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Camp Adair Sentry
Below Is Correct
Thursday, May 13, 1943.
There Is But One
’»RAISE THE RIGHT HAND
SMARTLY UNTIL THE TIP
OP THE FOREFINGER
TOUCHES THE LOWER.
PART OF THE HEAD DRESS
ABOVE AND SLIGHTLY TO
THE RIGHT OF THE
RIGHT EYE
Page Three
Correct Way to Salute
TURN YOUR.
HEAD AND
EYES
TOWARDS
PERSON
SALUTED
Trumpet She Is; No
More Bugle in Army
Now Officially Same
Thing Gabriel Blew
By Pvt. Harry Klimner
In this war ,it’s not a bugle any
more; it’s a trumpet.
The Army official list of G.I.
musical instruments includes no
bugle. The name of the instrument
• NO TRICK
was changed to trumpet in 1923,
SALUTES
when the old cavalry bugle used in
PONT COVER YOUR
FACS WITH YOUA
• FOREARM
the last war was discarded because
HAND. LEARN TO
UPPER..
AT A *5
5ALUTI PROMRLY
it was too hard to blow. This was
ARAA
ANGLE
reported in a recent edition of
STR
AIGM T
HAND -4r
News
Week.
WRIST
•
REHOVe
YOUR
The
magazine also informs its
STRAIGHT
5MOKI
readers that the new trumpet
NEVER SALUTE WITH
A CIGAR . Cl 6ARETT«
henceforth will be plastic and not
OR A FlPfc IN YOUR.
brass.
AOUTH
There will be no attempt to re
claim the old metal instruments,
but hereafter all “bugles” (which a
stubborn Army and public still per
sist in calling them) will be made
of olive-drab tenite (cellulose ace
tate butyrate), an Eastman Kodak
product heretofore used for hair
pins, door knobs and safety film.
•
BE
AkiR.1
No More ‘Lip-Stick’
• ALWAYS CO/AE TO
• SALUTE SIA ART LY
ATTENTION TO salute
While
the new “bugle” is the
» PONT TRY TO $ALUTi
• WHEN IN DOUBT -
DON'T HAVE VDUR, HAND IN YOU A
same size as the old one. it
WHILE ON THE RUN
POCKET - STAND ERECT AND
SALUTE
SLOW POWN TO A WALK- THIN
weighs only half as much and
'--vg A. SNAPPY SALUTE
SALUTE
will save two pounds of brass.
About The Cartoon!
Unlike the brass trumpet, it
needs no warming up and will not
The above cartoon by Staff
stick to the bugler’s lips in the
Artist T 5 Don Lynch, is used
cold gray dawn. Tenite is also
to grace Post Headquarters
exceptionally hard to break, will
building, alongside a large mir
not dent, and needs no elbow
ror which greets you at the en
grease to keep it shining.
Building Receives
The Army has placed an initial
trance and invites you to “Stop
What is a salute, and what is
Contest.’ Fame—But
order
of 10,000 plastic trumpets as
...!!” and make sure you are in
Modern Equipment
its origin?
trial models. More will be ordered
Well Take Chicken
uniform.
Today, as we know, it is a GI
as needed, and there’s also a small
all
artists,
genealo-
Attention
“
Post
Headquarters
PX
No.
16
form of courteous recognition. But
order of {Jastic fifes in the oEtinn-
A Wee Bit Cracked
through the centuries it has been gists, blots on family escutch- will open for business this Monday
Plenty Buglers?
changed. Historians, frankly, do eons and GI’s — the Sanitary- at its new location—a few feet
News Week contends that finding
Kansas City, Mo. (CNS)—Elmer
not agree on its origin. However— Company announces a contest from the old spot,” Lt. Frank M. Cummins, an elevator operator and training “buglers” is no prob-
Way back in the days of the for a design for a Company Moore, post exchange officer an began to eat his lunch explaining lem, albeit some company com-
nounced yesterday.
Borgias, according to history, no CresL For further details read
that his wife had fixed it hurriedly, manders at Camp Adair might tell
He declared that all the latest
“
Mosquito
Destroyers
’
’
Column
one trusted anyone; for at any time
He pulled out a hard boiled egg you other wise. Be that as it may,
equipment has been procui-ed and
and cracked it on his head. Then he the magazine backs up this state-
your best friend might try to knife appearing elsewhere in this is
explained that the cafeteria style
realized his wife had been in such ment by reporting that—
you. So, anyone coming into the sue.
w-ill
be put into effect in order to
A
reward:
all
the
Southern
a hurry she forgot to boil the egg. j The Army is full of ex-Boy
presence of a superior was required
serve customers more efficiently.
Scouts and swing-band trumpet
to raise his hand, palm to the front,' Fried Chicken you can eat and
“All credit for the new building
players. As an example they give
to show there was no dagger con undying fame. Contest will end which was the former delapidated
ALBANY PRESBYTERIANS
May 23. All are eligible.
Pfc. Clarence Zylman who played
cealed therein.
ALL OUT FOR SOLDIERS
framework in which post publica
Submit
suggestions
through
Time and custom, the historians
Sleeping facilities for 90 men reveille in swingtime so success
tions was housed, should go to
Message
Center,
Post
Head
fully in England that he was sent
insist, have modified this precau
Capt. Gilbert W’aite, post adjutant,” over any week-end are available
on
a tour of other camps to show
tionary requirement to the present quarters.
at the Service Men’s center at
declared Lt. Moore.
less
solid senders how to roll the
smart salute.
the Presbyterian church at Fifth
Was Indeed Problem
boys
out with a jump-and-jive
point in the salute signifies sub
and BrQadalbin streets in Al
“He nursed it and watched over
Or a Diving Helmet
smile.
mission. Take whatever theory it while the work was going on;
bany, it was announced this
Another theory holds that the
you
like,
but
don
’
t
forget
to
sa-
week. Cost is 50 cents and Sun
I that rightfully,” said the post ex-
present custom developed from a
Troop movements are never
lute.
* change officer, jokingly, “it should
day morning breakfast is served.
requirement to remove the head
discussed.
Service men are lucky that they be known as Capt. Waite’s PX in
covering in the presence of su
periors. There was some head are not in the Russian army. There stead of No. 16.”
“So broken down w-as the edifice,”
How It All Started
gear that was a little difficult the soldier salutes at all times ex-
th whip off in a hurry, like bear ' cept when firing, and even the non- said Lt. Moore, “that it had to be
«
(T 5 Don Lynch Conceives Origin of Salut^ Sketches It.
(
handled
with
care,
and
it
took
!
coms
get
a
salute,
too.
skin and helmets, so they juft
Then Treats With It as Follows:)
made like removing it and let it I In Eritain, the soldier salutes seventeen days to move the building
a
few
feet
to
the
new
location.
”
go at that. Hence, the salute. only when covered and then by
A man had to be careful years ago—a friendly chap could take
“Thereafter,” the post exchange
The Round Table Idea
raising the hand, palm outward, to
just
an awful crack on the noggin for just ignoring one simple basic-
If you have a more romantic the forehead in a circular motion. officer reports, “the carpenters and principal:
utility men began to remodel and
turn of mind, you’ll like this ex
Indoors, in China, the soldier rebuild Capt. Waite’s exchange.”
That is you can’t trust people—you gotta keep an eye on them,
planation better. In days of old doesn’t salute at all but gives ■
or they give you the ole’ spiked club—a devilish kind of abuse that
when knights were bold, etc., it was , slight bow.
just wears a man down; so something had to be done.
Fin Takes Wings, But
the custom at jousLs and tourna- |
People must prove their good intentions. When a guy gives you
ments to have a ceremony of'
Not During Crap Game the old sunny puss and a “Hi Ya Benny, wanna step a little closer and
crowning the Queen of Love and ; Enemy Guns Pictured
see a cute trick,” you just don’t give.
Beauty. After the crowning, the In Forthcoming Yank
If you do it means the club; so as I was about to say, something
Ft. Meade, Md. (CNS)—Pvt.
knights all passed in review before
had to be done. A little mayhem may be O.
but you gotta have rules
Joseph O. Manzo of a pigeon com
the galmorous damsel and as each
New York (CNS)—A collection pany here borrowed five bucks and regulations. A man willing and ready to lay off the homicide
drew near he "raised a mailed right of close-up photographs of cap
would extend his hand—open—And empty—And both hands.
hand to shade his eyes in order— tured enemy guns will be featured from a buddy and then was trans
It was a nice, a friendly gesture. A man eouM keep a pompadour.
so the lady was supposed to believe in the May 14 issue of Yank, the ferred. That could have ended a That’s how your salute started. It means no club, but just get a
—that he would not he so dazzled i Army weekly, on sale May 7 in beautiful GI friendship. But Man little off the beam some time and pass up some unhappy second lieuten
zo was smart. He clipped a |5 bill
by her beauty as to be unable to Army exchanges and ships’ serv
and a note of thanks to the leg- ant, and you'll get.the club. And take it from me boy, that ain’t good!
see.
ice stores.
* of a-pigeon and a couple of hours
During Crusades
The pictures, one of the most ]Hter received an acknowledgement
The custom of Saluting with the revealing collections ever made, from his cre<iitdr.
saber also stems from the days will include captured German, Jap
of the knights when, during the I and Italian artillery pieces, rifles,'
Getting Well Qoickly!
Crusades, it was their habit to call mortars and small anns, with in-»
Well on the road to recovery is
upon God -to witness their assump structions for their use in case of
the
report on Lt. William Lang
tion of the duty imposed by raising a battlefield emergency.
häuser,
of Post Finance, who un-
the sword to the lips and kissing
Never before has such a compre- '
the cross formed by the guard and hensive study of enemy equipment derwent an operation at the Station
been published. The feature will H os pi tai recently. Lt. Langhäuser
body of the weapon.
is one - of the more popular
SCU
take up four or five full pages in —
- -
. In The First Place
Yank.
J
officers
and
served
on
the
commit-
Originally, the sword was in
—f
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1
Copies of the May 14 issue will tee i ncharge of the recent SCU
verted when kissed; that is the
n
. guard was up and the point was be available to servicemen at- the Officers dinner-dance two week-
<•
tenda ago.'
down. The dipping of the saber PX for a nickel each.
a little dauer sad
’»THUMB AND
FINGERS
EXTENDED AND
JOINED
DON’T BENO THE
W-RIST OR.
HAND WHEN
yOU SALUT6
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History of Salute
Harks to Dark Ages
Post Headquarters PX
To Open Thfc MoiKtoy