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GAS ATTACK i 5 Telegrapher von Pabst: Sir, General von Pilsener reports that there are four reasons why he can't capture the town of Crepe de Chine/' General Speck Hans Eitel Friderieh von den Wurtberger: what are they?\ Telegrapher von Pabst: “ Three Irishmen and a pile of bricks/' 104TH MACHINE GUN. The M. G. men were all handed a batch of 48-hour passes over last Friday and Satur day, and all of them hurried stationward, and grabbed Southern rattlers to all parts of the surrounding territory. A Company was well represented in Asheville, Atlanta, Charles ton and Augusta. Swat Mulligan, the Mount Vernon insurance man, breezed into Ashe ville. Messrs. Tapley, Stansfield, Greene and Johnson put the Bee on Atlanta and took all their meals at the house of the Mayor. Tap ley and Johnson made all Atlanta take special notice, when they rendered in their own orig inal manner their world?s famous duet; “ It Takes a Long Time to Say Good Bye, When All Your Friends Are Bartenders.’ 7 Top Kicker DeWitt, Meal Sergeant Steg- man and Jim Bieland took a flying jump to Charleston. Five reels of motion pictures are being shown weekly in the mess shack, and there is a laugh a second over them. Pictures, ten years old are handed to us, and in the latest batch, we saw Charlie Chaplin in a Shakes pearean role, Mary Bickford playing seconds, Mack Sennett doing bits, and the old slap stick comedy that made ’em laugh, yester year. We owe Frank Clancy, the demon young wool clipper, a unanimous vote of thanks for returning from his furlough so promptly. Another, week away, and about half of the boys would have been looking like anarchists. Their locks were curling around the ears, and beards were a foot long. Frank wasn’t back ten minutes before he had the shears sharpened, and was roaching manes again at the same old stand for two-bits a clip. Famous expressions: What a fine oil can you turned out to be. Fall in. Come and get it. Aw, gimme time, I ’11 make it. I ’11 buy this one. You’re, next. Gimme a cigarette, willya ? Set ’em up again, Johnny. Pass the word for the K. P. Got that buck you owe me? Shoot the works. I wanta go home. W h a t’ll we have this time boys, same thing? Clickity, click, disssssssmissed. 106TH INFANTRY, COMPANY E. Company “ E ” is back from the Rifle Range with the best record of any company that has been there to date and naturally feels pretty chesty. There is a suspicion in the company that the youth that stole Corp. Towers’ electric bulb was enlightened by his dark deed. If the coast to coast boys, Berardy and McVeigh, would lay off teasing Lonesome Larry, we might have a little peace in spite of the war. E. Jay Mallon put the lighted end of a cigarette into his mouth, sputtered awhile and finally said, (‘ That was a hot one.” CORP. H. R. HODGSON. 102ND AMMUNITION TRAIN, CO. C. Frank and Bunkie started their ‘ ‘ spring drive, ’ ’ but met their Waterloo at the hands of old man Glass. According to the latest reports, there were no casualties. Through the kindness of “ Chuck’s ” pa, Squad Two has most of the comforts of home, including rugs, victrola, etc. “ Bunker” Erckert is the victrola engineer when his optics are not fixed on some elevating fiction. He says he does not care for music any way. Bunker keeps the mechanics on the jump with his bang-up actions. Daymont is happy now—his playmate, ‘ ‘ Trixie, ’ ’ has returned. The orderly from Luna Park has taken up his abode with us. 6 ‘ Pop ’ ’ Vaillant is some dispatcher. Who mentioned speed? Private Doane has received the distinction of being a professor of advanced incineration. Familiar Sights — ‘ ‘ H en’’ and u Ma” say ing their midnight farewells. Flip has received an order for another hair mattress, and has hung out his shingle. What ? Another furlough ? Windjammer Clute is now busy chasing the graphite into rear ends. Architect Spitz is doing extensive build ing at Luna Park, one of Camp Wadsworth’s well known resorts. Pop Graham has a new solid gold soup— made from 14 carrots. 106TH FIELD ARTILLERY, SUPPLY CO. Rules and Regulations of This Office. Conserve shoe leather by remaining at your desk; remember you’re supposed to be a clerk, not a floorwalker. We have meatless and wheatless days. Let us have feetless days; keep your feet on the floor, not on the desk. Don’t acquire the saving habit so that you go to your tent nights with your pockets full of coal, and all the office newspapers. Just because you write shorthand, don’t think that you have light fingers. If you feel that you must whistle during office hQurs, please whistle something Ger man, so that the rest of the office will have an excuse to drop a typewriter on your dome. If you feel that you must take home a typewriter now and then, please leave the desks. Typewriters are expendable, but desks are scarce. Just because they are using a. lot of am munition in Europe, don’t think that you have to powder your nose every ten minutes. Make the world safe for democracy and stop throwing milk bottles out of the win dow. As Abraham Lincoln did not say in his famous Gettysburg speech: ‘ ‘ Eight hours a day for the man who works, Ten hours a day for these soldier clerks.” Save a loaf a week. Just because you’ve got a crust, don’t say that you can loaf around this office, even if you are well bred. CARL E. VOSS.
