The Wrangell sentinel., 1921-07-07
Work of Any Kind
 BY JAMES S. TRUITT
(Erom Anfhorage 7imes)
 WANTED-Work of any kind by an honorably dis charged overseas man. At tended university two years
BY JAMES S. TRUITT

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 Laconic, almost sarcastic, it stands out in the Want Ad" col- umn of a western daily. I glance down the column and count twenty six others similar to the above. Ex-service men, many of them claiming to be experienced men in some specific line, but the most of them asking for work of any kind.
 1 look again at the above ad. Attended university two years. I don't know this particular laddie, but it requires no stretch of the imagination to comprehend why the university course ended with 1.-two years. "-The ad does not say, but America knows about the volunteer students of her schools.
 He hasn't an empty sleeve, else he could not want work of any kind.' He must be one of the lucky ones who returned sound and we'll.
 What He Did Over There
 Praying America saw him hum dreds of times Gin her dreams) wounded, thirsty, dying alone. Some mothers son beyond the reach of her care. The "chastise. ment of our peace, and said, "Oh, God protect him, heal him, and give him back to us safe and sound and we'll never forget T hee. "
 Social America wrung her be. jeweled hands, shed fashionable tears into scented bits of lace and linen and exerted herself to the herculean tasks of raising money for lover there," and bazaars, teas, dances, and benefits were buzzing industriously.
 Generous America. proud of the sacrifice her boys were making and prouder of herself Tor having such boys, went over the top in practically every drive, and was prouder of herself in the matter of raising money. And altogether it was agreed that never before were finer, braver boys given the unpar- alleled privilege of marching iuto hell that liberty might live.
 Do you suppose that during the two years at the university our boy of the ad., ambitious to outstrip his fellows in the race of life, ever expected to need to ask for just work of any kind.'
 His country called and he went. It was nothing to boast of-just his duty. That's all, but he did it.
 The Slickers."
 While he was away we became acquainted with the other kind. We got used to the man "who had mar ried a wife and therefore he could not go. The man who exempted himself for one cause or another. Some of them honest, to be sure, but none of them like our fine, strong, clean. outstanding lad that had no excuse, DOT tried to make any. They were lacking physi- cally, mentally, morally, or ir some particular not able to meas. ure up; but we got used to them in our boys absence and they seemed also or quite normal; even the conscientious objector seemed less a monster when he had care fully explained himself. And when our boy came back, two years older, and ten years wiser and sadder, we found he didn't com pare favorably with the sleek, polite fellows who stayed at home. He didn't have much polish when he left and when he returned he didn't have any, while the boys who didn't go at all fairly glistened with polish, in fact they were mostly all polish. We are dis tressed and displeased with him, and we acknowledge that he is dif-