DAILY NEBRASKAN
Friday, September 24, 1943
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"It's Women We Want," Say
Soldiers in Search of Fun
Reports from Camp White, Ore.
tell us that two WACs came back
from a Saturday night excursion
to town laden down with pack
ages. Opening of the bundles re
vealed black satin night gowns.
aquamarine evening gowns, patent
leather slippers, etc.
You guessed it -they, just
wanted to try them on occasion
ally so they could get that "old
civilian feeling back.
Things that are hard to believe:
Each member of one unit of the
99th Division was ordered to dig a
slit trench. When the inspecting
ofifcer counted them he found he
had one more than there were
men in the outfit. No one knew
where it came from.
What's in a name? Plenty, bud.
Second Lt. Leon J. Penny was
named to replace 2nd Lt. Fred Z.
Nichols at Camp Stewart, Georgia.
The job: Payment of troops.
Gl Misuse.
This is the song of a Gl muse
Lumbering along in Gl shoes,
Sung to a sort of Gl tune
Under a Gl southern moon.
Gl's loaded with Gl clothes,
I'm tired of Gl hose,
G how I'm sick of Gl issue
And, oh my darling, Gl missue.
Gl long for a Gl pass
Far from the dusty Gl grass.
I'm so darned tired of Gl whirls
With the usual crop of Gl girls.
Gl adore you, darling mine
(GI'm tired of this Gl rhyme)
But GI'm happy and I'll tell you
why;
Ours is a love that is not Gl.
By Lt. Roy L. Wilhelm,
North Africa.
Here's an oldie that's still
funny . . .
Sentry: Halt, who goes there?
"Officer of the day."
"Well, what in the hell are you
doing out at night?"
And while we're on corn . . .
Sarge: Hey, yardbird, what's the
Idea of calling your girl "Hot-lips'?"
Buck: Oh, that's just her neck-
name.
What! Not enough yet? Well .
.Soldier, on convoy: Sir, I'm be
ginning to feel seasick. What'll I
do?"
Officer: Don't worry. You'll do
it."
And at the U. of Nebraska (re
member?), because of the short
age of delivery help, soldiers sta
tioned in the Star Unit at the ag
college, deliver 1,800 bottles of
milk, three times a day.
One note of further optimism in
the news is the postcard received
by the Naval Academy. From an
Italian prisoner in the United
States, it requests two reserved
seats for the annual Army-Navy
football game.
The aviation students don't want
a paper dolly to call their own;
they all want a real live girl to
share the kind of fun they have
decided is tops. As a matter of
fact, they don't care what kind
of entertainment is provided as
long as plenty of girls are present.
Dancing heads the list of enter
tainment pastimes, say Jerry Du
Mont from New York and Art
Ilavenhill of Chicago. All the
boys, 400 of 'em, give their okay
to the terpsichoreal art. Harold
Kllington, Morehead, Ky., would
like someone to go bowling with
him, and several AS's are horse
lovers. They'd love to go horse
back riding with some girls . . .
gallop, ho!
Picnics are musts with the De
troit boys, John De Wolf and
Richard Ettling, while Harry
Ferris, Hollywood, 111., would
much rather roller skate. All the
"librarians" seem to agree on the
same type of fun.
To quote a few: "Are you kid
ding?" replied David Hach with
a Las .Vegas, N. M., twinkle
Clever Jack Forgay, a Sweet
water, Tex., product, raised his
eyebrows and hummed, "Dancing
In the Dark." Then there's Jay
Dudley, Omaha, who said: "Any
kind of Nebraska entertainment is
fine with me."
Then there are always the
dental students whose entertain
ment consists of making girls
smilo so they can search for in
lays. And the STARs like to
stroll In the rain. To sum it all
up, Ira Douthitt. Nashville, Tenn.,
divulges the fact that girls, girls,
girls are enough entertainment
for anyone. That's the story.
Dancing, picnics, sports, walking;
they're all approved.
Due to Flics
Polio Increases
Says lowan
The increased prevalence of
infantile paralysis this year may
find an answer in a correspond
ing increase in the house fly popu
lation. Hies may carry the
feared "polio" as well as small
pox, typhoid fever and other in
fectious diseases.
Protection of health requires
that special precautions be taken
to rid the home of flies, H. L.
Gunderson, extension entomologist
at Iowa State college, declares.
The first step should be the clean
ing up of common fly breeding
places like 'manure piles, for it is
both quicker and more effective
to dispose of flies before they
reach the adult stage. Treatment
of manure piles, using one ounce
of borax per bushel of manure,
will prevent fly breeding. How
ever, it reduces the fertilizer value
of the manure.
Exit Flies.
If breeding places cannot be
eliminated, it is essential that flies
be kept out of the house, Gunder
son said. Windows and doors
should be well screened, A strong
spring should assure automatic
closing of screen doors. Worn oul
screens should be replaced or re
paired.
Commercial sprays now on the
market contain effective synthetic
effective insecticides. After spray
ing a room, flies should be swept
up and burned as they may he
paralyzed by the spray but are not
always killed. Fly traps and
stlckly fly paper also are effective.
A good homemade poison is
made by mixing 1 tablespoon
formalin or Va tablespoon pure
formaldehyde with Y pint of milk
and Vi pint of water. Place poison
in a saucer with a piece of bread
in the center. Red crepe paper In
the saucer may serve as a warn
ing to keep .children and pets out
of the poison.
If transAtlantlc airplane speeds
ever reach 720 miles an hour, the
flying time between the United
States and Great Britain would be
about five hours.
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