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MANILA (By Wireless. YT? ~ take over Ernie Pyle's column. I l:ni¢

Uy me to

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"from Terréll (London).

“" Lubbock, Tex., a distance of 350 air miles.

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“came to life in August,

"I'm not going to try to “write like Ernie” All I can do Is tte like Miller, If occasionally something

——pops—out-that-looks as if I -were-

consciously ‘imitating Ernie's” way of writing,” please bear in mind “that he and 1 have worked together almost constantly since 1923 when .we both got jobs on the Washington Daily News.. Such long association is apt ‘to result in ‘some similarities of thought and mannerism. rs * What I'm driving at is this: I will feel miserable if people get the idea I have the impertinence i= to ‘aspire to fill Ernie's shoes. Maybe I can fill the space where his copy has. run; “but I'm fully aware that nobody will ever fill the “place: that Ernie won in, the thoughts—and hearts of " §0 many ‘millions of Americans.

A Warmth Abou! Him

—

OTHER CORRESPONDENTS are always trying to’

figure out the reason for Ernie's ‘gteat success. I don't know that I have the right answer to that one. But my guess is that the basic reason was quite simple —that Ernie was a very competent craftsman, skilled from those years he devoted as a desk man to polishing the copy of other people and—this is more important—he Had a warmth about him and an under standing of people. «

Inside ndianapolls By Lowell Nussbaum

VARIETY 18 THE spice of life, and apparently Harry Hayes, the Dog Man, wants a little spice. Anyway, word has leaked out that Harry is in the market

" for a lion cub. He's been writing around here and

trying -to buy-one. Mrs. Hayes doesn't think much of the idea of having a pet lion around their place out on Country Club road. “It's just a small boy idea, such as you men sometimes get,” she said. “Harry Has wanted to play with =a lion cub since he was a boy. Not long ago he heard Jane Cowl, on the radio, describing a playful chee~tah, and that was just too much - for Harry. ‘He started looking for his “lion cub.” Thus far, Mrs. ‘Hayes has been using diplomacy, but it, looks like sh&ll “put her foot down” on the idea, if Halry persists. Gosh, I wish she'd let-him-get it. About the time it is grown, Harry would be glad to donate the lon as: the start for Indianapolis’ zoo. . ., Quite a few readers have asked recently what's happened to plans for the: zoo. Nothing—at least, ‘nothing thus far. A As has been explained in the past, the war, with its priorities, makes it difficult.to start a zoo at this time. just wait until the war's all over, and then things

there;

_ ought to begin to hum.

T'oo Long In Storage AN ENRAGED READER calledsn yesterday afters noon to report she had seen-at Capitol and Washington a rendering company's huge truck loaded with New ‘York dressed chickens, along with some ordinary garbage. “It looked like 2000 chickens on that truck —every one of them spoiled,” she._said, “and here 1 ‘never can find a chicken when I want one!” I called the rendering company and was informed the chickens had been in private storage—too long—and had been condemned by a government inspector.... A peanut peddler had the business opportunity of a lifetime Sunday afternoon before and during the air demonstration at Stout field. With traffic on roads leading to the airport hopeiessly snarled, the peddler walked down the center of Holt road, near the railroad tracks, literally selling peanuts by the peck. Motorists weary of just sitting in their cars, waiting for the line to move, bought peanuts in order to relieve the monotony. Incidentally, «to see four lines

America Flies

THE STORY of how thousands of R. A. F. pilots,

meny of them now heroes, learned to fly right here tors, under A. A. F. supervision.

inthe United States, became known today, % | Six training centers were- established here for that purpose, Four sul are operating. At one, an exact scale map of Europe was superimposed upon one of Texas and adjoining states as, specific training grounds ior the offensives against Berlin and other big European objéctives. .. Terrell, Tex., was spotted as the Londen base. R. A. F. flying students streaked across the skies to Emden, Germany. (Turner, Ark), a distance of 340 air miles, ie or to—Cologne (Vicksburg, Miss.), j—a-distance of 320 air miles. Paris ~ was Beaumont, Tex., 240 air miles Dunkirk was Henderson, Tex, 110 air miles to the east. : Students would fly lo Cork, Ireland, which was When they flew the equivalent of-a mission from London to Warsaw, and back, they would swoop down on Albuquerque, N. M., a total of 1800 air miles.

Distance Flying Stressed

"THIS “HANDS-ACROSS-THE-SEA” ‘training plan ‘was instituted by the 'Aerenautical Training “society becayse the trainees were to get the R. A. F. equiva-

, lent of the A.A. F's primary basic and advance train-

ing. ‘This called for a lot of. distance flying under a "diverse range of circumstances and conditions impossible in England. British-U, S. flying training co-operation really 1940, inspired by Clayton Knight, who had formed committees in 193% through-

| | out this country in the interest of recruiting pilots .for Canada

ada. The army air forces had established an unprecedented system of civil contract Flying schools. All A. A. F. pilots received primary train-

My Day

NEW YORK, Monday.—Yesterday morning I went

to Bppoklyn for the christening of -one of our new

“super-carriers, the Franklin D, Roosevelt. There 1s

. something overwhelming in the size of such. a ship * when ‘you see it in drydock before the water, is det

in to float it. It was the first, time I had seen a ship launched in this way, and 1 don't think it gives one quite the same thrill as when you hear the hammer strokes knock“Ing out the supports and see. the ship suddenly begin to move down the ways. i _ It- has great ‘advantage, however, from the point of view of the person who has to christen ak NERS “i If the bottle does not break

{ the first time, you can try, try again, and meanwhile

pation of failing to get the ship"

the ship is|not moving away from you! You need not have that terrible ‘sinking. of the heart “when you wonder if you are going to accomplish your appointed task before the ship leaves you for good. It is considered bad luck if the bottle does not _ actually break so I have always uffered in anticily christened. ‘As it was, Mrs. John H. Towers, sponsor of the ci i, Bt ake or Sn , .

agreed to try

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.contribute. them.

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“Felt Responsibility

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He used to ‘say of certain Hinde: that there was “a harmony” between them and there came to be.a “harmony” between Ernie, and, the Lord only knows why, many people who were actually complete| . -strangers to him, but who regarded him as a personal friend. :

IT WAS that friendship ‘of those unknown readers’ that drove Ernie to his death. Perhaps it will sound mawkish to put it in words, but it is a fact that he felt he couldn't reject the responsibility imposed by the devotion of those strangers who were his friends. He forced himself, against the advice. of friends ‘and against his own -gnawing fear of death, to go back into action. Cmdr. Vic Blakeslee of - the navy was here the other night. He was with Ernie on Guam. Hé said he pleaded with Ernie not to go ashore with the troops ih the Ryukyus. ~~ “He was looking pale and tired,” Vic said. “I tried to téll him he was too useful a citizen fo'take chances with his life. I fold him he was surely going to get killed if he kept on pressing his luck. But his mind was made up and I couldn't do anything about it.” It may be that Ernie was getting self-conscious. I mean he had become sych-a celebrity that he was tteated like royalty wherever he went. Special favors were showered him. The big shots curried him. And I suspect that he had an uncomfortable feeling about all this—a feeling that this was very: nice but it wasn't “his way, that he had to get back where he belonged, with the troops.

of airport-bound cars jammed up on Washington st. this side of Tibbs ave., you hardly would guess such a thing as gasoline rationing existed.

What's-In a¢ Name?

The Indianapolis

"SECOND SECTION

» DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA = Staff Writer

WASHINGTON. ‘May . the fuil fury of ‘America’s might is turned on Japan after victory in

Burope Yank soldiers will “be outfitted with the most scientific offensive and defensive equipment ever given a fighting man.in the history of war. Revealed by the army for the first time are amazing new. weapons and gadgetsawhich range from new super armor-piercing bombs and rockets, giant’ tanks and almost-

|magic radar equipment down, to

portable water-filtering systems#and bullet-proof clothing. Many of these items, used experimentally in Europe, are just getting into mass production for use in the

{Pacific theater. ~ These things represent the abso-

lute latest that science has developed for killing the enemy and protecting the lives of our own men. ” o ”

up on the much-discussed General Pershing tank and’ it will be used against t Japs soon, Though some still considered. it

HERE'S. ‘AN ODD combination of names: Howard Alltop, of the American United Life ‘Insurance Co. has a secretary named Nellie Bottema . Speaking | of secretaries, Néal Grider of the People’s ‘State Bank | is training a new one. His present secretary, Miss | Louise M. Dickson, received word the other day that she has been accepted by fhe Red Cross as a staff] assistant for overseas ‘service. She repprts in Wash- | ington in about three weeks for a two-week training course. , , . A mother who asks to remain anonymous thinks that with the various. shortages, some pro-| vision should be made to take care of those buying | for large families. “I have three daughters,” she says, “and we are living on a soldier's allotment. Each] trip downtown takes carfare and shoe leather. - But | when I go to buy such things as yard goods, the woman with a large family can get no more than the woman with one child==or mone. They ought to limit you ‘according to the number of ration books you show.”

Any Bats in Your. Belfr o?

OLD INSIDE receives many unusual reqii€sts for assistance from readers, and here's ‘one that fits in that classification. The police department wants to know if you have any old baseball bats you could spare. It seems baseball bats are about as hard to get as nylon stockings. The police want the bats for thei eight PAL clubs. Sgt: Emmett ‘Staggs; “in charge of | the clubs, has been trying: all the sporting goods | stores without success. When theasergeant went to Em-Roe’s, Lee Emmelman phoned a bat factory at Louisville. They told him they weren't making any bats now, but suggested that a Louisville organization similar to the PAL clubs was obtaining a few bats through appeals to folks having unused ball bats to If you can help the boys, deliver the bat to police headquarters, or phone headquarters, RI-1391, and a squad car-will pick up the bat. If]

they get more than they need, they'll distribute tne ARE ‘WE CODDLING WAR PRISONERS? “eon By S. Burton Heath

Easter Ham Forces Change

excess to other youth groups, such as Junior Baseball. . . , Don Demree of the Demree pharmacy, 3901 E. 10th, says that roll of undeveloped film found by Mrs. Herbert Johnson recently, has reached its owner, Mrs, F. C. Embree, 1303 N. Grant, as a result of the note in this column. The roll was lost en route to a} developing plant, |

By Max: B. Cook

ing in civilian schools, with veteran civilian instrucA phenomenal rec- | ord of efficiency, safety and economy caused Knight to propose training pilots for Canada in American civilian schools at British expense, :

Training Centers Set Up

CAPT. HAROLD BALFOUR, now undersecretary of state for air for Great Britain, met with. Maj. C. C. Moseley of ‘Glendale, Cal, Maj. William F. Long of Dallas, Sal S. Darr of Chicago and Capt. Maxwell W, Balfour of Tulsa, all outstanding American civilian aeronautical training experts. The United Kingdom refresher course was hatched: and training schools were .set up.in six training centers. They included Polaris Flight academy, Lancaster, Cal.; Terrell Aviation school, Terrell, Tex.; Spartan R. A. F. school, Miami, Okla; Darr School of Aeronautics, Ponca | City, Okla.; Falcon field; Mesa, Ariz., and McKay Aero college, Clewiston, Fla. Polaris. academy and Darr school have completed quotas-and ceased operations. British. trainees receive instructions i in planes also | used by the A. A. F., including Boeing PT-17's, Fair= child PT-19’s and Nortn American AT-6's. The British students actually receive two-thirds more. total hours oft ground school instruction than do the Amer- | ican cadets. The British ground schoo] schedule calls for courses in signal, meteorology, aircraft recognition armaments, navigation and general flying including general flight regulations, operational flying, parachutes, aircraft maintenance, instruments, engines and theory of flight. i During the past years, 30 per cent quotas “of | American cadets were trained at these British schood® resulting in new understanding between the:youth of the two nations. Capt. Max Balfour reported that, “We soon learned that English boys” don’t, care for kippered herring for breakfast.” Scores of the American and British pilots: who received training at the same fields have since flown: side by side in ihe air fighting over Europe.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

One feels such pride in. the magnificence of the | task accomplished that it is pleasant to be able to| tell the men how much you admire the job they have, done.

Secretary of the Navy Forrestal fold me that” my husband had gone over the plafis for this ship with | the greatest interest, and I am sure that in his mind’ 5 | eye my husband saw it a completed ship. He Had the faculty of reading blueprints and | seeing a ship or a building as it would ultimately be—just as he could read a road map and actually | recognize the lay of the land, when we traygled, through any part of the country, That faculty of visualizing what a thi realty will ‘look like once you lilive seen it on paper is, believe, God-given and rarely acquired! /

The picture of that great ship, as the water was

slowly let into the basin around her, ‘has stayed in my mind. I am very sure that my husband would ne proud and happy to have his name connected with the pavy which he loved, and to feel that his ship- will help win the war and keep the peace in the ‘days to come. May God bless her and the men [Aboard her.! I noticed that nearly all of. the marines who acted as a guard of honor at the navy yard were servicemen with many stars on their overseas ribbons. Some _ of them belonged to the 1st division, in which I al-

ways have ‘a special interest because they were the! |

£ 0 lavd ap. Guadaicani and because I actually that spot amd

| know. what they ‘went /

inferior to German tanks, it is agreed to be much better than anyi thing the Japs have.

1.-~When

PRODUCTION has been stepped

These F——— rigged

many scienf®fic developments which are adding power to our mechanized war against Japan, hard steel noses will penetrate seven and one-half feet of reinforced concrete.

la “snake” which is sent slithering

Known as the T-26, it weighs 45 over a couple of hundred feet of |

tons, mounts a 90-mm. gun, has ex{tremely thick armor plating and] wide treads to help it through the soupy going so. often found in the | Patific war zones. ” u o FUTURE bombing of Jap con-

crete pillboxes and heavily protect-|

{ed gun emplacements will probably | not. permit such bloody operations | as Iwo Jima. Super hard steel noses have been developed for shells and rockets which are —capable—of -penetrating seven and one-half feét of reinforced concrete. Mines laid by the enemy have always ‘been the cause of much loss of personnel and time. Detectors have been made that ferret out even the most Sleverly concealed booby traps. tL nt. THE MEN who res the nine fields will wear special armorplated clothing padded with bulletresisting magnesium backed by nylon which has the property of nat yielding to shrapnel. These things have just been developed and are -being rushed. for use at the fronts. There is a long steel gadget called

(Second of a Series)

RT DEVENS, Mass, May 1 Some army officers concede candidly, but not for quotation, that it was a mistake to feed ham to the German prisoners-of-war here for Easter, at a time when civilians ‘could not get it for their .own table. Prisoners of -war are fed in modified accordance with a master menu promulgated by the quartermaster general in Washifigtoyf. The master menu for April was distributed in December and purchasing officers began at once buying the necessary foodstuffs to comply with’ it. 4 . This master menu, for troops and prisoners, Proved ham for Easter Sunday tinné T, ” a = FOR. OUR soldiers the menu called for half a pound for each man, The prisoner modification here called for a third of a pound for each German. The ham, one officer said, was of the quick cured variety and had to be used up at once. Another officer, granting this, thought that good public relations would have suggested using it on some day other than Easter, when

| civilians were particularly conscious

of their inability to obtain the traditional’ meat for their own tables. a8 8 ey AS A RESULT of the publicity that followed - that dinner, the menus for the period from April 8 through 30 were revised to eliminate ham scheduled again for the

Up Front With Mauldin

ground, leaving minor explosions in {its path as it detonates hidden mines in ‘front of advancing troops. un 2 o@ EVEN THE familiar have heen modernized. The-meat and vegetable hash.has been eliminated,-and seven-day va- | riety, including chicken and noodles, hot dogs and beans, spaghetti and other tasty items, has been substituted. Special waterproof containers for| ammunition and other supplies and waterproof clothing with the first waterproof zippers have been developed to withstand the damp coriditions encountered in most of the Pacific fighting. > 88 8

C rations

RADAR equipment, hitherto ex-| tremely bulky and requiring elabgrate -and.. complicated installati has been streamlinéd: Portable radar sets for detecting approaching enemy. aircraft have been developed for use. on an invasion beach a few minutes after landing. A small ‘but highly efficient ra-dar-controlled searchlight has been designed to spot Jap planes. This

22d and 30th, chicken listed for dinner: the 8th, 15th and 29th, and meat 16af planned for supper the 11th, 18th and 24th. With these changes, -the menus for the first 15 days of April showed this general picture: : American garrison troops had beef 12 meals out of 30 (excluding breakfasts), including broiled “steak and Swiss steak once each, roast beef twice, stew and meat loaf twice each. They had ham twice, roast pork twice, pork chops twice, veal once, chicken once. : 8 8 8 PRISONERS HAD ham once (on Easter), meat loaf once (before the revision), fish and frankfurters six times each, bologna five times, salt pork and cervelat (a.type of sausage) three times each, macaroni or spaghetti thréé.times,.eold cuts and chili con carne once each, Our garrison troops had butter every Joeal but’ two, when peanut butter was substituted. No butter was on the prisoner menu; they got oles. Each “100 Americans get seven pounds of butter a day, each 100 Germans three pounds of oleo: The allowance of lard and other fats is twice as large for each garrison’ soldier as for each prisoner. o Bo 8 uy, on FOR EACH American the menu. provides 3.38 pounds of sugar for the first half of April, for each German, 1.13 pounds. "oily For- breakfast the- prisoners had

eggs every day but one, while

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“Germans had no bacon.

TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1045—

FROM RADAR’ 10 RATIONS, YANKS' EQUIPMENT BEST. IN HISTORY—

Mobilizing for Knockout Blow | in Pacific

on the folded wings of fighters aboard a U. 8S. carrier, are among the

Rockets’

is used to aid our fighters during | men who. drowned while wading {night gchion, ashore, : f “ 8 8 Often they would be only slightly IT USED to be that returping|wounded or temporarily stunned, | night patrols were often unable to but would drown before aid could |” describe where’ they had been or come. lead a force back to any important The army now has developed a | discovery. | special - light-weight. life preserver Now a gadget is worn about: the that keeps a man’s head above | neck of a man that marks on a water even if he is unconscious and | map exactly where he has been. | weighted down with all his equipIt's called-a Pedograph, M-1. rent. If a man on patrol sees a gun! Infected drinking water can. cause emplacement, he pushes a button as many casualties as enemy bul-| on the gadget and a mark is made | |1ets. Army corps of engineers has on: the map indicating "exactly | | developed a small hand pump with, where he stood when he saw the a filter that takes out most of the Smpiakeniem. { harmful elements of any freshi. | water. When special powders are ONE OF the oo amazing de- added to the filtered water it is fit} vices is a mine-firing device. | for drinking. More than 2100 mines can be laid | 4" 8 in an area and each one can be THE LIST of innovations is alblown up by merely dialing a num- | most endless: ber on a regular telephone dial. -It| The medical corps has built spe»|is done by radio. {cial portable dental units that can Other. radio. equipment includes be used as. operating rooms, and| special transmitting sets that. canisterilization units that can be con-| take the place of 96 telephone lines | verted into a heating plant large | and with only a fraction of the | enough to keep a whole hospital! equipment and manpower needed to warm. put it into operation. Special lightweight bridges have | 8 u a» been developed that permit speed ONE OF THE worst factors in aniof construction’ beyond anything invasion has been. the ‘number of dreamed of at the start of the war.

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Though not planned for finicky palates, the German war prisoner's food is-equal in quantity and nutriment to’ garrison soldier's fare,

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American soldiers ‘had. eggs only | FOR DESSERT the: Americans nine of the 15 days. |have had ice cream four. da ys, with The other days the garrison had | vo riety of puddings, pies and cakes. |

french toast, hot cakes or mush, usually with bacon and always with| The Germans have had no ice

syrup. < |cream and little pudding or pie;

Three days\the Americans also their, dessert usually is a stewed

had bacon with their eggs. The fruit, cake, cinnamon roll or some-

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love withanother man.”

Every morning the Americans had | 7 of the sort. ‘ orange, grapefruit or some other, The variety of vegetablés served | fruit. The Germans had none.’ |to the garrison ‘troops is so wide |

| fruit at dinner—an orange or an |apple each of eight days. | _The prisoners’ potatoes are cooked]

CARD DECKS GOAL

_| success.

1 for complete decks takes time, and

The prisoners sometimes get" thigTWould be difficult to summarize briefly; the Germans have much (less variety,

—the simpler fashions—baked, boiled, occasionally mashed; but for! |our soldiers’ mess there is. much

; 3 {greater variety than most civilians OF 5000 PASSED can get in good restaurants—{rench ! fried, pan fried, au gratin, escalTo, the people of Indianapolis and loped, oven how ned, hash DEORE. yonnaise, candied sweet, parsley] surrounding areas go thanks from | creamed-—potato Salad with the cold| thousands of hospitalized G. 1's,|quts. . the Veterans of Foreign Wars and | | TE The Indianapolis. Times. IN CALORY .count.and vitamin The a aign to col- content the prisoners’ menu is carelect playing cards for the men nny y calculated not only to mainby milita hospitals was a! Neary ry P {tain their health but also to comply | More “than 5000 docked’ were do- | { withthe: provisions. of -that- basic | nated by you people who wapfed 0! American law, the Geneva conven- | ease the long hours for the’ men [HOR . fighting to regain their health. Atthe outset our army interpret Final to not yet be.made as.decks still are [the - prisoners be fed identically’ coming in. Sorting and checking [With our base troops. As shortages developed and the there are more than 1000 packs yet public became restive, this interpretq process. tation has been made more realistic

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of the collection can | él the convention to require iat.

But these decks are going to the |until now it is the" proclaimed in- | | men as fast as they can be handled. tention - to give the prisoners as|

Tobin Choice Of A.F. L for Cabinet Post

By FRED W. PERKINS Scripps:Howard Staff Writer " WASHINGTON; May 1. — The American Federation of Labor is still - backing one of its elderly heirarchy, ‘Daniel -J, .Tobin, fop

of law bor, and has no. second choice, So says William Green, A. F. of L. presi denty after talking it over with the A. P. of L. executive meet ing Here. The Tobin r e commendation is several vears old and

‘was passed

over by the late President Roose velt, though Mr, Tobin headed the labor division of the Demo= cratic national committee “ard organize labor dinners that started off Mr. Roosevelt's last two campaigns. : Mr. . Tobin Ras. at strike on him because wouldn't "go for him. Murray once indorsed

least: one the C. 1. O. Philip him but

“later withdrew his e. k.

Since then Mr. Tobin has spone sored publication of .a ' doub$ whether the C. I. O. - Political Action Committee hurt or helped in the Rooseveli-Truman victory last November. This intensifies the C. I. O. opposition. = a" 2 MR. GREEN makes two things plain—(1) He expects Secretary Frances Perkins to be displaced as soon as ‘‘a capable represenw tative of organized labor” can be nominated; (2) The new cabinet member’ should be one who has “grown up in the ranks of labor,” like the three secretaries who held -the post before the Roosevelt administrations. They were William B. Wilson, James J. Davis and William Doak,

Mr. Green also indicated hope that President Truman would

give full consideration to A. F,

of L. views. He pointed out that he supported Mr. Truman for the vice presidential nomination against® Henry A. Wallace, who was backed by the C. L O.

The executive council will make a “courtesy call” on Mr. Truman - Thursday, following an interview with the President yesterday, in which Mr, Green forecast serious post-war unemployment unless the government immediately takes - such steps as reorganizing the scattered federal agencies dealing with labor, and concentrates aus thority in 4 single head. = 2 MR. GREEN approved “heart ily” of the new wage contract ‘just won by the United Mine Workers, now passed Gy! William H. Davis, director of economies stabilization, despite the certainty

of a boost in the price of coal, The Green indorsement caused revival of rumers that this meeting of the executive council may .

—see John L. Lewis coming back

into the organization. But other A. F. of L. leaders said they did not look for this development now because of Mr, ° Lewis’ demand for. his former seat on the executive council.

We, the Women ——;

Exchanging Husbands Is A Bad Risk

By RUTH MILLETT THE WAR WIFE who writes her husband overseas. “I'm in has been bitterly condemned and branded a first-class heel, But still enough husbands overseas continue to get =z ‘such lefters to make a lot of men whose wives are still writing “I love you,” feel uneasy. ! Perhaps fewer young wives would send those IT-am= in « love-with-some-one-else letters, if they could be made to see that they may be gypping themselves as well as their husbands, a 8 8 FOR there is every chance that the other man isn't such & bars gain as the lonely wife imagines,

To begin with, the character of the man who would attempt to cut out an overseas hugband is open to question, \ Then, too, he may look good Just because he hasn't any real, . live competition—but just a em= ory to compete with. He niight not loek sp godd standing beside that overseas husband. a 8 THEN, too, the wife is thinking of her husband as what he was like when ‘he left for “overseas, She actually doesn't know what . he is like now. His war experi= ences may have improved him greatly, may have made him a much better bet as ‘a husbénd than the man- she reniembers. So when she trades a husband a for a man here at home, a girl runs a big Hlak of MAME.» an a awful ‘mistake, i ‘Not’ that