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Il’s A Great Life
Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book
PubKshed by the Camp Adair Sentry, publisher. Box 347, Cor
vallis, Oregon. News matter pertaining to Camp Adair, furnished by
the Camp Public relations Office, is available for general release.
Editor and manager ..........
Don C. Wilson
P. O. Address, Box 347, Corvallis, Oregon. Phone 865-M
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Advertising rates upon request.
Address all communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Box
Corvallis, Oregon.”
News contributors to this Issue: I.t. George 11. Godfrey,
Public Relations officer; Sgt. E. A. Brown, associate director;
Sgt. K. L. Black, Sgt. Henry Beckett, T/4 Raymond C. Johnson,
1 pl. John J. Gubelman, T 5 Bert Shandler, Pvt. Robert Ruskauff.
MARCHING ALONG. SINGING A SONG
From the soldier’s viewpoint at least, Fletcher’s famous
aphorism: "Give me the making of the songs of a nation anti
I care not who makes the laws,” is one worth consideration.
We soldiers can not make the laws and we van not origin
ate the military strategy that will eventually win this war —
although from barrack and day room arguments it. would
appear that we could if we*juHt had the chance
but we can
go into battle — and that includes training for buttle —
with a song in our hearts and on our lips.
Such a statement may seem a bit silly, but is
the beginning of time, which means since the first
survival, the lusty, singing cheerful horde has been the con
queror. Hannibal’s warriors sang, so did Alexander’s. Grant
ed that singing alone wouldn’t even lick a couple of Musso
lini’s crack divisions, it does have a psychological effect lhat
tranHcends mere mouthing of tunes.
Allied veterans of the last war still remember the demor
alizing effect on the Huns when the famed Princess Pat regi
ment from Canada went over the top with every soldier sing
ing at the top of his lungs. This is but one example, there
were sources of others.
The late George M. Cohan, although lie never to our
knowledge donned a uniform, destroyed thousands of the
enemy by penning and then getting our boys to sing “Over
There.” The Hon. Winston Churchill has long been a firm be
liever in the value of singing as a morale builder. During his
dramatic Atlantic Charter meeting on mid-ocean with Presi
dent Roosevelt the singing aboard the Prince of Wales affect
ed him deeply. Hi1 said later:
"On the quarterdeck were mingled together many hun
dreds of American and British sailors and marines. We sang
‘Onward, Christian Soldiers,’ and, indeed, I felt this was no
vain presumption but that we had a light to feel we were
serving a cause for sake of which the trumpet has sounded
from on high.”
Getting back to Camp Adair and our specific subject.
Let’s get a movement under way to have the old community
song-fests. They say that the radio has s|x4led the doom of
the old barber shop quartet. We hold firm to the conviction
that a fighting army is a singing army. Let’s win this war
and win it singing at the top of our lungs. Tojo won’t like
that.
THE MEDICAL SOLDIER. Car
lisle Barracks. Pa.
An ex-woman lawyer. Mary Ag
nes Brown, formerly of Washing
ton, D. C., has been assigned to
AMP
command
WAACs of the 8th Serv
OMMANDER’S
ice Command, says the SPEAR
OLUMN
HEAD of Fort Sam Houston.
Texas. Also asserted: 45.000 photos j
Camp Adair
of Betty Grable are displayed on
bunks, lockers, etc., by men in U.
S. armed forces. We know where
One week from today this na one is.
tion hold, its annual Thanksgiv
They’ve started a lusty bowling
ing observance. In many ways, this league; also gave the folks of
day should be the most important Brownwood and neighboring com
of the year. In the first place. munities a big Armistice Parade,
Thanksgiving is an American event. says the CAMP BOWIE (Texas)
No other nation observes this day. BLADE . . . 344 bakers and cooks
No other nation ean appreciate what vere last week graduated at CAMP
Thanksgiving means to us, for no I CARSON (Colorado Springs!, the
other nation has as many things CAMP CARSON MOUNTAINEER
handkerchiefs
pajamas
for which to be thankful.
reports; of sporting interest. 75 en
Here at Camp Adair we should tered the post boxing tourney;
bed jackets
robes
be thankful first of all that we jeeps and jackasses are having
are efficiently organized to do our quite a battle over in Camp Car-
hosiery
gowns
part in the greatest battle for genu son, as to which can be put to
ine freedom the world has ever greatest diversity of uses.
hostess coats
slips
known. We can be thankful that
CAMP WOLTERS (Texas!
dresses
we are comfortably, even if not now a school for instructors in
Special Message to
luxuriously housed. We can be armed combat; they've also just
Soldiers
thankful that food is plentiful and finished a scrap drive that covered
invite you to come into [
well prepared. We can be thankful 12 (whew!) Texas counties and
our ladies’ shop, where you
that recreational facilities are avail, their 3000th officer candidate has
will find many beautiful gifts
for “her.” Courteous service
able.
just appeared before the examining
to all our men shoppers. Your •
i gifts
But above al), we should be board. Busy, what.
will be gift-w rapped and. j
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lively
multigraph
sheet.
THE
thankful that we have a country
i wrapped for mailing, free of |
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that is worth fighting for. and that TRAINER of the Air Depot Train i charge.
to this day is peopled with citizens ing Station, New Orleans A AB. >.
who desire just as earnestly as did features its new rolling kitchens
128 S. Third St.
Corvallis
our Pilgrim fathers, freedom and with this pregnant Air Corps slo
( quality and the right to seek hap gan as the lead:
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piness.
plished immediately. The imposs
We can all be thankful that our
ible will take a little longer.” Roll
loved ones are safe in our homes,
ing kitchens are required due to
untouched by the ravages of war
an accelerated training urogram.
that have been visited on defense
The 4th FERRYING GROUP, of
less women and children of other
Berry Field at Nashville, Tenn.,
nations. We ean be thankful that
features (and who wouldn’t) the
we are helping to carry the fight
fact that Miss Cornelia Fort of
to the enemy, instead oi waiting
Nashville (who was at Pearl Har
Dark olive drab.
for destruction to descend on our
bor), last week became the first
40'. wool, 60'< rayon.
I own land.
member of the WAFS to'ferry a
We can I m - thankful that we are plane to their post . . . and the
$6.95
Americans, that the United States ARMODIER of Camp Chaffee, |
is our country, and that when this Ark., applauds the prize-winning
I war is over and victory is won, we recipes concocted while in a hos
can again take up our American pital bed by Pvt. Charles E. Sams.
way of life.
22 (it’s on page 8, Mess Sgts.)
Fine all wool top. Genuine leather peak.
In closing this week, Fort Riley,
Ventilated leather sweatband.
Kansas (says the GUIDON) boasts
$5.95
a private who can cuss out his sgt.
in six languages (behind his back,
of course). E Pluribus Unum until
next week.
Krom Our Army
To wear over service caps. Fits any size.
Here's
what
she
wants!
A weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian per
aonnel of Camp Adair, Oregon, and circulated free to officers, soldiers
and civilians by written permission of the camp commander.
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LET THEM GO
At dawn of day the lily bloom
Lift fair her face and shower perfume,
At even time it fades and sp,
Its life is passing,
let it go.
anni
M c G regor
REGULATION
SHIRTS
FEATHERWEIGHT SERVICE CAPS
PLIOFILM PROTECTORS
IDA H. WAITE.
Cousins
(This week the Sentry introduces
a new feature—-choice bits gleaned
j.
from our contemporary post news
portunity of establishing more in papers throughout the country. As
timate contacts.
recently announced, these news
papers will be duly turned over to
Sunda.i Services, November 22
the Service Club reading rooms.
Chapel No. 7
So. if one of these used to be
0900 Catholic Muss.
“yours.” go in and read. Just an
Protestant Service.
other service and you're welcome.
Chapel No. 8
Don't mention it.)
Catholic Mass.
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Lead-off: Wa'll give it to the
Protestant Service.
CAMP CROWDER (Mo.) MASS
()!’ AN
( hapel No. 9
AGE, a professional 12-page. 8-
Catholic Mass.
column newspaper, Among fea-
Protestant Service.
tures, they boast a father-son
Bv II. II.
Chapel No. 10
“high-line” team. Pvts. Bradley
Catholic Mass.
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< hrisliun Science Churches
Ausbun and son, Clyde; soldiering
Protestant Service.
Do the French know about Gen Americans. Apart, from our native
side
by side in one of the most in-
"Soul ami Body” »»ill be the sub
Chapel No. 11
eral Pershing’s letter to the Pres land, we know France better than ject of the Lesson-Sermon in nil
teresting father-son combinations
0800 Catholic Mass.
ident of the United States? No, I we know any other country, and we Churches of Christ. Scientist, on
we’ve read about . . one company is
0900 Protestant Service.
•Hi .suppose not. It ‘is too soon. But grieve over her present plight.
adding to GI comfort by putting
Sunday, Nov 22.
1000 Protestant Service.
they will know, later. My old com-
the "Hollywood touch" into its day
The Golden Text »»ill be "Know
now at
We grieve, yet now
1100 Christian Science Service.
mander-ln-chivf wrote it on the last — we may hope. It was thrill- ye not that ye tire the temple of
room. They painted it, added a
da}- after Armistice Day, when ing to read the other day. that (iod, mid that the Spirit of God
clever post-office set-up; even in
POST CH \PEI. SERVICE
President and General hud stood I negotiations with the true French dwelleth in you?" (I Cor. 3:16).
stalled a “gripe box" ....
aide liy side at the Tomb of the i in North Africa opened the way for
Aiming the citation* which com Avenue 11 ami 3rd Street North
Larry Adler, the harmonica king,
Friday, November 21)
Unlrtown Soldier. The letter end American success.
prise the Lesson-Sermon is the
was to appear Nov. 12 at Minter
1900
Jew
ish
services.
Pfc
Bernard
ed like this:
Yes, that old France of ours still following front the Bible: "Lie not
Field, Calif., the WINDSOCK re
Axclrad.
I,
"Mr. President, in concluding. lives A certain decay hud set in, to one to another. seeing that ye have
ported. Adler, who started per
Saturday. November 21
m*y 1 recall that the comrade* of i lie sure. There is no gainsaying i put off the old man with his deeds;
forming at the age of two and has
I 1900 Catholi confession.
mid
have
put
on
th.
no»»
man.
the bn.» we honored yeatenlay lie that. We saw signs of it even dur
appeared before royalty, even had
Sunday. November 22
hi row* <>f many thousands in the ing the other war Victory did not I which is renewed in knowledge
King Gustav joining in lustily on
Tub
Catholic
Muss.
Chaplain
(WOO
i Amenraa cemeteries of France; I. stop it. T im , large a section of the i after the image of him that cre
the chorus of “Music Goes Round
hott.
'and Round.” He might help in
their former commander, shall not population had grown soft, as in ated him” (Col 3 9.10).
The Lesson-Sermon also include 0930 Bible study
he satisfied until the desecration to the United States. Too many
spire Camp Adair's suck-and-blow
Protestant
service.
Chaplain
1000
w^ith they are subjected is ended Frenchmen wanted comfort mid the following correlative pass,
artists . . . calisthenics on Minter
New man.
, ’ py llg- joint efforts of the Ilnited ease amt political corruption in from the Christian Science t
Field's new Commando Course
l
atter
Dav
Saint
.
Pis
Niel
Î115
'Nftliidis, and they can sleep in vited a new, and this time suite»« laaik, "Science and Health 1
started last Thursday.
sen.
Key to the Scriptures" hy M
¡fill, attack by the old enemy.
a peace."
One hundred restaurants outside
1900 Vesper service.
Raker Eddy: "The five phyr
I he U. S Sliaid Aside
|t is my willing fancy that
their post have been ordenai to
ITituny of us share that feel- I Yet we were much to blame. senses are the uVenues mid ins
“chan up." the CAMP PICKETT
HOSP! I \l SERS It ES
Illg, even the ones who used to call Marshal Fm-h »»anted a frontier on meets of human error, mid I
(Va.) NEWS reports . . . Ski
Friday. November 20
the French “frogs" and speak Ithe Rhine. He was persuaded to correspond with error. These sei
troopers among the medics are
1815
Jew
-h
service*.
dayroom
No
TH»
of that war-weakened <ln»p that idea and take a pl<»lge of indicate the common human he-
sought, says a page one story in
btij Pfc. Morris Slavsky.
land which was the only France ‘ American military aid in place of lief, that life, substance. and in-
Sonda».
November
22
it. But that also fell through and telligvnce are a unison of matter
theVIWI
PROTESTANT
rism. amt Red ('n -s Recreation Room 312
For in the softening perspective then the United Slates limked ; with Spirit This is pa
ON
00
<
atholic
Mass.
Chaplain
Ken
Chapel
No.
2 —
away
from
the
league
of
Nations
carries
v»ithin
itself
the
«eed
of
all
of the rear* those grim roads and
ney.
jâ * JhS
Sunday — 0916. Chaplain Gail
gwy-SHAages of stone have taken and the world just blundered along i error’ (p 29.11
1000 Protestant service. Chapla!*» Cleland. Sermon subject: “Liar«."
a/itnpge and kindly charm The toward a war more catastrophic
New man.
Soloist. Miss Nona Zimmerman.
Rev l.oval II Vicki rs. minister
harsh experiences which we had than the» other.
Conceding that France is sadly of the 1st Baptist Church of In-
~ Wiefe-Have liecome inexpressibly
Chapel No. 3—
c \ thoi . ic
dehV. Our memories are a treasure open to criticism for the showing | dependence. Oregon, ha« accepted
Sunday - 0930. 100». Chaplain
that We would not exchange for made in this war. I say that we are j a po*iti('n as co-ordinator for Bap Chapel No. 2
Howarvi Patrick; song-fest 1900
Sunday 1 030.
in no position to do the critieiaing. tist churches in neigh' -ring towns
any othei form of wealth
Wedneaday—1500, Bible Study.
And now the time has come to help in connection with work concerning Chapel No. 3 :t —
Her Heart Was Warm
Thursday
1900. choir rehear
confession 1500 to sal
Saturday
A1-* Some of us have known the revive the soul of lhat ancient, i the men at Camp Adair He will
y FraWce which succeeded the war. wonderful France which must al I shortly establish headquarters in I Tut). I H im ) to 2000.
('hapel No 4—
Sunday- 07<M». 0830, 1130.
We have learned to love Paris *a ways hold a place uni»iue in our ¡Corvallis Rev Vickers has been of
0000 Chaplain Von Husen
''"th»WM*t beautiful city in the world western civilisation. Let us stop | much assistance already to the men Chapel No d’
0900 Chaplain Brown.
Friday
Novena of Our Sor
and perhaps the moat hospitable. finding fault and instead lend a I stationed here. In the early days,
1000 Lutheran service. Chaplain
We have haunter! the Gothic hand For the very reason that the his church was one of the first to rowful Mother 1900.
Von Husen.
Satutda)
confession 1800 to
oi rlmrrhes which remain the noblest 'Germans f»ar. a truly aroused and j extend invitations to soldiers to at
1900 Evening service
-and moat tenderly exquisite of all i dc-sperate French people, that hu- tend services fidlowing which they 1900
Chapel No. 0- -
Sunday 071». 1100. 1145
>"the buildings that men have ever , miliated country is protmldy in for were invited to private homes for
Sunday — 09'W Chaplain Orm
Ihuly Masi 1800.
■ erected And we have come to n a dreadful «eason of Nasi brutality I dinner The men who took advant-
ond.
. age of these opportunities will long Chapel No. 5 -
pr apect that care for the soil and for U( if* UOFut.
Sunday — 1030 Chaplain Church
Saturvlay
confession iRiMI to ill.
If so, may we make our wicked I remember the hospitality extended
distinctive ways which has mac
France so engaging to the tmv< ler enemy pay for it in the end. Mean He also loaned loudspeaker »-quip- 1900
JEWISH SERVICES
So because of the memories cen- while, let us have patience with the mrnt to us for some of the early
Sunday 0700. 0745. 1100.
I'hapel Na. 2—
' tired there, and because of the French. Their situation is hard lie program* arrange«! for the enter Chapel No. t» —
Friday — 181» Reform*»!
Saturday confeasion 1800 on.
dead romrsdci who lie there yond imagining. Still all they need tainment of the personnel We feel
Chapel No. 5—
JPrance is still a kind of second now is hope, and more h»ipe, France fortunate in having him close at
Sunday 0700. 111».
Fnday — 1930 Ortbodv*
i hand w here many will have an op-
Daily M.u 1830.
' ‘hörnt, spiritually, U> a host of older i will keep the faith
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CHAPLAIN'S
COLUMN
MUTTERINGS
f
Camp Adair
Thursday, November 19,1942
Pagre Two
TO THE EDITOR
CAMP ADAIR SENTRY
Dear Sir:
I have a fountain pen, of very
good make, belonging to a soldier
stationed at Camp Adair and am
writing you to try and locate the
owner. I will give you the details
in the hope that this soldier will
read and recognize the incident and
mnke the return of his pen possible.
On the night of October 29 we
gave a lift to a soldier from Rick
reall to Camp Adair. Our car is a
1928, light green, model A Ford
pick-up and the soldier rode in the
back of the truck with some guns
and other hunting equipment. The
soldier got out of the car at Camp
Adair and we proceeded on our
hunting trip. On reaching our des
tination we found the fountain pen
in the back of the pick-up where
it had been dropped.
If the owner reads or hears of
this letter his pen can be returned
hy sending his name and address to |
P. N. Browning, Keasey, Route
Vernonia, Oregon.
Sincerely yours.
Mr. anil Mrs. P. H. Browning
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Regular length - - - - 2 pairs 81-00
Short length ----- 3 pairs 81-00
COOPER LONGS
help you keep fit” . . . The ideal underwear
for winter comfort. Easy to launder.
Part wool longs and shirts - - - - 31.75 garment.
25'< wool longs and shirts - - - $2.00 garment.
Cotton longs and shirts - $1.00 & $1.25 garment.
•To
PIGSKIN GLOVES
Ilansen and other fine qualities.
83.00 — 83.50 and $5.00 pr.
Other gloves, lined and unlined, from $1.50
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