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...emergency gas mask that can be made at home was demonstrated in Manhattan last week by the American Women's Voluntary Services. The necessary materials can be found in almost any house: a bathing cap, a small tin can, the transparent cover from a powder-puff box, a bit of wire net (from fly swatters), two handkerchiefs, elastic ribbon, adhesive tape, and (from the drugstore) a few ounces of activated coconut charcoal and soda lime. The principle behind the homemade mask is simple; the assembly is more difficult. The rubber cap is fitted snugly over the face...
When carefully made, this improvised gas mask is effective against all known war gases. But the A.W.V.S. and the War Department are leary of inexperienced workmanship. The least carelessness in fitting the parts of the gas mask together would permit gas to enter. The A.W.V.S. recommends that all such masks be made under its supervision...
...even simpler mask is advocated by Dr. Kearney Sauer of the Los Angeles Citizens' Defense Corps: two twelve-inch squares of bed sheeting with a quarter-inch layer of baking soda between, held in even distribution by crisscross stitching. Dampened and held firmly over the face, this napkin will give temporary protection against any gas, according to Dr. Sauer-but not the Army...
Where the WAACs will fit into the Army remains to be seen. Some of the subjects now in the curriculum: Army cooking, motor transport, aircraft spotting, close-order drill, use of civilian and military maps, practice in gas mask use, leadership, organization of the Army and the WAAC, methods of training and, above all, company administration and property accountability...
Lauchlin Currie denounced Japan's "tawdry mask." He restated "our pledge to deliver to China's veteran armies and experienced generals a striking power that will turn a long and glorious war of resistance into offensive campaigns." He assured the Chinese that President Roosevelt and his advisers "have a full conception of this as a global, worldwide war." He said that China...