Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1917 — HIS WISH. [ARTICLE]
HIS WISH.
George Adeu who has just returned from a visit to Camp Mills at Mineola, has brought’ a story back. While in New York City Mr. Ade» dropped in at the Lambs Club where a lot of actors past war age were sitting around talking about trenches. Everybody was-anxious tu fight but ali"sai<T they were too old. Qne of the company said he regretted greatly that he was not eligible, but he hoped that he might do his bit in some way on this side. He said: “I would even be willing to go to France on the next transport if I could get the kind of a war j ob I have in mind ” “What’s that?” asked another actor. .' “Well,” replied the would-be warrior, “I should like to go to the front as a chauffeur for a general with a yellow streak.”
