Camp Adair Sentry
Page Five
Thursday, May 27, 1943.
Cartoons Reflect Heart of a Nation and Unmask World
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Subject: Reveille
Huge Influence
In War Effort
Subject: Reveille
Britons Held Cartoon­
ist Low 'Worth About
Value of Battleship'
By T 5 Don Lynch
(Sentry Staff Artist)
It never fails. W’henever a group j
of people sit around a table for
any length of time—or sit around
anything else for that matter—
there’s always someone to say:
“Did you see that one in Colliers
last week?’’
It usually slays him, and now
that someone else has started that
kind of thing, you announce your
entry into this little gag “swappee”
with a loud burst of vocal mirth.
You commence to describe that
one in the last New Yorkers—all
the while giggling like a feather-
tickled goon.
They don’t go for it quite as hard
as you do—that’s why we’re writ­
ing this article!
Private Pflug calls it his reveille delight, sir. It saves 7.00265
All Like Cartoons
seconds—seems a good idea, sir, except for the splinters and
corners.
People go for different things.
Some go for most anything, but
that’s another subject. At any rate,
“Hold Everything,” action-filled USO-Camp Shows variety show
they just about all are cartoon
produced and staged on Broadway, will be presented free to EM of
fans!
Camp Adah- at Theatre 2 Saturday and Monday nights. There will be
As a matter of fact, now that
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I’ve got your ear, I might as well,
Adair at Theatre 2 Saturday and
tell about one I saw in the New ;
Monday nights. There will be two
Yorker some time ago. Two of
shows each night, starting at 6:30
Thurber’s dumpy people, male and
and 8:30.
female, stand squarely in the cen­
Theatre 2, located on C street
ter of a room and he to she:
“Wanna’ neck?”
Do you want to meet a girl at North 6th, will be dressed in
Don
’
t
ask
me
what
’
s
so
funny
Guest cartoonist, not exactly Guinea Pigs, is the wav we like
friend?—put a note on Club l’s bul­ its new glory as the first to be
about
it;
it
’
s
just
terrific,
that
’
s
to think of the two soldiers who cooperated in our little experiment
letin board. State your height, age, furnished with curtains to fa­
all—been killing me for years.
on cartoon points of view.
cilitate stage shows.
There seems to be a wide variety interests, etc.
Here’s the idea:
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A full evening of excellent enter­
Have you a desire to find a sol­
of taste in cartoons and wrangling
Cartoons have been important in , Impressive Ceremony
tainment,
"Hold Everything” is a
around our editorial room about dier who has the same hobby as
Army newspapers. The army has a
what’s funny brought this article you?—Write a note, and explain succession of top-flight acts.
humor all its own, most of the At Color Dedication
You will see the comedy, dancing
on. We invited two soldier car­ it; then place it on the bulletin
gags we go for would have to be
act
of Chester Fredericks & Co.,
toonists to submit cartoons on the
explained to a civilian.
board.
(Continued From Page 1)
assisted
by Kay Wilson. The act
Soldier cartoonists have been mand Unit, excepting those at-j same subject: “Reveille.”
Did
you
want
to
buy
a
car,
mo
­
is
crammed
with patter, sensation­
The idea was to get two con­
finding some rich material in their tached to the Post Medical Corps,
torcycle;
rent
a
house?
—
Put
it
on
al falls and slides. There is the
trasting points of view. You’ll find ;
army life.
paraded amid the hearty applause the product of our little experi- I i the board!
big-time comedy act of Young and
The stuff hits home, that’s why of the visitors and grandstand
Cpl.
Rudy
Jacobi
started
this
idea
Kaye, replete with madcap antics
ment elsewhere on this page.
we go for it. They get at typical guests.
at
Camp
Adair.
Clifton
’
s
Restau
­
and
falls. Paul Nolan, Juggling
Cartoons reflect a lot about
army subjects—such as KP and
The 100-piece military band, an ;
rant
in
Los
Angeles,
California
Jester, has been an attraction all
Reveille—from an infinite variety aggregation of musicians from the America. Perhaps as much as any toyed with this idea. In a week over the world for two decades.
other medium, it represents the
of points of view and our editor Timber Wolf and other divisions,
The Three Rays, three beautiful
attitude
of the American people people were lined up for a block
thought it would be interesting to and the SCU Band, provided stir- |
either reading or adding new things and talented young girl acrobats,
toward world events.
get two soldier cartoonists to sub­ ring music throughout the Retreat
appear in a comedy knockabout
Someone once proved that car­ to the board.
mit cartoons on the same subject. ceremonies.
Cpl.
Jacobi
’
s
board
has
a
million
act. Frank Payne, impressionist,
toonists are not crazy, but it helps
So—We Present
Major Brandt Commands
they says. Well, pixilated or not, possibilities! The next time you features mimicry of movie stars
So—we present Private Dann­
Major Julius Brandt was com­ with the outbreak of war, America are at Club 1, take a look at it— and others.
heiser of ££e Military Police. Pvt. mander of the troops and his ad­
was to realize the value of her and then, you might want to adver­
Dannheiser hails from Pennsyl­ jutant was the Post Adjutant, Capt.
tise for that ideal girl friends, or
pictorial wits.
I
vania and studied in Philadelphia. Gilbert A. Waite.
a guy who plays checkers.
Unmasking
of
Axis
His drawings have appeared in
In command of the 1st Battalion,
»
In hundreds of cartoons, they
Vogue and Harper’s.
composed of Headquarters Com-
Leaving the Worst of
Our other guest cartoonist is Pvt. panV, was Maj. Boyd E. Shriver have unmasked the Axis and ex­
Shea of the Timber Wolf Artillery. with Capt. Daniel O’Shea as adju­ posed their rotten core in terms Diseases Until Last
He is from Wisconsin. He has tant. Commanding the 2nd Battal­ so simple and direct that the
Studied at Wisconsin University.
ion composed of the Military Police message hits home to all classes.
In spite of what you might
For two years before our entry imagine the AJaskan theatre, where
Both soldiers have been using: Detachment was Maj. Earl Arm­
Lt. Col. Walter Edward Forry
the work shop at Service Chib 1,1 strong, with Maj. Thomas E. Car- into the war, the English had to American troops have pounced on
recently
arrived from Fort Lewis
and will be represented in the | son as his adjutant, and the 3rd hold the enemy at bay fighting Attu, is considered to be probably to become Battalion Commander
shop’s exhibit in the Portland Art j Battalion, composed of the SCU against great odds. She owes a the healthiest A.E.F. sector in the of an Ordnance Bn. in the Special
Quartermaster Corps, was com­ great debt to her cartoonists who world. In that land of cold, wind
Museum early in July.
Troops. He is married, and his
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manded by Maj. Fisher Smith with could make Der Fuehrer look ab­ and fog, there are no body lice and
Capt. Thos. L. Chambers as adju­ surd, unite the English people in therefore no typhus. There’s no wife is in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
THE WINS ARE IN
Lt. Col. Forry made a fast climb
the contempt for the enemy, even way of spreading venereal diseases
This week another name was tant.
in
the service. Only July 22, 1932,
after he did his damndest from because the Aleutians are the
Color Company
added to the military alphabetical
he
was appointed as 2nd Lt.; No­
the skies over London.
world’s most womanless war zone.
soup when the WINS were organ­
The color company made up of
Best known of the British car­ Hardly anyone ever heard of tet­ vember 20, 1935, became a 1st Lt.;
ized, sponsored by the Y.M.C.A., in MP’s from the 2nd Battalion and
on February 7, 1940 promoted to
Portland. They are the Wives in the color guard was drawn from toonists is Low. He has been anus. The soil hnsn’t yet been con­ Captain; August 3, 1942, received
Military Service and are under the the same battalion, as appointed “hep” to the Axis for ten years and taminated with tetanus bactoria. his gold leaf; and on April 30 of
has shown them no mercy. Some­ There are no bedbugs and no dan­
leadership of Mrs. Sherwood Snow. by Capt. Waite.
last month promoted to Lt. Col.
Following the field ceremony, a one in the House of Lords estimat­ ger from the diseases they carry
Next meeting of the club will be
He went to high school in Grand
on Thursday evening, June 10. For reception and dinner party for the ed Low’s worth as being equal to . . . And so far there’s been no Junction, Colorado, spent a year at
added information, contact YMCA ( guests was held at the SCU Offi­ that of a battleship. Libraries 1 malaria.
Colorado College, one year at Hole-
Nothing but Japs.
cers Mess and Officers Club, with and 2 have a book of his works.
in Portland.
Ross business college, and went to
You
’
ll
be
amazed
at
his
frank
Col. McCoy and his party heading
Tulsa
University for a half year.
NOVELTY
BAND
predictions of eight and ten ’•»«•••«
John G. Terry of the American the list of distinguished person­
1
A novelty dance band, composed
ago.
Red Cross who was formerly at­ ages.
Bees Carolina This Mornin*
of Pvts. Oliver, Shoe and Head
For the majority of the public
tached to the Dead Eye Division
Major
Frank Brasch of the Sta­
i
from
the
Sea
Gull
Regt.,
played
Remember: Everything a soldier
has just been returned to Camp attending the ceremony, the day
tion
Hospital
dental clinic was sent
last Saturday night at the USO
Adair to direct new divisional serv­ marked their first visit to Camp throws down—some soldier has to
on a short trip to South Carolina.
dance in Monmouth.
Adair.
. pick up.
ice.
Racy and Rare, "Hold
Everything" at Adair
Big Variety Show at Theatre 2
Saturday and Monday Nights
We Give Cartoonists
Big Topic: They Give
Artists Shea, Dannheiser Will
Demonstrate How Ideas Are Built
CpI. Jacobi Starts
Variety Ser. Board
Special Troops Get
New Lt. Colonel
For Bn. Commander