Kathleen Norris Says:
Can't You Hear the Bugle Calling? ?
Ball Syndicate?WNU Fcaturca.
The wives of service men, when without smaU children or other inescapable
responsibilities at home, go into the WAC in droves.
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IS IT just possible that you are
missing an opportunity that
is right at your door today?
s it just possible that some day
n the future you are going to
ook back at these sad, terrible,
[lorious war years and ask your
lelf "What on earth was I think
ng about that I didn't get into
he WACs?"
Which means get into the ac
ual military service of the great
:st country of them all, wear her
uiiform, share her great adven
ures, travel, learn, win your
?ight to glory with America
vhen the hour of peace and vic
ory arrives.
For generations?for centuries?
his opportunity has been offered
?ly to men; the excitement and
istisfaction of acting?acting with
taring and confidence and heroism
vhen the hour of national crisis ar
ives, has been monopolized by men.
for them have been all the thrills,
ibandonment of routine, new sights,
lew duties, new friends, new terms
ind responsibilities. Uniforms,
)?nds, the rare companionship of
he camp and barracks?the most
tbsorbing club in the world have
>een theirs alone. For the women,
ncreased home duties, dullness,
valting, praying, anxiousness.
Now that's all changed. Girls are
teeded and wanted and welcomed
n the army now. And not girls
mly: women of any age between 31
and 44 can seize this opportunity to
lerve America, build a very bul
wark of strength and Inspiration be
hind our fighting men, and at the
tame time gain enough training,
guidance, education, experience, to
carry them into entirely changed
and widened and bettered lives aft
er the war.
Opportunities for Wives Without
Special Ties.
The wives of service men, when
without small children or other in
escapable responsibilities at home,
go into the WACs in droves. There
is no better way to fill tpe lonesome
time of waiting. Busy, healthy,
well-paid, allotted to the special
work and die special niche for which
yoU are most fitted, you can write
to your beloved soldier on equal
terms. You'll have you stories of
camp life, the top sergeant, the
drill, the companion soldiers of your
company, to match his stories. And
a* nothing but the service Interests
him now. your gossip will be a
thousand times more alive to him
than were the old letters, the lone
some letters, filled with news of the
tomato preserving and the buying
of a. fall bat.
I said up there "well paid." You
start at $50 a month; as a "non
com" you may make that $138 very
soon. The WACs haven't been in
existence much more than a year,
and many a woman is getting that
now. But?that isn't all. You have
no living expenses. You get com
fortable rooms, bathrooms, recrea
tion rooms. You get the finest food
the richest nation in the world can
afford for anyone; the very best of
everything, and plenty of it You
get your clothing from the well
made, aoft-to-the-touch underthings
to your uniforms, your cap and top
coat. There is no smarter Uni
term in the world than yours will
be, and it is carefully and indi
vidually fitted to you. You get laun
dry work service, and you have ac
cess to electric irons tor extra
touches; pan get amusement?the
vghest-patd- entertainers in the
mantfy are making Incessant rounds
tt the camps, the finest movies come
yo? way. And the home-made
camp theatricals, by the men sol
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diers and the girl soldiers, are per
haps the most fun of all. If you
have any special gifts along these
lines you may get, through your
enlistment, a chance at an audience
that won't forget you after the war.
If you're ill, even to the slightest
sniffle, the shining bright well
equipped hospital and its staff take
charge of you.
WACs Permitted to Marry.
What are some of the questions
you want to ask? Yes, you can use
make-up and curl your hair, so long
as the latter clears your uniform
collar. Yes, as an army wife your
allotment goes on. Yes, yod can
fall in love and marry, while in the
service. You can go to army dances
and find out what real rushing can
be. You'll be invited to Service
Club parties.
In short, you'll live on the terms
of which all girls dream?or at least
did dream when I was a girl, more
than 40 years ago. Terms of healthy
activity, regulated work, interest,
excitement, companionship, fun. And
you'll have a chance to learn what
ever you want to learn?which I
never did. You'll .learn to swim,
to drive cars, to decode messages,
to project movies, to cook, to work
in the pharmacy, library, hospital.
Very high government officials have
WACs as stenographers and secre
taries now, in Washington. The men
these thousands of girls replace are
at the fighting fronts.
Women working today in essen
tial war Industries, factories and
farms, are doing a magnificent job.
But leave that work to the wives,
mothers, older women who can't
qualify as WACs. They're being
better paid than you will be, cer
tainly, but lots of that pay goes for
things about which you won't have
to worry, marketing, transportation,
clothes, rent, house cleaning, do
mestic help. And much of it isn't
progressive; rivetting won't be so
much in demand after the war.
But what you get will be always
like money in the bank. The right
to call America truly your country,
the country for which you fought
in the greatest of all the wars. The
right to talk to your returning men
on their own terms; no, you didn't
sit at home and grieve. You got
into uniform, perhaps to be sent
overseas, perhaps to work here in
the home camps, but always beside
your soldier, always sharing with
him the greatest experience of your
lives.
This may be the last war. We
pray it will be, and we are taking
steps, in the new enlightened, quick
ened day of air-routes and radio in
formation, to make sure that it will
be. Before you aettie down to the
home-making and child-bearing thai
are the happiest and most worth
while things in life for a woman,
grasp this chance. It may not
come your way aga
AMERICA CALLS
Our nation needs women be
tween the ages of 21 and 44 to
increase the strength of the Wo
men's Army Corps. Besides the
gratification of directly serving
to preserve America, the women
of the WAC enjoy these benefits:
Training which will prepare a
young woman for a postwar job.
Good pay. Many non-commis
sioned officers make 1138 a
month. No living expensea,
yet the best food and clothing
that the worlds richest nation
can provide. Medical care.
WACs receive army medical care
which means meticulous atten
tion health and physical fitness.
Such organizations as the WAC
are proof of women's rising role
in national and world events.
Natives in Jap Area Help U. S. Fliers
Although they were shot down well within Japanese territory in the
South Pacific, (our United States fliers were eared (or by natives until
they were able to set out (or a home base in a rubber lite rait. Alter rowing
(our days they were picked up by a navy plane. They are pictured with
the co-pilot ot the rescue ship.
Locker Room Scene After Yanks Won Series
Judge Kenesaw Landis is hoisted atop the shoulders of members of
the New York Yankees in their locker room after they won the 1943
World's Series. Landis is supported by Chandler, Etten and Turner.
Pitcher Chandler hurled for the Yankees during two of their four win
ning series games.
Inspecting Bomb 'Chutes With X-Ray
In addition to providing a descending medium for men and equipment,
parachutes also carry bombs. They were used against the Japs in the
South Paellle with deadly success. Left: An employee of a war plant
in S tough ton, Mass., uses an X-ray machine to inspect bomb parachutes.
Right: Another employee holds a 23-pound bomb attached to its para
chute which is in the cylindrical container.
Four Ways to Cross a Jungle Stream
United State* troop* la Antrall* lean to cross Jan lie streams la
more ways than one. Pear methods are dsn sash sled to this picture:
. 1. Via a raft made at timber lend ea the spot; 2. Via amphibian Jeep;
I. Via a rope ladder saspeaded across toe water; 1 Via a "dyiaf isa,"
I a form of breeches baoy.
Back to Argentina
After a series of conferences with
state department officials in Wash
ington, D. C., Norman Armour, U. S.
ambassador to Argentina, boards a
Pan American Clipper in Miami,
Fla., with Mrs. Armour as he re
turns to his post. Argentina is the
only South American country that
has not broken relations with the
Axis.
Losing Weight
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Benito Mnssolinl, left, and Mar
shal Hermann Goering appear to be
losing weight in more ways than one
judging by this picture taken recent
ly in Berlin and radioed to London
from neutral Switzerland.
Bataan Air Hero
Lieut. Col. William J. Cnmmings
Jr., one of the U. S. flight heroes on
Corregidor and Bataan. He now
commands a fighter group in the
European theater of operations.
Reunion
When Seaman Michael Qninn left
his Job a* keeper of the rerilla hense
at the Bronx Zoo, New York, "Cook
ie," the chimpanzee, lined herself
into the hospital. . They are ptetnred
dnria* Qninn*s first lease.
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Released by Wfetern Newepeper Unkm.
RUSSIA'S FUTURE
FORM OF GOVERNMENT
IN OUR PRIDE w* like to think
of America as the dominant power
of the world. We may be that to
day, but what of the comparatively
near future?
The dominant powers of the to
morrows may very easily be Rus
sia and China. We grew to great
ness because we had the resources
with which to work, with a form of
government and an economic sys
tem that created a will to work. To
day Russia has the resources, she
has the man power and given the
will to work, she can outdistance
us within the next half century.
The Russian government today is
not communistic. It is purely a dic
tatorship and dictatorships last only
so long as the dictator lasts. The
dictatorship in Russia is providing
education for Russian youth. The
next generation will be more capa
ble of individual and mass thinking
than has any generation of the past.
The dictatorship of Joseph Stalin has
made many things possible and
these have meant advancement. To
day Russia is at the threshold of,
for her, a new world. She has oils,
minerals, timber, an abundance of
fertile soil and man power. All she
lacks is that economic system out
of which is created the will to
achieve.
Joseph Stalin will pass and with
him, in all probability, will pass the
dictatorship, to be followed by a
form of government that will pro
vide the needed economic system.
Should that prove true, the Russian
people and the people of the world
will thank Joseph Stalin for his ac
complishments. It is my belief that
communism was but a passing phase
in the life of the nation. It was a
boogy man that lives today more in
the minds of zealots in other coun
tries than in Russia.
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JAPANESE POPULATION
IN WESTERN STATES
SOME SIX YEARS AGO, when in
Honolulu, I looked for material for
a newspaper article on the subject
of the Japanese population of the
Hawaiian ialands. I found many, a
big majority, who pronounced them
good citizens. They supported such
statements with what seemed to be
good evidence. Others, including in
telligence officers of both the army
and navy, were emphatic in their
denunciation of the Japs and insist
ed they were an ever-present source
of danger to the islands and to the
nation.
My interest in the subject had
been aroused by people I had talked
to in California. The Californians
had insisted the Japs up and down
the coast were a menace to the
safety of the nation and could not
be trusted. The people of the coast
states had, for years, attempted to
impress upon congress and people
of states farther east that the Japs
were a dangerous element, many of
them paid spies of the Tokyo gov
ernment, and not to be trusted.
After weighing the evidence gath
ered at Honolulu, I decided the Japs
were good citizens, loyal to the Unit
ed States, and wrote my story from
that viewpoint.
Events have demonstrated how
entirely wrong I was in my esti
mate of the Jap character. The
Japs were all the intelligence offi
cers of the army and navy said they
were. They were all the people of
the Pacific coast states said they
were. Today, as a resident of a
Pacific coast state, I trust they may
never again be permitted residence
in my town and my state. If the
people of the Pacific coast have the
say so, they never will.
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HOW INFLATION
CAN AFFECT OS
A LETTER from an old news
paper editor friend tells me of his
retirement after 52 years of news
papering. In his letter he says: "I
have enough to see me through if I
do not live too long." But I wonder
if he considers all the possibilities.
We may have money. Judged from
our past expenditures, it may be
enough to last a definite length of
time. But are past experiences a
criterion for the future? The ugly
h?ad of inflation is just beyond the
horizon. The dollars of today will
depreciate to the values of tomor
row. He who must live on a fixed
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the price of tomorrow's bread. It is
an uncertain age and the most help
less individual is he who has saved
that he may have a competence for
his declining years based on the
conditions of the yesteryears. Infla
tion is no respecter of individuals.
We do not know, we can only hope.
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AS A SECOND THOUGHT, Vice
President Wallace assures us that
only from two to eight per cent of all
corporations are bad and that mak
ing legitimate profits is a system
that must be preserved in America.
Wonder what prompted that second
thought?
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HERBERT HOOVER'S PROPOS
AL that ere delay writing the final
peace terms until are get over being
mad would, seem to be practical
horse sense.
t Fight It Out jc
By VIC YARDMAN \jg;
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"MO ONE envied Abe Tucker the
Job of sheriff of Prayton county.'
For the county, still primitive and
isolated from any real "civilized"
centers, was at the time of Abe's
election, owned and run by Ray
Moore and Martin Ladd, who, were
the setting of this story laid east of
the Mississippi, would be known as
"political bosses."
However, locale makes little dif
ference in human nature. Moore and
Ladd had all the characteristics usu
ally associated with political bosses.
They were entirely lacking in scru
ples. And to climax it all they hated
each other with a vehemence that
had already resulted in a half dozen
cold-blqoded murders.
Ben Midgeley, Abe's closest friend
and newly appointed deputy, made
no bones about voicing his doubts.
"You can never clean 'em out,
Abe," Ben said. "Both Moore and
Ladd have too strong a hold. They
own half the land in the county
and have mortgages on the rest of
it. There aren't a half dozen
honest men in the whole blasted
county got guts enough to help you
make a single arrest."
Abe got up and closed the door of
the little adobe office. "Listen," he
said, speaking confidentially, "Fred
Halliday, who is Martin Ladd's right
arm and first lieutenant, is in town
today."
"That's right," Ben admitted'.
"He's over at the Paradise now."
"Fine!" Abe leaned closer. "You
go over there, Ben, and tell Fred
that Ray Moore is making a big
drive tomorrow night through Hell
gate canyon. About five hundred
head. And there'll be only four
riders doggin' 'em. Drop the news
kinda casual like, as if you didn't
suspeci rreo wouia De lmeresiea.
George Ratnor arrived an hour
later. He was a little man, brown
and wizened, with a fiery look in
his eyes. He owned a small ranch
bordering on the extensive acres of
Ray Moore. For months he had
suspected Moore of annexing part of
his small herd whenever convenient,
but realized the folly of trying to
prove a charge.
"George," said Abe, characteris
tically coming to the point at once,
"I need three men besides Ben
Midgeley to assist men in cleaning
up Pray ton county. Can I depend
upon you?" . "
"You're danged right you can!"
the little man exploded. "I don't
know what your plan is, but I'm fojr
it nevertheless."
Abe smiled contentedly. "Fine.
This afternoon I want you to bump
into one of Ray Moore's men, casual
like, and drop remarks to the effect
that Martin Ladd is making a big
drive tomorrow night through Hell
gate canyon and there'll be only four
riders along. Give the impression
you overheard some of Ladd's men
talking in town."
At eight o'clock the following night
George Ratnor, Tod Leland, Ben
Midgeley and a youth named Curly
Sellers gathered in Abe Tucker's of
fice and listened to the sheriff unfold
his plan.
An hour later, headed by Abe, the
party of five made an unobtrusive
exit from the town, riding north. At
ten o'clock they had reached the en
trance to Hellgate canyon, a deep
cavern-like defile separating the
Moore ranch from that of Martin
Ladd. But now the group had
diminished to three, George Ratnor
and Curly Sellers having ridden off
to the south a mile or two back.
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a narrow shelf which ran along the
canyon floor for a hundred yards or
more. Here, concealed by scrub
growth, they dismounted, tethered
their horses and walked back to the
lip of the canyon to wait.
Suddenly Abe stood erect. A re
volver sbot had sounded far down
the canyon. It was followed by an
other and then more. Motioning his
companions to follow, Abe led the
way along the shelf, descending al
most to the canyon's floor.
The distant firing had increased
in volume and now, mingled with
it, they heard the hoarse shouts of
men. Shod hooves sounded on the
canyon floor; a rapidly moving shad
ow materialized from the darkness.
Abe raised the rifle in his hands and
fired. The figure crumpled. Others,
close behind, drew rein, cursing hor
ribly. And in the mad confusion that
followed while they turned about, the
three concealed men fired rapidly.
Two more were added to the casual
ty list. Then the space at the mouth
of the canyon was empty, and the
clatter of pounding hooves grew
fainter.
"Those were Moore's men," Abe
said. "They suspect we belong to
the Ladd outfit and that we have
them trapped."
The drum of hooves had sounded
again on the rocks. But it wasn't
made by horsemen. The cattle,
which George Ratnor and Curly Sell
ers had borrowed from the former's
range and driven into the canyon to
make the trap seem real, were try
ing to escape. Abe clucked content
edly as they went by. There were
50 head in the bunch, and he feared
they might be killed in the battle.
This night's affair resulted in the
killing of no less than a dozen men
from both the Moore and Ladd fac
tions. And Abe Tucker and his four
loyal followers were happily content.