The Ely miner., 1943-10-28
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

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missing an opportunity that
L 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 your
self 'What on earth was / think
ing about that I didn't get into
the WACs?"
Which means get into the ac-
tual military service of the great
est country of them all, wear her
uniform, share her great adven-
lures, travel, learn, win your
right to glory with America
when the hour of peace and vic
tory arrives.
For generations-for centuries
this opportunity has been offered
only to men; the excitement and
satisfaction of acting-acting with
daring and confidence and heroism
when the hour of national crisis 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. Uniforms,
bands, the rare companionShip of
the camp and 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 81
and A can seize this opportunity to
serve America, build a very bull
wark of strength and inspiration 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 aft
er the war.
Opportunities for Wives Without
Special Ties.
The wives of service men, when
without small children or other in
escapable responsibilities at home,
go into the WACs in droves. There
is no better way to fill the lonesome
time of waiting. Busy, healthy,
well-paid, 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
drill, the companion soldiers of your
company, to match his stories. And
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 lone
some letters, filed with news of the
tomato preserving and the buying
of fall hat.
said up there ''wen paid" You
start at $50 month; as a ''non-
com" you may make that S138 very
soon. The WACs haven't been in
existence much more than year,
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now. But-that isn't all. You have
no, living expenses. You get COM
Portable rooms, bathrooms, recrea-
ton rooms. You get the finest food
the richest nation in the world can
afford for anyone; the very best of
everything, and plenty of it. You
get your clothing from the we'll
made, soft-to-the-touch undertakings
to your uniforms, your cap and top
coat. There is no smarter uni
form in the world than yours will
be-. and it is carefully and indi-
vidually fitted to you. You get laun-
dry work service, and you have ac-
cess to electric irons for extra
touches; you get amusement-the
highest-paid entertainers in the
country are making incessant rounds
of the camps, the finest movies come
your way. And the homemade
camp theatricals, by the men sol