The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-08-25
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THE PRIVATE PAPERS
OF PRIVATE PURKEY

Well, just seen that list Of maya
zines what has been approved by
the army for GIs and / feel better
now knowing what it Is okay for me
to be pretending am reading. The
list Is twenty to one comics and this
is the first time ever knew there
was SO many published. Movie
magazines is a bad second and
am glad to find National Geographic
and House and Garden on the list
on account Of / do not want to laugh
all the time.
Right between something called
Blue Beetle and Big Shot Comics
what do you think 1 find? Better
Homes and Gardens! II that amt
a running broad Jump in any
library at home or at the front what
have you? 1 think at first maybe
Better Homes and Gardens has put
in funny supplement but it amt.
Sandwitched in between a maya
zine called Gags which the army
thinks we should read and Human
Torch which Washington has idea
GIs can see without being done no
harm is Good Housekeeping, which
looks funny in that location. Well,
would like to see CT concentrate
ing on Good Housekeeping over
here and get caught by his top SER
geant.
Right in between Click, Captain
Midnight and Dare Devil comics is
Country Gentleman and I never seen
no magazine looking so uncemfOrt-
able. Harper's is listed surrounded
by Flash Comics, Funny Animals
and Laff. The Saturday Evening
Post is sandwitched in between
Radio Hit Songs and the Scientific
American which started once but
did not finish on account of there is
not much sex interest.
You could knock me over with a
V-mail postscript when I find Out
door Life on the list. That is a fine
magazine but if there is one thing
| soldier does not need to look up it
is the facts about living outdoors.
Physical Culture is there, too, I
guess in case do not know what
to do for exercise.
see Field and Stream sur.
rounded by Downbeat, Flash Comics
and Famous Funnies but forgot
to bring my fishing rod to the war
and don't get much time off TO dig
bait. Fortune is listed i'm between
Front Page Detective and Funny
Animals.
But what mixes me up is that I
find Ladies Home Journal and the
Woman's Home Companion on the
list sent to me. Maybe it is just
gag. / have been shifted around lot
in this war but have not been made
a WAC yet.
Well, hope you are fine and you
amt no sorrier than me that the
/ DOInD missed Hitler.
All my love,
Oscar
p. S. - Send me copies Of Wow
Comics, Golfers, the American
Medical Journal, Ten Story Western,
Nifty and Harper's Bazaar I want
all around library.
Imaginary Dialogues
Shimada-Going my way?
Tojo-And how!
Shimada--What have we done?
Tojo-Almost nothing; that's the
trouble. AS a naval chief you're
pretty bad.
Shimada--Nobody seems to rate
you much higher as a military lead
er, notice.
Tojo-It isn't so much a question
Of blame. Didn't you listen to the
radio? The cabinet Is merely being
renovated.
Shimada-I like that word reno
waited; it makes me feel less en-
barrassed.
Tojo-Yes, but being renovated
with an ak isn't so comfortable.
| -
Shimada-I wonder II we could
have been wrong about those de-
cadent Americans.
TOj0-Pve been wondering for
months. We are away behind sched-
ule with what we were going to do
to them.
Shimada-Weren't we to have
been making peace i'm the White
House by this time?
Toj0-Why bring that up? It only
makes me feel worse.
Shimada-And it all looked SO
easy at Pearl Harbor!
T0j0-Didn't it!
Shimada-What we did to their
feet there!
T0j0-And what their fleet there
has since done to us!
Scouts from Breton Woods none
tary conference informed us that
at no convention in years did so
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