camp Adair Sentry
August 6, 1942.
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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
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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.
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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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The First
National Bank
of Monmouth
Breakfasts
Lunches
Sandwiches
Fountain
5 & 10 DINETTE
CHAPLAIN'S
COLUMN
Corvallis Hotel
Golden Pheasant
Food Shop
EARL HITE
Current
Dividends
Money Saved Is Money Earned
First Federal Savings and Loan
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Glasses Fitted
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