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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1942
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Signal Corps Officers Here To Get Men
Lieut. F. A. Zimmerman of the Army Signal Corps will speak to physics and electrical engineering students Friday about enlisting and receiving officers' commissions in the communications branch of the ground forces, J. D. Stranathan, professor of physics, announced today. The meeting will be at 9:30 a.m. in the engineering assembly room, Marvin hall, and during the rest of the day Lieutenant Zimmerman will be available for individual conferences with interested students.
Appointments for individual conferences are to be made in Dean J. J Jakosky's office in room 113, Marvin hall.
Students with the needed aptitudes and interest will be granted deferment until graduation. In practice, this program is quite similar to V-7 of the Naval Reserve and will require that applicants take certain courses in preparation for the commissions.
Further information concerning the program can be obtained from V. P Hessler, professor of electrical engineering or Professor Stranathan.
Juniors and seniors in the School of Business are eligible for enlistment in the new Naval Reserve classification, DV(P), the secretary of the National Conference of State University Schools of Business has announced.
Navy Program For Business Students Opens
F. T. Stockton, dean of the School of Business, explained today that information received so far does not specify what divisions of the business school would be eligible, but he believes that all business school students would be accepted in the program.
For further information, students could get in touch with the Kansas City, Mo., recruiting office of the U. S. Naval Reserve or the director of officer procurement, U. S. Naval Reserve, Washington, D. C.
Students with proper educational requirements may enlist as probationary ensigns in the Naval Reserve. An accelerated program of study will not be necessary unless the student wishes to speed up his program in school.
No special duties or requirements for training while in college will be expected of the student, and he receives no pay until he has completed school and graduated. He then goes immediately into the service as an ensign at base pay of $1500, or, with allowances, $182 a month. Work will probably consist of business administration on shore.
Physical requirements are less than in other classifications, for example. 12-20 for eyes.
Pullman Honors Marines
Chicago — (UP) — A pullman car, which will leave Chicago shops early in March, will be named "Wake Island," in honor of the U.S. Marines' heroic defense of the island.
I.S.A. Parades Fashions
Easter Preview
Campus Queens
Twenty-eight models will promenade across the terrace garden setting to the music of Russ Chamber's orchestra and the soprano voice of June Hammett, fine arts junior, at the fashion show sponsored by the Independent Student's Association at 7 o'clock Thursday evening in the ballroom of the Memorial Union building.
Based on John Whitcomb's article in a current popular magazine, titled, "The Girl I'd Like to Marry," the 45 minute fashion show, the third sponsored by I.S.A., will feature what the queens of the campus will
be wearing during the spring season.
A special preview of the Easter Parade, the show, given in cooperation with the merchants of Lawrence, will star the five outstanding personalities of the University of Kansas campus, the Misses Sophisticated, Vivacious, Sporty, Demure, and Girlish.
MacArthur Pledges Truth In Pacific War Accounts
Maurice Hill, a senior in the School of Engineering will announce the models and describe their ensembles. He will also explain the use of substitute materials in place of the war priorities. Those in charge of the show are Mary Gene Hull and Mary Frances Fitzpatrick.
General MacArthur's Headquarters, Australia, March 24 (UP)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today that he and the United States government were going to tell the American public the truth about the war in the southwest Pacific "so they can summon all their confidence, all their determination, all their
The fashion show will be open to everyone. There will be no admission charge.
purpose, in the support of the war effort."
"In democracies it is essential that the public know the truth.
In a statement remarkable for its frankness and its grasp of the broad fundamentals of the war situation, MacArthur appealed for the aid of the press.
"Men will not fight and will not die unless they know what they are fighting for.
"Without it," he added, "we can not get the maximum out of the situation. We need the maximum in order to win."
MacArthur said that he needed the help of correspondents.
"The reasons for the efforts made by the United States and the Australian commonwealth to inform the public and to keep the public informed of what is going on are that if the public do not know the truth their imaginations at once come into play.
He said that newspaper correspondents were one of the most valuable components of a modern army and continued:
Gen. MacArthur recalled how in 1915, when he was a young general staff major, the late Newton D. Baker, Woodrow Wilson's secretary of war, gave him the job of press relations in the war department at Washington.
"It is therefore of prime importance that the public be instructed so they can summon all their confidence, all their determination, all their purpose in support of the war effort."
"I put into the job something of the ideas I have just outlined to you," MacArthur said.
"Since then I have been identified with the press and it has been of the greatest aid and value.
"What I have said does not mean that what we give out here you have to take and use. It does not mean that you have to limit yourselves to canned news. It does not even mean that you have to abstain from criticism.
"But I hope that before you criticize you will avail yourselves of all the facts, and if you do you will find that most of the criticism disappears."
Draft Queries To Be Out Soon
Questionnaires for men who registered under the Selective Service act Feb. 16, will be out soon.
Bruce Cameron, chairman of the local selective service board, said today that questionnaires for the men who registered in Douglas county are ready to be sent out, but no orders have been received as to when the blanks are to be distributed. Cameron has no idea when the orders will come.
Postpone Hill Speech Contest Until April
New Books
Victory Shelf In Watson
Students who wish to keep up with writings on the current war will find the new "Victory Shelf" in Watson library valuable. The shelf, a new addition to the browsing room, will contain the most recent books on world affairs, available for reading anytime.
The books include "Can Christianity Save Civilization," W. M. Horton; "The Imperial Soviets," Henry C. Wolfe; "Shall Not Perish from Earth," R. B. Perry; "Fascism for Whom," Ascoli Feilier; "The Quest for Peace," W. E. Rappard; "The New World," I. Bowman; "A Short History of the 'World Since 1918," J. H. Jackson; "While England Slept," Winston Churchill; "Why Hitler Came Into Power," T. Abel; "German Rampart," E. Hambloch; "Faccusal," Andre Simone; "Japan Case Examined," W. W. Willoughby; "The Caribbean Danger Zone," J. F. Rippy; "Defense for America," containing views of prominent men.
The all-University oratorical contest scheduled for the end of this week will be held sometime during the second week of April, E. C. Buehler, professor of speech, announced today. Plans for this fourth event in the program of speech contests for the year have been changed to avoid conflict with the high school speech festival Friday and Saturday.
Sponsored by the department of speech and drama, the contest is open to all University students. The orations are to be 10 minutes in length and are to be the original work of the contestants. A copy of the speeches, which may be given on any subject, must be submitted before the contest. Twenty-five dollars in cash prizes will be offered.
'Carmen To Come To Hill Soon
The definite date, place, and time of the contest will be announced later. Professor Buehler said.
144,000 Eggs in "Omelet"
Binghampton, N.Y. — (UP) —Eu-gene F. Gauck unintentionally mixed a $4,000 egg omelet when a truck he was driving went into a ditch at nearby Damascus, spilling 12,000 dozen eggs.
The San Carlo opera and ballet company with a traveling group of over 100 members will present the opera "Carmen" by Bizet, in Hoch auditorium at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 8.
Sydney Rayner, who two years ago sang the role of Don Jose with the Metropolitan opera company in New York, will take the part of "Carmen." Mario Valle will take the role of the Toreador, Escamille, and Leola Turner, soprano, will be heard in the part of Miceia.
A symphony orchestra of 30 musicians will play for the 4-act dramatic opera directed by Carlo Peroni. Especially-designed scenery will create the Spanish setting of Seville, the wild and rocky mountain pass near the smugglers' den and the outside of the bull ring in the final act when "Carmen" meets her doom.
Because of the advance sale of season tickets there are only a limited number of reserved seat tickets available.
At least two bus loads of Kansas Citians from the Kansas City Conservatory of Music are expected to be here for the opera.
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