One active on a ranch

              Tribune







Des Moines, Iowa







On £ Ranch







By Herbert G. Owens.







Nineteen army trucks, with stiff springs and hard, un-cushioned seats, Monday inaugurated hundreds of WAACs   into  the  rigors   of







army life.







They transported carload after carload from railroad stations to Fort Des Moines army post.







From the corners of the nation came the WAACs. Deep sun-tanned girls from southern California and Arizona; pale "flowers of womanhood" from the deep south; an alert bevy of style and gayety from Albany and Buffalo, N. Y.; friendly rivals of Oregon and Washington; from Chicago, Wisconsin, and New York City they came.







Among the girls were school teachers, telephone operators, bookbinders, a deputy sheriff, a polo-playing rancher, many social workers. From the east were some j who have served as civilians air raid wardens. From Arizona came a girl reporter. There were stenographers and secretaries, a Negro family life and housing consultant. Most of them had college degrees; others had. much t