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Biggest difficulty of the WAAC, which affects recruiting the most, is one neither Congress nor the Corps can cure. That is the attitude of the public, which has stopped thinking of Japs as funny little fellows, but which still fails to take seriously the need for women in war. To help change a public opinion clouded by a poor press, by mistaken glamor and misplaced publicity, the WAAC fortnight ago picked a new advertising agency.
Preliminary studies showed that the main resistance to WAAC recruiting is not among women, but among the men in every woman's life—American men are notoriously softheaded about their women. WAACs remembered Britain's ordeal before women warriors were recognized, wondered if anything less than the hard urgency of military necessity could break this sentimental slavery.