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Down Mexico ay THAT STICKKK on the windsliifld of the row car (renieml)er? I wasn ' t there just to be stared at. V»u took to heart what it said and held her down lo thirty-five for the first five hundred mile: easing her in praduallv. w i h an car cocked for strange squeaks and u accustomed r:;tlle . It is the same way with a ship. Vou don ' t just pile in the crew, pull up the Jacob ' s Ladder, and put out for China witli all the steam you can rowd in the boilers. You let the old girl take it easy for a spell, letting her kind of get set for tlie jar of those long Pacific rollers smacking up against her bow. In case you ever build a ship on your own — just in case — vou will do well to sail her around the lake orce or twice to see if you remembered to weld the right places. We took just sucii a trij) in A.I). 16 — sliding down the coast to put in at another sunny i ' i I California port. San Diego. Letting down the hook in the harbor there made it a kind of homecoming for some of the fellows, for it was in San Diego they had had their boot training. Dago they called it — and the way they said it was crusted with salt. Aboard the I .S.S. CA.SCADK they were already mariners from away back. We had made the home port, also, of Dr. Odiornc. our senior Denial Officer. It was in the waters oflT San Diego he had so firmly established his reputation as a baiter-of-hooks and a puller-in of borito. There was quite a lot to see in San Diego. And a couple of hundred thousand other sailors and marines were there before us. seeing it. ou could make fair headwav in anv selected direction, though, if vou gave up the sidewalk and took to the middle of the street. One of the items on mv list of thir -s lo be done was to go oul lo iKilloa Park and pav mv warm respects to Ngagi. the gorilla. Hut the trolley took a little longer than I had bargained for. and when I arrived the zoo-keeper had gone home for su|)per. I did? ' l even hiive a chance lo leave my card. I ' ve bee i sorrv about that part since, because the papers say iNgagi has only recently gone to be with his honorable ancestors. My own private undertaking was an e.xpedilion lo Tia Juana, Republic of Mexico. They told us on the ship that the hills we could see lo the south were the hills of Mexico. One doesn ' t jusi stand still when some one says, Those are the hills of Mexico. The international bus schedule was a bit uncertain, and quite a number of the men reported best results had been obtained by standing demurely on the highway. Hul I chose the bus, and was rewarded bv ihe privilege of giving my seat lo a lady both coming and going. If I had been holding an anvil in ea li band I am sure I would have bounced up just the same. She was really |)relty — the second one. I mean. The was ill Tia Juana it was i|iiilc IkiI. Tia Juana probably ne er really has had a chance to be an ordinary town. Il has had no choice but to go through its act of being difTerent. just lo satisfy the acres of people who would be disappointed if it turned out lo be an ordii ary town with drug stores an l barber shops. It was hot the day I was there, cry ibals ub.il ibc poster sai l. Willi I was cry sorry aboul llic biiJKlL ' lil. riir were going to have oiu real bull. Ihil it was going lo begin m VMck Irom Tuesday. This inlelligciicc was har l lo take because Iin a matador a heart. Al least a jiicador. iiil I v oiild like lo have befii there lo throw my mantilla in ihe ring and gii zlc hot tamales in the grand slaml. I wish now ' had had my pinmc taken silling in one of llio c painted carls willi llic buiro . and llie back- drop of,jj... acti. As il stands now, I realize all I have lo oiler by way of proof ihat I was reallv llierc is this, my sworn . ervi ' ind the sketch appended above which shows me taking il easy on my hnrifniia. Mister, il -viis hnl ihe dav I was in Tia Jiiana. ' « ' - 7V I
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