The Camp Hulen Searchlight (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1941 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CAMP HULEN SEARCHLIGHT
THE CAMP HULEN
SEARCHLIGHT
Official Camp Newspaper for the Anti-Aircraft Training: Center
Published Weekly at Camp Hulen, Palacios (Matagorda County), Texas
BDITGR..............................................................................LT. WM. H. WITT
STAFF
M \NAGING editor cpl. AL mailhes
Circulation Manager................................. Pvt. E. H. Duenow
REPORTERS
69th C. A. (AA)........................................................Pvt. Charles N. Sellick
I97th C. A. (AA)..................................................................Cpl. Warren Weld
203rd C. A. (AA)...........................................................Cpl. H. L. McCurry
204th C. A. (AA) ... Pvt. George R. .Johnson
211th C. A. (AA)............................................................Pvt. Edward B. Hall
105th C. A. (AA)..........................................Pvt. L. 11. Blague, Jr.
106th C. A. (AA)......................................... Pvt. C. W. Murray
Station Hosnital .............................Pvt. Modesto A. Gonzales
Hq. Btry., 33rd Brigade ................................................Pvt. Ray Buchbinder
Co. A, 72nd QM Bn................................. Pvts. Dick Braver and Bob Scott
22nd Station Hospital ....................................................Pvt. Tom Upton
Detachment DEML (CASC) ...........Pvt. Mack W. Ready
STAFF ARTIST
Sgt. Wm. J. Bowles..............................................................204th C. A. (AA)
Pvt. Dick F. Sebald...................... 72nd QM Bn.
Pvt. Rudolph E. Dupuis.....................................................197th C. A. (AA)
EDITORIAL
SECRETARY OF WAR CITES DEFENSE NEEDS
Warning that the nation is facing the most dangerous
threat ever made to its political and economic independence,
The Honorable Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, told the
1941 graduating class of the United States Military Academy
at West Point that they may have to bear a large share of
responsibility in meeting the crisis.
Mr. Stimson said that 30 years ago he had assisted in the
exercises that started the West Point Class of 1911 on its
career in the Army. That was a much happier time, he said.
It was an era when: “Liberalism in thought and in action,
justice under the reign of law, humanitarian ethics between
man and man were all expanding towards evten the darkest
corners of the earth.”
“Today after that brief interval of thirty years,” said Mr.
Stimson, “our own nation, sheltered as it is by the geograph
WHAT 1$ The tO*a
STQPPtn^ My Tram •
Bwth&i Willie.
This conscientious guide actually held up a train so that his regi-
mental convoy could puss safely and uninterruptedly by the crossing.
UNCLE EGBERT
Dear Uncle Egbert: Dear Another Dionne:
Why did the 203rd give a regi-
mental dance and not invite any
June 19th,
Dear Soldiers
While you’re all working g0
hard, we want you to know the
whole Allen family is right |)P.
hind you. Take Grandmother Al-
len- she’s gone back to the job
as hostess she gave up right be-
fore Custer’s lust stand. As a
matter of fact, one of the most
important functions in the Army
was named after Grandmother
Allen in those days—the Mess.
Father has invented a tank that
y . not only goes right through
IV houses and across rivers, but it
also climbs trees. The only thing
you need is a handful of shelled
nuts to coax it down #gain. It
burns very little fuel—just an
occasional pint of bourbon for Fa-
ther.
Uncle Wilbur, who has done a
considerable amount of experi-
mentation in gutters, went out
and proved it is possible to have
a tank run over you. Uncle Wil-
bur never looked better ‘either,
because we had a white toupee
made for him and he matches the
I bear rug in the living room beauti-
' fully.
Cousin Mervie had a wonderful
idea for putting up Venetian
blinds in front of the trenches
instead of barbed wire. This not
only makes the battlefields more
cozy, but it drives the enemy crazy
trying to pull up the blinds so
they can get through. Cousin
Mervie won a prize from the Bet-
ter Homemaking magazine which
wives? We are young, enjoy help-
lcal and natural resources which hitherto we had believed ing with social activities, and are
made it impregnable, is confronted by the most dangerous trying to be good soldiers along
threat which has ever faced its political and economic in- with our husbands. Don’t you
dependence. J think we should get a little en-
“Our President has declared it to be a national emergency icouragement r,0"‘ arul t]Jen-
and has characterized the danger as one which will require —203rd Wife
the muster of all our energies. And when we look out be-.Dear 203rd Wife:
yond the boundaries of our own hemisphere into that world Of course you should, honey, and
If you think you should return
make your application through j]le p10bably would have enjoyed
Don’t, more if he hadn’t caught his
your commanding officer. 1
you think, though, that maybeifoot in the blinds that same morn-
you have been hanging around ing an(j lynched himself,
the house a little too much the! p]oase watch after our brother,
way it is? I Willie.
Uncle (Advice to Fathers) Egbert;
which thirty years ago seemed so rapidly moving along the
pathway to freedom and humanity and tolerance, we see a
world where justice and law have been overthrown, where
mutual tolerance has been replaced by cultivated hatred,
nd where the doctrines of humanity and religion have been
ampled under by ruthless barbarity and the organized!
tavery of fellowmen. In all that world today only the Bri-
°ld Uncle Egbert can tell you
that you will always be welcomed.
The only trouble is, most husbands
would rather dance with a grab-
bag than their own.
—Uncle (Marriage Expert)
Egbert
tish Commonwealth of Nations is still fighting for the old .Dear Uncle Egbert:
standards of freedom. All other nations are either cowed I Whuffo does Pvt. Abraham
or conquered.” bring his wife down here and then
Under democratic principles and methods of training, said
Mr. Stimson, the United States will produce men of better
initiative and lasting power and of unconquerable morale.
He welcomed them into “a democratic service where every
man is entitled to success only on the basis of his merits.”
never introduce her to any of
us Does you think there is some-
thing wrong with the gal?
—29th Quartermaster
A “FIRST" FOR ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE
The brilliant exploits in the field of medical science by
such outstanding medical men as Walter Reed, Jonathan
Letterman, Leonard Wood, William Beaumont and William
Gorgas of the Army Medical Corps are recorded in history
because the deeds of these physicians aided the advance of
civilization—and their work benefitted soldier and civilian
alike.
In peacetime and during periods of conflict the Army’s
Radical Corps has its research men constantly at work in
the field of preventive and curative medicine so that the
health of the able bodied in the military service can be pre-
served and health can be restored to those who are sick or
injured.
Many significant advances have been made by the Medi-
cal Corps under the stimuli of the present emergency.
Looking toward the preservation of health of troops in
the field the Medical Corps has developed a number of fa-
cilitating devices and equipment.
Recently it was^announced that a new mobile X-ray unit
that can be packed or unpacked in 15 minutes and produce
radiographs for study in half an hour is now being deliver-
ed to Army hospitals.
Developed by the Army Medical Center in Washington,
the unit is designed to provide field doctors with complete
fluoroscopic and X-ray facilities. At the same time it is so
compact and detachable that it permits hasty removal in
time of danger.
With the fluoroscopic equipment an examining doctor in
a field tent can locate exactly any foreign bodies in a wound
ed soldier about one minute after the patient is placed under
the machine. It requires no more than an hour to develop
and dry the largest X-ray film.
Back of every advance in the field of military medicine is
the thought that battles are not won by guns, tanks, air-
planes and other war equipment but by the stout hearts and
strong wills of the men who use these devices.
Dear 29th Quartermaster
I don’t know anything about it
Dear Uncle Egbert:
I am interested in that $10 per
jump tlie Army pays the para-
chute troopers. Do you think it
is worth the risk to draw this
extra pay?
—Timid Leaper
Dear Timid Leaper:
I really couldn’t say, Timid, I
bad a friend, though, who leaped
Much love,
GRACIE
Grade Allen.
r s s
fjchel
Upper is Lower
. . “The ups and downs of travel-1
from a thousand feet, overjumped ingf« sighs “PERC” GREEN.
a little, and is now 1006 feet from
where he started.
Uncle (Honorary Pallbearer)
Egbert
Dear Uncle Egbert:
I read quite a few letters in
your column from soldiers who
gripe about this or that. I would
myself. Why don’t‘you ask Jones? ,-iust like thl’ 1nlblic to know that
He many not be sure, but I imag-1 bere’s. one fellow whose only re-
ine he has an inkling. I fG’d 's that he didn t join the
Uncle (Snowball Roller) Egbert !ai m^ sooner.
_ | —Loyal Infantryman
Dear I. ncle Egbert: Dear Loyal Infantryman:
I have a wife and twelve chil-
dren who need me at home. How
You and me both, Loyal. If I
had joined six months sooner I’d
“Upper or lower berth,’ inquired!
the would-be traveler, “What's|
the difference?”
“Well,” replied the ticket agent,!
“the difference is two dollars.
But that is not- all, the lower is
higher than the upper one. The
higher price is for the I oyer. If
[you want it lower, you have to
go higher. We sell the upper
lower than the lower. Most peo-
ple don’t like the upper, although
it’s lower on account of being
higher. When you occupy an up-
per you go up to bed and get
down to get up.”
do I go about getting a discharge] be out by now.
so I can support them? | Uncle (Coasting Artilleryman)
—Another Dionne, i Egbert.
[WITH THE POETS
I’m lying on my bunk, dreaming a little of home
Listening to the rain and the wind as it moans
Guess I’m kinda lonely and a little ftlue
But early in the morning that will be through.
I’ll roll out at 5:30 at the call of reveille
And look out at the sergeant, and he will look at me
“C’mon you guys,” he’ll holler, “let’s get high behind.”
And I'll stagger out afeelin’ like I took the count
of nine.
Next comes soupee, the most melodious call of all,
And what the hell’s that whistle for? Oh yeah, that’s police call
Then we get our rifles, and fall in our platoon
And go out to the drill field, and east and west till noon
At one o’clock^ we’re back there trying to learn some more,
Listening to the sergeant with his elope, two, three four’
Column left, and column right, and to the rear march,’
Till our stomach it gets empty and our throats begin to parch
Now there is recall, get ready for retreat,
Shave your beard, shine your shoes, and fall out in the street.
Listening to the colors is like a big pat on the back.
We have courage, strength and honor, there is nothing that we
lack.
A little later I hear the soupee and I take it on the lam.
I’m a hell of a lookin’ soldier, but I belong to Uncle Sam._
'(Pvt. James Luster, Btry. “A” 293rd)
STOODENT
The Artillery School instructor
was giving the class an oral quiz
and picked on a particularly un-
fortunate specimen.
“What is the range of an 8-inch
“field piece?”
No answer.
“Well, what do we mean by
“trajectory?”' - '*
Silence.
“Where were you last night?”
“Drinking beer with a friend.'’
“How do you expect to pass
the course by carrying on in that
way?” ,
“I don’t, sir—I only came in to
fix the radiator.”
No Noise
“Apparently painters should be
heard and not seen, or something
like that,” remarks J. KAHN.
Painter, are you working? j
she called for the third time, frj
the foot of the stairs.
“Ves, ma’am,” the painter r
plied.
“I can’t hear you working.’
“Good night, ma’am,” he
ploded, you think I’d be putting
oil with a hammer?”
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Witt, William H. The Camp Hulen Searchlight (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 1941, newspaper, June 20, 1941; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth719720/m1/2/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Matagorda+County%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palacios Library.