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Show , f niiiiiiiin ':' J j 1 1 1 jrhot's IDhile Sti i I BY ROBERT RIDING passed. The G. I. Bill of Rights was backed by the Legion; and many more benefits to numerous to mention men-tion here in this column. To sum it all up If any of you women are eligible to join the American Legion Auxiliary, why don't you do it now? I don't think you'll ever regret it. Maybe you've sometimes wondered wond-ered what anybody) even a male mosquito could possibly see in a female mosquito? Well, the Army has been studying study-ing this up and it has found out that it isn't the skin you love to touch or any Chanel No. 5 smell that causes male mosquitos to become be-come attracted to female mosquitos. mosqui-tos. The Army has discovered that the only time the male mosquito becomes attracted to the female is when she is in flight. Now maybe may-be the fact that males always get themselves on a hook when they think the coy female is running i , Another new! The American Leg- Ion Auxiliary of Post 117 is now , I j underway, with fifteen members, 'I,: (enough to get a charter) and j;( have started an intensive drive to ' try and have 100 members by this coming Monday. ' H I' yu are a mother, wife, .daugh- ter or sister of an American Leg- I ion member, you are eligible to I , join this great organization; if you 1 ; are a mother, wife, daughter or . i ! sister of a man who lost his life ,l : in the service or deceased veteran; i if you were a former member; and i if you were a member of the ser- : ! vice yourself These are the qual- :: ! ifications to become a member in j your Legion Auxiliary, t 1 If a Legion post is to function 1 I like it should, it has to have a i I large and active Auxiliary. The !i saying is the Auxiliary makes the i Legion. And I think that is correct. Post 117 now has upwards of 1 140 members. With all those eli- gible, the new Auxiliary could . double that figure. Some of the '.. women, when asked about join- ; ing the Auxiliary, said they thot i: they would wait a little until it 1; was more fully organized . . . But i: did they stop to think? How can ! J: you organize without the members ( to get it started? S; Some of the men will probably i: not go much for the idea ... It might mean that they will have to I be the baby sitter one night a I' week Ouch! That means me, too. ; . I; But rny wife has already paid her , i dues, so I guess I'll have to take ; : ; my turn with the kids ... j ;; The Legion Auxiliary was formed i - for the one purpose of aiding the i !;. ; American Legion. It has no purpose j i that are apart from the American i I i Legion. It now has a membership i i i; j in the neighborhood of 1,000,000 i ' i i; i members. This, coupled with the i v : Legion's over 3,000,000 members ( i : ! make quit a force. The combined 1 1 efforts of these organizations is to i , : help veterans, their wives, and ; ' r ! families; disabled vets, and orph- . 1 ; ans of deceased veterans, j 1 ! A number of the benefits re- c ; ' ceived by the veterans and their 1 1; families, today, were introduced i I ; in Congress by the Legion and i . pressure applied until they were I f I :! ' J away from them has something to do with it, but the Army believes that the main reason for this is that her wings are humming and it's the hum of a female's wings that gets the male. Now this humming may not do anything to you and ' me, except maybe cause us to utter some un-nice un-nice words, but it is like Frank' Sinatra and Bing Crosby singing a duet to the male mosquitos, filling him with swooningly amorous tendencies. ten-dencies. The fact of the mosquito business busi-ness is that, if it weren't for this wing hum, all female mosquitos ivould become old maids. The Army has discovered that if for any reason reas-on the female's wing action is impaired im-paired so that the hum is faulty or jff pitch, the male mosquito will ibsolutely fail to respond. A case 3f hum or else . . . Researchers for the Army devel-jped devel-jped a tuning fork which duplicat-d duplicat-d the tone and sound of a fe-nale's fe-nale's wing hum and the male nosquitos followed the vibrating rork while it was directing them, nd anvbodv that would trv tn make love to a tuning fork is bound to be humhappy. Another thing the Army has learned is what some entomologists have suspected all along: only female fe-male mosquitos will bite a man. The males are strictly vegetarians. Why this should be is something the Army has been unable to ascertain, as-certain, unless, of course, it is simply simp-ly the fact that the females are just more bloodthirsty than the male, something which may or may not surprise anyone. The Army also has found that mosquitos are attracted by a persons per-sons exhaled breath. It is doubtful, however, whether it would be worthwhile for people to stop breathing, just to spite mosquitos. Of course, the reason for the ! Army's interest in mosquitos is not because enlistments are falling off and the Army is getting desperate for recruits, any kind of recruits, or anything like that. It just wants to know about mosquitos so that if its soldiers ever have to go into the jungles again it will know more about how to repel the mosquito. Maybe the next time an American Ameri-can soldier is in the jungle all he will have to do is hum, "Begin the Beguine," at a certain pitch and it will so upset the love life of mosquitos that they will all become be-come Freudian cases and not bother both-er anyone. That, then, will be all that is needed to make the jungle attractive. Future. Said the calf to the cow: "Say, Ma, how'd you happen to get into ' the milk business?" ... I 30 -. I |
