UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS 7 LN aort,
LAWRENCE y
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION en A es PP “3

May 7th, 1942

Dear Fellow Member of the Athletic
and Physical Education Denartments:

Professor Stene of the History Department called on
me on behalf of the “orld Student Service Fund, which is the
Chinese Reconstruction lund. I believe las t year it was
called the " Bowl of Rice."

You and I both know that it's not pleasant for any
of us to solicit our fellow workers and ask for a part of
their hard earnings, especially when these earnings have been
depleted by budget curtailment and rising prices. However,
all of us will agree that even as unfortunate as we may picture
ourselves at times, the unfortunates in the war zones are many
thousand times worse off than we. Their unfortunate plight
beggars description when we try to comprehend their situation.

The K.U. goal for the “orld Student Service Fund is
one thousand dollars, To facilitate economy of time and to
allow you the proper meditation for such a gift, I am writing
you a letter and inclosing a pledge card for any amount that you
might feel free to give. “je are not making a high pressure sales
talk, nor a strenuous drive and we would say to not give a penny
more than you feel you can honestly give without any high pres-
sure action.

t realize there are so many calls that you almost develop
a hyper-sales resistance, and if you do, well and good. I feel as
if this will be my last contribution and then another appeal pre-
sents itself just as strong and I find myself unable to reject
the pleas of the suffering an? wmfortimete. So, give what you
can and I lnow that your money will go a long way toward doing
the thing that in your heart you want: to do.

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Sinceyely yours,

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last weekend.