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. NEW YORK, July 19—JIt is very likely an impossible task, but I keep hoping that somehow we Fi can prevent this new war of ours from degeneratre me into a wallow of oozy sentimentality, cuteness . and coyness as we describe the activities of the ; Battalion Chief Dies (G1 ana can hew to some measure of objective reA requiem mass for Harvey J./porting when we deal with his shortcomings. The Keppel, 1218 E. New York St. In- GI I'm sure, will be the first to appreciate it. Fire a is We Ware. guilty of heavy slobbering during the one. e composite soldier, for quite a spell, 3 foi Friday in Holy Cross Cath-/came out as a mom's boy who wept for his dog: Church. at gs who was inspired to do battle for a pinup shot of services at 9:30 a. m. In Betty Grable; who fought for his right to boo the Home will pre-| Dodgers and come home to a new refrigerator. Calvary Cemetery.

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yesterday in Methodist SOME of the rhetorical sins committed in the On the department 38 years, he Name of GI Joe were enough to turn his hair been promoted to battalion White from embarrassment, at a distance of many chief in January, 1935. "thousand miles. He was wept over and wailed He joined the department in Over by sob sisters (male and female) and the 1912 and later became one of the advertising copyreaders ran amok, thinking up first fire prevention inspectors in| PeW commodities for him to fight for in full-page the city. He served at depart- ads. : : ment headquarters, was promoted The American soldier was rarely presented as to lieutenant at Engine House 13!a cold killér, who could cut down on an enemy and then was advanced to rank like his ancestor used to bushwhack an Indian. of captain. : {He was, more or less, mentally pictured as an A native and life-long resident adjunct to a machine. The machine—gun, plane of Indianapolis, he was appointed or grenade—did the dirty work, leaving Joe in_drillmaster of the department and | nocent except as an accomplice, i Served during 1922 ip aq 1924. 1t is a matter of fact that crybabies do not c ro oly Cross/ win wars, and boys who are preoccupied with atholie Church. | thoughts of home, moth d bluebe Survivors include his wife, Mar-| pie ro syd pe Burt Re previ Zaret Aun: three sisters Mt pie are apt to get their heads shot off by enemies NE Keppel, and Mrs PD. R as Al-lwith a more realistic view of the business at Wh or Tad pce oO - Oster. hand. A good soldier never gives the opposition a nd 3ap0 1s, and Mrs. H.'an even break. He is a highly skilled assassin, - ‘Jsle, El Monte, Cal, and ain the pay of his government, and his profession brother, T, J., Indianapolis. {is killing. Mrs. Myron Watson War has a way of rubbing the patina off the Services were being arranged Sensitive, and the toughest, meanest, roughest today for Mrs. Catherine Alice Men I ever knew were American boys of extensive Watson, 1619 Broad Ripple Ave, combat experience. Living in the mud for a few who died yesterday in her home months on end; being cold, dirty, lousy, hungry

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and scared; being driven and harassed and sick hardens and seldom ennobles. At the outset of our frésh unpleasantness, which} has already started off on the coy sille insofar| as the soldier is concerned, I would recommend a E reading or rereading of Audie Murphy's book, ! Set for Next Month “To Hell and Back.” This is a combat infantry-| By Sciefes Service i man's unvarnished discourse on what a war isi WASHINGTON, July 19-—Most a a ratiuns tian any" 1S Matict 1s 1 fot Not wept: other soldier in the war, including the top gong, °f fOr the next month—“warmer the Congressional Medal. He was a beardless than normal” the Weather Bubaby when he finished, but he had managed to reau puts it in its 30-day outlook. kill, wound or capture nearly 300 Germans. The area with the greatest deMr. Murphy's book (ghost-written, to be sure, i but quietly accurate) contained none of the pet FaTIUre from. normal will be east sermons of the sensitive rear-echelon ideologists, 0f the Ohio and Mississippi Rivnone of the breast-beating of the fringe-operators ers. } who heard one bomb dropped and became aghast! Only exception to the rule will at the awfulness of war. Mr. Murphy gave you be the northern Rocky Mountain the GI as Ernie Pyle found him, but with more states which will be blessed with! candor, since Ernie had to curtail his earthiness cooler than normal weather, ac-| because of a family newspaper medium. jcording to the prediction. There was precious little “what-are-we-fight-| Two weeks ago, predicting for al ing-for?” about the average candidate for distinc-| month ahead, the Weather Burtion. He was fighting to stay alive, or to getieau said temperatures east of the | home, or because somebody told him to, and he Mississippi would be cooler than! didn't have much time to analyze his reasons for! normal. This has worked out! being uncomfortable. He detested having his| now they say, a trend for hotter “morale” built by well-meaning civilians, some of | weather in that area is setting inl whom would have equipped each foxhole with 2 put during the next two weeks! analy to keep Joe company. lit will not become warm enough! Lipstick No Morale-Booster |to upset their first of July preI SUPPOSE most of this outburst comes from diction of cooler than normal a story about some nurses in Korea, who fre-| temperatures for 30 days. quently applied “fresh lipstick in order to boost] Upstate New York reservoirs morale among the wounded.” I knew nurses in on which New York City water]

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months, and I never knew a wounded GI whoseiglong with subnormal rainfalls morale was lifted by anything but a medic; plus ¢tpom now to mid-August, The! a shot of hop to still his pain. When you hurt it\ weather Bureau's extended fore-| is. out of the domain of lipatick morale. {cast section's prediction for the! War essentially i= not nice. It is hard to cute It! Northeast the Middle Atlantic! up for the nonwarriors. I would like to see us| :

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Indianapolis the last 25 years 2 different ldea. after retiring from a glass factory! So I dropped in to listen to the summerhe managed in Zanesville, O. He Suited Senators debate the appropriation bill in was a native of Jeffersonville and their air-conditioned chamber. This was cool, a member of Lafayette Lodge, but it wasn’t pleasant, The gentlemen were too F. & A. M., Zanesville, more than |Worried. : 55 years. { I happened to hear Sen. James P. Kem, the Surviving are a son, Clarence C.,| white-haired Missouri Republican, make a speech Indianapolis; a brother; Frank demanding that we go easy om Marshall Plan Akron, O., and two sisters, Mra. merchandise, and millions to those nations still Emma Bagby and Mrs. Dora Me- doing business with the Communists. He soon Glashan, Canton, 0. and two got down to details. grandchildren. He charged that Great Britain was selling

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