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TALKS TO OROTARIANS, |

W. E. Hoffman Tells of His.
_ periences at Canton, Chita”

Personal experiences at Canton,
‘China, where he was a member of
\ the faculty of Lingnan university, | *

| preceding the attack on Pearl Har-
bor and months following in a
‘Japanese internment camp, were
matters presented by W. E. Hoff-
man to Rotary at luncheon today.
Hoffman, whose father, Herbert
Hoffman, is employed in the build-
‘ing and grounds department of
Kansas University, is an old Law-
rence boy and a graduate of K. U.
| where he studied entomology under
Herb Hungerford, and became so
enamored with his subject ‘that he
has since been a teacher of the sub-

 

ject.

Those, if any, who expected to '
hear a shocking story of cruelt 7
‘and privation, were disappointe
_|for the address was conciliatory,
giving the impression that such
hardships as were endured were:
‘largely such as the Japanese them- |
‘selves suffered because of scarcity |
lin supplies.
_| . Fifteen hundred persons on a
‘tship with normal capacity for a
jthird of the number, made the!
‘|trip to Portuguese India arduous,
because of shortages of water, food |
and room, Lf ;

Professor Hoffman stated that}1
he thought that. American born
citizens of Japanese parents, should
‘tbe accorded full rights of citizen-
ship, unless there were special
jreasons why such could not be}.
| given, and that all other seer ee |
internees and prisoners shoul
treated as we should like to have’
|our American prisoners treated: in
Japanese prisons.

' The address’ was broadcast’ over

-WREN at’2 o’clock this afternoon.
' LL. O. Ringler was inducted as a
new member of Rotary by Club
, Secretary Karl k Klooz,

Married “by by Probate ate Judge
Couples married at the court
house last Friday by Probate Judge
| Frank R. Gray were: Donald Earl
Nuffer and Leona Maxine Howard,
both of Lawrence, and Ralph Gor-}
don Beach, Marysville, Kan.,. and
mily, Irene Wray. of Lawrence, };