UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
APRIL 10,1918.
Trenches Prove Hearts of Men
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soldier's hesitation and said, "I order you to give me my mask, so now you can't refuse me." The orderly started to protest, but the major waved him aside, took the mask and started for the captain who was busily engaged in the gas drill.
When the major arrived before the company he said, "Captain, where is your gas mask?"
"I forgot it, sir," said the Captain.
"I forgot it, sir," said the Captain. "Here, take mine then, and let me see if you know the precribed drill," she said. The captain his borrowed gas mask.
It should be explained that orders forbid anything to be carried in the gas mask, but the soldiers carry numerous articles in the masks because they are waterproof.
The captain started through the drill and got as far as adjusting the chin in the face piece. He struggled in vain. At last he stopped, and reaching into the mask, drew forth a pair of socks and a package of cigarettes, which he laid carefully on the ground and went on with the drill. After the drill he placed the articles back in their original position and handed the mask back to the major without comment. The major handed the mask back to its owner also without comment.
NIGHT PATROL. MOST DANGEROUS Of all the duties a modern soldier has to perform, the one that calls for the great bravery is that of night patrol. In great actions where men fight shoulder to shoulder, men receive a mutual stimulus from one another. Each man becomes his neighbor's support; all are hounded up by the enemy, and every man is as brave as the bravest. In such actions the danger lies only in one direction, and the soldier has time to prepare—to muster all his courage for the shock.
But for the little patrol creeping out into No Man's Land, among the wreckage of battle and the mummified bodies of the dead, all this is lacking. Here danger lurks in every direction, and death may come from any shell hole. Advancing over a ground stwn with bodies, a man faces in the shadow of every one of his wolves or kill will lay him cold among them. Under such conditions a man must rely on his own nerve. Yet men go out on such patrols every night, and even volunteer for the service.
AVIATORS REAL HEROES
The most thrilling sight that one sees at the front is the aeroplanes. Shells whining overhead, shrapnel rattting about the dugouts, and machine guns sputtering from both sides become commonplace to the old trench soldier, but an aeroplane sailing overhead never fails to hold the attention of all. When an aeroplane crosses, circles and recrosses, the enemy's lines while the air all about it is sweaked with the black puffs of exploding shrapnel, which if it hit the machine would send it heading to the earth, the spectator realizes that, after all, the aviators are the real heroes of the war.
It is a thrilling sight to see a famous French aviator emerge from behind a large fleecy cloud and go swooping down, firing a machine gun on the enemy trenches. The fliers often come to within a hundred feet of the ground, fly up an enemy trench riddling it with bullets, and finally soar upward again among a perfect hall of shrapnel and bullets.
This letter is rather disjointed, for it has been written at odd times. As I finish it I have just come from a last trip up through the lines. It is a fine American night outside with a waning moon sinking toward America. I think that about the only thing here that does not bear the scar of war is the quiet beauty of the stars and moon.
The only glorious thing that I have found so far in the trenches is the hearts of the men. They are a group of tired men—men who can never again take up the work they left to fight for the glory of France, but in every man's face one reads the words, "CARRY ON."
LANDER
THE JEWELER
Makes Watches Run Right
917 MASS. ST.
Liberty Bond Canvass Will Include Faculty
University Employees and Organizations on Hill Will be Solicited
A personal canvas will be made among the faculty and employees of the University for boosting the third liberty loan but no direct solicitation will be made from the students, according to Prof. U. G. Mitchell.
An urgent invitation to invest in this issue of bonds will be sent to all organizations on the hill, and it is hoped that many of these will come forward for certification will be held and there will be no convoitation for the matter.
Mr. Mitchell said the students had been urged to invest in Baby Bonds and thrift stamps, and he thought the majority would not be able to buy the regular bonds. Because of the lack of blanks no work can be done before the last of the week.
No definite amount of bonds has been assigned to the University as its share. The amount that was assigned to Douglas County is $400,000. More definite plans as to methods and amounts will be available the last of the week.
Candy is not under the food ban—the Food Administration recognizes candy as a food, but it suggests that you select those kinds that contain the least amount of sugar. Chocolate dipped nuts, jelly candies, marshmallows and nut candies are a few varieties approved by Mr. Hoover. All of these and others, you'll find at Wiedemann's—Adv.
Mr. Herbert Wheaton Congdon, of New York, who is field secretary of Delta Epilon, is a guest of the Kanza fraternity today.
THE GIFT SHOP
J. Marks & Son
The most complete line of Jewelry in the City of Lawrence 735 Mass. St.
The Original Marks Jewelry Store
"We're in Business for Your Health"
Welkos Drug Store
Formerly Evans'
819 Mass.
Spring is here!—so are the new fabrics for Spring Suits.
SCHULZ The TAILOR 917 Mass. St.
Diamonds, Watches, Silverware,
Cut Class
ED. W. PARSONS
Jeweler—725 Mass. St.
Jewelry of the Better Sort
The Anderson Cafe 715 Mass.
Meet your appetite at our table
CARTER'S
1025 Mass. St.
Typewriter Supplies, Stationery
University Supplies
Agent for CORONA typewriter
CONKLIN PENS are sold at McColloch's Drug Store 847 Mass.
Mrs. Wm. H. Schulz
Hemstitching and Picoting—10c yd.
Remedial of every description
Between Kress' and Woolworth's
917 Mass. St.
Hotel Murchlebach
BALTHAM AVENUE AND TOWER STREET
Tampa City, No.
marjorie Roby, c18, who has been ill at her home in Topeka, has returned to the University.
Alemannia will give a dance Saturday,
April 20.
500
New Fireproof Room
Rate from $200
Under the Personal Direction of
S.J. Whitmore and Joseph Reachi
Miss Margaret Lymn, an honorary member of Theta Sigma Phi, will give a tea Thursday afternoon in honor of Mrs. Florence Finch Kelly of New York. The guest will include members and pledges of Theta Sigma Phi.
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Engraved on wood for A. B. Kirschbaum Co.
JOHNSON & CARL LAWRENCE, KANS.
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