SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1941.
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K.U. Co-ordinates With Defense on All Fronts
K.U. Co Heeds Call For Training Of Youth
By LILLIAN FISHER
Life went on atop Mount Oread in the same dull manner—you know, parties, jellying, bull-sessions, no sleep, a dash of study here and there—until the second month of school first semester. Then—boom!
The zero hour came with the dawn —7 o'clock on the morning of Oct. 16, 1940. At that hour a new age began. At that hour young men students realized that it was they to whom America looked for safety.
Kansas young men were slow in starting to register. Few signed the registration cards in the Memorial Union building until late in the day. The favorite expression as a college youth would come in the door was, "Gosh! I'm in the army now!" About
the only record played on nickelodeons for the next week was, "Oh. They're Making Me Over in the Army."
But then came Oct. 29. At high noon of that day in the nation's capital, Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, drew the first draft registration number from the historic goldfish bowl used in 1917. The number was 158.
At the same time, Elmo D. Hardy assistant instructor in entomology who is teaching part time at the University while working on his Ph.D. degree, was listening to the "drawing" over a radio in a laboratory in Snow hall.
The number drawn by Secretary Stimson corresponded to the number of the registration card in Hardy's vest pocket. Thus, he became the first man eligible to be called to active service from Douglas county for the first peace-time conscription in the history of this country.
When another draft official reached in the bowl and brought out number 1.854 on the two hundred ninety-eighth draw, C. H. Mullen, former Men's Student Council president and 1940 Honor man was assured of a year of army life.
Only one student at the University refused to register for the draft. Alexander Harlow Dewey, 22-years old and a freshman in the college, stated that he was a conscientious objector.
Then came the Christmas vacation. While most students were enjoying themselves in their respective home towns, 19 men from the University were strapping knapsacks on their backs and boarding a 10-car train for Camp Robinson, Ark. These men were members of the Lawrence National Guard Unit that mobilized and departed for active duty on Jan. 5. R.O.T.C. Enrollment Climbs
With the enrollment of the spring semester, the number of men wanting military training high jumped all previous records. At the present time, 640 men comprise the one full regiment of the Reserve Officers Training Corps.
Figures show a 60-per cent increase in enrollment in the R.O.T.C. over last year, and a 140 per cent increase in the last four years. Col Karl F. Baldwin, commanding officers of the military science department, said, "There will undoubtedly be a further increase in the fall—probably the enrollment will be close to 800—
Threats of war hike R.O.T.C. enrollment.
unless, of course, the draft gets too many of the college men."
Of the men who were graduated from the University last year and who received their commissions in the Reserves, more than half of them are now on active duty in camps and forts throughout the country. It is estimated that 75 per cent of the graduates this year will receive orders to go on active duty by June 5 1941.
Through the efforts of Col. Baldwin, the University of Kansas will soon have a new Military Science building.
President Roosevelt signed the WPA application to furnish federal funds amounting to $84,000 for the new $125,000 building. Only $25,-000 cash is to be paid from local funds, together with supplying stone, architectural supervision, equipment, and supervision of construction.
Engineering Courses
The federal government, as a part of the National Defense program, has recognized the need for a great many more engineers and technically trained men than are now available. Congress set aside $9,000,000 to be used in establishing certain specialized courses of intensive training at Schools of Engineering—and the University of Kansas has been selected.
The National Defense Training program at the University is under the direction of Prof. F. A. Russell, of the department of civil engineering. Professor Russell has two courses offered this semester and hopes to get Congress to renew the appropriation so that the courses can continue this summer and next year.
These courses are designed primarily for men with the necessary qualifications who are employed in industry and wish to take the work in night classes, and for men not now in school who will return to take some of these courses in residence at the University.
Specialized engineering courses are being given under this same University program at Wichita. A course in aeronautical drafting has 30 students; a course in stress analysis has 28 students enrolled; and there are three individual classes in aircraft materials and construction practices having a total of 135 students. Defense Training
Another program that is financed by the federal government is designed to train young men between the ages of 18 and 25 in vocations essential to national defense.
This program is entirely separate from the University. It is under the direction of A. H. Sluss, professor of machines construction and mechanical engineering, and superintendent of Fowler shops.
At the present time 45 are taking the course. There are two sections of machine-tool operations and one of airplane welding. The shift for one section of machine tool operations is from 5 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. while the students enrolled in airplane welding work all night from 12 o'clock midnight until 6:30 in the morning.
In training airmen for national defense, K.U. ranks second in the nation. Bill and Don Ashcraft, flight instructors, along with Prof. E.D. Hay, co-director of the CAA at the University and instructor of ground school work, have turned out full quotas of pilots for two years. By the end of this semester, 305 students will have received training.
Twenty students completed the course the first time it was offered in the spring of 1939. K.U. was among the five schools in the country to turn out a 100 per cent quota. During the school year of 1939-40, 50 completed the primary course and five took the advanced course.
Last summer again the maximum quota was fulfilled—60 primary and 10 advanced students. This fall only 50 were allowed to enter the primary training course and 20 completed the advanced training. Ten students started on the difficult task of getting
DEFENSE FIGURES
Number of students registered for draft ... 1,083
Enrollment of ROTC in March 4 years ago ... 260
Enrollment of ROTC in March this year ... 640
Expected enrollment of ROTC next fall ... 800
Percent of increase in ROTC enrollment over last year ... 60
Per cent of increase in ROTC enrollment in last 4 years ... 140
Estimated per cent of men graduating this year with ROTC commissions who will be called to active duty by June 5, 1941 ... 75
Enrollment in defense engineering courses ... 59
Enrollment in aeronautical engineering courses in Wichita ... 193
Enrollment of out-of-school youths in courses of machine tool operation and aircraft welding ... 45
Number of students receiving pilot training in the last two years ... 305
Number receiving primary flight training ... 230
Number receiving secondary flight training ... 65
Number receiving instructor training ... 10
250 hours and pass the test for instructor's rating.
This spring 50 again are taking the primary, 30 are advanced students, and the same 10 are working toward the instructorship. Helen Hay Richardson has successfully passed her instructor's test. She is the only woman in the United States to advance so far under the CAA program.
Out of this group of fledgling pilots, 33 have gone to army and navy schools at Randolph field, Texas, and Pensacola, Fla. Two of them, Russell Chitwil and Lloyd Ware are now CAA flight instructors at the airport. Others will use their training for either private or commercial use.
Besides actually training young men to be prepared for defense, Guy Keeler, chairman of the speaker's bureau of the extension division, has organized a group of 30 University faculty members to travel anywhere and speak on phases of national defense to show citizens throughout the state what each one of them must do.
Another set of figures has soared to record breaking heights as a result of national defense—marriages. University of Kansas coeds seem to want to "get their man" before the army does.
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