Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Page 6the stars and stripes weekly saturday july 17, 1943 the stars and stripes a mlle am Pkt if to a a arid pm no Pinta to Fri nerf a if Tai Tom Tif if operating. Tri stats is by rip Agta Ishea ii Tatami Pimmie by us fir Tai per Mimi if Tai u. A Iii Feree Taum Tarta african theater if operations. Ii is printed by Leehe Dalf Etta in ii to Steib Algiere. Gift Long mrm Viz brim re taiga Eiffel. Telephone la. Chr Bickma ext. Tat la Neville ext. To Clr Nutten 8-8fl William d. A staff by tall col White exl 67. Pm imams boreas Roe Fleecy Mer Eta 8-8 1 Edward m. Doe her or. Oran boreal a Roe Metal of Tine Cpl. Leos Heifer Teie Phenoi Hul Cenat Antine boreal special Servile oboe Toalton a sol Leenard Buaer entered a Emoi elate Miter Al the pee Taffee Al new York n. Oiler in if Mareb a Isis sow Rippeo rata to Tai batted Ste Tea in Franca a year Caliente pee i by the b. A Amy Center. Vil i no. To j Aly 17, 1943 officer to charge a altar b infants manager managing editor Sparta editor Art editors staff la Ort. Egbert White let la Ebert Neville Tat la Robert a Christ Enron t-8ft. Dave Golding sgt. Herbert Mitgang sol Gilbert Sweeney editorial staff Tai la Jamee a. Bor Chardt sgt. Milton Lehman to sgt John m. Wilg 8-sgl Ralph g. Martin 8-bgl George Hakim a sgt. Phil 8tern, sol Richard Briner sol Jack Potsie Cpl. Clarence Bonnet Cpl. Stanley melt a off Fol fan s. Green Fol Edward Vebell african guardhouse ye., in be been in the guardhouse. As a chaplain i not Only know Why i go there but i have Learned some of the reasons for which others go there. For these reasons new faces Are in the guardhouse each week i visit it that a Why i want to Tell you what i be found. _ some of these men go to the guardhouse because they Are Quot fed up with being commanded by a Superior whom they think to be abusive and repulsive. And unfortunately this is sometimes a very True reason. To get out from under this condition the lad will decide to break some Quot Little army regulation in order to get a change. I any kind of change i but How much better it would be to adopt a j patient Quot watchful waiting Quot attitude to maintain a Little poise. I provocations have been Here since the world began. What of i a few done to know How to exercise the authority that has been Given them Why not be patient and Hope for the action of still higher authority and. If those immediately Over you do not learn How to use authority they will eventually be reduced or transferred. So what a the use of getting Blo trouble yourself others go to the guardhouse because of some kind of neglect or thoughtlessness. Under this comes the forgetfulness that army commanders must have instant obedience. This must be True or else the army would be no More than a mob. We All agree that it is militarily Wise to listen to orders understand the orders and execute them with dispatch. Under this heading too is Gong to sleep on this is a dangerous thing test the guard Ana the guarded. By going to sleep the guard May imperil the lives of Many. It is possible indirect murder. That is the main reason it is such a serious offence. By far the greatest number go to the guardhouse because of something they do or say or fail to do or say while under the influence of intoxicating liquors. At least sixty or seventy percent by their own admissions got into trouble while under the influence of alcoholics. One an leave off the drinking of them and reduce the chances of getting into trouble. It is Wiser to drink no alcoholic at All than it is to run the risk of being ruined by it. Last a few go to the guardhouse because they Are criminally minded humanity has not Learned the secret of rehabilitating Many of these people. So humanity sometime in Remote history decided to team up on them and put them through a process that would eliminate them from Ordinary society for a period of time compatible with the Gravity of their crime. We Call the process Quot trial by court Quot when individuals Are involved. It is called Quot War Quot in International relations. So Why stick out your neck by letting yourself begin a life of crime. Crime still does not pay. If one looks ahead far enough he will realize that getting into trouble because of any kind of unwise action or any kind of wrong doing does not pay at All. It is earnestly hoped that our soldiers will shun these things that get them into trouble and stay out of the guardhouse. It is neither intelligent nor smart to go there for any season. Chaplain j. R. Shuman piece by piece. Or All things about mail delivery shooting insulators and d Day debates now you know Why you Haven to been getting any or very few letters from Home perhaps for the past three or four weeks especially if the family and friends Are still sending the regular Bulky kind. Meaning that plans for the invasion of Sicily pretty much tied up shipping space on boats coming from the states for one thing. Then probably quite a few ships were drafted for local duty and relieved of the trans Atlantic no for awhile. A mail though according to the army postmaster carried on a a business As usual and mail planes made their Normal number of scheduled trips to the states. An average of 180,000 letters a Day of this Type has been arriving the past two weeks. Some of the Ordinary three cent stamp letters have also been flown in to relieve the pre invasion pile up on Home docks. This week Apo also opened its Bird a mail station in North Africa at Algiers so that Send off of letters from the area will be expedited by elimination of the rip to Oran and Casablanca for processing. Incidentally there Are plenty of a mail forms around now so if your outfit is Shoh All you have to do is ask your nearest Apo Headquarters. Despised Benny they say. Or c Johnston president of tile u. S. Chamber of Commerce 7 absolutely refuse to believe that in fighting a totalitarian War we must after winning Victory become totalitarian ourselves Vernon Bartlett British member of parliament the last peace treaty was disc dotted by the fear of bolshevism. I think the average englishmen eels that after the fight Russia has put up and irrespective of that nations political concept we must break Down the barriers Between ourselves and senator Tom Connally of Texas objecting to the Ruml tax plan Quot Santa Claus is he a Capp. Joe Foss now major hailed an greatest american Ace of world War ii with 26 Jap planes to his credit 7 probably have any planes to my credit might not even be Here if i Hadnot had the fighting est Bunch in the world behind senator Harley m. Kilgore of w. A Quot in no single phase of the War production program does centralized control exist at the present moment Anna Roosevelt Boettiger co editor with her husband now capt. John Boettner of the Seattle Post intelligencer upon an occasion when an executive was about to fire a woman reporter for drinking Nix if men can drink and come Down Here with hangovers so can the women a sabotage by soldiers soldiers shooting at insulators on Telephone poles lining the main roads from Casablanca to Tunis Are pulling a thoughtless Lowdown trick on the fighting men and one that easily May sacrifice hundreds of lives needlessly. Destroying insulators has become a wide spread habit in recent weeks the signal corps reports and As a consequence the number of communication lines never enough has been Sertz poly diminished. One pair of wires May carry As Many is four communication channels or As Many As six Telegraph channels and a single Bullet smashing an insulator can put the whole business out of commission. Right now the destruction of these lines May have vital military consequences for the Supply of ammunition and reinforcements to troops in Sicily depends upon them. And that a Only one example. Afaq has issued two bulletins to All troop units on the subject but the habit Hasni to been completely wiped out . There a a heavy court martial for anyone caught firing at the Telephone wires. If you know or see anyone using insulators for target practice done to pull any punches. Is none of the girls cared much for Ben by Cpl Harry Sheet Sizow stars and stripes staff writer it was a Beautiful Day in Africa \ at the foot of the Hill was what the Sun was sinning and it was looked like the end of our journey. Do Day dilemma seems there a been a rash of hot arguments breaking out among a great Many outfits As to whether Friday or saturday was the official a do Day for the invasion of Sicily or the invasion of Europe whichever you prefer to Call it. Anyway the argument started in most cases from the necessity of paying off a a invasion Day pools with each Man having picked a Date for the invasion to Start and the Winner getting the Kitty. What threw the Monkey wrench n the works was a release from Allied Headquarters stating that paratroops and airborne forces added on the Island at 2210 hours Friday while the main invasion ground forces did no to arrive until Defore Dawn saturday. So far As we be been Able to discover the official Date for a do Day n saturdays invasion could be anybody a guess. In military Parade a do Day is a designation Given the Day for which a major military move against an enemy is planned. But a change in plans or instance necessarily mean a change in a do Day. The move could be made the Day before which is known As cd minus in Day. Or a Day later which would be called to plus in Day. The exact Calendar Date of a do Day in this last Allied move May or May not be still a military secret. But most personal opinions on the subject expressed by officers and men we be talked with agree that saturday was the Winner. J. M. W. Raining cats and dogs which army mess sergeants were catching and making into beef Stew. The top kick tapped me on the shoulder and said politely a a get the hell Down to the water Point a who am i to argue with a top kick to i wheeled out Dolores a 2 i-2-ton Job and cached her into Benny the despised water trailer of company b. Benny had been sitting quietly near the Kitchen garbage pit minding his own business. He was probably dreaming of his youth in the states where every saturday he stood inspection and every saturday he looked like a gentleman. Now he had a three Inch summer coat of dirt on him. None of the girls in the company had any social desires with Benny. Even miss Omaha the jeep that homely Little runt of a female would pass Benny by to growing mud in his face. So Benny just sat there and sulked. To make matters worse i backed Dolores up a Little too a Convoy of i trucks was coming up the Hill and on my Side of Tho Road at the foot of the Hill stood a native holding a Chicken out for Sale to the passing traffic. Tragedy was in the air. Being a Cool headed Soldier of whom i shall write More in my autobiography and remembering the advice Given me by my platoon sergeants the first thing i did was to take one of three courses either scream. I saw that Benny would smash his head against the oncoming trucks grind the native up into a can of a cd rations without Beans or ram himself into Dolores rear end. Deciding that the time had come to either do or done to i slowed Dolores Down and swerved Lier to the left. As Benny came shooting by on my right cursing because he had missed us by inches Dolores gave him a whack and he chromed off into a Side pocket for a perfect billiard shot. His playfulness having been whacked out of him Benny came to a dead fast and she slapped Benny out i Stop with his nose buried in the of his daydreaming so hard he j spot where the native who had just sat Down on his rear and succeeded in leaping out of his get it took a lot of coaxing and pushing to get him Back on his feet and i finally hooked him on to Dolores rear end. We started off for the water Point. Then it happened i we were cruising along when i looked into the Mirror and eau that Benny bad broken away from the coupling and was on his own he was getting up Speed and that look on his face was All business. I seeded Dolores up and we slowly began to pull away from Benny. But Benny had More Speed in him than i thought. Up Hill Down Hill Over dirt roads and Over bumps he chased us. His nose was in the air and a looked like an old time horse Down fire engine without the horses. The Small amount of water inside of him was washing and making noises like you hear at Revere Beach. Slowly he was eating up tile distance Between us. We had just come Over the top Al Hill 506 i had been counting the when right in front of us shoes had been standing a few minutes before. As a result of the incident Benny received a dented fender a broken Hub Cap and a dirty nose. Dolores Wasny to even scratched. I pulled Benny a nose out of to hts ground hitched him on to Dolores again got the water and finally got Bock to Camp without another incident. For a week after the girls All shunned Benny. Miss Omaha the runt continued to splash mud Over Benny. Dolores whacked him every time i backed her into Benny. Elsie the weapons Carrier always managed to get in a punch or two. Even Bess the command car got so mad Over Benny a a gentlemanly act that she broke an Oil line and sprayed Benny from head to foot with Oil. Benny took his Medicine like a Man that he was. To refused to fight Back at the girls. After awhile however everything was forgotten and Benny once More Rose to his former Hapy position the despised water Traller of company a
