The Ely miner., 1943-09-16

SON, ne Salu, your going 10
make a perfectly breathtaking Hor-
rible Example" had nothing more
to say.
doing in the kitchen I put you fn?"
Making jerk-ade," I explained,
"chopping celery, peeling onions.
They say I get in their way. They
say keep spirits too high and pro-
duction too low."
81 feel for you," the sergeant
said. 81 deeply sympathize. You're
going to be mighty unpopular lit
tie boy in your new home. If that
supper tonight don't melt IN them
boys mouths and send them clam
oring for more, they'll either mas
sacre you or run you over the hill.
That's one thing the boys won't al
low-bum cooking!"
Sergeant Goldsmith, SIR" I i'm
plored him. Cant somebody else
go in my stead? Somebody who can
cook? Look at me-a digger Of
bitches, mopper of floors, a scrub-
Der of kitchens, ministering angel
to undernourished grass plcts, but a
cook never! You don't know what
you're doing to mel"
"Son," he said, you're seins to
make a perfectly breath-taking Har-
rible Example!"
Then he rose and walked back
into the supply room. Thomas"
he said, "check in this yardbird's
equipment.
Sergeant Israel looked up from
his Form Thirty-Two records.
Don't he like his equipment"
Check in everything but his
clothing" the top kick said. "Get
a truck to take him to Headquar-
ters Battery, FARO"
Sergeant Thomas w. Israel looked
up In faint amazement. ! looked in
sheer bewilderment.
"They had to figure some way to
stop his cooking career and save
the morale of some battery as
would get him as a cook" said Ser
geant Goldsmith. $50 he's being
palmed off to Center Headquarters
as a public relations man."
The word buddy" hasn't come
into popularity yet in the new army.
I suppose that If there were such
things, Maury Sher would be mine.
Sher and I occupied adjoining hunks
when was in Battery A. / bummed
most of my cigarettes from him
and we always got into trouble to-
gether
Private Sher is a smart and Liz
able Jewish boy from Columbus,
Ohio. He went to school at South
ern California, until he learned that
all the worlds knowledge doesn't
come from the intellectual invalids
who usually teach the $3.50 class.
Then he went back to Columbus.
had an idea patented, and built hima
self a restaurant shaped like q
champagne glass.
Came the fateful Sixteenth of Oc,
tober and Sher enrolled for the Sc
lective Service System. His appli.
cation was accepted last July and,
since he had been the successful
proprietor of restaurant, he was
classified as promising student for
the Army cooking course.
The two of us got together when
he was sent to the Replacement Gen.
ter here. We started an acguaint-
ance when I topped all his Jewish
jokes and began teaching him how
to speak Yiddish. I was attracted
by his native intelligence, his pleas.
ant personality, his sense of humor.
the similarity Of his likes and dis
likes to mine, his subscription to
PM, his wen-stocked supply of Gig
arettes (my brand), and the cookies
he constantly received from home.
So we became more or less con
slant companions. We made thu
rounds here together, went to Char
lotte together, made goo-goo eyes at
the same waitress in Fayetteville,
and swapped valuable trade secrets
in goldbricking.
(TO BE COETNUEDl