European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Everybody overseas asks that the Young civilians at Here Are a few of their answers to the big by Hyman Goldberg yank staff writer Many Guys Are there still left in civilian clothes Back Home and Why Are two questions servicemen Over seas ask sooner or Ive often wanted to Stop some rugged looking character in civilian clothes and ask those questions recently i had the with a photographer big enough to take care of any situation that might arise if some character figured i was calling him a draft came Here to stood on one of the busiest Street Corners in town for an hour and talked with the first male civilians of draft age who came the Corner was at Dorrance and Washington in the downtown the first Man who came along was Anthony a worried looking Man with Hes 27 years old and a former bartender and lives in Hes a 4f because he has a punctured he you think its easy for a Guy my age not to be in the army you think in having a Good time every place i go people spit on i didst ask they put me they said to go youre no Good to that a Fine thing to Tell a i didst even know i got a punctured it dont bother me at i Tell but they dont want to listen to they say i should go some time ago along other workers like perfume salesmen and attendants in mens were declared by the War Man Power commission to be unessential to the War All so in not said so i go out and get a Job in a War i can make a pretty Good Martini and draw a neat Glass of but about other things i dont so t get a Job As a that what they Call but it turns out to be pushing a lemme Tell a Guy dont get the feeling Hes killing germans or japs just pushing a wheel Barrow and every place you if you aint wearing a they spit on i keep going Back to my draft Board asking them they should take me but they just laugh at me and say i should go a health looking fellow wearing a Good Topcoat and carrying a Brief Case came Down Dorrance he would have looked Good in a he laughed when i asked him How come he want wearing he threw open his coat and on the Lapel of his Blue Serge suit there was a winged discharge i wore a uniform for 26 he and then they wanted it Back so i gave it to because who am i to quarrel with them he was Stewart 25 years of East Hes a former tech sergeant with the fifteenth air which used him As a gunner and radio operator in Italy and North i made 48 he and i guess my nerves gave out on me or and they sent Back he came Back with the air medal and nine Oak Leaf Hes working As a paint Salesman now and doing pretty its no wonder you stopped he because there Are a lot of Guys who Are out and dont Wear their discharge buttons too cons Pic it gives me a laugh sometimes when i see people looking at me As if there wondering Why in not in the next Man along looked within the draft he turned out to be Fred 44 years old but younger he proved Stewart Kents Point about discharge buttons by flipping Back his there was a Gold Emblem on his suit i enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and i was a qm2c in the admiralty the Solo Mons and Guadalcanal in the he Magee got out on a dependency discharge and now works for the Pullman company a husky youngster walked he Day happen to know where the Navy recruiting office is he wanted Navy he because he was going to he was Ernest Dube of i was 17 years old last june and i got permission from my Mother and father to he 1 been a rigger at the Newport torpedo station for 18 Why because i wanted to do what i could to help win the that i was going to enlist last As soon As i got to be but i broke my leg and i my leg is Fine now its stronger than the other then i was Gonna enlist two months but get a Day off to go to the recruiting James who is 27 and lives in West came along Dorrance Hes married and has a right after Pearl he i went to the Navy and asked to be put into the in an electrical and i inspect electrical material for the new Haven my brother inlaw went to the Navy with they took but they turned me Down because my Teeth we rent Good Dallas has a couple of plates and the Navy told him to go Home and if the War they told maybe his draft Board would Call him the Navy didst want him when his draft Board did Call the new Haven Railroad got him a every six months after when the draft Board called Dallas the Railroad got him another i didst want them he but the rail Road officials kept telling me that i was doing an important War Job and that the Railroad needed me and that without railroads the country fight a i guess that All but even a fellow my age Doest feel right about staying men older than myself have been my last deferment has until May last january my draft Board called me and put me in and Ive just taken my physical and this time it Doest matter about my in going in in a couple of and in glad about i Only Hope i can get into the because i think that where i can do the most the next civilian to come along was Guido listen he a Hadaya mean Why aint i in uniform he flipped open his he had a discharge Button on his know what that is he had been in the air with the 326th fighter Squadron at Santa for almost two until july when they gave him a medical Hes now working in Providence As a maintenance Man for the new England butt which is engaged in the manufacture of War just As the hour was a lanky Young Fel Low ambled up to the he said his name was Victor Why Haven i got a uniform on he repeated in gee he in not old people keep asking me All the time Why in not in the army or in Only 16 years Victor is in 11a at Hope High where he is studying aeronautics and because in april in going to be he and then ill be old enough to get in the Navy with my parents All my friends Are and its awful 7
