The White Falcon - 14.08.1943, Blaðsíða 4

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THE WHITE FALCON
_OUR FORCES — ALWAYS ALERT
Published by and for the American Forces, under the super-
vision of G-2 Section. Managing Editor, T/3 Gene Graff; Asso-
ciate Editors, T/5 Joseph T. Koren, T/4 John G. Wentworth;
Art Editor, T/4 Harrison Standley; Circulation Manager, Pfc.
Ollie V. Amick. All photographs are by the U.S. Army Signal
Corps unless otherwise credited.
THE WHITE FALCON receives material supplied by Camp
Newspaper Service, War Department.
This paper has been passed by Censor and may be mailed
home for one cent.______________________________
‘Home By Christmas’
Conflicting reports from official, semi-official and un-
official quarters tell Servicemen the European war will
end any time between Christmas, 1943, and 1946. Most
encouraging of the predictions, of course, is the one
which concludes hostilities today, tomorrow or the next
day. Unfortunately, it isn’t that easy.
Today the Axis is on the run in every theater, but
optimistic conjecture is foolishly undermining morale
and certainly is without practical foundation. Hitler’s
blood}" war machine has been denied severely by ground
fighting, air warfare and the anti-submarine campaign.
But invasion of the continent doesn’t promise to be a
whirling blitzkrieg, because the home team always has
an edge when the chips ai’e down. Stamping out the
Nazi menace, according to Allied terms, is a foregone
conclusion to us, but the time element is another matter.
Germany could fold by Christmas—if every stroke
of the United Nations’ carefully charted plans operates
on schedule. On the other hand, Allied leaders indic-
ated during the North African campaign that saving
our own youth is just as important as smashing the
enemy, so the clock is being discarded humanely in
favor of the calendar.
Perhaps it might be wise for the sell-styled crystal-
gazers to cease worrying about when the war will end.
If they are as accurate as each claims, it’s a waste of
time and money for them to prognosticate without re-
muneration. The racetrack is a lucrative haven for astro-
logists, soothsayers, etc. Funny thing, though, no doubt
they’d find themselves among those present in the poor
house after a short term backing “sure things.”
THE WHO-ME-l'M-SOBER-AS
A-.JUDGE SALUTE
THE HOWS-EVERYTHING-
WITH-YOU - TODAY -
GENERAL SALUTE
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It may be only propaganda, but the story is that a
Dutch newspaper protested to the Society For Pre-
vention Of Cruelty To Animals recently because a Dutch
potato-peeling collector named his new donkey “Benno”
.... Benno, in case you are wondering, is Dutch for
Benito......
Another story from our under-
ground men in Europe tells of
the arrest of a French bus con-
ductor in an Italian-occupied
area...His crime was telling a
group of Italian officers block-
ing the aisles of the bus to “move
forward.”
•Add siniilies: Five fellows re-
turning from a long jeep trip
over a “back woods” road here
reported, “We got more bumps
per hour than the bald-headed
row at a burlesque house.”
A Boston man was about to
become a father for the first
time, and in his haste to get to
the hospital he ran his automo-
bile over a sidewalk and crash-
ed it into a building. While he
was explaining to a Sgt. at a
police station a call came from
the hospital—with the news that
our hero had just become the
father of triplets... “Justifiable
nervousness,” the Sgt. said.
• •
Here is one for the books. A
Pvt. in a Coast Artillery outfit
on the Pacific Coast wrote his
parents, telling how a physician
had appealed to his outfit for
blood donors to save the life of
a young girl. He and two others
were selected. The girl quickly
recovered, but shortly after-
wards her parents returned
home to find her missing.. .She
was discovered in a hot crap
game, and cleaning up!
The people out in San Fran-
cisco are said to be doing less
complaining about prices these
days than they were. Big reason
is that the San Francisco Chro-
nicle recently printed a list of
prices charged in 1850 in the gold
rush days in comparison with
today’s prices .... The people
were reminded that in those days
rooms were $200 to $300 a month;
washing, $20 for a do/en pieces;
apples, $5 each; eggs, $1 apiece,
and a loaf of bread, 75 cents.
Note to chow-hounds: Next
time-somebody tells you that you
eat “like a hog,” don’t feel too
bad about it.....Recent experi-
ments conducted at the Universi-
ty of Wisconsin animal husband-
ry dept, proved that hogs show
“good food sense.”
Before liquor rationing police
radios back home used to call
patrol cars like this: “Calling
Car 71-W, as in Whiskey.” ....
Now it’s changed to “Calling Car
71-W, as in Water.”
Dog gone good answer: The
Salt Lake City ration board, ask-
ing the Johnson Auto Metal
Works why it was ten months
behind in filing maximum service
prices, received this answer: “No
ceiling. No bottom. No shop. Boss
gone fighting. Men gone fighting.
Dog gone fighting.” .... It was
signed “Old Man Johnson.”
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(Who is your favorite pin-up
girl? was the question The In-
quiring Reporter asked this week.
Here are the answers:)
Sgt. Michael Pepe, 22, said,
“My wife is my
favorite pin-up
girl, but of the
film stars I’ll
take Ingrid
Bergman.” Mike,
a member of the
QM, was an in-
terior decorator
in civilian life
at Providence, R.I.
“No one else but my own little
Doris is my fa-
vorite pin-up
girl,” replied
T/5 Charles G.
La Rocque. A
native of Central
Falls, R.I., Char-
les is 24, and
worked as a
shipping clerk
before answering Uncle Sam’s
call.
“No one else
Sgt. John J. Arthur of Paw-
tucket, R.I., ex-
plained, “Natur-
ally, my wife is
my favorite pin-
up girl, but of
the actresses,
give me Greer
Garson.” John
was a truck dri-
ver in civil life
and now belongs to the QM.
LaMarr,” declar-
ed Pvt. Frank
Sagarese, “but I
wouldn’t want to
put oni paper my
reasons.” An In-
antryman,
Frank is 25, and
hails from
Brooklyn, N. Y.;
where, previous
to induction, he drove a truck.
CHAPLAIN’S CHALLENGE
“But when thou doest
alms, let not thy left
hand know what thy
right hand doeth.”
St. Matthew 6:3.
Man can do nothing more
worthy of praise than to per-
form a good deed covertly, and
have it discovered quite by ac-
cident. Indeed, there is little
magnanimity in any favor, feat
or act of kindness which is
dictated by vanity or done
chiefly for ambitious display.
The greatness of an action is
determined by the absence of
a self-regarding motive. He
who gives with a view to at-
tract notice and attention is
merely “showing off”.