The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-05-26

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valuable asset"
"Oh YEAH" was the reaction Of
Private Oscar Purkey today. ut
all depends on the WAC. Personally
would not marry no girl for her
military experienced
"N0w II she Is Just q private
maybe II would not be so bad, al
though think IL does no good to
marriage to have the wife used to
military routine, to driving trucks
maybe and to sleeping four or six
to room. And IL she Is a officer,
no dice!
"Once a girl has got used to being
saluted it is bad business. She
will think she always rates it. Also
wife who has been officer, even
If just a corporal will be used to
| giving orders that she will never
want to just give hints when she
wants something. If there are any
words which does not fit in the lam
guage of love they is Attention.
On the double!' and Forward
march,
"And how is a CT. gonna get a
wife all excited over what he done
in the war if she was in it too? She
could even have more citations than
he ever got! A husband should be
hero to his wife and it won't be
easy If she also has decorations.
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"Yeah, there may be some adj
vantages. / guess wife from the
WACs would be handy around the
house. She could change the tire,
fix the carburetor, find out what
blew out the fuse and everything like
that. And she would be satisfied
with just couple of hats year.
"But I would net marry no WAC,
as swell as they are. They are
great gals. But they will of got the
army spirit and met lot of other
WACs and all their lives they will
be packing and rushing off to Chi
cage, Boston and San Francisco for
annual conventions and reunions.
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"And another thing. II man
marries a WAC who gets up and in
vestigates noises at night?"
About Arlene, the WAC of WACs,
had something to say. II don't
know whether I'll make a better
wife," she said, "but I will need a
better husband. The army has shat
tered a lot of illusions about men.
They no longer wow me as superior
creatures.
"War has made us girls self re-
liant, independent, tough and prac-
teal. We will never be awed again
by a man just because he is good
looking, has a deep voice and is
rather sweet. But / don't think I'd
marry a military man anyhow. Who
wants to sit up all night comparing
battle experiences?"
Belated Confession to a Criminal
Past
We see where some men have
landed in court for selling some
little pills on the claim that, dropped
into a gas tank, they will increase
mileage. Well, we don't know any,
thing about this particular case, but
the arrest makes us tremble little.
For back in our boyhood days we
were party to similar project.
With old Bob Lyman, who used to
be cashier on the New Haven Regis
ter, we became New England agents
for a gasoline energizer. Mr.. Hy-
man shared our burning yen to get
into business We read about a pill
that would give more pep to gaso-
line. Gas then cost only around IL
cents a gallon, but is was thought
pretty costly.
We acquired the agency by the
simple process OF putting up Few
dollars and providing an address to
which the pellets could be shipped.
We received several crates of them.
Several natives tried them free and
announced that they not only in
creased mileage but gave a car
wings. However, nobody seemed
inclined to try them out on a cash
basis. The pills must be in Bob
Hyman's cellar even now.
4 The Nazis claim they have a new
secret weapon which can freeze
people to death at 500 yards. Some
thing that has as its basic element
Hitler's blOodstream. we under
stand.
With all but the choicer cuts OF
beef point-free there is some chance
of a hamburger becoming almost
as good as hamburger.
), A druggist who has served seven
years in prison has been found in
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