THE OUTPOST
dropping you a line. First, I would
like to thans you for The Post
which we appreciate and look for-
ward to. By we, I mean my wife
and I. She has been with me since
we were married in August. When
you first started sending me The
Post it had a time catching up with
me, but now I'm receiving it with-
out difficulty.
_ Before I enlisted I was telephone
maintenance man at the Dallas Ex-
change and through your paper I
learned of Lt.. Com. Mclntyre’s ap-
pointment. I, of course, immediate-
ly wrote him and received an an-
swer last week.
By the way, my wife has been
trying to get in touch with Howard
Culp from Huntsville. He's down
here at Drew Field and we would
like to have him visit us.
I hope this letter hasn’t been too
boring and thanks again.
I suppose the weather is starting
to get nice up there now. It's
pretty hot down here. /
Sincerely,
Howard M. Joh
Drew Field
Tampa, Florida
‘@ Howard Culp’s address is Co. D,
563rd Sig. A. W. Bn. We also had
a nice letter from “Bill” (Lieut.
Com.) McIntyre. Gee, your letter
didn’t bore us. On the contrary it
was just the kind we like to receive.
Lots of luck to both of you and we
hope that reunion comes about.
: —Editor.
At Camp Gordon
Dear Editor:
Just a few lines to inform you of
my new address. Sorry I didn’t
write sooner to thank you for The
Post. No doubt you think I have-
n't any appreciation for receiving
the Post, but you are wrong: I
assure you that many other fellows
in the service as well as myself have
' found it a great companion. It sure.
is handy when you wonder where
your friends are located and then
receive your Post with letters from
your old friends in it:
1 was transferred to a different
company when my division moved
from Fort Jackson to Camp Gordon.
At the present I have been assigned
to a machine gun squad. I find it
“a lot different from my other work
I put in with a 27 m.m. anti-tank
gun.
I'll close for now and in closing
I wish to thank you again for the
great service you are doing for the
fellows of the Back Mountain apea,
Pvt. Tom Cadwalader l/
Camp Gordon, Georgia
e Nice to get your letter, Tommy,
‘we knew you'd be writing one of
these days. Have you gone in for
any athletics in the army?
} —Editor.
At Pre-Flight School
‘Hello, Mr. Risley:
Even though I got here only yes-
‘terday, I am already very busy at
the Navy Pre-Flight School in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
We have a varied schedule: aca-
demic subjects, sports, military
training and gunnery. There are
SINCERITY
The Moving Finger
having writ . . .
moves on . . .
. . . Life too moves
ceaselessly toward the
inevitable. There's a
sense of satisfaction
for those who with
sincerity discuss
‘these matters with
their families and de-
cide now . . . not in
a moment of anguish
. on the final rest-
ing place for their
loved ones.
CEDAR CREST
CEMETERY
ASSOCIATION
Of Trucksville
F. Gordon Mathers,
President.
Telephone Dallas 366
about 2500 boys in training now.
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They are all average boys from all
parts of the country, but while they
are here, the war takes on a new
meaning, for all of us will soon be
But
when we finish our training here,
we will be ready for it.
I am very lucky to be able to
write this letter. We don’t usually
have any extra time. I can see now
that even this time is growing short
so I will have to close. I will be
very glad to hear from any one in
the home town. Say, how about the
Script Club? Till the next time
then, I'll sign off and stand by.
Louis M. Kelly, Avi/Cadet
U. S. N.:R. [Vd
U. S. N. Pre-Fl. School
Chapel Hill, N. C.
e Kelly: What's happened to the
string of girls you had in Dallas?
Martha and Mrs. Risley are going
to fix you up with the addresses of
a couple of good Script Club mem-
bers. —Editor.
The Keystone State
Dear Editor:
I would like to ask you a ques-
tion if I may, and here it is, “why
is Pennsylvania called the common-
wealth of Pennsylvania?” : |
You may think it funny that I
ask a question like this, but some
of the boys here have asked me and
I will be darned if I know. And |
thought that you might be able to!
help me out.
I suppose you have heard a lot
about Texas from the boys in ser-
vice and they are all right, because
in Texas you have every kind of
weather and country I believe there
is—from the hot climate of the
‘South to the cold weather of the
far North. You can take it from
me for I have been all over the state
of Texas.
Now I must thank you very much
for The Post that you send me
3 3 1 PN
you, for it certainly is good to see
it again after such a long time.
I have only been here in Cali-
fornia a little more than a month.
Here where I am it is mostly desert,
with plenty of hot weather through-
out the day, but it cools off quite a
bit at night and it feels good to
wrap up in a couple of blankets. It
rains and snows up on the moun-
tains near here, but it seldom does
where we are. Some of the moun-
tains are capped with snow and
it’s a treat to look up there and see
it on a real hot day.
Well, that’s about all for this
time. I am sending you my new
address and hope to receive The
Dallas Post as regularly as circum-
stance will permit. Thanking you.
Sincerely, ’
Wilford Montros
Los Angeles, Calif.
eo Thank your uncle, Pvt. Paul
Montross for getting us both back
on the beam. We'd have never got
your address without his help. You
see your file card was not com-
pletely filled out. When that hap-
pens it's easy to lose contact. Fill
out a Free Posts for Soldiers Cou-
pon and return it to us. We'll be
able then to keep in contact for
the duration. —Editor.
From A Huntsville Lad
To the Editor:
I'm just dropping a line to tell you
what it means to me to get that
editidn of The Dallas Post. It really
means a lot to some one away from
home to be able to get and keep in
contact with home through a paper
or letters.
I read in the issue I received an
editorial from a very close friend of
mine and it took me right back to
Pennsylvania with its telling of the
coming of Spring. We're a long
way from Dallas right now, and it’s
going to be a while before we get
back. We have left a lot of things
behind . . . family, church, neigh-
bors, friends and some of us, jobs,
that were hard to leave; but if we
can keep in contact with them
through The Dallas Post, it will
make that break a lot easier.
Well, I say again, thanks for The
Dallas Post. I say “hello” to all
my friends at home.
Yours truly,
Pit. John M. Culp, Jr.
Camp McCain,
Mississippi
P. S. —Happy Easter to all those at
home and I sincerely hope, and I'm
sure it will be, that we may have
happy Easters hereafter when we
get finished with our job.
e Nice to hear from you, John.
We're really having Spring weather
this week. Easter was a beautiful
day. —Editor.
5 If you haven’t gotten around
SX to buying a Second War Loan
/Z Bond, stop and think what it
would mean to you if our sol-
diers hadn’t gotten round to
the fight.
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Soldier's Letter Gives
Insight Into Army Life
(Continued from Page One)
A sudden burst of patriotism seems
to envelop the new inductee and
rightly so. He is taking on a pro-
fession and while I myself cannot
feel very proud of my present pro-
fession from one standpoint. I can
be glad that we or I still have a
country to fight for.
A lot of things will be rather
strange and seem so unnecessary to
you when you come in. The joke of
the tough “Sarg” is not a joke. Take
it: from me, they are tough. They
have to be. And for the Buck pri-
vate, there is so little consideration.’
You must take a lot for the first
month. There is no use painting a
pretty picture. But don’t worry,
you are a man and you can take it
as well as the rest.
You are coming in much better
equipped, so far as usefulness to
the Army, than I was. I have got-
ten along very well, and chances
are that you'll get along even bet-
ter. NEVER!!! do any unnecessary
grumbling. Half of the work you
do is designed with one thought
in mind; to see how much you can
take. So for your future’s sake,
be careful. %
You should get along quite well.
You will probably go into the Signal
Corps, rather than the ‘Air Force,
your best, for your advancement
depends on individual merit.
Be careful of your health. Above
all, and I can’t stress this too much,
be clean ! ! ! You find all sorts
and types of men in the army. Some
don’t give a damn, and so the rest
must be very careful. Social dis-
eases are an extreme menace. So
many men do not seem to. care
what happens when they come in
and so the bars come down.
Profanity is the universal service-
men’s language. You will get so
disgusted and sick of it that it be-
comes almost unbearable. But stick
to your guns. Remember what you
were taught and never forget that
excellent manners and good clean
language are a good passport any-
where. You will be ridiculed for it,
I was, but nevertheless, Iam re-
spected for it, I know. More than
one man, and I mean some older
than myself, has come to me and
told me that he admired my forti-
tude. So you see, it is worthwhile.
Another thing, morale. Every
one here calls every one else every-
thing imaginable, but there isnt one
that wouldn't do anything, were an-
other in need of help. Living with
others is an art that so many fail
to learn. You have only done so
within the family scope so far, but
‘now you must do it with so many
others. Your family, as a whole,
but that is a fine branch also. Do
such a long period, is for
part unified as far as beliefs and
characteristics are concerned. But
soon you shall come into contact
with all types and you must flex
and readjust your life for a while
to your new environment.
All in all, what I have been trying
to say is: you will be coming into
a completely new life. Some of the
things of the old must be discarded
but it is imperative that some also
be retained. At first, you shall dis-
like it intensely and be thoroughly
disgusted with the inefficiency of it
all. I was, but I think after you
have been in a while, you shall
learn to tolerate it and you may
even grow to like it to a degree,
as I have.
Good Luck and happy landings,
wherever you go and whatever you
do.
Please answer this time and try
and take this as constructive.
By the way, the tests at New
Cumberland may be the most im-
portant that you will ever take.
Don’t think lightly of them.
Tell Dot and the rest of the gang
that I was asking about them.
God Bless You,
Your brother,
—Royal.
P. S.—Please excuse the paper and
writing. It is only 7:00 a. m. and
I am still drowsy. I have been up
being under the same guidance over | since 5:00 a. m.
every week. }
Yours truly, |
409th School Sqd. Bks. 236
Amarillo Army Air Field
Amarillo, Texas.
® The Pennsylvania Manual says:
Pennsylvania shares with Virginia,
Kentucky and Massachusetts the
designation “Commonwealth.” The
term is of English derivation and
implies ‘an especial devotion of the
government to the ‘‘commonweal”’
or welfare of its citizens. Peculiarly
enough, the State Seal of Pennsyl-
vania does not use the term, but
as a matter of accepted tradition it
is the legal designation to be used
in referring to the State. The col-
ony of Penn was known as the
“Quaker Commonwealth” and
while it has proved impossible to
trace any direct reason for the use
of the term, it became accepted
during the provincial period. Rec-
ords of the Pennsylvania conven-
tions show that those who framed
the successive constitutions of from
1776 to 1873 continued this termin-
ology without any apparent thought
as to its origin. Thus Pennsylvania
has continued to enjoy the distinc-
tive appellation “Commonwealth”.
—The Editor, (with help.)
Who Said Horses ?
Dear Howard:
How are you and all the folks in
the section? I received the first
Dallas Post last Monday and it sure
was welcome.
Arrived here March 28th. Sur-
prised even myself by immediately
ch josing mechanized cavalry. There
is horse cavalry here but they are
far in the minority. Lots of mar-
ried men here. There are six prac-
ticing lawyers in my barracks. Ex,
I mean.
We must have the best food in
the Army. It couldn’t be better. Of
course, it’s still G. I.
The fellow who sleeps next to
me is, or was until his term was
interrupted, a state legislator from
Iowa. Tell Harold Flack to watch
| the paper continued. Thanks on)
out.
How are the chickens? How is
Mr. Houghwout? Heard he was
ill. Hope he gets well soon.
Army life is O. K. Actually not
as tough, so far, as it was repre-
sented. Lots of Japs here, Amer-
ican born. Kansas is the exact geo-
graphical center of the United
States. Hence all borders are dis-
tant.
Will send you all the necessary
data soon so as to be able to have
Pvt. Edward V. Hartman
Fort Riley, Kansas i
@ Fred Houghwout came home
from the hospital last Friday, much
improved but not yet well enough
to resume his duties with the Draft
Board. Harold Flack is afraid of
no legislator, especially those from
Towa. You will be sorry to learn
William Conyngham, a good friend
of the Lehman Horse Show, died
Sunday after a brief illness. Every-
body said the Easter horse parade
was swell—50,000 spectators. Write
often. —Editor.
From A Noxen Boy ,
Dear Editor: :
I received the Dallas Post yester-
day. It seems to have quite a time
keeping up with me. I did receive
it a while at my former station but
Sgt. Charles C. Warden I
THE ND
WAR LOAN
DRIVE 1S
ON!
Minutes
HE hour when the final die is cast, when de-
the balance. The hour
cisive victory hangs in
which will decide the future of you and your
children... a future of joyous freedom or a future
of endless serfdom.
Yes, it is ten minutes to
the first stroke of that fateful hour begins to
sound, it will be foo late to throw your weight
into the fight.
The time to do that is NOW.
Now, when your dollars
tion lines humming. Now, when your dollars can
buy the tanks and guns and planes and ships our
soldiers need to fight a winning war . . . the only
kind of a war we can afford to fight. Now, while
there are still ten minutes
Your country is asking you to lend your dollars
in greater amount than ever before. It is asking
for 13 billions of dollars extra this month... 13
billions for the weapons of
it is our side which dictates
midnight. And when
can keep the produc-
before midnight.
war to make sure that
the peace.
If we do not win, the money you fail to lend
now will be worse than useless to you. If we win,
as we must, the money you lend now will be re-
turned with interest . . . for you to spend on the
good things of life . . . for you to enjoy in a free
and safe world.
So dig down, Americans. Answer the challenge
by buying War Loan securities this month with
every idle dollar you have except what you need
~ for the barest necessities of life.
Don’t wait for the War Loan Volunteer. Beat
the gun by going to your bank, investment dealer,
broker, Post Office, or bond booth today.
Have your money in your fist . . . the fist that
can deliver the knockout blow to the Axis. But
hurry...
For it is ten minutes to midnight...
The hour that can strike the knell of doom—or
the blessed song of freedom.
Your dollars-can call the tune.
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choose the ones best suited for you:
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The perfect investment for individual and
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Interest: 2.9% a year if held to maturity.
Denominations: $25, $50, $100, $500,
$1000. Redemption: any time 60 days after
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THEY GIVE THEIR LIVES...YOU LEND YOUR MONEY!
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