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at ’em. I have tried. I’ve done
everything I could find out to do.
But I'm too old and fat. (No as­
persions on the truck driver.)
Maybe it’s a lesson for me to go
ahead and do my job a little better
and work a little harder at it,
even though it is hot, and do my
bit in helping other and younger
men to get ready for the
moment!—DCW.
SALEM ENTERTAINS
fin’s very best—and he made many
—is redone from the old silent
days. Memorable scenes are his
holiday banquet on a pair of his
old shoes and the dance of the
forks before him, manipulated in
a biscuit clog by the soul-rhythm
of the master pantomimist.
We are going to greatly enjoy [
seeing this picture again, especial­
ly because we are going to be there
with the young son, 12, to whom
Chaplin is a great dictator and
that only.
Missing Chaplin in childhood is
like missing dogs and horses and
the old swimmin' hole and such.
The Sentry appreciates Charley
Whiteside all the more for bringing
this great picture back to life.
Doc. Harry E. Morris and his
hospitality committee at Salem are
going away around the first bend
Advertiairi» rate* upon request
in their program of entertainment
Addr.n, all romminicatinn«
"Camp
for the soldiers. They have been
Adair Sentry, Corvallii, Oregon.”
rat it for several months with
PATRIOTIC TRUCK DRIVER I dances and home parties and chick­
OLD FIRE HORSE
I don’t know how you are, but en dinners and such. And they are
my mother used to aing me all the providing for comparatively large
Like an elephant away from the
numbers.
old Civil war songs and tell me
Friday night, for a big dance circus lot, and like the proverbial
all the stories about her father and
at the pavilion on the state fair fire horse at the sound of the
•even of his brothers — all in the
grounds. Doc. told The Sentry he fire bell. The Sentry got a big
Union army. I was steeped in
was going to ask Col. Ferch for kick out of wandering into the
patriotism from my birth, and it
200 soldiers from Camp Adair, in tent camp of soldiers on the edge
was the old-fashioned kind which
of Camp Adair.
raises a lump in my throat when addition to those who are quartered
The Coordinator and The Sentry
in Salem.
the flag goes by and which feels
walked into the camp together, and
“
We've
always
had
more
girls
like ants carrying sugar up my
than soldiers at our dances,” said we have a witness to our conclu­
•pine when I hear of some heroic
Doc Morris in answer to a query sion.
exploit of one of our boys over
The place smelled like an army
about that end of the deal. “We
there somewhere fighting against
camp!
have
had
splendid
response
from
odds.
The dry, trampel grass, the can­
the girls of the community and our
I don’t know how you are, but committee appreciates this support, vas, the wisps of smoke from the I
that's the way I am. I glory in it. without which we couldn't oper- field kitchens, perspiration on a
1 look upon less fortunate brothers ate.”
hot day, the smell of new earth
with deep sympathy, realizing that
From reports, the girls have just dug for latrines and garbage dis­
everybody couldn't have my mother as good a time at these dances as posal—all added up to a smell
and everybody can’t cherish the do the soldiers, and that’s plenty! that was familiar after more than
a quarter of a century.
emotionalism in patriotic matters
that I do.
It may be all in our heads, but
WE HAVE TO CELEBRATE
Just to show you what I mean.
it was there nevertheless, and a
I got one of those God-given thrills,
There are at least two communi­ feeling of nostalgia along with it.
right here on the highway the ties right close to Camp Adair Some of the boys were getting the
other day on my way home from where one may get the outside inspection that is never mentioned,
Salem via Independence and Mon­ thrills of the traditional Fourth of and that — too — added up to thg
mouth. I was coming south into July celebration—without the an­ I total of times gone.
The days are hot—the nights are
the reservation area and utmost noyance of the fireworks. These
was run down by one of those are the Independence U.S.O. cele- chill. The work of making a camp
big gravel trucks coming fast . bration and the Calapooia Round- is tough. But men off duty were
around a bend in the highway.
lUp at Crawfordsville. Crawfords­ whistling and laughing and kid­
My first emotion was anger, be- ' ville is the farther away, but the ding and crabbing, in the tradition
cause I blamed the truck-driver program there will b« the more of army camps under canvas.
for being just a mite on my side of varied in the true old western
Maybe they’re just as good as
the yellow line. That aroused me, fashion.
we were. They know they’re better
1 suppose.
There are some belated cards —and more power to them. They j
But the thrill I gut was a flash out over around Salem about a need more power in 1942.
“Long may she wave.”
of tiny stacked ailk flags — the celebration at tne state fair
kind the stores sail for radiator grounds. The Sentry didn't get the
«ap-- -and they almost brushed my details of this one. but it’s there To the Editor:
face as we slid by each other.
As I am very much interested
all right and you may take your
Old Glory on a homely and utili­ choice.
in the “American Burma road.”
tarian gravel truck! The flags
Capt. Herron, acting area engi- on account of having relatives in
were fastened to the rear view neer, says there are no holidays the Peace river country through
mirror which stuck out to the driv. any more, what with a camp to which it passes. I would like to say
•r’s left. They told the world— build and soldiers already here something as to the “suitability”
and me, too— that this truck driv­ waiting to occupy it, but some of of the passage through which this
er had other things than gravel us will be off shift Saturday and road passes.
in his heart and that he was serv­ we'll sprinkle ourselves around—
This is the first time that I ever
ing notice on everybody that he is or sit in the shade as we feel like, heard of this rugged, mountainous
an American and doing his bit in and think of the guys over there country being called a "prairie
bi* way.
state,” as Governor Langer of
running interference for us.
Silly ? Maybe, but I wouldn't
North Dakota recently caller! it.
take a million for the feeling. It’s
and, as I spent my school days in
THE OLD CHARLIE
pride anil love ami loyalty—with
Canada graduating from high
We note in the copy for the school there at 17; I naturally .
a mite of hate for the Japa—all
pushing each other around inside Whiteside theater in Corvallis studied Canadian geography. “It
me and it’s a gram! feeling and a which just came in, that Charlie is to laugh!"
Chaplin, the one and only, will be
tough one.
My oldest brother, who is a
Maybe, like that truck driver. there Thursday. Friday and Sat­ bachelor of 73 years, hunts and [
• nd maybe not. 1 feel like I should urday of this week in hi* inimita­ traps throughout this section, and
be in there somewhere, with my ble "The Gold Rush." The ad says travels miles and miles through
experience in the other war adding "with music and words.”
dense trees hundreds of feet tall,
"The Gold Rush," one of Chap- on nothing but a narrow pack trail
up with new training, to really go
on which, if you make one misstep,
A NEW WAY TO MAKE ‘EM FALL
you land in snow up to your shoul­
ders. if there'* room between the
trees. And this brother is a big
six footer, straight and tall in
spite of his age. All traveling is
done on skis. He has a cabin every
12 miles, and goes through coun-!
try never trodden by man before J
... or at least it hadn't before he j
came there 10 years ago. It is a
wild, beautiful country, The only >
drawback, he says, is the short *
Jay*. It gets dark at 4 p m.
This is at the extreme northwe-t ■
corner of Alberta. as close to Brit
■sh Columbia and the Alaskar.
border a* you can get. I bar* want- I
ed to visit him badly. but after you i
leave Edmonton, you drive 1122
qjdgs.by car. then pack in the rest
----------- El~ th» camp tvamp seem, to be punching a “Kato* and
of the way. I cannot aven land
Kia path doesn't aoom altogether rooy. Step oa it, heed J
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