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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, APRIL 23, 1945
Kansan Comments Folks Back Home Will Miss News About Sons From Favorite Writer
With Ernie Pyle died one of the strongest links between the American fighting man and the folks back home. More than anyone else he humanized the most complex and mechanized war in history. His earthy columns carried the realness of war because they told the story of the G.I.
Early in his war correspondent career, when the ranks were beginning to push back the Germans in North Africa, the shy self-conscious columnist learned that his job was not with the generals and their stratagems but with the one-time garage mechanics, clerks, and taxi drivers who had no one else to tell their story. At first he wrote as a conventional war correspondent covering the news as the others did. The change came one day as he was rushing across a North African airfield to attend a press corps meeting with Admiral Darlan. To dodge the spattering bullets of diving Stukas, Mr. Pyle dived into a ditch just behind a G.I. The soldier was killed the next instant. The correspondent's publishers received a story of the stranger who had died in the ditch.
Overnight Ernie Pyle became America's most popular journalist because he was writing of the men about whom people at home wanted most to hear, the little man, the G.I.'s in the trenches.
Ernie Pyle said that he was really a letter writer—"so the folks back home can see it the way it is," but he did more than write chatty letters. He brought the life and the problems of the American soldier to the realistic level. Even the War Department and the high command in the field, arting the Pyle columns as top morale-builders, scanned his columns for hints and even adopted his suggestion to give soldiers 50 per cent extra pay for combat service.
Silver Star Awarded Posthumously to Grad, Capt. James Hartzell
The Silver Star, awarded posthumously to Capt. James S. Hartzell, has been presented to his widow, Mrs. Helen A. Hartzell, 1525 New Hampshire street, by Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris, CAC, representative of the commanding general of the Seventh Service command.
The citation stated that when his tank was subjected to direct enemy artillery fire on July 7, 1944, Captain Hartzell sustained severe burns about the face and hands. He refused medical aid until he had driven to the rear, obtained supplies of fuel and ammunition, and brought them forward to his company.
The late Captain Hartzell was graduated from the University in 1941. He completed the full ROTC course in June 1941 and received his commissioned in July. He sailed for overseas duty in February 1944. At the time of his death in combat he held the rank of captain and commanded an armored tank company.
The Purple Heart was awarded posthumously to Captain Hartzell in September 1944 for military merit and for wounds received in action.
Surviving Captain Hartzell are his widow, Mrs. Helen A. Hartzell and two children, Ruth Elaine, 3, and Mary Jane, 1.
Capt. Allen to Return Home After Three Years Overseas
Capt. Marvin B. Allen, son of Mrs. Nellie Allen, 1407 Kentucky street, is awaiting transportation home at a rotation camp, according to word received by his mother.
Captain Allen has been in the Pacific area for the past three years in the searchlight anti-aircraft division of the army.
He was enrolled in the University's School of Engineering when he entered the service in 1940.
America will long pay tribute to the man who shortened the distance between the home front and the battlefield, who helped her civilians to understand the sufferings and heartaches of her figthing men.
A.U. Chapter Formed Mass Meeting May 2
Representatives from 23 organizations formed a Lawrence chapter of the "Americans United" organization at a meeting Thursday night.
Officers elected were Prof. H. B. Chubb, president; Prof. F. E. Jones vice-president; the Rev. R. L. Snodgrass, secretary; and Harold Allen, treasurer.
An executive committee was elected consisting of W. W. W. Davis, Mrs. Virginia C. Wilder, Mrs. W. T. Allen, and the Rev. J. E. Kelley.
A mass meeting of the "Americans United" organization will be May 2, Professor Chubb announced. "At this time persons who wish to join the organization may do so," he said. At this meeting they will discuss problems growing out of the San Francisco conference.
Ashton Discusses Art and Literature
Art and literature should be concerned with a symbolic and formal presentation, Dr. John Ashton, professor of English, stressed in his lecture to students in the School of Fine Arts, Thursday.
Dr. Ashton, in his talk on the "Creative Idea," pointed out that science uses analysis, but art and literature use "material variables" and cannot be pinned down to exactness.
The lecture was the second in a series, sponsored by the department of organ and theory, to replace the regular Thursday afternoon recitals. Laurel E. Anderson, professor of organ, introduced the speakers in Fraser theater.
"The artist makes us see things we pass by every day and don't notice," he added, "and he makes us understand them better."
Rock Chalk Talk
By CAROL STUART
He's just a little shaver — Larry Smith, V-12, really shows enthusiasm when he gives speeches for speech class. Choosing the subject, "How to Shave," the other day Larry proceeded to drag out brush, shaving lotion, razor, mirror, and after-shave lotion, and demonstrated the art of shaving before the entire class. Opening with the remark, "You girls think you have a hard time, look what we fellows have to go through to be beautiful." Larry even cut himself once just to prove his point.
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Damn the torpedoes, full speed Burkhead — "Mother" Dona Burkhead, Chi O, has decided that she just doesn't have a way with the kiddies. The other day when Chi O sisters deserted Dona and left her to play with some of the five-year-olds around the neighborhood. Dona came into the house with a bulletin wound in her hand. Seems that the little dears saw the whites of her eyes, didn't want to play with her anyhow, so fired some buckshot her way.
The hired HELP!-K-Club members Gordy Reynolds, Lynn Leigh.
Mayberry, Mix Find Dandelion Killer
D-Days at the University may become things of the past only to be remembered by those who dug diligently each spring to help rid the campus of the dreaded enemy of lawns, the dandelion.
"This solution does not kill the plant after one application, Dr. Mayberry said, "but five applications a year for about two years should kill the plant entirely."
Last fall these two men sprayed the dandelions in front of Snow hall with a ferrous-sulphate, a well-known chemical used on the invaders of lawns. Two sprayings were done last fall and another this spring. The results have been satisfactory, Dr. Mayberry reports. A marked contrast is evident in front of Snow hall where the experiment was performed. The golden flowers are now nothing more than black ashes.
Many will appreciate the elimination of this day of work that has become simplified through experimentation by Dr. M. W. Mayberry and Dr. A. J. Mix, professors in the botany department.
Bob Miller, Jim Weatherby, and Leroy Robinson obliged the D.G.'s with some fancy waiting on tables last Wednesday night, as a thank you for the number of tickets sold at the D.G. house to the Varsity-Alumni football game. Dressed in white coats and bow ties, the fellows even sang as they served . . . other sorority songs. Taking the spotlight was Lynn Leigh, who ran into the dining-room with fists clenched every time the bell was rung, screaming, "I always come out fighting when I hear that bell." The first time this happened, the other waiters obligingly ran in and mopped Lynn's fevered brow with a rag dipped in a pail of water. The second time they did likewise except that they heaved the pail at a table full of ducking D.G.'s, who were quite amazed to find the pail was full of pieces of paper instead of the expected water.
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Waters Leads Discussion At Y.W.C.A. Coffee
Prof. Leslie L. Waters, professor in the economics department, spoke on the Bretton Woods conference and led a discussion about it at the Third Y. W. C. A. coffee meeting Thursday night.
This discussion, the third in the series, was at the home of Prof. and Mrs. John W. Ashton, 1105 Louisiana. About thirty guests attended.
You Beta he did!—We won't mention any names, for we know that Bobby Weber, V-12, has a violent dislike for this column, but is it true that he really drowned while brushing his teeth the other night?
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"The Young Child and the Working Mother," Miss Mary Elizabeth Evans, educational director of K.U. Nursery School.
9:45 Know France,
"The Literary Mirror of the French Revolutions," R. G. Mahie, Department of Romance Languages.
VISITOR---drank warm buffalo milk and the change was a delight."
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Member of "Deep Order"
On the voyage "home" Jean became a member of the Ancient Order of the Deep when she crossed the equator. The ship came by the way of Australia, missing the war zone.
Jean was born in New York 18 years ago. Her father is associated with the Smithsonian Institute and is an instructor in the West China Union university.
At the age of five she started the travels which have taken her to Canada, Japan, China, French-Indo China, Ceylon, Singapore, French-Somaliand, Egypt, France, Italy, Switzerland, England, Ireland, back to the United States, the Hawaiian islands, to Japan, again, Hong Kong, to her home in Szechwan Province, China, and to India.
Educated In China
Most of her education has been received in China but she went to school one year in India and six months in Rochester, N.Y. She speaks the Chinese dialect spoken in Szechwan Province as well as English.
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