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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 27, 14 June 1940, Page 5

YULE SMILE THE COLONEL’S GOOD ONE! “While watching the German lines one day,” said the old colonel, “I saw a German guarding an ammunition dump. Picking up a rifle, I fired a quick shot, ■ knocking the cigarette lighter he was holding out of his hand. • “I took careful aim and fired again —but I’m almost ashamed to tell, you the rest of the story. I had to shoot five times before I spun the wheel of the lighter, lit it, and blew up the dump.” ***** ■ , ' 7 ' .• - Smithy, hard nut of the company, was stopped by an officer whom he had not saluted. “Why don’t you show respect? I have hundreds of men under, me, and they all salute me,” said the officer. “That’s nothing,” said Smithy. “Back home I had thousands under me, and they never saluted.” The officer (impressed): “What was your job?” “Mowing the grass in the cemetery,” replied Smith. * * * * Walking through the camp, the new militiaman passed a newly-fledged officer without saluting him. “Don’t you know you must salute an officer ?” “Yes, sir,” meekly replied the private. . . “Right. So that you won’t forget next time, you can start right away and salute me ... a hundred times.” The private began. He x had reached twenty when a senior officer butted in and inquired what was going on. The young officer blushingly explained. The senior officer smiled. “H’m. Very good. But all the time I’ve been in the Army I’ve always understood that an officer must return a salute. So we’ll start all over again . . . and I’ll see that it’s done properly this time.”