UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE EIGHT
SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1942
Enrollment Increases In Defense Training
Fowler shops is increasing enrollment in machine tool work from 25 men to 27 men in each class. Two classes are now enrolled in National Defense training. The training is given free of charge.
The first class meets from 4:45 p.m. until 12:45 a.m. and the second meets from 12:30 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. There are now 54 men enrolled in the course and classes are filling repeatedly as trainees finish their training. The men enrolled in the courses
come from a variety of vocations ranging from garage and electrical appliance workers to farmers and barbers.
Paul G. Hausman, supervisor, says that first opportunity is being given those men whose businesses are dying out because of the war emergency. Men who have completed the course now number 274.
Accurate checks are made each month and surveys show that the majority of these defense training graduates are now employed in defense work.
Trainees are given the opportunity to specialize as shaper-planer operators, drill press operators, milling machine operators, engine lathe operators, turret lathe operators, or gear-hobbing machine operators. The trainees are putting in a total of approximately 2,840 man hours per seven-day week.
Hausman says, "The government is giving unlimited opportunities in these training classes. Every man has ample opportunity to learn his work well and how much he learns depends upon his own initiative."
Men who are not subject to immediate draft are eligible to enroll in the defense training classes. Men who are 18 years of age are accepted.
Each man takes the course for approximately 350 hours. The length of the training period varies in proportion to the man's progress.
Those men who are interested in taking advantage of this course should register immediately with the local state employment office.
Persons desiring additional information concerning the training, should see Hausman at Fowler shops.
CONVOCATION—
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ter at 3:00 Tuesday afternoon, Herring will talk on "How the Germans Work in Latin America."
Herring has appeared before college and forum audiences throughout the country in the capacity of lecturer. His articles on Latin America have appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including Harper's, The New York Times, Yale Review, Survey Graphic, and the Christian Science Monitor.
Herring has specialized in studying Latin America for 20 years, each year traveling through the continent, and attending Pan-American conferences. His most recent book, "Good Neighbors," is based upon the testimony of hundreds of South Americans interviewed in 1941. Some of his other books are, "Rena-scent Mexico," "And So to War," and "Nelson of Smith."
RAISE K.U.—
(continued from page one) Increments of approximately 225, beginning in May, 1942. It is desired that students enlisted as juniors and sophomores remain in inactive status and continue in college until they complete their college courses and receive their degrees. The exigencies, however, of the service may
necessitate their being called to active duty before graduation. In that event, at least six months notice will be given.
Training will consist of a course of instruction as enlisted men, approximately three months long, followed by training for a commission, in a reserve officers' course of a similar period.
Upon completion of the latter course, the officers will be assigned to general duty with troops.
Students who are interested in the Marine corps reserve may obtain further information from James K. Hitt, assistant registrar, Room 122 Frank Strong hall. Applicants must report to Watkins hospital on or before March 2, 1942, for physical examinations.
FIFTY YEARS-
(continued from page 31; of national importance as first assistant postmaster during Woodrow Wilson's first term. He resigned this job to take an active part in the 1916 campaign for Wilson's reelection. Campaigns For F.D.R.
After the Democratic defeat in the 1920 election, Roper seemed resigned to a minor part in political affairs. However, when the Crash came early in the Hoover administration, Daniel C. took up his sword and shield. Seeing in an old friend, one Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, something of the flaming idealism of Wilson, Roper plunged actively into the 1932 nomination campaign. The chapter in which he deals with William Gibbs McAdoo for the support of the doubtful Texas and California nominating delegates
Mr. Roper is quick to defend the first New Deal cabinet. In the critical situation into which F.D.R. and his cabinet were placed, quick action was necessary. Blunders were made, which only time and experience could correct. Roper is especially perturbed over the treatment accorded the NRA, contends that it was crushed before given a chance to operate. To quote, "years of administrative experience were necessary to make such agencies as the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Trade Commission into smoothly functioning units."
is one of the best in the 402-page book.
In 1937 Roper resigned due to advanced age and as a mild protest against the transfer of the Foreign Service Division from the Department of Commerce to the Department of State. He returned only once to public life, serving as a sort of honorary minister to Canada when the King and Queen of England visited our northern neighbor in 1939.
No "Inside Washington"
Daniel C. Roper, who has lived under fifteen presidents, and served under six of them, has not produced a literary masterpiece. Most of the book is executed in a style more suitable for a history text than light reading. However, on the credit side much can be said. Roper does not indulge in recrimination, nor does he present exposes of inside Washington or its inhabitants, something uncommon for political figures. In a masterpiece of understatement, Harold L. Ickes is referred to as "slightly explosive." Political enemies are treated with true Southern courtesy.
The section containing the most general interest, and probably the best written part of the book is the explanation of the problems confronting the first Roosevelt administration, and how these problems were met. Anecdotes, some excellent, some seemingly dragged screaming from between the covers of Joe Miller's Joke Book, are strewn liberally throughout "Fifty Years."
To sum up, history and political science majors will like the book. For the general reader, it's just a wee mite too lengthy and involved.
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The Kanson published an advertisement yesterday to the effect that the Joyhawker was running the last showing of "The Man Who Stayed for Dinner" last night. The last showing was Wednesday evening.
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