The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-11-01

should shoot at me the chances are
that l would get so mad wouldn't
know what | was doing, and it would
be just like me to take a stick or the
first thing | could lay my hands on
and go over to their trenches and bust
some of them in the head. There isn't
anything l wouldn't do to them baby
killers if they made me mad.
Now, Senator, that is the reason
that | wouldn't make good soldier
for fighting purposes, and what eX-
cusc could the administration make
Gust between us Democrats) if Col.
Roosevelt should charge in the next
campaign that Gen. Crowder sent me
to France and then had to send me
back, at Government expense, after |
had told him that l was not tempera-
mentally fitted for the restraints of
discipline?
If Clemenceau and Lloyd George
think We are not getting men over
there fast enough, why don't they re-
sign and join the army and let some
body have their places that won't al
ways be raising such fuss that ev-
erybody thinks that Gen. Crowder
men they need and worry a fellows
wife nearly to death?
Besides, if we need more men than
we have in class l we can wait for
some more to come of age. Since |
got into class everybody seems to
be in huluva hurry to end the war
right now and talking about "more
men" and more everything. This war
has been going on four years and the
Germans haven't whipped us yet, and,
believe me, the good, rich, red blood
of America will never be subdued by
the Hun and don't mind saying it,
if it is little egotistical, that we can
lick them with one hand tied behind
US and never take man from class
2. That's how optimistic feel, I'M
less a lot of dubs that never was in
a class in their lives keep on agitat-
ing until Gen. Crowder goes into class
2 and Injuries the morale of the coun-
try.
1t seems to me that one of the most
important things that we have got to
do is to stay at home and keep up he
morale of the boys at the front. But
we have got to keep up the morale at
home at the same time, and / don't
see how / am going to be able to dc
much in the morale line if CrowdeI
keeps fooling with mine. He seems
to forget that I have got a morale to
be considered just the same as the
soldier. If they will keep out Of
class 2, l will do as much as anybody
for the soldiers morale.
Besides why not reduce the mini
mum age of registration. We coulc
better wait a year or two for more
boys to grow up and enter the army
than to worry fellows wife nearly
to death by taking him out of class
2. It would be better to take then
younger than to raise a hullabalot
about some of US in class 2 because
we don't work regularly. Even if
don't work regularly on account of my
health, which seems to get worse thu
more | read the newspapers, dom
see that it is any affair of Gen. Grow
der's whether | work or not, just 81
my wife has regular job, and any
body that insinuates that l am an OBJ
ject of charity had better call Thomp
son Bros service car.
/ wish you to tell Gen. Crowde
for me that he can't tell anything
about mans physical condition b.
the report of the doctors that max,
the examination To my own certain
knowledge they don't pay any atten
, ton to what fellow tells them, ant
i / claim that | know as much abou