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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (17051)	9/13/2000 3:15:23 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

"Then Lieutenant Kolar explained how economies are made. You filch six thousand crowns from the regiment and put them in your pocket. With inescapable logic you then order all kitchens to deduct three grams of peas from every man's ration in every kitchen. In a month that makes ninety grammes per man so that in the kitchen and in every company a store of at least sixteen kilos of peas should have been saved and the cook has to show this. Lieuteneant Kolar talked with Wolf about cases which he had noticed. But it was certainly true that the whole military administration was bursting at the seams with cases like this. It started with the quartermaster sergeant-major in some unfortunate company and ended with the hamster in general's epaulettes who was salting something away for himself for a rainy day when the was was over. War demanded valour even in pilfering. The controllers of supplies looked at each other affectionately, as if to say: 'We are one body and soul, we steal, old chap, we cheat, brother, but what can you do? It's hard to swim against the tide. If you don't salt it away someone else will, and people will say that the only reason why you've not salted anything away is that you've already salted enough.'" The Good Soldier Svejk - In Budapest