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r er's reaCtion to the lite i tue -ko- kie Valley mýarshes" is found iii the appended article written by a mein- ber of the camp for publication ini Happy Days, national CCC camnp paper. The article;ý under the bead- in, Goldbrickers Drop' Out ofCir- culation iii Company of Skokie: Marsbes," reads:, By Milton Aibin Co. 1643, Wii,.ietka, Ill. Our company ,vas dismayed at the prospect of being assigned to the Skokie Valley marsbes. Tbe runior of digging:ditches in a nmosquito-iin- .1 fested :swamp didnot send us into rapturôus ecstacy. Worse -yet, ýwe Iearned tbat we woud be but twein- ty miles north of Chicago. Most-of us bail from tbat city. A. common complaint was: 'I signed uip to cbop.,down trees out West! 1 could. have.,been a street cleanier àt homne;-1 don't bave to dig ditches out there." Hear MIosquito Stêries Many of us gave vent to vebem- ent blasts of indignation. ýThe mos- quitos there are as big as turkeys! They, sting like those damn needies." Others sady' mused, "I toId iny girl that I was going to Oregon." For eighteen days 'we. bad devel- oped, diagnosed and digested rumors until we had a distorted vieW of ouir fate as a doomed battalion. A peti- tion agaiitst entraining for Skokie Valley was signed by the entire coni- pany and, presented to those ini autbority, It did us no good. On the 27th of June officiai confirmation of the rumor was made. Begin "Experiment" The next morning we found our- 4 selves in. NorthfieldI Ilbiois; about one..and a balu miles West of Win- petka. Weleft our training quarters at Fort' Sheridan 'feeling as tboughi we were to ,be experimnented,upon ýJ for the ben.efit of science. Cotpan-7 ies 618 634 and 639 were also assigned to our destination. Ahl told we .-num- -' bered in excess of eigbt hundred mnen. The organization of our camp took mantic young couples who will pass happy week-ends there. Our equipmnent' in the field includes an elevated grader whicli load:; a dump-truck with a capacity of I~ tons inside of -thirty seconds, a fleet' of thirty trucks, six caterpilars, and two wheelscrapers. Our man-power is. used to pusb innumerable wheel- barrows. Cies A mlahet The work finished, at present u-7 cludes one large1 lagoon and four cunnecting ýchannels.. A long dike describing an arc about fifteen' hun- dred yards in length and consisting of a sixc foot clay foundation topped by a fiveý foot "mound sloped to a. gentile curve b as been bujlt, along one channiel.' This levee will be ready for the planting:of trees, shrubbery and grassin the spring. Ourfire-fighting force is equipped with a hosetruck. O0ur'smoke eaters are- ever ready to check, the peat fires that break out in this vicinity. Our time is our own after workig. hours. We are allowed to go home on week-ends. Now we realize the good break we 'bad. We appreciate being able to sce our folks, buddies and friends. Most of ail we seize the chance to go in and see Her! Most *of us are in for a second hitcb. Soon our numbers will be strengthened .witb a bost of rookies. Under our excellent supervision they will become real peavies. Tliey' too will develop' into firm advocates oi mess lines and pay lunes. AWAY FOR HOLIDAY. M.r. and Mrs. John Welton Fisher, Jr., and their familv of 826 Green- wood 'avenue, Mrs. Paul Casterline and her sons. William and Burnham,> 811 Forest avenue, Mrs. H. B. Fos- ter of 120 Woodbine avenue, ber son, Henry, and lier parents, will spend. Tbanksgiving with Mr.,and Mrs., F. J. Casterine in Milwaukee.. Miss- Margaret Rush of Natche?, Mis s., returned to ber home Sunday after a two weeks' visit with Miss Florence Tideman of 1025 Linden -àene a great tavor Was done the untortu- nate young women. It must, indeed, be a pleasure to be killed under sucli c onditions. *U Attempts are being made in New York to 'prevent American publica-, tion of James Joyce's book,. "Uly5- ses,j" on the ground that it is obscene. The, United. States attorney argued that, the "obscenetpassages" could ixot be deleted .witbout ruining the book. Why spoil a best seller,? Our Sunday paper.gave us another shock when we came to the bheaàdline,. "ŽJYE déclares NRA fails to protect smnall industries." We had become quite familiar with AAAý, NRA, CCC, TVA, CWA, UWA and a, host of, othersi but bere was, a new, one thrust into our consciousness, What could it mean? And Who the admin- istrator? Then we looked again and discovered that NYE is a man 's nanie -Senator Nye, to 'bc exact. . That called for a sigli of relief. Other familiar. initiaIs are G. B..S., meaning George Bernard Shaw. The dispatcbes state that G. B. S. had a delightful time recently in London when bis new play, "On the Rocks," was presented for the llrst timie. It was said that lie "beamed f rom a. box during tbe presentation." The play pictures England on the verge of revolution, and ail sorts of terrible things happening. If anything could cause G. B. S. to beam, it .would be that. Unless, perhaps, it be the box office receipts. It is a matter for congratulation that lie dîd flot essay a smnile. That would be fatal, and in these days we need sonietbing t laugli at. The arrivýaI of Gen. Gerardo Ma- chado, ex-presidenit of Cuba, is noted, with the information thatïlie is 'ex-, pected'to make this turbulent country is future home. Well, what is anl ex-president .of Cuba,' more or less, among friends? ff lecturers,, are op( visitors. Parties north entrance of oail muse- mble inside museum. MOVIE.S FOR CHILDREN The James ýNelson and Anna Louise Raymond foundationi will present tbe final program in its autum n series o entertainment Lfor children at Field ,Museum of Natural History Saturday morning, December 2. Tbe motion pictures to be sbown are "Tbrough the LYear with Animal Friends - Spring, Summer, Autumn and Win- t.There will be, two sbowings, one beginning at 10 o'clock, and one at 11, -in the James Simpson tlîeatre of the muséum. Admission is fr ee, and children f rom a 1Il parts of. Chicago and suburbs are invited to attend. Earl Moss, 316 Cumnor' road, Ken- ilwo rth, is. home from the University of Illinois for the Thanksgîving hoQli- days with bis family. Mr. and Mrs. George Keehin, 100 Cburcb road, Winnetka, will' move December 1, to the. Orrington hotel, for the wînter. ,The Wbist club.opened its seasean Monday evening of làst week with a meeting at the home of A. J. -Mouat. 616 Lake avenue. Mrs. Arthur C. Youngberg of Hib- bard road entertai.ned ber club, coin- posed of Chicago friends, at dinner Monday of last week. Harry B. Wilson of 611 Laurel. avenue returned last. week froni Oklahoma City and ,will visit: his.par-ý eîlts until January 1, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur I..ee of 924 .Manor drive will, spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. Lee's sister, Mrs. S. Schu- ter, in Chicago., Mrs. Carroll Ridgway of Pasadena, Cal., was a guest of ber brother 'and bis. family,' the Walter Knoops, .221 Warwick road, Kenilworth, last week. I. chinery, snored like buzzing saw- tsorraciy nas gone On business. don, Lommissar. lU's a. new game tforLertebterwsfndadte milis. Our frames filled out into -o us, but we are sure to learn. rancer enrteb a to bis ran her husky, tanned, developed bodies. Douglas Smith of' 1309 Cbestnut*** rying $6,000. No comment on that Bronzed faces smiled through flash- avenue entertained a group of young A Utah rancher came to A Cen- except that any man who bas ne- ing teeth; clear alert eyes rnatched people from Northwestern utiiver- tury of Progress last summer, and glected bis mother for thirty years is our hearty laugliter. Good spirits1 sity at tea Sunday decided to 1ook up his mother and-ai entitled to$6O0oevn6cts c