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For Victory... Buy U.S. DEFENSE BONDS STAMPS
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS STUDENT PUBLICATION
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26.1942
39th YEAR
ROTC Honorary To Sell Stamps
Scabbard and Blade, honorary military fraternity, will sponsor a campaign to sell defense-bonds and stamps to students on the Hill. The stamps will go on sale in the rotunda of Frank Strong hall starting next Tuesday.
The sales in Frank Strong hall will continue for about a week and students are urged to buy as many as they can afford. The main idea of the program is not to see how many can be sold, but to start students buying stamps. The campaign will be under the direction of Grove?
under the direction of Grove Roberts and Bob White. 100 Students Questioned
Ben Matassarin, president of the organization, said that a poll of 100 students has been taken and the average sales, according to the poll, would be two stamps a person each week. Students who wish to start saving stamps for the purchase of a bond will be given a regular booklet, issued by the government, in which to paste stamps. These booklets will be issued at the desk in Frank Strong hall.
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All students who were questioned said that they would be willing to give up a show, a coke, or some other amusement each week and use the money to buy stamps. After enough stamps have been bought to fill a book, the owner may take it to the local post office and trade it for a bond. Interest is paid on the bonds and not on the stamps so the sooner the book is traded in the
sooner the owner starts collecting the interest.
Sales All Day
Matassarin pointed out that the tables would be open most of the day, but that a schedule had not yet been arranged. He said that Scabbard and Blade members would be glad to deliver stamps to any of the organized houses that wished to buy them in a block. Ten and 25-cent stamps will be sold at the desk and stamps of larger denomination will be furnished to those who want them if requested.
Working in cooperation with the military men in the drive are the Jayhawk cafe, Bricks, Rowlands book store, and the Union fountain and cafeteria. The sale of stamps will continue at these places until the end of the semester. The Union fountain and cafeteria feature specials on the menus such as, "Stamp and Coke for 15 cents."
300 Tickets on the Line For Prom Tomorrow
Hill hepcats have already indicated that they will turn out enmasse for "Jumping Jimmie" Lunceford and his band when he appears for the Junior Prom from 9 to 1 o'clock tomorrow night in the Memorial Union ballroom. Over 300 tickets have already been sold, Jim Burdge, dance manager said today.
Lunceford, who might be called the "educated gentleman of swing," graduated from Fisk College with honors in 1925, and since that time has been piling up musical honors for himself and his band both in this coun-?
University debate teams will go to Lincoln to compete with the University of Nebraska in six rounds of an invitational debate tomorrow and Saturday. The debate question is "Resolved: That after the war the democracies should establish and maintain a federation based on the eight points of the Atlantic Charter."
Members of the affirmative team for Kansas are Garland Landrith, college sophomore, and John Scurlock, college junior. The discussion for the negative will be handled by Bob Plumb, college junior, and John Waggoner, college junior.
Tickets for the Prom are $2.00 advance, date or stag, and $2.25 if purchased at the gate. Tickets will remain on sale today and tomorrow at the University business office, Bell Music company, and the Memorial Union building.
Lunceford is the creator of both the "Harlem Express" and the famed "School of Jazznochracy," as his gang of musicians is sometimes called. Playing hot tunes with a low-down beat, smooth syncopation, and sweet swing are all in a night's work for the Lunceford band and they use all styles effectively to imitate the country's leading bands.
Hill swing addicts are well acquainted with "Jumping Jimmie," for his tunes are popular on both radio and juke boxes. His current hit recording, "Blues in the Night" has been sweeping the country.
Hill Debaters Go to Lincoln
Rankin Names Committees For Commencement
Howard Rankin, president of the senior class, today announced the committees chosen to make arrangements for Commencement. The date for Commencement, as a result of the shortened school period, will be moved from Monday, June 8, to Monday, June 1.
The committee responsible for the arrangement of the reception and dance on the evening preceding Commencement are: Jim Burdge, chairman; Emmett Hook, Nancy Carey, and Nadine Schuerman.
Arrangements for the senior class breakfast. Commencement morning.
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The publicity committee, consisting of Stan Stauffer, chairman; Bob Trump, and Peggy Pat Hennessy, will be in charge of all publicity concerning Commencement.
The memorial committee in charge of the class gift to the University are Genevieve Harmon, chairman; Marynell Dyatt, Bob Fluker, Donn Mosser, and Dick Oliver.
Invitations will be distributed by the invitations committee with Fred Roberston, chairman; Martha Fairhurst, Joe Brown, and Roy Edwards. To Get Robes
The cap and gown commute, whose duty it is to arrange the renting of the graduation robes, will be Don Mitchell, chairman; Martin Keith, and Virginia Gear.
Closing hours for women students who attend the Junior Prom Friday night will be 1:30 a.m. Closing hours for all other women students will be 12:30 a.m., as usual, Miss Elizabeth Meigui, adviser of women, announced today.
Experiment In Drama Will Be Presented Soon
The play is a comedy built around the wish of a woman that she may never grow old, especially in appearance.
Sarah Moonlight is granted her wish and is able to stay young and beautiful.
Mrs. Moonlight," Benn Levy's sentimental comedy, will be the first in a series of experimental productions to be given by the department of speech and drama when a staged reading of the play is presented in the little theater of Green hall the week of March 9. Readers for the play will be students and members of the department, and will be announced later this week. Allan Crafton, professor of speech and drama, explained today.
When Sarah's daughter is about to enter an unfortunate marriage, she makes herself her daughter's rival, succeeds in taking the lover away, and wins the hatred of her daughter.
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Army Finance Posts Open to Business Grads
Positions in the finance department and the department of engineers of the U.S. army are open to college men, Prof. P.W. Viesselman, chairman of the vocational guidance committee, disclosed today.
"The finance department needs the services of college graduates and also men who have completed two or more years of college work," Lieut. Col. J. W. Dansby of the finance department advised Viesselman in a letter. "Completion of the
Dansby added that men with college education, particularly in accounting and clerical training could be readily adapted to army finance work and be fitted for noncommissioned officer ranks in the finance department.
It is also possible for R.O.T.C. graduates or students to be commissioned in the corps of Engineers, if they haven't already been taken into the armed forces.
Offer Engineer Jobs
Col. C. Garlington, chief of operations and training branch of the corps of engineers, wrote Professor Viesselman a letter in which he stated that, at present, engineerens corps officers are being obtained "from reserve officers who have not yet been called to actvie duty, future graduates of R.O.T.C. units and officer candidate schools conducted by the war department."
"Completion of this course leads to a commission as second lieutenant, corps of engineers," Garlington said. He emphasized the fact that the army was looking for "college students and graduates with sound basic educations rather than specialized techniques."
Because it is impossible to enlist in the army intelligence service directly, Capt. John V. Hinkel of the military intelligence wrote Viesselman that "At the present time there is no opportunity for any of your students or graduates to engage in military intelligence work."
He explained that is was necessary for any student wishing to enlist in the intelligence service to enlist in the army and request assignment to military intelligence work. Whether the request will be granted "will depend entirely on the qualifications of the applicant," s a i d Hinkel.
Convocation Monday On Latin America
Herring will address the University club at its regular meeting Monday night on the subject of the "Caribbean Danger Zone."
Hubert Herring, interpreter of South America and Mexico, will be on the campus Monday and Tuesday for lectures and conferences. The first of these lectures "Highlights and Shadows of South America," will be given in a convocation in Hoch auditorium at 10 a.m. Monday.
Classes in social science will hear a special lecture at 10:30 Tuesday morning on "The Economic Basis of Inter-American Planning." This lecture, which will be given in the auditorium of Frank Strong hall, will be open to the public.
To Speak In Fraser
Herring will close his series of lectures with a University lecture in Fraser theater at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. The subject of this lecture will be "How the Germans Work in Latin America."
Two Army Trucks To ROTC Unit
Herring has specialized on a study of Latin America for 20 years. Each year he travels in Mexico, Central or South America; he spent eight months in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile during 1940 and 1941. He has attended Pan-American conferences for ten years, and has interviewed leaders in all of the South American capitals. His interpretation of Latin America is given against a background of travel for study in Europe. Has Written Books
As a lecturer, Herring has appeared before audiences at scores of universities, colleges, clubs, and forums. His articles on Latin America have appeared in many magazines and newspapers including Harper's, Current History, The New York Times, Yale Review, Survey Graphic.
Two army trucks have been issued by the U.S. army to the R.O.T. C. unit here. Sgt. William Kollerender, Sgt. George A. Devault, and Sgt. Doyle C. Wood left early this morning for Omaha to receive the trucks.
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A telephone call from Nebraska to the R.O.T.C. officers revealed that the trucks were new. The name of the manufacturer is not yet known.
Col. James Dusenbury says the trucks will be used for many purposes. The main uses will be to haul supplies and equipment for the R.O. T.C. and to make deliveries to and from the depot. The trucks will also be used for the instruction of men studying motorized units.
The trucks will arrive in Lawrence tomorrow evening.