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Published Every Thursday by and for the Enlisted Men of the
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THURSDAY. MARCH. 30. 1944
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COL E P PASSAILAIGUE LT VERNON C HOYT
Commanding Advisor
SGT WALTER MILLER Editor
Cpl Johnston C. Woodall Assistant Editor
Pvt June Freed Secretary
Cpl Bernard Langeila Reporter
IN DIAN-GIVI NG LOSES WARS
Good news (for Hitler only I was contained in a Unit
ed Press story out of Washington last week:
WAR BOND CASHING NEARS SALES RATE
“ Since July 1 redemptions have been 72 per
cent of sales . Since Jan. 1. while redemptions have been
at a high dollar rate, they average only (!) 9 per cent of
sales—due to heavy buying during the Fourth War Loan.”
These bare figures reflect a sad tendency to let
George do it “Let George’s bond secure my savings a
gainst inflation and my home against Nazism George
and I will buy bonds when everybody is looking -during
a bond drive, for example—and later I’ll turn mine in.”
With the government depending so much upon VOL
UNTARY LOANS at generous interest to finance the war.
this Indian-giving smacks of cowardice and under-hand
ed disloyalty It means, after all, that a plan is ashamed
to refuse to buy bonds publicly, and so “biiys” them with
the intention of dumping them as soon a| he can get his
money back This kind of double-deali 1g deprives the
Government of its right to know exactly ? how much ma
terial it can throw against the Japs and Nizis at any given
time. It literally yanks a man’s ammuifition away from
him in the field of combat In the long run it can mean
only inflation, post-war ruin and maybe defeat for all of
us
As soldiers we have always set examples for the rest
of the nation in our bond purchases. Let’s set another ex
ample BY KEEPING OUR BONDS.
McDonald on saluting
POINTING AT THE RIGHT EYEBROW IS NOT
CONSIDERED A MILITARY SALUTE! /
REGIMENTAL MIRROR
Holy Communion Meets
Requirements Os Drama
By Chaplain Glenn S. Reddick
This service was instituted on
Maundy Thursday just before
Good Friday After the Last
। Supper Our Supreme Comman
| der went out into the Garden of
Gethsemane and there was be
trayed by Judas Iscariot
Holy Communion has been
celebrated for nineteen hundred
years and was the only service
of the early church. The Apos
tolic Fathers mention it frequ
ently St. Ignatius speaks of
the elements of the service as
“the medicine of immortality."
The service is a drama. Every
part in it has meaning The
vestments the priest wears have
meaning He is not running a
round wearing a lot of millinery
for nothing. Neither are his vest
ments “robes" which some nar
row minded, ill-informed Protes
tants speak of with awe (They
think maybe the Pope is plan
ning the seizure of America
They must have read the Menace
when they were children or be-
longed to the Klu Klux Klan!)
DRAMA STARTS
The drama starts as the priest
enters the sanctuary. The sum
mary of the law represents the
arrest of Christ, the Kyrie for
Peter’s denial, The Epistle Christ
before Caiaphas The Gradual
Christ’s going from Caiaphas to
Pilate. The Creed is the
Church’s answer to Pilate's ques
tion "What shall I do with
Christ"? All this is the ap
proach:—now comes the great
sacrifice. The offertory and the
priest washing his hands repre
sent Pilate washing his hands of
the blood of Jesus. The Prayer
of the Church is Christ’s prayer
"Father Forgive Them.” The
confession is the cry of the Peni
tent Thief The priest's absolu
tion is Jesus’ answer to the thief,
"This day thou shalt be with me
in paradise.” The third act of
the drama is the consecreation.
This represents the crucifixion of
Christ. The Communion is the
burial of Our Lord. The fourth
act is the Thanksgiving. The
Gloria in ExceLsis represents the
Resurrection.
GREATEST TRAGEDY
This is the drama of the world’s
greatest tragedy. It fulfills all the
requirements of great tragedy
according to Aristotle. It has a
cleansing element in it. We see
the great love of Christ for His
fellow men whom He loved
enough to sacrifice His life for
their good. It should cleanse us
from all unselfishness.
It has all the elements of re
ligion and worship in it. Those
who enter into this service feel
a sense of reverence, dependence
and awe. (Os course some peo
ple who go to Church to meet
certain people or to sell more
life insurance never worship or
have this feeling of worship.)
TWO WORLDS
We live in two worlds One is
material and seen while the oth
er is spiritual and unseen.
“Those things which are seen
are temporal and those things
which are unseen are eternal”.
Dives, the rich man, was a whiz
in the material world, while Laz
arus, the begger, was financially
busted. When they came to the
real world it was the other way
around. Three classes of people
have tried to bridge the gap be
tween this shadow world and the
real world. They are the proph
et, the philosopher, and the relig
ious man. Isaiah, after he had
his vision of Almighty God. talks
continually of the unseen world.
Plato, the philosopher, in his il
lustration in “The Cave,” taught
that this world was a shadow
world. Above and beyond it was
the real world where dwelt
Truth, Beauty. Goodness, Jus
tice, and where Almighty God
reigned supreme. Jesus brought
the two worlds together in His
service of Holy Communion
MATERIAL WORLD
Really the material world is
nothing but protons and elec
tions and vast interstices be
tween them. The basis of all
matter is electrical energy Who
ever saw electricity? Can we ev
er know the material world
from our own senses? We cannot.
We know only the states of our
own mind. Still the material
world speaks to us of something
grand, noble and majestic. When
we see the starry heavens above
and realize that each star may be
another sun with its planets we
realize our insignificance and
the greatness and the power of
Almighty God. The bread and
the wine of the communion ser
vice stand for Christ’s body and
blood. The wheat had to be
crushed and broken to be made
into bread as Christ’s body was
broken on the cross. The red
grapes growing purple in the
amourous kisses of the autumn
sun had to be crushed to produce
the wine. Christ was crushed
beneath the weight of the cross
and the rich red wine of life
flowed from his wounded side.
All nature sacrifices for man in
order that he may eat and drink
and be clothed and the very Son
of God sacrificed Himself that
we might have life eternal
CHRIST’S THRONE
In the Communion service God
is localized. This is fitting and
very proper The Altar is Christ’s
throne. It represents Calvary.
He as a Jew worshipped in the
Temple at Jerusalem. God for
the Jew dwelt in the Holy of Ho
lies in the Temple. Now in the
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
A recent War Department announcement has called
attention to the fact that many men wait until they get
to ports of embarkation to make out their wills. Since
every man who wants to make out a will probably knows
that he does before he gets shipped to the POE, it’s tough
to understand why more men don’t take advantage of the
far superior legal assistance available at permanent Army
installations before they leave.
A will is something that should be carefully prepared
for each individual’s needs, following the special legal re
quirements of his state as regards form and execution. If
leaving a proper will behind in the States is something a
soldier feels will help his fighting morale, he certainly
hasn’t helped himself any by making out the “assembly
line forms” that are often used, by necessity, in the stag
ing areas. The. standard, simple forms which are avail
able—and require mere filling in of names—are always
supposed to be replaced anyhow at the earliest opportu
nity, so they are no help to morale since they remain as
essentially unfinished business.
Under no circumstances is a soldier ever DIRECTED
or officially URGED against his wishes to prepare a will,
since wills, to be legally effective, must be drawn up vol
untarily. However, the Army has provided good remin
ders to service men and women of the importance of giv
ing consideration to the matter. The crux of the Army’s
advice is to get a will made out, if you want one at all,
while you are still at a military installation where you can
get all the legal assistance you want and need. The fol
lowing are authorized to assist soldiers make out the “last
will and testament”:
Civilian attorneys, the legal assistance officer at any
Army post, camp or station; a member of the Committee
on War Work of any state, county or city Bar Association
or of an established legal aid organization; any staff judge
advocate, assistant staff judge advocate, or other officer of
the Judge Advocate General’s Department; a member of
any Selective Service Advisory Board who is an attorney,
or a member of the armed forces who is an attorney
IF YOU WANT TO LEAVE A WILL BEHIND YOU
MAKE IT OUT NOW!
Thursday, March 30, 1944
. Communion service or in the
Mass Christ is present on the al
tar. He offers Himself to God
and to us. We in turn offer our
selves to God and to Christ.
The Communion service should
mean much to soldiers They
are serving both the State and
their Supreme Commander As
soldiers of the State they may
have a "rendezvous with death
As soldiers of the Cross of Christ
they can have a rendezvous with
eternal life at Christ's altar 1
saw the movie on Tarawa Just
before the battle men who were
shortly to give their lives for
their country took communion
You see they needed Christ s
courage for He was the world's
bravest man. They went to bat
tie to die in a physical sense but
to live eternally. No one can
define death but a soldier Be
cause they face death they know
the meaning of life. A soldier
has defined death as a magnifi
cent discovery, a high adventure
and a glorious freedom When
the shell bursts close to you and
the concussion knocks you down
and a piece of red hot steel goes
thru a buddy you begin to won
der why Almighty God granted
you longer life. You feel as if
you are living on borrowed time
You will after that be tempted
to keep your rendezvous with
life Let every soldier say:
“1 have a rendezvous with Life
Within the blessed Sacrament.
When over me the priest is bent
And Jesus comes exceeding fair
I have a rendezvous with Life
For He has promised to be then
I know I am not worthy thus
To take His life mysterious
My sins are higher than a hill
His love is deeper than the sea
And so in my communion still
I find His mercy healeth me
And to my pledged word am
true—
I shall not fail my rendezvous
(By George Craig Stewart.
Late Bishop of Chicago )
