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(TEX.) AVALANCHE-JOURNAL, SUK. SEPT. 17. 1944 'Soldiers Always The Same 9 Says French Tavern Keeper By KENMETH L. DIXON SUff Writer WITH THE AEF IN FRANCE, Sept.

10. Inside the tiny French tavsrn restaurant, Madame Gervaud sat, rocked and knitted. Outside, she rain slanted down on the narrow cobbled street. Now and then a truck or a jeep splashed by, the occupants huddled miserably against the downpour. "You are wet?" asked Madame Gervaud politely but strictly rhetorically.

"C'est la guerre. Soldiers always are wet. It was thus the last time. Come in and dry yourself." Half of this was spoken in French, half in English, but blended so well it was easy to understand. Obviously today was not the first time American doughboys had dried themselves beside the pot-bellied stove at Madam Gervaud's cafe in a little village near Dijon.

Soldiers Stood By Three soldiers now stood with their backs to the stove, damp but not too dispirited. They watched madame's granddaughter waiting on tables where a handful of doughboys and French civilians were sitting. Madame smiled slightly, wrinkles creasing hsr face which might have been 50 or 90 years old. "Soldiers always are the same," she said, "always wet but always watching. The last time it was 'that one's' mother." Meanwhile "that one" slipped Irom table to table, always smiling back at the soldiers, meeting ithose who attempted anything more than a smile with playful but effective slaps.

The cafe is only a little hole in the wall along the narrow The only glow inside ex- 'cept for the dim afternoon filtered in through the now emudspattered windows came from stove, two candles at the bar a faint light from the kitchen beyond. Camera Flashback I Suddenly, the -whole scene 'seemed like an uncanny )like history in reverse, like a cami flashback to a generation ago. There was garbled. argument iable was littered with brown ibread, meat and wine, beer here there and glasses of cognac. 'It was the old paratroopers vs.

had done rthe most, who had been at the longest, who took the most "Was it like this the last time, Jmadame?" "6ui, oui," said ma- idame, stfll knitting, "always the isams. The soldiers always wet, 'always eat, always always Jmake love, always argue. C'est i "What else, madame?" Homesick When It Rains Her eyes seemed to turn Her voice became a singing. "When the sun shines, sol- jdiers always laugh. When it rains, they're always homesick, they the Army, hate the officers." I The argument at the table tended in a "roar of laughter at joke.

Three soldiers got up go, instinctively hunching their 'shoulders at the prospect of fac- rain again. Their cries, "au 'revoir, mademoiselle; au revoir, Jmadame!" blended with the cries at the table, "encore vin rouge, 'madamoiselle!" One thick layer of wet cold air entered the cafe as the door 'opened and closed. "Always sol- diers go away," madarne said in a voice suddenly hard and brittle, "but not always do they come Suddenly withdrawn, she resumed her knitting and rocking in silence. Flushed and smiling "that one'' brought a new bottle of wine to the soldiers at the table. The cat rose and stretched.

The candle sputtered. Damp clothes steamed. Outside the rain kept slanting viciously down r.arrow street. Ticks Just Ordinary Dog Ticks HAMILTON, Sept. 16 at the U.

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ZACRARY ITH iPLOOR MYRICK BUILDING DIAL 5527 Celebrating Our Tenth Birthday GEO. E. BENSON President and Director DURWOOD H. BRADLEY Attorney and Director HOMER D. GRANT J.

D. HASSELL, JR. Director J. LOUIS MURFEE Director AMOS H. HOWARD Director JAS.

L. QUICKSALL Director K. T. THOMAS Executive Vice-Pres. and Director TEN YEARS OF SERVICE On July 20,1934, approximately seventy-five Lubbock citizens met in the Hilton Hotel for the purpose of organizing a Federal Savings and Loan Association.

This small group of civic-minded citizens subscribed $20,678.24 in savings accounts. On September 20,1934, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board of Washington issued the charter. These dates are significant in the history of Lubbock and this Association; they mark the beginning of a ten-year period of service to savers and home-owners of this community. The directors and employees wish to express appreciation to all who have made possible the success of this Association. GEO.

Asst. Secretary MRS. PEARL H. SMITH MRS. BERNICE FINLEY GROWTH: OUR TEN-YEAR RECORD 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 Assets 20,678.24 116,770.75 393,593.58 709,359.60 1,049,218.02 1.112.523.96 1.220,933.08 1.301,691.66 1.334,950.78 1,383,417.13 1.635.631.49 As of September 20, 1934 All other figures as of June 30 SERVICE TO OUR PATRONS The First Federal offers the following complete service: account is insured up to $5,000.00 HOME made the first FHA loans in Lubbock DIRECT REDUCTION HOME interest reduces with each payment in monthly payments on your home WAR than $1,500,000.00 have been purchased through the First Federal.

No charge is made for the safekeeping of war bonds. ST FEDERAL SAVINGS LOAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS.