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SECOND THOUGHTS
By javie aiche
Heigh, ho! The year is at its ending
And who is loath to see it go?
It brought a modicum of mending,
A maximum of wrath and woe.
What, ho’ A year is just beginning,
And hope achieves a twelve-month lease
On resolution steeled to winning
A global war, a global peace.
The car that served my vagrant notions
Is put away. How long ? Well, guess.
My friends are far across the oceans
In desert, jungle, wilderness,
On treeless plains of arctic rigor,
On coral seas and ice-rimed waves;
Good year, afford them health and vigor
To find the peace that truly saves.
Once on a time the old year passing
Would find me with the merry crowd
In song and wassail gaily massing;
Ah, then the world was free and proud!
For gloom there was the mirth that leavens
And men upheld the common weal,
No bombers raked the vaulted heavens,
None crouched beneath the tyrant’s heel.
Now woe betides the little peoples
Whose simple wants 'twere right to give;
Their blasted homes and leveled steeples
Are symbols of their fate who live.
As tokens of man’s faith undying
Against the cruelties of greed;
Oh, let us keep our banners flyingy
Until we serve their utmost need.
Civilian life is getting harder,
I walk who once would only ride,
I fare a-field to fill my larder,
The heat is low where I abide;
I dread the questionnaire and snooper,
I'm fearful of the income tax;
But, say, I know a paratrooper,
Who'd laugh at mention of such lacks.
I know a doctor in New Guinea,
Whose station is a slot of hell —
His name ? Grohowski—call him Benny
And he will think you called him well.
On leave he wrote of how he sickened
Of jungle stink and blood and guts,
Of drink distilled from water thickened
By slime, and how he lived on nuts.
I do not pine for days called olden,
In search of joy I do not roam,
I look upon my lot as golden
With what is left of being home.
I pledge the boys who bear the burden
Of sacrifice on Moloch'’s rack:
May each one win his fighter’s guerdon
And oh, please God, may all come back.
The year of yearning now is waning;
Well, speed it.
It was much the cheat
With indecision and with feigning
That brought disaster and defeat.
Heigh, ho! A year is just beginning!
Our forthright sons with flags unfurled
Go on, nor stop until the winning
Of victory across the world.
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Health Topics
By F. B. Schooley, M. D.
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is the most difficult
contagious disease to control. It
leaves most of its victims with lit-
tle or no immunity, and their bod-
ies remain infected with living tu-
bercle germs. It is an infectious,
communicable disease. It is spread
almost entirely by persons with pul-
monary or lung tuberculosis who
are coughing up sputum containing
the tubercle germs. Tubercle germs
when expelled from the lungs, are
contained in albuminous material
which tends to stick to whatever
object it strikes and are not stirred
up again into the atmosphere.
Prompt isolation and treatment of
these cases prevents spread of the
infection to the family and com-
munity. Informative health educa-
tion is essential so that the public
may realize that tuberculosis is their
problem and cooperation with health
authorities is necessary for detection
and control of the disease. The
New Jersey law is in advance of
most states, and public reaction to
this legislation has been favorable.
It requires periodic examination for
tuberculosis among pupils, teachers
and school employes. A pupil found
by examination to have tuberculosis
in a communicable stage is excluded
from school and his case is reported
to the board of health of his home
municipality. Readmission to school
is granted after proper medical
treatment and on satisfactory proof
that the pupil is free from tubercu-
losis, is physically able to engage in
school activities and is not a menace
to the health of other pupils.
Tuberculosis of the lungs has a
marked tendency to relapse and
necessitates vigilant care of persons
with arrested cases after their re-
turn to work. The appearance of
symptoms is unreliable for the early
detection of relapse. Early digo
and prompt treatment are
routine X-ray exami
eat is a valuable D
n0si
determine the presence of active
lung disease or the extent of healed
lesions. The breakdown from active
tuberculosis is most likely to come
at the time of greatest stress of en-
vironment. The interval between
infection and first appearance of
symptoms is indefinite and irregu-
lar. Tuberculosis, as a cause of ill-
ness and death, is widely recognized
as a family disease.
Woman's life from onset of puber-
ty to climacterium, is conditioned
by her menstrual cycle, and the
years of sexual fertility show in-
creased ‘susceptibility to = tubercu-
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POET'S CORNER
Christmas Legends
Christmas morn, the legends say,
Even the cattle kneel to pray,
Even the beasts of wood and field
Homage to Christ the Saviour yield.
Horse and cow and wooly sheep
Wake themselves from their heavy
sleep,
Bending heads and knees to Him,
Who came to earth in a stable dim.
Far away in the forest dark
Creatures timidly wake and hark,
Feathered bird and furry beast
Turn their eyes to the mystic east.
Christmas morn, the legends say,
Even the cattle kneel to pray,
Even the wildest beast afar
Knows the light of the Saviour’s
star.
And shall we, for whom He came,
Be by the cattle put to shame ?
Shall we not do so much at least
As the patient ox or the forest
beast ?
Christmas morn, oh, let us sing
Honor and praise to Christ the
King,
Sheltered first in a lowly shed,
And cradled there where the cattle
fed.
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Dear Editor:
Thought I'd write a few lines to
let you know how much I appre-
ciate your sending me the Post, and
to wish you all a Merry Christmas
and a prosperous New Year.
Everytime I get a Post, I wolf
through the Outpost first, to see if
anyone I know has been writing in.
I've found out where quite a few
are at from it. It’s also a pleasure
to read a paper from back home
where all the names and places are
familiar.
I've covered a lot of territory
since I've been in the army. I'm
in the Hawaiian Islands now, but
no place can compare with the Back
Mountain region as far as I'm con-
cerned.
I'll have to sign off now, so thanks
again and I think you are doing a
swell job for the boys in the ser-
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Gratefully yours,
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A.P.0. 958, c-0 Postmaster
San Francisco, California
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As you know, I am now stationed
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I enjoy reading the Outpost Col-
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T will close now thanking you
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Dear Editor:
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Dear Editor:
Here is Foster Field calling the
Dallas Post, deep from the heart
of Texas. Just a few lines to let
you know that I am fine and hop-
ing this letter finds you the same.
Well, a little bit about myself. I
am in the armament department.
We install machine guns in the
planes here at Foster Field. I am
also in the Tow Target Attachment.
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having a swell time here in the Air
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/ vt. Karl J. Borkowski
f A F. G. T. Sad.
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Mrs. Blez’s column arfi@ived
For my Christmas column tiRis year I am going to use a letter whi
was written to me several years back. I sincerely hope the author of the
pis letter without his permission. I
It begins as follows: .F : gin
“I guess everything’s been ffaid about Christmas. It’s had the shini-
letter will forgive me for using
permission but he never answerdd.
a soldier uses every day. I wish all
the folks back there a Merry Chifist-
mas and Happy New Year.
By PITH BLEZ
ENTAL SID
[ too late for inclusion in our y
Christmas issue so we ar® printing it this week.—Editor
asked
ness worn off. It’s been buri
der tons of cheap tinsel and silv
Christmas cards. Every year, I rac
Karl
The Dallas Post calling Fofs-
ter Field from in a deep pile jof
Christmas work . . . and spea}k-
ing of envelopes that one {of
yours was no slouch. I got ojut
a reading glass on Christmjas
Day and read the whole histdry
of Texas just as it was prinfed
on the back of that No. 10 gn-
velope including all the caftle
brands and the map showing{ all
of the airfields. We also rpad
the plug for Victoria, “w
sing all the year.” It it
‘what they say about Texas
A War Eagle
Dear Editor:
Some time ago I wrote yofu from
pre-flight school at Santa] Ana.
Since then I have done a} little
changing.
I went to Rankin Aero
Academy for primary flying.
a great place, full of P. T.
lived in swell rooms whi
air-conditioned. Things
mighty blue ai *imes-
lows, some my pals, Ww
out right and left. Buy
and feel proud of it.
cadets who hadn't pr
bounced the planes w
the first time. However, |
on fast. After
autical
It was
's. We
Eagle Field.
The Air Corps basi
swell. A few British pil
pleting their advance
being sent to combatfl They get
rather rough at times fitoo.
I am flying BT 13 @A’s (basic
trainers.) They are sfeedy and no
play thing. You'd be/§surprised at
the maneuvers they fn do. But
with an instrument fanel full of
dials and controls, yc really have
to do preeiston werk, Limes.
In this training, we do night, in-
strument, formation, cross-country,
and precision flying. It is the only
civilian owned basic flying school in
the country, and the instructors
have thousands of hours to their
credit. Hope I can “Keep ’em fly-
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Best regards,
A/C Stewart C. Yorks
Polaris Flight Academy
War Eagle Field
Lancaster, California
Thoroughly enjoyed your in-
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That reminds me, we haven't
heard from Bob Fleming in a
long time. —Editor.
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by brains for something fresh.
I don’t like machine-age Christ-
mases. I think I would have liked
to drag in a Yule log or drink toasts
with an apple in it’s mouth. I even
shudder at the sight of mysterious
parent paper and fastened impres-
sively with colored tape, twisted
into decorative and impractical
bows. I stopped sending Christmas
cards a long time ago although I
feel ashamed every year when other
people send cards to me. It isn't
thoughtlessness. It just seems so
artificial, as it would be, say if you
bought kisses at the drug store at
so much a dozen, and delivered
them in sanitary cellophane.
And yet I can’t say I don’t enjoy
the drama of the story of Jesus’
birth. I admire Him greatly, I like
to think of Him as a young zealot,
an idealist, a rebel, an intellectual
who walked with common men and
talked their language. I see Him,
blond-haired, clean-limbed, proud,
lost in His thoughts, tramping dusty
an audience.
not been trapped in stuffy ritual and
spectacular superstition, His teach-
ings would have saved the world
long before this. Hh
I can understand why Jesus
sought solitude so many times. At
Christmas time I feel like fleeing to
a roof myself. So much of life seems
commercial and materialistic
cheap. To extract the real meaning
of Christmas you must have some
time to be by yourself, time for re-
flection, time to reflect upon the
simple and lovely words of the)
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