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Steinbeck Says

Of Soldier Is Lax Mail Service

» i Finds It Takes Almost a Month For Air-Mall Letters, Builders of Morale, to Reach Africa: Warns That Time for Correction Has Arrived

(By John Stoinbeckf (Special to the Herald Tribune and Charlottetown Guardian. Copy- right. 1943, New York Tribune Inc.

SOMEWHERE IN NORTH A1‘- RICA (Via London) - The great- est complaint one hears in the field how is the length o! time required to get a letter from home. The first hysteria oi’ getting into the war is over now and the first mistakes are being corrected, mis- takes that were inevitable. Army inspectors are traveling about. Per- haps it would be well l! some these inspectors looked into the mail situation. There are many stories, whether correct or not, o! mail bags lying on the docks in New York for weeks. The truth oi the matter is that it takes near- l_\' a month to get a letter from hixne, whereas ships arrive much quicker than that. Many people at home write to their men using air- mail stomps. These are expensive and the fact that they are being bought at all means that there is some desire for speed, yet an air- mail letter still takes three weeks to a month to arrive.

Many Never Arrive

At a time when our shipping losses were many and our planes were not coming in great numbers there ‘vas some excuse tor this. But we are told that these condi- tions no longer exist.

Campaigns are undertaken at heme to get people to write to sol- diers and than the letters are late, and many of them do not arrive at all. 1f letters are important as builders of morale, it. would seem that the greatest care and dis- patch would be used to get them overseas and delivered.

Everywhere the same complaint: "The last letter I had was dated Julv l5 and here it is the middle o! August. God knows what might have happened since then. ."

Ammunition to Morals

Letters are good but they are

Sanatorium Radio Address

l! Mr. Elma M ySumm idefl’.

I am one o! lucky ones. ‘Phat remark

rbr three years, and that while there I had three major operations and three minor ones alon with many other complications nclud~ inc, of all things, the shin les. But 1 have been lucky and ths is the reason. Five days aiter I had been distcnosed as having tuberculosis I entered the sanatorium as a Pei- lent. Very few peoEle in this DIOV- ince. are that luc y. Very iew o! those unfortunate enough to 60h" tract tuberculosis are able to re-

of are become a little angry

ceive immediately, the treatment

that they should have. To-day I am able to work. While I do not know what the future has do know why. under have reached this health. Cor- rect diagnosis, ' treat- ment under the kindly care oi of a. specialist, plus the ecessary faci- lities lor laboratory and X-ray

d i! n - nd it

surgical treatment. All, things which can only be obtained in a properly equipped sanawrium. As I said before I have had the benefit c: all these things and for that I am grateful to" many persons and organizations. But, as , also. said befgrien I have been one o! the few.

eg . eiore it ls wrong that this should be denied to some. I hav benefited, want to do part t at justice may be done W a . The state has a duty here. and it up us as citizens to demand that those whom we place in Dowel‘ carry out their duty. I know, I am talk to many people to Whom this problem seems very remote. I must contess it was remote to me before I took sick. But it may be your turn tomorrow. Tuberculosis can strike v fast. If 5'0“. 01' someone close you is stricken. B! can happen any day, then the problem will be remote no lonsef- 1i will be close. terrible. tragically

ose.

Many times have I as a fluent in the aanatorium seen a new PM“ lent come in. Then his relatives and close irlends come to Visit him They are bewildered at this thin! that has so suddenly struck in their intdst. Immediately thev want to know all about it and what they

al problem to them. Most 01

have never been in a. sanatorium before. To them it was only a bulld- lng along the road. But they will be in'lt often now. Tomorrow 011 may be in one of those group/yak h; wait ti.ll then to in W! » Now is the time to act and Pflhlllfl prevent a tragedy in your "W"

ome.

The red. white and blue cololtia» m

ed wire ribbon you see on 0 litpels of civilians these days do; notes they're soldiers o! Ca-nedas Reserve Anny.

Six members of the British Arm)’ in the British West Indies were among officer candidates a a re- cent. course at the Officers‘ Train- ing Centre at Brockvillc.

Greatest Plaint

much better Lt-they are received soon after they are written. It would seem that the mail systun to the armed iorces needs an over- hauling. Perhaps a little lna - ticn and a little correction of x- ncss would help. I! the letters are not to come by air mall the people who spend money on air-mail stamps should be told that. The American postal service has a tine record for speed and accuracy. Our people have been trained tb expec

such service. Soldiers who know that ships are coming and airplanes

when they know that their letters are not r d ,, the attention they deserve. These letters are Im- munitlon to the morale o! the over- seas forces. It would be well l! they receive the same attention that bullets do. Tim; for Correction If the bulk of our Army over- seas were in front-line combat, it would be a diiterent thing. Food and ammunition are the most im- portant things in the world of fightlris. but the great mass of our Army is engaged in moving supplies, in training at fixed bases, on guard at outposts and these men do not get their mail while any part of it is news. 1111s is the time tor correction and this would be a very good time {or s. close scrutiny of the whole Army mail service. The speeding up of letters to soldiers. the inspection of facilities and the correction or laxness is a Job the Inspector Generars otifice should undertake immediately It has been demonstrated that letters from home have a very pow- erful morale value, probably the greatest morale value of all. It this is so, then it is ony reasonable that the Army will move these munitions as rapidly as they do the supplies oi’ destruction ' a constant complaint by It would be well to look

W. A. MacLeod, Kinross, P. E. I. who graduated Aug. 5th Ln the P. E. I. Course ‘TQBX Bombers

BELL RIVER. SCHOOL CLOSING

The closing” oi’ Belle River School was held and

presented with the tollowlrtg pro-

motion certificates and prizes; senior Department

Grade X.- Katheryn MacKenzls.

Grade VIliI— Eddie Mackenzie, Catherine Compton, John Comp- ton. Louis Nicholson, Marion Blue,

Grade VII- Walter Bell, Marion Bell. Doris Bell, Alfred Cook.

Grade VI- Margaret Compton.

Certificate of standing in the Year's work were also presented to the following Grade ten Ipuplm... Everett Compton, Grover Compton, ‘Pena MaeMlllan. Chris 000k, Mar- garet MacWilliams, Marjorie Nich- olson. e Emery. MacLean Method Writing Cert- iligatesp-

en or: Chris Cook Kathe

MocKenzie. Tens. Macfi/Iillsn, anhyi: Elmery. Jorlc Nicholson, and Catherine Compton.

Progrus. Margiuet Mncwllliams.

Prizes for highest standing ln:-

Grads x- Katheryn Macken-

llvomtt Compton VIII Examinations - Eddie Mackenzie. Grade VIII work throughout the year- Catherine Compton. Grade VII- Walter Bell. Grade VI—- Margaret Compton. Perfect Attendance for school year. Marion Bell. Junior Department Honor Roll in yearisdwork: ‘w Gra e V-l. Pr illa Bell- I, Wands Blue. ' ra e IV (SrJ-l. Im-ne Bell; 2. Waldo Blue; 3. udrgy 59L Grad IV (JrJ-l. J ce coozk I. Gladys 000k;

o Ad mm. - 3R5 BM: Bell. 2. sa-

Grade I (Bi-J-l. Mai-ion 5mm, Grade l (JrJ-l. Donald Mac-

Kimle? 2- Bobby Nicholson; 8.

James Nicholson,

mMizcllean Method WHNM Cert-

25 B5!

Bilunior: Priscilla Bell, warm; [l9

Send your youngsters back to school warm and well dress ed as ever. We have the long wearing clothes they like - look best in. Three piece suits that scoff at. zero tempera- tures, reversibles, fur trimmed coats, hundreds of tub easy cotton dresses, cosy sweaters they'll prise for chilly class~ 1' "l" " - - B" lllmly, all primed for healthy happy school. 4"!» ""1 they're Priced for mother's thrifty budget to,"

Coat Stars

=-=»-»-»--.- l-‘i-‘ii-‘ir. t::::f".f."r:.- coats they Ices. Revcr-aiblcs, chum. “ul- Iml lllr trimmed coats, silos 7 l6 l‘!- PHQGI ...... $11.95 l4) '35,”

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sgcidimrls. Mothers too. These us. ea wear endleaslv. tub like

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. . _ _ t Primary, Mary Beaten, Rlchg-fl lholerlale and Joyce Comp gifts for the patients. A numbei c a 8rd mum‘!- g 1"“, m‘ gum” w“ ‘mm “m; chine and to rebuild its Ja 000

o cock, 130mm; Maoxenzle. “m” um , articles were handed in for the to. '9 "WW9 l“ h ' , M“ u wmywgn Nicholson, teachers thanked arents year old ‘Shower’ and all melt. - chlllfiifl w" u aagnxlnlpllfeililiex? if ?,i.‘;’d‘f“.fil¥.’.°s‘."tililmiiisnt

Th. men. Prowess: Lorne Bell, Mg“, 3,11 and iia for the sole d w- bers are asked to leave their gilt. "d Mm .

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