Camp Adair
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Thursday, December 3,1942.
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Ruskauff.
LETS BE SMART
When two speeding railway-, trains pile into each other
or a streamliner hurtles from the raiis tin ¡exulting wreckage
is hard to forget. Huge steel cars are broken like soda
crackers and rails are twisted like pretzels. Human laxiies
are not that strong—it is Impo6«i&le to de cribe what is
left of them.
When a giant airliner plumets to earth it isn’t a pretty
sight. The engines dig large craters in the ground—crater«
that should serve as graves for the unfortunate humans.
But they are not given thHt macabre care Instead arms
and legs and torsos lie scattered over hundied of square
yard«. It’s a tough job identifying bodies when the skulls
are crushed and the faces burned. Sometimes a soldier’s dog
tags help if they stay with the body.
When an arsenal blows up the sight isn’t o gory a a
rule. The velocity of the explosion dot away with the
corpus delecti. They just check the dead (Torn the list of
those who were working.
But in airplane crashes, train wrecks and explosions
those killed don’t suffer It's the few left horribly mauled
but «till alive who endure physical torture. The greatest
tragedy i« seen on the faces of wives and mothers in the
lined faces of fathers who dare not cry and the iadde«t of
all is the pitiful bewilderment as the «low realization dawns
in the eyes of small children.
Such shoer, stark murder might be your fault.
Whispering a bit of information to the sweet voung
thing acroHfl the table or to tell something knowingly to an
admiring audience in a beer parlor; to silence argument
with irrefutable facts just out of the feedbag that may
lie the preview to murder.
Sure it’s just an unrelated fact that mean nothing by
itself. And how could it go further? The cute young thing
doesn't know a Flying Fortress from a wheelbarrow and
those fellows in the beer parlor couldn't pos-ibly know any
thing about troop movements.
But remember working a jig-saw puzzle.
One small piece alone means nothing, but with two or
th lee continuous pieces the pattern becomes mon* clear. I
When you talk and Joe talks and Johnny adds his bit and
Jack lets a word or two slip at the next junction, they may
all add up to spell a journey's end.
Those poHtera on billboards, those pleas ami orders from
your government to quit talking about things military, aren't
addressed to the guy in the next barrack -they’re addressed
to you.
Be «mart, soldier. Keep your mouth shut.
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Reports front the outside world
indicate that some people are get
ting silly about this war. Evidently
the state of mind among soldiers,
in camps and at the front, is more
wholesome. Well it was in the
other war That's natural. At
home, and in their communities
over the country, the people still
struggle to live as they did be-
fore we entered the war. Because
the environment is the same, they
find it difficult to grasp the »it
uatIon as it really is.
Here, all transplanted us w e
re, and all conforming to a dis
ciplille which in itself promotes
both a healthy unity and a penci
of mind which civilians cannot
fitly I
i II joy. We have II saner outlook
We may not know whrte we’iv
ing, hut at least we are on
way.
end
This train of thought is prompted
My
by a hitter from my minister, the I tlilni
Ri i. Dr. John Haynca Holmes, of
the Community Church. New York
Citi lie happen- to lie an extreme
pacifist. whereas I think we should
have been in this war from the
time our enemies started on the
warpath, but at least we are both
at odd- with the i»olntioni.-t spn i
which had no car- for th. i.-t of
the world.
“Just a word about the feeling
of hate fur our enenm-, and th.
teaching of thi* hate,” will. Di
Holme- ”1 am getting a bit h « u
the hate spirit la going to Io«
¡trace. however we may wi
war, and it aeema to he grow
I agree with you In all you
about atrocitie» committed on
women and children, ami old folk
ami prisoners, as reported by I
hind Stowe and other» These a
th» atrocities of war, and th
make me sick, and the per;a-tra
tot* should be punished
"But when hatred of whole
pt< i* urged and taught. I
volt, fi
pl oples xr
No Comment
PEARL IIARBOR
(December 7, 1911)
Bi Gail Cleland. Lt. Col.. Chaplain
'Tis a quiet night, and the first faint light
O’er the eastern sky is creeping,
While the motor's roll of the Dawn Patrol
(H t the ocean waste is sweeping.
At Hickam Field and at Wheeler Field,
A hundred planes are lasting.
While the shadowy tips of the dull grey ships,
Pearl Harbor's waves are cresting.
In the barracks deep, where the soldiers sleep,
No whisper of "Battle Stations”,
For nil have heard we have pledged our word
At the Peace Negotiations.
But the seeming hush of the night wind's rush
Is fanciful more than real.
For the listening ears of a sentry hears
The whirr of an airplane’s wheel!
With nerves that are tense, he is quick to sense
The threat of approaching danger;
So he hurries alone to a telephone,
Reporting n hostile stranger.
i
But the officer’s mind, too trustfully kind,
lx closed to the caution needed,
"That motor’s drone was, of course, our own!"
And the warning goes unheeded.
r
“A nation’s word above the board",
Is American tradition;
So the troops sleep on, in the quiet dawn,
With never a mild suspicion.
But now up high in the morning sky,
The Japanese planes arc soaring;
The swelling sound has shaken the ground.
And the whirr becomes a roaring.
Then swooping low, the treacherous foe
Has struck at a friendly nation
There's a blinding flash, and a thund'rous crash!
There’s death
and devastation!
And down within thnt awful din,
Men’s voices arc heard replying.
From blasted walls come rasping calls
Of the wounded and the dying.
From smoke and noise. American boys
Conic stumbling into the open,
Where the rat-tat tat of the Japanese "Gat"
Leaves bodies maimed and broken.
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to H
There is bursting shell and a fiery hell
For our planes that arc not flying;
There are submarine guns and torpedo runs
For our ships at anchor lying.
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was n
v qui a-
present
* had to
i-l to
moli
li I he
The American troops, in various groups.
Have set np their stout defenses;
Mid the Japs hnvt paid for the scon' they made
Under cover of vain pretenses.
ith their blood-stained hands, in the Axis lands.
They are boasting a victory won;
But of shameful deeds. as History rrads.
No baser was ever done.
Over ground made nil by the blood of our deml,
On their hallowed graves, we swore
That the craven attack by a stab in the buck,
Should darken the earth no more.
United at last, with dissension past,
America answers the roll;
We have entered the Fight for Truth and Right!
Pearl Harbor has found our SOI L!
wealth. Our first concerti is to win
the war and then we mu»t estab-
liih stieh a peace that nggiession
will be unsafe for the aggrrs-
or If possible, we must do that
without penalising the innocent.
But. in any ease, it must be done.
To the Editor
In your last Sentry issue for
Although
tevlorvil the Camp Adair, we have noted th*
I and op- attached item ... being a filler...
we
military how come?? and listen. Don
of the Utilities and Maintenance
- vision cannot stand for the Navy
) ards rei unl. as w» have one chap
here who drives One Hundred and
I n,-li< tlt?> mil, eaih »lay to tfu
and conic to work, as well ■» bring
ing POUR iw sscngvrs with him
and we think that ts some revvrxl.
for besides doing his eight hours
on the Camp he drives four hours
each day ... and he is over sixty
¡rears of age Believe it or not?
Let’s see if there Is any better
record, as «r feel he deserve» a
TIN medal.
His name is tamis Hord.- and he
works in the heating department
Why not come over Mime time
and see some of us guys We mir ht
have some interesting <iopr for
you
M»rv power to your efforts on
the &entrv
ASK FOR YOUR COPY
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Editor ami manager
Don C Wilson
_____ P. 0. Address, Box 847, Corvallis, Oregon. Phom 845 M
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THIS IS THE 1942 WAY
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Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
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It's A Great Life
one of the group. Pvt. Theodore
Johnson. Went to Flandreau. South
Dakota. Pvt. Baltes was really a
worried man for several days when
his traveling money didn’t arrive
AMP
from home. His countenance light
OMMANDERS
ed up when he discovered that the
OLUMN
telegraph company had accidentally
delayed his lucre and promptly
Camp Adair
made up for this neglect.
Eight new enlisted men arrived
at Adair recently to swell the ranks
Now is the time to remember, not' of our Depot Co. The new arrivals
bo much Pearl Harbor, as the state , who came from Camp Grant. Illi-
of the nation on December 7th, I nois, were Pvts. Seymour Fienberg,
1941, when the Japan-se attacked James Kennedy, Richard Lindberg,
there. And now is the time to Stephen Meskis, Theophilus Grif
think about how far we have gone fith, William Medrow. Barney. Job
as a nation since then, and to be Whydrow. At present they are go
proud.
ing through the basic training.
Proud and also solemn, in the
Supply Sgt. William Trout is our
light of the world’s trust and ex general handy man. Besides see
pectation, for the reports whfch ing to it that the men are properly
travelers bring home should call outfitted, he cuts hair, and runs
out all of the hidden virtues that errands for the boys. Trout will
Americans possess.
They say, gladly buy a nickel pir.g pong ball
these returned travelers, that noth or a bar of Life Buoy soap if the i
ing. among the stricken or strug P. X. is out or doesn’t handle it.
gling peoples they visited, so im No favor one can ask is too big or
pressed them as did the universal too snntll for him. Assisting him
faith in the U. 8. A.
is Corporal Richard Von Wald who
Perhaps ip some mysterious way will do anything in his power for
ive have drawn strength from that the men.
very fact. Human nature has a j Another person in the supply
way of rising to emergencies, of room is our mail man, Pfc. Walter
growing under the burden of res j Stellmach. Daily he trudges back
ponsibility, and this may apply to a | and forth betw’een the post office
nation as well as to a man. Cer and the company area picking up
tainly no one of any spiritual dig and delivering letters. Stellmach
nity can fail to be touched by’ signs ' takes a real interest in his work.
that other people believe in him He'll wrap packages for the boys
and keep on hoping because they in his spare time merely for good
are sure that he will come to their will when he opens the mail win
dow twice daily; he's the. most
aid.
Well, we have come to their aid, popular man in camp.
Twenty-eight have signed up for
and if we were rlow alsiut it earlier,
and began fighting only when we I basketball. Several practice games
' 1 the Field
were attacked, we certainly have *lave
played Jn
have shown an
speeded up amazingly within the 1 Mouse. . Those
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Precise
information must'be I interest in the sport are Corporals
year. 1
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withheld, of course, for military ' KalPh bee, Alva Kinkade. Russell
reasons, hut all of us know that I Barry, Ronal Brock. Richard Von
American fighting i men
.......... hav<-
_... Wald, Lute Defrieze, Connie Cron-
crossed both oceans and are up ■ in; Pfes. George Bass, Norman I
I Olson, Theodore Riech, Homer
holding, on every continent and on
the islands of the sea. the old Boone, Melven Gamble. Rex Red- |
American tradition of grim hero house, Albert Burzlaff, Kern Tice,
ism and a vitality unmatched any Robert Fleming, Roger Hufenus;
and Pvts. Berthold Butz. Noel Nox
where.
Pierre Oubre, Marvin Rikansrud
We also know that old camps
Richard Gross, Ernest Van Lim
have been enlarged and new camps burgh, Bill Liddall, Jim «Currie
have been built and filled with
James Dismuke, and Jim Kennedy.
fresh divisions now in training. We
Private Lowell Wylie is consid
know that the war industries have
ered the brainiest or luckiest check
grown enormously and that by de er player here. He wins on the j
grees all other activity is subordi average of two out of three games. '
nated to the winning of- the war. With the keen competition at hand,
We know that even the most selfish
he is really gaining a reputation.
and unimaginative citizens are
Many remarks in regard to Ore
learning the stern truth that life
gon's heavy mist have been made,
won’t be worth living unless we do
but the one by Pfc. Edward Keating
win and that only with victory can
really sums up the feeling of a
they resume the pursuits of peace.
great number of soldiers.
Think of these things and then
Keating said:
suddenly carry your mind back to
“I wish sonic power would
that day, in 1D4I. only last year,
us the reason
when a proposal to continue the
Why the Navy isn't stationed
drafting of men for defense was
there:
passed by a single Vote. By such
Especially during the rainy sea
sharp contrasts we may gain some
son.
notion of our astonishing progress.
When it’s best known as Lake
One more idea. On this date,
Adair!"
last year, we were half in the war
Pfe. Kern Tice denies himself
of
it.
The
situation
and half out
many pleasures; so he can send
was intolerable and unworthy of a
more money home to his wife. If
great people. Now that question is
more would show that spirit of
out of the way. We’re in, and we’re
self-sacrifice, the war would be
in all-out. Another question, that
over in a short time. Pfc. Tice
of whether we could win the war, washes his own clothes, doesn’t
can be answered now. It has been smoke, and stays at home over the
answered in Africa and in the Pa week end. He says that he really
cific. A third question remains. doesn’t mind staying in camp be
That question, fellow citiaens, and cause there arc so many things to
officers and men of Camp Adair, is
do here.
up to us. The question is: How
December I was set as the final
long will it take? We know, all of day for entry into the ping ;><>ng
us, that the answer depends on how tournament.
Since the Oregon
hard we work and fight.
rains began, this game has been
gaining a great deal of popularity
Our Depot Co. is very fortunate
hi having Pfe. Albert Burzlaff II.
was a sign painter in civilian life
and has certainly brightened our
at
quarters with his professional print,
ing
Our new Christmas Book pictures and de*
scribes quality gifts for e^eryene on your
list. Ask for your copy today. Make your
selections comfortably at home . . . then
call our catalog department and let ustake
care of your Christmas shopping for you.
Depot Co. Activities
SPECIAL SERVICE FOR
FIRST ST. SOUTH & E
By Pvt. Hsrrj Klissner
MAJOR DE DAKIS
The Special Service Officer of
the Timber Wolf Division is Major
N. George DeDakis, who has been
promoted from a captaincy, laist
week The Sentry mistakenly re-
ported that he had tieen promoted
from major to lieutenant colonel.
A gnat majority of the Depot
Co. at First St South and E. cele
brated Thanksgiving Day by eating
a hearty meal in the mess hall. Un-
<’.-r the capable supervision of M om
Sgt Guy Blackmore, the permanunt
K.P.’s consisting of Pfc. Benjamin
Play in Corvallis
Brown and Pvts. Irving Niccurn.
Headed for Eden, a mystery-
Fred Kelly. Merrill Anderson. comedy in three acts will be pre
Franklin Brouhard, Alvin Drousth, sented by the seniors of Corvallis
Myron Johnson. Thomas Johnson.
high school in the school auditor
Theodne Spier, and Homer Almond ium Friday night. Curtain at 7:30
set the tables in an attractive man
p.m. Admission for soldiers is 35
ner and gave excellent service to
cents.
our men, theft wives, and girl
friends.
Those present with wives were
Lt. Burnett. Lt. Conies. Corporal
James Mitchell. Pfes. Edward Sil
ver. Edward Cameron, Charles
Browder; Pvts. Wm. Gray. Georgi'
Carothers. Bill Liddell and James
McGauhcy.
• Ring*
Sgt Harry Me Dona l<L Sgt. Carl
• Locket.«
Hughes, and Private OrriBe Tru-
• Bracelets
bey enlightened the spirit of the
• Necklaces
bovs by showing up with girl
• Compacts
friend*.
• Manicure
Four more men wviv fuibwigh
bound this wwk Pfc Harry Fee
—can be found in abuntl- • I
ler left for We»t Virginia He has
ance at—
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six months of service Pfc. Price
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Evans and Pvt George Babes both
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are Wisconsin boys. Evan» caught
Jew etera
• train for Madison and Baltes
!8W W 1st. Alhtmv
he Med f.. MsInSukw Th* fourth • O*w*sr»» •
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