Evening star., 1943-08-28
WACS Grow Restless
For Front Line Duty,
Col. Hobby Reports
BY IRA WOLFERT.

Women at war are much the same
as men at war. This developed ir
the course of conversation with
Col. Oveta Culp Hobby. the Texas
"newspaperman," as she calls her.
self, who is commanding officer oi
the WAC.
They want to get out of the back
areas and up to the front line" Col
Hobby said. They want to see the
war and fight it personally. There
are a great many restless WACS
overseas"
In this they are no different from
many hundreds of thousands OF
men this reporter has seen in the
back areas of our Pacific war fronts
There are no WACS in the Pacific
but there is the same restlessness
the same desire to see the war up
close and fight personally.
Work to Finish Job.
This is not superpatriotism or a
desire to become hero and win
medals and garner stories to bore
future grandchildren with 1t goes
back to a yearning so vast it is al
most unreasonable-to get the war
over with and 60 home. Most
Americans seem to feel a Job can't
be done quickly unless they do it
personally. And this, according to
Col Hobby, is true not only of
Americas men but of our women.
They, too, at least those in uniform,
want earnestly to do anything and
make any sacrifice to end the war
by winning it personally.
In the meantime, is there any
chance that WACS will be given
guns and the chance to do some
shooting, as the Russian women are?
Col. Hobby said she does not be-
lieve so. There is lot more than
shooting to fighting a war"
Men Fear Broken Homes.
1t was pointed out to the leader
of the WACS that many of the mar
ried men now on the war fronts are
very much concerned with the fact
that the war is taking women out
Of the home and that when the men
do return they will have no homes
to go back to.
There is more reason for con-
Germ about that among women war
workers than WACS," Col. Hobby
replied. Women in factories are
making $500 a month and more.
They are going to be reluctant to
give that up and return to the
home. The WACS have only $50
a month to give UP and stern life
of very hard work.
"As matter of fact, a girls ex-
perience in the WACS in most cases
serves to accentuate her desire for
a home, husband and children.
When you put on uniform, you
don't change nature"
This reporter was escorted to the
door by blond and beautiful top
sergeant. The conversation with
her caused eyes to pop when re-
peated later in Washington draw
ing room. / asked her first what
the WACS in the barracks used for
pin-up girls. "Pin-up girls'-those
shapely lovelies from the maga-
zines-adorn the bleak walls of
every barracks, Quonset Hut. Dali
las Hut and tent lived in by Amer
lean soldiers everywhere.
No Stocking Troubles.
"The WACS hang up pictures of
their husbands and boy friends"
the sergeant said. That's pin-up
girl enough for them"
then asked her, in view of the
great difficulties the girls in multi
are having with rayon stockings,
how the G. I. rayon was standing
up. Il was issued four pair of
rayons when I joined the Army"
declared the sergeant. That was
q year ago, I, am still wearing them
and they haven't had run in them
yet"
That was what caused the most
beautiful eyes in the drawing room
to pop. so they do know how to
make rayon strong" this beauty
cried Indignantly.
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