Camp 'Adair Sentry
Thursday, Octobe 8, 1942.
If j A Great Life
Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
A weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian per
sonnel of Camp Adair, Oregortband circulated free to officers, soldiers*
and civilians by written permission of the camp commander.
PubBshed by the Camp Adair Sentry, publisher, Box 347, Cor-
vullis, Oregon. News matter pertuining to Camp Adair, furnished by
the Camp Public relations Office, is available for general release.
Editor and manager
Don C. Wilson
P. 0. Address, Box 347, Corvallis, Oregon. Phope 865-M,
Subscription by mail $1.50 a year or $1 for six month*
Advertising rates upon request.
Address ail commuhicatiuna to “Camp Adair Sentry, Box
Corvallis. Oregon.”
News contributors to this issue: Lt. George H. Godfrey,
Public Relations officer; Sgt. E. A. Brown, associate director;
Sgt. R. L. Black, CpI. Henry Beckett, Cpt. Raoul Mound, T/5
Raymond C. Johnson, Pfc. John J. Gubelman, T/6 Bert Shandler.
THE AXIS ( HOW LINE
Of late there seem« to be little complaint of our army
rhow lilies. Of course there is always the chronic griper,
hut that in to be expected aw a necewsary evil. It i« to thin
minority that we would like to call attention to a recent
speech by one Herman Goering, plump and gaudy crown
prince of Nazi tyranny.
In his annual harvest festival address, Goering vocifer
ously announced that Germans would never go hungry as
long as there was food to be had in conquered countries.
He the coming winter ever so bleak in those unhappy lands
where the Swastika flies, the great German soldiery, the
deliverers of Europe will rob the helpless of their all too
scanty food that the Berlin Ilausfrau shall lose no lard
from their comfortable ribs. Let the starving child die in
the arms of its starving mother—the Germans come first.
The monstrous practicality of Goering’s promise ought
to amaze us but Nazi cruelty long since robbed amazement
of further capacity. The record of German treatment of
conquered people has prepared us for anything. We were
disillusioned quite early in the war. If snatching a crust
from an enemy child will help fill a German belly, that crust
will be snatched. If the starving of an enemy mother will
insure that a German mother will sing the good German
songs as blithely as ever, the alien outcast must starve.
Why Goering thought it necessary to tell anyone this is
beyond comprehension. It’s a cinch the Germans already
knew it because they have already benefited by its practice.
The United Nations already knew it.
If the individual German escapes famine by the device
of theft from the starving and helpless—the suggested plan
of fat old Goering—what actual difference exists between
this and the actual eating of the flesh of the wasted corpses
of Poland and Greece.
So without fear, but with complete repugnance, we of
the United Nations must regard the Germans as barbarians
who have reverted to the darkest depths of savagery. They
are the unnatural monsters who would rule the world.
Let’« remember that, soldier, when we feel prone to
complain about our chow line. So far we have not suffered
—and the chances are ninety-nine to one that we never will.
And even if such days should come, be proud in the thought
that we as Americans could never stoop so low as the Germans
are now doing in a vain effort to avoid it.
Our hats off to the buck who maintains his dignity as he
walks past the company formation on way to discharge his duties
as latrine attache.
that was lacking before. A* spe lied the week before. Playing in
cialist* they are now proving their the hand are Sergeants Black, Ev-
worth.
erard, Goldberg, Parker and Ras
If prejudice is bad, and if toler mussen; Corporal* Gross, Hill and
ance of the stranger and his differ Wennas; Pfc. Dunn and Privates
ing way* is a virtue, then I con Bowen, Duncan, Iskowit», Seif and
sider New York ahead of the rest Vanerelli. The new band drew well-
of the United States. Live and let deserved applause and will appear
live must be the rule in a com again tomorrow night at the club
munity of million* and it la. If with some new tunes added to their
400 Oregon men had been shipped growing repertoir. The public ad
to New York their differences dress system was the brainchild
would have been accepted more of the post Signa! Corps men.
Added to the program were se
readily than our# have been here.
New York City ha* room for every lections by Pfc. Nick Samtonia, who
kind of person and I think that in played and sang, and Cpl. Angelo
wartime the Army will have to be | Calabrese, who sang and encored
i the intermission numbers. The
more elastic.
I Junior Hostesses and Senior Host-
Imperceptibly our presence and
line of thought is influencing the . esses who assisted came over from
viewpoint of this camp, I imagine. j Dallas. Albany and Salem.
Guests of honor who dropped in
For example, the west coast people
inevitably have their minds on during the evening included Major
Japan more than on Germany. It Creager, Chaplain Thompson,
I* the other way around with us Chaplain Harmon, the new Special
am! if our opinion* make any Services Officer, Capt. Alex T.
Ruth, Service Club Officer, Lt.
change it will be wholesome.
Without becoming controversial, Koliert E. Mallonee, and others.
Tomorrow night, starting at 8,
I call attention to the fact that it
Is Nazi Germany which has blight the Service Clubs door will swing
ed the Europe from which our kind wide once more, as the regular
of civilization was carried across dances get underway. Everyone
the sea, to grow into the American , always ha* a good time ... so why
way of life. The residents of the not spruce up n bit, straighten your
metropolis, considerably of foreign tie, and hike on over. See you
birth or recent foreign ancestry, the (Tubs.
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Are You Talented?
does not, how essential it is that
Heard just as we were going
Europe be saved.
I
press that Mrs. Florence C. Mer-
International Kinship
American self-sufficiency is a 1 riant, recreational and social host
By II. II.
ess over at Service Club 2, is
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the United Nation* must hohl to
Not Military Channels
This week I'm sticking up for
gether und fight aa one, and un ent for a quartet and male chorus.
Such n way of life ia the reverse doubtedly we are less cursed in In fact, anyone who is interested in
my imine town. New York City.
New York, where Europe’s herit singing, or is an instrumental
With all it* fault* I love it still I of regimentation. In the Army,
age
of arts and letters is valued soloist, or has a yen to make the
and the time ha* come to put a i you've often hoard it auid, the man
and
understood
for the blessing it most of his dramatic or artistic
few kind words on the record, even i in the ranks does what he ia told
is. New York feels, a* the rest of talents, should drop in (Tub 2 and
if a New Yorker has to do it to do and no more. Possibly a few America does not, our kinship with tell Mrs. Merriam what he has on
from New York have liecn slow to
himself.
that venerably benign Europe that I the ball.
So let me remind everybody that grasp that, Take the questidn of Hitler and his followers will de- i
She wants these people to help
the West was developed by people procedure, in going after what stroy if we do not hasten to the with productions and entertain
fi oin the East, including some you want, A common complaint rescue.
ments at the Service Clubs . . .
from my home town, and let me against Us I from New York is that
Also, we uiv more fully aware. and don't think that she hasn't
add something about the men from we run to headquarters with our in New Yolk. of our indebtedness planned an active program for the
the eastern seaboard who are out request« and our kicks, instead of to the foreign nations (but of saason just ahead.
here now, giving a hand in the war. following the orthodox Army line. course China is in the vanguard),!
That may be true and at home it
l<a*t June some 400 of us, mostly
V WORD PROVI TOM!
which have resisted, in agony, for 1
from New York and the metropoli might l>« a virtue, indicating in so long.
tan area, arrived at this camp, as genuity and persistence. Certainly
Tom Smith is the Independence
A great many of us, in and of '
the first suable shipment to come it won't do in a military camp.
jroerr
deluxe, originator and
New York, share the view of Miss
Then there ia the complaint that
from anywhere, laist week five
Dorothy Thompson, that militant ' prize donator in the Sentry's
trainload* of men came from New we talk loo atu-4'b Westerners will New York journalist, who recently ' Great. Stupendous. Stupifting
Fish Story Contest. Tom I’ens a
York to work in the yard* of the agree that certain of the men from wrote:
nice letter. We're purring like
Kaiser Shipbuilding Co. ami more New York have out tallied them,
”1 like the idea that we remem- ‘
Beckett's cat.
worn them down. Repeatedly I'va
are on the way.
l>er. all together, those who have
heard
the
chatge
that
New
Yoikers
Now to avoid controversy I re
To the Editor:
suffered as we have not
those
frain from saying that except flir ure noisy and I think there is much who have bought with their ter
Enclosed you will find the ten
the work of (he men from the East, to support it. My feilow-citirens rlble bath of fire and blood our , dollars which 1 offered as first
thia camp would lie an utter fail are offended when I tell them so, relative immunity. The thought of prile for the most astounding fish
ure. I'll even concede that the rest but that ia because they are used them would sweeten a mess of **ory offered in the contest juat
of you might have blundered along to it. whereas I grew up in Ohio lintels.”
ended.
somehow and made a success of and did not become a resident of
I wish to compliment all partiei-
Adair. But 1 do insist that the New York until I was 30 years old.
‘ pants and also extend my thanks to
SOCIAL NOTES
Another weakness, but shared by
the Public Relations Committee
camp would lie different.
and the Camp Adair Sentry who
What's that? Did 1 hear some men from other part« of the coun
By Adele Adair
offerer! so freely to give the sec
body say "And how?” Was that try, ia the unfortunate concern
a Bronx cheer? Ail right, then, over getting ahead as an individual,
Friday night was dance night ond and third prises in this content.
just to be broad-minded I'll grant instead of trying to fit into the again last week («ml every week (What's a saw buck to big time pro
that a few of us are not natural Big Team, in a way to be as useful as a matter of fact) and in my moters like ns. Tnm* (ed.l
Pvt. Ira Brooks, the winner of
aoMivrs. I'll go farther and say as possible in this war, That, of usual aoeisl r<>nnd-up. I dropped
that living in New York tenets to Course, is to lie expected of reai In at the Ast vice Club* where I the first prise is to be highly com
foster non-military characteristics. dent« of a city where the drive to found bustling activity, lots of fun mended on his ability and I feel
In the big city H's every man get ahead goes right along with making and merriment, and good, with such talent he will become
a first class officer and a leader
danceable music
for himself. In a city of apartment the survival of the fittest.
Ike Case for New Turk
At Service Club No 2. Mis* of men. (Take a deep bow at the
house* and U'liemenis no one look»
Probably we have other failings, Elisabeth Rogers, director of the next callisthenics. Brooks; ed.)
after you and no one checks up on
The Camp Adair Sentry is well
you. That encourages non-con but now I want to point out cur Service Club, pulled the string*
received
in Independence and a
formity. On the one hand, a man virtues, if any. It does seem to that kept thing* in motion The
future for this wide awake paper
has to push and shove to get any me that certain New York charac Field Artillery orchestra was again
is assurer! I We'll take our lx>w
where, even by subway, and he has teristic* have value out hero. Grad on hand to di»h up the dance tunes,
right now. Ed.) Before closing I
to out-talk hie fellow citiaans. and ually men from New York are and the Junior Hoatessea attend
will also offer a prise of ten dol
on the other hand he can coddle being placed in posts where special ing came from C.wvallis and Salem
lars to the homlicst man station«!
aptitude«
and
training
can
coant
Assisting .Mis* Roger* was Miss 1 at Camp Adair. (Maybe you've got
himself as an individual.
J
In personal habits he is ■ free and it tweomes apparent that many Carrie Reedy. Cafeteria Hoate**
something there. Tom. Too bad the
•At Service Club No. 1, Mn. Mar Fublic RrtatioM Office c7n't7ntZr
man. If he doesn't go to church will woik hard and effectively at
or keep regular hour* ur dress in jobs which are congenial. A« a garet Blodgett, director of Service _jt)1
uk|ng
fashion the neighbors don't care a result, their general morale has Club, kept things moving, and mak. ( bar* away from a new 1st I t )
hoot. They may not even know improved They gain self respect mg it» debsit was the new 8CU
Sincerely,
as soldiers, even drilling with a test 1*11 Dance Band, which was organ-
his Mme.
Thoe. R. Smith.
combined in this Oregon country.
The rolling hili« are great for hik
ing. Fish streams are within easy
reach of the post. Some hunting
is also available, in season. Nature
AMP
lovers will find this area, with its
OMMANDER’S
wide variety of plant life, extreme
OI.UMN
ly interesting.
Good health is a matter of duty,
SCU 1911
and here is one time when duty
also brings a reward of greater en
joyment and a keener, more zestful
Your health is a matter of great living for everyone.
concern at this time. No man can
perform his duties efficiently un-
COVENANT
les he is well and in good spirits.
During this time of emergency it
i specially important that every There Is a valley to be crossed
one be in first class shape physical
For every mountain top we reach,
ly and ready for any duty, no mat There is a hollow or a trough
ter how strenuous.
For each wave rolling up the
At this time of year it is neces
beach.
sary to be more careful than usual For all the blasts of Winter, dour,
about health. Summer is now giv
Faith’s finger points to rosy
ing way to winter, and minor ills,
June,
such as the common cold, are more While frost and chill benumb the
than usually prevalent.
earth,
The health Service of this camp
Spring, waiting, grows beneath
is now functioning for everyone.
the gloom.
Dispensaries have been set up with Forever, morning follows eve,
in easy reach by all, staffed by com
And after midnight, glorious
petent men from the medical corps.
noon.
Medical aid is plentiful. For those For all the black clouds sweeping
who need it, an excellent hospital,
o’er,
with all modern facilities, is avail
There will be rainbow radiance
able.
soon ....
A few simple rules for health Now half the world in agony
should be kept in mind at all-times.
Writhes as a kingly beast in pain,
First of all, make sure you get
With mighty force sends crushing
plenty of exercise, preferably out-
blows
of-doors. Calisthenics and drill are
The other half hurls back ugain
good health builders, as are all
But after all the strife is o’er
outdoor sports. Get plenty of fresh
Death’s harvest reaped and hor
air, although drafts should be
rors passed,
avoided. Eat enough, but not too
Our Morning Star will rise once
much, of wholesome food.
more—
If you cantract a cold, avoid
Faith, Hope and Love join hands
contact with others as much as
at last.
possible so you will not spread
—By Ida H. Waite.
the disease. Report for treatment
at once, and do as the doctor says.
Self-admiration often indicates
A day or two in bed, or a day or
so resting, may put you back in there is no accounting for tastes.
shape, while attempting to “fight
it out on your feet” may delay cure
and bring on possible complications.
As a preventative, avoid people who
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