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PORT WILLIAMS,
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GEORGE KAPPOS
Proprietor
KODIAK .
DIARY ...
loll'd better shut the door.
This is another draft story.
This one, a true tale, concerns
a native boy living at a remote
island point hereabouts. His
name is Willie Larchen. His
name is Willie Larsen. You take
your pick of those two state
ments after you read on.
One day the local draft board
went through the list, by call
numbers, and sent out the cus
tomary greetings, among them
one to Willie Larchen, height
5 feet.
Willie got on a boat and came
to Kodiak to answer the greet
ings, and took his physical. He
was measured, and his height
was really 4 feet 8 inches, so he
was marked 4F and rejected. He
went home.
Another day the local draft
board went through the list, by
call numbers, sent out custom
ary greetings among them one to
Willie Larsen, height 5 feet.
Willie got on a boat and came
to Kodiak and took his physical
and was measured and was real
ly 4 feet 8 inches and was mark
ed 4F and was rejected and it
was the same Willie.
It was sometime later before
it was found out why one Willie
was rigistered twice The first
time he registered he gave his
name as recorded at birth, Lar
cheu. Later a new postmaster in
his village, with new ideas, stop
ped Willie and told him with a
name like that he should change
it to Larsen and he, the post
master, would handle his mail
that way, and he’d better make
out a new ■ draft registration
card. The card was made out
with the new name and the esti
mated height again put down as
5 feet.
Which was why Willie was
greeted twice.
In the meantime the personnel
of the draft board changed and
came a new order to reclassify
4F’8 and the list was gone through
again. When Willie’s papers were
came to they were marked “4F,
Rejected because of height” but
a careful clerk checked the reg
isration card and saw it was
marked 5 feet. So a notice to
come in was sent Willie by mail.
Just after the sending a draft
board official, looking through
the list, saw Willie’s name and
remembered his two registrations
and his height and told the clerk
bo. Hastily a wire was sent, tell
ing him to “disregard letter in
mails, do not come in again for
physical.”
But you know the mails and
the wires. The mail" must go
through, so he got the letter, but j
the wires got crossed and he
didn’t get the wire. So Willie
caught the next boat and came
to Kodiak.
Immediately on arrival the
convivial cup called Willie, a bit
too strongly, and Willie ended
ud in jail. As usual the coppers
asked for his draft classification
card, which he didn’t have, but
he told them he was 4F.
To check on it the police
took him bright and early the
next morning to the draft board.
The draft board explained it
to the police, and what was hard
er, to Willie. And Willie, sadder
but wiser, went home again.
We are told that once a regis
tration is made it can never be
destroyed, so technically Willie
is still registered twice and is
'still 4F twice.
Weary Willie will soon become
wary Willie if this keeps up.
(The above story is true in all
particulars except the name,
which, to avoid embarrassment,
is fictitious.)
Young Donald Fenner bit on
the ‘go get me a paper stretcher’
gag the other day and no less a
person than George Williams,
vitamin headmaster, was the per
son responsible for sending him
out on the useless errand.
But Donald doesn’t need to
feel bad. George got his’n this
week
He gave Ilay Martin,the liquor |
dealer and amateur gagster, a
dollar for a‘silver ship’ and got
in return a Canadian dime, which |
happens to have a ship as part
of its design This, too, longj
after Ray complained to us when
we exposed his little gag and ruin
ed, we mean almost ruined his
ship business. After our first
story of the silver ship gag ap
peared Ray’s ship business fell
to nothing, but he didn’t give up
trj'ing to find another gullible
goof. George was the answer to
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