Camp Adair Sentir
Friday, July 7. 1944.
Paire Two
Camp Adair Sentry!|fsA6reatUfe . . /. ByLSlynif VCHANGE
Notes From a Soldier's Sketch Book
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Mounting Guard In and Around Camp Adair, Oregon
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Some stars,” she said.
Some dew 01^ the grass." said
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“Not me,” said she.
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“This is called infiltration.” said
the GI as he edged closer to her on
the davenport.
The Sentry subscribes to the matrix and news facilities of Camp
“This is ctilled demolition.” she
Newspaper Service.
replied as the private hit the floor.
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Capt. J. D. McKay......
Director of Training Branch
Lt. William H. Ross
.... Post Exchange Officer
WAC: My husband's in. the
Naw. so be careful!
Tec?. Bob RuskaufL
Managing Editoi
WOLF: Ah Ha! so your ait-
Pfc George Simmons
Staff Reporter
"cbor’s a weigh!
....... Staff Artist
Tei-5 Bon Lynch
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MP: “No parking. You can't loaf
along this road.”
Voice within car: “Who’s loaf-
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On two recent e v e ni ng s at Adair, five
Dad.
to
boy
on way to a night
i'erent groups met in the Orientation Center and at Service
club: “Son. when Abe Lincoln
(Jub Library to discuss a problem which is now sweeping
was your age. he was baaily
(because it must) into national attention and being brought
studying law every night."
down to the average soldier or citizen, such as you or I.
Son: “Yeah! And when he was
your age. pop. he was president."
The discussions concerned “Our Post-war Policy.”
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As far as we think we are individuuily concerned, of
Should I marry a man who lies
course, the problem resolves to one thing: What am 1 going
to me?”
to Io after the war?
“Lady, do you want to be an old
maid ?”
That’s well and good. But it behooves us, as soldiers or
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citizens, to remember that we have a speaking voice in the I
News Item: Blue« team raptures some of Red team in Trail-
Joe: “Hold my rifle, will you?"
one thing which is going to make or break our own oppor-; blazer field problem.
Lt.: “See here, private. I’m an
¡
t unity for happiness and prosperity afterwal’d—our national [
officer.
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Joe: “That’s ail right. I'll trust
policy.
you.”
We mean our own intelligent and active interest in our|
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My mother is bedridden and that the child living with my format
national policy. As a nation, one of our greatest faults in this >0 If. years
old. As a civilian I con wife gets $30 a month, because it “Where are you going, my pretty
age of enlightenment has been the propensity to “sound off”| tributed $10 a week to her support was the first born, while my other maid.
m practically any subject on which we have even- th« tamtam* | while- my brother contrrbu'ed $25 child gets only $20 a month under “And why do you pass me by?"
“I'm on my way to gymnathth
glimmering of thought. If we don’t understamt a thing cn*n- ,|na- wewk. then more than 50 per the Class A allotment?
prehensively, we grab the one thing which we think we under cent of her total income. My bro- A. No. Each of yrir children thcool.”
! ther now sends her $50 a month as
a thigh.
stand, then argue like Billy Sunday. This w the most beautiful | her chief supporter. May I claim will receive $25 a month. The pay She lith ped as she — heaved
Miami Gremlin
ments
for
all
children
of
a
soldier
wav in the work! to create misunderstanding and general ' her as a dependent and also con
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is divided equally among them.
betuddlement.
tribute to her support?
Thrift is a, wonderful virtue—
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especially in an ancestor.
We cannot all lead. We do not expect to. But we can as A. Yes. If the $10 a week you j
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pire to understand the basis of thought by which our leaders) gave your mother e < a civilian |
The
drunk
staggered,
then bump
The Sentry story from Camp
reason. We must aspire to this because, in our Democracy, 1 amounted to a substantial part of I I
ed
into
a
very
homely
lady.
Snap
>ur leaders actually follow the dictates of we. the so-called her income, you may apply for a Newspaper Service used on page ped the woman, “You are the
Phi as B allowance for her. which 2 last week, which announced
masses. The more versed we are as a whole, the more intelli will entitle her to $37 a month, of that certain GIs might again drunkest man I have ever seen."
“Y'esh, madam,” he replies!, “but
gent they must be. That is the beauty of a Democracy, which $22 come.« out of your Army take up ASTP courses, was in
I
will
be sober in the morning and
brought to its perfect point.
error.
pay.
.
you will still look the same.”
It is partly to circumvent “unreasoned thinking" that
War Department circular 251
...
a committee appointed by Life and Time magazines some Q. I have two children. One lives has rescinded the order which
The absentee problem in Berlin
while back set out to study and bring forth (partly as a basis with my wife, the other lives with again placed the ASTP in opera- is acute. Every day a few more
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tion. The circular rescinds sec.
factories fail to show up for work.
tor (Mipular discussion) a format of our national post war ' my former wife, now divorced but 2.
circular 184.
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I-till dependent on me. 1« it true I
policy.
Embarrassment: Two eye«
From the onset, it was the concession of this committee
] peeking through the same key
Continued
hut America, after the war, can no longer retain any sembl
hole.
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ance of the isolationism which we at one time espoused. "The
Economy is a way to spend
Whole of Our Policy,’’ as conceived and written by them, is
armies were making smashing gains in drives toward East Prussia
wrapped in something less than 300 words. They follow- and the Baltic states. One column is approaching the Latvian border money without getting any fun out
of it.
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9 while another is converging on Wilno . . .
1'6 «in the people’s following. nur foreign policy must be
THE AMERICAN 1st ARMY began Ms first major attack since Despite those stories you may hear
safe and sound: but it must also use American power for some
the liberation of Cherbourg, striking toward the heart of Normandy in
Of dolls who must wear glasses,
irvat end that the people believe in. Surh an end is human freedom.
an offensive possibly designed to kn<x-k out Caen and smash toward she wolves will give a second leer
Ihu- freedom under law should he the corner-tone though not
If she’s got a well-turned chassis.
Paris. 150 miles to the east. British hurled back counterattacks in the
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the whole of I. S. foreign policy. The n hule may be summarized
area southwest of Caen and were battling m the outskirts of the
a« follow«:
They laughed when I stood up
city itself. Canadians struck out at the eastern end of the front while
I) We » ant a world in which \merican territory is «ecure
British troops widened the base of their salient across the Odon river to sing—but how was I to know
from attack, and we must depend on both our own military
southwest of Caen. American patrols were pushing to the outskirts of I was under the table?
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strength and (ware keeping agreements with other power* to
the key road junction of La Haye Du Puits . . .
make it ao.
She:
Please
use both hands.
BRITISH AND AMERICAN BOMBERS roared across the Eng
He: Can’t. Need one to drive
3) He want a world in which American prosperity ran in*
lish channel, striking at enemy airdromes and Nazi robot bases in
crease, by being shared with all other peoples.
France and at Germany’s Ruhr valley. Italian-based Allied bombers with.
.1) He want a world in which freedom is safe here because
raided the Prahova oil refinery at Bucharest. Budapest and the out
skirts of Vienna . . .
it is extended e»er»where with the help of a growing system of
law. hacked by the might of American and all other freedwm-
THE ALLIES HAVE MADE ADVANCES in all sectors of the
loting nations
Italian front. French troops in Italy occupied the road junction of
\nd this can be our foreign policy only if the tmerican
Siena, uprooting enemy defenses guarding the Pisa to Florence sector
people agree that it should be. They cannot reject it on the ground
of the Gothic line. British troops have driven within less than five miles
that It does not express their self - interest. for it does Security,
of the key road junction of Avezzo. 80 miles below Florence. American
prosperity, freed o m the« are inseparable.
infantrymen drove beyond captured Cecina and are battling through
On our cornerstone, freedom under law,' ran be built the
savage German resistance as they approached the important seaport
armaments and the alliance system we need for elementary security.
of Livorno. On the Adriatic front, the British were pursuing the flee
Hy it can be tested the suceeso of failure of our special relations
ing Germans only ten mile« from Ancona . . .
with Hritain. with Russia, with China, with anybody. It is the
THE BATTLE OF SAIPAN tn the Marianas—one of the hardest
proper test. lam. of our economic policy, to promote worldwide
of the Pacific War—moved toward a climax. To date, the Americans
expansion. It 1« a principle on which oar nation was fo un drd and
have paid the highest price so far in the Pacific with »."53 killed,
in pursuit of which our nation will someday merge into the single
wounded and missing in the two weeks battle. American troops —p- I
nation of mankind It is an Aaaeexean principle. Perhaps this war
turod Gsrapan. capital of the Mariana« and the port of Tanaitag and
i' worth fighting just to rediscover tt.
steadily pushed the Japs back toward the northern tip of the island.
A strong America" task force hit ihsrs and Vuieaste islands during
a I the W«»h-eod whef. 1«M Jaa planes and six VC—els were destroys«
a- jstamamata- Ammm ttmm ewwrid by air and naval botnbardnwat,
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