Page Two
Camp Adafr Stntry
Thursday, December 31,1942.
Arthur
them—
of the men who are crawling inch
Was worth a million men.
No
bombing
or
sniping
or
shell.
by inch across the terrain toward
their objective."
For months they stopped the
He moved to obey his orders
dfasiay tassdai
AdWsJAs^s.
Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book
Other camps have soldiers who
invader,
UnmindAi! of death or the odds;
don't exactly spread sunshine
Tho’ outnumbered ten to one.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
His part was to do his duty.
AMP
wherever they go, judging by an
Till Homma by self destruction
While the far result was God's.
A weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian per
OMMANDER’S
editorial in GAB, of the Greenville
Atoned to the Rising Sun.
sonnel of Camp Adair, Oregon, and circulated free to officers, soldiers
OLUMN’
(S.C.i Army Air Base. It says in
and civilians by written permission of the camp commander.
When the* world was thrilled by
But Yankee guns and equipment
part:
Published by "ST Camp Adair Sentry, publisher. Box 347, Cor
action,
Camp
Adair
And the order to carry on,
"What we are hitting at is the
vallis, Oregon. News matter pertaining to Camp Adair, furnished by
name drew the praises
And
Were utterly insufficient
the Camp Public relations Office, is available for general release.
continual muttering of the malcon.
of men, —
To explain the strength of Bataan.
tent, who is oblivious to the over
“I came through,” he state simply,
Editor and manager ......................................
Don C. Wilson
P. 0. Address, Box 347. Corvallis, Oregon. Phone 865-M.
whelming job we have to do. who
The urge to prophesy is strong For heroes are roused to greatness, “And I will return again."
is more concerned with his own as one year draws to a close and As every soldier knows,
Subscription by mail 11.50 a year or $1 for six months.
petty desires than the good of the another year begins. It takes Not by plans or figures.
And all who had known MacArthur
Advertising rates upon request.
whole. We're fed up with the guys strength of will to resist the temp But by what the leader shows.
Believed
the thing that he said,
Address all communications to "Camp Adair 8cntry, Box 347,
who smile when you’re present, tation and especially now, as wc
And they measured the hope of
Corvallis, Oregon.”
then knife you in the back; with reach the year 1943, because today The chieftain with heart of fire.
triumph
the guy who goes AWOL when his we have reason for optimism and Who kindled those men into flame, By the faith of him who led.
New* contributors to this issue: Lt. George H. Godfrey,
furlough is held up; with the clock we look forward eagerly, knowing Was the son of an honored sire,
Public Relations officer; S/Sgt. E. A. Brown associate director;
watcher who doea only what is re that it will be a year of crisis in One, Douglas MacArthur by name. So today we are ready for battle,
S/Sgt. R. L. Black, Sgt. Henry Beckett, T 1 Raymond 0. John
quired
and no more; with the jerk the history of our country and in Long long ago at the altar,
son, Cpl. John H. Gubclmnn, Pvt. Wallace Rawles Pvt. Robert
And all hesitation is past;
Ruskauff.
who is unable to take the bad along fact of all humanity.
We have staked our lives on the
Like a knight he had pledged his
with the.good; with the panty-waist
Even so, it is wiser to refrain
outcome;
sword;
who just can't take it.
from exact predictions and of And through the years that fol
We
have
found our LEADER at
ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEE
"You have nothing but con course we niust check the current
lowed,
last.
tempt for the draft dodger, but inclination to talk as if the war MacArthur had kept his word.
Army Emergency Relief has been organized by the Army
what’s the difference between the had been won. The sensible way,
to give speedy financial help and other assistance to all
draft-dodger and the detail dodger? speaking whimsically, is to use And now in that spirit his soldiers
W£ TAILOR
soldiers and their dependents who DESERVE help, whenever
Both are ducking their responsibil the “may or may not” formula. Defied death again and again,
OFFICERS
Thus it is fairly safe to say that Believing they could not be con
and wherever such help is NEEDED. Relief may be granted
VYNCH
ity.”
t A.FAP
quered.
the
Germans
may
or
may
not
be
a . » a i e
in the form of money, by loans, by aid in kind, including fuel,
Pvt. Arthur W. Sawyer, of Ma
UNIFORMS
ther Field. Calif., bought 2G War driven from Africa, that our side Since they«were “MacArthur’s
medical and dental care, hospitalization, assistance in secur
In Our Own Shop
Men.”
Savings Bonds of fl 00 each and I may or may not invade Europe in
ing pensions, compensation, insurance and allotments and
foree,
and
that
the
European
part
PORTLAND,
ORE
qualified for five marksmanship
How long they might have con
through information, consultant, placement, and supervisory
medals—the 103 rifle, M.E., bay of the war may or may not end in
tinued,
services. Soldiers or their dependents can ask for help at any
onet, hand grenade and machine 1943.
The world will never know,
But
some
of
our
prophets
—
edi
Army post, camp or air field, or local Red Cross Chapter, "WHAT! You hereby resolve never to gold-brick again until the I gun—according to WING TIPS.
For the United Nations were call
tors, columnists, commentators —
cruel yoke of axis tyranny is forever lifted from the
where full information will be available. When applying,
ing.
Enlisted
men
have
been
ordered
neck of all mankind.”
lack the self-restraint for that.
And MacArthur was ordered to go.
dependents must give name, grade, serial number, organiza
I to discontinue the wearing of small
Within the last week or two defi
emblem pins on garrison caps, at
tion, station or last mailing address of the soldier.
nite assertions that the European For the saving of human freedom
A
NEW
YEAR
’
S
RESOLUTION
FOR
Camp Kilmer, N. J.. KILMER
The particular business and object of the A ER is to
war is likely to end in 1943 have Mankind was needing him then;
EAGLE reports, with the explana
WAR-TIME
appeared in a number of news And the presence of Douglas Mac-
collect and hold funds; to relieve distress of personnel of the
tion that “these miniature branch
papers. Although there is no harm I
Army of the United States and their dependents, (without
Eddie Rickenbacker, on his recent return from his adven
emblems are confusing since they in such predictions, unless we take
ture aboard a raft in the Pacific waters, implored the American
regard to the degree of relationship) including dependents
are similar to the emblems worn
them too seriously, it is difficult
people on the home front to do not merely "their bit.” but their
by officers, and cause unnecessary
of retired, honorably discharged, or deceased personnel. In
not to be influenced by them, lie
entirety, if they wish to approximate in the least the man on the
confusion at night or in dim light."
general, AER is designed to provide funds for the type of
cause they do fit in with the long
fighting front. "We do not know the insurmountable difficul
“Dazed Military Police, who ings of every decent human being
relief and assistance which has heretofore been rendered at
ties and suffering which our boys are meeting in New Guinea,
could scarcely believe their eyes, today.
older Army posts with |>ost relief funds accumulated. The
in New Caledonia, and elsewhere.” he said. "I beg you to make
lugged off to a Washington, D. C„
Yet in this camp, at least, men
AER coordinates its activities with the Red Cross now being
this a total war, and let each be determined to bear his share of
cell a soldier in a uniform xoot must have the intelligence and
the
common
burden.
”
carried out by its field directors, home service, and chapters.
suit with a drape shape,” THE moral stamina to disregard all pre
What are your reactions to these words of a man, one of
In some cases the AER will supplant aid given by the Red
RANGE FINDER, La Jolla. Calif., dictions of the kind. For curiously,
our soldiers, who has come back not to boast of the sufferings
says. "His ensemble was as fol all hope of European victory in
Cross. Dependents of all components of the Army, on active
lie personally endured aboard a raft floating aimlessly for 21
lows: A uniform blouse made of 1943 depends on our behaving as if
duty, have equal rights to necessary assistance during the
day.i in the Pacific waters, not to seek glory and fame- but to
expensive officer’s gabardine. It the war will go on indefinitely, and
war emergency.
ask YOU as an American to lie worthy of your brothers, your
hung below fingertip length and on our acting as if the conflict will
sons, your neighbors on the far-flung battle-fronts. You who
Has What You Need in Extra
The nature of emergency cases with which the AER is
li
had flared puff sleeves.
grow to proportions vaster than at.
arc still living in comparative case and comfort here in the
primarily concerned are those arising from casualties caused
Clothing— Equipment—Meta!
“The pants, of the same material, present.
States- what can you say in answer?
by combat or accidents, hardships caused by sudden change
Insignia
were
held
up
by
a
white
belt
Two
facts
are
clear.
First,
that
This week brings to us the New Year, a year which may
of station of units or individuals, and other emergency
through double loops, and tapered the enemy still has tremendous
be darker than the passing one, a year which can be brighter
off from a chest-high waist to peg .striking power and certainly great
financial distress arising from causes incident to military
SLEEPING BAGS
SERGE TROUSERS
if you resolve to make it so. And so, instead of resolving "not to
bottoms of less than 10 inches. The resources
1
for defense, so that we
service, falling within the scope of AER aid and FOR WHICH
complain shout the sugar or coffee ration” why not consider the
BLITZ
AIR MATTRESSES
cuffs were hemstitched. A long have
I
a long, grim way to go if the
following as your New Year's resolutions:
THE RED CROSS FACILITIES ARE NOT AVAILABLE
KITS OF ALL KINDS
chain hung down to within an inch war
-
is to last until a complete mili
1.
resolve to “prove my p'edge allegiance to the
COVERING THE TYPE OF AID NEEDED. Specifically,
CHEVRONS
FIELD JACKETS
of the fellow’s shoe tops. The out- tary
1
victory has been won. Second,
United States of America" through a personal
without prejudice, ter any other cause of need, there may
fit was set off by an overseas cap 1 that the war can end without com
ZIPPER BAGS
OVERSEAS CAP
total war effort by means of ACTIONS and not
tailored with an especially high plete
|
victory by force of arms only
be considered the following:
GARRISON CAPS
peak. A cocoa colored shirt, with if
i the enemy sees that our power
WORDS,
a. Temporary supi>ort of dependents, (pending allot
O. D. SOX
TIES
GARRISON BELTS
•>
and
determination to win are
white
necktie,
completed
the
odd
i
I
resolve
to
become
a
part
in
this
war
in
whalever
ments, back pay, etc.).
outfit.”
i steadily growing and will continue
Many Other Items
capacity I am called upon to serve.
b. Emergency trans)>ortation of military personnel or
to grow. In that case the enemy
3.
I
resolve
to
share
the
burden
of
this
war
to
lhe
their dependents, to or from home or station areas, not
may crack up, from sheer hope
SCI/ Chaplain Has New lessness.
★ ★
LIMIT of personal sacrifice.
provided by the government and justified in the particular
4. I resolve to make each pay day a War Savings Bond
Therefore Americans have two
case, particularly, air transportation, for which the Red
Sunday Service Plan
reasons for doing their best in this
day by subscribing to the war department's class
Cross cannot usually make loans or grants.
war. at home, in camps, at the
“A” pay reservation plan which will help to
c. Any case of emergency need by dependents of military
This Sunday wil lmark the be front. One is that we may have
shorten the war, avoid inflation today, and bring
iwrsonnel where local Red Grona chapter facilities are in
ginning of company sponsored to fight on to a full military vic
Where Buddies Meet
economic re-adjustment in the post-war world.
chapel services in the SCU at Post tory and that the length of time
sufficient or not available and the soldier is dead, interned,
War
Department
Authorization AG*095
AG-095
Chapel
No.
1.
Headquarters
Com-
5. By these resolutions, 1 resolve to remain American.
it will take depends on our dili
in enemy hands, or otherwise without access to the field
pany will be first and every effort gence and efficiency. The other
179
N.
Commercial
Street
—
Phone
5508
—
Salem, Ore.
service of the Red Cross.
will be made to secure as large an reason is that if the enemy gives
d. Urgent need for loans or cash grants of more than
of combat than mere simulation. attendance as possible.
f
up, short of full defeat, it will be
Nerves steels«! to the reality of a
1160. (The largest amount which can be granted by the
The plan, worked out by Col. because of the showing we make.
‘shooting war' is the order of the Gordon H. McCoy, Post Command
Rad Cross field service, without clearing through their Area
From time to time we have been
day . . ,
er, and Chaplain Lloyd V. Harmon, warned against the probability that
Office in San Francisco.)
“The first step in this direction is similar to arrangements being the enemy will seek a "negotiated
Prom Our Army
e. Any cases which, in the judgment of the soldier’s
was taken when a strip of ground carried out at other Army posts peace," which would be an uneasy
Commanding Officer should be handled by the AER in prefer-
in the center of the Camp Chaffee and is designed to acquaint the truce rather than real peace. That
Cousins
ence to the American Red Cross.
reservation was mined, xxirw.l with men with the type services offered warning will need fresh emphasis
barbed-wire, and with a machine by the Army Chaplain's Corps.
as enemy hopes fade.
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The bamp song leader has led gun emplaced in sueh a way that
On the following Sundays, the
Also we may predict, safely,
3M0 sing-outs in six months, the' it throws a fan of live ammunition Military Police Company, Quarter that as fighting intensifies, losses
CAMB BARKKLEY NEWS n I a calculated distance alsne the master and attached troops will be will increase and the nation as a
porta. Thcj- have attracted more | ground nnd a little over the heads responsible for attendance.
whole will become more war-con
than P5.000 soldiers and have been ’
scious. Surely it will be a solemn
held in mess halls, station hospital. |
year, a year of challenge, demand-
ing the utmost from all of us. For
l*vt. Steven Clemaoa, of llilq. to the level of a gorilla to try and stockade and even bivouac areas.'
HERE'S SOMETHING DIVINE — YET REAL
some it may be tragic, for others
Company, SOU, writes me this let understand one? Would you take S«>mc companies appoint their own,
Of course a great many soldiers at Camp Adair received
ter:
dope to understand a dop«- fiend? song loaders.
it may be proud. Incidentally, a
There’s a camp quartet consist
beautiful and tender letters from home, at this Christmas. But
soldier of this camp, one now train
"The letter from your minister keeping ( aim In War \d»i«ed
it happens that one of them showed a letter to the officer with
"Now, In war. is the time most ing of Pvt.». Gletut D. Good! Rolu-rt
I* you on the subject of Imle in the
ing in obscurity, may be in the roll
whom he worked and that officer persuaded him to let The
war strikes iue as the first gleam neecssgry to have the calmest, san <«. Nite. Albert Angel and William I
of American heroes, licforc th« year
Sentry publish it. The letter reads:
of laipe I've ye seen in this, the est mind. 'Intellectuals' who advo M Darling. CAMT ROBINSON
is over.
latest of ‘civilised* wars. I’m more cate hate are either overrated Imbc- NEWS says. Do you get it? Good-
"My
Precious
Son;
Last
night
when
for
hours
I
than happy that it was a minister riles or conscirntless hypocrites. Nitc-Angel-Darling Naturally they
DOUGLAS MacAKTlIl R
lay awake, thinking about Christinas and what it really
who had the courage to -uggest that The countries nt war arv doing the xpeclalixc in love songs
Ry
Gail
Cleland. I.t. Col. Chaplain
means liehind all the froth anti tinsel, I determined to
“Practice for real war is no
(loti was not on one side alone, but same thing: all trying to win Keo-
that he was on the aide of hu tiomic wars have always Iwcti a longer a matter of 'broomstick'
write you the first thing today and tell you how grate
The war that began at Pearl Har
manity- on the side of all men who stone around th«« nock of man and machine guns ami hypothetical ex
bor
ful 1 am for you,
desire only' this much of tolerance I since it is too late to avert the war plosions, but rather the experience |
Had spread to the Southern Seas;
"At Christmas especially, it seems such a privilege
in their hearts: that they may j vc may as welt try to h«- as kind of live machine gun fire a scant 1
And the earlier stage of the
work, raise a family, unJ die as as we can to one another al»»ut it. foot or so over head, and luml
to know the dear relationship of mother and son. 1 am
struggle
naturally as they can on modern If only a few hur.drdH are saved mines exploding among the sol-1
thankful
that
my
son
is
you,
and
that
of
all
the
bless
Had favored the Japanese.
frol> being cymes it's well worth it. diets,“ says I’HK ARMODIKK. of j
civilian terms.
ings I have had in this earthly exjx*rience, that know
"People hacome what the State Camp Chaffee, Ark. "Flying dirt. I
“I have not particularly irone tu
The defenses of Hone Kong
ing my son—seeing him grow to manhood, real man
churli in late years and du nut teaches them: and very little less. debris and violent concussion is a
And even stout Singapore—
feel qualified to judge whether I The state may be the supreme better prologue to the actual strife ,
hood, strong but gentle and loving, a worthy citiacn,
That impregnable Malay fortress-—
am a good Christian or mil I was faith vestetl in one man. or the love
Withstood the attackers no more.
a dependable and honest nature—that has been my
hot o good one when 1 went tv horn of th«- color of a country's they w-ould if he were a ‘hater?' I
greatest joy.
Strategic Sumatra was taken.
church, for 1 only went often earth; or the firm faith of a tradi
And Java was overrun.
“It scénsa to m«‘ that the spirit
enough to please my folks. But the tion. Whether a man's faith ia
"There is nothing more 1 ct»ukl ask for. Christmas
While scores of the smaller islands I
conceptive of a Christian I gath 'right' or 'wrwnt* it ia hard to of Christ must he in any one who I
ami nothing I could give worth giving in comparison.
Surrendered one by one
ered then ia the one I have now ' change it in a few years. The ia fair to himself and to his fellow- '
Indeed, we learn as years go on that what we give of
and I hope I shall retain this much .strongest physical ami moral tenets human hetngs. be hr on any ‘side.*
But a single defensive action.
ourselves at Christmas or any other time is the real
of youthful vision until 1 die. God must of necessity lie the right ones A ^>«1 man, no matter what his
With all the world looking or
help me.
unul rigider one» Idoom and na- erred, has an innate .code of honor
secret of our happiness. Just little tiny gifts like a
Had thrilled every lover of free- '
“Ami so now, when we Imgm to , tun- sprouts new ones inexorably, which will let him die. If he must,
smile, a tender thought, a smBIl courtesy—these make
dom;
hrsr on ail sides that we must hale, • mb ia life, or evolution, civilian- in glery and courage, even though
us feel warm and rosy like lighted Christmas candles.
Twas the miracle of Bataan.
great odds are against him. Any
I rebel with the fervor and clarity tian. progrès». or what you will.
Rut you know this. 1 can tell by the way you express
man. in the awful heat of battle,
of youth. Hate is for the masses, Fighting Without Hatred
On that battered island position
these things, wherever you go in this world.
possibly, but not for th«- individu
“Gen«- Tunncy and Jo«- t<ouis arv can forget what fear It. but it
Besieged in the Philippines.
takes
an
honest-to-God
man
to
die
als. A mob that would lynch a man i champions who didn't have to hate
There were Doughbeys and
I
here
are
no
big
gifts
on
the
tree
this
year,
but
Would not do so if dissected down ( to win They un>i«>ubt«-diy fought like a man and «tot like a smvvlling
Filipinos.
how humbly grateful I feel that, of the millions of
to its individuals. Arv we fighting , Iwtter by virtue of having a more ‘hater.’
And a handful of U.S. Mannes
"The otta thing we arv fighting
mothers whose sons will 6« absent from home, 1 am
for hate or to prevent hate’ Yes. ¡alert ami sensitive perception un-
1 have fought fire with fire. but > clouded by hate. Children of all to exterminate and which »» must
From foxhole* and rocky cavern.«.
the one who has you. — Lovingly. Your Mother.”
I
I find that clean, cool water does | races instinctively flock around Joe be forever intolerant of is thi«: I
Thev f.wtght lUe
from hell,
--
I
the la-si job Or )ou would sink Inulin hii «I sdniifi him lh> you liiiitk intolerance ”
And nrdhir.g aj^w tred t
H's A Great Life
Îâh-
OFFICERS
Service Men
LES NEWMAN'S
in Salem
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