Camp Adair Sent;
Thursday, May 6,1943.
It's A Great Lite
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Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Nothing New!
A weekly newspaper published by and for the military personnel
of Camp Adair, Oregon, under supervision of the Post Special Services
Office. Financed by the Post Exchange.
A Jap is like a girdle. They hotl
sneak up on you. It takes a Yanli
to pull them down.—Armodier, Ft
Smith, Ark.
Address communications to “Camp Adair Sentry. Post Head­
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All articles represent personal opinions and are not official unless
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A Dilemmae!
Just as You Left“ It
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Private: “That guy over then
says his soup isn’t fit for a hog!’
Mess Sgt.: “Take it away thei
and send him out to the garhagt
can where he can find some tha
,—Over heard in the Mess Hal).
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Newspaper Service.
Our job does not call for pondering on this too often,
or too long. For ours is now one job—and our task to be
prepared to handle it when the big time comes. But this Sun­
day we should think of home. Sunday is Mother’s Day.
We could expand editorially, but there seems something sig­
nificant to the occasion in the following editorial. It appeared
in national newspapers as an advertisement of the Nash-
Kelvinator Corporation who gave the Sentry permission
to print it. The editorial tells, inspirationally, what those
behind are thinking.
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Some Mess
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T Set. Edwin A. Brown ............................................
Sgt. Raymond C. Johnson, Pvt. Harry Klissner,
Pfc. Glen Peterson ............................... ..............
T '5 Bob Ruskauff ................................................-.......
T '5 Dun Lynch ...............................................................
CHANGE
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For a man to pretend to under
stand women is bad manners; fo
him really to understand them i¡
bad morals.
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Flowered Love!
military wedding, thi
groom, only recently back from th,
Solomons, had hardly glimpsed hi
bride before the ceremony. There
fore when time came for the kiss
it was a long one, lasting on an;
on until a child’s voice rang out ii
the silence of the church:
“Mummy, is he spreading th
pollen on her now?”
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•I’d like a nice, sentinmental card—quite flattering—and
d the unhappy plight of a devoted son. who has
subtly expressing
met up with considerable ill fortune all too early in the month.
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Digging for Safety!
I know you will come back to me. I’ve never doubted
Fox holes are so important ii
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phases of modern warfar
that, ever!
Well Done—
Pvt. Klissner Wrote
that soldier tenants of them ar
And when you do come back, you will find, just as you
I posting them with their own name
left them, everything your letters tell me you hold dear. This Bit of Poetry
From the looks of things, and , to insure priority of use in th
I will be wearing the same blue dress I wore the day you went
at the rate we’ve been dropping event of an emergency.
The Sentry’s own Pvt. Harry
—Fort Dix, N.J., Post
away. And on my arm the silver bracelet you gave me last Klissner has broken forth in poesy, bombs on Germany, the names of
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some of their cities will probably
April on our anniversary.
but, be this treason or what, he
Broke In!
have to be changed:
And, waiting for you, the children will be first to hear didn’t write it for The Sentry. The From Berlin, to Burnin’; from The U. S. submarine Sturgeoi
the sound of your step on the walk, and the quick way that poem appeared in “The Windmill Wilhelmshaven, to Will Hell Save , radioed to its flagship after sink
Club Bulletin,” published for em­
you and only you open and shut the old white gate.
Them; from Hamburg, to Bom- ing its first Jap ship: “Sturgeon m
ployees of the Van de Kamp Bak­
longer virgin.”—Readers Digest.
How they will run to greet you, far out-racing my own ery in Los Angeles. Pvt. Klissner | burg. The idea is limitless.
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suggestions ?
swift step, meeting you with shouts and laughter, before I formerly edited the publication. ' How about $ some
So That’s It?
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The poem is entitled:
have even reached the door!
A woman needs a chaperon
“You’ve Had It,” is the newest
Let’s Cooperate
Till she can call some chap hei
Inside, by tlje warm fire in the living room, you’ll find
slang-phrase sweeping England,!
your easy chair,’ your footstool* and your slippers, just as You can’t win a war by crying, an(| most likely started with our own!
— Fort MacArthur Alert
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they always were each night before you went to war.
boys.
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It has become the most emphatic
When you come back to me, you will find nothing Our government requests!
A Cooked Goose-Step!
changed. Those at home promise that. Here is your town, You can’t win a war by shirking; way of saying “NO,” in answer to Pfc. Brown: Is the new Desert
Victory picture any good ?
your children are still free to sleep and laugh and play . . . It can only be won by working any kind of a request.
It seems to me, that when the
Sgt. Tice: It’s worth my money
still free to look to the sky, clear-eyed and unafraid.
Without unnecessary rests!
Axis gets tired of our interminable
Pfc. Brown: I supposed it wa!
Our house still stands, white and lovely as it always
bombings, and asks for a slight • one of them propaganda picture;
was, and down the street the maples march straight and tall, You can’t win a war by grabbing, pause, our answer should be, ! with a chase at the finish—
unwithered by the heat of war! And every Sunday, steeple For in the end you’re really stab­ “You’ve had it,” — What we will Sgt. Tice: You’re not kidding!
bing
give you, is
Unconditional Sur-
bells still ring and in our church we still sing hymns to God. Our country in the back!
Pfc. Brown: Who’s in it?
render.’’
Sgt. Tice: Marshall Rommel an
I’ve told the children, and I tell myself, this is what
I the British Eighth Army!
you’re fighting for! These are the big and little things You can’t win a war by fearing; Just saw motion picture, “The
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worth waiting for. The things that make our lives worth Defeat will only be nearing
Moon is Down.” . .. Let’s first win
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If in our leaders confidence you this war, there’s plenty of time for
living, that make this war worth winning.
The Duce You Say!
lack!
pity for the Germans, after that.
In Hitler’s poker game it look;
We are so proud of you.
—By Weldon. like Benito is “Duce’s Wild.”
Proud that you are making sure that hate and greed You can only win a war by pa-
and tyranny will never rise to threaten us again.
tience,
And we are proud to make our own sacrifices, knowing Hardships, denials and rations
WHERE'S MY WAR BOND?
Accepted with a glad heart.
that they will help to bring you back to us sooner.
To All Civilian Employees at Camp Adair
Back home to the same town, to the «same job you liked
So it isn’t too much to ask
so much .... to the same America we have always known That
Since January 1, 1943, War Bonds for you civilian employees
we all accept our task
and loved . .. where you can work and plan and build . .. And do our part!
have been and will continue to be issued through our Post Finance
Office. On a few occasions, several days have elapsed from the
where together we can do the things we’ve always dreamed
time you received your pay checks until you received your Bonds.
of .. . where we and our children are free to make our lives
Foolish Plan
There is a very definite reason for this, and one into which
what we want them to be . . . where there are no limits on
the
human element enters. After your payrolls are made up,
Since the» squeeze in Africa be­
any man’s, or any woman’s, or any child’s opportunity.
bond
schedule lists which authorize the Finance Office to draw
gan, Rommel’s army is operating
You’ve said, “That’s the America I want when I come on the “Pray as You go Plan”!
bonds in your favor, must be compiled. All this takes time,
back ... don’t change that, ever ... don’t let anyone tamper
and we are constantly working to cut down this time, until you
will receive your Bonds approximately one week after you
with a way of living that works so well.”
CONSIDER THE HAMMER
receive your pay cheek.
It keeps its head,
Never fear, darling—that’s the way we all want it.
We have received a number of calls in this office from
Everything will be here, just as you left it, just as you It doesn’t fly off the handle.
persons
who apparently believe they may not get a bond or a
It keeps pounding away.
want it . . . when you come back to me!
return of the money deducted. Please be assured that you will
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The Soldiers’ Haven
A private stood alone in Company
C.
He was indeed a lonesome soldier
lad.
He just arrived that day and he
was free.
He wanted a good time awful bad.
done.
The other boys were all having fun.
Up spoke one lad who wasn’t slow:
“Just come with us—This is a treat
We will see a cabaret show,
And also we wjll get a bit£ to eat.”
“Where is this place?” the private
The other boys all passed him on
said.
their way.
“It sounds like lots of fun.
He noticed they were feeling pret­ It is too early to go to bed.” —
ty gay,
The place is Service Club 2 and 1!
—Pvt. Lou Harris. |
JLnd so he asked what they had
It finds the point,
Then drives it home.
It looks at the other side, too.
And then clinches the matter.
It makes mistakes,
But when it does,
It starts all over.
It is the only
Knocker in the world
That does any good.
If you are inclined
To lose your head
And fly off the handle,
CONSIDER THE HAMMER!
—Lt. M. D. Garfield, D. C:
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receive your bonds, just as certain as you receive your pay check,
but of necessity it must follow the check.
I don’t believe that it is necessary to stress the importance
of bond purchases by every wage earner. Every boy in service
is depending upon you. Don’t let them down. You may depend
upon us that we won’t let you down.
Regarding the issuance of Bonds and refunds from Wash­
ington, D. C., prior to January 1, 1943, everything humanly
possible is being done, and in the near future you may expect
delivery, without any loss of INTEREST.
Let me again remind you that your Government will never
let you down. “BUY BONDS. AND MORE BONDS, UNTIL
OUR ENEMY IS DEFEATED.—LOUIS J. HANLEY, 2nd Lt.
AUS, WAR BOND OFFICER.
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