Camp Adair Sentry
September 3, 1942.
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Best Fish Story to
Win $10 for Teller
Sept. 19 Deadline in
When the Army accepted me and with a cause too great for our
imaginations
to
grasp.
Contest
for 3 Prizes
it was time to pack and go to camp
In short, we “belong.” From
I looked through old keepsakes to
the rugged old general to the latest
Are you a liar or a fisherman?
Bee if there were a few things that , recruit all of us in uniform today
Or are you both? And are you a
like
to
have
with
me
I should
make the vanguard of a marching buck private?
nation. More than that, for we are
wherever I went.
These are the qualifications for
Among papers that the years part of a vast crusade of many entry into The Sentry’s Fish Story
had yellowed I found a typewritten nations, united against a concept Contest now in progress and to
poem, "The Mother Speaks,” by of life that is repugnant to every close with the mail on Saturday
Grace Ellery Channing. I couldn’t son of freedom. We may regard night, September 19. There are
tell when or how I came by it, but this war as an evil interruption of three prizes, $10, $6 and $4, for
I did remember taking it to France our individual lives, and it is that, the three fish stories judged best
in the other war and feeling that too, but it also is a fact that this of the lot received.
it was in the tradition of Ameri­ war is the biggest thing that we
Tom Smith, Independence food
will ever know, bigger than our merchant, is the sponsor of the
can motherhood at its best.
lives and not to be avoided if life
Today I use this poem as the is to be worth living in the future. contest, and poster of the first
prize.
basis for "Snarls” that really are
Retreat should be a daily remind­
Tom got tired of the fish stories
not snarls at all, but are hints er of who and what we really are.
from an old fellow whose heart is Here in camp, living together as told repeatedly by his Independence
in the right place, even if he we do, it is difficult to see clearly, barbers, butchers and candlestick­
blunders occasionally in trying to through all the dull routine of makers. ' He believes that some
buck private from Maine or
be of use to younger comrades.
training, that ours is a comrade­
The mother in the poem begins ship beyond all of the friendships Florida or Colorado can put them
in the shade. He barred officers
like this:
and chance associations of ordinary and non-coms because he was not
“Exempt. Your feet need never go
times. We are bound together as so sure about them. The Sentry
That crimson way to hell
no other men are. Whenever we offers half of the prize money.
Through shot and shell—.
march over a camp road, and even
Read the rules and then write
Then she goes on, deeply thank­ when we look funny or grotesque
ful because her son is safe, won’t with gas masks over faces, our your effort. Tel labout big ones or
be torn from her, won’t have his marching in smooth cadence is a about little ones, but bear in mind
well-ordered life interrupted. But symbol of the unity and harmony that you are contesting with others
who can tell some too. Thfn get
suddenly her thought changes:
which a trained army represents. your stuff in to the Public Rela­
‘‘Exempt. Exempt. It means—
But usually our imagination is tions office.
Let me think clearly:
too weak, so that we are not fully
When all you played with, worked
conscious of our place in the world
with, grew with, bravely
of today. That is one reason for Week Program Given
March in brown ranks down well-
the Retreat ceremonial and for for­ For Camp Movie Show
remembered ways.
mal reviews. At such times we do
While all your youth revered, rev­
have a sense of our importance, a
erently, gravely
Friday, September 4 — “Calling
reverence for the soldier’s calling,
Salutes in them the honor of a
although we may be individually Dr. Gillespie,” with Lionel Barry­
race;
humble. Then, as the Flag goes more, Philip Dorn and Donna Reed.
It means in those proud ranks
forward and we follow, it is pos­ Selected short subjects including
you have no place-”
sible to see that in a mystical way Community Sing and Movietone
From that point the mother
the Flag and its honor are in our News.
rhapsodizes, and maybe it’s over-
Saturday, September 5 — “Spy
keeping. And as the National An­
flowery, about the son missing “the
them is played we may remember Ship” with Irene Manning, Craig
Presence in the night” as well as
| that the privilege of standing at Stevens, plus “Hi, Neighbor” with.
“the anguish of the trenches” and 1
salute or at present arms is ours Jean Parker.
“the blinding vision” as well as •
Sunday, Monday, September 6-7
and that the confidence of a nation
the terror, but there’s substance at
is centered in us whenever people —“Talk of the Town” with Cary
the close:
Grant, Jean Arthur and Ronald
sing:
“And when those thinned brown
O say does that Star-spangled Ban­ Coleman, plus news.
ranks once more move proudly 1
Tuesday, September 8 — “Little
ner yet wave
Up the well-loved, the well-remem­
O’er the land of the free and the Tokio, U.S.A.” with Preston Fos­
bered street,
ter and Brenda Joyce. “Also
home of the brave?
And the long-silent stone
“Daughter of Rosy O’Grady,”
Rings to the echo of victorious
"Bats in the Belfry” and “Colorful
What Cooks, Craig?
feet.
North Carolina” as selected shorts.
Of feet that come again into their Message to Garcia,
Wednesday, Thursday, Septem­
own;
ber 9-10 — “Are Husbands Neces­
Or
Is
it
in
the
Bag?
When eyes again with other eyes
sary” with Ray Milland and Betty
shall meet;
Field, based on “Mr. and Mrs.
Off hand it hardly seems a case
When proudly, proudly,
Cugat.” Also “Soaring Stars,”
Heard high above the trumpets for the "G” men, but the strange “Donald Gets Drafted” and news.
actions of one Cpl. Charles M.
piercing sweet—
Friday, September 11 — “Pierre
Craig, DEML, are keeping many
Oh, still more sweet—
of
the Plains” starring John Car­
A million throats as one throat soldiers in his barracks awake roll. Ruth Hussey and Bruce Cabot,
when
they
could
be
sleeping
shouting loudly
plus “A Study in Socks,” “Neck
W. lcome to its imperishable hour through reveillie (or trying to).
and Neck” and “Personality Plus,
Cpl.
Craig,
as
if
you
didn
’
t
know,
The flower of a people in its flow­
a Sportlight.
does
something
or
other
at
Camp
er—
AW films listed are for Post
Headquarters. Every morning he
Our warriors against wars.
departs for his chores, which isn’t Theatre No. 5, Avenue
Our knighthood of the stars.
so odd. but he never fails to carry Fifth Street South.
Whose empty hands are honor’s
a small kit bag with him, which
utmost boast.
PAY CHECK — Ara you
is. The corporal doesn’t cut across
Oh. of that high, that hallowed,
fields .as many lesser men do. but ding ?
that most happy host
sticks carefully to the main thw-
You, framed for honor most.
oqghfarcs.
Enlisted Personnel
Shall not be one. You of their
What does Cpl. Craig carry in
years and bl<M>d,
that bag? Is it the latest in bomb Receive Promotions
To that blood brotherhood
sights? Is it an eatrw pair of sox!
Born, bound by every tie that Is. Is it Yehudi? Is Cpl. Craig going to
Promotions for the week:
most nearly.
Quartermaster section: To be
break down and tell us before wo
Exempt from honor then, as now, start screaming?
sergeant. Cpl». G. E. Fisher, R. A.
from fears.
Gordon. From Pvt. lcl. to corporal:
Wo hope to have some ki ind
You will walk humbly, not among an answer next week.
H. R. Ingber. S. Lee, C. W. Fiola.
your peers;
J. H. Wilson. O. L. Chamberlain, I.
And I, who of the world love you
Hankin and T. Bingel. Four DEML
Lt. Hale Appointed
most dearly.
men were promoted to corporal: H.
That day I shall not see you for Camp Provost Marshaf
Beckett, E. V. Hendricks. E. A. |
my tear».”
Brown and R. L. Black.
Now 1 say that even if it’s too
According to special orders is-
Veterinary section announced the I
sentimental for you that poem tells sued Monday. 1st Lt. Julius Hale. promotion of two men I W. Hone
the truth about our situation to­ Inf. SCV 1911 is detailed as Acting to S Sgt., and S
Maher to
day. the situation of all Americans Provost Marsha! in addition to his Techn. 4th grade.
in the uniform of the armed forces other > hi ties
Mesticai section gave M Mat
I
Although it may not seem like it
Also. 1-t Lt. Walter R. Padrtek, to 58 enlisted men.
H Stalvey
on guard when the relief is late, or Inf. SCU 1911. i.s released from his to M Sgt., R. H. Farris, J. R. IK-
on K.P. or at Reveille on a cold assignment as Assistant S-4 and is Bruyne,
M. Haskins. H. R.
morning, we are all enjovinr the assigned to the Militarv Police aec- Jourdan, A. Invine. M. C. I.indsav.
« l.vnch. L.O. I
r and J. A.1
Toews promoted to S/Sgts. Techns.
4th grade T. T. Duffield, R. B.
McNeese, H. H. Ochs, W. A.
O'Rouke, C. C. Burch, H. J. Kes-
ling and R. N. Maki were also pro­
moted to S/Sgt. grade. J. Chipko,
C. H. Keefer, K. D. Stern, D. D.
Siquido, C. W. Cox, E. W. Nelson
and J. A. Tipton promoted to ser­
geants. To be corporal: Pvts. lei.
J. H. Ford, H. L. Jess, C. P. Wind,
W. J. Wilson, W. D. Bittinger, H.
U. Breen, R. L. Gross, W. G. Khm,
J. F. Lynch, I. C. Pystad, E. S.
Mott, J. R. O’Keefe, H. J. Reinke,
PEPSI COLA i> ..4« ody ky
and S. W. Southard. To be Techns. Ptpii-Cth Ceapuy, Loaf ialud City, N. T.
5th grade: Pvts. lcl. J. C. Herron, lottM locally by: "
F. M. Bradler, R. L. Churchill, N.
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co.
C. Elliott, B. R. Lockridge, J. A.
Orwick, R. S. Rapisardo, H. L.
of Corvallis
Roberts, C. J. Thill, H. J. Wolfe
and C. Bomar. Also promoted to
ASK FOR—
Techns. 5th grade were Pvts, I.. A.
Cavenaugh, T. F. Cussen, N. R.
Gordon, 0. D. Kanouse, C. A. Ma­
son, J. W. Moore, G. Silverman,
F. T. Troy and J. E. Young.
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