The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-01-06
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER edward Thomas
Marion Lawton Hargrove, feature
editor of the Charlotte On. Co. News,
receives notice from his draft board
that he is to be inducted into the
army. Before he begins an account
ing of his actual experiences in
training camp he issues his quota
of free advice to prospective in
grove, with his new buddies, leaves
for Fort Bragg, where he is to re-
ceive his basic training.
CHAPTER H-Private Hargrove
tells of the physical exam, the first
few days of army, how he was out
fitted with his uniform, and how on
the sixth day he received his first
KIP duty. He is classified as semi
skilled cook.
his conversation with his sergeant
who is trying to find out why he
spends so much time on KIP duty.
He also reports on the session the
trainees are put through by the ex-
ercise sergeant He has trouble
learning how to handle his rifle and
is given plenty Of special attention
by the sergeant and corporal.
CHAPTER IV-Private Hargrove
relates some of the incidents sur
rounding the advancement IN rank
by some of his friends. Why he
fails to so advance is a puzzle to
his sergeant who inquiries about it.
CHAPTER v-Hargrove Is given
. review of his faults by his SER
geant who tells him to snap out Of
it and start working for his cor
poraPs stripes. He also gets les
son in the art of goldbricking.
CHAPTER vI-Private Hargrove
lists series of army slang defni-
tions for the enlightenment of the
civilian population. He also tells
how he and two of his pals spoil
perfectly good date for one Private
Zuber. Going home on furlough he
goes to visit newspaperman friend
who dominates their conversation
recounting his experiences in the
first World War. He also under
goes another trying experience at
inspection.
CHAPTER vH-Private Hargrove
continues to relate the incidents sur
rounding his camp life and tells
about being outfitted for an over
coat. A weekend is spent on man.
euvers on the South Carolina coast.
He gets good case of sunburn.
CHAPTER VII-Hargrove gets
his first taste of army cooking
school reports on his daily activi-
ties there. He tells also about the
real meaning of army morale and
how it affects new inductces.
CHAPTER IX-How the evening
bull sessions progress and how much
the soldiers enjoy them are the SUBJ
ject of Private Hargrove's next re-
port. He learns he has been re-
classified to do public relations work
on the camp paper.
CHAPTER X-The old gang,
formed in the irst days of training.
begins to break up and Hargrove
tells about ''going away party
for some of them. He releases a
supplement to his dictionary Of army
slang.
CHAPTER XI-Hargrove gets his
first ten-day furlough and heads for
New York. He meets one of his
friends from camp and duly i'm
presses him by buying him lunch
at an exclusive hotel. Back at camp,
he goes on KIP duty for Thanksgiv-
ing Day.
Continued from last week)
'We1I, Simmons" Johnny said,
it's like they told you before you
,ame in. The Army will certainly
make a man of you. Look at Har-
grove there. He'd never done a
,ood days work in his life before
le got into the Army. Now he's the
ootato-peeling champion of five reg
Private Lisk," / said coldly, 'let
is not bring personalities into this. I"
Fortunately, Miss Scarborough,
senior hostess of the Service Club,
passed by and I was able to yank
Ter into the company. The discus
lion was avoided.
Reading through the camp news
PAPER the other day, ! noticed sto-
les written by Pvt. T. Mulvehill,
Private Thos. Mulvehille, Pfc. Tom
Thomas Mulvehill (pfc.)
md various other authors whose
bore startling resemblance to
Thomas Mulvehill, Pvt. or Pfc.
The collection of literary and
journalistic contributions to the Fort
Bragg Post were all marked by the
same flair for rhetoric, the true gift
# CAB, and a certain rich and gor-
,eous sentimentality. In the midst
If a factual story about a group of
college girl choristers coming to
Fort Bragg for concert, the steady
journalistic strain would suddenly
,urst into brilliant and majestic
phrases such as "The Blankth Bat
alion recreation hall will burst into
golden sound next Tuesday night
when the angelic voices of thirty
ovely Zilch College young ladies
present a recital :" or "the Gen.
erals little eight-year-old son, awed
,y the solemnity of the occasion,
,lung to his daddy's hand through
,ut the impressive ceremonies.
This is what is known as the Null
,ehill Touch.
The Mulvehill Touch is supplied al