Camp Adair Sentry
Thursday, April 15,1943.
Page Four
Non-Coms Elect Tonight. Then Dance?
Why Buy Bonds? This
Piece Helps Explain
Is Safest Way to Put to Use Our
Now-Tremendous National Income
The income of the people of this
Box of the Week
country—the total of what they re
Major Carl Forsman: “I see
ceive in wages, farm income, divi you had a good time over the
dends, and so forth—will be 125 week end.”
i illion dollars this year. There
Cpl. Bob Ruskauff, with a big
rever was anything like this before broad smile: “Yes sir, how can
in all history; never before did so you tell?”
many people have so much income. I
Major Forsman: “By the en
Out of this income, we shall pay gagement ltnga under your
15 billion dollars in individual j eyes.”
taxes. That leaves 110 billion dol
The best part of this joke is
lars to save or to .-pend.
that it wasn’t manufactured. The
But we cannot possibly make incident took place on Monday.
enough things this year to spend [
that money on. In fact, there will
. e only about 70 billion dollars’
worth of goods and services for
< ivilians to buy. because, although
there will be more people at work
i: America than ever before, half :
of them will be producing things I
Passes on Thursday;
for war.
Held Finance Posts
When we have bought 70 billion
de liars’ worth of clothes and food
A popular and able soldier and
and entertainment, and so on, we
officer
was lost to Camp Adair with
shall have 40 billion dollars left,
the
passing
last Thursday, of Lt.
lots of money and nothing to spend
Col.
Leo
W.
Belcher. 38, finance
it on. money all dressed up and no
officer
for
the
Timber Wolf divi
place to go.
sion.
Of course there is one way to
Col. Belcher, who came to Camp
spend it. We could pay more for Adair when the division was acti
everything. We could say, “I’ll vated in August, was formerly aud
give you $11.00 for the $7.00 pair itor and assistant treasurer at the
of shoes.” That would take care University of Georgia at Athens,
of it. sure enough. THAT'S WHAT and was engaged in the banking
IS MEANT BY INFLATION. It business in Athens from 1925 to
has the same effect on us as would 1937.
a drastic cut in our wages.
Previous to his assignment here.
If people start bidding up prices, Cpl. Belcher had held several fi
before they get through they nance posts in the army. He was
haven't acquired any more shoes; commissioned in the organized re
they just have less money. Not serves as a second lieutenant in
only that, but all the money they 1925, a first lieutenant in 1928.
have saved has become worth less captain in 1933. major in 1940, and
(sometimes actually worthless) be received his latest promotion No-
cause it no longer will buy so much. ' vember 18, 1942.
There are only two ways to keep
Col Belcher was member of the
us from getting into trouble with Rotary club in Athens and took an
that 40 billion dollars — save more, i active part in club and other
pay more taxes.
■ civic activities. He graduated from
As things now stand, we can the University of Georgia in 1925,
count on the purchase of 12 billion where he was a member of Lambda
dollars’ worth of War Bonds this Chi Alpha fraternity and Alpha
year. We can be pretty sure people Kappa Psi accounting fraternity.
will save another 13 billion dollars, He was a member of the Baptist
in repayment of debt, insurance, church.
additions to bank deposits and so
His wife, and two children, Leo
on. To save 25 billion dollars in a W., Jr., and Dorothy Reed Belcher,
year will be a magnificent achieve survive. The body will be taken to
ment.
Athens for interment.
But it is not enough! It will still
leave 15 billion dollars or more with dangerous money in your pocket.
almost no place to go. Either we You alone can control the purse
bid up prices with it—and so throw strings and you. not your govern
it away; or we put it in WAR ment, must decide whether this
BONDS—and so save it.
surplus money will evaporate into a
Postpone Spending
mist of meaningless figures or go
Every dollar we thus save does into the security of WAR BONDS
E double job. It protects the value for future use.
of the dollar we do spend, and it
We must make the decision at
gives us a dollar to spend later on once. To win on the battlefield and
when America is again at peace and lose at home through inflation is
able to make all the things we want to give ourselves and the boys at
but can’t have now. We must the front alike a dirty deal.—(from
POSTPONE spending. We must put Reader’s Digest.)
away twice as much in War Bonds
BUY NOW! MAKE EVERY
as we have been doing.
PAY DAY BOND DAY.
—Post War Bond Office.
Taxes will not reach the really
Camp Mourns Death
Of Lt. Col. Belcher
Officers of the SCU 1911 Non-Coms club will be elected tonight at, naturally, the non-coms
club, with President pro-tem M Sgt. William Carmichael, one of the moving spirits of the club,
presiding. After the elections, if matters work out there will be a bit of 3.2ing and perhaps some
dancing such as shown above to prove that non-coms can dance. Among those proving it here are
Dancing, left to right, T Sgt. Robert Reilly. Sgt. Fred Thielsen, Sgt. James L. Morgan. T 5 Ben
Tow sky and "camera-shy" Sgt. Al Bangl ... and their guests.—Signal Corps photo.
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He will leave about the middle of
April. Good luck, Milo!
Camp Adair Civilian
Can you picture Mr. Jester hob-
bling around on crutches ? You
Employees Column
J
know’, Harry, badminton is a very
strenuous game . . . why not take
John C. Clay, Chief Clerk in the
up horseback riding instead?
Office of Director of Supply, will
We will all miss Jane Bates of
be inducted into the army some
Civilian
Personnel when she leaves
time in May. As Mr. Clay says, “If
us this week to join her husband
you gotta go—you gotta go!”
the past _week with a very bad who is in training at Camp Kohler,
“W H Y”
sprained ankle. His condition is California. Drop in and see us when
I think that I shall never see
much improved and it is rumored you come home again, Jane.
An office like the P & C.
that he will be back to resume his
A place where crazy people
responsibilities in the Transporta Oregon State Invites
work
tion
office soon.
All day beside some stupid jerk
“
Early
to bed and early to rise” Soldiers for Easter
And w hen a joke or pun is said
will probably be the slogan of
We all wake up as if from dead
Service men of Camp Adair are
those employed at the Laundry
Lt. Frank has quite a job
1 cordially invited to attend the pre
from
now
on, ’ due to
< v
e
Controlling such a crazy mob.
,
a
„ „„ a change
* in 'Easter
Xesper Services
to be held
hours to 7:00 a
p. n>. Just . ,he au<ljtorium of the Oregon
Across from him sits Mr. Hope
think, girls of the extra shopping
of Education compus at
Who seems to think we’re tak-
timp
vnnll
have» nnu-
tr»
Tornio
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...
time
you
’
ll
have
now
to
devote
to
dope
Monmouth Sunday at four o’clock.
the selection of that new Easter
It’s all in fun this poem of
The program will be of a non
bonnet!
sectarian
nature, and will include
mine
The office employees at the an Easter message by the Reverend
We’ll w in the war. just give us
laundry are proud of their edu Wilbur Simmons, pastor of the Fed
time.
—Pvt. Don Weeck, SCU 1911 cated cat w ho watches every erated church of Corvallis. Florence
move they make on the compto Coardy Merriam, hostess at Service
Captain C. L. Carter, Post Trans meter. According to latest re Club No. 2, will sing.
The Religious Education commit
portation, is away on government ports, this observant feline can
business from his duties at the add. multiply and divide by now tee of the OCE faculty is in charge
of arrangements an decorations. Of
transportation office and is ex —well practically!
pected back by the 16th-
The Ordnance Office has missed ficers, enlisted men and their fami
lies living in Monmouth and Inde
Former Cpl. H. V. Berge of SCU Maxine Rogers who has been ill
pendence are especially urged to
1911 QMC of Camp Adair, who recently with an attack of appendi
attend.
was discharged from the service citis. We hope she will be able to
under Sec. 2 WD Circular 39—of be back with us soon.
Constable (to man struggling in
February, 1943, has been released
ashington is the most beauti- a private lake): “Come on, get out.
from the Kaiser Co. Inc. at Port- i fui state in the union” comes from i
land and has take”
aB Sr. Louise Beck who has just returned You can’t swim in there.”
Man: “I know I can’t. That’s why
Clerk in the Post Transports« from a trip through the northern
I’m hollering for help!”
office.
section.
Mr. F. G. Bennett, Chief Cler).
Mr. and Mrs. Lawton are _____
tak-
The government old-age pen-
Post Transportation, has been con ing a short trip to the coast prior ! sion system in Great Britain dates
fined to his home at Corvallis for to Mr. Lawton’s joining the Army, | from 1908.
CACE
!
Snap II Up
George White’s Service Men’s
Center in Portland announces
the opening of a snapshot con
test today! Service men at Camp
Adair are invited by the Center
to get out the old photos they
have hanging around and sub
mit them to the contest.
June, 1942
Col. George C. Ferch, artillery officer and veteran of two former wars, arrives,
establishes temporary offices in Corvallis ... 30 officers and temporary duty assign
ments given ... the “400”, first soldier to arrive hit “Tent City,” coming in from
Ft. Dix, N. J., after 4-day cross-country trip ... completion of building work put in
“overdrive,” speeded up by 30 days ... intensity of building work means dropping of
business men’s caravans to the camp ... builders beat engineers 8-2, in a softball game
... Col. P. R. Goode, regimental commander, precedes his division in a visit to Adair
stated that camp work peps up neighboring merchants ... work also begins on nearby
Corvallis Air Field ... M. W. Lorenz goes on fishing trip ... food service curtailed in
Salem restaurants ... Rita Hayworth, sewing on soldier’s trousers, makes page 6 ...
Oregon Motor stages announces improvement in bus service to Corvallis, add busses
...the Builders win 2-0 softball game in the rain (yes, in June) ... Col. D. McCallum,
camp surgeon, arrives from Ft. Lewis ... then-Brigadier General James L. Bradley,
division commander, here for few days ...