Selective service chief Louis B. Hershey will address members of the "Institute on War Problems" and the Harvard Forum next Monday evening in Adams House, it was announced at the opening meeting of the Institute yesterday. Neither details of General Hershey's speech nor of the meeting were released, but it is expected that he will discuss the latest draft plans.

His talk will be the feature of an all day conference sponsored by the Nieman Foundation, in which war and post-war problems are being discussed by Archibald MacLeish, head of OFF; Byron Price, chief censor; and by Harvard professors and other experts. This meeting will be open to all students.

Col. Thompson Speaks

Speaking to the 50 newspaper editors and writers attending the Institute at the opening session yesterday, Lieutenant Colonel Paul W. Thompson, author of the military treatise "Modern Battles," called for "less sugar-coating around our military reports." He emphasized that he did not mean the reports were false, but rather that their presentation was poor. "The great American public could and would prefer to take a stronger diet of military reports that contained more down to the earth tactical stuff," he declared.

Hanson Baldwin, military editor of the New York Times, cautioned newspapers against over-accenting minor victories of the United Nations while under-playing defeats. "Don't play stories too big at first," he said, "for subsequent developments usually mitigate the value of the initial reports."

Elliot Discusses War Materials

Final speaker on the first day's program was Professor William Yandell Elliot, also a WPB official, who discussed problems associated with accumulating and shipping war materials.

Today President Conant will lead a discussion entitled "Human Resources," in which Dr. Arlie V. Bock will report on the recent fatigue laboratory tests. Other University men will make up the rest of the day's speakers. Derwent S. Whittlesey, associate professor of Geography, will talk on strategic geography, and Professor of Geology Kirtley F. Mather will discuss "Oil Flow and the War."