The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-29


Eight Hours a Dsy--Plsnty Of Time
For All Sports.
I'm draftedr' exclaimed the file
clerk tragically.
Drafted. heyr' replied the constrUc-
ton boss. Gee, you're a lucky guyT'
writes Arthur Walter Grahame OF the
V~igilantes.
Lucky shouted the file clerk.
What's lucky about having to go in
the army and perhaps getting shot? |
don't see you running down to the re-
cruiting office and enlisting."
mo" replied the construction boss
a triie sadly. But II 1t wasn't for the
wife and the three kids you would see
me doing just that little thing.
Say" he continued, "some OF you
young fellows make me tired. | served
In the Spanish-American war. and 1t
didn't kill melt made me a better
man In every way. Oh, yes, | know
that the Spanish-American war wasn't
much OF a show compared 10 this one,
but we heard a few shots fred at that"
ut isn't only getting shot that wor-
ries me-" said the file clerk. II don't
want TO go around saluting every off,
Ger | meet, just as IL | wasn't as good
as they are. Anyway, what fun will
have In the armyf'
All Kinds of Fun.
You'll have all kinds OF fun-of the
Lid "a E.. 49,. T. waal - $50 - -
turned the construction boss, produc-
Ing a sack OF "makin's' and proceeding
to roll "A cigarette. And as for salut-
ing oflcers-that's a privilege.
1T shows that you are members OF
the same Observation-Disclosures In arms.
return the salute as you are to give
II. And If you don't like being a pri-
vate you can be an of1cer-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"
We'll, l don't want any of It," said
the file clerk. Little old New York
Is good enough for
Yes, little old New ~York-eight
hours a day In an office, q couple of
hours In a movie theater or a bum
cabaret I'm the evening, a trip to Coney
Island on Sunday and all of $40 a
week. That's a fine life for a man,
isn't It?
"In the army you'll get up In the
morning feeling like a real man. You'll
go through a half hour of setting up
exercises to take the kinks out OF your
muscles. BY the time the bugle goes
for breakfast you'n want 1t, and you'll
get a real breakfast. Then you will
start In on the work of the day. You'll
drill, and you'll drill hard. You'll know
what 1t means to sweat and you'll
learn what a good drink water really
Is. You'll feel the old sun burning
through your flannel shirt and you'll
like it-like Ii almost as much as the
shade of the trees along the dusty road
rest.
along about 1890 you'll start think
ing about dinner-they don't eat lunch
In the army-and you'll think about Ii
harder and harder until you get 1t.
After dinner you'll get some more drill
to dig trenches, or throw bombs, or to
read maps, or to signal, or practice
bayonet fighting, all of them real
mems Jobs. Then you'll get a chance
to clean up for retreat, which comes
along about shutdown. That's the real
classy. dress up affair of the army day.
You'll march out on to the parade
ground and line up In regimental for
nation. Then the band will play The
Star Spangled Banner and you will
stand at attention while the flag comes
down. and IL you are a real American
you'll feel a creepy sensation down
your spine, and you'll be so darn proud
Of your uniform and of your regiment
and of yourself that you'll almost bust
The buttons off your shirt.
After That You Can Read.
Then you'll eat again and clean
up your rifle. After that you can read
or write or sit around and swap stories
or sing. Along about o o'clock you'll
begin to get noddy. and by the time
the windjammer blows taps you'll be
ready to stretch GU on your cot. and
the next thing you know you'll be
cussing the blgler for blowing reveille
IN the middle of the night.
You won't have much chance to
,ractice the one step, but you'n get
plenty of time for baseball and all the
other games that make men. You'll
get a chance to use your bean too. The
american army wants men who can
think for themselves. not cattle that
have to be driven along by their ON
GERS"
The file clerk seemed rather impress
d, but he still had his doubts.
IAN that's all right" ne said. but
suppose | get sent TO France?"
IF you get sent to France you'1l be
iuckier than ever. You can help put
Kaiser Bill back in his place and have
a hand in the biggest game In the
world. What more do you want?"
"But suppose | get killed. objected
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