Let's Brush It Up Not Off
A wartime youth message urges college students to take on a demanding assignment that lacks glamour but offers practical help. The tone is brisk and direct, challenging readers to contribute despite initial reluctance.
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Newspaper
Kent Stater
Location
Kent, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1941
Page
2
A wartime youth message urges college students to take on a demanding assignment that lacks glamour but offers practical help. The tone is brisk and direct, challenging readers to contribute despite initial reluctance.
The piece argues youth must start preparing for a just postwar peace now. It proposes a University PEACE council led by faculty, with forums and classes to develop a comprehensive, broadly understood peace plan supported by Americans worldwide.
A group at a local eatery discusses quietly backing U S A bonds and stamps this Christmas. They contrast the dramatic war rhetoric with a simple, unheroic pledge to invest in defense, praising unity, allies, and the Stars and Stripes.
The Kent Stater is a four issue a week campus newspaper published in Kent Ohio during the regular year and summer term. It enters as second class matter with an October 11 1927 postmark and is printed by P B Bonsall Printing Co on 138 East Main Street.
Dr. C. C. Kochenderfer head of the commerce department calls for immediate Congressional action on price control citing a 75 percent price rise in the last war. He says price controls, allocations, and rationing are essential to war economics and equitable distribution. He previously served as associate food administrator in the District of Columbia.
Local items list era chatter about Harris Moore and Roy Apple, Ed Zink in court, gifts and engagements, K Day social notes, price control debates, and a joke about ears and a hat. Names include Margaret Wilson, Dr Kochenderfer, Gore Baruch, Paul Acker, Marge Hunt, Bob Diehl, Wanda Baines, and John Taylor.
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