Faye Four
July 30, 1942.
Camp Adair Sentry
on irksome details while waiting life for you. when you get your (
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to
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FROM AN
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I
am
wondering
how
you
get
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night
like
a
mill-stone,
and
bears
Th* first time I saw Lavon and walked over to the lieutenant. them call me “Pop” and more and
Zakanan I though he must be a Nothing happened, though, except more of them address me, with too me down in moods of dark depres­ I
mirai.-». one of those non-existent more drill, and at the end of it I much respect for age, as “Mr. B—.” sion. But the turn must and will I f
Bights that you think you see when told Zack that I knew I had no I look at them severely and say, come, for such preponderance of
power as that represented by the
you are crazy with the heat in a business calling out in ranks, and “Private B" to you, sir.”
I
desert.
I was sorry. Later I told the lieu­
Like every old fogey, I find youth United States must in due time
1
have
its
effect.
For
us
all,
pacifists
tenant
that
I
’
d
been
a
bad
soldier,
less
than
perfect.
Seems
to
me
that
It was, indeed, a hot day, and
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the boys are too keen about getting I and non-pacifists alike, there must
several so-called companies of us and he said, "Forget it.”
I was the more ashamed of my­ ahead, not enough concerned with I be the long-range view, and un­
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were packed in close together, sit­
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ting on the ground, in the sun, self because I knew I was safe doing a job well. (But I think the conquerable fs«th in th< future.
The difference between a dress-
ready for a sex hygiene lecture. and would get no penalty. We old western lads are better in this
I
One company hadn't arrived, and soldiers tend to grow spoiled be- respect). Of course the young ones
cause they go easy on us now, al- don’t feel the terrible urgency of tie and a noose is that one is worn
we were waiting for it.
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though I resist the coddling all this war as I do. How could they ? without a collar.
Suddenly, trudging through the
I can. And we should set an example They are too young to know that
dust and flickering like an early
and lie on the side of authority. “the war is the military phase of
movie in the heat waves across the
Zack and I are good friends, I a world-wide revolt against civiliza­
field, there came into apparent
view n apologetic-looking lot of I hope. I like his persistence and good tion,” to quote from a Harper’s
soldier-, led by a Napoleonic figure nature, his refusal to hold a grudge. magazine article by Herbert Agar,
one reprinted and distributed by
wh< appeared to be under 5 feet lnci(lentally. he was captain of the
Freedom House. They are too young
4 iricht -, and to weigh more than
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University of Maine football team to be aware, as thoughtful, older,
200 pounds, although it turned
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out ctiat those really were nature’s in 1929, playing center, and be­ people are, that civilization has
Simmons “Beautyrest”
fore joining the army he was a been subtly disintegrating. As
specifications, in his case.
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Agar wrote:
This swarthy person, as unmili-'colun,nist and »Ports writer on the
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“Barbarism always ends in a be-
tary a sijrht as you’d ever see on I Armenian Mirror-Spectator, in New
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lief in power for power's sake. It
a drill field, was bellowing com­ York. His ancestry is Armenian.
always,
therefore,
derides
rules
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mande in the voice of the Bull of He hails from Portland. Me., and
and promises—for if power is the
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and
See
Our
Stocks
Busbar and as a major, a captain now the army has get him down
*
end, and if power can be won by
ami a flock of lieutenants looked near Portland, Ore.
breaking rules and promises, why
on ir amazement he somehow got |
not break them?”
his company into the right place*
Now I have a notion that young
Young soldiers keep asking me
and ha :ed. Then it was seen that
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people don't even know what Agar
I
about
the
other
war,
and
whether
In- wa> human, and a private.
Second and Adams
Corvallis
is
talking-about,
because
they
have
' the army has changed. Usually I
That was my first glimpse of
never
experienced
that
more
whole
­
"Zack,* a would-be novelist who, | sidestep on it, because I don’t know. some state of society which has
although a private without military Army outfits vary so much that you passed, for the time. They haven’t
experience except in the R.O.T.C., can’t generalize.
known the happier state of mind
In the other war I belonged to an
drilled his company and then was
which did exist before “practical
Ohio
National
Guard
regiment
of
transferred to drill by company,
self-interest,” rather than coopera­
until Ire companies were broken field artillery which had been de­ tion towards a common end, became
veloped
from
cavalry
just
back
up through transfers and special
the accepted way.
from training on the Mexicon bor­
assigrunenta.
So your young soldier sees gold-
Wtuie in the ranks, drilling un- der. Officers and non-coms knew bricking as something smart, in­
Have you had a good
<'er Zack. I came closer to insub- one another well. Morale was high. stead of unsportsmanlike behavior
picture made of your­
ordinir on that at any time in the We were volunteers and eager to in a community of comrades.
other ar or this one. Somebody get into action.
self for your mother I
When we had a dinner which still
out front was not in step and he
or sweetheart?
Soldiers who crave to be oriented,
and Zack were having what wasn’t up to the prevailing stand­
sounded to me like an argument. ard nowadays we would shout in not psychologically, but geograph-
Out | ..toon was confused about the unison: “Oh, what a damn good callv, should climb the partly bare
pictures need not
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cadi-ni», it seemed to me. so on meal!” And most of my comrades hill to the west of the northern end
be expensive.
impulse I shouted, "Let’s have a came from homes of refinement of Camp Adair. When there is no
haze on the horizon you have a
littli *ss argument and a little and of plenty.
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fine view of the snowy peaks of
nioiA : deuce.”
But in this war I have not been
Mount
Hood,
far
to
the
northeast,
Zack turned and said, "Shut up!" part of any such cohesive outfit.
I said, “You shut up and drill us I’ve been with men of every social and of Mount Jefferson, to the
instead of arguing.” Zack said, station and from all sections of and not so far away.
I climbed the hill, late one
“That's mutiny. Shut up, or I'll the country. Some volunteered,
r< p< rl you to the lieutenant.” 1 said some were drafted. All of us have because I was lonesome for
( orvallis
455 Madison St.
“Bunl
Whereat Zack halted us been standing guard and working wife. On the heights 1 always feel
closed toher, not only because then
Ï
I am closer to Heaven (Will New-
i£
York papers please copy—she lives
I there), but also because we have
| climbed, together, many of the
highest mountains in the East, as J
well as some in Europe.
Aside from the distant peaks I
you can see, from this high hill, the i
general layout of the camp, on a I
plain surrounded by hills that lead 1
to mountain ridges. The viaw fits j
in with the observations of my
minister, the renowned Dr. John
Haynes Holmes, of the Community
church, in New York.
Although he is a pacifist of the
extreme type, and I, on the con­
trary. think that physical aggrez-
sion always must be resisted with
physical force, we are good friends,
and I have been chairman of his
Social Action committee. From Dr. I
Lon* life, high speed tires mean a real saving when
Holmes I now have a letter in
you
don t know when you can buy another tire. See
which he has this to say about Ore­
gon:
us when you get your order for a new tire. Special
“It is exciting to know that you
attention given trucks in government service.
are there. You will enjoy it. I re­
member Oregon as one of the most
thrilling experiences of my life.
We have plenty of pre-war pure rubber truck
The landscape seemed all built on a
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giant scale. In general character
and appearance. Oregon reminded
me of Maine But the mountains
were higher, the trees taller, the
lakes bigger, the river wider.—even
the ocean seemed grander. I felt in
a way like Gulliver in Brobdignag
“It certainly lifted the soul. I
still like to think of how the early
This ne» color pœter. which soon will be «een throughout
pioneers must have felt when they
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