Philosophy and Spuds
Western Mail, Thursday, 2 January 1930, p. 2
Philosophy and Spuds A member of the legal profession who has just received a hight appointment, had an extensive practice when he enlisted in 1916. Some few weeks before his junior clerk, a boy about eighteen, with senior cadet training, had also enlisted, and when the legal man entered Blackboy, he found himself in a section under the command of his former employee, then a full corporal. The first parade next morning was fatigues and the corporal detailed his former boss to report to the cookhouse and peel "spuds". And sitting on a bucket, peeling spuds, in a peaceful atmosphere where one could indulge one's thoughts, was responsible for some of the soundest philosophy of the AIF.