The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-08
By DresC Pearson

for 1000 pounds of whiskey ordered by general. Just before Christmas also Q C-47 took off from Charleston, 8 o.. for Cuba to bring back cargo of whskey and nylons for officers and officers wives only. Young officers bitterly resented having to fly from Guam to Hawaii to pick up load of Christmas whiskey Tor General James Parker. They thought they had enlisted for important. work. . General A. D. Smith, commander at the Azores, even sent plane all the way to Newfound- land for whiskey. It consumed by staff officers only. Junior officers and CTS got none.
 The same General Smith had system whereby each Saturday C-47 carried him from the Santa Maria Azores. base to Terceira for not path, iou the only runway was temporary and the plane often had to land in 70 to 50-mie cross-wind. otherg stayed at Santa Maria and bathed in the ocean. For Christmas 1914 General smith flew to California though only two weeks before his troop commander had refused to let soldier 90 home when his sister died. ~ While building the base at Santa Maria General Smith detailed two skilled cabinet makers te build desk and table for his office They spent two months at this job; probable cost 5000
 At Cairo General Benjamin F. Giles had special stalls built into transport to send his horses pack to the USA. The space was needed TOT QIs wno awaited transportation home. It cost the taxpayer thousands 6 month to maintain Giless headquarter in Cairo, while at the same time he had other com plete facilities for headquarters at Camp HucKsep 1S miles away. Y. Captain Floyd Herman Rolf, dis charged Army chaplain of Pomona Cal, told how when Congressrnen came to visit Pacific Army base, CTS were given chicken to show Congress that they were well fed But that was the only time, according to Captain Rolf, CTS received chicken On Okinawa, CTS complained because they hadn' tasted fresh meat for four weeks but had to dig barbecue pits for their commanding officer to roas meat He staging party for nurses and brother officers . Tn the Philippines, U. s. rairoae battalion six months after the end of the war, wa kept on as potential strike breakers in case the civilian Filipino workers struck for higher pay
 A letter from lieutenant colonel on Okinawa says: Reserve officers and enlisted men pay nc attention to caste when battles are raging But aftei the war is won and We have time to think and ob- serve these regulars the picture is disgusting. Men who have done nothing for 25 years are now swag. gerng with authority self-opnionated and with an assumed superknowledge recognized only by them selves.
 Major-ceneral William ord Ryan enlisted nnen when he flew bale of hay across the Pacific to Australia for his pet Kangaroo This was during tht war when air space was tight. Later he flew the kangaroo to Hawaii where 1t escaped. GIs needed on other jobs had to stop work and help find 1t Carpenters supposed to be building an adjunct to the Military Post Office, where dI's wanted their mail, were taken away from that job to build pen for the kangaroo. . Lieutenant Colonel Robert l. Dougherty. chaplains corps delivered sermon al Hckam Field critcizing CTS for wanting to go home Next day he flew to San Francisco, opened a new chapel . At a time when enlisted men were waiting for letters from their families by regular slow mall Major-cseneral Ennis c. whitehead received a ham in the official ATC pouch,
 Those are some of the things which President Truman must take steps to clean up before we can build a solid peacetime Army.