Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1918 — Getting Ready to Work [ARTICLE]

Getting Ready to Work

My son tells a story of when he was at Camp Logan. He is a stenographer, and part of his duties were to carry dally reports from camp to brigade headquarters, and from his letters at the time, was kept pretty busy. Along his route were civilian mechanics and laborers working, one of whom always seemed to be getting ready to work, usually measuring a piece of pipe or looking at it. One day the soldier stopped and looked on. The workman noticed him, and after laying the piece of pipe carefully on the edge of the ditch said, “Well, young feller, they keep you humpin’, don’t they? How do you like the army so far? You don’t get much time to loaf, do you?” The soldier answered, “I like this army all right, but the next army I join I’ll tell them I’m a plumber.”— Chicago Tribune.