UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Soldiers in France To See Action Soon Says D.L.Patterson
Americans Have Moved Up To Front Lines—Will Clash Soon With Germans
Trip Was Without Mishap
Assistant Dean's Party Was Shelled While Inspecting Trench Near Enemy
American troops in France will see service soon at the front in the opinion of Prof. D. L. Patterson, assistant dean of the College, University of Kansas, who arrived in Lawrence Friday. The day he left Paris, General Pershing moved his headquarters from there to the front line camp, where the men are stationed, considered a certain indication that the United States forces soon would be in the fight.
Professor Patterson arrived at N. Y. Tuesday on the French linen, "Espange." He had an unaventiful voyage both ways. No submarines were sighted either coming or going, but every precaution was made to guard against the menace. He left for the morning and spent most of his time in the trenches on the western front in France and Belgium.
TROOPS WELL SITUATED
The American forces are situated "south of the lake, a long, narrow valley, the men being stationed in small towns only a short distance apart. They are a happy bunch and enjoy their life in the small stone houses in which they live alone, wired with nicked contingent of men, soldiers.
Professor Patterson ate with the men while he was in camp and he agrees with the men in their belief that they are being fed in excellent style. The climate in this valley is much cooler than in this country. The men are in one of the most beautiful spots in France.
Health conditions in this and other camps are ideal. In every village in which troops are quartered is a Y. M. C. a tent or building where the "Sammies" can get some of the extra luxuries the quartermaster does not supply for the men. There also are billiard tables, writing tables, a library and other things to keep the soldiers amused.
REGRETTTED LOSS OF TOBACCO Professor Patterson told how badly the sinking of the ship "Kanan," by the Germans had affected the Americans. A huge consignment of tobacco was being sold and several weeks the Yankees had nothing but the French and English grades of tobacco.
While he was still near the first United States camp in France, a man representing an eastern publication arrived with the first big ship bound for California. The sizes of tobacco were distributed from a big truck at this camp alone.
Men are billeted in groups ranging as high as 42 to a hut or building. Most of these are in grey huts, with red tiled French roofs. In some instances long narrow frame cantonment buildings are used but seldom is a tent seen except in case of a cook tent. The camp Professor Patterson visited is the first American camp and still is the largest.
Troops are arriving nearly every day and on account of the length of the valley in which they are encamped, the long line of villages simply is extended further for use in housing new troops. The famous French Chasseurs, the fighters who do the work in the mountain country for France will train American troops.
The Germans call them "Blue Devils," because they fight so hard. They are readily distinguished by their timo-shanters. These picked German infantry and are teaching them all of the trench warfare and improved methods of fighting which they have obtained through years of fighting.
AMERICANS GET WHITE BREAD
Prices in France are moderate al-
though the French citizen has two
meatless days can be eaten.
France has black war bread.
It is made of potatoes and
whole wheat grain but it is quite
satisfying and really good eating, according to Professor Patterson. American forces in Europe get white bread and they have no meatless days.
The general outlook of the war is bright, Professor Patterson believes. The entrance of this country into it has put all of the people of France in fine spirits. In the spring of 1939 the Germans entered the in end but they were feeling pessimistic and beginning to tire of the drawn out struggle.
On the battle fields which, Professor Patterson visited from the Belgian front to Switzerland, the soldiers of France held the principal positions. In Alsace, the French look down on the German lines and out over their positions for twenty miles. The same is true in Alsine, where
they also hold the high ground. In the English sector the assistant dean went over the battlefield of Flanders where Messines Ridge and the land near Ypres is occupied by the British.
PARTY WAS SHELLED
While going through a part of the famous Hindenburg line east of Aras, the party was discovered while approaching the building that was killed or struck by the shells.
Along this line, the British have captured sixteen miles of the famous Hindenburg line which extends about seventen miles. In preparation for the opening ceremony, the net extending the length of the line, forty feet below the surface. Professor Patterson was a week on the Alsace-Lorraine front and the same length of time on the English front. During the French line two different times.
SHELLS BURST NEAR
SHELLS BURST NEAR
It was while they were barely twenty yards away, the German front line near Arras, the HHarm heard them talking and started to shell the main trench 100 yards to the rear of the party. About eightteen shells were fired, some bursting less than twenty yards away.
Many gas bombs were being used when Patterson was at the front and all were required to wear gas masks and steel helmets.
RUSH CALENDAR
Sororities
Sunday, april 16
Buffet supper, Pi Beta Phi.
Tea, Chi Omega.
Chafing dish supper, Alpha X
Delta.
Tea, Alpha Delta Pi.
Tea, Alpha Delta Pi.
$money$, Sept. Pl—
Ten, Pt Beta Phi.
Pineau Alpha Pi Delta.
Matinee dance, Ecke's, Alpha Delta Pl.
Tuesday, Sept. 18—
Dinner, Alpha Chi Omega.
Tea, Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Reception, Chi Omega.
Tea Alpha Xi Delta.
Theatre Party, Kappa Alpha
Theta.
Wednesday, Sept 19—Exclusive, Pii Beta Phi. Breakfast, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Muffin Worry, Gamma Pii Beta. X. Y. Z. Party, Alpha Chi Omega. 500 party, Alpha Xi Delta. Orpheum and dinner, Sigma Kappa.
Thursday, Sept. 20-
County Fair, Pi Beta Phi.
Dinner dance, exclusive, Alpha Xi Delta.
Cottonion, exclusive, Kappa Alpha Theta.
Dinner, Alpha Delta Pi.
Friday, Sept. 21— Exclusive, afternoon, Chi Omega.
Exclusive, Alpha Chi Omega.
Luncheon, Gamma Phi Beta.
Cabaret, Alpha Xi Delta.
Exclusive dinner dance, Kappa
Kappa Gamma.
Exclusive, Sigma Kappa.
Saturday, Sept. 22-
, Sept 21
Breakfast, Chi Omega.
Exclusive, Gamma Phi Beta.
Breakfast, Alpha Xi Delta.
Picnic, Kappa Alpha Theta.
Dinner dance, afternoon, exclusive,
Alpha Delta Pi.
Breakfast dance, Sigma Kappa.
Fraternities
Monday, Sept. 17—
Chicken fry, Delta Tau Delta.
Smoker, Phi Kappa.
Smoker, Phi Kappa Psi.
Dance, Phi Delta Theta, "Wind-hill."
Dance, Sigma Chi, Ecke's.
Dance, Phi Gamma Delta, F. A. U.
Smoker, Phi Theta Pi.
Smoker, Sigma Nu.
Smoker, Kappa Sig.
Smoker, Pi Kappa Alpha.
Smoker, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Tuesday, Sept. 18 —
Smoker, Delta Tau Delta.
Matinee dance, Phi Kappa.
Smoker, Phi Kappa Psi.
Smoker, Phi Delta Theta.
Smoker, Sigma Chi.
Dance, Beta Theta Pi.
Smoker, Phi Gamma Delta.
Smoker, Sigma Nu.
Smoker, Kappa Sigma.
Smoker, Pi Kappa Alpha.
Smoker, Alpha Tau Omega.
Smoker, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Tuesday, Sept. 18
Employment Bureau Is At Service Of Men Who Want Jobs
Wednesday, Sept. 19—
Smoker, Phi Gamma Delta.
Dance, Ecke's, Sigma Nu.
Dance, F. A, U, Alma Alpha Epison-
dia.
Thursday, Sept. 20.
Dance, Phi Kappa Psi.
Smoker, Phi Gamma Delta.
Dance, house, Beta Theta Pi.
Friday, Sept. 21-
Dance, Phi Gamma Delta.
Dance, house, Kappa Sigma.
Dance, Ecke's, Pi Kappa Alpha.
Y. M. C. A. Has Department to Assist Students Who Want to Work
Wicdemann's welcome the students. We solicit your patronage. Make sure you just the same. Make our store your store. Meet your friends here—Adv.
Want a job?
The Y. M. C. A. Employment Bureau is the only one in Lawrence for the purpose of connecting the man who wants work and the employer who wants the man. The Y. M. C. A. donates its services free.
Go to the Y. M. C. A. Employment Bureau in Myers Hall. Lloyd A. McHenry, a graduate student who is employment secretary of the Y. M. C. A. this year will fix you up. He is on the job listing calls for men and pleas for work. He is there from 8 o'clock to 10:30 o'clock every morning and from 12 till 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
Six hundred men were handled last year through the bureau and up until Saturday night more than one hundred people have been given jobs through this agency.
One class of jobs is open and no one seems to care for it. This is the stewardship of clubs. More than fifteen stewardship jobs in mixed clubs and co-op clubs are open and waiting for men to take them.
"I don't understand why men don't want these steward jobs," said McHenry. "With the higher prized clubs充电 clubs $5 these co-op clubs at $4 and $4.50 ought to look mighty good to the student who is practising economy. If any man wants a stewarding job we have it."
The employment bureau has a private phone for quick service with
folks wanting men to take odd jobs
The number is 209. Furnace jobs
table-waiting jobs—all can be har-
mework or employment Bureau of
the Y. M. C. A.
Work For Women Scarce
Thirty Want Jobs and Only Four Calls For Help Have Come In
More jobs for University women are wanted at the University Y. W. C. A. in Myers Hall, Miss Katherine Duffield in charge, states. So far there are thirty women who want jobs with only four positions open. Two of these are for housework at odd moments of the day and one of the 5 and 10-cent stores downtown can use University women in the afternoons
Most of the applications for work are for clerical and stewardess work, or
University Graduate Buys
Big Eastern Publication
Graduates of the University of Kansas make good in a big way. The latest example of this statement is R. R. Whitman, a graduate of the University in 1893 who has just purchased the New York Commercial, the oldest business and financial pachadian firm. He resigned his position as managing director of the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Mr. Whitman has worked on the Kansas City Journal and on the old Kansas City Times. While in the city he edited the University Review.
Football Game Scheduled Between Two Local Units
A football game for the incoming students Wednesday or Thursday of this week will be put on by Company M and Company H, of the First Kansas Infantry regiment, on McCook Field. The game will tend to do away with the old rules; sometimes sad first week which is so often experienced by the new students as well as those who are returning to school work. The money from the game will go to increase the company fund of each military unit. There will be a large number consented to the use of the field for he realizes that a reasonably large
company fund is a necessary thing for a military organization in the service. By means of this fund the two companies, which are composed of three militia units, are vided with the few extras or the so-called luxuries while in the field.
Charles F. Scott, graduate of the University of Kansas, was the speaker at the meeting on Old Settler's day last Friday in G. A. R. hall.
Pure and Wholesome, our own
pure chocolates. Get them at
Wesley's Bakery.
We have special form and designs for ice cream, suitable for all occasions. Either phone 182. Wiedemann's.-Adv.
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