The Apache sentinel., 1944-02-18

The -deplOred tightness of CT
pants has been loosened up by the
Quartermaster Corps of the Army
of the United States, which reports
happily that the "seat of the trou-
ble with Army pants is not with the
pants themselves but with the SOL
diers who wear CT trousers"
A recent survey shows that two
out Of five soldiers complain that
their slacks are too tight, but the
fault lies not with the CT measure
ments but in the fact that the men
have rounded out considerably since
they began eating GI food. mo
wonder their pants get too tight.
They weren't that way when we
gave them to them" chuckles the
ON. It is claimed that a lot of men
put on II pounds during their first
month in uniform and some even
more.
CT jokes abound in the myth that
Army PANTS come in only two sizes
-t0o large and too small-and that
GEM trou~erS have "a million sizes,
al wrong Actually, however, there
are 50 different combinations of
waist measurements and leg lengths
ii general issue dress trousers and
IS combinations in work slacks. E.
Sizing Of Army trousers is a more
complex h,I2ines5 nowadays than it
vas a few years ago BSS (before
Selective Servi0el. Before the draft
and the present Army expansion
there w"re nowhere near 80 size
gradatiors. Selec tive Service
brought many new shapes and sizes
into the Army, and many new head
aches 10 ON. filters and tailorS.
The Army's 80 varieties assures a
comfortable fit for every man whose
him pass in a crowd without too
many stares. Patterns for all sizes
provide for l x Inch fold of ma
terial in the seat seam-so that the
pants can be let cut if the soldiers
bulk increases. f$ ~ b
"A The grip of the week: Judy Cam
sova's characterization of Little Red
Riding Hood-''The most sophisti-
Gated girl of her day because she
had met a wolf"
Huskier and heavier, Pvt. Ross
Anderson, eldest son of Sgt. and
Mrs. Kermit E. CAN'T spent a brief
visit ON the Post last week while on
furlough from an Army air field in
South Dakota. It was good to see
him. and apparently he enjoyed see
ing his mother, Mrs. Lenora CAN'T
of the Civilian Personnel Office, his
little brother, Willie Williams, and
his many friends at Fort Huachuca.
"a Ship to Be Remembered, The
Saga of the Hornet" by Alexander
Griffin, is really a book worth read
ing. One of the most dramatic stor-
les of the War-one that the Navy
Department authorizes = it is the
history of the Hornet from the day
of her birth to her last tragic mo-
ment in the Pacific . We recall
(and wonder where he is now the
handsome, young naval officer we
met on the way down to Norfolk on
the G. & 0. in the fall of Al. He
had been assigned to the Hornet
and was he proud of his assign
ment! TRY to come over to the
Base and see her before we leave"
he had invited-but we never got
around to it. :.
s'An American Dilemma: The Ne
gro Problem and Modern Democ-
racy" (E5arper 2 VOLS, $500 is a
survey by the Swedish scholar, SEN
atoe, banker and man of much-rea-
son, Gunnar Myrdal. Reviewers say
the book is charged with 'moralism,
rationalisia and optimism in its
probing of Americas ambivalent
and conflicting attitudes toward Ne
groes. -Myrdal was selected by the
Carnegie Corporation to make tho
thoroughly classic survey because it
was felt that Americans would be
likely to reflect or be affected by
certain historically emotional atti-
tudes and it wanted a scholar from
"a non imparialistic country with
no background of domination of one
race over another"
From Publisher Curtis B. john
son of The Charlotte (N.CD Observ-
er, S/Sgt. Richard Louisiana Man
euvers) Massey recently received
letter in which The Apache Sentinel
was characterized as well gotten
up and very interesting" Massey
thought Apache Sentinel readers
and contributors would appreciate
the North Carolinian'S eValuation.