OC, c rn With the Gollars; Cf Rie ee Cs Your letter came this P M,glad to hear Dad is getting things fussed up,I sure hope you folks will land the $200,00 on the ins,as there is evidertlyplenty plenty of use for it, Well the unexpected has happened to the sixth Battalion,Wednesday a staff of vocational and efficency experts came direct from the Adjutant Generals office,Washington. to conduct an examination for all men who were qualified for any other work than that they were doing at vresant,the examination,which was oral, Was compulgory and cards were made out for each man, All the Officers in the Battalion were at the tables where each man gave his vast history,Believe me every one saw at a glance that there was no chance to put any thing over,for the old boys had their little reference books right handy,The Captain was right on the JOB,and evidently knew every trade from landscape architecture,to sewing on buttons on tombstones. When my turn came,the Batallion Co, Captaion started the questioning I told him I was an amature photogravher with experience in comercial work,at this the staff captain picks a big book and came alongside. Well he questioned me about long focus,wide angle,and telephoto henses,focal plane shutters,and diaphragm stops, circut cameras,ard camerasfor photogravhing skyscrapers. all kinds of prog#ess work,such as coppying maps and drawings. photomicrography, panchromatic and high speed plates,diferant develoners,and everything n everything; Well I answered every one completly and correctly to a dot without any stalling on a single point, The staff Captain told the Batallion Co Captain to put me down as an expert vhotographer, and He endorsed it, he t then went to Cavtain Murphy who was at hand and told thazz him that I had correctly answered every one of all his questions, And that I would be transfered to the observatin branch of the Photographic section, Signal Corps. The Co, Clerk wrote direct to washington we ue On ‘a 5 he &}, guess 1t8 tne Qe Fort Levenworth Kansas Usa; Dear Mother. * esday night é concerning another man and myself,so I g al goods alright; The next day Sergant Baler, my Section chief asked me if I knew what the Staff Captain told Lietenant Kilbury (our first Lietenant) about me, he then told me,that the Staff Cav- said that I had the best technical knowledge of/Zotography of the eighty thousal mem he had examaémdd in the last six months, . Now you may think I am going rather heavy on the loud pedal, but its the real stuff,without any retouching to make it sound better for me,