Charlevoix county herald., 1917-08-31
THOSE DRAFTED
ARE LUCKY GUYS
Veteran Of Service Explains
Joys Of q Soldiers Life.
NE TALKS FROM EXPERIENCE

Says Healthy, opsn Air Life Of Army
csmps Beats Living In . Crowded
City and Working In an Office For
Hight Hours q Dsy-Plsnty Of Time
Fer All Sports.
I'm drafted! exclaimed the file
clerk tragically.
Drafted. heyr replied the construc-
don boss. Gee, you're q lucky guyT
writes Arthur Walter Grahame Of the
vtgilantes.
Lucky shouted the die clerk.
What's lucky about having to 60 In
the army and perhaps getting shotf
don't see you running down to the re-
cruiting office and enlisting."
NO" replied the construction boss
. tribe 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 kin melt made me q better
man In every way. Oh. yes. | know
that the Spanish American war wasn't
much OF a show compared to this one,
but We heard 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 OH
Ger l meet, just as If wasn't as good
as they are. Anyway. what fun viii
have In the army?"
All kinds Of Fun.
You'll have all kinds of fun-of the
kind Of fun that Ia good for you," re-
turned the construction boss, produc-
ing a sack OF 'makin's" and proceeding
ing rsicers- that's a privilege.
ut shows that you are members Of
the same Observation-Disclosures In arms
The officer is just as much bound to
return the salute as you are to give
Ii. And II you don't like being a pri-
vats you can be an officer-if you are q
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, | don't want any OF It," said
the file clerk. Little old New York
IL good enough for
Yes, little old New York-eight
hours a day In an Office. a couple Of
hours In a movie theater or a bum
cabaret In the evening, a trip to Coney
Island on Sunday and all Of $40 q
week. That's a fine life for q man.
isn't It!
'ln the army you'll get up In the
morning feeling like real man. You'll
60 through a half hour of setting up
exercises to take the kinks out OF your
muscles. By the time the bugls goes
for breakfast you'll want 1t, and you'll
get q real breakfast. Then you will
start In ON the work OF the day. You'll
drtll, and you'll drill hard. You'll know
what IL means TO sweat and you'll
learn what a good drink water really
through your hannel shirt and you'll
like it-like IL almost as much az the
shade Of the trees along the dusty road
when you fall out for ten minute
eAlong 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 It.
After dinner you'll get some more drill
they give you plenty to door learn
to dig trenches or throw bombs, or to
read maps, or to signal. or practice
bayonet lighting, all Of them real
mems Jobs. Then you'll get a chance
to clean up for retreat, which comes
along about sundown. That's the real
classy, dress up affair Of the army day.
You'll march out On to the parade
ground and line up I'm regimental for
nation, Then the band will play The
Star spangled Banner and you win
stand at attention while the dag comes
down, and II you are q real American
you'll feel creepy sensation down
youF spine. and you'll be 20 darn procd
Of your Uniform and Of your regiment
and Of yourself that you1l almost bust
ths buttons on your shirt.
After That You Cen Read.
Then you'n eat again and clean
up your rife. After that you can read
% write or sit around and swap stories
OF sing Along about 8 O'Clock you'll
begin to get noddy. and by the time
the windjammer blows taps you'll b
ready TO stretch out on your cot. and
the next thing you know you'n Be
cussins the busler for blowing rsveills
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you won't have much chance 10
practice the one step. but you'u gst
plenty of time for baseball and all the
other games that make men. You'll
sst q chance TO use Jour bean too. Ths
Amwican srmx YAnts 1neu yAe can