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hm9 tt. 1M3 JUB-O-MBCB fiytw jolnon FWU. X. C. lUs newspaper Is pubUabed weekly by end for the personnel of Seymour Jobnsoo Field, N C.. under tbe dlrecUoo of tbe ft»ecUl Service Ofncer. Full coverage of the Camp Newspaper Service Is received. All material Is passed by .the Public R^ttons Office. AH photographs, tmless otherwise credited, are Army Air Forces photo* graphs. News appearing hi this paper is for geae^ release provided proper credit Is given. OOL. DONALD B. SiflTH, Oommaadbig Officer MAJOR J. B. MURR. Special Sendee Officer EDITORIAL , D. F. Drc^ IC/Sgt. Rkdiard B. Talt OpL Joe Botera l*Tt. Porter Ward Pvt. James Heanw OpL Oeorge Denes, artist. Post Photo Seettan A Soldier’s Heritage One of the best things about being an American is that you can say whatsTor you plooso. If you like a thing you praise it to high heaven, if you're displeased, you say so. It's from this privilege that griping grew. Griping is merely something an American does without thinking and ' oU Americans revise this. Thus griping is port of the heritage of the American soldier-^it comes os natural os breothing. And it's a pretty good thing, If you have a gripe coming, it's good to let off steam. Natien-WMe Gripes The things that a GI gripes about ore proctieoUy nation wide. Number one gripe is the chow. Issuance of furloughs . and posses is next in line, while the gripe about duty assign ment runs third. ..... The fourth thing that seems to gripe a GI is the deasions iwached by bis CO arid first sergeant, they do the damnest things. Last but not least on the lUt of major gripes is the wail about nothing to do during off-duty hours. Griping comes so eosily to the average GI that he never stops to consider whether or not he may be pretty much of a headache himself. For instance, the soldiers in the mess scfuadrons hove a thankless job. Even if they turn out food fit for a king^ they know, yon know and we know that some GI will still gripe about it. All the desires for furloughs and passes could not pos- 5i^ly be granted at one time and still maintain on Army. CO Bos PreUems, Tee Your CO and first sergeant have problems too. They could probably voice gripes that would make yours sound like a discussion at a Sunday School picnic. TWd PieccnrtleMvy Heonies / There are two precautionary measures to observe when griping. Moke sure that you're ariiong tSls only when you ore griping. Complfxmts on buses and in town are misron- strued by civilians. When you were a civilim and everyone knew the circumstances involved. But now that you ore in service, your world is strangely dilfwirt a^ce civilians cannot comprehend just what Amy life » like, they are apt to fail to understand that dll you're doing la griping much the same as when you were in civUion life only about different things. . . i Yhe second measure is this, moke sure you ve a legiti mate oripe before you stoat wailing. Remember Ih^ eve^- one hos a gripe -that they dtald voice, and remember also Hfe here is easy compared to theaters of war. ^ In ’’Thirty Seconds Over Tokya." Captain Tod Lawson lelotes, “It is a bod feeing to expect a burst of fopmese gun fire at every turn of a path, every clump of tiw. “Watson boiled out. as he got closer to the gteund. be pullM out his flashlight, pressed the button, and pointed it towoM th. owund , . . Th«n h. had a. midd«i f«ir that tl» wasn't open or something might hove gone wro^ vnth It, for it was smaller than a man of hU weight should w So be flashed the light up and he could see the While •anopy over his hood. But that wasn't all he e^. His right «m wo. .ticking .trai^t up to th. air, twUt.d to Ita chuto cold. He pulled his am down and stuck tie thumb of that hand betwen his teeth to hold it down." , These are only a oouple of Incidents from one aoldmr s •xperienees. So, fellow, when you start to gripe luTlmiahs dutv assignment, decisions of your CO and re-^ . . probli^Tk^ .uch e,p.n.nce. of fighting men wa rertoinlT to bod t»«.. . to mind and lh.n go ahead cmd grip.—il Tou *°- Something In Common One day lost week o GI looded bus was returning to Seymour Jc^mson Field from Goldsboro. Among the pass engers was a sailor, bis blue unifom conspicuous among the khaki of the GIs. Suddenly, from the reca of the bus. spoke up a lone PFC. “What in H - • demanded the soldier in a loud voice, “is that Bodlor doing here?" The sqflor bit his lip ond was obviously flustered. He stored out ot the possing oountryaide. From somewhere near tbe toctlees GI, a i geant spoke up: “Look, Soldier—he has much right on here as any ef us!" Tbe PFC soid nothing. The sailor also woid pothing. Bui at least someone had rallied this cause to figuratively say;'y^t to hmr Hy. EiabcdmeKS And CfMMn By CHAPLAIN LANCE MANTLE Some men are embalmers. Oth- en are creators. Boine leel that tbe woiSs of Jesug are fbte frmn a Btermry and talatorical etskidpoist. But ttitf cntdnA Qiem in'the back fUea of yesterday's newspapers. Ofoers thmk of tbose words as meaas for onr day,- as an “Ex tra!" to be orted in tbe sheets, a *nash“ to mtesruot a riidlo gram. Btricklwid tRlUlaibl bds' ~ weaaad mis In one of Us poems wtai^ he declares that “Ood Icept on talkhig rdien bis book had gene to press.” Lake oommeneee tbe Book of Acts wttb the words, “The former treatise have 1 made of aH -that Jesus did “as -a begbuiing.” The teaching of Jesus, theo. Is not a port of refuge as much as s point |«f doparture. A UtUe boy who ttved on Brook lyn Bel^its loved to sit and watch rite outgotag ^ipe. One Soziday be pole shad on Little Pigeon' Creek, while tbe boot owl cried and the branches of tbe beeches and wal nut trees shook outside. Ite moon saw , along tbe pikes, roada apd trails wert; broken wagon wheels with prairie grass growing up over the spekea and taube; and near by, sometbnea. a rusty skil let, ein^ moccasiiiB, and. the bones of horses and men. In tbe hot days. In the long imlns. in tbe canal bUisarda, tb^ had stuck It out.and lost 'Xhere came a say^ 1^. a pUhy, ptii'hass a brutal iNk pitnrerb: “Tte cowarda never started and the weak onea died by the way.** —explain Mantle. RUJOIOOB sniVICBB Obaprt Na. 1 _ Bunday . Ward Beecher; preach. HIs' sennon was on the harbor ae a pMce of refuge into which Bteum - teased ships put for safety* ‘*700 big chuipn “ ha thought — “Fve wahriied for years, and I know the barhar Is s place from which ships start out into the steriiia and of the seas.” Fofat of Departacc { Christ's teachings are not so i much a harbor of refuge as a perint of departure. fo Carl Sandberg’s “Abraham Ltnooln: The Frahle Tears,’ Rervlees: Mam . QgSO. 19Ui 1900 Protestant aervlees 1419. 9000 dr Catholic Mass Protestant fiervlois N ObM>latn Tahiter. obaplalB Landtraop ChMct No. 9 “you're on our sirial" It's tbe spirit of the thing. Consider the lot of tbe sailor. His was. no desire to intrude on the “privacy" of on army if that was what the GI meant when he contested his right to be on the bus. But we doubt that the GI meant that. He was, no doubt. being what he thought .was “smart." If he were joking. H teto bow tte aev^yw-old Lte- ’ ‘ ^ eohi la awakened hi his lather’s Protestant Bervlcea .. Ills. 1990 Hbly OenuBunkm .... ifot [yum Servloe 9015 Mantte. CbaplalD Davis (OtudbdkcL Xnow, $oa n. ^ ti.rn;;T‘«'thrg,^";rih; ^ mon cause. We hove a cote- mon count rY, a common cour age and ideol. So let's have a little com mon respect. Suffice it to soy that this lit tle moral lecture is on the^ neceesUy of treotiag with re-' apeet our fellows - in - orms. whether they wear the blue of — j::!.. omcer nw «« mn. „ hftad restrictions on tbe maxing Cable wtn continue with- marines. We fight for a com- of too per cent wool geducts. Bolts ’ Mt. . . In ua an mfote ny^igto^ Needed at a bet^t Benny Goodman is looking for s i to «pi.« PW, L... -ho t^ve beoi dMt down re- vlU become a mother this FaU. . . 000 feet. . . O u n d^fiwhile plans are stin in the discus- wT^ the ‘Bvediab roimer. who slon age. indlca’iens are that Cap- Rice last week, said It'tain Olenn Miller of Ihe Army Air. a? ^ehardest race b* had everiporce may soon return to tbe alr- /Sf Havfcig lust celebrated an-jwaves, 1/ hla plans go throng, he S/ remlmto os thatIwUl broadcast from Yale Unlver- oton realfo la «. but stSl stty. . . The youngest drummer to 2m atot. . . H«ry Eaia- Wdlng bands is Bobby Rickey,. has completed who Just turned 19 and is pteytog was SLyears-oW. . Sl-T^toa huge plywood cargo.with Van Alexander. . . Two-ton which ^ be aWe to carry Tony Oalento, tbe roly-poly heavy- . wucQ — wrtght irtx) tratoa on Her, went ' down for the count last week wben I Ills home town copn clipped him - over the head with a crab, wbtn t be lefuaad to put a nickel In a ' parking meter. . . WBlie Pep, tea- _ _ ^ ^ _ Amerlean therwdght bmd&g ehamptan enter- tte sritar *^aot. Ctork Oahfe is oo ed tfoT^vy June 99. . . It m -r V his ariurary dotiaslta bs that when baby needed M»il tor • tor-jaCT, prlr of flK-o ^ threw » 1 to Tnrfitowto by snu^ from the tog fire getting into his noetbrls, and be goes to the window to gase wonderiagly at the moon. Iben the poet - historian pro ceeds'to answer the boy’s imagin ed questions as he gases us at - —•- wilting down or IL Now you throw a 17. BCajor Kmmit RooseveU, secend sen QEf former President Theodore Rooeevelt, was reported by the War Department to have died in Alaska while on aettye duty. Cesar Romero hMi okayed by the War Pep*^ ■Mt acto]Vodoctkn on them wUl SSt JSrll^. •nw War 5S iSS^omdally et^Wd iteaaball aiM softhsH are tbe^ te- aports ot **“ I^t bulbs .1919, Lutheran Services 1100 end 1190 > Wsinfteaj aervlec Men’s Christlsn Lesgne dr Hrmn Bervlca 1990 Babbatta omvteef IHday (Jewish) 9010 Chapel Na 9 Saaday Catholic Mass 9790. 1030. 1530 Protestant Services oon. 1400, aeoo DaUy Oath^ Mass 1790 Chaplain Otoon; Chs^tn , MeCormlA Chapel No. 4 Saaday Proitoibuit Services (Colored Soldlexv) 09M 'Jewish ' 1090 Weekday Jewish, Sabbath Bervloea Saturday 9990, 1030. 9000 Dally Monday to Friday .... 0900, f -f 'WiIda. ”What do you see?” tbe i boy Lincoln asks. 11ie moon saw, , in that year of 1919, sixteen thous and wagtxis come along one turn pike to Pmtnsyivania with petgde ] hungry for new land, a new home. Just like Tom Lincoln. D saw eight i million peo^ In toe United States, white who bad pushed tbe over toe Etuiteni moun tains. It saw these home - seekers take six months crossing the At- Protestant (Wednesday) Col- ored Soldlezv) 9000 Ooldberg. ohaplatn Landtroop Ctepei Na. 9 uid-meat and bad and foul water. In wagons these thousands were sUpptog torougb tbe passes of tbef^^ Allegfacaiy Mountains, beading west for two-doUar-as-acre government land. At first tbe streams of wag- OOP and settlen movtaut west had kept nloee to the Ohio Btver. 11101 tt began spreading in fan shape 1100. gave himself a farewell party at a drugstore to Bollywood before be entered the Coast Guard. His guests were two beauttful blondes . . . *”nils Is the Amy” win be given a White House screentog for F. D, R. . . Donna Sng. of tbe - _ singing King sisters, will trek to up ttMlh wd west. Then Sandberg foe altar U. James ConkHng, ttrtfoei me tenlMfocost of tfafo of the Navy this wertc. . . The Ar- gr ttoed more -than -i.lOOJIO alee- Cattodic Maas 1700 ICtrrlU. OtahiMn MeOnth foe UiM of foe moon foal yemig Idacoln fafod npon firera tbe wlpdow of liie fafoors'
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