The White Falcon - 06.05.1944, Side 4

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THE WHITE FALCON
OUR FORCES — ALWAYS ALERT
Published by and for the American forces in iceianu, uiulei
the supervision of Special Service Section, Iceland Base Com-
mand. All photographs are by the U.S. Army Signal Corps un-
less otherwise credited. THE WHITE FALCON receives material
supplied by Camp Newspaper Service, War Dept.
This paper has been passed by the censor and may be mailed
home for one cent.
THE WHITE FALCON is written and edited by enlisted-man
personnel.
IBC Special Service Officer..Lt. Col. Lee F. Gilstrap.
Supervising Officer ......Lt. David Zinkoff.
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Managing Editor ..........S/Sgt. John G. Wentworth.
Associate Editors ........Tec 4 Joseph T. Koren
Tec 5 John Moran
Circulation Manager ......Pvt. Robert Hill
A Stake In The Future
Current optimism over the progress of the war con-
tinues to stimulate discussion of post-war measures most
likely to prevent a future recurrence of conflict. Among
the wide diversity of suggestions arising in Congress and
elsewhere, the proposal to inaugurate a peacetime pro-
gram of one year’s military training still heads the list.
Such legislation would‘seem almost a necessity, for the
record of this War must certainly have made plain to
each of us the pitfalls of military unpreparedness.
However, military preparedness is only one side of the
story. Among other things which this war demonstrates
is the fact that the nation whose citizens most firmly be-
lieve in what they are fighting for and who enjoy at
least an adequate degree of economic security is the
nation most likely to be vigilant in a moral sense.
Attainment of these ends lies, as it always has, pre-
ponderantly in education — education towards a mature,
well-formed public opinion, and towards developing ca-
pacities for gainful employment.
Of such importance is education in a free society that
it is difficult to understand why attendance at colleges,
universities, trade schools and agricultural schools should
continue to be looked upon as more or less an indulgence
in luxury.
As an adjunct, therefore, to post-war military training,
why not provide a system of government loans for the
benefit of those youths who may desire to attend colleges
or trade schools after completing their one year in the
service? The loans could be made payable at a nominal
interest rate, or perhaps at none at all, when the student
has been graduated.
We can’t see why a plan such as this shouldn’t work to
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“He's been in three major engagements—and last night
he had a fight with me!"
Q&fycVrfLs ^Aom. ShoaJj/jojj.
Paul Whiteman’s fee for dir-
ecting the pit orchestra at the
Roxy for the George Gershwin
Memorial week, featuring Victor
Borge as the late composer, is re-
puted to be 87,500 for one week
.... Taxis about New York may
be as numerous as ever, but they
are certainly hard to find when
guys want them. All the drivers
are trying to make hay. For ex-
ample, the doorman at the Com-
modore Hotel caught a cabbie
asking fifty bucks — and that
isn’t hay — to drive an Army
officer to his post in Brooklyn.
•
Mae West is preparing to pen
her memoirs, after a fabulous
offer from one of the big publish-
ing houses .... Gloria Stuart will
be the next screen lovely to go
overseas with the Red Cross ....
Martha Raye is expecting the
stork .... RKO is trying to buy
Booth Tarkington’s “Seventeen,”
for Frankie Sinatra, no less, for
a musical .... Benny Goodman’s
fans are urging him not to junk
his band.
•
One of the newer and prettier
“characters” in Manhattan is Ro-
berta Light, a Billy Rose discov-
ery who will be seen in his new
show. She has been a riding in-
structor, drama instructor,
French tutor, cashier, orange
juice squeezer and stock com-
pany actress. She boasts a Phi
Beta Kappa key, has a degree
from Pomona College, is 23 years
old, and her grandfather is T.
R. Drummond, famous mining en-
gineer. Her uncle is “Whiskers”
Blake, outstanding British wrest-
ler.
Bob Hope defines Bing Crosby
as “that buxom breeder of bank-
rupt bangtails” and Betty Hutton
as “a cross between a blockbust-
er and a United States Marine.”
Incidentally, comedienne Char-
lotte Greenwood will take over
Bob Hope’s radio spot June 13th
for a 13-week series:
•
John Garfield and Eddie Foy
Jr., just back from the fronts,
are the first U.S. entertainers to
have appeared before Yugoslav
Partisans. Marshal Tito’s own
guard presented Garfield with
German firearms. The troupe was
playing at the base of Mt. Vesu-
vius when the volcano flared up
.... Paul Lukas, Helmut Dantine
and Geraldine Fitzgerald have
been signed by Warner Bros, to
star in the forthcoming flicker,
“Strangers In Our Midst.”
•
Uncle Sam will be richer by
two Flying Forts and a pair of
Liberty ships from Toscanini’s
concert with the NBC Symphony
Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. All
the seats and standing room were
sold to purchasers of $25 to
$25,000 War Bonds, for a total of
$0,422,150 — earmarked for plan-
es and ships.
•
Something that should be
worth hearing for laughs, if not
for artistry, is the Edgar Bergen-
Charlie McCarthy version of
“Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs,” on a coming “Screen
Guild Players” program. Assist-
ing the duet in this masterpiece
will be Billy Gilbert as Sneezy;
Mortimer Snerd as Dopey; and
Jane Powell, radio singing star,
as Snow White.
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ARE YOU TAKING ANY OF THE
ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE^
CORRESPONDENCE COURSES-
“Yes,” answered Pfc. Lawren-
ce Jordan, Coast
Artillery radio
operator. “I’ve
enrolled in a
course in elec-
trical engineer-
ing and am find-
ing it very help-
ful to me. I’ve
now almost fin-
ished with it and intend to star
on another course as soon aS
I can.” ()
“I would like to take one,
said Pvt. Kenny
Johnson, Q1
Corps, fro®
Ames, Iowa, “hut
I just don’t have
enough t*me
right now. I m
finding it hard
even to find
time to write
all the letters I should.”
“I’m afraid the same thing
goes for me,”
was the answer
given by Tec 4
William A.
Pikla, teletype
operator in the
Signal Corps.
“These courses
ought to be just
the thing for
reeping a soldier’s mind in shape,
but working as I am now I know
[’d never get time to devote my'
self to one of these courses.
Tec 5 John S. Hurd, Signal
. Corps, who used
to be a building
contractor ‘1°
San Jose, Cal-,
replied, “Ive
been thinking a'
bout it, but my
job as switch
board operator

busy. As soon as I get the chance,
however, I expect to get started.
CHAPLAIN’S CHALLENGE.
Mark 11:22.
Almost anyone can walk
ncross a twelve-foot plank, two
inches thick and a foot wide
when that plank is on the
ground. But put the same plank
twenty feet above the ground
with its ends resting on the
roofs of two buildings, and
then see how many people
can walk across it.
We say the felllow who
walks across that plank, sus-
pended in the air, is very
brave. What we mean is he
has faith. Faith means ventur-
ing out when it is dangerous
ind uncertain, especially when
you are scared to death. Faith
means believing when others
doubt, and trusting when yoU
cannot understand how
works.