Page Six
Camp Adair Sentry
August 13,1942.
: [ with are not much older than this
; daughter of mine, so I’m quoting
FROM AN
:. my piece to give you an idea of the
OLD - TIMER
= way fathers feel:
By H. B —DEML
“It is Martha’s birthday. She is
18. So it is 16 years since I
inumimiiiiii......
pushed her baby carriage up Fifth
The vile attack on me, last week tainly the same system would work avenue. 15 years since she called
In the Camp Adair Sentry, and on , at other meals, although that is the steam shovel an ‘upsy-daisy
the first page at that, will be * less important.
mud,’ and 14 years since she sat
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answered, here and now.
on my knees in Carengie Hall and
On Saturday, hiking toward afterwards took a stick, at home,
To begin with, the man who
wrote it, the mysterious E.A.B., is Mary’s Peak, and hoping for a lift and waved it, and cried, “I’m play­
what Butch, or The Little Flower, I but not thumbing for it, I 1 was ing Toscanini.”
nir Forrest
k'inron-' A / (Red)
LJ z.zl i J Clark-
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441 In those years it seemed to me
or the esteemed Mayor of C New [ mnlzn/l
picked lin
up by
York City, would call a------------- son, who was rushing away from that parenthood had a godlike qual-
------ ------ . And I should like to 1 Oregon State Penitentiary as fast ity. because Martha’s well-being
ask E.A.B. if he knows the present as his car would carry him. Not was so completely within our con-
whereabouts of an old soldier with ' escaping, though, for he is a guard trol and it took so little to make
the same initials and serial num-(and was only on a fishing trip,
her happy. I remember writing
her as his, who in the other war
He told me that all day people verses about it:
drove an ambulance, and was tak­ had been telephoning The Portland “They trust us so, the little ones,
ing drunks home in it when he Oregonian, and saying that Keith Who cannot walk alone;
should have l>een carrying patients “Luke” Crosswhite, a lifer in the We are as gods when children
to the hospitals, until the drunks penitentiary, should not be permit­
thrust
fell out of the ambulance and were ted to pitch for the Salem Senators Their hands into our own ...”
so badly injured that they did have of the Western International
“Now that time is past, not be-
to be taken to the hospitals any­ league' either in league or semi-pro cause T am tctoss the continent
how ?
games.
from Martha and not because I am
These calls, he said, were the a soldier, in my country’s service
Well, 1 guess that proves there's
nothing to the slander that I result of the newspaper’s story through this war, but because Mar­
learned the “most masterful of all that Crosswhite would be taken to tha is a young woman and her hap­
military maneuvers in World War a game, under guard, and would piness must depend on herself, on
I,” that of getting to the head of pitch, under guard.
other people, and perhaps on men
■‘Crosswhite is unique.” the who are younger than her dad.
the mess line every time. The
truth is that I’ve never been at the guard told me. “He never played
“Yes, about all that a father can
ball until he was sent to prison. do, when his girl grows up, is to
head of a mess line.
Recently, at reveille, a sergeant Then he took it up strenuously, stand by ready to listen, whenever
with a sadistic sense of humor took practicing four hours a day and she has joys or troubles to confide,
us down into a field and then becoming, in my opinion, the great­ and to foster such a surely tender
suddenly shouted “Scram” or est living baseball pitcher.
relationship that she will turn to
“What will it do to him if he him in need.
“Company dismissed,” so that
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there was a blind, headlong rush can’t play ball as was planned?” I
“Therefore I am thinking, today,
to the kitchen, and on that occasion asked.
of my Uncle Tom’s favorite lines
"I’m a guard, so I can’t talk in the Bible. They are in my Ser­
I did get"to be second in line,
because of course these youngsters about it, but I can quote others vice Prayer Book and are taken
who know him. They say that it from the eighth chapter of Romans,
couldn't run as fast ax I could.
Usually, though, I’m well back j will change him from a model and they go like this:
In the line and in a way I’m pleased | prisoner, which he is now, into a
“ ‘For I am persuaded that nei­
that E.A.B. libeled me (now, I (desperate one who will kill a guard ther death, nor life, nor angels, nor
won’t bring suit — paper hasn’t, if he can.”
principalities, nor powers, nor
While we were talking the guard things present nor things to come.
any money), because it does give
m< an excuse to hold forth about'drove past the road that leads up
“ ‘Nor height, nor depth, nor any
the real Army curse- that of wait- ( Mary’s Peak. So when I got out I other creature, shall be able to
ing in line for practically every- had to walk back, uphill, a mile or separate us from the love of God,
so, and then walk up hill, almost which is in Jesus Christ our Lord.’
thing.
"Hurrj and wait." an expression ' steadily, to the mountain top. I
“To me there is something poign­
coined by a tent mate, Maurice climbed from an altitude of below antly beautiful about faith like
Wedum. would make a title for an [ 1.900 feet to an altitude of 4.057 that, and today, if it isn't presump­
Army theme song. You rush to get ( feet, the highest point in the Coast tuous, I wish that Martha may
in line nnd then you wait, and the range.
have it all through the years to
In the little house at the summit come, and that in a minor way at
ones who are willing to wait and
do nothing naturally get there i I met Kenneth W’alker, recrea- least it will include assurance that
first, The result of this vicious, tional director, and Mrs. Walker, my love for her is steadfast and
practice is a tremendous waste of, his wife, fire and plane watcher, bridges time and distance.
man hours and *1 wish The Camp j They invited me to supper, but the
"The role of god has been so
Sentry would get up a scientific sun was sinking through a cloud­ sweet that I would not surrender
sea broken by dark islands and it altogether, and if most of my
chart to prove it.
l’ut 1 have a remedy, at least in promontories which really were power is gone the caring remains
the case of the mess line and a few other mountain tops, and in the undiminished, A very personal
more. Adopt the neat little scheme east the white peak of Mt. Hood [piece this is, in my old soldier's
of the bus lines in Paris—Paris was disappearing in the evening diary, but I know that it will be
when her heart was warm and gay. haze, so I thought I’d better be get- understood by parents who have
as the song goes. On a pole at ¡ting down.
been writing to me about their
every bus stop was a kind of box < Luckily I got back to the road sons.”
from which every prospective pas­ before the last cars had quit the
senger nulled, on arrival, a slip of mountain top parking space, and I Staff Sergeant Takes
was picket! up and carried all the
paper bearing a number.
The numbers came out in order, way to Corvallis, in time for a late Bride Sunday Morning
Increasing one by one as our serial meal and a haircut before catching
numbers do. and when a bua pullxi the 11 p. m. bus back to camp.
A wedding of military interest
up the conductor admitted the pas­ The barber was Erwin Falk, also was performed last Sunday morn­
a war Veteran. In the other war he ing. August 9. at 9:45 o’clock, when
sengers by number.
Why couldn’t that method be was in the 13th Infantry, protect­ Miss Mary Ballestrazze became the
followed in camps? The first sol­ ing Brooklyn’s waterfront. He , bride of Staff Sergeant Ernest
dier up in the morning would go to thinks some of the fellows from 1 Fama, at a poet chapel. First Lieu­
the kitchen and receive, from New York talk too continuously tenant Victor J. Schwar, chaplain,
somebody on K.P., a slip of paper and argue too much. So do I think officiated at the ceremony and con­
marked No. 1. Then he could that.
ducted the Catholic mass which fol­
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finish dressing, make his bunk,
lowed.
On Sunday morning early I was
and do whatever else he had time
First Sergeant Robert E. Cutler
to do before the cook beat an a sitting in the headquarters office and Mrs. Cutler were the attend­
tin pan. officially announcing that of my outfit, sort of getting orient­ ants and several men from Sgt.
chow was ready. The soldiers with ed. when I saw a sight that touched Fama's company were onlookers.
the lowest numbers would go in my heart. I saw a sergeant, name
of Scott Miller, pick up a broom
first.
Thue there would be no long and proceed tn ¿reep the flear. The < RUBBER STAMPS
MADE TO ORDER
line wa ting even before chow was sight affected me so that I could
ready, and the early birds would not go on looking. I hurried out
be rewarded. It might improve the and went to church.
It was August 9 >nd my daugh­
disposition of sergeant* and cor­
porals, because they would have an ter’s birthday and I was thinking
orvallis. Phone 1 t'.U
easier time routing out the sleepy of her and of a Bible verse that]
lads. And it woukl be possible far I had quoted in the diary that I!
me to make a little money on the write for a New York paper. So I.
side, because I'm always awake be­ was much moved by it when Chap-p rectal disorders sueceMfully
treated the ambulant way.
fore first call, and up. too, and for lain Jorgenson stepped forward I
nnd
read
that
very
passage.
Per-
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consideration I would quietly
DR. WIDMER
•waken whoever was wilhng to bap* U u out of order, but inatixi I
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of
the
soldiers
whom
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uie for it. Iwfore reveille. Cer-
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Texas Romance Ends in
Wedding Here Saturday
Corvallis Hotel
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Miss Mary Margaret Mulholland
of Fort Worth, Texas, and Staff
Sgt. Francis Herbert Thompson of
Troy, New York, were married Sat­
urday afternoon at Camp Adair
regimental chapel T-3-723. C hap-
lain Gerard Paul O’Keefe officiat­
ed.
The Couple first met at Camp
Walters. Texas, and the ceremony
marked, almost to the day, the
fourth anniversary of that meet­
ing. Cpl. Norman W. Penny was
Sgt. Thompson’s best man for the
occasion with Sgts. Piwetz and
Lawrence F. Bendowske as wit­
nesses. Sgts. Dan Woolery, Mell
Stallings and T. S. Hancock were
special guests at the ceremony.
Unusual sidelight is the fact I
that the bride and groom, as well
as the best man, witnesses and
special guests were all located at
Camp Walters, Tex., before being
stationed at Camp Adair.
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