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camp Adair Sentry August 6, 1942. Page S.X N far-off countries declared to the end of his days that the elephant was like a tree. The Seeds of freedom have been sown FROM AN Yet we’ve some boys who’ll sleep third rubbed his hand over the side OLD-TIMER and went to his grave believing forever By H. B.—DEMI 'Neath a soil that’s not their own. that the elephant was like a house. Work and tears, and blood, and Each was right so far as his ob aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiininiiiiHiiiiHiiiiiiiniiiiiir: servations went but each had a money Missed the bus to Corvallis and mouth for Monmouth, Ill., Toledo That’s the price we all must pay limited viewpoint. Complete Banking was picked up by the chaplains’ for Toledo, Ohio, which in turn For the world we have to live in We call men hard names because was named for the grim and fasci Won't be built in just one day. pickup. we do not know them. Hot words Service "Mighty fine guys to work for, nating city in Spain, the city of We’ll send fighter planes and pilots, never result in cool judgment and these chaplains," said the driver, the keen Toledo blade. Mary’s river i High-speed tanks and heavy guns, harsh judgments never bring about Safe Deposit Boxes and Mary’s Peak were named either Strong from fighting fronts in smooth relations. To say that “all Dominic Arbia. ___________________________________ .. One reason he likes them, I sus for the first white woman to ford Egypt men are liars,” is to condemn one H--------------------------------------------------- 1 pect, is that they pronounce his the stream or for a New York To the Arctic’s frozen sun. self with the rest of the world or I name right. Our early sergeants woman, sister of the man who did The shot, and shell, and flaming be guilty of arrant egotism by who were not so hot on pronuncia the naming. The peak, 4,057 feet Hell claiming exemption from the gen tion. used to shout out “Abria” and high, the highest mountain in the Will be the soldier’s lot— eralization. “Arabia,” and “Arab” and about coastal range, is 17 miles from Cor To you and I who stay at home, L. V. HARMON, everything except Arbia, which is vallis. From the summit, you can Let’s give with all we've got. Post Chaplain simple enough, phonetically speak see, on a clear day. Mount Rainer, Be it effort, time or money, Camp Adair, Oregon. Wash., Mount Hood, Ore., and the Sacrifice or will to do, ing. Send the word to men who are KITCHEN COPS Finally Arbia grew kind of sullen I I Pacific ocean. fighting, about it and didn't answer at first j The partly bare hill, west of the I think that I shall never Open 6 A. M. to 10 P. M. when his name was called wrong. , lower end of Camp Adair, which I “We at home are backing you.” Gazette-Times Bldg., Corvallis A job as sloppy as K. P. —By Harmon. Well, to get to Corvallis, which 1 [ mentioned last week as a good 314 Jefferson K. P., where greasy arms J did, by degrees, Arbia said he was [ ’ place from which to see Mount pressed, on the way there, but would I mind l Hood, in clear weather, is named With pots and pans against if we first stopped at a camp i j Coffin Butte, because it’s supposed chest; chapel and picked up some hymn . to look like a coffin. Salem is not named after the books ? Certainly not, I said, and K. P., where stand the chefs all day. helped him carry them. A goodly | Massachusetts city where they Barking orders at their prey; burned witches, although the origin number, too. K. P.’s, who may in evening wear “We must take this pulpit along, must be the same. It comes from A spot of gravy in their hair; WITH THE CHAPLAINS also,” he said, so I helped with ’ the Biblical name, Sholum or K. P., where all the yardbirds hop IN CAMP ADAIR meaning place of peace. that. Then he had to drop in on j Salem, I When you buy automobile or Plans are now being completed To nonchalantly wield a mop. the chaplain* and one of them * The Columbia river formerly was for the dedication of the Post Poems are made by fools like jne truck insurance— as the Oregon and is menj wanted a ride somewhere else. known 1 Chapel. Post Chaplain Captain And so’s the list for that damned in the poem “Thanatopsis,” Next we delivered pulpit and hymn tioned I You Want K. P. Harmon has suggested September books and on the way into Corvallis by 1 William Cullen Bryant, who for 6, the first Sunday of that month. -Pvt. D.D. in Brookley Bay Breeze. • Complete protection we called at a house and carried 50 1 years was editor of the New The chapel is building No. T-5-223. • Real service out a victrola and a pile of records I York newspaper that had employed Less cost Chaplain Newman has been as and loaded them into the truck. . me for 18 years. When we parted, at the Times —Or lose theyself in the continu- signed to the hospital area and is We Have It conducting services there each Square of Corvallis, Arbia and I I ous woods and Sunday morning. Catholic masses thanked-one another. | Where rolls the Oregon, and are also said in the hospital area Well, when an oldtimer like my- . hears no sound and other sections. Also Jewish self goes to town he certainly does I Save its own dashings. Dist. Mgr., Phone 844 cut up, and this was the day fol The first trading post in the services with Pvt. Morris Stavsky, 221 W. 1st, Albany, Or. lay leader in charge at the hospital. lowing pay ilay, to boot, and only Oregon region was established by The most for your money The first religious services were FARMERS AUTOMOBILE my second time out of camp since [ members of the John Jacob Astor in rooms and Good Food. I arrived on June 28. The other i Fur Co., in 1811, at Astoria. Old held in the tent area on June 28 inter INSURANCE lmhance time I went to the Oregon State | John Jacob was, of course, the by Chaplain Jorgenson. On that Opposite Both Banks TRUCK INSURANCE radio station and got you some founder of the family whose very same date Father John Dunn, of Corvallis EXCHANGE ______ Corvallis, held the first Catholic information. This time I went to 1 name has long signified wealth and the public library and read, for •’ social standing in New York City, mass. The first Jewish service was ---- - your benefit. So now just clip this 1 Men coming here from New York page and save yourself the trouble and the metropolitan area also may called by Chaplain Jorgenson, who ' of answering all of the questions care to know that the late Edwin turned the services over to Pvt. that the folks bother you with, as Markham, who lived so long on Stavsky. Thirty-eight enlisted men regards our nearest town and the Staten Island, a part of our city, were present. All of these earlier state where they’ve put us. that wo considered him our own services were held in the open air. The name "Corvallis” is derived good, gray poet, was born at Ore AN UGLY WORD from a Latin phrase, says the Ore gon City. Of course those who David said, “All men are liars,” gon book in the American Guide regularly attended summer sym series done by the WI’A writers’ phony concerts in New York will then after thought, he admitted he project, and means "heart of the know that th* most constant con had spoken hastily. Most men mean valley.” Altitude, 227 feet. Popu ductor, Willem Van Hoogstraten, to be honest, but are often mis lation, 7,585. Seat of Renton coun has been conductor of Portland's understood. So few ever take time to walk out of their skins into the ty, on west bank of Willamette orchestra. riwr, just below its confluence Oregon is the only state for other man's skin in order to get with Mary’s river. Westward green which a transcontinental highway his viewpoint. It is always so hills rise into the lower slopes of was named and the Oregon trail much easier to pass a harsh judg the coast range and to the east are oegan at Independence, Kans. Ore ment than it is to be tolerant. the sharper crests of the Cascade gon is the ninth largest state and You can call a man a liar or a *UI mountains. only Iowa has a greater degree of hypocrite in a fraction of a aecond, The first settljys came in 1845 literacy. but it takes months to really get and the land was bought from the “New York,” says the WPA book hi* viewpoint. Severity is easy... Calapooya Indians. In 1857 an on Oregon, “has buildings and tolerance is difficult. Many men ordinance was passed prohibiting money and bustle and congestion; seem to be lying when they are people from riding horses on the but that ’lovely, dappled up-and- only reporting the facts as they YOUR ACCOUNT HERE IS INSURED TO $5000.00. sidewalk and our MPs are enforc down land' called ’Oregon' has an see them. YOUR MONEY IS AVAILABLE ing that ordinance today, so look ever-green beauty as seductiva as There is the old story of the AT ALL TIMES. out. the lotus of ancient myth.” three blind men who went to “see” To get around Corvallis you don’t Speaking of antiquity, there used an elephant. One felt the beast’s have to know the town. All you to be oreodonts around here. In trunk and ever afterward declared Corvallis, Oregon need is history and arithmetic. One site they ranged from the coyote that the elephant was like a rope. Chartered and Supervised by the V. S. Government way streets are numbered and the to the elk and they had the molar Another felt of the great leg and Phone 517 4th and Monroe other way they are named for the teeth of a deer, the side teeth of a Presidents, beginning with Wash hog, end ‘he incisors of a carnivore. ington and ending with Grant, ionic 17 presidents in all. Here’s to the soldier of forty and If the girl'* mother wants to past. know where you're going, tell her W ho has gone the pace and gone it that you are intensely interested in fast. By Appointment seeing those old nullstones in the And here’s to his girl of twenty- Evenings rretty, se-PluTed park down by the and-two Phone 470 or 440-J river. They were quarried in France W bo sits by his side with eye* go and shipped around the Horn and blue. DR. A. W. MARKER hauled from Portland by ox-team Rut all he can do is but* and but* OPTOMETRIST in 1856 and then set up in a mill And tell here what a wuiaer he Corvatti» — Bal) Bldg. used more than 60 years. used to wui. J Benton county. where we are, — Post Beacon. Riverside, Calif. waa named for Thomas Hart Ben ton, the I'nited States senator who Rack Soldiers first espoused V. S. control of We ve already made some progress Why suffer? Oregon, but he didn't know how And we know our cause is right The Ambulant Way never fails. I much of that control there would In »make and din See DR. W1DMBR be in 1!H2. Albany waa named for We’ve tough he-men Phone 424-W. Cewallis • Kcw Turk state's capital, Mon-1 W ho ve just begun to fight. 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