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they very severe in their examination?" asked the rookie. "Well," said the doctor, "if you can see the field, you're in."

Another rookie showed up in uniform. One of the boys said: "Was the physical examination tough?" "Nope," said the other. "They just asked me two questions: can you see, and can you walk? And when I sald yes, they said'You're in the army now."'

And a friend just returned from Washington tells this one, which he says is wowing them at the national capitol: A Western Union delivery boy went into the army buildings to deliver a wire. Nothing was heard from him for two weeks, and then he came out a Brigadier General.