P;.ge Six
Camp Adair Sentry
September 10, 1942
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ant division commander of the Soldiers Loving Wives
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104th division here, who was a stu- u
in troops and field riave One Loevly Time
dent observer
exercises of the German army, I Enlisted men who have their lov­
says that “at the end of the first ’ ing wives nearby had themselves
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year of training the German soldier a whale of a time at a gathering
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held Tuesday evening in the New­
■Editor’s Note: Readers will be conquered nor resisted. For dented marches,” and that he man club of Corvallis. Bang up
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ar • e that “Snarls” is the wrong where a courier could scarce have marches 35 miles with light pack I entertainment was m.c.’d by Sgt.
DR. A. W. MARKER
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I for the line of this-and-that been supposed to come in many and gas mask.
' Bob Sieving and featured Sgt.
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¡’I snarl. He merely mutters, whole army, ravaging the country, we should be able to beat whatever ,, .
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week to week, in his harmless destroying the castles, storming the they can do, if we care enough and ...
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So we’ve changed the head.) cities.”
try. It happens that my work is j I at the piano. After the entertain-
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One Winter I lived in a shanty on such that I . . may , not , have . to do . ......
was a soldier, General Sher- Monte Mario, outside of Rome. It much marching, but I like it and merit the
strutted their stuff on the dance
who said, "War is hell.” It was right on the Triumphal Way- am open to invitations from out­
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floor.
vi­ our own War Dept, which re- over which Caesar’s Legions fits other than my own. So right
A committee of loving wives who
ce ' V put out a pamphlet saying inarched and just at the point where now I’m crawling way out on the
arranged the gala affair was
It : "the use of force, historically they caught their first glimpse end of a limb in saying that if
headed up by Dorothy Dreffer—
th. „cans of settling disputes, must of the Eternal City, on returning there are any good hikes coming i
who had the help of Mesdames La
ade less and less feasible on victorious from those marvellous want to go along.
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Pearl Petsch, Helen Ochtel and
t.- - . until it finally becomes im- campaigns in Gaul. I used to won­
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Dorothy Sieving. As special guests
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der at their endurance and to try
the
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Jeffries,
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fact, the case against war is to account for the stamina of all Pseudo Naturalists
enson and Gault of Corvallis did a
rung, in our country, that I, of the olden armies, marching down Stop at Nothing to
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handsome job in handling the in­
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iteer in a second world conflict, the corridors of time from the days
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ay with some truth that Amer- of Sesostris in angient Egypt.
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mat at Newman hall.
go to war because they hate
Somehow, without rails or mo­
Post Hdq. Co., alias DEML, rico-
wa They hate it as a means of tors, his 600,000 foot soldiers sub- chetted to the front this week as
„„ething and they f.uht jdued Ethiopia anf) got to Tartary> an organization of landscape art­ Browning Carnival in
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lied use they know of no other Thrace, Arabia, Lybia, and as far
ists without peer in the camp. An West Salem This Week
j-, tical way of dealing w.th a as the Ganges.
[alter the vast 1 expedition of naturalists sent out
m ' n that picks on other nations. armies of Cyrus the Great ranged
Browning Bros, carnival, which
by 1st Sgt. Atkins returned with
■ t even the visionaries wno will widely and after that forces of specimens so rare that nobody played Albany last week, is play­
h: t nothing to do with war, in-1 Alexander the Great triumphed in could name them and few were ing this week in West Salem.
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g that they “don’t believe in such distant places that he sighed willing to plant them.
This show is native Oregonian,
Modern Shop — Best
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(whatever that means), ad­ because there were no more worlds
the home office being in Salem.
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Picked details, picked on the
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mit ci rtain virtues are fostered (o conquer. And all of that conquer-
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ig a military struggle. Al-¡ing
Al- ing was
was done
done on
on the
the feet
feet of
of horses
horses “you and you and you” basis, soon
MESS — An appropriate name
attended to that and now the Hdq.
ti i e! Ralph Waldo Emerson, most all(| ,,f men.
for the place we eat. (See Chow).
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l'ican of philosophers, wrote , Nowadays it's different, but we Co. headquarters building is so
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nearly
surrounded
by
a
young
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ago that “war is on its lust must not exaggerate the difference,
and that “war to sane men Although we think of elephants grove that you can’t even see it
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e present day begins to look when the exploit of Hannibal cross­ unless you open your eyes.
an epidemic insanity," he still ing the Alps is mentioned, most of
Robert Scovell, who is a botan*
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his forces marched on foot and so ist and explorer (as far as i Van-
it is today, when we hear much couver), besides being an Indian
far educates the
of planes over sea and desert and chief of the Tillamooks, identifies
111 action the will
( tanks crashing through the battle­ the trees outside headquarters as
<al constitution,
fields. As the war progresses, and Christmas trees, They were so
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m b swit t and close collision m great
g-armies come to grips, the close to the steps that they will
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ul moments that man meas- chances are that the infantry will break your fall if you get pushed
! have to do the job again, and in any out of the door.
man.”
Auspices of Lions Club
that be true, I shv let’i make caM. earth-bound soldiers must rely
Red and blue balls will hang
tb< lust of it. We are at w
more ami more on their legs in from the branches of those trees
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he at war for a ionj
getting to the spot where they are during the last week of December.
We may as well take th
ti-
Scovell says, if anybody has the
view and think of “th*
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j We who were among the earliest energy to put them there.
ns a sizeable slice 1
t
In the space between the first
arrivals at Camp Adair have all
(¡rounds—Wallace Road near Box Factory
If we get 11 break, a
noticed, and with pleasure, how and second barracks, known as
No Charge to (¡rounds
side collapses, that I
quickly stretches of loose stones Iverson’s Swamp, doodlebushes are
fin (Itt-ei wise, well, if We expect are evolving into smooth, firm growing. On the way to the kit-
th< v.ar to go right on then we roads. Before long columns of sol- chens you pass specimens of the I
w. t be so disappointed when it idiers will be marching over them spreading juniper and jumping
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by day and by night, going to drill i Jupiter. Here and there specimens
w the particular virtue, or fields and the ranges, and hiking | of the whooping willow and gallop-
w ■ • onie characteristic, that I'm through the hills and over them, 1 ing horse chestnut are sprouting
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mg of today, as something with rifle ami pack.
from earth where grass soon will
de •■•nisi in war, is not courage,
At first these hikes will be short be growing all around, all around,
Jlingness to sacrifice, or any- I and easy, and still soldiers may if it ever conies up.
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like that. My mind i on the grumble, if they are not used to
A border of nasturtiums is
IÌU h. the "forward march” of I walking. Gradually pace anil dis­ planned, in memory of Sgt. Robert
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- to the battle front, and on ^a„ce will increase and there will Nastre, who soon will be off to the
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ilitv to march long und inarch
t„ carry, but there will gas house. And Sgt. Atkins, as
ÍH* ml like it.
| la- less grumbling, for more and herbaceous and cryptogamous as a
-bably you’re tired of hearing , morv men , will
— • learn the joy of first sergeant ever gets, has his
the automobile has turned us comradeship on the march,
heart set on a bed of syringes. But
non w alking people. All right, | This marching comradeship is when you ask him where all of
I won't
won t say it. But it surely t,^,. nothing else. The outfit that the wonderful plants came from
>e that we’re going to do • j
• I belong to had a taste of it the he murmurs something about mili­
deal of marching around here
other night. It was announced as tary secrets and points vaguely to
that many of you soldiers will
a 10-mile hike, partly with gas the western hills and the general
to learn to walk as you never
i gas masks, but it wasn't more than direction of the nursery near
<d la-fore and I say it will be
I half of that and almost every body old CCC camp.
for you
I enjoyed it. Some agreed with me
V th the exception of a few men
i that it was mort- fun than anything
P.X.—The place a soldier can get
W’l really have something wrong | we’ve done, as a unit, so far. Can’t
FOOD after eating in the mess
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their feet, or for some other
‘ say exactly why, except that after hall.
J»»'-: cal reason shouldn’t have to
.awhile
a happy feeling of unity
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uch walking, most men can
more than they think they ¡and harmony spreads through a
ata
ca­ because the human body is column of marching men and they
no. » that way. It thrives on its are brothers.
During a rest period several of
ow - use. As an example, take Jul-
>Ue 1 aesar, who is said to have the livelier lads tried to slip up on
b.. a pretty g.aai soldier If you a young heifer in a field and the
»va. "Plutarch’s Lives" you’ll find healthy laughter of soldier spec­
BIJTTER and
th*! n< was subject to violent head- tators would have delighted any
ICE CREAM
officer
responsible
for
morale.
act < ami epileptic fits and that he
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”s- ght in war a remedy for his Hearty laughter over an incident
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inf laties. endeavoring to that's only moderately amusing is
Distrib­
str. bithen his constitution by long j a sure sign of good health, in nund
ma­ hrs, by simple diet, by seldom and body.
utor« for
To close with the more serious
ce m • g under covert ’’ And he won
baf'e- by the unexpected speed of aspect of the march and the hike,
his arching legions. He got there as part of our training. I'm told
••fu.t.si with the mostest,” as the that the Japanese march three and
one miles an hour against two and
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V the swiftness of his march.” one half miles an hour for our t
Plutarch, “he showed ths- bar­ troops. by day, on good roads. And
Corvallis
bo: ns that his troop* would neither Brigadier General Kramer, assist-
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