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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1943
Victory Speakers Tour Plan Expands
The popularity of the Victory speakers, who have just finished a week of intensive speech engagements throughout the eastern part of the state, has made Prof. E. C. Buehler, originator of the group, even more enthusiastic about his idea.
"These students, who have public by giving informative speeches to civic clubs and high school assemblies on their tour, are becoming increasingly popular," said Professor Buehler, "and now we have more demands for speakers than we can take care of."
students, who have been presenting war facts to the
Prof. Buehler started this idea of having students give informative speeches to the public, because he was encouraged by a similar arrangement in connection with Navy day last fall, he said. At that time he had nine speakers who talked before 32 different audiences making up a total of 6,500 people.
Since he has begun the plan, Professor Buehler said that he has "received so many favorable reports from school systems and civic clubs that I am encouraged to go on and set up Victory Speakers of informative speeches which give the public tools to think with."
Jessie Farmer, education senior; Jack Parker, College senior and freshman medical student; Newell Jeukins, College junior; Bill Hough, College sophomore; Eddie Hanson, College senior; and Judson Goodrich College junior, are the six Victory Speakers at the present time. Edith Ann Fleming, College junior, may join the group later, Professor Buehler said.
"Three or four speeches are given at each stop and the subjects used by the speakers are "Medicine in modern War," "The Miracle of Russia," "How to Pay for This War," and "Tank Warfare." Other subjects which are popular with the speakers are "The Culbertson Plan for Peace" and "The New Geography."
Last week's speaking began Sunday night at Haskell Institute; Tuesday night the Victory Speakers spoke at the Trinity Lutheran Church; Thursday noon, the Kiwanis Club in Kansas City, Kan.; Wyandotte High School, Thursday afternoon; and Bonner Springs Rotary Club Thursday night. Friday they traveled to Humboldt, Chanute, and Garnett to speak. On Friday they were accompanied by Bernard "Pooc" Frazier, but earlier in the week Professor Buehler traveled with the speakers.
Pending engagements for the Victory Speakers include Bonner Springs high school and probably a civic club in Kansas City Tuesday,
the Cooperative club in Topeka April 20, and another tour, this one lasting for two days, including Belleville high school and chamber of commerce and other towns enroute. For the rest of April Professor Buehler has a tentative schedule for the Rotary and Kiwian clubs in Garnett, the Rotary club and high school in Ottawa, the Kiwian club in Iola, and the Yates Center high school.
Negro Alumna Now Is WAAC
Auxiliary, Hazel L. Washington, Negro school teacher and writer of Kansas City, Kan., and Marietta and Atlanta, Ga., is enrolled in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps at First WAAC Training Center, Fort Des Moines, Ia. Her Auxiliary rating is the WAAC equivalent of Private in the Army.
Auxiliary. Washington's one act play, "Marginal Man," a study of the racial problem written 1935 when she was a student at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., was broadcast over radio station KFKU in Lawrence and is soon to be published in a collection of one act plays by Negro college students which is being compiled by Atlanta University. She has also written a three act play, "Down on the Sni," based on the youth of her parents on the River Sni in Missouri, and has written a group of one act religious plays for Sunday school children.
Auxiliary Washington, who was enrolled in the WAAC in Kansas City, Kan., on Jan. 14, wrote "Girl of the WAAC," a one act play for the WAAC recruiting office there during the three days following her enrollment.
She won honorable mention in a poetry contest with the entry "God's Tree" at the University of Kansas in 1935 and during the same year won a prize for an article published in Opportunity Magazine in New York City, a publication of the Urban League. Another of her poems, "Aspiration," was published in the
Colburn, Fultz To Give Recitals
Two senior recitals are scheduled by the School of Fine Arts this week, featuring Helen Colburn and Margaret Fultz.
Miss Colburn will present her senior voice recital at 8 o'clock Tuesday night in Fraser theater. Her program will include compositions by Schubert, Rachmaninoff, and Pecca. Miss Colburn will sing several numbers with violin obligato by Eugene Ninger. Margaret Dunn will be the accompanist.
Miss Colburn is a member of the University A Cappella choir, with which she has done solo work, and the Wesleyan choir of the Methodist church.
Margaret Fultz, pianist, will present a recital at 8 o'clock Wednesday evening in Fraser theater.
Included on the program will be "Sonata in A Major," by Charles Wakefield Cadman. Mr. Cadman presented a concert of his own compositions at the University several years ago.
Miss Fultz is a member of Mu Phi Epsilon, national music sorority.
English Department Exhibits Poetry, Stories By Benet
Some of the works of Stephen Vincent Benet, American poet and author, are now on exhibition on the second floor of Fraser hall. Benet, who died recently, was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship in 1926, and in 1929 he received the Pulitzer prize.
Arts Quarterly at Dillard University in 1939. Since her arrival at Fort Des Moines, she has started work on "Brown Girl in Khaki," a narrative poem based on her experiences in the WAAC.
Auxiliary Washington graduated from Western University in Kansas City in 1932, received her AB degree from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan., in 1935, and attended Atlanta University in Atlanta, Ga., from 1936 to 1938. At the University of Kansas she was president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority for two years.
The most famous of Benet's short stories is "The Devil and Daniel Webster" which was made into the moving picture "All That Money Can Buy." Benet's last work was the prose selection accompanying the painting illustrating the "fourth freedom, "freedom from fear," which recently appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.
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Slack Suits Are War Casualty
St. Louis (INS)—Slack suits which have become so popular with women war workers may become a war casualty.
This was the opinion expressed today by members of the Linen Supply Association of America which is in convention in St. Louis. They explained it takes three times as long to launder a pair of trousers as is required for a skirt and that current material shortages may reduce the number of suits available.
AAF Instructs Men To Eat Anything That Monkeys Can Eat
Washington, (INS)—Army Air forces personnel forced down over jungle terrain were advised today that they can eat anything monkey's eat—and eat the monkeys too.
The Office of Safety Education, Army Air Forces, issued this information in a comprehensive guide "Jungle and Desert Emergencies," designed to insure survival in such terrain.
The guide is especially adapted to jungle and desert countries. The cover is bright red, the paper is water resistant, and the binding glue contains insect-repellent powder.
Other instructions in the guide concern such subjects as crash landing, food, water, wild animals, and native populations.
Must Draw Line Now
Washington, (INS) President Roosevelt said yesterday: "To hold the line we cannot tolerate further increases in prices affecting the cost of living or further increases in general wage or salary rates except where clearly necessary to correct sub-standard living conditions."
OPA Will Allow Canning Sugar
Washington, (INS)—The Office of Price Administration has announced that sugar for home canning of 1943 fruit crops will be available on approximately the same basis as last season, with no deduction of blue point stamps for sugar obtained for this purpose.
Roughly, this pattern will be followed;
Housewives will apply to their local rationing boards for allotments of sugar on the basis of one pound for each four quarts of fruit that they plan to can, and, in addition, for one pound for each member of the family.
The announcement culminated a long fight within OPA over the issue of whether point stamps would be required for sugar for home canning.
Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown ruled out this proposal, however. Brown contended that the deduction of point stamps was impracticable and probably would involve considerable ill-will against OPA.
"The allotment of sugar for home canning reflects my desire to see America's housewives preserve the fullest possible amount of the 1943 fruit crop," he said. "We cannot afford to let fruit go bad for want of sugar to preserve it; even though sugar itself is rationed."
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