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By Ed Sovola
THERE'S no fool Boy Scout liké an old fool Boy .scout especially when a bunch of Camp Fire Girls fling a challenge at him. “If you were ever a Boy Scout, we bet your troop never was as active and full of pep as our group. Dd you accept our challenge? some of us don’t think ‘you will be ] there because you're too old. | '../ » S§ to do much hiking.” a Too old, eh? Attention! At ease. Left face! Forward march! Waditaka® Camp Fire Girls of the Eighth Christian Church and School 75—poof.
Girls always have been so ridiculous. “We don’t think you will
keep up with us for three hours and* do everything we find to do ‘such as, visiting the Wishing Well, climbing hills ‘or if there is snow or ige, we bring sleds and really have fun.” Toon du OH, HOW this former member of the Lincoln School Wolf Patrol of Boy Scout Troop 18 in Hammond laughed. Wishing Well? Hiils? Sleds? How about a six-hour battle with 10,000 redskins, girls” of Waditaka?
“We want to teach you a new way to roast marshmallows and make ‘angels on horseback.’ ” The Wolf Patrol used to cach their. dinner in field or stream. My baked potatoes and pancakes were famous. Many was the time we had to eat them when we devoured the lunches our mothers packed for us. “Angels on horseback.” Girl cookin’. Give me a dirty, burned, ‘sandy ol’ potato anytime. So, with coonskin cap bristling, I called Mrs. Caroline VanWinkle, guardian of Waditaka. “At one o'clock I'll be on the corner of 14th and Belle Vieu Pl. Instruct the children to watch for a cloud of dust. We're hiking today.” oe oe
THIRTY-TWO girls, between the ages of 10 and 13, met me. Each gal had a trail lunch in a sack suspended on the.end of a pole. Another hobo, whose pack felt as if it contained rocks, Joined the squealing, howling, jumping: pack. Yearsshave dimmed my memory, and association with teen-agers has been limited to high school auditoriums and libraries in recent years. That outfit acted like a band of Comafiches. They lacked only the war paint and tomahawks.
It Hap By Earl Wilson
NEW YORK, Feb. 5—The “Woolly-Wearers” came back, along with New York's cold weather —of course, in Florida, California, Texas, Hawaii and other paradises, the gals don’t need ’em. “The Envelope Brigade” is the name given the gals who wear woollies around my office. .These young ladies, lovely ones all, mostly commuters, put on their woollies in the chilly morning, wear them to the office, and then take them off before going to their desks. They keep them in envelopes during the day—hence - the name, “The Envelope Brigade.” . “The Envelope Brigade’” can be seen filing to the desks around 9 (envelopes under arms) —and at about 4:45 they file back out to the ladies’ room, again with the envelopes.
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although some older gents do wear ‘em. The weaker sex probably doesn’t know that its envelopes are sort of a barometer. “I look out the window in the morning,” one gentleman commuter apprised me, “and if I see the girls at the bus stop carrying their envelopes, I know it’s cold.” . Within these mysterious envelopes, the ladies also carry high-heeled shoes to replace sturdier ones they wear through the snow. It appears from all this that the ladies have grown more sensible. Formerly, woollies were worn usually by older. women. Then came the glamourize-the-woollies period—and woollies were fixed up with bows and whatnot. “Where do the gals keep the envelopes durin the day?” I asked. : .“Inrtheir desk drawers,” she said. (There is a joke here, and a cruder columnist, if there is one, would have written It) ~ THE HOT CLIMATES also miss the electric blanket, a part of this sissified age which got going good ‘around 1946.- Far from being only for Effete NYers, it's used all over.
Americana
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Feb, 5—I see they are still chewing the same Universal Military Training cud, after some several years of rumination, and have got nowhere much beyond the original premise, which is that UMT is a bitter political pill and this is an election year. You gather that it is still all right to send a tender young man away to be shot in an emergency, but training him en masse for such .an.emergency is apt to impair morals and build him into either a bum or a SA see the words “garrison state” kicked around freely and with the bitter connotation of “iron ‘curtain nation” and “Socialis{, state” and “Fascist state.” What is a garrison state, anyhow, that’s bad? Mr. Roosevelt kept yelling about America being an “arsenal of democracy. and everybody from Mr. Truman to the tax collectors keep stressing “preparedness.” Every time they
need him for political emphasis old Lew Hershey,
the draft man, runs up his string and raises the ante on -the number of draftees he figures he'll need day after tomorrow. . _ A GARRISON STATE is bad, I gather, while preparedness is good when you talk of taxes and guns and ships and A-bombs and the inflation that comes with all the other aspects of “preparing.” Preparing for what? Peace? The “arsenal of democracy’ only becomes a garrison state when you start putting the arm on Mama's Willie to teach him to be a soldier, on the off-chance you may need him someday. In the meantime, you
draft Willie and send
“him overseas pretty. green and gawky, or you
reach out and slap the collar. on Willie's big brother, who has already been to ong war in the
last 10 years and is getting real sick of providing ’
the manpower for this arsenal of democracy. that cannot be a garrison state. “dD I AM TOLD that Universal Military Training will give us a militaristic point of view, as a nation, which is deadly. But if a militaristic point of view is deadly we are dead already, because we have been wearing a military look for over a decade, and don’t figure to losé the look in your time and mine. ° : : It seems to me that only a hypocrite can strongly advanee the “impairment of. morals” argument. against general military training” for the young. There js nothing -an 181;-year-older can learn in a barracks that he can’t learn as handily in a college dormitory-—nothing that he probably - hasn't ‘picked. up already around the local drugstore. And there. is an added difference in personal supervision. Sergeants have more time to devote to moral uplift than mothers. ‘Junior is apt to have less leisure as a trainee, to
‘ investigate the ‘potentials of booze, babes and bad
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MRS. VanWINKLE counted off her charges. Girls yelling: Arlene 'Byrum, Sharon Barlow, Suzan Allen, Linda Miller, Andrea Worrell, Lorraine Brooks, Beverly Castleman, Jill Price, Beverly Scheid, Judy Gregory, Janet Oliver and Norva Lintecum, Girls jumping and screeching: Verna Gallimore, Judy and Donna Qliver, MaryAnn Gerkin, Nancy Ward, Georgia Clarkson, Lou\ Clevenger, Sandra White, Thelma Wilson, LaDonna Smith, Judy Byrum and Judy Dobbins, Girls thumping me with poles in-a gesture of friendliness included: Judy West, ‘Patty Taylor, Sandra Elmore, Mary Ann Miskoweic, Barbara Mayfield, Wanda Rainwater,” Marsha Percival and Diana Suddith.
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MRS. VanWINKLE just stood off to a side and smiled. I should have hit the trail for home then and there. Four Camp Fire Girls had me by the arms and it was impossible to get Away. We marched noisily to Municipal Gardens. The girls shunned paths and clearings. They made me go through a torturous ritual at the Wishing Well. First you blow into a rusty pipe and then suck up the water and finally “it squirts in your eye. ' Ever hike with a paek on your back and five Camp Fire Girls hanging from your arms? On our way to the bridge on 30th St. near the Naval Armory, we hit every mudhole in the vicinity. I've beén in the rough on Coffin Golf Course before, but golf, the way I play it, is child's play compared to a Waditaka hike. 8 < LUNCH was excellent. The sack was no gag. Sitting there on the steps of the bridge, I got te thinking what a great job Mrs. VanWinkle was doing and how much fun I was really having. It wis a privilege to be invited and take part in wholesome activities and join hands with the girls in the Friendship Circle. I was an honorary Camp Fire Girl! How proud youngsters can make you feel if you give them half a chance. After lunch and the Friendship Circle, the girls tried to emulate Sherman's March to the Sea. There were times when the legs threatened to go home without me. Toward the end I was moving from memory. The girls wouldn't admit they were tired. I was too tired to admit it. The fact that my legs will never be the same and my lungs have developed an aversion to fresh air, means nothing. Waditaka’'s chal-
lenge was accepted and met. The girls found one
new friend and I found 32. You can’t beat that.
Woolly-Wearers Back, ‘Carrying Envelopes
My first experience with one was a couple of winters ago in Sandusky, O. Later the Beautiful Wife started hinting and now I'm very. electrified, if not electrifying. : Sure, I messed up the controls, got too hot, too cold, etc., like everybody else. recently when the blanket came off of me, I had a nightmare in which I was interviewing Dr. Cook at the North Pole. . “Electric blankets,” a fellow told me, “now seem to be a standard wedding p¥esent—dual control, of course.” Pardon my obviousness in trying to make jokes about the cold. It was a soldier who told me never to complain about the weather. As he put it, “No matter how cold it is here, it's probably colder in Korea.” : THE MIDNIGHT EARL... The biggest medical story in a long time—of successful experiments in regeneration of dead tissue in animals— is being kept under cover in Illinois where tests are now being made with humans. A leading Eastern authority has been in charge. Veronica Lake's ready to .file for diyorce. Looks lovely with her hair partly grown out. Will play “Brief Moment” on TV...An ex-pug was picked up in the beating of Robt. Preston outside a
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- B'way restaurant . . . Some top Democrats hope
Gen. Ike’ll be beaten by Taft for the GOP nomination—so THEY can nominate him. Gloria DeHaven’s recent accompanist—who heckled her at the Waldorf Empire Room—is out . . : Due to Walter Wanger’s publicity, his great flop, “Joan of Arc” is being revived on 42d St. . . . Twenty couples will start in the 12-hour “rhumbathan” at the Havana-Madrid Feb. 11. Sharman Douglas’ El Morocco escort: the Marquis of Blandford, once reported engaged to Princess Margaret . . . Franchot Tone & Barbara Payton’ll be on the Arthur Murray ABC TV show Feb. 10 . . . Bull-throated B. S. Pully of {Guys & Dollis” and La Cava, claims he willed his larynx to NYU .. . Mel Allen's new, brunet is slim and chic, the purtiest he's had yet . .. Gov. Driscoll of NJ's expected to declare for Veep by Mar. 1... : 3 : > &» : TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Comedian Jack Carter stood next to Denise Darcel on stage at Paramount and said: “I'm giving the audience a quick 1.Q. test—anybody looking at me is an idiot.” s. Maestro Milton De Lugg, who can be real nasty, asked a gal with a poodle haircut, “Which end iz the poodle?” , . . That's Earl, brother.
Old UMT Hassle
Still Kicking Around.
aging. Some slight maturity, military training, might enable the young man to appreciate more fully an education when he gets around to it. 'His character will have been molded along slightly sterner lines, and his receptivity to learning increased. I keep remembering that parents used to pay large moneys to send their spawn to military schools, in order to prune down waywardness and :the brats for higher leayning: The government proposes to do this for free. : 2 ; And as for the general moral degeneration of the nation, under compulsory training . .. well, I doubt: that anything is worse than the uncertainty of today, in which no young er middleveared man. of military’ susceptibility. knows where he stands. I doubt if taking all is worse than taking some and leaving others. 4 o N Rn
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TI DOUBT if it is worse to impress military basics on a youth than to snatch away his brother for the second time, thereby successfully interrupting his life twice before he touches forty. Let us consider the young wives and mothers who have seen their husbands take off twice for war and whose small children recall very little But family uncertainty. I don’t say Universal Military Training is good. T just say it ain't as bad as what we've got, either as a peril ta the individual, to society or to the eventual fate of the nation. :
Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith
Q—We had good luck with our dahlias last.
‘year but hope to grow them eévén better this yea#®™ Our soil is loose and not too rich. Last year we. used complete chemical planting time and 2 or 3 times during the season; Our tallest plants were nearly 10 ft. We kept side shoots near the ground cut off. What causes them to grow so tall? It is so hard then to.keep
Read Marguerite Smith's Garden Column’ in The Sunday Times
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old blooms cut off. Should we use bone meal? If 80, how mugh? fertilizer? Mrs. Fred Treon, Edinburg. A—Greetings, Mrs. Treon! Your letter with the nice comments on thé garden’ column are always- much appreciated (they give that good old lift to the spirifs.) As to those dahlias—it could be an unbalanced diet if soil has been frequently manured in. ether years, plus the trimming of the side'shoots. Of course some varieties; just like some people, naturally grow taller, than.
. others. Bone meal will definitely help good bloom and balance the nitrogen-phosphate ratio. 5 Lbs;
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EXPERT TELLS WHY —
Bombs Don’t Stop The Railroads :
By WILLIAM T, FARICY President, Assn. of American Railroads
(Writtenafor The Times) WASHIJUTON, Feb, 5— The record of resistance to bombardment of the battered rdilroads of North Korea offers an answer to a question that could have top importance here at home in event of all-out war: How well would America’s railroads hold up. under enemy attack For more than a year, the North Korean railroads have been subjected to concentrated and sustained bom b= ing from United Nations airplanes and naval ships. They have taken additional punishment from ground fire, from comman=« do raiders and behind-the-lines sabot2urs: Time and again, rail bridges, shops, marshalling yaeds have been reported destroyed. Yet, follow-up reconnaissance almost invariably discloses trains ‘soon operating again over the same stretch of track. There is no question but that our- bombing has seriously disrupted and delayed Red rail transport from Manchuria and
Mr. Farley
Russia to the front. Military officers, nevertheless, sum up the results of our strategic
bombardment like this: “The North Korean railroads have not been put completely out of commission. Trains are continuing to gperate, Jargely on a short-haul basis , . . but
still moving vital supplies to the « * Communist forces.
They , remain a primary target.” y 8.2 8 | IF AN admittedly good /but limited rail system like that of North Korea can stand up under such punishment, it is certain. that the most ektensively
developed system in the world -
~ America's—could do even better. The more solid roadways and structures, stronger-built equipment, and the widely dispersed network of American railroads would make the job
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SUDDEN STOP FOR RED RAILROAD—Broken girders of a bombed-out bridge in Northern
Korea lie in the river after the span was bombed by United Nations forces. Spidery framework un-
der center span shows how bridge had already been re
going despite bombs.
of ' destruction that much tougher. This is important to homefront defense. If ‘an attack should be made on this continent, continuing railroad seryice would be essential to both resistance and recovery. Among logistics specialists, it has become an adage that you cannot produce and use
any more of anything than you ¢
can haul. And railroads are the domestic backbone of this hauling job, a fact borne out by their World War II record. : = ® =» DURING those war years, - railroads moved more than 90 per cent: of all military freight while producing at the same time more than twice as much intercity transportation service for all other goods as all other
EDITOR'S NOTE: The accompanying dispatch on rail roads vs. war was written by a man who has been connected with railroading nearly all his career. William. T. Farley began as an attorney for the Milwaukee Road in 1914, be- ~ came a vice president of that road in 1942 and of the Chi‘cago Northwestern in 1944. He has been president of the Association of American Railroads since 1947.
forms of transportation. That explains why railroads rank as top targets. Obviously, if you can cut this vital medium of mass supply for armed forces or for production on the economic front,. the enemy is half beaten, the war half won. This was basic in our military
AMAZONS OF THE AR . . . No. 2—
‘Anything M nD Better’ nything Men Can Do We Do Better By GEORGE W. HERALD “MITCHELL TOWER. This is Air Force plane 1256. I request landing instructions.”
“Air Force plane 1256. This is Mitchell Tower,” Pfc.
Helen Moore answered softly into the mike. cleared to enter traffic at
Mitchell landing runway 30.” : ‘There was a pause, and when the pilot came back, he had a barely noticeable tinge of sarcasm in his voice. “Adtimeter ceiling?” he inquired. “Wind direction velocity?”
Helen promptly gave him the -
information and reminded him to check his gear down and lock. “Thank you, Mitchell Tower,” the pilot answered in a friendlier tone but evidently still surprised at having to follow a woman's directions. “At first they always resent us,” keen-faced Helen explained, “but they warm. up quickly when they "see. we are doing all right.” : 4 & 8 HELEN certainly knew her business. She had been a flying instructor in civilian life and had flown over 2000 hours in her own Piper Cub. So the Air Force sent her right away to Keesler Field, near Biloxi, Miss., and had her trained as an aerial traffic cop. “Up to now vefy few girls have been entrusted with this type of work,” she told me. “They are -picked for their judgment, calmness and reliability, and- the best of them all is probably my boss, Staff Sgt. Lewis.” : This young lady—Mary Lou Lewis from Aberdeen, S. D.—is indeed an amazing creature. She
Lwesvthe first WAF to gradu-
“You are
EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Herald has written extensively on various aspects of our National Defense. Here Mr. Herald turns the spotlight on America's least - known branch of service—the Women in the Air Force. This is the second of a series of six reports of the girls in blue at work and play.
ate from Control Tower Opera-
tions School in 1948 and has .
since been cited at various occasions for her skillful handling of emergencies. As Military Tower Chief of Mitchell Base, she now has a whole unit of men under her command. “Does she like to push the fellows around?” I asked. 1 “So far there haven't been any swered with a straight face, “but isn’t it marvellous how women are going places in the
. Alr Force?”
» » » TEN YEARS ago, the Air Force wouldn't even have dreamed of employing female personnel .in key positions. Male prejudice against girls
“vanished only as they were
watched at work during World War II. . Gen. Eisenhewer who originally opposed-qtheir emplayment, later admitted that “their general efficiency “turned out to.
be far higher than men's.” So when the WAFs were integrated into the service in
October, 1948; a radical change in policy was made. 1
THE WAY TO SECURITY . .. No. 2— : Parents Harm Children With Over-Protection
By HENRY C. LINK HOW OFTEN have we heard
a parent who came up the hard way proclaim: “My children are not going, to suffer what I had to go through. Thank goodness, I can afford to give them the comforts, the education, the start in life that I had to fight for.” This is what millions of parents have done or are hoping to do. - They disregard the fact that . .their own : struggles were Henry C. Link ) .™" tounda-. tions of their security, they now wish to. deprive their children of a similar opportunity. .In- : stead, they want to give them a part of their own hard-won security. . The results are too often like those related to us by a father, in despair ovér his son: ny ) “I have giver hiffy évery ad-\ vantage,” he complained, “and
- ‘now he can’t even hang on to
a job, To make matters worse, he is always
for labor. I myself started as
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damning the . capitalist system’ and arguing
laboror, but finally built up .
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of a series revealing the basic methods of achieving personal security. The author, a practicing psychologist, is the duthor of three books which have attracted more than-3 million readers. These chapters are from Dr. Link's latest book, THE WAY TO SECURITY published by Doubleday & Co.
my own business which ‘now - provides jobs. for two hundred people. : y , . “From its profits I was able to give him a college education; an_ automobile .and a generous allowance. This means nothing to him. In his eyes, I am only another capi talist and. exploiter of labor. He will have nothing to do with
. my business, but’ wants to be
a writer, oy “Meanwhile, he drifts from one job to another. Either he gets tired of it or his employer gets tired of him. Between jobs’ he has even_ accepted unem{ployment benefits, though he certainly doesn’t need them. I don’t know what to fo with him.” : go Sc “You: have already. done - too much,” was our conclu-
sion. “How can:.you expect .
, Your son to acquire straight thinking habits when
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paired before by the Reds to keep trains
strategy during World War IT when our massed bombers tried to knock out German rail
_ service,
But so difficult was the task of putting the Reichsbahn out of commission that the German railroads remained largely intact to within half a year of war's end.
» . » AND even then, though singled out for sustained saturation bombing, they constituted one of the last facilities of
enemy resistance to go out of *
action. This testimony to the railroads’ sturdy ~ resilience under shock is contained in the post-war report of the U. 8. Strategic Bombing Survey. . The same kind of record was written by England's railroads during the early war "years
do. She's the aerial "traffic cop" at the Mitchell Field base,
Today an Air Force girl may perform any task her physical limitations permit. She still cannot serve as a pilot or go into combat but, otherwise, she has exactly the same opportunities as other airmen. Alto‘gether, forty-two career fields are now open to her, including those where manual dexterity is at a premium. Many of the girls are excelling as aircraft mechanics,
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handouts have always made it unnecessary for him to do anything but theorize? You yourself have discouraged him from learning how to work and earn a living. Reduce his allowance to ten dollars a week and tell him that in six months you will stop it entirely. If he wants to reform the American system tell him he will have ‘to do it on his own earnings and not with your ill-gotten gains.” 4.0 Here was a case of social security with an ironic twist—a capitalist father financing the’ security of a son who was using it to destroy the source of that security. Worse still, this social security’ was. the direct cause of the son's emotional turmoil and his inability to hold a job. os ” 2 IN SHARP contrast is the family of 11 children who lived not far from us in my home town, By present standards, their house was not big enough for five. The, father was often out of work. Today this family would have been eligible for relief much of the time. Their
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ising attitude toward her chil dren was the talk of the street. What happened?. The children’ forced to help
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radar technicians, parachute riggers and repair crews for delicate instruments. Others are operating the model trainers on which future pilots get their first lessons under simulated flying conditions. = » »
BUT I really did a double-
take when a young airman to whom we gave a lift, waved at a flaxen-haired maiden passin by and explained; .
family meals and do the housework. The older children took care of the younger. As they -veached high-school age, they
began to get part-time and
summer jobs to help supplement, the family income. Some of them went through college. Two of them became teachers, three acquired their own businesses, the rest obtained jobs or married. The entire family became self-reHant, self-respecting citizens.
These children had lacked
gmaterial security, but they did have the spiritual security. The parents were openly devoted to each other and happy in their children. They were deeply religious and imparted to their children the principles of a good character. Thus, in the absence of social security, the children achieved personal security. They developed inner resources which
enabled them to become inde-
pendent even in times of depression and unemployment.
= o 2 5 IF PARENTS. allowed their children to worry more in.childhood, both parents and children would have less to worry about in later years. ; The example
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when the German aerial blita was at its height, cages, entire yards.and other strategic Installations = were bombed out of use. Yet, usually within a period . of -hours, damage was repaired . sufficiently to permit resumption of train traffic. Or alter nate routes around the blitzed area were set up and operating,
In some
o ~ ~ s THE foregoing expediencies of quick repair and alternate routing are major clues to how American railroads would hold up. Not generally known is that the nearly 700 railroads in this country have agreements already in effect to cope with emergency. These provide for the ime mediate use of alternate routes in case of damage to any one line or group of lines—a plan made possible by the existence of a sweeping pattern of 397,000 miles of track crisse crossing America, with ‘ine numerable possible routings connecting most major cities. The raging floods of last summer in Kansas and Missourt, and this winter's High Sierra blizzards, bringing damage to rails: beyond even what atom bombs could do, exemplify the effectiveness of alternative routing. The nation’s rail traffic continued to. roll around the stricken area. And prompt repair of damages quickly re< stored traffic into the area shortly after flood waters ree ceded.
” ” » BUT Probably the best ex ample of railroad flexibility ia the drama of re-routing during the Ohio River flood of 1937, Every river crossing from Pitts burgh to Cairo, Ill, was closed then by high water. Yet, coms merce between north and south continued, with trains running in a giant circle through rail gateways east and west of the flooded region. : There is little actual differ ence between damage from bonibs and damage from-floods, washouts and landslides. This sort of interruption is met by railroads with organized ‘ens ergy. And they are ready to .meet any attack of the future with the same energy.
“That's the gal who is teaches ing me how to shoot.” The cute little blonde was his aerial gunnery instructor. Perhaps the most exciting job held by anyone at Mitchell & Field — Sgt.
nan of Kansas City, Mo. She is the altitude chamber engineer “who trains pilots and other crew members to fly above 10,000 feet, When we visited the sergeant, she just had one of her vietims in the chamber and slowly took the oxygen away from him. As the air around him got thinner and thinner she was watching his reactions through a big porthole. ; “Most men get accustomed to high altitudes,” she told us, “but some cannot stand them for long periods of time. That's why all our pilots have to undergo an annual pressure test and are assigned to lighter duties if they ‘flunk’ it.” ” » »
APART from handling the complicated equipment, Sgt. Mc~ Larnan has to make a medical evaluation of every case. She studied aviation medicine at Randolph Field, Tex. for six months before being assigned to her present duties. “Men don’t scare me,” “she remarked philosophically. “I have seen some of the toughest - pass out in that room like little girls. Somehow, masculine superiority seems -to vanish at 10,000 feet and up.” No wonder the Air Force feels its policy of sex equalization has reached “new heights” in Sgt. McLarnan’'s altitude chamber, Sa NEXT: Grease Monkeys or Glamour Girls? ;
chological counseling we find Young people who are emotion~ ally immature and dependent: largely because of the prolonged wet-nurse attitude of their par- ., ents, i . “8 8 ; : REFRAINING from over-ine dulgence’ is a hard road for parents to follow thése days. “My 18-year-old son,” a woke ried mother told us, “works for his-lunches in a restaurant near the high school. Saturdays he: delivers groceries. He is saving up for his .college education. We are not rich but, as I told him, we could afford to pay for his education. : I have been urg‘ing him to stop working because he is missing some of the higher things of life.” ‘We had a hard time explain. * ing to her. that when her son worked he was learning one of te Mgneat a all léssons, that of giving before receiving. Lite tle do we parents realize, in our : pride and affection,
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