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ind Blair to hi« thir- The file is ckwed, completed, though our ‘ * -Hew* -undefeated ;•'- •In eortieetioB with their inventory status. Carries on in some,Department as.before, -•'i'V lt;But Vfct'ry we’re insight of—not because.iu(d • written—tYoiir directive when df—hut in spite ofeffective was defective Doctor Mortwi’s mighty effort in the war.1 C)TO. DRAFT DODGERSall the\ Editor D«ily N«WS;I '■ Just a Sfriw -WortL* for\ Draft Dodgers:| WeU,.we have several draft j dodders In Hancock and Clai-j bom®' County and. I guess you i h*v© some in Bell County. But hen** what I :h*ve to say con-| cerning jdl draft dodgers whore-l «ver you may be.Uncle Saim WHiit you coward??. He wants to get you trained towoineu,.fifth ling for’you id I over lh« Vbrtd. It's as Blueb tnh man'swar ua another.Fatbfn FightWc lmvc some fathers away fighting and lota of mendodging and always, afraid when I hey get any kind of m*U thal it is a call far the nm*.Well, I'm not * . draft dodger myself. 1 f l were 1 would not lmwriting this, but 15Htmi and I willtnll you about my life for thejjrot#et year '.country. So .nil you j past three years, liliekeiv'frt -the right thing on I volunteered for service in i?°”rTTaitt4j t»ke:« few mo- January 1941 u.L Sheedviller Tenn,ianeeils to thiUk of'the then and 1 From there I wag taken -to 'FortDischargedOr Sailors•You-Can Clip and Use Tin* lilimk to File Applicationfor Mustcring-Out Pay1. enclose my honorable disifliHigi* or eerti ficjilr of s.c.Tvicn» front the Army, ami rc*lt;jiK*.lt;l the mn-lenng-ont jj-ayinCnl authorized by law.J War: not. di^L'harged or rdwiycd from a clivc .service mi my crwn request Lo accept employment; or if I’wiis diseliiu gcrl or reka:-'cd to accept employment I ttrve-rf out-ddc' the ■ Unitedflint**' rince December 6,. 1911; I :mi iioi - now* scrv'fng on live duLy.in Ike armed forces of the United Staley, mul have not made and will not make any other application f«r nui:er-- iriff-out payment, f iva-; a reddent of.. . . at [hr time of my induction or enlistmenUHave you reived oub-ido the continental limits of the Unitrrrl5h*tr* or in Alaska or on .-on dutyV......i An»vcr yes or no).Return my discharge or certificate of .-crvice and mail chock to me at ihe following address:(Vript or type j l iivt name Middle Xame Surname Serial No.4 | | 4 | , l.a ■■ ..Number Street...............................k’ity Zoiw StateI certify that the almvc statements are correct..Signature22S *vailftVtw officers will furnish'other evidence of lenfu am temmutbn of service.^vl1 Tfci* copy cwy beS!ty?T. e3C^r¥ig!^rm togrthfff wftk howorublt iU-•B** MTtfflewU I© propci offkea.• . . .■ _ .. . » 1Oglethorpe, Ga., whore 1 spent flye dmya. I was sent ’tu Fort Jackson, S. C., - for eighteen months where I got ull iny basic’training.• Laekt4 Nm«While I .was Walking over llic thill field at Fort Jackson, [ was thinking about the young hoys back home arid ■ wondering why Lhey wont fight for tKeir country.S guess they just-didnV hkvc Ihc nerve to go and help wm the war. Well, I'M go on with my story.I got aiek and stayed-in the hospital at Fort Jackson. - All the doctors mid nurseti didn’t think I would over come it.hut it’ was the Lord'* wiU ami [ got W'dfc. I lieggetl to go ovcrsens time and again, htit could not get to go.I left for Fort -Bonning, fi*. mid stayed there for eleven mouths a ml got sick again, ^ry leg hcgHTi to holhei* me. i waa taken lo the hospital agnin and they couldn’t help me tlin■*. They ?:eul me to Ifot Springs, Ark., for furl her (icatmciiCL«| RrmoTfd 1 n-ii.k ilisclmi'gcd:and sent hack to North Carol ill i». There I h.id • iy leg (.‘(ken off and after some llano woh sont home and now hen;J sit ivilh mm leg. But.E’m Ih.ink-ful lo tin* laud that I did whni- f c null I for iiiy country nmi am billing to help win tin- war in any way I can. . . 'I don't think Umle-Fain willhavi- any. use, for a oiii’^fefrg’Cd ipr-in, hut if he does, itN all right wiili me,f am single and am Uvrnty-fivp years did.Well all you good, young, stout single men that read tliii—don't )iN afraid to fight for out country. There are fathers leaving their Htlle children every day herau^ft yon fingle men are coward?.If I hi* is printed. I’ll b* salts-Ticld, | just wanted to snv s few* things to nil the draft dodgers everywhere.Hobert \k CollinsThom Hill, Ttfnn,JOBS FOR SOtDIERSRose Hill, Virgin in Febrnarj- 20, 10 I i.■ Ttnjir Johnnv:] lt;■ , Today, wn the people of tHe: [United Status, are planning foryour future. That is, we ire trying to plan it, so you will .hart H job of your choice, after thia war. Instead of the civilians of America having first choice- of Jobe, it will be ‘the aoMiti? who hava r*-ttzrnM from the.w*r*Uro world, back home. Now jM at* figfctiaRunder R*nda) n^sa to Killy 1 *ii U was Jogi one blaze |n after all, Mu fires.Tn ersenre » deeply ch-.l lively, each i door he’.pretei slble .Jhot hi? und -agreeable'’ffjKl a ,^CKilie rame in or M flg .looked he'd lo.sl hi8 ■.round, slie s• inft. n IfWc c! !ln«.».; Jt sometime j flint. 3ns wife’ jO sun-dlol in i j cloudy, hhin-fi, 'depressed spr jtlic silence hr i “W.here's Jc• «Upstii irs c\ •. , , Tt must 1: j1o afford rfee* 11o the air,■ rt musl bn dall Senior. 4 : pleasant envii I 4,ts it my f; Mo live anyivh j pid place like convcrsnlional Th-c demonInto nmwerin:people of Arne thr* fixufdom y If you jire svitli the freedom n willing to help ii sucyn.lt;.sful ‘o nil the soldierwflvrf. in.'he tihe hack nt-hon union with frie ojieo more. I Dun-i■ :ih» plen will never vet-ones, lo muki*I bin \v:u . Tli broken .motherl\cn Mo - r-i-Lui urc rini smuihglurn home, i!i-frdth,' nii(l lie dreadful \s.ir i?The fuluro flooks good m:vwill stay that you never retu for which you to the future i proud for the turn.Now, 1 will the best of Imk you, May God your troubles cruel war.Just it Ruth ? f now Hcdiia;r the boys in thithe United St apeople who t*ik.Item,BAD TEETH h' Chkigo.—Dr 'PUdiwit of tlBoalfy, fjf \man colds bu
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