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Page Two Friday, February 18. 1944. Poets' Corner Camp Adair Sentry JUPITER PLUVIUS REIGNS EQUATION FOR INVASION Mounting Guard In and Around ( amp Adair. Oregon AGAIN By TecS Morris W eldon PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY I i Take GI skill of which there’s uses the bus IGI Joe now plehty, A weekly newspaper published by and for the military personnel weather permits him While good Then add IQs rather high, of Camp Adair, Oregon, under the supervision of the Post Military to ride; I Take feet with fallen arches many, Training Officer. Financed by the Post Exchange. i But soon as the rain starts falling. i And men with astigmatic eye. Address communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head He wiH come and go with the tide. Give them infiltration courses. quarters, Camp Adair, Oregon.” II Through it all watch them caper. All articles repMsent personal opinions and are not official unless j A smile may be your umbrella -pecif¡rally credited to the War Department. News material furnished Make them all work like horses. ■ Though before their work was For the deluge that looms ahead, by the Public Relations Office is available for general release. i But since you’re not made of seal Subscription rates by mail 6 mo. $1 — Year $1.50. paper. skin, ¡Take away their weekend passes, The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp Newspaper Service. Remove them from their swivel Better wear your raincoat instead. III chairs, €apt. J. D. McKay Director of Training Branch You're safe if you can tread water. Lt. William H. Ross Post Exchange Officer ■ Have them going to new classes, ¡HAVE THEM READY, for “e’est Can swim or just float on your back. la guerre!’ T/3 Bob Ruskauff ........................ Managing Editor Pfc. Lionel Kay............................................................... News Editor Add these thoughts with concentra Let’s help the others by adding Cpl. Benjamin Hirschkowitz, Pvt. Wm. Sandlin. Staff Reporters Water-wings to the full field pack. tion, T/5 Don Lynch ......................................................................... Staff Artist Subtract, divide, or throw’m away, —Cpl. Dan Kaplan You’ll find they lead to this equa Camp Post Office tion: ! Innocent Rumors May Do Us Harm; scu Camp Adair Sentry i YCHANGE I ^CERPTS First Mess Sgt.: “I have ray KP’s trained so they eat out of my hand.” Second Mess Sgt.: “Saves a lot of dishwashing, doesn’t it?” BARGAIN DEPT. Pfc.: “They say that in China you can buy a wife for five dol lars.” Pvt.: "Why that is frightful!” Pfc.: “Oh, I don’t know, a good wife may be worth it.” Judge: “What induced you to strike your wife?” Defendant: “Well, she had her back to me; she was bent over; the frying pan was handy; and the back door was open. So I thought I’d take a chance.” Rumor-.Mongers Cause Needless Worry, Confusion ' ANSWER BOX “We got a new colonel from the South Pacific, you know Rookie Needs Consolation what that means—’’ A rookie saw three stars on a Q. Is it true that under the new “It must mean the Aleutians; why then did we get those schedule of dependency allowances, staff car and walked up to the men from Alaska—” ; all seven grades of enlisted men stern-faced man sitting in back are now- eligible for allowances in Said the rookie, “I’d like to con so it goes on and on—this is going to happen and By gratulate you on having three sqps stead of just the lower four? that is going to happen. BOB HAWK in the service.” A. In the new schedule EM in Qui>ma<t«r Most of it never does happen, but does that discourage' the top three grades are given the rumor-monger ? Heck, no! He’ll be back before long with I “THANKS Officer: “Where’s your tooth their choice of allowances for de brush? ” another rumor. TO THE YANKS' pendents and their regular allow | Private: “It’s this scrub brush, It always seems to be “open season” for rumors. They] ances for maintenance and quar- Salvrgayt, CBS tens. They can’t take both, but right here, sir.” vary in intensity with the events of the moment and then Officer: “You don’t mean to tell they may choose the family allow oil on, gathering momentum and substance, until it is im I. If you wear a hole in the heel me you get that thing in your mssible to trace their source. <>f your cotton stocking, what hap- ance in lieu of the regular quar mouth?” ters’ allowance. It matters little that experience has .shown that nearly j pen* to the cotton that was there? Private: “No, sir. I take my always they are wrong and, more often than not, they have 2. Why is the sens? of tnste Q. My brother is overseas and ’ teeth out.” ittle basis in fact. Despite all this there are always ears will- more acute in children than in wants mail. How many V-Mail let- I adults ? Needed :ng"to listen to any rumors and wagging tongues to pass 3. "Cling stones” describes a kind ters am I permitted to send him a . “Look Co-operation here, soldier, this man be month? ' ' them on. of peach; what kind of food does side you on this fatigue detail is A. Once again, there is no limit I ,!oin(r* twice work y< •ou are!” Rumors are often nothing more than the products of '“Cherry Stones” describe? on the number of V-Mail let- ; “ [ i know, — « ti . c ’s what I’ve placed 4. in a play, the part of the young “ I sarge. That fertile imaginations stimulated by wishful thinking and un founded fears. A bit of logic applied intelligently might help boy is called the juvenile. What is ters you can send to service men;li,een tellin’ him for the last hour, the part of the young girl called? Howewr, you ’ can’t send your but the damned fool won’t slow to chuck most rumors into discard. 5. W hen the king was in the brother any packages unless he Try it the next time some questionable news comes your counting house, where was the sends you a written request for down!” way. Analyze it in the light of reason. The chances are that queen ? the contents and even then you “All men fond of music, two vith very little effort you will be able to till it full of holes. G. Has it ever been proved that can’t send more than one package paces forward!” commanded the sergeant. When a half-dozen pri And—even more important—DON'T REPEAT IT! It I in racing stride a horse has all a week. feet off the ground at one vates had stepped out with visions ,s through constant repetition that ihc flimsiest of rumors four time? of getting free concert tickets, the ♦ GI haircut: a scrubbing brush can take on the appearance of fact. (Answers on page 12) that breathes. non-com added: “Ok, you six mugs There is still another danger. In the confused pattern —we’ve got a piano to move!" ' hat makes up a rumor may be hidden some accurate facts— small in themselves—but finding their wav to unfriendly A man went into a- hotel lobby with a woman and registered. ears, these might be put together with other bits of informa (Continued from Page 1) “ I ’ ll have the boy take up your tion to form a complete picture. their second offensive, leading with artiHery and air bomliardments bag for you,” said the clerk. but the Allies were standing up under the impact of the terrific enemy Rumors might be inspired by enemy propaganda with “Never mind,” said the man. he express purpose of creating disorganization and disunity. attack. The Nazis claim their troops have captured the town of Aprilia gruffly; “she can walk.” on the Allied beachhead below Rome. Guard against these. You might well be repeating something American heavy bomber« were hurled into the mounting battle Remember the good old days that the enemy wishes to have repeated. on the Anzio beachhead in support of Allied ground troops while British when silk stockings were within Worse yet is the effect on individual morale. Rumors warships joined in the battle to bombard enemy positions. The Allies may be unduly encouraging or, on the other haud, may fill regained the initiative and in other sectors they were holding their the reach of all ? one with excessive worry. In either case the net result is ground. On the Cassino front. American infantrymen closed on the Clothing makes a man, its true, ruins of the 1400-year old Benedictine Abbey atop Mt. Cassino which the creation of an unhealthy state of mind. but how do you think some of the Y A N K WIZ The World This Week American bombers had hit after the Germans had turned the ancient monastery into a fortress. Artillery shelled the landmark in further gals got those fur coats they wear? attempts to drive out the enemy . . . Berlin was left blazing from the biggest pounding in history when KAI- concentrated a force of 1200 bombers on the reich capital, drop ping 3000 tons of bombs. Americans smashed at Frankfurt. Other February is singularly honored in having been the month in which Unnbers struck in supporting attack at enemy targets in northern two of the nation’s greatest men were born; Lincoln on the 12th and France and western Germany while the British carried out its 13th Washington on the 22nd. major operation in lb days in attacks at mysterious German targets Both lived in times of trial, and both expressed wisdom so pro on the French invasion coast. Though the Russian air force struck at found that they grow greater in stature with the passing of time. Finland again, a diplomatic defeat seemed in store for Germany as Often the problems they encountered are problems that we are meet evidence grew that F inland may be ready to talk peace terms with ing again. Russia . . . One of the problems that plagued General Washington was the too I In Ruxia. Soiiet troops smashed ever deeper within the heart of lavish nse of profanity. i the Cherkassy area, whittling down the pocket below where remnants Perhaps the men of Washington’s army were not much different of 10 ’.rapped German divisions face disaster. The Germans were offer from those in our own. Perhaps, basically. armies do not change much j ing almost fanatical resistance as the Russians crashed through the lespite refinements* in the art of war. crumbling Axis lines near Koraun in the Ukraine. General Govorov’s Undoubtedly in armies and in wars there are situations that make Leningrad armies are now within 40 miles of Pskov. gateway to for the use of forceful language, and even profanity might sometime* Latvia and southern Estonia. Elsewhere in the Ukraine, the Russians be justified. The character of our present enemies is such as to give i were attacking on the road to the mining center of Krivoi Rog rise to violent language. Vir smashes led the news in the Pacific. Allied airmen again There is no doubt that Washington considered profanity deplor biaste.1 Japanese bases from the Bismark sea to the Caroline Islands. able There is a lesson for all of us in an order issued to his troop* Americans continued the shelling of enemy atolls in the Marshalls as which we quote: fliera plastered the isiamls w ith 100 tons of bombs. Allied ground troops “The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wick«! tighten»,! their hold on New Guinea and New Britain with the occupa- practice of prvfane cursipg and swearing, a vice hitherto little known | tions of Rook» Island situate,! midway between. in our American Army, is growing into fashion. He ho|>e* that the Others outflanked the Japanese by seizing Green Island north of officers will, by example as well as influence, «ndeaver to check it the Sokmam* which completed the conquest of theee islands. In the and that both they and the men will reflect that we can little hope of past week. MP tuns of lamibs were dropped Mi Rahaul—last major the blessing of Heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety ami strongbohi ¡eft the Japanese in the southwest Pacific. General Mac- folly Added to this is a vice so mean ami low with.ut any temptation Arthur warned the Allie* must defeat the Japanese armv before victor* that every man of sense and character detests and desp<*e* it. is won far he says conquest of Jap outlying islands cannot achieve a I (signed) George Washington. decision. Washington on Profanity: Troop Order Reveeis His Opinion