Arizona republican., 1918-07-05

mid heat. no chance to perspire in the approved Arizona fashion at which I became quite an adept during the ast summer. *% What do we drink here? The beer the French make is poor and cheap. Win rouge and win blanc are worse than drinking physic. One can buy cognac and champagne despite restraining army regulations. but this is pretty expen- sive and makes one feel as if he IS spending his good money for the small amount of satisfaction it gives him. So let me introduce You to citron, a swedish, lemon like syrup, which the garcon serves you in demi- tasse and to which you add seltzer according to your own judgment The result is a superior sort of lemonade, a real dry state drink.
 Wonderful Arplanes
 My brother who is with the avia- ton corps landed in England about the first of May, and after week in a rest camp, was transferred to a large aviation field near London. He is working ten solid hours a day repair ing Ford transmissions, but still finds time to visit London and see the sights and take in the music halls occasion ally. He writes about some of the wonderful new aeroplanes capable of making 175 miles per hour mounted with machine guns. He Is also en- thusiastic about some new bombing planes which can carry one and one half tons of bombs or twenty eight men. So l guess the allies will blow the skid chains off the gaiser's auto nd fal1 1nH thnn he will find his army wallowing in their own mud. There is a very popu lar rumor which has a wide circula- ton over here about new gas which Edison has perfected and which will kill Germans lille-well, censorship for bids. Strange to relater, l am writ | ing from the same place that l wrote you some months ago. How time flies in the service; seven months have passed like so many days.
 Those Beautiful Girls
 'At one time we were stationed foT | five weeks at the best barracks ir France, high up in the mountains where we had all kinds of snow and could feel the icy blasts from the peaks of the Swiss Alps. We ever | had the same water for washing anC drinking purposes, something unusua in France where you have to look III and see if the water is labeled pot able or non potable The barrack: as this camp had spring beds witt mattresses, white sheets and pillow l cases and the most comfortable " 1T France, having even a rest room and { brick fire place, We were within al hours ride of a large city where yer, l few Americans had visited previous tt our coming. Consequently We mad' quite a stir and we made some hit with the 'beaucoup mademoiselles when we walked around. The boy! have had a great time lately translat ing the letters they have been receiv' ing from the fair ones of that city, ant you can guess the time we have whei we try to answer them, fishing ou words out of the dictionary Tn, letters must sound in French like let ters in English written by a Japanese
 All Want the Paper
 "The second thing in France tha receives the greatest appreciation iron the boys, after the "Y," is the co operative store the government main tains for our benefit. These store carry in stock fine assortment o groceries, tobacco and toilet articles We are able to purchase these good for less money than the consumer pay in the states. In other words, the gov ernment purchases these goods fror the manufacturer or jobber and re tails them to us without adding any thing for profit. freight or overhead charges, drawing upon details fror the army to furnish the necessar help.
 The home town papers are what on misses most over here, and fellows i our company will steal The Arizon Republican from me if I will not giv it to them to read, and it is funny, too most of them never heard of Arizon before seeing The Republican. cheers us up, too, to read how the folk at home are helping us put it over. w A.