MEDICAL
DEPARTMENT NEV/S-LETTER.
Dear Editor:
The last few letters 1 have written have been addressed
to *our esteemed'Uricl,,e 3am without results, that is, without
comment, without anything being done about the new pay-bill
or the Bonus, or anything. »Vhy*is this ????? Congress must be
short of help, like this post is. I wonder if you could use
your influence and have a f ew of u.s like Sgt.Uaj ./far d, Corpl.
Sutherland', and" of course* myself, sent to the Senate or at
least the House, to jazz 1 em up a bit ? I’m for a big Army
myself, because then we have some chance of moving up (in
rank), but now I'll bet I don’t get a promotion for fifteen
years unless it sh.ou.ld happen to be an S.C.D., or we have
another war. Speaking of-. Bonuses, I would like to call your
attention to HebsterJ s-definition of a '’Bonus.(you have prob
ably noticed that I. quote lebsterS quite a bit, I can’t help
it, it is just another eyidence of our superior intelligence)
But a bonus means, according to Hoah, 'An extra dividend to the
shareholders of a jdint stock company, out of accumulated
profits", and what we would like-to know is who got the profit,
and where it is. To hear the taxpayer, the profit must be on
the wrong side of the books, or some one besides our Uncle has
it,one thing we do know,we havn’t got-it, we blew it all in.
But why a bonus \ For being -patriotic; .'fine: please give me
about twentyfive thousand' bucks, and cheap at the price - But:
that is a small master, if nothing ‘ever bothered more than the
bonus we'd be alright, but we »stre are full of trouble, our
basement is floods I, and every time someone comes in to the
Hospital they bring a lot of-mud, some people are so ignorant
of the use of door.-raats, I 'wish you would publish a short
sketch of its'* origin and its' use, our wax la about all gone
and there ain’t no more. We''read an article the other day that
sure made us set up -and take notice, in which it is claims',
that there are ’’forty-five million peaple in the United States
who have no sense at all. have the intelligence of a chili of
11 or 12, twenty-five million who have a little sense, have
the intelligence of a child of 13 or 14, and twenty-five mil
lion who have a good deal of sense, and about four million whc
have a H of a lot of sense, in other words, the "Brains",
such peonle as myself ,the Editor,Corpl. Sutherland, and other’s
like Senators,Congressmen, and Street-car Conductors. But it
seems that, according to this writer, the ^our million else
is decreasing and the other ninety-odd millions’are increasing,
so the question remains, what are you going to do about it 't
Nu/f 3ed. • *
NOTICE.
Any information given us, as to who too.k* the row-boat
owned by the hospital from it3’resting place anongside of the
dock, will be appreciated, e wish to have it/repaired and put
in good shape as soon as possible, and now it1s gone. He are not
in a position to offer a reward, but we certianly will appreciate
information that will enable us to get our boat back and pro
secute the person or persons responsible for it's removal.
'THE pill corps.
No,we are not thru yet.tho al.raost. ife just heard that .ierriam
is going to Skagway tomorrow if the ’’Pete" goes, and no doubt
Rainey will, and without a doubt Capt.Henry. This being payday
you can't expect much, we are all nervous, wondering how we are
going to spend our money*
•THE PILL CORPS.