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The Transient Bureau is not
responsible for any of the views or
opinions expressed in this magazine,
nor is the accuracy of any statement
made herein guaranteed.

 

 

 

 

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It costs $461.25 to keep a man in jail for a year.

If we chisel off some odd figures to make it easier,
we find it costs about $8.75 a week. Because the Transient
Bureau has more supervisors, probably feeds better, and a
greater overhead, we can safely assume the average weekly
cost of each transient to the Government to be around $10.00
a week.

The number of transients on the rolls at any one time
seems to be about 250,000 - let’s say 300,000. At $520.00
a year each, they cost the Government just $156,000,000.

We have talked to many transients, and all of them
have said "If I had $50.00 in cash, the transient bureau
could go jump in the lake" - or words to that effect!

So We’ve figured out a way for the Government to save
$141,000,000 during this year ~ provided the bureaus run
that long. Just give every transient on the rolls $50.00 in
cash and tell 'em to get to hell out of the joint. Then look
the doors to be sure they Won’t try to sleep there that night!

This will cost $15,000,000 which is a big saving over
$156,000,000.

we offer this plan to the Government free of cost ~ not
even a sales tax. We'll even throw in a bonus for the case
workers - they‘re all broke too!

Even if the boys spent the rest of the year in jail 7 ,,,
after they've spent the $50.00, the Government could still ‘2} 53‘
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Which is more than we can do!

~"Barnacle Bill"

 

  

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Dear are my Blue Grass dreams,
With a myriad tingling thrills,
Of mermaids in the streams,
The Diana’s of the hills.

 

The corn likker, beer and wine,
That soften a maiden‘s smiles,
Eyes dark or blue, that shine,
And a wanton's passionate wiles.

The perfume of silken hair,
Velvet skin, smooth, milk white,
A rose lit, silken lai ,
Soft lips thzt cling in the night.

The feel of d pair of dice,
Thrill of a good poker hand,

The best of what's naughty but nice,
That a rounder an understand.

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PlacizL a bet on d "hoss",
watching him lead round the bend,
Then in the stretch its a loss,

But he wins by a nose in the end.

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Dear are my Blue Grass dreams,
Whether peaceful sad, or gay,

T'me sweetens remories, it seems,
And I hope it is ever that way.

-Bill Carey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1

Lt. Saunders should be in the promoting cus'
nection with the Boy Scouts, he is promoting l{,oOO ooks for the library.
Each Boy Scout has promised to go here and collect from the family archives
all the books he can find lying around - five books to each Boy Scout is
the quota. Hope they don't all decide to bring Ladies home Journals! Thanks
a lot, Lt. and Boy Scouts. we worked long and hard last summer to make Camp
Pakuneki a pleasant place for everybody, and we know you won’t fail us.

***$*$s****s******$**

have just received the news from.Miss Atkins that Captain Albert C.

lfe formerly uireetor of this burea , is now Camp Commander of 1 CCC camp

no ,
it Crandon,‘iisconsin.
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The boys are certainly making a good job of painting around the place.
The prevailing color scheme on the walls - and the boys - is a light cream
upper with a chocolate lower and a band of black between. Very clean and
artistic looking.

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Well, all the double deck bunks are ne pas, which means - out. On orders
from Washington. hack to the single cots, to the relief of the oldsters who
had a heck of a tine keeping a footing on those upper decks, to say nothing
of the hazardous flight up there. Sorething about meningitis, and air space,
or sunpin'. All the knives, forks, and spoons must be soaked in some chemical
after washing, which will insure most of us frontinhaling more than the usual
quantity of germs around here. And sonething else - must be three feet space
for each man at the dining-room_table, and not less than two and a half feet
across the table. Plenty of fightinz roor.for elbows.

 

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Bill Carey is working nights down in the basement making a display for

a drug store. It represeits a man drining out o a bottle. The figure raises

its arm, throvs back its head, opens its mouth, closes its eyes — and then

presuxnbly drops down dead! Bill is iaving one heck of a tinw co—ordinating

all the effects, and only recently hit upon a flexible medium'with the ability

to restore the figure to normal. His best girl, Mabel — or is Agnes? - put

him wise. And it‘works! New Bill l s a real job - Best O'Luck.

$10

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Women have more of what is termed good sense than men. They cannot
reason wrong, for they do not reason at all - Hazlitt.

 

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Ask George Bennett to tell you the story of the fly and the piece of
agar! It's a gambling game played on the transatlantic Liners. Everybody
1n the game buys a piece of sugar which is placed on the table, and then
a b'g blue bottle fly is released. Whichever lump of sugar the fly alights
upon first - the owner of the sugar collects the pool. There‘s a way to
incurs the fly alighting on your piece of sugar first - ask George for the
secret - we can't tell you here. It’s good!

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********$*****$$¥****

Spring is in the air. The boys in caup are leaving fast but there's
always newcomers to take their places. John C. (Fighting) Mohun has heard
the call of the stoamboats, and Bill(Wisocrack)Hunhall‘s crispy comments
will be heard no more at the Window of the supply office. The pile of winter
shoe, sk'n lined OVcrcoats gets less and less as guards come and go - but
Stubby goes on forever.

*********************

Vac thlure has made some card tables for the recreation room.with
checker board tops. Lt. Saunders is digging up boxers, checker players,
; no exports, and ping pong hounds an‘ is getting them organized. This
Center will really be a place to live after awhile, and men will be able to
spend an evening enjoyably. The poker players will probably find a quiet
spot of their own, and magazines and books should soon make their appearance
on the scene. Writing tables will be provided so the boys can write something
for the ARK! V. Raleigh is dishing out the checkers and cards and has promis-
ed to write us all about the doings around the recreati n room.

  

***************$*x***

Giveaway day on sheep shin lined coats today. Director Herd Byrd
called the men into the office who have been working long and hard to get
the new Center into shape, and rnde them_a speech. In appreciation of their
untiring and willing efforts to get things done. Director Byrd gave every one

of the men a new sheep skin lined coat with no strings attached. The men exa

pressed their appreciationg in a burst of applause. 5e were busy typing up the
payroll in the next office at the time and missed the finer points - but
everybody seemed well satisfied all round. ’Tis practical thoughtfulness

like ,his that men appreciate.

2y mean and Charley Watson, our ever polite truck drivers, have
been on the so nirht and day - they say. Couple of genial guys anyway, Have
a cioaret

********$************

A coupla fellers arrived too late to
register last Saturday night and had to sit
on the doorstep until the place opened. At
intervals they'warued their hands over an
oil flare in the center of the street markin
a broken spot in the pa emcnt. Better catch
these early freights or stay where you are
over Sunday follers. Most of the bureaus :_
are closed to registration over the week end. if”"

 

 

 

  

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They’re signing up men for future Government work jobs at Greenwood,
S.C. When signing up, the applicant is asked what he is best fitted to
do. The "Optimist" states they have several bank presidents, railroad
executives, and a flock of stock brokers on hand. So that's where my pals
of the Florida boom days are hanging out.

**********************

Jerry O‘Day, one of the dozen or so who have checked out of Camp Blue
Licks at opportune times, is now in Kenton, Ohio, doing some ham.and egg
boxing. Says he wants to get in touch with all those he owos any money
and he'll pay it, pronto. Nice boy, Jerry.

**********************

The local Center at Davenport, Iowa, is new a receiving center with
a three day limit. A camp has been opened six miles north of town to take
care of about two hundred men. At this writing the place is filled.

*********************m

Every new and then some mention is made in other bureau papers
regarding the rate of pay of the clients. Out in Arizona they've stopped
all payments temporary; in Florida the rate is from .25¢ up to $5.00;
in Illinois the amount seems to be .50¢ a week; in North Carolina it still
appears to be .90¢; in New Orleans they have self maintenance men on $6.50
a week. Variations occur in most every camp and bureau all over the country.
We wonder why the discrepancy. Seems to be no valid reason why all transient
bureaus can’t opperate on the same basis.

**********************

The Washington bureau(D.C.) has promoted free theatre passes for the
boys. They also have dancing lessons and a debating class. Commercial and
technical courses are offered, with languages, literature, history, and
social study. If the various musical instruments around the bureau can be
co-ordinated, they'll also have an orchestra. Just getting into their stride
for a long session of bureauitis, it seems:

 

**********************

Fort worth, Texas, is operating a
new camp at Stephanville. All men must
have their fingerprints made before being
sent out to camp. The usual el.OO,
$2.00, and $5.00 ratings will prevail.
This Division is also taking a census
of all men over sixty years of age
for the proposed New Deal pension
set-up.

*************

Fort Eustis, Va, the camp with V_:::r ';
2500 transients, is guaranteed because /// .»
of an outbreak of spinal meningitis /
among the men.

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hvelyn Harvey, in the St. Valentine issue of the Saturday Evening
Post, has something to say about the transient bureaus. Her claim for
authority is based on four years Uissstor Service with the Americai Red
Cross, and three years with the RFC and the FERA. Time spent with the
FERA is not stc tCl.'Ke reprint the following extracts from her article
for your possiele edification or amusement:

"The transient bureaus es ablished throughout the country to take the
tramps off the highways and byways - or so the government optimistically
planned - have had a tendency to incree the wanderir gs of the footlose
travelers. Now a camp can go conforc1bl Ifrom coast to coast. In a string
of camps and shelters stretchi1ng from.Maine to California, he is well fed,
clothed, treated free of charge by doctors, and supplied with glasses and
other mechanical devices to aid his ills - devices, which, in many cases,
he does not really want, and will either lose, sell or give away when he
hits the road again.

"He is well treated, entertained by radio and moving pictures. A barber
cuts his hair and shaves him, a shower bath makes hi:1 clean before he dons
the new suit, which, if it does not suit his fancy, he can generally man-
age to exchange for another at a different shelter. If he likes a camp,
he can stay as long as he wishes, and will earn a nominal sum for the work
that he does while there. When he tires of one shelter he moves at will
to the next.

"There are certain authentic in stances of men who have made the rounds
of camps and shelters in one state three or four times. Often with a great
deal of naivete, ”hey tell of traveling across the country by easy stages.
In their philosophy is little evidence of their responsibility as social
beings, little idea that they he ve any obligation toward the government
that is taking care of them. Some 01 the olde non have never earned an
honest penny in their lives, but have managed to exist, by hook and crook,
off the public.

"The hundreds of tre asients actually shipped to their legal residences
are not cor ce1ned in the least over the huge expense of this free trans-
portation that is going on all over the United States. It is not their
money; they should werry.

"”he ending of transient migration might be acceriplished by laws /
fathered eitlier by state legislation or by the 1
Federal Government, forbidding public cha urges
without legal residence from crossing the bound- V
aries of the states in which they live, unless
they can show proof that they have
definate promise of Work in the state
where they Wish to go, or that their
proposed journey is a le itimate one

 
 
 
  

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public funds. Unat y‘iched men in the
traisfent camps and shelters should

be held there until they are rehab-
ilitated in some 1 naer - certainly
they should not be permitted to return
to the same camp or shelter repeatedly
or even twice, unL. 8 there is a

 

 

 

  

satisfactory reason_for their appearance. Such a ruling would seem to lie
within the jurisdiction of the Federal Transient Bureau. In one camp, 75%

of the men were more than fifty years of age. As there was little likev
lihood of their being able ever to earn a living, they should have been

held permanently in this camp, unless the officials desired that they should
take to the road once more, depending on public charity to take care of them.
As the government has expended huge sums in building these camps throughout

the United States, should it not go a step farther and compel transients to
remain in them?"

A T Don S Iggy T5 III: DLY

Madam, to anyone conversant with the true status of the inmates of
the transient bureau or camp, your diatribe is redieulous, untrue in many
particulars, and your ”remedy" childish; the product of an immature mind.

 

Men, wiser than you, have considered the impounding of thousands of
men in concentrati n camps, compelling them to stay there until "rehabili-
tated in some manner” — aside from the humanitarian principles involved, —
as being a decidedly dangerous proposition. As long as men are left mobile,
they cannot be organized, they cannot become the menace to a community they
undoubtedly would become if virtually imprisoned against their will because
of a condition which they dimly realize is not of their making.

You state a deplorable condition exists, and offer as a remedy the
destruction of the effect and not the elimination of the cause. The cause is
not far to seek — we can only use what we find in this world. If a certain
percentage of us hog most of what is here, then others must suffer. We
”tramps" are the visible sores on the body politic - the outward evidence
of a condition existing because th- major part of the wealth of the country
is in the hands of the minority.

History has repeatedly shown that up to a certain point men will endure
privation and hardships not of their making, and then, in desperation when
no improvement is in sight, will revolt. This country was born in revolution.
Your ”remedy" of keeping men in comp until they die, or "rehabilitated in
some manner”, without de?inite hope for the future, would prove a boomerang.
You offer no plans for rehabilitation — only a cry from the tax payers
for relief from the burden of supporting their fellow men in
distress; a burden which most of us would be
only too glad to take up.

We did not choose this method of living, .
Madai. The oonlitions of the times have forced the \17/
majority of us into it. We could not all of us
secure jobs on Government Relief Polls as
supervisors, so we take the next best thing
rather than steal or starve. we have no oppor-
tunity to contact the outsid world to look
for work, and very limited funds to sustain us
while looking. But no live in.hope.

   
    

We are of the opinion your article is partéfifi
of the propaganda aimed at the hindering or 4
destruction of the sins of the present admin— /Z///{
istration. There is such a thing as the prosti— “
tutiet o? talent for base ends, and the perver-
sion of the truth to point a moral. You qualifiy ’
on both counts, Madam. We thank you: — F.P.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

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Finley Hill tells it. All about working with the circus. we
butted into the conversation among the boys around the fireplace in
the mess hall out at camp. Finley Hill had the floor.

"And the guy sticks his head in the lion's mouth and the lion
bites his head off. I’ve never heard of a wild animal trainer retiring
voluntarily. They all get killed or badly injured, but there's something
about the life that fasinatcs. You can't let go.

"When I first went with the circus it wns with Ringling Bros.,
down at winter quarters in Sarasota in Florida. After a week or so I
got to hanging around the elephants. Those big "bulls“ had a way with
them. Finally I went to the boss. Give me a job with the elephants,
I asked him.

"well, I got it, and they put me on the line. That meant a lot
of work with a wheel borrow and a shovel but it was worth it. After
awhile, I got to know 'em_all by name and how they reacted.

"When the "bulls" are in line, with a chain around a hind foot

and fastened to a stake the1 swin from foot to foot and the whole line
a f g
is in motion. When they stop doing this there‘s trouble in the air,
and no chain or stake could hold them if they decided to leave from there.
"01d Mom” the leader, used to talk and trumpet to the rest of the gang
and keen 'em in a ood humor. She was the real boss.
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"One morning, I was cleaninw up in the line, when all of a sudden
- bam - and I was lying twenty feet away. One of the "bulls" had socked
me with his trunk and was watching to see what I would do next. I fixed
him. I went and got me an outlaw hook and seeked it into him.behind the
ear, and then banged him all around the head. I soon had him squealin
for mercy. I was plenty mad and let him have plenty before I quit.

"After I had cooled off I noticed the boss standing a short distance
away. Guess he must have seen what happened, and I said to myself - there
goes my job. But he never said a word and turned away. A "bull" hates to
get socked with a hook because a rising developes, something like a boil

 

and it Lee to be washed and lanccd. , .“%-”_ a“
It's pretty painful, but yen can‘t train /’
wild animals with kindness. //
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pole they stick in the lion's cage ’ /’”\ /K( ' ;/ (
during a performance? It's painted red. ‘ {/2 f/', Jr flfifi
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the end of a real red hot bar - and he hasn't ,- '//

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of the biggest “bull" in the line, loading iii

the parade. It's a great life!" ~J

 

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By the time this appears in print it will be history. But right
now there's forty men all raising merry hell in the building. Bang,
bang, bang, go the hammers - saws are rasping on all sides - slap,
Slap, slap, go the paint brushes - and the voice of Sergeant Smith
can be heard over all. They're still fixing up the new Center over on
Third and Walton.

The showor baths have arrived - complete metal boxes - and Kahn
and the plumbers are trying to find what pipes go into and out of them.
There'll be a grand rush for the showers when the connections are made.
Upstairs, the scrubbing gang are doing a grand job and the boys down
below get the drippings through the cracks. Downstairs, the dining room
is being done over with several coats of paint, and nest of the boys
have as much paint on themselves as goes on the walls and ceiling. Joe
Sikon’s principle color is light tan.

Somebody has fastened the mirror to the well over the wash trough,
and all'Je can see is the top of our heads when we shave. Must have
been that lorg legged Mac. The canteen is beginning to look like a
cross between a rabbit hutch and the public library, but it will be all
O.K. when its finished, says Harps. The doctor's office is a symphony
in ivory and gold and very efficient looking, and the hospital wards
are next in line for a going over. 'Won't be long now.

Up and down the stairwa s tramp Jim Taylor and his colored gang;
sweeping, carrying lumber, getting in the way, occasionally throwing in
a step dance or so for luck. Like a humming bird, never still, and never
in one place for longer than a minute is the ubiquitous Sergeant Smith.
Down in the fire room, Shorty and ChinkSmith are stoking up, Shorty
with his little ladder so he can look into the furnace, and George Bennett
with his monkey wrenches, turning on this and that.

Up on the second floor we have a space railed for tho barber, and
another space partitioned off for the Iso’s to sleep, with their own
showers and toilets. Then another partitioned room, and another, and still
another. John Carroll Lowe, recently raised to the peerage — we almost
said steerago - looks with covetous eyes at the little one on—the end.

Up on a ladder, with a towel around his /: 2’

he d, his eyes closed, is Florita -
"porting" he calls it. wall board is
everywhere - and fresh "pent".

      
    

Soon the exodus from Limestone
St. will take place and all will be
smooth running again. 'We'll miss the
days when we worked from 8 to 12, Li?

and from 1 to 4, on real construction 75 ?_u
work that kept everyone busy and /Z‘d tn;
contented, and minds occupied. ;;::E;=§"E;:

   

But who knows ~ before long we

may all be out on real constructive
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Government Jobs - and even at $50. /'g‘;

 

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Barnacle Bill woe caught in a jam. It soenwd Investigator
John wanted to know why men stick around here in preference to
getting out and looking for a job.

”It's this way," said Bill, in explanation. "There‘s just
about thirty oercent of us here who are employable, well maybe
forty percent. The rest are too old, cripples, diseased, too
young, or with bad records - jail birds. This sixty percent is
constantly changing, the forty percent stay around quite awhile
before they leave."

"This forty percent save their meney until they have enough
to give tlo; a stake," continued Bill. "Then they move to another
town and try their luck at getting a job. They have only a slim
chance of go ting a job out of the bureau ~ in the first place
their tire is fully occupied, then again, the address would kill
any deal. You've got to have a front, some money, and an address
before you can get a break."

 
 

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} new, in ttis bureau," went on Bill, "there‘s plenty
of money in hiding." Bill looked.down the hallway. "Yes, I can
count up to t35.00 anon; those dozen men. They‘re saving up for
a front, and they'll all be out of the bureau by spring, hunting
jobs. They‘re tried it before, many of them, and failed to make
a go of it, but th y‘ll try it again until they click."

"Why don’t they explain their motives to their caseworkers?"
says Investigator John.

"That's all right for some," said Bill, "but for a lot of us
it means useless investigation of our references that may kill
tHCSo references at a time when we need them.most. Pride comes into
account too. That's the reason many of us give false names and
information - we do not intend any of our circle of friends or
former employers shall find out we are compelled to stay in a
transient bureau - we anW'only too well the stigma attached to
these places - mostly because of the actions of a few."

"I think many men give false names and information because
they have criminal records," said Investigator John.

"There are criminals here," said Bill, "but the criminals
you'll find in a bureau will nevur become public enemies No. 1.
They're only punks and caps, with limited intylligonce, and little
guts - sneak thieves. we all know the bureau is not in a position
to ?ind us jobs. we‘ve got to find out own - and we want this
bureau to to only an incident in our lives, not something we must
siend the balance of our lives living down. That's why we keep our
own counsel end bide our time. If the promisedVVOrk jobs do not
materialize for us, we still have hopes of getting back into the
World again. So we save and say as little as possible. Now ask
some of the other fellows what they think about it."

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Last Sunday, l‘ebruary 17th, twenty-three men scrambled into the truck
at the Center and left for lamp Blue Licks. Included in the party was Lt.
Saunders and 1 assortment of boxers ,ping pong, domin.o and checker players.
They left us behind udth a bad cold to bemoan our fate.

   

       

Late tha‘t eve ‘.1ing they returned, tired but happy and hungry. Jimmy
Barker had a couple of blacr eyes and a strawberry nose, and Jimmy'Wallace’s
held looked to be twice its usual size. The rest looked the same as usual.
Ping pong, dominos and checkers leave no scars. After much questing, we
located "Speed" ”ankins the referee, who gave us the following write up.

"Speed used to write for Steps and Dashes the bureau paper from Greenville,
S.C. Here 'tis:

"The fights and tournaments at Camp Blue Licks broke about even. The
OUtqu.leb battle was between Ken Rawson of Canp Blue Licks and Jimmy
Barker of the Center. Jimmy was outweighed 18 lbs, and outclassed by a man
of act experience, but Jimmy stayed with him, showing plenty of grit.

Jimmy is an o1.con nr fighter, and should not get discouraged because he
lost his first 11:ht in the 4th round when his seconds thret in the towel.
He's an up and cozning fighter r, and we are for you Jimmy - one and all.

 

The slugging match was staged between Jimmy Wallace of the Center
and KLd “’“ld elto of Camp Blue Licks. It 10 s a slow f5 ght, but boy, ob boy,
WhOL these boys hit each other something had to fall. Each fight or had the
other down t.vice, but thi.sl Wallace packed a load of dynamite and T N. T in
either glove. Wallace connected lfith the douzse of David’s whiskerod covered
chin in the second round, dropping not only the bearded man - but his trunks
hit the dock first. Knocked hir right out of his pants Some lick. The fight
ended in the 4th round when the Bearded Beauty of Blue Licks quit. "

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"What about the checker and domino players, opeed"? we asked.

"Specd" gave a snort — he very evidently didn't give much thought to
these sedentie" occupations. After about -n hour he returned with three
names on a piece of paper. George hamill,C . whetsone, and Tom Jones.

Pom Jones beat everythinr coming his way in the ga me of checkers,
said "Speed". So far as "Speed" is concerned, boxingiis he only gave
worth while. So from now on he will do all the reporti “n: talong this line
and we’ll. have to dig up another reporter for the ping gpong, checker,

and dom Inc players.

Lt. Saunders is very popular among the
boys and he seems to have their interests
at heart judging 1.rom the expressions we
heard from all sides. He has promised some
nmre bouts in the near future which we are
all looking: forward to.

  
 

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Boxing seems to have the stage and
the limelight. Lobody seems to know who
Won the checker, domino, and ping pong
games, so we'll let it go at that!

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"Gentlemen and others, we havevrith us tonight, in the North fé
East corner, a small town Hoosier who claims his name is Evans. His
fighting name is "Blinky".

”And in the South Zest Corner we have the one and only ”Grouchy
Georfe Foflabb", the fighting bantam.'fiatch out George, your false

n will fall out if you make faces like t2 at at "Blinky". lore, let
me have 'em. What, you can‘t bit e 3liIWy in the cli.nches without ‘em?
Wha' the hell is this? Act your age George, even if you are sixty three.

 

 

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"Alright boys, get set. fang, there goes the dishpan — I mean the
gong. Cone on, quit waltzing around. Sock him, Blinky. No, don't sock
me - sock George. So you want to shadow box with each other, eh? Time
out — Elinky’s hiding behind me. Alright, George, I'll hold him While you
iiff hi m. Tsk, tsk, George, you should have looked out for that left.
Tine OLt 1hile George gets his false teeth ut of his throat.

Here's the secono. round. Quit making faces, you two. You‘ll scare
ete“"0odr out 01 the hall. Round and round they go, must be a marathon.
Hello, Lhey‘ ro both reversing'without any signals. They're both down.

One - two — three — four - they're up and fighting again. Good boys. Hey,
Lhoy'r both Fighting m.e. Now I‘m down. One - ‘wo — three - four - five

~ six — lo;an up. A'riglt you W1 'n, both of you. You wanna fight some
more? Alright, I can tsxe it.

"Tlird ”d last round. That's the stuff boys. Lotion. Lam into him
or ”o, sock him Blinky. Alright, take off the gloves if you wznm to.
hegr'rc in the way. llo too holds though. Pull his log off Geor :e. Bite
oar, Slinky. Fine, jump on his chest George .ll'it, I’ll hold him so
you can seek him. Here he is, over here. Ah! a right and a left. They're
both do fir for the count. One - two - three — four - five — six - seven
~ nine - ten. I win, and I collect the dollar.

::o, it wasn't a frame up. I was better
roine d than either of them. I Fought

:Ieii and above board, and I'm willing
to rwet them both again at catch
M'o ’lts with or without time out

for TOquChMJDtS. Alrifiht, let‘s I IN
split the dollar if you Joel tint >;2\ (A
way about it. 0. K. Gentlemen, '1f? {AL‘fi
linhtin- Blinlzy Ev iIm and Grouchy r“\ K‘\ ‘\
Geerfw IcNo bb will fight again t,“ +1 ) X;r's Note: We have it on x‘ /, l
, I o 1
very 5 ed authority the above is V
a true and accurate account of

     

the recent fight between the referee,
"Grouchy George lblobb” and "Blinky
Evans".

 

 

 

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Hi! there, fellovmz This is Vern Raleigh broadcasting
from -»— what's that --- N30 am.I? --- Oh! --- I'm just
five - five - and - a - half tucked behind the Recreation Room

counter of the Lexi *ton Tran: ;ient Jureauz- YOWHSQhI Right
here in the heart of the Blue Grass in ’010 Kentucky, ready
to :.w ms st -- no.1 not insist —- in the passing of all spare
ti no congenially.

 

Many decks of cards, domino sets, and checkers are on
hand, so don't be backward, boys. 'spress your desires, and
here's some inside infc'. Two pool tables shall be assembled
Within a few