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WHAT'LL WE DO WITH ’EM
Camp Adair Sen!
July 9,1942.
Page Two
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The United States is solid and the
Yanks are on their way.
All classes are united and they’ll
battle on and on
And eventually they’ll drive those
Japs from here to Hellangon.
And then I know that Roosevelt is
coming after me.
With five million Yankee soldiers
from their homes across the sea.
That’s why I called you, Lucifer,
because I know that you
Have had plenty of experience and
can tell me what to do.”
young,
self. Now it's your duty to Uncle
Sam in addition, and remember, And those the planes and bombers
missed were taken out and
soldiers are waiting to occupy this
hung;
camp!
We killed off all the leaders, and
we starved the people, too;
A PLUG FOR UNCLE SAM
My soldiers grabbed the younger
The J. C. Penney stores are all-
girls—that gets a smile from
out for sale of war bonds and
you.
stamps. They are advertising these
as their best value and are adver­ “We then roared through the Low-
tising a “sale” for the first time,
lands, where resistance wasn’t
breaking a Penney tradition as old
much;
as the institution.
You should have seen my Panzers
We wish they were advertising
smash the Belgians and the
their “Sale” in The Sentry, but
The Devil said, "I’m sorry, sir, but
Dutch
they're not, owing to complications Our bombs fell on their cities like
I can't even smile;
with the national advertising office.
That Hell you’re putting on up
the heavy summer rains
The Sentry is for them neverthe­ And old and young who tried to
there has got mine beat a mile.
less.
run, we machine-gunned from I’ve been a mean old devil, but not
The Corvallis Penney store is in
I
half as mean as you.
our planes.
the midst of a contest with the
And the minute that you get here
Pendleton store brought on by a
I will give my job to you.
We blasted through to Dunkirk,
challenge from here. Clerks are
But hurry down, we may close soon [
made
the
French
and
British
putting on the pressure. Newspaper
*
—we haven’t done so well;
flee.
ads tell the story. Banners fly from
There’s too much competition now
We
sank
their
boats
and
then
w*e
the store building. It is not out of
to run a decent Hell;
shot them swimming in the sea.
line to guess—and hope—that the
My submarines are devils, why you You and your Japs have me licked. !
public will gather some of this
I’ll have to bank my fire,
should see them fight
enthusiasm and come through.
Then like a nice old Devil, I think i
They
go
sneaking
through
the
Bonds and stamps can be pur­
that I’ll retire.
murky seas and sink a ship on
chased at many places.
sight;
The Sentry is in favor of boost­
“You were foolish to fight Russia; [
ing the “sale” in this patriotic They chase the unarmed vessels
now you’re crazy as a daw—
and
blast
them
one
by
one
national institution.
And those who try to leave the I , You must have known the U.S.A. I
has never lost a ‘wah’;
boats are shot down just for fun.
MISS THE FIRECRACKERS
i And when those Yanks start fight- |
ing, there is not more to tell— ,
The Fourth of July week-end “I was running things to suit me
So drop the phone and grab your |
’
till
a
year
or
so
ago
passed by for many without the
hat and meet me here in Hell!”
usual noise and hurrah. Parades When a guy called Franklin Roose­
—contributed. ;
velt
told
me
to
go
more
slow;
and demonstrations were lacking.
He
said
to
me,
‘
Dear
Adolf,
we
Many just rested.
don't want to make you sore,
“How is id you get in de theater
Rack of this seeming indiffer­
But
kindly tell your U-boats to for notting?”
ence there has been a deeper patri­
sink our ships no more.
“Don't say notting. I valk back­
otic feeling, however. We are at
war. Many of us are working at We have told you for the last time wards and de door-keeper tinks I’m
so now it’s up to you,
coming out.
above normal routine on account of
the war. Some of us are actually And if you do not stop it, you will
have to fight us too.’
in defense work, and that is “rush”
Recreation committees in the
towns in the Camp Adair area are
beginning to awaken to their huge
responsibility. It’s time they did.
None as yet has a large enough
view of what is going to be de­
manded of it. And it will take a
few thousand soldiers descending
upon these towns on Saturday
night to really wake them up.
Our soldier centers. U.S.O. build­
ings (of which there is none yet)
and the combined offerings of the
churches, lodges and patriotic or­
ganizations—all will be overtaxed
and over-crowded to such an extent
that we cannot now realize it.
Imagine, if you can, the popula­
tions of Albany, Corvallis, Mon­
mouth, Independence and others,
more than doubling on Saturday
-night.
These towns are crowded now
evenings. Double that crowd!
We must take care of thousands'
— not hundreds. We are not ready. I
Let’s raise our sights and broaden
our vision. Unless we do, we're due
for a mess.
in all cases.
Camp Adair workers who were
not on shift, took the time to rest.
TAKE COVER!
After a week of excessively hot
There were too inany'hia^ cases weather and hard work under pres­
In camp last week. It was hot, sure to get the camp ready for the
sure enough. In Portland a week soldiers who are already moving in.
ago the thermometer went higher the rest was deserving, without a
than it has ever gone there before doubt.
since the keeping of a record. It
Flags were in evidence in hun­
is possible that we had a heat dreds. of homes through the area.
record here.
That their owners were at home
But there are things to do to and had not forgotten the signi­
keep on the safe aide in that kind ficance of the day, was proved by
of weather. An immediate repeti­ this quiet showing.
tion of extreme heat is not likely
in this country of ocean breezes,
GO TO THE DEVIL
but it may come. Prepare yourself
for it if it does come. This prepar- Hitler called the devil upon the
phone one day.
ation may serve you another year
somewhere else.
And the girl at Central listened in
Look over the helps listed in
to hear what all they’d say.
other columns of this issue of The "Hello.” she heard Der Fuehrer say,
“Is old man Satan home?”
Sentry. These suggestions are giv­
en by those who know and may be Just tell him that it’s Adolf who
considered entirely authentic. Take
wants him on the phone.”
them to yourself. Learn them. Then Satan came and said. "Hello.”
Lrarn them so that you will re­
Adolf said. “How are you?
member them—10 years hence.
I’m running a Hell up here on earth
It’s |>art of your war responsi­
and I want advice from you.
bility to keep yourself in fighting I’ve been at it over two years now;
trim for your job. If youll follow
We’ve several nations cowed. I
the suggestions you may find in Just listen to the details, it will ,
this paper, you will be better pre­
make you laugh out loud:
pared to stand it if we do get
another blast from Old Sol. Ordi­ “We started out through Poland,
narily it’s just your duty to your­
shooting down both old and
"Of course I simply laughed at him
—I hate those Yankee saps—
I knew I could take care of them by
rousing up the Japs.
Those Japanese are easy, they are
sure I can't be beat
So I told them how to use their
planes and where to use their
fleet.
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And the screaming of the wounded
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The Japs attacked Wake Island to
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They took an awful beating; those
damned Marines are tough!
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