Friday, March_17, 1944.
Page Two
Camp Adair Sentry ill’s A Great Life
Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
.... ByT-5lyndi
Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book
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CHANGE
CERPTS
ME TOO
Dixtor (to shapely blonde
tient): "What did I tell you t
wearing such tight dresses? I
if I were your husband, you w<
n’t have that on a second!”
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All eyes on the elevator ta,
turned on the fa*, woman who ha
uttered a shriek of agony.
Turning, she glared ovM ft.
shoulder at a .-mall boy.
“I did it,” he said defiantly. ■ -]
stuck in my faee and I bit it"
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Newspaper Service.
Capl. J. D. McKay
Lt. William H. Ross
Camp Adair
........Director of Training Branch
Post Exchange Officer
Tec!) Bob Ruskauff
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Managing Editor
Pfc. Lionel Kay...... .........................
News Editor
Cpl. Benjamin Hirschkowitz, Pvt. Win. Sandlin........... •.... Staff Reporters
Te-o Don Lynch
Staff Artist
The wife and daughter of a Lt
Berry were halted by a sentry a
duty who had orders to ailiw &
one to enter by his gate.
“Sorry,” he said, “but you'll bar,
to go around by the main gate.'
“Oh, but we’re the Berrys."
“Lady, I don’t care if you’re 4
cat’s meow! You can’t go throng]
this gate.”
Strong Music Gives Strength;
Powerful War-time Morale Factor
Tonight’s Rattle of the Rands at Field House which
bid.4 tn be quite h “shindig” in itself, essentially goes deeper
thart th'at. It is a partial tribute to the import which music
Hostess: “I won’t offer you
has ha 1 in things military since time immemorial.
cocktail, captain, since you wei
once head of a Temperatx
Military hands have long been and will always be—
League.”
not only in times of peace but during preparation for war—
Captain: “No, 1 was once pre
morale builders of the first water. They give a lift and an
dent
of the Anti-Vice League"
“How do you spell romantic?"
impettts and build into a soldier a feeling of esprit de corps
Hostess: “Oh! I knew there «1
and a pride of strength which no othef thihg can provide
something I shouldn’t offer.”
in quite the same manner.
ANSWER
BOX
FACTS ABOUT
Clerk: "Shopping bags?”
A- dance band, of course, is not a military band. In most
Gals: “No, just looking."
cases_<>n the Post, our dance bands are really component parts ALLOTMENTS
Q. As a civilian I held several
of our military bands. Of these, and we may say it with
life insurance policies on which I
“How old did the young
(This is the second article in a find it difficult to pay premiums
pride, there are few better.
-cries designed to answer some of : in the Army. Will the Government with me look to you?”
Military bands of the world are of many kinds. Perhaps the most frequently asked ques
“About 38 on a 45 frame."
■he oldest are the wild, skirling bajrpipe bands of the Scotch tions in regard to “allotments.”) protect my civilian insurance while
the service.
Whiskey kills more people
Highlanders, whose music has admittedly been the most war Virtually all classes of depend- j I'm A. in The
Government may pro
like and bloodstirring of all. The military liands as we know ents benefited from the Dependency tect up to $10,000 worth of your bullets but that's because b
Allowance Act as it became law! life insurance policies with certain don’t drink.
them are a development from Europe in the Middle Ages.
qualifications provided that you
The first effort at combining bands in a festival was last November 1.
Joe: “Boy, oh boy! That w
While the allowance for a wife took them out at least 30 days be
as a Berlin fete in 19*L8 given for the emperor of Russia.
some blond with you last nigi
remained unchanged, the $50 she
you entered the service. Get Where-did you get her?” Boa)
Sixteen infantry and 16 cavalry bands, consisting of 1000 receives is irrespective of any al fore
in touch with your CO. He'll give “Dunno. I just opened my billfi
Wind instruments and 200 side drummers, participated.
lowances due to other dependents. you the details.
and there she was.”
The oldest American organization is the Marine band. Under the original law a wife fre
Most famous of our American bands have undoubtedly been quently received less than $50 be Q. Is a soldier required to salute The growing scarcity of men
cause there were other Class A 1 capture enemy officers?
those of Gilmore and of John Philip Sousa, who has written !dependents,
making a lot of girls good »
among whom the en-1
far and away the bulk of all of our currently-favorite military ‘listed man's contribution had to be' A. Yes, the Prisoner of War Sec lonely.
tion of the Provost Marshal Gen
piecoe. The fact that (’apt. Glen Miller recently said "Any apportioned.
eral’s office says ' that he la, and
modern dance band director could'improve on Sousa’s ar- Allowance- for dependent chil the Prisoner of War Convention Insubordination: A Cpl. in t
SCU put $50,000 into War Bon
ranfcetnents” may or may not lie accurate, 'but it does not dren came in for their share of the rules signed in Geneva in 1929 re before the 1st Sgt. could get
detrftct from the glory redounding to “The March King.” increase. $30 is provided for the quire that officers who are prison crap game organized.
first child and $20 more for each ers of war shall be treated “with
who died in 1932.
additional child. Thus, a wife with thé regard due tbeir rank and age." I Sgt: “Ouch, I’m getting 1
Sousa’s numbers were stirring and vivid, and I would 1 child receives $80; a wife with 2
doubled up with a stomach ache-
say greatly inspiired the building of military bands in the children $100; a wife with 3 chil
or more a month. This amount is
Mess Sgt: "Here, drink thin ee
Armed Serticds to the importance they now hold.
dren $120.
granted to the divorced’wife irre fee. and it’ll straighten you out
In cases where there are chil spective of whether or not there
dren but no wife, the law provide« are other Class A dependents.
SONG
thut the first child shall receive
With respect to a divorced wife
OF
THE
INFANTRY
$42 with $20 more for each addi iu cases where there are children,
tional child.
the Dependency Allowance Law
The maximum allowed a divorced provides $30 for the first child (Sing it to “The Man VW10 broke
You know the goof we’re talking about Joe Hahhcrmouth. self-pro- wife is $42 and this can be granted and $20 more for each additional
The Bank at Monte Carlo")
claimed “big-ahot” in civilian life hut strictly small potatoes in the only if there exists in her favor child.
"Here’s mud in your eye!"
Army, He’ll tell his story whenever he can find a couple of Gia who an alimony decree giving her $42
Is the toast we sigh
(More Next Week.)
seem-to l>c likely prospects. He’ll tell you how much he contributed to
I n the muddy Infan-tree,
the war effort BEFORE he was drafted and became a part of the
In the bloody Infan-tree,
Army. He’ll tell you of the high and mighty importance of hi« civilian
In the
__ _ rugged
_______ Infan-tree,
job and of how much better off the country might have heen if only
We're the guys »ho take the pri‘
they had let him alone.
(Continued from Page 1)
In every bat-tie!
Perhaps if he tells the story often enough he’ll believe it himself. offering to exchange ambassadors with the Italian regime which
When this guy says he is worth mor« to the war effort hack in a marked the first diplomatic recognition of the Italian government by “Let's Go!” is the yell
Finland is said to be considering Russia's As we give ’em hell
«hip yard or in a factory instead of hi uniform, he is just talking one of the United Nations
I
latest
armistice
note
containing
concessions, one that Finland need only In the shooting Infan-tree,
through his helmet liner.
isolate German troops in her country instead of interning them . . .
In the marching Infan-tree.
I
You can’t win a war with an Army that exists on paper only!
1 he Irish Free State is under increasing pressure with a British travel
Infan-tree!
Sure, the job you were doing in the factory was essential hut embargo virtuall yialoating Erin, following the refusal to expel Axis In the fighting I
.ho have to ’’
We
’
re
the
men
that doesn't necessarily mean that the one holding down the job was diplomats ...
In every bat-tie!
essentia). He was essential to the job only as long as there was no one
In the greatest Allied aerial assault in history, the Allies dropped
to r< place him and no longer!
on the strategic and now ruined fortress town of Hut! (pause) Hut (pans*)
Now for the men with mole legitimate gripes The guy with a
"
all-out drive on Rome is now underway. Other Hut. two. three. >. four!
ape« d civilian skill which he think.« has been completely overlooked
1
«nd 'h* suburbs of the eternal city. March! (pause) 1 March ‘ p««*>
in the Army.
. vfH forces are sma-hing German lines along the 535-mile front March . . . and march again *•
'
Remember that occupational dictionariee list nnproximately 8,000 in the southern Ukraine. . destroying
or capturing the bulk of German
more!
diffitent civilian occupations while the Army has only about 'm<> differ armor in the central sec ' ' The Red army smashed through the re-
treating Germans to the middle of the Bug river. 50 miles from Ru-
ent job« to fill.
And then when it'« done
An an example in the Army only one lawyer is >rr>W for rough mania. At the southern < d of the hattie line, the Ukrainian army is And the war we’ve »«■
setting the stage for a <
ly every 10.0B0 soldiers.
>'e on the Black sea port of Nikolaev.
nd we’ve earned the '*-•
Americans on I. os Ne
egro- > the Admnwlties continue to strengthen We'll just sit back and -eV
.All of us should remember that we are in the Army because a
their pooitions - wai
.u.d supply ves.-ets moving into Sendler bar- 1 11
If tney
they prai
praise
Infas-tt*^
gang of cut-throats under Hitler is trying tu deetruy everything that
— th«-
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~
,
bor without i
American bom‘>er plane« wiped-<wt Ponape, We’re the one« "ho seWW “
we het is her! and believed in.
Japan's third
m the Caroline Islands On New Britain, To share the gh>-reec-
hate ver your gssignhtent remember, it is part of the '<6 most American ma
__ Teco Bern*
fa.'a-ea and pushed south of the town
of us van do ami m little more than a minor rule. Our yob is to plat it aided by Arne
air t-.o —all in preparation for an ultimate drive
Sv*v Ov *
ueil. B. H.
on Ratiaul
Ai.iW
Where WAS He Important?
A War Is Not Won by a 'Paper' Army
The World This Weeh