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| Bruce Bairnsfather (c1918) |
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L.W. LOWER IS A DAB AT COLOR SCHEMES in Daily News (Perth, Western Australia), September 23, 1939, p. 21—
Camouflage classes have been started in the Eastern States [of Australia]. We need them here.
The idea of camouflage is to convince observers that you are not where you are, and not even in any place where you're not.
This will apply mostly to buildings and other structures.
But personal camouflage is another matter.
It will be advisable for citizens to carry a variety of paint pots with them.
For ordinary street wear all that is needed is a pot of paint the same color as the pavement.
At the first sign of danger, the head should be plunged into the paint pot, thus deluding the enemy.
Green paint should be poured over the upper portion of the body when one is in a park.
The addition of a dahlia on top of the head will help.
Motors will find it a simple matter to paint the back of a cow on the roof of cars.
A simpler method is to carry an umbrella which looks from the top like a street man-hole.
All you have to do is to sit in the roadway under the umbrella and look like the entrance to a drain.
To make the thing more realistic you should also feel like the entrance to a drain.
In the meantime I am going to persuade the local publican to allow me to use his cellar as an air-raid shelter, starting from today.
He doesn't seem too willing to collaborate, so far.
