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Whenever I tried to inform some self-named realist of our tremendous resources, he'd thrust out his bay window (substitute for brains) and ask for "statistics, little lady, statistics" — you know how men are.
All I could do was go numb. . . . Now I'm all set to educate the realists. This wonderful compiler has put it all down so Mrs. Hinton, housewife, antiquer and garden-weeder not only can see this gigantic problem of limit less resources in peacetime, but can anticipate and relish the coming solution. He is wonderful. Does he have a bay window?
CHICI HINTON
Baytown, Tex.
> Incipient—but no cerebral substitute. —ED.
The Real Christmas
Sirs:
I read with amusement and chagrin the menu which was to be served to all soldiers on Christmas day (TIME, Dec. 27). . . . "Subject to no change except for the most extreme fortunes of battle." To the best of my knowledge, no battle was being fought on or near Fort Benning, Ga.
... I will merely enumerate those courses which we did not get: creamed celery soup with croutons, baked squash, head lettuce with Russian dressing, hot rolls, chocolate nut cake, assorted fruits, candy, nuts, cigarets, tobacco. . . .
(SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD)
Fort Benning, Ga.
Prediction
Sirs:
Your story (TIME, Dec. 27) concerning failure of American women to rush into WAC uniform states "Soldiers who have been in action want their women to join. . . ."
I did not find this to be true among men with whom I served overseas. . . . Many servicemen feel women in uniform waste too much time with military training, travel, etc. . . .
More important, fellows don't want their girls and wives calloused by military service. They want to come home to the same person they left behind. War-plant work is considered by many as more important, and of greater value to the war effort.
Women working in defense plants and home-front tasks release 4-Fs who are capable of every assignment given G.I. gals in the States.
Prediction: compulsory service for women will meet opposition from male members of the U.S. armed forces.
(SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD)
Palm Beach, Fla.
Curious, Dead Japs
Sirs:
You find some strange things on Jap bodies. After routing the remnants of an enemy unit from a difficult jungle ridge with flamethrowers, the following items were found on one deceased Nip:
One Ronson cigaret lighter; one Waltham wrist watch; one U.S.-made nail clipper; a colored picture of a tiger (possibly picked up during the Malayan campaign); a helmet with hollow pads in which was secreted a girl's photograph; a mosquito headnet ful of rice. . . . One other item lying near by turned out to be a white silk shirt, made in Sydney. Don't ask me what a Nip would be doing with a white silk shirt.
JACK M. TUCKER
1st Lieutenant, C.A.C.
c/o Postmaster
San Francisco