ARMY & NAVY
U. S. Army recruiting officers are expected to be good salesmen. Upon the city streets they often select their dejected-looking prospects, slap them on the backs, say: "Brace up ... be a man . . . join the Army ... it is warm now down in Texas and Georgia; there are hopes and thrills out in Hawaii."
Suddenly inspired, the victim enlists, is despatched to an Army camp. He lives in wooden shacks, built as temporary barracks during the War, looking like a collection of senile packing boxes, or in tents....
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