The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-29
Observations
Wasps Making Hard
Fight For Federal
Recognition
BY Helen Essary

There's talk around town in avi-
alton spheres that the WASPS
have not yet lost their sting The
WAsPs are the women flyers or
ganfEed. into a group by Jacqueline
Cochran. President Roosevelt him
self, II is reported, would like TO
see them given government recog
milton.
Miss Cochran, who Is Mrs. Floyd
Odlum when she isn't training
aviatrices and manufacturing cos.
metics, has. been struggling since
the beginning Of the war to get
women flyers the same military
and government recognition enjoy.
ed by WACS, WAVES and SPARS
and Marines.
Congress hasn't been too respon-
sive TO the hopes of Miss Coch-
ran. In fact, the House smacked
down Representative Costellos
bill providing for the appoint
ment of female pilots and aviation
cadets" before il got its head up
off the floor The House used
that old quick killer method of
striking out the enactment
clause" Every bill presented TO
Congress begins with the phrase
BE 1t enacted
When a motion is made and pass
ed TO strike out the enactment
clause there isn't any bill left.
Senator Lister Hill had presented
WASP bill TO the Senate but
it went out like a Fourth Of July
firecracker when the correspond
ing bill died in the lower legisla-
tive body But, as | said before,
the WASPS are still wiggling
about Dormant for a while may
be, but not extinguished.
The picture of Donald Nelson.
WPB chief, and Gen. Pat Hurley
going to China hand-in-hand de-
lights my hayward mind. The
two gentlemen were standing side
by side. looking very erect and sec
retive in a White House anteroom
the other afternoon. You knew
Teacher had sent for them.
Had they been Good Boys and
was Teacher going TO pat them on
the back? Or had they been Bad
Boys and were they going TO get
10 dement's and a trip to the wood
shed? Mr. Nelson and General
Hurley are not at all alike tenn
permanentally. Pat Hurley is a
lively Irishman who can tell a
jaunty story, sing a jaunty song
and pay a neat and useful compli-
ment
Mr.. Nelson is lively in a solemn
way. He's got poker face and a
bland smile, though, which may be
help in China.
Now that we OF the Allies are
going to set up governments in
Germany and Japan, I'm wonder
ing how the Old World will seem
when Anglo Saxon crusaders march
In.
France, I understand, Is making
big plans for the coming Of the
Allies. Dispatches from Paris say
that Parisians are paying as much
as 10000 francs for a place on the
Champs Elysees to view the tri.
umphal Allied entry into the city.
What do you suppose has hap
pened TO the chateau on the Seine
behind whose high iron gates |
left a young daughter one bleak
February afternoon in the success
full hope that she learn the Ian
guage'? Will 1t soon be opening
its gates for the young Americans
OF the North and South?
The South Americans. both
young and old, are, so travellers
report, awfully anxious to get to
Paris once more. North Ameri-
cans may be Good Neighbors, but
II Is France the South American
understands and loves
Italy Is happily coming TO again.
Foreign Minister Count Sforza is
asking for its pre.war colonies.
haven't been worrying too much
about Italy's colonies, but hope
that covered bridge across the
Arno Is still standing. The arno
itself is muggy yellow stream
even In the tourist season. But
those little shops that line its
bridges-how fascinating they are
with their beads and jewels, Such
lovely garneb they do up in gold
workmanship for those Arno shops
Some day, OF course, we'll be
tripping to Germany again. How
long do you think 1t will be before
that famous beer hall in Munich
will be so crowded with Americans
that a native family can't push its
way in? You paid a certain amount
for a ticket into the hall. And you
drank all the beer you could hold
without charge for individual