The Army gets some of its best ideas about equipment from the soldiers
who have to use it.

Here's an idea, making for efficiency and convenience, which comes from
an Omaha boy in the ranks. He says:

"Why don't they put bachelor buttons on our uniforms and overcoats? I've
got a 'housewife' in my kit, but I'm working from 6.15 in the morning
until 5 o'clock at night, and what little leisure I get I'd like to
spend in the Y.M.C.A. playing the phonograph or shooting pool.

"And anyway, if I've got to do my sewing in the barn I live in, I might
as well not try at all. My fingers are so numb the minute I take off my
mitts that I couldn't thread a needle."

Not only that, said the Omaha soldier, but you usually find you haven't
any thread in your "housewife."

There seems to be something in favor of bachelor buttons, especially
since the people who sew the buttons on new uniforms and coats always do
a poor job.

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YES, HOW DO THEY?
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Private Pat: "Mike, what th' hell kind of fish be them ye're eatin'?"

Corporal Mike: "Hush, Pat; don't be disthplayin' yer ignorance--the ould
Frinch la-ady might hear yeze! Thim's sairdeens!"

Pat: "Sairdeens, is ut? They're a small fish, ain't they? An' where,
pray tell, do they grow?"

Mike: "Pat, I'm asthounded at yer ignorance of gogerfy! Thim little fish
grow in the Atla-antic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Injun Ocean, the
Airctic Ocean, an'--oh, in all them oceans. An' the big fish, such as
the whale, the halleybut, the shairk, an' all o' thim, they live off'n
eatin' th' sairdeens!"

Pat: "They do, do they Mike? Thin phwaht I'd like to know is how th'
hell do they iver open the box?"

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SUPPLIES FIRST AID
TO CHILLY AIRMEN
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Red Cross Canteen Serves
2000 Sandwiches and
Mugs of Coffee Daily.
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The Red Cross does a lot of work over here. Its activities in taking
care of the population of the Hun-devastated districts, in clothing and
feeding the ever-increasing hordes of refugees that pour in over the
Swiss frontier, in supplying French and American military hospitals and
in furnishing the American forces with auxiliary clothing are well
known. It is not know