"XOOTIES"
(The Little Things That Stick)
ROX REYNOLDSXOLUimST, in the Seattle P.I.,in a recent issuu.wrote so en
tertainingly of a new-drinking fountain that has bean erected at Fort
Lawton that .we*re'publishing his remarks entire. They are worth it:
SAYS ROXV -
VA local Brigadier Genera? has presented a new drinking
fountain to Fort I-awtout Ihere's nothing that can help the Army
like a new drinking fountain.
ViJhj.sble signals will now be as follows: One short blast
a private ha3 decided to take a drink. Three long blasrts-the private
has taken one.
According to the story this new fountain replaces an old
and inadequate ore*. But how’s that for norale?? -ill these years the
soldiers have been Buffering from an old and inadequate fountain,
and they diuiV fc o onplairr a' bit*
It’s tough when* a soldier has to drink from an inadequate
fountain that has no inscription to tell bin who put it there.
; - Al? the soldiers lined up ^lile the officers inspected
the new: fountrd.no Goeh!l hhat a relief when they found it was sat
isfactory. '
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The officers said-"At Easement" Ihen all the nen jumped
upr and-down and said* T*Oh,ggody,goody* ’-o've got an adequate fountain*
. , • . . . - . Anyway, the old f ountain wasn't' satisfactory. She privates
kept picking on the general.* You’ kno\? •• orinking out of- it when he
wanted to drink out of it himself*
«■ ■„ Sometimes a private ‘would push .a general * s nose down into
- •. - the-water, then skip Ovei; and hide behind some lattice work* This
might have caused strained relations if the general hadn’t been so
good ^natured*
- • ".’"I-see y 6c*, you rascal s " 'the general would say, laughingly*
- * ?!Corfe odt from behind those vines."
But this new and adequate fountain. i3 in. an arbor. Re
cruiting poster artists mil now. paxnt pictures of a general and a
. pro.vate raking a &t :rk together <
However f ceoause of its local color, this will be better
than the pictures yen see of a private sitting under a palm tree
having tea with r brigadier general.
Seats have been placed in tne asrbor for the comfort of
the sold5ere. But no soldier will be pemitted to got up before
reveille in order to sit in then, That wouldn’t be fair to the
rest of Hie Amy,you see*
FAIIOIJS I-AST '7QR3S MILL NOW 3E:
"Brink up,Colonel,and we'll have another
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