Camp Adair Sentry Page T Camp Adair SentryncTieiearLife 7 . . . ByMlynchi YC h ‘ ang T-| Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon PUBLISHED E5’ERY FRIDAY ' ’ Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book f A weekly newspaper published by and for the military personnel * Camp Adair, Oregon, under the supervision of the Post Military Training' Officer. Financed by the Post Exchange. Address communications to “Camp Adair Sentry, Post Head- qiwrLP^ Ca nip Adair, Oregon.” AH articles represent personal opinions and are nut official unless specifically credited to the War Department. News material famished by the Pnblic Relations Office is available for general .release. Subscription rates by mail G mo. 11 — Year $1.50. The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp Newspaper Service. Capt. J. D. McKay Lt. William H. Ross ............ ............... Director of Training Branch ................ Post Exchange Officer Tec3 Bob Ruskauff Managing Editor Pfc. Lionel Kay ............................................................... :........... News Editor Cpl. Benjamin Hirschkowitz, Pvt. Win Sandlin _.... Staff Reporters r«eB Don Lynch Staff Artist You Can Be Happier in the Army Than You Can in Civilian Life! • />CERPTS : "V I■ ------------- —-- ----- The only reasop a great many Americans don’t own elephants is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and the balance on easy weekly pay- nients. * * s Th» mesa sergeant brought in a plateful of extremely thin slices of bread, which rather dismayed th* hungry men. “Did you Cttt these, ¡MUrge?" askey one. “Yes, I cut them.” “OK, I’ll deal.” « * « Stars and Stripes tells about a Corporal in England who lushed into the mess hall, ate hurriedly and rushed out—leaving his dirty plate on the table. A weary private came along and began swearing in the best KP fashion—picked up the plate—found a ten-cent tip beneath it. « • • A very well-satisfied man ar- rivec at the gates of Heaven and asked for admission. •'Where are you from?" “Texas.” “Well, you can come in but you won’t like it.” —Rangefinder. # v • Kindergarten teacher: “Who made you?” Little boy: “God did.” “That’s right.” A week later when the super­ visor was visiting, the teacher, seeking to impress him, again asked: “Who made you?” There was no answer so the teacher repeated the question sev­ eral times. At last a small boy in the rear answereil: “The boy that God made is absent today." S M * The above is a flat statement that will be pounced on by many a Gl who considers it his first prerogative jn life.to i gripe and his second to deny any flat slatfWiqtHA. 4 V 2 Itlisn’t a flat truth, either. Boi, mi the other hand, there is more rtf truth ip ft Ihun many ’might realize. 1 remember an article by (’hanninir Pol­ lock, distinguished author and editorialist, who said that in his pursuit of happiness he had discovered on this parlous road of life that it is enough and plenty to expect to have -nippiness 20 percent of the time. This, he considered, was a All Fools Day—April 1, 1941. ery high estimate. This, he said, was about the most he >utl ever attained. If he could continue to have that much of 11,300,000 Men in U.S. t, he would lie well content. • .ANSWER BOX • Armed Forces by July 1 A soldier who served throughout World War I and saw denty of action, has written a book which treats briefly on (). Is it ever permissable for en­ ibis subject. Strangely enough, he said the greatest hour of listed men in the Navy to wear (ANS) By July 1 tbe U. S. armed forces will have U.300.0W) men, lis entire life that he remembered, and not because it was an Army uniforms? which the general staff believes hour of fear but liecause of the acute perception which that A. Yes. Navy men may wear will be enough to win the war. tour gave him of the little things that are gnat in life, was Army uniforms when serving with That’s the word from .Maj. Gen. Army detachments. They are also ( Lewis B. Hershey, director of se- in th» midst of a battle in France. * permitted to wear Marine uniforms leetive service. It was on August 8, 1918, a day when the Allied offensive when serving with the Marini- Gen. Hershey says that on Feb; vas at it most terrific pitch; the »lay, in fact, which General Corps. 1 1 there were 10.500.000 in the Girls are like newspapers — ______ I armed forces, and that 800.000 ad- Ludendorff later described as the blackest day in the his- they have forms; they always have or.v of the war for the German army. Q. Is there anyone outside the ditional will have to be drafted Army who is permitted to wear before July 1. In addition, he says the last word; back numbers are The name of the writer is John MacCormac. The name of Army officers' uniforms? j that 500,000 more will be needed not in demand; they have great in­ the book is “This Time for Keeps.” (you can get it at A. Yes. Officers of Allied Na- to replace injured and discharged fluence; you can’t believe every­ thing they say; they’re thinner the l’.\, incidentally, and at the library). MacCormac, who tions on duty in the U. S. are au- [ men. than they use to be; they get along should know, relates it is his contention that once a soldier thorized to purchase and wear' Camouflage blinds the enemy! by advertising; every man should has reconcile»! himself to the task his nation has set for him. U. S. Army officers' uniforms. No Disperse trucks; park close to have his own and not try to borrow U. S. Army insignia nor identifi ­ la* can be happier than a civilian. He says: i his neighbors’. z cation will be worn with the uni­ structures; stay in shadows. “The civilian in total war is fated to feel frustrated and forms, of course, as the co-belii- -I • futile, but the soldier serves directly. The soldier who accepts gerent officers will wear their Continued ! the war ami concentrates his energies to the job of winning owu insignia. Press correspondents From Page 1 J t become« a fatalist. When he faces »lunger, he may,know, also are permitted to wear officers' uniforms without insignia. fear but the fear passes when the danger passes.” 100 British planes participated, city, was imminent as the Red There can lie no question, as has lieen many times Q. What ar* th* age require­ Armadas of Allied bomber* hit the army poured men aud machines Nazi armament city of Essen, Han- ; across the Dniester. proved. that great danger brings men together and they ding ment* for Spars’ over, and rail target* in Belgium. I The Russians broke through in A. Enlisted personnel must be German airdromes in France and to a comradeship that is never forgotten. , the defended Tarnopol area—other between the uges of 20 and 3l>, and freight yard-y at Tours . . . In an Army Post such as this, tribulations and trials of I ‘orce* through the town of Kovel must hav* had at leant two years training may be little to what they will become on the field of high school or business school. ♦ Viter 12 days of bitter house-to- on tbe main road to Warsaw. Far house fighting, the Allies failed to to the __________ sciutheust. the 3rd Ukrainian <>f action. But they sow th«> beginning« of that working spirit break the Nazi hold on Italy's Cas- army crushed the German garrison of camaraderie. Q. I recently graduated from sino. b ighting is now marked by of the Black sea port of Nikolaev The Army will lie a chunk taken out of the live« of a OUS. A* an enlisted man I con- ji.javy artillery fire from both sides and joined forces striking toward vast number of men. But in the aggregate it cannot be con- I trihated each month to m.v moth­ in the fiercest battle of the Hai­ Odessa . . . er's support Am I permitted to[ian nan war. Allied air assaults did ♦ In the southwest Pacific. Allied si» lay mg artillery fire on roads and Rattle of the Indian campaign. The My Gi hat upon head; on the beachhead area . . . j Japs started a drive across the Bur- Mx (U liants, my GI she « .* * I he Reu . rmy - sweeping the | meae border into India toward Im Everything free, nothing to le Get mana back through pre-war Po­ ■ phai, capital of India's Manipur They issue everything 1 need. land and Rumania and has plowed | state, but the British were said to Paper to write on, books to re thi..jgn enemy resistance across | tie closing a pincer on th* eaeuiy- My Gi belt, my GI tie». -iln.uat three quarters of Bessarab- British commando* landed by air GI coffee. Gl pi*»- in Soviets uow are battling on the jar* menacing vital Jap supply I eat it off of GI pialo approach** to the capital Cemauti in northern Burma. Japanese So it's Gl this and GI that, guardian to the Carpathian in­ troops have broken aero*» Burma » Gl haircut. G 1 hat. vasion r.mte to Rumania. Sotnra hills m eastern India while Gl razor. GI comb; The Russian irvestmeM of User British units are attempting »•’ Gl Wish that I were heme Yank ¿nawitijv|anre*t the enemy's near frontier