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THE WADSWORTH GAS ATTACK a n d RIO GRANDE RATTLER Give Ear to the Strange Tale of Oscar Grumpus and Joe GoofusI i Here to the left is poor Oscar Grumpus, Grumbling, complaining, and down on his luck, Down in the mouth, and sad to behold* He never smiles, and instead of a heart Beats a cardiac iceberg rigid and cold— And there is a reason soon to be told* II Here to the right is happy Joe Goofus, Smiles in his heart and smiles on his face, He’s a good soldier—Tar wiser than Grumpus— He laughs till he crumples up flat on his back, And the reason is simple, he’s always alert To invest, every week, in the Gas AttackI O f course, there is a moral to this tale, but not a dry, uninteresting moral* It means freedom from boredom, to get the Gas Attack* You’ll be an outsider, like Oscar Grumpus, unless you do it* And the next issue, the New Year’s Number, will be as bouncing a baby as the new year it ushers in. There will be feature articles, cartoons a-plenty, another page of camp poets, another letter to Mable in the Incinerator, and lots of news from division units* What could be fairer than that? A n d It s j u s t a n i c k e l l