'l feel the old sun burning
through your flannel shirt and you'll s
ike it-like it almost as much as s
he shade of the trees along the ,
usty road when you fall out for ,
rest.
"Along about ten-thirty you'll
tart thinking about dinner-they
ont eat lunch in the army-and !
QUILL think about it harder and
arder until you get it. After dinner {
QUILL get some more drill-they !
i've you plenty to door learn to s
ig trenches, or throw bombs, or to
cad maps, or to signal, or practice !
ayonet fighting-all of them real
aen's jobs? Then you'll get chance |
o clean up for retreat, which comes
long about shutdown. That's the {
cal classy, dress-up affair Of the {
rmy day. You'll march out onto $
he parade ground and line up in re-
formation. Then the band
,ill play The Star Spangled Ban
err and you will stand at attention I
,hile the flag comes down-and if {
ou are a real American you'll feel !
creepy sensation down your spine
nd you'll BE so darn proud of your