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What the Stripes Meant

Met a young friend of mine who joined the Navy right out of high school, and who is back after two exciting years in the Western Pacific. Among numerous other things, I asked him what story got the most laughs from the gobs in our Navy during those two years, and he said that the following, so far as he could tell, made the biggest hit by far with the boys who man our ships:

An American sailor was talking to a British sailor' ("You know," said my young sailor friend, "they don't like us,

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and we don't like them, although we make good fighting buddies.") Said the Briton, pointing to the three white stripes around the cuff of the Navy Blue uniform of the American:

"FI'i si, mitey ("I say, matey," in our language), what's the three bloomin' stripes for, I'd like to know?"

And the American gob rePlied:

"One for the first world war; one for this world wari and the third when we have to lick hell out of you."

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Hal Weber, well known Los Angeles lumber salesman, is now with W. B. Jones Lumber Co., Los Angeles. He was with Consolidated Lumber Co., Wilmington, Calif., for several years and recently was for some time doing lumber purchasing for Timm Aircrait Company.