| Show I Elsa so Maxwells Maxwell's i II y fa Daily Particles of oi Patter People are asking me more and more about how we the ci civilians ci- ci K lians can help out in our air p effort Im awfully awful- awful fly ly y good mate ma ma- tie te r ria i a 1 l 1 a aZ Z e g beauty s said aid aidt t to me t the theother h e ei i pother other day and ind nd I could be ever eve r so f useful e u ferry ferry- ling ipg pilots from one field to another I s suspect you ou are already alfready al- al fready I said ready f blandly Elsa Maxwell l No she said I want to fly not fly not flirt I want to pilot planes not pilots I laughed But seriously i 1 th there re are thousands of young girls girls today who could be terribly terribly ter- ter useful as auxiliaries to our pur aIr arm just arm just as they y are e in England We need them to fly small sm small ii planes doing patrol work along the highways guarding the power lines the reservoirs the pipe lines and parts of the theoa coast oa t. t We need them to ferry planes from the factories to the points from which they'll be shipped Hundreds of ships are coming off the assembly lines every ery week and they have to be tested flight and delivered These women pilots pilots and and other other oth- oth Ter er civilian pilots pilots could could relieve Ithe the military men for more devastating dev- dev devastating devastating work Up until last year the civilian civilian civilian civil- civil ian pilot training program included included in- in women And flocks of I fair lithe Amazons took to the theair theair theair air as gracefully and lightly as Mr Shelleys Shelley's skylark Instructors have told me that Women omen were among the best students students stu- stu dents Bents they'd ever had For most women seem to be born with a natural grace grace grace-a a feeling for planes and space and distance And these things I am told are Important in m flying as well as in ballets cotillions and neg- neg Flying it seems calls for what the psychologists call a kinesthetic sense that sense that is the ability to control a plane by the feeling in the seat scat of your pants For as long back as I can remember re- re member girls girs have been adept at this kind of sixth sensing And Im I'm sure that as time goes on General Arnold will ill realize that when our girls project this sense into cloud work the only way the Japs Taps will stand a chance is is by setting up a competing of winged Geishas I am sorry to say that there are no official places for women to show the army and the world what they can do in the air air at at least as yet I hope that the new bill for a women's auxiliary to the army which army which passed in one house last month will month will take into consideration the future of our stream slip-stream Dianas In every air training post men are clamoring for them o t not as companions but as col col- leagues On all flights their charm and Intelligence intelligence intelligence intel intel- would find an important outlet navigating photographing photograph photograph- ing mapping as well as artful artful artful art art- ful plotting and conniving Incidentally I heard the other day of a wonderful way we non- non fliers could help our flying forces In the Argentine they have an organization called the Fellowship of the Bellows In this making fund-making and andt patriotic patriotic patriotic pa pa- conclave each member throws in a penny to a a. common fund every time word is flashed that a British flier has bagged an axis plane The kitty is used to buy Kitty Hawks I suggest that we form clubs like this And every time we hear of another Jap Tap flier plugged by one of our aces we too too too- every everyone one of us add us-add add another penny or a nickel or a dime for the purchase of offense stamps And when we get really good goodat at this kind of thing we can promote ourselves and become not bellows but wind blowers and buy quarter quarter quarter ter stamps or cent 50 stamps Another twist to this organIzation organization organization of keep em flying fervor fervor fervor fer fer- fer- fer vor would be to chip in to give the fliers real restful rollicking rollicking rollick rollick- ing relaxation and enter enter- Each time another rocket flare marks another Jap Tap holocaust we could send another to lighten the hours our men spend under actual fire Thus every plane brought down will also mean another plane bought bought and and every new plane bought will mean one day less for axis audacity Press Alliance Inc |
