WSC Program Will Include Forums, Talks, Broadcasts

Emphasizing a program of forums, speakers, and Network broadcasts designed to aid students in finding a channel through which they can contribute to the war effort while they are still in college, the first summer program of the War Service Committee will get under way with get under way with a public meeting Monday night at 8 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House.

Founded in the months before Pearl Harbor as the Defense Service Committee, the WSC was recently revamped and enlarged to cope with the civilian problems of Harvard at war. Under the leadership of Chairman Adam Yarmolinsky '43, the Committee has been organized into five divisions: blood donors, bond and stamp salesmen, social service committee, a group to handle the recruiting of volunteers, and a committee on publicity and speakers.

Loughlin to Speak

First in its series of weekly talks on "Citizens and the War" will be a talk by Joseph M. Loughlin, Director of the First Civilian Defense Region. Loughlin's talk on "General Opportunities for the Civilian in this War" will be followed by a question period.

Later in the series of talks to be held each Wednesday at 4:30 P.M. will be discussions by Lydia H. deRoth, an English Air Raid Wardon, and Robert Knapp, Director of the Massachusetts Propaganda Research Bureau. The Committee believes that any information given to a Summer School audience composed of teachers and students from all over the country will be relayed to a far larger audience than talks to a normal undergraduate group.

Registration Results Good

Commenting on the returns from registration questionnaires Chairman Yarmolinsky said: "In view of the accelerated summer program and the many other responsibilities students are carrying, they are showing a remarkable interest in doing their part now in the war effort."

Students have shown most interest in acting as blood donors, but many people are signing up as Hospital Orderlies and for "Confidential Work" at the headquarters of the First Interceptor Command. The First Aid and Continental Code courses have also been quite popular.

Only on the question calling for work on the WSC drives has the response been unsatisfactory to the Committee. The recruiting of volunteers is important to all of the group's work and they feel that "it is just as important for students to help our committee in recruiting for blood donors, bond buyers, and other services as it is for them to make those contributions themselves. There is no limit to the work the Committee can do providing we have the volunteers. In this war not only the soldier but the civilian must make the fullest contribution to eventual victory."