The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-08-07

NEW YORK. - At Fort Des
Moines, where the first $50 en-
trants of the Women's Army Aux
iliary corps take up their quar-
Col. Faiths Faith o s,s' it te o;n
IN WAAC Kicks ing. there
Out Guordhouse WI pc NJ
Col. Don c. Faith, commandant
of the corps, says Standards of
conduct of women are generally
higher than those of men. We an
ticipate no trouble If there is, there
will be a discharge, rather than dis
cipline"
The tactful Colonel Faith, q
genial HOOsier who used to be
an army educator, will, how
ever, allow a beauty parl0r, If
not a guardhOuse. He says
there's no reason why women
shouldn't get a hair-dO when
they need it and there'l be time
out for that. But this doesn't
mean a soft time for the soldier
girls. There will be seven As
minute classes a day and one
45-minute period. of drill.
The women who have qualified for
officers training have been chosen
from several thousand applicants.
The full complement of the fort
eventually will be about 900 wom-
en- They will serve in kitchen po-
lice, as barracks orderlies, clerks
and messengers and in many other
capacities in which men have been
used
The tall, lean Colonel Faith, a
trail-blaZer in this kind of or
ganizatiOn, takes his job easily
and casually and gives aSsur-
ance that the women will be
indicted smoothly into army
routine. While he is friendly and
informal in manner, he is known
in the army as careful and
competent officer and, while the
girls may get their hair-dO and
all that, there will be no slack
administration of the corps.
They'll do a grand job" says
the colonel
He has held an army commission
Is years, which experience includes
service on the Mexican border and
at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, and
in the first World war He was on
duty in the Philippines in 1929,
and in Tientsin, China, in 1882.
Great Britain has made a ire
mendous success of its women's aux
iliary corps, which now includes
about 100000 women. Fort Des
Moines is just a beginning for us,
and Colonel Faith thinks we can
do even better.
MAJ. GEN. FOLLETT BRAD
A'A LEY, commanding general Of
the First air force, with headquar-
tiers at Mitchell Field, N. Y, rates
More Difficult for sUena tSs
Japs to Interpret least effec-
Our NatiOe Idioms 1--WE . ao Oh war var
will have none of them around the
field, not even Remember Pearl
Harbor" He is, however. hospitable
to native, home grown idiom, just as
it happens along, uses lot of it
himself and commends the boys
who keep the flies off the horses
back" referring to the aerial gun
ners of his command in whom he
takes special pride
"The expression is not mine,"
said the general. cts their own
and it's very apt. 1t is a light
way of saying that they keep
destruction away. II the aerial
gunners weren't up there doing
their job every time one Of our
bombers goes out over the Lib
yam desert or China or the Pacif-
ic, many of the bombers would
fail In their mission and many
would never get home"
This came up in connection with
talk Of this month marking the gen.
erals 23rd straight year in the air
services of the army, and the fact
that operating a fighter or bomber
plane is a matter of a complex or
ganization of human and technical
factors, undreamed of when the gen.
eral first went aloft.
Every bombing mission is
matter of team work." said Gen.
eral Bradley. "Tt is not by any
means just a plotting job. The
aerial gunner is member Of
the team without whom the mis-
sion might fail. So Is the bonn
bardier. the navigator, the engi-
neer and everyone else in the
crew. The failure of one can
mean the destruction of ALL"
He said he was getting splendid
type of young men for all these
jobs" and stressed his view that the
war would be won by straight
shooting with bullets and bombs. "
He was overseas in the last big war,
both as an aerial gunner and pilot,
having learned flying in 1912. A Ma
val academy alumnus from Omaha,
Neb., with an extraordinarily diver
sified career, he was transferred to
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