Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1919 — LAMENT OF A PRIVATE. [ARTICLE]

LAMENT OF A PRIVATE.

In the army they call me a private. , It is-a misnomer. * There is nothing private about me. I have been examined by fifty doctors and they haven’t missed a blemish. • I have confessed to being married and having children. I have told my previous occupations and my salary. I have nothing in my past that has not been revealed. I am the lonly living thing that has Tess privacy than a gold fish. I deep in a room with countless other men and eat with about 900. I take my baths with the entire detachment. 1 wear a suit of the same material and cut as 5,000,000 other men. I have to tell a phydteian when I kiss a pretty girt. I never have a single moment to myself. And yet they calle me a “private!” Private!, What the —New Orleans Times-Picayune.