NEW WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE ORGANIZES COLLEGE EFFORT

Freshman won't have to wait until they can sign up for specialized training before they begin to play a part in the war effort. The War Service Committee offers them opportunities for part-time volunteer civilian defense work of all kinds as well as a chance to give blood to the Red Cross blood bank, and to buy victory bonds and stamps in their House dining halls.

Posts in the Harvard A.R.P. organization are also open, and Freshmen are especially needed for these jobs, so that replacements can be made less frequently. Brief training courses are given for wardens, first aiders, auxiliary firemen and policemen and other workers.

Among the volunteer opportunities outside the University is orderly work at the Massachusetts General Hospital, one evening a week. This should be interesting and valuable for pro-modical students.

Students Work in Confidence

The Boston headquarters of the intercepter command also needs men, especially for the night shifts, to do work which can only be described as "highly confidential."

Civilian Defense and Red Cross offices in Boston and Cambridge are short of clerical help, and can use typists, stenographers, and stamp-lickers too. Clerical help is also needed inside the University, in the War Service Information Bureau, and other offices.

Social service work, under the direction of Phillips Brooks House Committees, working through the W.S.C., has been geared to the war effort, and there are jobs for entertainers and outing leaders, as well as other workers.

The entertainers go out to some of the many small army camps in the vicinity, which can't afford to provide entertainment themselves, while the outing leaders take children from communities of defense workers, who have little time to look after their offspring.

Blood Bank In Boston

One of the W.S.C.'s most important activities is its blood donor campaign, to collect blood through the Red Cross Blood Banks for the use by our armed forces. There is a donation center in Boston, and appointments can be made through representatives in the Houses and dormitories.

Special part-time courses which may prepare men for specialist positions in the war effort, are also available from time to time, in such subjects as the Continental Code. Students who have completed primary training in first aid may go on to the advanced, and then to the instructors' courses.

The W.S.C. also undertakes a program of speakers, forums, and programs over the Crimson Network, designed both to stimulate interest in particular phases of its work, and to discuss the larger issues of the war and the peace that will follow it.