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HERE THEY COME
Camp Adair
July 23, 1942.
naively r serious. No bluster—no
Tc.
false »II
illusions of his recent eleva
tion to a commission—no fear of
anything but his own ability to put
out what will be necessary. Just a
good, plain, hard-working Ameri
can kid, ready to give whatever
and all of his capabilities for his
country, if someone will just go
after him hard enough to get them
ALL out of him.
How you like that? Patriotism?
Sure, coupled with a feeling in that
youthful breast of the responsibil
ity of citizenship in the greatest
country God ever made. To us, it’s
GRAND.
Here they come?
KEEP COVERED
UN-NAMED
With the love to live
And the right to give,
With never a thought of fame;
Careless and gay
And a love for play
’Til he treated war as a game.
SNARLS FROM AN OLDTIMER
But he gave his life
In a stinkin* ditch
By the side of the Burma Road.
From an unmarked grave
In an unknown spot
His soul will pack his load.
Onward, and Onward,
Down through the years—
Never a thought of ease—
Our flag will fly
As time goes by
As long as we’ve boys like these.
The Sentry had occasion to meet
Although it is improbable that
a main line train at Albany the
we shall get heat as high on the
other morning.
With never a sign
measuring stick as we had a couple
“Here they come,” we thought,
To mark their grave,
of weeks ago. still it may get hot
»s the train screeched to a stop.
Nor a cross to mark their fall,
enough to knock over the unwary.
•Here they come.”
They’ll do their best
—There’s the point—unwary.
In a final test—
More shavetails tumbled off that
If you follow the simple rules
train than we ever thought existed
In their greatest game of all.
laid out by the safety service and
—and we were one for much longer
—U. S. Guard Harmon
by Doc Reynolds, and don’t forget
than we’re proud of. They jumped
and slip, you’ll make it through.
“SNARLS FROM AN OLDTIMER
off all the oars where the train
Old Sol has been on the job a long
crew had opened the gates, and
time and he’s in good form this
By H.B., Casual Section
they took the station, and the
summer, owing to his many days
When a man reaches 53 he is
buses parked by the station, by
of rest in this locality. He’s been likely to be a one-woman man, and
■term.
hiding so much of the time this he is lucky to be that.
They must be from way down
spring and summer, that he seems
So when the rest of you soldiers
vast somewhere. When they were
to be especially enthusiastic when piled off the truck at Corvallis
rolling off the train they were
he does show for a day or two and headed for a dance, I merely
chiding each other to look out for
hand-running.
sighed for my wife in New York
the Indians, and “where is the pony
So respect him. “If you don’t and set out to get you some in
express,” and such-like.
wear your helmet he’ll knock you formation.
But they're all good boys. No
down dead," is the way Mr. Kipling
Ever since that first shower and
one could look them over—with a
told the recruities out in India. plunge in the pool at Oregon State
long and hot train trek behind them
Take it to heart and keep covered. college one of the grand and me
undoubtedly — and fail to feel a
morable baths of my life, I had
pride in them and what they’re
IF I WERE------ !
been curious about that friendly
here for, and at their apparent
If I were one of these new offi- school, so I walked to the campus
enthusiasm to get at the job.
In the evening in the office one cers here and I had brought my and called at radio station KOAC.
KOAC is of special interest to
of them was about town looking new wife along to war, and had
for a home—or a place to live. tried all the regular listings in an us because it will carry out our
The Sentry didn't have any apart effort to find a place to park my own programs when we really get
ments to rent, but we got to chew new wife while I’m out to camp going at Adair, and because KOAC
will give us about all that we can
ing the fat. He was asking ques working. I’d------
tions about camp and buses and
In any free moment at camp. take, over the air.
Gen. Bradley and all manner of I’d buzz around these workers un-1 It’s state-owned, non-commer-
interesting things. In the course of til I found one who had a suitable cial, doesn’t sell time. It’s official
the conversation The Sentry passed apartment or house and who was outlet for the Oregon State system
of education. Programs are pro
the comment that Gen. Bradley going to move out in a short time
hail been overheard to say: “My ¡and then I'd take steps to stake vided by the University erf Ore
gon. Oregon State college, Oregon
boys are going to work.” It was out that place.
Medical school and three colleges
passed along as another of the
In Albany and in Corvallis, at
of education.
things to be expected in this new least at the “peak of the load,-”
The time is unlimited and KOAC
shavetail's tour of duty at Camp there were approximately 1000
reaches more Oregon territory than
Adair.
strangers billeted in each town.
any other station—85 per cent of
“We expect that." he answered By far most of them are still here* the population.
quickly. "We've been at it already. Some of the larger houses — and
The school which grew into Ore
We have had a toughening-up most expensive—have been vacat
gon State college was founded in
ed and are filled by some of the 1858, and OSC was the first school
course to prepare us for it.”
And then, after ruminating for higher-ups, but most of them west of the Mississippi to give
just a moment, “It’s all right, should be available during the next a degree in landscape architecture.
We’ve got a job to do and we’ll couple of months.^
You probably were charmed by
You youngsters — you strangers buildings, grounds, and trees, as I
need to put everything we've got
into it. If Gen. Bradley is the man here—don’t be backward about in was. I am familiar with Harvard.
who can get it ALL out of me, quiry and investigation. Take as Princeton, Yale, and other famous
he's the man I want to soldier much of your problem as you can, college grounds in the East.
in your own hands. And then do
under.”
The museum on the campus is I
And he was completely and some hard work.
worth while, whenever you run out
He Can Almost See Over the Top
Elasw. the ramp tramp has growing paia«.
Hr’s been
«orbing here from the beginning and hr ha« «worn la slay until
the end He ran »re it filling up.
ment, long out of use.
weel‘
by week the women of different
churches pitched in and produced
the refreshments and served them.
Members of nine churches share
the expense of water, lights, etc.
of girls. I was most interested in I
Hank Monk’s old stagecoach. It rani
between Missouri and California at I
first, and then from Carson City I
into the Sierras. Prince Alexander 1
of Russia, later the Czar rode in it
when he went buffalo hunting, and
so did General Grant. Rutherford fl
B. Hayes, and the Prince of Wales
who became Edward VII. This was I
the trans-continental coach and on I
one trip all passengers were killed I
by highwaymen.
While on the campus I tried to I
get another shower, but the place
was closed. I was directed to -the I
town fire house, yes. the fire house. |
Good showers too. 1 really was en- I
titled to one. because before the i
army finally let me in I was a fire I
auxiliary in New York. Can’t prove |
it, though, left my diploma at home I
Dropped in at Harper Center, in [
the basement of the Madison Street I
Methodist church, and had excellent I
home-made ice cream, cake and I
chocolate drink The place started I
for the benefit of the soldiers I
camped in the park to protect the |
town. No. not from us. from the i
Japs The postmaster s wife. Hrs. J
Vina Moses, had the idea She and |
other women scrubbed the Lave-I
“Fall in!” the sergeant shouted.
We did and he began asking about
our religion. How many Protes
tants. Catholics, Jews? At every
question, hands were raised.
“Now,” he said, “how many
hypocrites?”
No hand went up. The sergeant’s
face grew red.
“I don’t mean ‘hypocrites,’” he
said. “I mean guys that don't have
any religion.”
Only one hand was raised. Then
the sergeant explained that he was
asking the questions merely to learn
what provision should be made for
religious services.
About hypocrites, though, a
couple of soldiers who hadn't been
in church for years were quick to
step forward when it was an
nounced that a truck would carry- a
few soldiers to the Baptist church
at the nearby town of Independ
ence. It seemed that every soldier
who went to church would be in
vited to dinner afterwards.
Well, the truck was late and
didn’t reach the church until the
service had begun. The two soldiers
were too shy to go inside, so they
went and had a beer instead. But
they were waiting at the church
door when the congregation came »
out and the pastor took them home
with him.
They had a grand dinner and a
fine time generally and then the
pastor hoped that they could at
tend his late afternoon Bible class.
What a pity, but they could®'t!
They had to get back to camp ant
stand guard.
But that night, walking past,
they had an uneasy feeling when
they encountered the preach«
again. He is the Rev. Loyal H.
Vickers, and in addition to being a
pastor he is a civilian guard at
camp. He preaches and conducts
weddings and funerals by day, and
at night watches over the vast and
growing military stocks at Ad«»,
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