Page Two
Camp Adair 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.
t
by inch aero*« the terrain toward
their objective."
For months they stopped the
He moved to obey his orrfers
Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book
Other camp have soldiers who
invader,
Unmindfcl of death or the odds;
Tho’ outnumbered ten to one.
don’t exactly spread sunshine
His part was to do his duty,
AMP
wherever they go, judging by *n
Till Homma by self destruction
While the far result wan God's.
A weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian per
OMMANDER
editorial
in GAB, of the Greenville
Atoned to the Rising Sun.
sonnel of Camp Adair, Oregon, and circulated free to officers, soldiers
OLUMN’
fS.C'.l Army Air Base. It says in
and civilians by written permission of the camp commander.
When thb* world was thrilled by
But Yankee guns and equipment
part
:
hjg action,
Published by trfe Camp Adair Sentry, publisher. Box 347, Cor
And the order to carry on,
Camp Adair
And Ki? name drew the praises
“What we are hitting at is the
vallis, Oregon. News matter pertaining to Camp Adair, furnished by
Were utterly insufficient
the Camp Public relations Office* is available for general release.
continual muttering of the malcon
of men, —
I 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
whelming job we have to do, who
P. 0. Address, Box 347, Corvallis, Oregon. Phone M6-M.
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 $1.50 a year or $1 for six month*.
petty desire* than the good of the another year begins. It takes Not by plans or figures.
And all who had known MacArthur
Advertising rate* 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 communication* to “Camp Adair Sentry, Box 347,
who smile when you're present, tation and especially now. as we
And they measured the hope of
CorvalHa, 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 hi» I we have reason for optimism and Who kindled those men into flame, By the faith of him who led.
News contributors to this issue: Lt. George H. Godfrey,
furlough is held up; with the clock I we look forward eagerly, knowing Was the son of an honored sire,
Public Relations officer; S/Sgt. E. A. Brown, associate director;
watcher who does 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 4 Raymond C. 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. Gubelman, Pvt. Wallace Rawles, Pvt. Robert
And all hesitation is past;
Rnskauff.
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 RELIEF
♦
“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 hax liern organised by the Army
what’s the difference between the had been won. The sensible way,
"Y
I
to give speedy financial help and other aHaiatance to all
draft-dodger and the detail dodger? speaking whimsically, is to use And now in that spirit his soldiers
WE TAILOR
Defied
death
again
and
again,
noldiers and their dependent« who DESERVE help, whenever
Both are ducking their responsibil the “may or may not” formula.
OFFICERS'
Thus it is fairly safe to say that Believing they could not be con
and wherever auch help in NEEDED. Relief may be granted
ity."
quered,
in the form of money, by loans, by aid in kind, including fuel,
Pvt. Arthur W. Sawyer, of Ma the Germans may or may not be
UNIFORMS
Since they«were “MacArthur’s
ther Field. Calif., bought 21» War driven from Africa, that our side
medical and dental care, hospitalization, assistance in secur
In Our Own Shop
Men.”
Savings Bonds of $100 each and may or may not invade Europe in
ing pensions, compensation, insurance and allotments and
force,
and
that
the
European
part
PORTLAND,
ORE.
qualified for five marksmanship
i 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 dependent# 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 gun—according to WING TIPS.
For the United Nations were call
tors, columnists, commentators —
eruel yoke nt axis tyranny is forever lifted from the
where full information will be available. When applying,
ing.
Enlisted
men
have
been
ordered
nerk 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
collect and hold funds; to relieve distress of personnel of the j
tion that "these miniature branch papers. Although there is no harm And the presence of Douglas Mac-
i
Army of the United States and their dependents, (without i
Eddie Rickenbackcr, on hi* recent return from his adven
emblems are confusing since they in such predietions, unless wc take
regard to the degree* of relationship) including dependents ' ture aboard * raft in the Pacific waters, implored the American
are similar to the emblems worn
them too seriously, it ia difficult
people on the home front to do not merely "their bit,” but their
by officers, and cause unnecessary not to be influenced by them, l>e-
of retired, honorably discharged, or deceased personnel. In
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
causc they do fit in with the long-
fighting front. "Wc do not know the insurmountable difficul
“Dated Military Police, who ings of every decent human being
relief and assistance which has heretofore been rendered at
i
ties and suffering which our boys arc meeting in New Guinea,
could scarcely believe their eyes, today.
older Army posts with post relief funds accumulated. The
in New Caledonia, and elsewhere,” he said. "I beg you to make
lugged off to a Washington, D. C.,
Y’et in this camp, at least, men I
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 coot 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-1
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 th<* 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
I expensive
day.i in the Pacific waters, not to seek glory and fame but to
officer's gabardine. It the war will go on indefinitely, and
war emergency.
ask YOU as an American to be worthy of your brothers, your
hung below fingertip length and on our acting as if the conflict will
Has What You Need in Extra
son*, your neighbors on the far-flung battle-fronts. You who
The nature of emergency cases with which the AER is
had flared puff sleeves.
grow to proportions vaster than at
arc still living in comparative ease and comfort here in the
primarily concerned are those arising from casualties caused
Clothing—Equipment—Metal
“The pants, of the same material, present.
State*—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 t<>
bottoms of less than 10 inches. The resources for defense, so that we
service, falling within the scope of AER aid and FOR WHICH
complain about the sugar or coffee ration” why not consider the
BLITZ
AIR MATTRESSES
cuffs were hemstitched. A long have 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 pledge allegiance to the
COVERING THE TYPE OF AID NEEDED. Specifically,
FIELD JACKETS
CHEVRONS
of the fellow’s shoe tops. The out tary victory has been won. Second,
United States of America" through a personal
without prejudice, to- any other cause of need, there may
fit was set off by an overseas cap 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 the enemy sees that our power
WORDS.
a. Temporary support of dependents, (pending allot
O. D. SOX
TIES
GARRISON BELTS ~
•>
white necktie, completed the odd ; and determination to win are
I resolve to become a part in this war in whatever
ments, back pay, etc.).
outfit.
”
steadily
growing
and
will
continue
Many Other Items
capacity I am called upon to serve.
b. Emergency tran«i>ortation of military personnel or
to grow. In that case the enemy
I
resolve
to
share
the
burden
of
this
war
to
the
3.
their deftendenta, to or from home or station areas, not
may crack up, from sheer hope
SCU Chaplain Has New lessness.
★ ★
LIMIT of personal sacrifice.
provided by the government and justified in the particular
1.
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
“■***• i to-
c<
.
\
shorten the war. avoid inflation today, and bring
personnel where local Red Cross chapter facilities are in
ginning of company sponsored to fight on to a full military vic
Where
Buddies
Meet
economic readjustment 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
Chapel No. 1. Headquarters Com. it will take depends on our dili
5. By these resolutions, 1 resolve to remain American.
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.
up, short of full defeat, it will be
Nerves steeled to the reality of a
1150. (The largest amount which can I h > granted by the
The plan, worked out by Col. because of the showing we make.
'shooting
war'
is
the
order
of
the
Red Cross field service, without clearing through their Area
Gordon H. McCoy, Post Command
From time to time wc 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
From Our Arm»
e. Any cases which, in the judgment of the soldier’s
was taken when n 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, wired 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 such a way that
On the following Sundays, the
Also we may predict, safely,
M0 sing-outs in six months, the it throws a fan of live ammunition Military Police Company, Quarter, that as fighting intensifies, losses
CAM If BARKBLKY NEWS re a calculated distance above the master and attached troops will be will increase and the nation as a
OLD-TIMER
porta. They have attracted more ground and a little over the heads responsible for attendance.
whole will become more war-con
Ry IL B.
! than 95.000 soldiers ami have been (
scious. Surely it will be a solemn
CiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiHHiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii1 held in moss halls, station hospital, |
year, a year of challenge, demand
ing the utmost from all of us. For
I’vt. Steven Clemaoa, of lldq. 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, SCU. write» me thia let understand one? Would you take Some companies appoint their own
song leader*.
Of course a great many soldiers at Camp Adair received
ter:
it may be proud. Incidentally, a
dope to understand a dope fiend?
There’s a camp quartet consist
beautiful and tender letters from home, at this Christmas. But
"The letter from your minister Keeping ( aim In War \d»i»ed
soldier of this camp, one now train
it happens thut one of them -bowed a letter to the officer with
"Now. in war, i* thv time most ing of Pvts. Gleiui D. Good! Robert
1« you on the »ubject of Imtc in the
ing in obscurity, may be in the roll
whom he worked and that officer persuaded him to let The
war strike« me as the first gleam necessary to have thv ealmcat, »an- G. Nite, Albert Angel and William
of American heroes, before the year
Sentry publish it. The letter reads:
of liope I've yet seen in thia, the eat mind ‘Intellectual*' who advo M Darling. CAM!’ ROBINSON
is over.
latest of ‘eiviliaed* war*. I'm more cate hate are cither overrate,! imbe NEWS say*. Do you get it? Gbod-
"My
Precious
Sou:
Lut
night
when
for
hours
I
than happy that it w«a a minister ciles or conacientlcaa hypocrite». Nite-Angv! Darling Naturally they
lay awake, thinking about Christmas and what it really
who had the courage to suggest that The countries at war are doing the specialise in love songs.
means behind all the froth and tinsel, I determined tn
»amc
thing
all
trying
to
win
Keo-
God was tail on one side alone, hut
“Practice for real war is no
that he waa on the able of hu tiomic war» have always been 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 the neck of man ami machine guns and hypothetical ex
bor
ful I am for you.
de»irv only thia much of tolerance since it ia too late to avert the war plosions, but rather the experience
Had spread to the Southern Seas;
in their heart*: that they may j ve may as wall try to he as kind of live machine gun fire a scant
"At Christmas especially, it seems such a privilege
And the earlier stage of the
work, raise a family, and die a» as we can to one another about it. foot or so ovrr head, and land
to know the dear relationship of mother and son. I am
struggle
natural!) as they can on modi rn If only a few hundrOl are waved mine» exploding among the sol
thankful that my son is you, and that of all the bless
Had favored the Japanese.
civilian terma.
frob being cyme* it’» well worth it. diers.” says THIS ARMODIKK. of
ings I have had in this earthly experience, that know
"People become what the State Camp Chaffee, Ark. “Flying dirt. I
“I have not particularly gone to
The defense» of Hong Kong
ing my son—seeing him grow to manhood, real man
church in late year» and do not I teach«* them; and very little lea». debria and violent concussion is a *
And even stout Singapore-
feel qualified to judge whether 1 I The state may be thv supreme better prologue to the actual strife ,
hood, strong but gentle and loving, a worthy citixen,
That impregnable Malay fortress—
am a good Christian or not I waa faith veatod in one man. or the love
Withstood the attackers no more.
a dependable and honest nature—that has been my
Hot o go >d one when 1 went to Iwtrn <>f the color of a country's
greatest joy.
Strategic Sumatra was taken.
church, for 1 only went often | earth, or the firm faith of a tradi they would if he were a 'hater?’
And Java was overrun.
"It seems to me that the spirit
enough to please my folk*. But the tion. Whether a man'» faith ia
"There is nothing more I coukl ask for. Christmas
While scores of the smaller island*
renevptive of a Christian I gath 'right' or 'wront' it is hard to of Christ must he in any one who
and 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 year*. The is fair to himself and to his fvllvw 1
Indeed, we learn as tears go on that what we give of
human
beings,
be
hr
on
any
‘
aide
‘
and I hope I »hall retain this much strongest physical ami moral tenets
But a single defensive action.
ourselves at Christmas or any other time is the real
of youthful viaion until I die. God must of necessity be the light ones A r<g| man, no matter what his
With all the wurld looking on.
help me.
cn«si.
has
an
innate
.code
of
honor
rigid
er
one»
I
doom
and
na-
until
secret of our happiness. Just little tiny gifts like a
Had thrilled every lover of free
"Ami mi now, when we begin tu turv sprouts naw one» inexorably, which will let him div. if he* must,
snule. a tender thought, a -»mill courtesy—the*1«' make
dom;
I war on all aide» that we must hate, Such ta life, or evolution, civillsa- in glory and courage. even though
us
feel
warm
and
n>-y
like
lighted
Christmas
candles.
'Twas
the miracle of Bataan
great odds are against him. Any
I rebel With the fervor and clarity ! non. pmgrv»*. or what you will
Rut you know this. 1 can tell by the way you express
man. in th«' awful heat of battle,
of youth Hate I* for the maaaaa, Fighting Without Halted
On that battered island position
these things, wherever you go in this world.
possibly, but not for (he individu
"Gene Tunnejr and Joe Louia are can forget what fear it. but it
Besieged ia the Philippines.
als. A mob that would lynch a man champions who didn't have to hate takes an honeat-to-God man to die
There were Doughboy« .xml
"There
are
no
big
gifts
on
the
tree
this
year,
but
Would not do so if dissected down Ito win They undoubtedly fought like a man and amt like a snivelling
Filipino*.
how humbly grateful I feel that, of the millions of
to its individual*. Are we fighting I better by virtue of having a mor* ‘hater.’
And a handful of V.S, Marines
"The one thing we ar»- fighting
mothers whose sons will be absent from home. 1 am
for hat* or to prevent hate? Yea, alert and sensitive perception un-
1 have fought fire with fire, but clouded by hat*. Children of all to exterminate and which we must
From foxhole* and rocky caverns.1
the one who has you. — Lovingly, Your Mother."
J find that clean, cool water iloea ■ ace* instinctively flock around Joe be for*r»r Intolerant of is tMa:|
Thev fought like demon* from hell.
I 4nd nnthir.« «pp»' ir<4 to d. tua. '
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I he la-4 job. Dr y«m w o«dd sink . 1-vUls mid xdlilih hllli lb. y'oU think intolerance ”
It's A Great Life
SIS
1W?-
OFFICERS
Service Men
LES NEWMAN'S
in Salem
LES NEWMAN’S
Culled
MUTTERINGS.
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