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OLD-TIMERS PUZZLED AT 'SIN'
What's This'Morale' Stuff
In the New Service Life?
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Scott Air Force Base, Belleville, 111., Dec. 12 U,R Back in
1927, two kids marched together through the gates at Chanute
;iield, Rantoul, 111., and signed up.
, They wanted to be fliers, see something of the world and maybe
' cash in on the glamor AAA if any.
They both made it.
The other day, the two guys
marched through the same gate,
one behind the other. They'd
been transferred back to the
same base at the same time and
neither had seen nor heard from
the other in more than 22 years.
It was quite a reunion.
The two are Capt. Michael
Brown and Warrant Officer Jack
Taylor. Brown had heard that
his old pal Taylor was dead.
I ran into the graying Mike
Brown the other day here at
Scott. Mike was sent here along
with other officers in the com
mand to attend a public informa
tion convention for the air force
training command.
The way MaJ. Gen. Bob Har
per runs things in the air force.
rank doesn't mean much. Par
ticularly when things are infor
mal, you can talk back if you
feel like it. No questions asked.
No rank busted.
Mike Brown sure felt like it
The subject of service morale
came up and Mike full-backed
out of his chair and gave rank
the old what-for.
In 22 years the captain has
been around and he made it plain
he was getting sick of hearing
about morale.
V "When Jack Taylor and I vol-
I unteered," he said, "we had to
go to Webster to find out what
morale meant. We peeled our
spuds and picked up the cigaret
butts and if there was any lack
of morale whatever that is we
didn't have It. We were in the
service because we liked It."
-
The young fry at the confer
ence squirmed a little and lifted
a roomful of eyebrows.
"Talk about public Informa
tion," said the captain. "You
tell us we have to get name
bands to entertain the boys. We
have to bow low to the Cham
ber of Commerce. We have to
get the camp stuff printed in
the newspapers. Where does that
get you?"
The captain said that In his
day this business of morale was
taken care of very ably by a
tough Top Kick.
Then as rank put a little red
around the starched collars he
went on.
During the second World
War, he said, all the boys heard
about was morale and sin, sin,
sin.
"We old - timers," he added,
"began to wonder if there may
be wasn't something to this sin
stuff."
Sin, the way he looks at it,
will take care of itself if a man
who wears the uniform considers
himself a gentleman at all times
and doesn't go running to Web
ster to find out what the word
.morale" means.
"In the old days," he said, "If
a man didnt like the kind of
treatment he got he packed his
duffle and got out of the serv
ice. We didn't coddle the boys.
They did their stint in K.P,
cleaned up the barracks and
didn't talk back. If I get in
trouble for talking like this in
front of the high command I
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The captain cooled off a little
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Countess, Blonde
Call It a Draw
Los Angeles, Dec. 12 W") The
countess and the blonde thought
It over and decided to call it
a draw.
Attorneys for Model Ariel
Ames, 26: Mrs. Rella Fowler,
who says she is the Countess
Orgrabyszewski of Lithuania;
and her ex-husband, Edward M.
Fowler, 43, came up with a so
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Nov. 26 on the Sunset Strip in
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Soviet School
Organ Barred
Washington, Dec. 12 W) The
Soviet embassy's English-language
magazine, barred from a
number of American schools, to
day invited subscriptions from
"many thousands of Americans
eager for more truth" about Rus
sia. The latest issue of the USSR
information bulletin, after list
ing some of the "fine articles and
revealing photographs" it has
carried in the past to give a
"thorough-going, rounded pic
ture" of the Soviet Union, says:
"Your relative, neighbor or
shopmate is missing all these
things through no fault of his
or her own. We believe you
could help us and them and
therefore are addressing you on
this page.
"We want these Americans to
know our publication, to become
acquanted with both it and the
Soviet people.
It said it is offering special
gift-rate Christmas subscriptions
$1 for 24 issues so its readers
can "join with us in building
friends in the cause of peace, in
ternational understanding and
good fellowship."
The Bulletin is a sliek-paper
magazine offering a strictly So
viet view of world issues.
Air Force Has
Ejector Tower
Williams Air Force Base,
Ariz., Dec. 12 (U.R) The air force
began operations here today of
an ejector launching tower that
will hurl pilots through the air
at 40 miles per hour to stimulate
emergency escape from high
speed jet aircraft.
The 28-ton tower, the first of
its kind installed for pilot train
ing, was built by a former naval
officer, Merril A. Mader, now a
civilian engineer with the Allis
Chalmers Company, Milwaukee.
Mader said the tower has a
standard jet plane seat mounted
on an Inclined track 100 feet
high. The pilot, equipped with
full flight gear, is strapped to
the seat and shot into the air
by the explosion of a 37-mm.
cartridge.
Mader said the pilot will trav
el 40 miles an hour at the start
and will rise to a height of 50
feet subject to a pressure of 16
times the force of gravity.
The pilot is returned to the
ground by a special braking
mechanism on the track.
The tower, Mader said, is
similar to the pilot ejector me
chanism now installed in jet air
crafe. He said explosive force
is necessary since air pressure
makes it Impossible for a pilot
to escape from a plane travel
ling 500 to 600 miles an hour.
The tower installed here was
built from a test model develop
ed at Wright-Patterson Field in
Ohio.
An air force spokesman said
all personnel of the jet fighter
training school here will go
through tower tests beginning
this week.
Cross-Arctic Sledder Finds
Cold Likens Him to Saint Nick
(Editor's Note: Following is another In a series of dis
patches from Cecil A. Moore, New England engineer, cur
rently mushing across the Arctic on the longest dog-sled trip
ever attempted.)
By CECIL MOOR1V
(Written Exclusively lor the United Prexs)
Koidern, Y. T., Dec. 12 (U.R) There are times I feel I am run
nlng competition to Santa Claus on my cross-continent trek.
For the last two weeks, the weather has been below zero.
Right now it's minus 20. And as the dogs and I plow along,
ice forms on my beard and on the dogs. It makes us look like
old Saint Nick himself.
The food situation is rather
grim at times. Once I ran out of
dog food and had to buy oat
meal, cornmeal and grease to
feed the huskies. I had to give
them all my meat one night and
found I had only fried bannock
and tea left for three days.
I walked into an Indian camp
but all the natives were drunk
and wouldn't sell me anything.
The shortage of feed will cost
me about 80 miles, for now I'm
changing course to head for Bur
wash landing at Klaune lake
where I hear they're catching
fish.
I shot at a wolf while riding
on the sled the other day. The
animal was getting rather close
and had been following me for
some time. But the dogs were
acting up and jolted the sled to
spoil my aim. The skin and
bounty would have given me an
extra $50 which would have
come in handy to buy more food
The cold is really biting, even
though I'm dressed for it. In
addition to the ice in my beard,
every once in a while my eye
lashes freeze together.
When King Winter sets in
here, he really sets in hard. All
my water comes from melting
ice.
Barring accidents, I hope to
make Whitehorse In about eight
days.
Do
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Aussies' New Prime Minister
Free Enterprise Believer
By BARBARA GORMLY
Sidney, Dec. 12 VP) Robert Gordon Menzies, the 54-year-old
Melbourne lawyer who will be Australia's next prime minister,
is a fervent believer in the free enterprise system.
He is probably Australia's sharpest debater in parliament and
on the stump.
For the tall, thickset, and
greying politician this will be
his second term as leader of the
government. He was prime min
ister of Australia from 1939 to
1941 the youngest empire
prime minister of that early war
period.
l J 1
Robert Gordon Menzies
U of 0 Students
Lose City Vote
Eugene, Dec. 12 UP) The Lane
county election department is
ruling out students to insure
against the possibility of con
tested elections in the event of
a close race.
Mel Wadman, county election
deputy, this fall invalidated an
estimated 400 student voters
who live in dormitories on the
University of Oregon campus.
An additional 600 students will
be notified that they cannot vote
in local elections. These live for
the most part in fraternities, sor
orities and cooperative houses.
A review of past elections has
revealed that fact that some of
them might have been contested
because many students voted
who did not maintain a perman
ent residence here.'
The burden from now on will
fall upon the student to prove
that he has actually established
legal domicile here and is not
just here for the sole purpose
of attending school.
Church Women Invited
Stayton Women of the Church
of Christ will have a Christmas
gift exchange when they meet
in the church basement Thurs
day. Christian sisters will also
be revealed. Mrs. Hattie Schlies
will be hostess and assistants
will be Mrs. Lillian Humphreys
Mrs. Eva Humphreys and Mrs
Estelle Woods.
Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, Dec. 12, 1949 11
he lost support of two independ
ents who had kept him in power.
The people of Australia may
never feel close to their force
ful blue-eyed prime minister
but they will respect his bril
liance.
Menzies is married and has
two grown sons and a daughter.
It is estimated that the United
States has 30,000 buses in inter
city service.
Since he went out of office
he has been almost continuous
ly the leader of the opposition.
For a time his closest liberal
friends despaired he ever would
lead the party to victory. They
said: "Bob Menzies is not clever
enough to hide his own clever
ness."
Another said Menzies had ev
ery good quality except as a
vote - getter. Yesterday's elec
tion disproved these fears.
Menzies wants a world in
which ambition is encouraged, in
which there are rewards for the
courageous and the enterprising;
!n which, as he puts it, "there is
no foolish doctrine of equality
between the active and the idle
intelligent and dull, frugal and
imnroviderit.
In a campaign speech in his
home riding of Kooyong, he
said: "We must choose between
the ancient British idea that the
government is the servant of the
people and the shabby, defeated
continental idea that we are
scrvante of the government."
You would think twice before
jovially slapping this broad-
shouldered man on the back. He
commands respect, but does nol
invite familiarity.
He was a brilliant student as
a youth. He started law prac
tice in Melbourne at 34 and be
came Australia's youngest king's
counsel, a British empire rank
ing for senior barristers.
He entered politics in 1926
and has been in the thick of
practically every political fight
since between free enterprise
and labor forces.
He was attorney general in the
federal government of Joseph A.
Lyons from 1934 to 1939 and
when Lyons died in 1939 Men
zies assumed the premiership.
He was forced to resign when
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