The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-31

W = - - I
have to be subtracted If congress
creates the WAAC. as is being
urged
To make a little sense out OF this
gibberish
Senator Byrd's JEC is a congress
sional JOINT Economy Committee.
The OGR Is the Office Of Govern
n1ent Reports. run by Lowell Mel
lett. now under fire. not only on the
ground that his OUTFITS superfuous.
but on the further ground that he's
putting up a half million dollar
building in Washington in which TO
house its superfluity The OCI is
the Office Of Coordination of lnfor-
nation. headed by Colonel Wild
Bill" Donavsn. hero Of World War
No l The OFF is Archibald Mac
Lelsh Office OF Facts and Figures
wartime facts and figures. OF
course.
Now these Offices various re-
spective names do. indeed. suggest
a certain overlapping Of their func-
tons. and maybe Senator Byrd will
succeed IN his plan to combine
them under single heading
Women Another Problem
He probably won't find the pro-
posed WAAC's hackers so easy TO
eeal with. though.
WAAC will stand. provided the
institutions esta blished. for the
Women Army Auxiliary Corps.
The women manlfestly want il. and
ITS no Joke to tell that sex that
what II wants IS something it can't
have
The schemes to enroll all women,
from IS 10 65. with a view to their
possibilities as wartime workers.
mostly civilian. but perhaps occa-
sionally semi-military. You might
not suppose they would fancy the
notion of being compulsorily regis
tered, giving ages and all such de-
tails. and maybe some of them
don't. but a formidable element OF
them do >
No doubt It IS largely pure patri.
ottsm. but surmise that they arr
ambitious. too. TO acquire a desig-
nation ending in zee" A boy. Sc
lected for army service, becomes a
"selectee' Actually indicted into
II. he becomes an ''inductee." But
a gal can't refer to herself as a
HOUSEWIFE. " or. even II she's pref
ty we'll up toward the lighting
front. as. say. a ''nursee." I'm con-
vlnced that she considers it an un-
just discrimination against her.
Well. suppose she's enrolled.
Thereupon she an "enrollee" Just
the thing
A women's uniform Is TO be pro-
Uded likewise It's to be highly
becoming and It won't cost a cent.
That Is. it'll cost the taxpayer a
good bit, but its wearer will get II
free
Finally an enrollee. once induct-
ed. Will be entitled to the same pay
as a boy lnductee
Unfortunately. there's one kink
IN the program
The congressional notion has
been TO give WAAC officers Tia
dies. Of course ratings and salaries
up 10 and including the rank Of
MAJOR. N the classification Of mere
men
Generals, Maybe?
The gals. thus far heard from.
don see why they shouldn't be
generals If they get that high in
the scale
The war department seems not
disinchned to agree with them.
The other day 1t made a colonel
OF julia Fhkke. head of the Army
Nurse Corps. and a colonel is
notch ahead Of a major. with a sti-
pend Of $4,000 annually. and main
tenance. which Is fairly literally al
lowed for
Representative Joseph {. Bald
"1n congressional bill for wom-
ems army registration has len
more widely advertised than Rep
resentatiye Melvin J. Mas bill for
registering them on the navy list.
but Mas proposal also is pending
on Capitol Hill Exactly how Mas
would employ the ladies at sea isn't
clearly explained Naturally they'd
D. all right as nurses. but II doesn't
seem as II they would quite do In
gun turrets or heavInz torpedoes.
Mas should score better with
them than BALDWIN. though.
BALDWIN thinks MAJORS commits
sions are the most exalted they
should get
Mas would put no limit on them.
They could be admirals. so far as
his bill u concerned
Congressional army and navy
committees are "rassling" with
both propositions The best guess
Is that they will be materially in
duenced by advice from their re.
spective members women folk.
Id bet on Congressman Mas.