Show lea Kathleen Norris Says Cant Can't You Y OIL Hear the Bugle Calling Ben Bell Syndicate Features Futures I ft 1 z I II I us 1 v j I r I D I 1 Iv The wives of service men when without small children or other inescapable responsibilities at home go into the WAC in droves By KATHLEEN NORRIS NORRISS S IT just possible that you are IS missing an opportunity that thatis is right at your door today Is it just possible that some day in the future you are going to look back at these sad terrible glorious war years and ask yourself yourself yourself your your- self What on earth was I thinking thinking thinking think think- ing about that I didn't get into the Which means get into the actual actual ac ac- ac- ac military service of the greatest great great- est country of them all wear her un uniform orm share her great adventures adventures adventures tures travel learn win your right to glory with America when the hour of peace and victory victory victory vic vic- tory arrives For generations for for centuries centuries- this opportunity has been offered only to men the excitement and satisfaction of acting acting acting-acting acting with daring and confidence and heroism when the hour of national crisis arrives arrives arrives ar ar- ar- ar rives has been monopolized by men For them have been all the thrills abandonment of routine new sights new duties new friends new terms and responsibilities Un Uniforms bands the rare companionship of the camp and barracks the barracks the most absorbing club in the world have been theirs alone For the women increased home duties dullness waiting praying anxiousness Now that's all changed Girls are needed and wanted and welcomed in the army now And not girls only women of any age between 21 and 44 can seize this opportunity to serve America build a very bulwark bulwark bulwark bul bul- wark of strength and inspiration behind behind behind be be- hind our fighting men and at the same time gain enough training guidance education experience to carry them into entirely changed and widened and bettered lives after after after aft aft- er the war Opportunities for Wives Without Special Ties The wives of service men when without small children or other in inescapable inescapable inescapable in- in escapable responsibilities at home go into the in droves There is no better way to fill the lonesome time tune of waiting Busy healthy well-paid well allotted to the special work and the special niche for which you are most fitted you can write to your beloved soldier on equal terms You'll have your stories of camp life the top sergeant the drills drill the companion soldiers of your company to match his stories And Andas as nothing but the service interests him now your gossip will be a thousand times more alive to him than were the old letters the lonesome lonesome lonesome lone lone- some letters letter's filled with news of the tomato preserving and the buying of a fall hat I said up there well paid You start at 50 a month as a noncom noncom non com you may make that very soon Boon The haven't been in i I existence much more than a year I and many a woman is getting that now But that But that isn't all You have no living expenses You get comfortable comfortable com com- rooms bathrooms recreation recreation recreation tion rooms You get the finest food the richest nation in the world can afford for anyone the very best of everything and plenty pl of it You get your clothing from the well- well made touch to to your uniforms your cap and top top- coat There is no smarter uniform uniform uni uni- form Corm inthe the world than yours willbe will willbe willbe be and it is carefully and individually individually individually indi indi- fitted to you You get laundry laundry laundry laun laun- dry work service and you have access access access ac ac- ac- ac cess to electric irons for extra touches you get amusement the amusement the paid highest-paid entertainers in the country are making incessant rounds of the camps the finest movies come I I your way And the made home-made i camp amp theatricals by the men sol- sol I AMERICA CALLS Our Dur nation needs women between between be- be tween the ages o of f 21 and 44 to increase the strength of the Wo IVo- W Women's 0 mens 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 ayoung ayoung young I woman for a postwar job Good pay Many noncommissioned noncommissioned noncommissioned non commis officers make a month No living expenses yet the best food and clothing I that the worlds world's richest nation can provide Medical care receive army medical care which means meticulous attention attention attention atten atten- tion health and physical fitness Such organizations as the WAC are proof of women women's s rising role in national and world events diers and the girl soldiers are perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps the most fun of all If you have any special g gifts ts along these lines you may get through your enlistment a chance at an audience that wont won't forget you after the war If youre you're ill even to the slightest sniffle the shining bright well- well equipped hospital and its staff take charge of you V ACs Permitted to w Marry l What are some of the questions you want to ask Yes you can use up make-up and curl your hair so long longas as the latter clears your uniform collar Yes as an army wife your allotment goes on Yes you can canfall canfall canfall 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 dream or 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 whatever whatever whatever what what- ever you want to learn which 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 as stenographers and secretaries secretaries secretaries secre secre- now in Washington The men these thousands of girls replace are areat areat areat at the fighting fronts Women working today in essential essential essential essen essen- war industries factories and farms are doing a magnificent job But leave that work to the wives moth mothers rs older women who cant can't qualify as WAS V ACs They're being better paid than you will be certainly certainly certainly but lots of that pay goes for things about which you wont won't have to worry marketing transportation clothes rent house cleaning domestic domestic domestic do do- help And much of it isn't progressive wont 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 meno menon menon o 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 inthe in inthe inthe 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 quickened quickened quickened quick quick- ened day of routes air-routes and radio information information information in in- formation to make sure that it will be Before you settle down to the making home-making and child-bearing child that are the happiest and most worthwhile worthwhile worth worth- while things in life for a woman grasp this chance It may not come your way again |