MEDICAL DEPARTMENT NE,VS-LETTER .
Dear Jack :
We missed last week, tut we just can't let anotner issue
by without a few remarks. Last ni ;ht we went to bed and it
va'3 Spring, evidenced by a gentle rain, and this mornin^ we -woke
up and, well, you know the rest,, we can't very well print what
we consider appropriate remarks regarding the weather, besides
controlled by Higher Authority, but don't it beat every
th'/; t. Like the following story, "Taint for us to say.
FAIR AND WARMER: ".Veil,Bill',' asked a nieghtor, "Hear the ~oss
has had a fever? How's his temperature today?" The hired man
scratched his head and decided not to commit himself. "Taint for
me to say", he replied, "he died last night."
This certainly is the hardest place to write anything about,
we ever were in. The weather is an inexhaustible subject, yes,
but what is the use when we all get the same visual impression,
and we can't express our thoughts. Je can write about work, any
way, The remarks in the last issue of the "POST" about work must
have been written by a Co."E" man, or was it Hqrs.? Before we
write anymore about work we would like to insert a few rules o
conduct and etiquette as it were, please note:
It. is correct :
To remove your hat when having your hair cut.
To admit belated burglars at the back door if the front .
entrance is crowded with earlier arrivals.
To dodge crockery thrown at you by your better half, but
it is hardly necessary.
It is not correct:
To produce a bottle of bonded liquor and a glass when a
Revenue officer is present . Set out two, glasses.
To appear worried and alarmed when a "dry' sleuth is
searching the premises • He may be a total aostainer .
Here's something we overheard in a doctor’s office, we won't
say whose office, out here ]oes: ^
FIGURES NEVER LIE: "Vhat are my chances to recover, Doctor ?"
"One hundred percent. Medical records show that nine out of every
ten die of the disease that you have. Yours is the tenth case
I have treated. Others all died. You’re bound to get well. Stat
istics are statistics.'1
And believe us, thats right, they don’t lie# But speaking of
work we notice in the last issue that our departed iriend and
comrade Platt P.Hopkins, has finally made Vest Point, and if that
isn’t a good example of the fruits of labor, we never saw one.
Vith allis faults we sot to hand it to him for perseverance.
remarks about "half of tne J.S.Army Iroops leaving this
post Wednesday morning" are incomplete and incorrect, no mention
bein| made of the proper other half, namely, one Tecn.Sgt.Lange,
Roy H. But in our opinion those two halves have been more than
replaced by the advent of one Staff Sgt. R.V.Perry, who now
occuoies the chair of Chief Clerc, V :C. Nuff sed.
yours till the snow melts.
The PILL-ROLLERS.