WOMEN'S CLUB SPEECH - CONTINUED I said a few moments ago that unless preducticn was increased there would be a shcrtage in a few months. People will say to ycu, perhaps, that the war may be over in a few menths - that the war with Germany, at least, is fairly sure to be over in a few months. Perhaps it will - I dcen't know enough ®ven to make a guess abcut it. But let's not insist that something is sure to happen Simply because we want it to happen. Let's remember that in September of 1940 adolf Hitler was sure England would be beaten in «© few months - and most of us here agreed with him. Let's remember that in the summer cf 1941 most of us here were sure that Russia would be beaten and out of the war in a few months. «and then let's ask curselves if Germany is very much worse off now than Britain was in 1940 and Russia in 1941. And even if Germany shculd be out of the war in a few mcnths, there will still be Japan = and there will still be a need for great quantities cf heavy gun ammunition, and for people to make it. Things are going well for us in the war with Japan now, but we still have a long way to go; our army hasn't yet fought the great Japanese Army in China, an army made up of several millicn well-trained, cruel fanatics. We are capturing islands and we have begun to bomb Japan itself - but on the mainland of asia - and that's where most of the Japanese army is - the Japs have built a great industrial empire, The fall of Hengyang a few weeks ago gave the Japanese land communicaticns between the raw material areas in the South and their factories in the North; their army will be near those great bases of supplies, but our army will huve to fight a good five thousand miles frem its home bases, Let's not allow ourselves te indulge in wishful thinking - let's not allow this war tc last longer because we want so much to believe that it's almost over. JI cannot think of anything worse than having scme of the men frem this community - cur husbands, sons, or brothers - fail to come back because we had insisted that the war would be over in a few mcnths, Just what can we do? A great many things are being done, and will be done, und we can't all be on the committees that are doing them. But I believe that if the women of a com= munity like curs really decide that they want scuabhine to be done it is dene, al Our job, as I seo it, is to make this community thoroughly and completely and everlastingly conscicus of the importance of WOMEN'S CLUB SPEECH = CONTINUED more people going to work @& the Sunflower Ordnance Works. We can talk about it anywhere and everywhere, and all the time, so that whether or not yeu or I know someone who can actually take a job in the plant, there will be so much talk about it that the people whe can take these jobs will hear about it. Perhaps scme of you have occasionally heard some man™ imply - I say imply - that women do a good deal of talking. All right - let's show them what happens when we really talk} Let's talk so much about the need for more workers #t the Sunflower Ordnance Works, and the reasons for that need, that every single human being for miles around will hear all about it and will keep on hearing ubout it! So it's up to us, ladies. If we want to de this thing, wé can do it - and there is no doubt in my my mind that we do want te do it - not when we think about the choice we are faced with. This is the choice: more workers at the Sunflower Ordnance Works, more powder fer big shells produced in the Sunflower Ordnance Works - or - more american boys killed in France, Italy and Germany, in Burma and in the Pacific Islands, and in China........fewer Americans coming home when the war is over.......fewer of our boys coming home, here, to us. - 19 = MORE FACTS FOR FIREPOWER CARAVAN COMMITTEE 1. General Increased and increasing aerial bombardment over Europe and the increased use of heavy artillery in the European theatre, as well as newly expanded production of heavy artillery, have combined to necessitate the production ‘of more and more heavy ammunition, As direct result, ordnance explosives manufacturing works and am= munition loading plants, sharply cut back last year, must be returned to near-peak production. War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt stated again on 1 august that 50,000 additional workers must be found before the end of this year to keep the big guns of our invasion forces blusting at the enemy. On 1 august Lieutenant General Somervell said: "During the early part of 1944, battle experience proved that it was nece«sary to increase sharply the use of heavy and medium artillery. This decision, taken in connecticn with increasing combat expenditure rates called for in projected operations, required an increase in 1944 computed required production of six million rounds. In terms of production rates, the approved expenditure culls for increasing heavy and medium artillery ammunition loading rates from the May production of 500,000 rounds to a monthly rate of 23 million rounds within a comparatively short period." A number of explosives and shell-loading plants were cut-back lust year for three reasons: 1) by the intro- duction of new methods plants were able to produce at 140 to 160 per cent of estimated capacity; 2) estimated requirements had been set when neither the full power of Russian arms nor Russia's production capacity was fully known; 3) both Russia and England reduced their lend- lease requirements for certain ordnence items. Now cur present offensives and our very successes make necessary greatly increased production from many of these plants that were cut hack last year. In two years of operation, for instance, the 8th Air Force has dropped 300,000 tons == 1,600 pounds a minute day and night -- of high explosive on Germany and occupied Europe. In our invasion of the South of France on 15 August the Navy laid down a barrage of 15,900 heavy-caliber shells. - 20 = GOOD LUCKY A month from now, the Army hopes that you can leaf through this book’=— by that time, dog-cared, dirty and torn -- and say eee "Yes, our Committee did a good jobe "The speeches were made. The ads were published. Ths radio spots were broadcast, The handbills were dis» tributede The stories were run in the paperse "Wo really pitched in and did the thing up brown." For eee If you can say this to yourself, and the other Firepower Caravan Cormittees in this soction can say it to thomselves, the Army can says; "Looks as if wo’arentt going to have any more wor ries about’that plante It was a tough problem and it had us worried, but it's sure turning out the stuff we need now." Mighty important stuff. Stuff that can save a lot of livess You're performing a very valuable service for your country when you help out on this assignment. =~ 21 «= EDITORIAL ROOMS THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BEN HIBBS FOUNDED BY THE CURTIS EDITOR Fil» PUBLISHING COMPANY : PHILADELPHIA 5 November 2, 1944 Dear Dr. Allen:. Thanks for your friendly note. I will look forward to having the material from youe Sincerely, Ln Robert Fuoss Managing Editor Dr. Forrest C. Allen RF* gm (- December 8, 1944. Mr. Robert Fuogs, Editor, Managing The Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Mr. Fuoss;: I am enclosing a copy of a letter I received today from Mr. Jack Copeland, sports editor of the Wichita Beacon. I was in Wichita last week speaking at the Pather and Son banquet, but my schedule did not permit me to make connections with Mr. Copeland. I am sending his letter for your perusal. When yow editorial is published a more comprehensive under- standing of the gambling evil will be manifest to yow millions of readers. And a deeper significance will be realized because a publi- cation of your character took cognizance of the coming danger. While the newspapers doubtless will play their part in awakening the public, the fact that they are published every day makes what we might call a monotonous continuity, and people are apt to forget more readily. The deepening effect of yow timely article will stir anew the friends of clean athletics and those who are on the side of law and order. I am — with great pleasure the coming of your editorial. Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, PCA:AH Varsi ty ‘Basketball Coach. EDITORIAL ROOMS THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BEN HIBBS FOUNDED BY THE CURTIS EDITOR Fy ie PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA 5 November 27, 1944 Dear Dr. Allen: Many thanks for the extra information you sent me and for your good words about the editorial. I will let you know approximately when it is to appear. Sincerely, Robert Fuoss Managing Editor Dr. Forrest C. Allen RF*gm 2::E = ees iid wm a a , a é, Ri n El ’ i El S Et i Hie 4 at “ a1 et ay a cl a ; arf Keyejenmmneef ® Ri ae : PHILBROOK ART GCENTER A PROPERTY OF THE SOUTHWESTERN ART ASSOCIATION 2727 SOUTH ROCKFORD ROAD TELEPHONE 4-7141 TULSA 5, OKLAHOMA VIGTOR GC. HURT, PRESIDENT BERNARD FRAZIER, ART DIRECTOR October 17 9 1944 lire Forrest Ce Allen, Director of Physical Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kase Dear Forrest, Thanks to you for your nice letter and for the copy of *Rebounds*' It contained the first word I have had from many of the follows - including Tepe” Huntere The tradegy of his casualty strikes me about the same as it does youe He was the kind we need more of in the athletic world. I am very glad you and Mrs. Allen had the ‘chance to visit Philbrooke It really is a very nice place and I am very fortunate to be here, but be assured there is no chance that I shall ever get over being lonesome for Lawrence. It seems such a very short time ago that I walked into your office a wide-eyed high school kid, that it almost seems that it could happen again. Thanks for your friendship and your every effort in my behalf during all the years. Sincerely yours. 7 Art Directore | BF/f. - October 26, 1944. . Mr. H. F. Plaugher, Athietic Director, Spearville, Kansas. Dear Mr. Flaugher: , he beck you are asking about is entitled "Better Basket~ » published by McGraw-Hill end Company, of New York. The au i Suan end if you will send me your check or money order for $4.10 to cover mailing costs, I will be happy to autograph a book and send it to you by return mail. This is more satisfactory than smnding it c.o.d. because this would cost you twenty or thirty cents more. I am sending you some descriptive material on the text _ @0 that you may know something more of its contents. | Thenking you for your inguiry, and trusting to hear from you again at an early date, I an Very sincerely yours, rivedted of Physical Education, FCAAH - ee Basketball Coach. Enc. October 10, 1944, Mr. Bervraréd Frazier, Philbrook Art Museum, — Tulea, Oklehoma. Dear Poco: : It was good to see you located so pleasantly and beautifully. I want t congratulate you on the fine oe you heve there. Sorry I didn't have longer to eit down and talk about the old times when. you used to win championships for Keneas on the track teem, Those are the days, I know, that you would like to talk about. ) I am sending you a Jayhewk Rebounds, the monthly ee ee ee our mailing list. With best wishes, I am Very sincerely yours, Director of Phyaioal Education, PCAsAH - _ Varsity Basketball Coach. October 10, 1944. Coach Henry Frnka, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dear Henry: 7 I was sorry that I did not get to see you to tell you hood-by when I left Tulsa, tut I want you te know that we aa uiiventaive ul? kindness and consideration in treating the Kansas football te team with deep consideration. You could have licked them sixty without applying too mich pressure, but — your sportsmanship and gentility dictated otherwise. Congratmlations on your highly efficient blocking and tackling, = the best that I have seen in many moons. I think I should make an explanation regarding the bill that I left at the Hotel Tulsa. When Ernie Quigley could not go down he asked me to go down and invited Mrs. Allen to accompany me, saying that he would pay her expenses. So I am writing Ernie a memo and you will hear from hin | making any readjustments that are necessary on the entire travel trip. It may be a few days, but I am sure that a letter from him will arrange financial mtters satisfactorily. I assure you that I enjoyed ow trip to Tulsa. You have a great environment and a most hospitable ang consider- ate group. Please convey to Mrs. Frnka our congratulations andi best wishes over your highly successful team. We enjeyes every contact we made. r With continued best wishes for your high suecess, I am Very sincerely yours, Director of Physical Education, FCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach. September 28, 1944. My. Howard Henry Frank, 2024 Hillyer Place, Washington, D. C. Dear Friend Howard; Permit me to congratulate you, as well as Mrs. Eleonore Starke Battey, upon your marriage on August the fourteenth. While rather belated in my congratulations, they are none the less sincere. You have waited quite some time to take unto yourself @ blushing bride, but by this act you have show that your judgment is mature aid sound. All my good wishes to you and your good wife for a long, happy and prosperous wedded life. : : fam sending you the latest issue of Jayhawk Rebounds, feeling that you might be interested in the whereabouts of some of the boys and their activities. I write these monthly letters to the boys in my effort to do my bit in keeping them well informed of their buddies ' who are doing a sweil job. With all good wishes, I an - Very sincerely yours, 3 Mireetor of Physical Education, FCA: AH Varsity Basketball coach. — A Home ghee Ma feat of Spitinder L024 Hillyer Lace Washinglon: DE. Me. Cleonore Starke Baltey Me Howard Henry SLrank on Minday. Sagust Me fourteenth Nineteen handwed and forty four HEADQUARTERS. ARMY AIR BASE Office of the Physical Training Officer WRFE-F—b Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma 15 September 1944 Dr. Forrest C, Allen Physical Education Department University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Doc3 I enjoyed your Jay-hawk Rebounds immensely and anxiously await each edition. I am still at Will Rogers Field, and the interest in basketball keeps growing by the hour for the coming season. The men All ask for a game with K. U. We could make a trip to Kansas and hope you can schedule us for home and home games, Our team ranked fifty-second in the nation on Dick Dunkels ratings last year, and third in the Army Air Forces, This year we have Corporal Ed Milkovich, formerly of Duquense University, and none other than Charlie Black at one of our sub-bases, so we may be able to give you a good game. I can't think of anything that I would like better than bring the team to Lawrence. With best wishes for a successful season, I remain Sincerely, (Lek CHESTER K. FRIEDLAND Captain, Air Corps Base Physical Training Officer BOULDER, COLORADO oe : FINANCIAL ADVISERS LAWRENCE, KANSAS (A kp WA A G E M E. N : ORGANIZATION ADVISERS COLUMBIA, MISSOURI aH CG Te AUDITS - BUDGETS LINCOLN, NEBRASKA SYSTEMS - SUPPLIES PUBLICATIONS 3 to i aternities and Sororities BUILDING ANALYSIS ESTABLISHED IN 1929 DIRECTOR Cc. H. FREEARK Office of the Director September 4, 1944 Mr. Forrest C. Allen Department of Physical Education University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Dear Mr. Allens I just returned yesterday from my vacation and found your letter awaiting me. Enclosed please find my check for $10.00. I had a delightful vacation and feel well pre- pared for a rather strenuous year. “1 Lou a 8 2 CHF/em Enc, EDITORIAL ROOMS THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BEN HIBBS FOUNDED BY THE CURTIS EDITOR Fi tank PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA 5 January 16, 1945 Dear Dr. Allen: One of our editors, Day Edgar, is a personal friend of Asa Bushnell. With that explanation, I think the attached correspondence is self- explanatory. Hope you are having a good season out there. Sincerely, Robert Fuoss Managing Editor Dre Forrest C. Allen RF*gm January 15,1945 Mr. Asa S. Bushnell Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics Madison Avenue and 43rd Street New York 17, New York Dear Mr. Bushnell: Day Hdgar has handed me your pleasant letter about our recent edi- torial on basketball gambling. You are right in assuming that we were in touch with Phog Allen before publication of the editorial but, frankly, I do not feel at liberty to retail the information that Allen gave me in confidence. I feel sure, however, that Phog himself would be only too glad to tell you anything and everything that he told me. As evidence of my sincerity in this statement, I am forward- tng a OOpy of this letter to Doctor Allen. I should point out, however, that our editorial was an aound: exclusively on Allen's information. I personally talked to more than a dozen top-flight coaches before publication of the Post editorial and, As iia our statement was on the mild side. I do not wish to bore you with my personal opinions, but I do believe emphatically thet you officials of collegiate athletics are asking for a poke on the jaw by your something-less-than forthright handling of a nasty messe As you doubtless recall, we had a potential national scandal here in Philadelphia last winter. While Ingerman was eventually found "innocent," the status of college basketball was certainly not improved by the ugly whis- pers that went unchallenged for weeks. As a matter of fact, there are a lot of people, including some sportswriters, who still think young Albie would never be mistaken for Snow White. For last-minute evidence that you are still far from over the hump on the gambling matter, I refer you to the attached clipping about Nat Holman's dramatic gesture in the Garden Wednesday night. Now I ask you! Should a col- lege coach consult the gambling odds before deciding on his strategy? The reason I am writing you at such length is that I want to make my own end the Post's position completely clear. In common with millions of other people, we have a deep interest in, and respect for, college sports. Wr. Bushnell ~2- January 15, 1945 We think it would be a shame if these millions lost that interest and respect. On the other hand, we do not believe that a hush-hush policy ever solved any problem--or will solve the gambling headache. We lauded Allen because he was at least courageous enough to say that there is a problem. Even that publicity has increased the vigilance of a lot of people. Eventually, unless action now invisible is taken, I suspect that there will be enough editorial comment, favor- able or unfavorable, to force collegiate officials to do something other than deplore the fact that editors are impudent enough to comment on the ~~ of college athletics. I assure you that the Post will be tremendously interested Pag see what the NCAA does by way of self-regulation. In the meantime, I'm not going to back down on our statement about professional baseball. I still think that, confronted with a thing like the Garden gambling charges, the late Jadge Landis would have made the fur fly long before now. | ‘Sineerely, Robert Fuoss Managing Editor RF*gm enc ° Mr. Robert Fuoss, Managing Réitor, The Saturday Evening Post, Philadelphia, Ps. Dear fir. Puoss: “fhis letter calls for el but I want to ee we on smoking out the N.C.A.A. “fhe N.C.AsA. recognizes the damage already done by this situation (gambling) through re- sultant publicity civen msubstianted charges of malpractice in college sports and a conse- quent undermining of public confidence in the integrity ef such athletics." Ien't that e laugh? And then to think that Net Holman, who had played professional basketball for yeare, and would win by so many — points and tell the outfit before the game was played just how many eS ee ee es points the opponents would get. Now fearless Nat stands up and says if the gamblers are going to run basketball, the sooner he is through with it the better. In that lily-white city Nat discovers they are gambling! No periodical could have done the job.with such emphasis as did your article. ee oe smack’ Very sincerely yours, PCA:AH Varsity Basketball Coach, \ EDITORIAL ROOMS a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BEN HIBBS FOUNDED BY THE CURTIS EDITOR Fi Sok PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA 5 January 5, 1945 Dear Dr. Allen: I am mighty grateful to you for your friendly note and for the copy of the Bushnell letter. I will be interested to see what, if anything, the NCAA does. Under separate cover, I am returning the clippings and letters you so kindly sent. Sincerely, hivuthn Robert Fuoss Managing Editor Dr. Forrest C. Allen RF*gm