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*------------» %r ----- ---- ---a »----are on call all day; they are on duty all the year round—no holidays. not even Christmas or Yom Kippur; no arms are issued to them, and they do not even have a uniform—their only authorized attire and equipment are, a collar and the inevitable dog-tags to be worn at nil times; in winter a fur coat; and in summer a fur coat and “pants.”You’ve guessed it!—Not Commandos. Not Supermen. “Pooches”!The canine corps describes definitely functions under army supervision. indeed, on the nation-wide and service-wide plane, under that of the quartermaster general himself, Major General E. B. Gregory, and of his expert assistant in this respect, Lieutenant Colonel Clifford Smith, Q. M. C. Dogs long since won their laurels in battle and campaign. Accordingly, the army knows dogs and how to train them. In the present instance, wherever the use of dateh-dogs in connection with war production at industrial plants is indicated—and it generally is indicated—the militaryauthorities provide the owners and management personnel with the necessary instructions and supervision to enable them properly to discharge their mandatory responsibility for undertaking adequate counter-measures against air raids, fire, espionage and sabotage.Barring airplanes, which he classifies ingenously along with eagles, buzzards and such, as flightly in their ways but not dangerous, a watch-dog is invaluable in these respects. He is a natural sleuth, prone to investigate dubious sights, sounds, smells and shadows as a matter of principle; he has a constitutional objection to snoopers; while as for fires, anyone who has ever heard the frenzied barking of a trained watch-dog upon detecting smoke or flames in the wrong place will readily comprehend why insurance actuaries love dogs.Norma 11 v there should be one or more watch-does at any industrialit, eagerly yearns that you will vouchsafe to bestow it. All your dog asks for, beside a bone to gnaw and a rug to snooze on. is an occasional nod of approbation from that god-like being, his master; just a random word of praise, an encouraging pat on the shoulder, to make him tingle all over, as four fingers of Scotch would make us humans tingle—don’t forget these small tokens: they’re his only pay....—V...S1IF DID LITTLE THINGS WELL(Condensed from an article by Homer Croy in Your Life Magazine )Naturally you want to do things the easy, careless, slipshod, just-get-by-way. That’s human nature. You have to fight the desire as you would a fire in the basement. What a fine victory if you fight and win. Let me tell you about a girl who fought and won superbly.Elizabeth Gregory MacGill was, oddly enough, studying aerodynamics at the University of Michigan. One day she didn’t feel well. Next day she felt worse, but exams were near and she continued to study until she was so ill that she went to a doctor. He lost no time getting her into a hospital. She had infantile paralysis.There she lay, when it was all over. But she wasn’t licked. Sh^ ’ the spunk to take her college e® from her hospital bed. Not only took them but passed them and became the first woman to graduate from Michigan in aerodynamics.When she came out, on crutches,she W'ent to M. I. T. at Cambridge, Mass., where she studied air currents. She had got one tremendously helpful thing out of her illness, and that was to do little things well —the doctors had been meticulous in their treatment, and she was impressed by their attention to detail and resolved to put the same thoroughness into her work.One dav she wa.s offered a ioh in
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Amarillo Globe
Amarillo, Texas, US
Wed, May 20, 1942
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