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side while fighting constantly and heroically on every front and the seven
seas, still wants and needs your money. Wo gave most generously last fall
to the community chest and wor fund drive fer those in army camps, U.S.0.,
and so forth. We bought bonds - billions of them - but that was no sacri-
fice. We loaned our money to our government ot a better rate of interest
than any small investor could make with any bank. We have given generous-
ly to the Red Cross. We actually gave a small part of what we actually owe
to our boys who critically need the Red Cross humane service. Douglas County
went over the top according to her quota. We did tremendously well, but
according to what we individually owe these boys it is still smll; piti-
fully small. There is still one more day before the Red Cross drive closes,

but contributions for this fund’.should never cease. The Red Cross offices

in every city of our land‘are cpen to receive your contribution for this

.. most humane service. If you have given, you can give more, and if you have

not given the most you can, give again and it.will not be too much. Won't
you call your'Red Cross office and make an odditional pledge which will in-
sure blood plasma for our boys who need it so much? In cases of shock,.
blood plasma is so vital. Many of these boys who have gone through these
exterminating holocausts of war are quickly brought back by administrations
of blood plasma. I have never heard a returning veteran from any front
fail to praise to the limit the wonderful work of the Red Crosse

‘Doubtless Fen Durand oa Te Hunter are ‘iene the kindly
ministrati ons of the Red Cross at the present time. in their rest comp.
You con make it possible with your contributions to a. these boys. back

. to us” in the ‘best | nes ssbie., soneite Pe:

“"I would not have you ‘heliove that 'eaq¢ the athletes are winning
this-war, It would be a mighty small band of fighters if all the athletes
in the United States were banded together, Those who saw Jewish cloak and
suit workers from New York's lower. East side. go out under shell fire to
repair: broken wires on: the. hillsides of the Argonne..in World war I, know

' ‘that the non-athletes were as heroic as-the athletes. Men who had. never

played games of any sort held off an embattled world in arms cver four
years, This also applies to our boys in World War II. Quiet and modest
young: chaps from the faotory and the farm are.marching along with our
athletes and doing. deeds of heroic valor alcng with our athletic heroes.

"Tt has been my pleasure to write a monthly letter to our boys in
the service. We -started addressing it only to our. athletes, but the mail-
ing list has enlarged and today we are sending it to many Jayhawkers from
Mt. Oread who have never participated in athletics. “We got our original
conception from a conversation that I had with Uncle Jimmy Green, former
Dean of the Law School at the University of Kansas. . Uncle. Jimmy. Green's

- statue, which starids in front of. Green Hall, testifies. to tho love and de-

votion of his: boys who caused to be crected a statue of bronze in his

momery. After the Armistice ofter World War I, I met-Uncle Jimmy Green
on the campus. He said, "Well, Phog, I promised my boys when they went
overseas that I would wait here wntil they got back. I.am just waiting

.now for-their return and when they get-back I will be happy." Uncle

Jimmy Green felt that he owed his boys a great debt because oe went

overseas to do something he personally could not doe

' “When this war came. on it was impossible to write:a letter to every-
one of our athlétes that we had known. We struok upcn the. idea of writing