THE POET'S CORNER
This poem was sent in to us by “Fritz” Chamberlain, Huntsville Marine,
stationed at Parris Island, and offers some good advice to future brides of
the Back Mountain.
A MARINE
You can have your Army Khaki,
You can have your Navy Blue;
But here’s another uniform
I'll introduce to you.
This uniform is different . . .
The best I've ever seen . . .
The Hienies call him ‘“devildog”
But we call him “Marine”.
He trained at Parris Island,
The land that God forgot,
Where the sand is 14 inches deep
And the sun is scorching hot.
He's prepared many tables
And many dishes he’s dried,
He’s even learned to make a bed
‘And shine his shoes beside.
He's peeled a million onions
And twice as many spuds
And spent a lot of liesure time
Washing up his duds.
Girls! Take a little hint from me
And get yourself a good Marine,
For there's nothing he can’t do
On this earth’s sordid scene.
And when he gets to Heaven
To St. Pete he will tell,
“Just another Marine reporting, Sir,
I've served my hitch in Hell.”
Overseas Mail
YOUR LETTER came and I could swear I smelled
The apple pie set cooling on the shelf.
And even while the thundering cannon shelled
I heard the music box I made myself
And gave to you one birthday long ago,
When our small world was bounded by a hedge
Of holly trees and scrub pine in the snow
Beneath the guardian granite of the ledge.
The boys all tell me this is IT, and I,
Not feeling battle lust nor hero bold,
Join with their laughter so I will not cry.
Remember how I joked when you would scold,
And how, when”woodshed bound, I conquered tears
And managed still to keep a saucy face,
Although the licking realized all my fears
And kept me eating from the mantleplace ?
Your letter came in answer to my last,
And though I cannot say I'm afraid,
The simple words, of how the week has past
For you and how the elm tree's shade
Is reaching to the garden now, have made me know
A feeling of your closeness, fanned the flame
That war and mud and weariness brought low.
So now I must believe I will return.
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Your letter came.
—Carra Matthews, in Somerset (Md.) News.
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Aint It Nice?
Ain't it nice in the spring, to get up with the sun,
To hear the birds sing and watch the lambs run,
Ain’t it nice?
Ain't it nice in the spring to watch the birds wing,
Their way to their home in the tree by the spring,
Ain't it nice?
In the spring to see the green sheen of the grain as it grows
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bureau, swapping moulting canaries
for Belgian Hares, gas stoves for
folding baby-carriages, a load of
well-rotted manure for a flock of
pullets.
Personally, we never miss the
classified ads. Reading that section
is equivalent to taking a mental
and emotional journey into the hazy
reaches of childhood.
That oval drop-leaf kitchen table
which figured in last week's issue, for
instance. I had dashed to the phone
and looked up the proper number
before cold common sense reminded
me sternly that the gasoline short-
age would prevent me from driving
to Dallas and bringing that table
home in triumph, even supposing
that it turned out to be the kind of
a table that imagination conjured
up. ;
Was it a walnut table with fold-
ing wings, and did it wear on its
feet the white china casters of fifty
years ago? Did it have extra leaves
that coulld be inserted
hen the oc-
casion demanded?
So far as I know, modern drop-
leaf tables are never oval, while
black walnut tables dating from the
eighteen-sixties are quite apt to be.
There are two drop-leaf black wal-
nut tables in my own family con-
nections, one in Virginia and one in
Williamsport, but there are other
members of the family who have
priority rights and who are fully
capable of exercising them. Both
tables are equipped with white
china casters, and both are built
sturdily of the blackest of black
walnut. Both are good for at least
another hundred years of constant
service.
Next to the drop-leaf kitchen
table there was the item advertis-
ing for sale complete lot of house-
hold furniture, including a Victorian
sofa, walnut frame. Once more the
mad rush for the phone, and once
more the stern warning of the gas-
ration card. No pleasure driving, and
what could be construed as more
in the nature of a pleasure excur-
sion than a jaunt to Dallas to in-
spect a Victorian = sofa, walnut
frame ?
and graceful legs? Was it once up-
holstered in the prickliest of black
horsehair ?
How many times, as a child, have
I slid blissfully on a slippery horse-
hair sofa, the cool surface striking a
chill to the bones on the hottest of
summer days? Those horsehair cov-
ers have long since been outmoded,
but those graceful old frames lend
themselves to a variety of modern
upholstery fabrics. And those high-
curved ends, with their comfortable
support for the back, how delight-
fully different from the rigid and
uncompromising Colonial antique
that dared a prospective customer
to relax on its narrow rock-bound
ledge. )
Such was the lure of the walnut
frame that I not only looked up the
phone number, I actually called it
and got the lady who lives down-
stairs. The owner of the Victorian
sofa, walnut frame, had stepped
out, and the day was saved. By
morning, a morning dampened by
the classic Wyoming Valley drizzle,
the madness for a Victorian sofa had
worn off a bit, and the money saved
; ame have lovely curves
and swells, with hand-carved roses
‘by not investing in it was diverted
to something more essential, though
far less interesting, such as the pay-
ment of the milk-bill and the pur-
chase of a bolt of white voile for
the making of sheer summer cur-
tains.
An advertisement for the sale or
rental of an eighty-acre creek-bot-
tom farm appears with regularity.
Does the creek flood its banks in
the spring, with the swollen freshet
racing through the kitchen and
swirling around the barn? Does the
silt thus deposited render the bot-
tom-land rich and productive for
the remainder of the twelve
months ? What does one grow on an
eighty-acre creek-bottom farm ?
Does the house that goes with
the eighty acres of creek bottom
have modern conveniences, such as
electric lights and perhaps even a
spot of plumbing, or does it hark
back to the days of the pioneers and
the rustic outhouse, festooned with
morning-glories and embellished by
a cut-out crecent placed modestly
high in the door?
The most beautiful view in Penn-
sylvania is at present hiding itself
under a bushel, probably because of
the gas situation. You can’t very
well deplore the gas crisis with one
hand, and with the other sell a
view, no matter how peerless, a
view that can be reached only by
the burning of three gallons of life-
blood.
It looks now as if everybody
would stay put for the duration,
without a view, without a drop-leaf
table, and without even a walnut
Victorian sofa.
BEAUMONT
Mrs. E. F. Johnson visited her
sister at Dover, New Jersey, who is
a patient in the Dover Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis DeRemer are
rejoicing over the birth of a daugh-
ter last Sunday.
Mrs. Parris Callender and infant
son, Frederick John, have returned
from the Nesbitt Hospital and are
staying with Mrs. Callender’s sister,
Mr. Louisa Neiman.
Mr. Wayne Brace and son, of Har-
ris Hill, spent a wek with her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Gale Clark.
Class night was held at the school
house on Tuesday night.
war, we—
Durine the first year of our toughest
Trained millions of fighting men—made mil-
lions of dollars worth of fighting tools—bu:lt
millions of tons of shipping to carry these men
and tools to the fighting fronts.
And to help pay for it all, we bought War
"YOUVE DONE YOUR BIT
OW DO YOUR BEST!”
In long serrated rows,
Ain’t it nice?
Ain't it nice to watch crows as they circle the rows,
Of your corn as it grows,
Knowing that you must re-plant,
Because you can’t shoo
The crows from the rows of your corn as it grows,
Ain’t it nice, or ain’t it ?
—H. B. Allen
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Bonds. Altogether, 50 millions of us bought
War Bonds. And nearly 30 millions of us
started putting, on the average, 10 percent of
our pay into War Bonds every pay day through
the Payroll Savings Plan.
That was a good start—a whale of a good
start. But, every American knows that it was
only a start. Nobody would contend for a
single instant that what we did in 42 is enough
for 43!
Did .we make 48,000 planes last year?
Believe itor not—wedid. Butwe’ve'got to make
100,000 this year! Sure! We broke every
record in the world last year, building 8 million
tons of shipping. But everybody knows that
the 18 million tons we’re building this year isn’t
enough! :
We've got to do more fighting this year.
We've got to do more building, more training,
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We've got to buy more War Bonds.
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DONE YOUR BIT
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Savings Plan—buying War Bonds—doing your
bit. But don’t stop there. See if you can’t
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