Camp Adair Sentry
Thursday, February 11,1943
It's A Crea! Lile
Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book
|AMP
OAfMANDER’S
1OEUMN
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
A weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian per­
sonnel of Camp Adair, Oregon, and circulated free to officers, soldiers
and civilians by written permission of the camp commander.
Published 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.
Camp Adair
THE SENTRi
It sure is gTeat to just »it back,
and read the Adair Sentry.
To read the tales of soldier boys,
both poor, and landed gentry.
To read how Ryan has made T 5
how our chow hounds in mess
halls thrive;
A sergeant's wife has had a baby,
furloughs for the QM—maybe,
A picture qf Sam Duboff’s girl.
Who’» who . . . what’s what . . .
the social whirl.
A cartoon too hy Donald Lynch,
The boy’s got talent . . that’s
a cinch.
Some words of wisdom here and
thers,
that’s our Sentry—at Adair.
There’s shot» for everything.
Fallen arches. Leprosey—
Boy, those shots do sting.
Sometimes those Vampires stick |
me good.
Right in a vein on me.
And then they take a pint of blood
And smile with a fiendish glee.
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Oh. I haven’t been in battle yet,
In war I haven’t starred.
But if you saw the holes in me,
You'd swear I'm battle scarred.
Is just the one to knock us down
and desert us in the end.
So do not judge your many friends
by gooey smiles and flatter.
With all their friends together
they’ll pick you quite apart.
And they won’t care a jiffey if it
does break your heart.
They’ll serve you up with apple­
same, mustard and relish, too
And you’ll be naught but dog
scraps when al) of them get
through.
So i do not slight the casual friend
who has little to say,
For he maybe the only one to
stand by some'rainy day.
In a recent radio quiz program
a contestant was asked if there
was any Army regulation that
A FRIEND IN NEED
Subscription by mail $1.50 a year or $1 for »lx months.
would restrict an enlisted man from
Sometimes the fellow that we think
Advertising rates upon request.
becoming a general. The answer,
is really our best friend,
Address all communications to "Camp Adair Sentry, Box 347,
of course, was that there is not.
Corvallis, Oregon."
In this democratic nation of ours
the only real obstacle to a man
News contributors to this issue: Lt. George II. Godfrey,
getting to where he wants to lie
The characters and all promo­
Public Relations officer; T/Sgt. E. A. Brown, as oriate director;
is his lack of opportunity to fit tions mentioned herein are purely
T Sgt. R. L. Black, Sgt. Raymond C. Johnson, Up). John J.
himself for the job he wants.
fictictious, and any resemblance to
Gubelman, Pfc. Wallaoe Rawles, Pfc. Robert Ruskauff, Pvt. James
O’Connell, Pvt. Raymond M. Rogers.
This obstacle has been eliminat­ anyone living or dead is purely co­
ed for men in the armed forces incidental.
—T. J. Ryan, Pfc.
by a plan recently announced by I
(Much has been written and broadcast of late about the
the
the
War
Department,
a
plan
proper amount of hate a soldier should build up to he a good
whereby any enlisted man can avail
soldier. The following editorial which appeared in The
himself of the finest educational
Christian Science Monitor, January 25, is reprinted here
facilities in the United States, no
without comment . . . The Sentry.)
matter where he is stationed.
From the
This
has
been
made
possible
by
337 QM. Depot Co.
HATE IS WASTE
a working agreement with some
by
NO INCREASED PRICES
Pvt. David Rosenfeld
79 leading colleges and universi­
One by one the stops are being pulled out by frantic
ties fur correspondence courses in
organists, and the hymnody of hate swells in an ugly cres­
more than 700 different subjects.
The Yokum Basketball team rep- I
cendo. Mon and women of fotxl will are being asked to hate,
Any enlisted man is eligible to resenting the 337th QM Depot Co.
not simply the evil that is in the world, not simply the con­
I enroll after four months of service. were honor guests at a banquet
.... uh, if I could hut there he
scious planners of mass mesmerism and world destruction,
All courses listed have been se­ tendered them by the company as
With thee.
"Your Buddies Will Tell You"
but our fellow beings who have become the unwitting or un­
lected
and approved by the Army a reward in maintaining the leading
Where robins sing ’neath some .haily tree,
Bathed in sunshine
as studies which will add to mili­ position in the P. C.-IX Corps bas­
willing tool» of evil.
Even warmer than wine,
tary efficiency and improve chance [ ketball tournament. The affair was
The argument is that we must hate if we are to win the
With thy hand in mine
of promotion. It is up to the in- | held Tuesday night at the Hotel
Oh!
to
be
with
thee,
my
Valentine.-
...
• r
Benton in Corvallis. Guests in­
war, that we must get this hate down from the plane whore
—r ' dividual solier to choose the par-1 cluded Capt. L. E. Bentley. Lt. Al- !
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it is a product of reason—for such hate, it is argued, is too
ticular course that will help the
( AMP ADAIR RIDES THE AH i Ù ’AVES
mild and develop it in the emotions. The only way to do so,
most. Just to mention a few in fred Smith, and Lt. John N. Norris. I
Among the guests of honor were
passing, a soldier can obtain in­
Monday “Camp Adnir on The Air"
8-8:30 P. M.
KWII
it is jiointed out, is to hate people.
Lt. Walter Miller Jr., under whose
struction
in
business,
scientific,
1240 kc.
capable and proficient coaching en-
A recent article by a widely read author begins: “Love
455 Madison
technical, industrial, liberal arts abied the team to attain such high
Tile: day • "Timber Wolf Orientation Course
P. M.—
your enemies. Fight your enemies, shoot them, starve them,
and
engineering
fields.
Anything
KOAC 550 kc.
standard« ami Captain R. O. Camp­
\< u
.
L S uw
kill them, destroy their cities, bomb their factories and gar­
from accounting and aviation to bell, until recently company com­
Thursday "Camp Adair Sentry of The Air 4:30 P. M. KWII.
trignometry and welding.
dens—bul love them! That may make sense to the Tuesday
mander. The Yokum Basketball
1240 kc; 5:45 P. M. KOAC 550 kc.
Time for this study is also op­ team is composed of Corp. Hill
Evening Culture Club but not to me.”
Thursday “Timber Wolf Variety Program’’
7:30-8 P. M
tional with the soldier. Even an Welton, Sgt. Welter, Sgt. Lalnian,
There are at least two reasons on which the most worldly-
KOAC 550 kc.
hour of spare time now and then Sgt. Stolpe, Sgt. Afterburn, Corp.
minded among us can agree for loving a fellow being. One
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday “Pvt. Pete Present
5-3:15 P. M.
will show results. The student is( Snacks, Pfc. Blevins, Pfc. Staunch,
-KOAC 550 kc.
of these is that our love may do him some good; the other,
his own timekeeper and can fit his i S-Sgt. Pardavy, Corp. Strickland,
reading to suit his schedule of l and Pfc. Biano, and last but not
is that it certainly will do ourselves good. Hate is waste. It 1 Sunday “Camp Adair Concert Hour" 3-4 P. M. KOAC 550 kc.
regular military duties from day to to be forgotten our emeritus boost­
wastes our mental resources, it undermines our self-control. I
er Pvt,. Bert Segal who has been
day
and from week to week.
It is not winning the war for Hitler, although he taught so
A LETTER FROM THE FRONT............. TO ŸOÛ!
This course of self education is attending every game in the ca­
many Germans to hate so horribly that half of Europe fal­
(The following letter was received by one of our soldiers stationed just one more
way of making the pacity of official score keeper.
ut CAMP ADAIR and is quoted verbatim with only short passages of
tered before the threat of that hatre<t
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personal nature omitted. The significance of this letter cannot he soldier'* stay in the Army serve
You can tell a good play, movie,
It was a wise man indeed who commanded Christians, a over-looked
and should lie brought to the attention of all military him profitably and at the same
DESIGNED and BUILT
“Love your enemies.” Jesus gave us this commandment not personnel and civilian employees at CÀMP ADAIR.)
time contribute to his effective­ or hook, but you can’t tell a top
Sergeant where to get off.
EXPRESSLY FOR
ness while the world is at war.
only for our enemies’ sake hut for our own.
Dear Surge:
You
can
spend
about
two
months
And—if too much stress ha* been
MILITARY
I imagine you know by now that I have moved, but am unable to placed on how study and applica­ on maneuvers in the woods hattling
YES. INDEED!
WEAR
disclose my position. You have probably read accounts of our activities tion will benefit the man a.« a sol- ants and bees and poison oak and
the
day
you
return
you
go
on
a
in
the
Pacific
and
learned
of
the
wonderful
exploits
of
our
armed
I dier let it he remembered that
When the song was making musical history- -which ia
picnic with the girl friend.
forces. The Navy, in no small measure, played a great part ami I
different from milking history musical—few North Ameri­ though some say our air power is very vital, let me tell you we hoys . in the pence that will come eventu­ Yotl believe a 10-mile hike is a
ally it will lie the civilian with the
cans foresaw the day when they could truly say “Yen, we certainly appreciate the presence and prowess of our great Navy.
firmest background who will go lots worse than death and think
have no bananas.” Yet many a town north of the Rio Grande
nothing of jiving the light and fan­
Well, Lou, as the months pass swiftly, in a few weeks our hoys the farthest.
would probably do what Halifax, Nova Scotia, did the other including myself, will have been overseas exactly one year. I think (Editorial note: For information tastic 25 miles in a single evening
three girls and a million other
day, if a banana appeared on Main Street. In Halifax they we have the distinction, without being boastful, of being the first on this correspondence course, talk with
group of any size to leave the States for overseas. Although the year to your Special Service Officer, soldier* at the USD
put a picture of it on the front page of a newspaper.
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went l>y fast, it nevertheless is a long time to be away from home,
But the news report had this strange fact to relate: The so naturally the boys afe eagerly hoping for some kind of a break. your librarian, or write direct to What’s the big idea, walking out
the Army Institute, Madison, Wis.)
of the mess hall with that toast?
banana came from Toronto, where “they say bananas still We have progressed a long way from the day we left and no doubt
Pfc. Rosenfeld?
hang in golden bunches in fruit store windows." It probably at present arc on the offensive, not only in the Pacific, hut on all fronts.
(•Square Service Corvallis
I’m studying to he an artist ami
I
just
received
a
Boston
Globe
and
read
of
the
great
Bond
Drive
isn’t so very important not half as important, for example,
I. O. O. F. Hall, services. Sun­ I Want some G. I. charcoal.
MOST STYLES
as buying war bonds and stamps and contributing to the being conducted I hope it is a great success for what reason can day at (-Square Gospel, Corvallis,
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$10.50 and $11.00
there lie that it shouldn't succeed? I read often in the newspapers 4th and Madison streets. Sunday
United War Fund drives but it might interest the song of the bickering of politicians and the griping of defense workers and
POET’S CORN ER
— With Stamp
writers to know that when you say Io a fruit dealer in Tor­ although 1 try to consider all sides, 1 can't help but become vexed school at 10 u. m., church service They give me shots of Tetanus,
11 a. nt. Evening service, 7:43. it
For Typhoid, I get three
Number 17
onto: ’ You have «no bananas?” the answer is "No, we have at their actions in these days. So are all the rest of the boys. I was
announced by pastor E. G. The Yellow Fever is excuse.
guess they don't realize what’s going on or what war REALLY is. Skultety.
some bananas."
For one more hole in me.
So far as most of the towns and cities in Toronto’s quar­ hut Americans bettei stop their bickering and griping and thank
lucky stars for the comfort and shelter of the Uniteli States, T'
They stick the needle in me dry.
ter of the world are concerned, however, the answer is still their You
They stick it in me wet.
know, the boys here would gladly take over their position*,
“YES, we have NO bananas.”
They punch me full of holes, it !
Work even days a week and devote their salaries to the war effort,
seems.
¿iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiii If you see uny of those slackers, convey to them my utmost disgust
CLEVER THESE CHINESE: A
THE QUALITY STORE SINCE ’84
At every chance they get.
and contempt and let them PLACE THEMSELVES IN OUR POSI-
furlough was sought by Pvt. Ling
OF AN
THIRD
and
MADISON
CORVALLIS
TION! Take care of yourself. Ixive to all.
Foo Lint at CAMP KILMER. N. J. The Typhus. Measles. Housemaids '
Your
friend,
Knee.
OLD TIMER
The captain asked why the time
LEO.
off was needed and the Private said
Ik Henry Beckett
In the Pae if it. in Africa, in Europe, in Asia, in Alaska, thousands he was lonesome — he wanted to
upon thousand* of American fighting men are writing the same letters. visit hi« wife.
FT. JAY, Governors Island, N.Y Battery and a picnic lunch in the Inwardly they know that YOU won’t let them down. You can't, for
“O. K.,” agreed the captain,
you promised to bring them back. Ami even on the front lines, they "where does your wife live?”
Old timers at this post tell me pa ik.
that the girl«’ stock adjective for
"Residents of this city spend l»ir are concerned aisuit the suewss of the War Savings Bond drive back
"China,” was the calm reply.
is "cute." I'd aay "fantastic." money every summer to cross the home. A niaiotity of the soldier* themselves are buying Iwinds through
The captain grunted him a three,
One inescapable fact about it is aea and look at castles and moats," the Cla "A” Pay Reservation Plan, betause at the front they KNOW day pass.
at on this inland one is ever I Haiti, "Doubtless few of them W HAT WAR REALIA IS Can you honestly say you cannot AFFORD
const ions of the proximity of the know that there ate eaithern ram to invest in War Savings Bonds, when these men far from home are
DEDUCTION: Two M. P.’s fin-
great city. Day and night the parts with stone retaining walls, investing their LIVES for your future security? Rend the last para­ ished their ninth round of drinks,
stupendous skyline of lower Man­ moat, sallyport and drawbridge. graph of the above letter again! THINK AMERICA, for mistake* breathed alcoholic farewells to
dial tan looms there across a nar- I as well as a rustle, ««me ten nun* aie too costly in this present era!
their friends, climbed into their
>ow water to the north
ute»’ distance from the southern
jeep, and began the forty-five mile
On a bright, clear day the huge . end of Manhattan.”
it out of sight. Searchlights on
HENRY FORD DEPT : A lady drive hack to camp.
police boats play about the island from Chicago, who was visiting
buildings are magnificently clear | Next I quoted from a
After a considerable period one
On clear nights they are a dark schedule for recruits anti
shore to make sure that all is welt friends in South Texas, remarked of them observed, “We're getting
blur, Through haze they have the inent on that, considering
to a Fort Bliss soldier. "There must closer to camp."
quality of an impre ionislic fres- ent circumstances, is anu
be a great many men from Texas
“Zat so? What gives you that
co In fog they are invisible ami deed. 1 wrote:
in the army 7"
idea?" asked the other.
all around one hears, continuously. I "Now that’s enough to makq a
"Yes," replied the soldier, "vou’11
"Well," reasoned the first one.
the blowing of whistles and the i World War veteran homesick for
find them everywhere,"
"we're hitlin’ more soldiers."
eerie warning of the siren* in the something, and thia training may
"Oh yes." «aid the lady, “every-
Swiped from Sioux City
t»e seen free by the public in a
harbor.
wiwiv 1 go J mm *.44i.-i» with a
B miii I wi »«iter
EDUCATION \l NOTE \ N«vj
Governor* Island i* different, green field where officers play
boot wan<b»r.>d, of «11 places, into
though, when you’re a soldier, and polo."
yOU don’t want to sjiend your “leave" waiting at
S i here I am. in uniform again, the officers’ club, where he was
also it is different in wartime The
old free-and-aay atmosplwre is on the island that used to make greeted by a lieutenant; "Get the
some bank window to deposit your pay checks or
niv wistful for the comradeship of blaze.« out of here! Can’t
gone.
make withdrawals. Deposits
. - mav , be made BY MAIL
In other years it was a favorite the other war. Well, there’« no read?"
at one of the nearby Branches of the United States
“Officer,” (he rookie moaned,
spot for a Sunday afternoon out­ polo now, and the officer« who
National Rank—then make your withdrawals BY CHECK.
! had a pas« to the polo played the game here are on vari­ I could read. I'd be in the Army."
ing
Courtesy USNfS "ttoi-t"
games, because 1 covered Army ous fronts, and the public can’t
Special ltepo.it Env* topee
atorie* for a newspaper, and my watch recruits at drill. In the old
supplied without charge by
wife and I liked to look at the days we casually sauntered on and
Pt'IJTICAI DEPT
The hoy«
any one of these Branche«.
officers’ brick houses, which have oft the ferryboat* running between were griping about the »on* of
the charm of a bygone architectural island and city, but nowaday* even politician* when a new voice poke
jietiod, and to »troll the brick we fellows in uniform must «how up behind them
passes tiefore we can ride in either
walks
"Pm a politician'* »on," said the
“A Good Time on a Quarter” direct ion.
voice, "ami I’m in the army ju«t
At night powerful searchlight«, tike you onlinary guy»"
was the title of a newspaper aeries
] did for six weeks one sumrni r f.erhapa fifteen of them at once,
The gang turned around to see
and I recommended this island a* may be traced to the harbor shores who ownd the vojee.
nf Portland
a nice excursion for the cost of Their line« converge on a plane
"Yea, captain." they replied.
fly.rg over the harhor and follow
fif more than subway fare to
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Editor ami manager ..............
Don C. Wilson
P. 0. Address, Box 347, Corvallis. Oregon. Phone 865-M.
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