UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
HARD WORK THE ORDER FOR MEN AT FT. RILEY
Student Officers Crowd Three Months' Training Into Two Weeks Time
ALL GET PLENTY TO EAT
Competition for Commission at End of Course Will Be Keen
If the one hundred and twenty-five
University men who are at the
Officials' Training Camp at Fort Riley fail to receive commissions it will not be because they failed to
spend their time at study and drill, the camp
who spent Saturday night and Sunday with friends in Lawrence.
All men from the camp who visited in Lawrence agree that they like the work, that they have been provided with plenty of wholesome food, and that they are under the command of competent and efficient officers, but many of them complained of sore muscles and a lack of time for recreation due to the long hours spent in drill.
SPEND LONG HOURS AT DRILL
For life at the camp is nothing if not strenuous. Into the short two weeks has been crowded the work of three months, and without long hours of hard work every day this would have been impossible. The program calls for a day lasted from 5:30 in the morning until 7:30 at evening every day. This time is accounted for. The only period the men have to themselves is from 7:30 to 9:30 in the evenings, and many of them use this time in study or in caring for their equipment.
Men at the camp do not assume the got-four-years-to-do this-in attitude of the enlisted man. They are preparing themselves to be the leaders of the new conscript army, and in order to teach the new recruits they must know the drill themselves. And three months is a very short period for training most of the men are college men, and the officers consider that once is often enough to tell a thing. After that the men are expected to know it.
PRACTICE SHAM BATTLES
The past week has been spent, for the most part, in extended order drill. The men spend several hours each morning in charging and firing grenades on enemy. When the battle starts, the men of a company deploy as skirmishers, and, side by side, lying prone on the ground, form a fire line and fire at slow fire, rapid fire and fire at the commanding officer may direct.
When they have attained a supposed superiority of fire over the imaginary enemy the line begins advancing. To do this the first squad suspends firing, rises and advances toward the front, for fifty yards to the front. At the signal of the corporal they fall again to a pron position and resume firing,
and are followed by the second squad and that by the third until the whole company has reached the new firing line.
MEN ARE GRADED ON WORK
The battle ceases by noon and the afternoon is spent in bayonet drill, squad drill, and study. Lessons are required for the daily recite and are graded on their work.
And the men are keeping up with the work for at the end of camp there will be no chance to cram and pull through on a final. The government needs for the first draft only one fourth of the men now in training, and everyone realizes that unless he is given a chance to work, but the men are more hopeful since the visit last week of James P. Hare, dean of American war correspondents. Mr. Hare, who has visited the training camps in the East, spent two days last week at the fort and after watching the work at the Kansas post stated that in his army the Riley camp would furnish the greater number any of the eastern camps. The difference he thinks lies in the difference in the character of the men.
BY THE WAY-
Morgan-Raemer
Announcement have been made of the marriage of Mr. Fred Raemer of Topeka and Miss Rhea E. Morgan of Lawrence. The ceremony took place in Kansas City Tuesday afternoon, May 22 and was followed by a wedding supper at the Hotel Baltimore.
Mrs. Raemer is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Morgan. She is a graduate of Lawrence high school and attended the University. Mr. Raemer was a student in the School of Engineering, who grazed in the automobile business in Topeka. Mr. and Mrs. Raemer will be at home in Topeka after June 1.
Strahan-Scrivener
Guy Serrienne, 17, a Kansan man and a member of the Franklin Club, now advertising manager of the Clay Center Dispatch-Republican, and Miss Florence Strahan, of Bolton Mo., will be married tonight.
Miss Strahan is a former student of the University and is a member
The members of the Board of the Woman's Athletic Association will entertain the winners of A's with a bloomer picnic, Tuesday evening.
Bloomer Picnic
H. H, Johnson, e'94, of Tacoma, Wash., publisher of the Tacoma Daily Index, is visiting on the Hill this week.
The University Women's Association met this afternoon at three o'clock with Mrs. Frank Strong to show on a Compartment Kit for Company M
Dr. Ida H. Hyde, of the department of physiology, has been appointed State Chariman of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae on the Women's Advisory Committee of the Council of National Defense.
A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansan.
TURNS IN PROM ACCOUNT
Howard Fleeson Makes Complete Statement of Expenditures—Nothing Said of Receipts
The Junior Prom managers, Howard Fleeson and Harry Montgomery have submitted to Registrar George O. Foster their report of expenditures for the Prom this winter as required by the University Senate ruling. The correct account was lost in the PI U fire and this account has been replaced as figured by Fleeson. He gives no report of the receipts.
The report as turned into Registrar Foster;
Expenditures
Junior Prom 1917.
Caterer (at 40c a plate) ..$190.00
Music (9 pieces) ..126.00
Programs ..90.00
Crepe paper (800 rolls at 19½e)
...76.00
Cost of cutting paper ..5.00
Fees for use of gym, china, etc.
...27.00
Miss Gladys Nelson, cab-
aret singer ..20.00
Miss Gladys Swarthout, cab-
aret singer ..15.00
Advertising (including Kansan,
posters, and pay to adver-
tising manager) ..50.00
Ladies Charges Co. (Truck
at $2 per hour) 12.0
Mats in cloak rooms 4.0
Men in cloakrooms 4.0
Piano rented and tuned from
Bell Brothers 10
Trips to Kansas City by man-
agers and minor expenses 2
Interest on money borrowed
Decorations (not including
paper for employees, wis-
ter flowers, etc.) 25.0
Greisa Nursery Co (pine
boughs) 8.0
Rent of Furniture (Ecke's)
4.4
Lawrence Floral Co. 4.4
McNish Bottling Works 2.1
Transfer from Gym after
party 6.4
Tip jamator 5.0
Scolfistform for music 5.0
Candle shades 1.5
Repairs on broken furniture 3.0
Total ... $719.55
Y. W. C. A. CONFERENCE
Y. W, C. A. CONFERENCE
AT HOLLISTER MISSOURI
The summer conference of the Y. W. C. A, will be held at Hollister, M. June 15-25. The "Estes Park Conference" is no more. This year it will be the "Ozark Conference". There will be little more or no change in the working program but the sports and pastimes plan will be
No lining, except in the shoulders but the careful tailoring insures a perfect fit and suits that hold their shape.
You will probably need a new traveling bag or suit case before you leave. Our stock is complete and of good quality. Come in and look at them.
The Air-O-Weave, featherweight lined suits made by the House of Kuppenheimer are made in plaited back and three-quarter belt models.
ROBERT E. HOUSE
You have often wished for a cool breeze to relieve you of the SULTRY summer heat. AIR-O-WEAVE IS THAT BREEZE.
In the 700 block on Mass.
The Last Call to Buy a Trunk or Bag Cheap
Before prices commenced to soar skyward we purchased heavy in Trunks and Bags. Today it almost takes our breath to place an order for either.
WEAVER'S
We also letter them free.
For the rest of the school term you may choose any trunk or bag in our large assortment and we will deduct 15% from the selling price as a special offer.
greatly affected by the fact that water sports will be a feature.
Esther Moore is chairman of the K. U. Conference Committee. Those who have signed to go to the conference are: Mary Brownlee, Dorothy Sandburg, Winnifred Ward, Esther Moore, Evelyn Rorabaugh, Edna Burch, Haze Kickl, Mary Smith, Haze Aigret, Gifford Margaretta Stevenson, Jean Coffin, Elizabeth Blakesle, Mary Anderson, Marie Russe, Vida Lear, Stella Simmons. The Haskell girls will also go with the K. U. delegation.
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Keyes City, Mo.
500
New Fireproof Room
Rate from $200
Under the Personal Direction of
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These suits are tailored in the best manner possible and most of them are silk trimmed.
Regardless of what you expect to pay for your suit you owe it to yourself to see and try them on.
Hatch One Button Union Suits at this store only $1.00 $1.25 $1.50
Delpark and the Genuine B. V. D. $1.00 Other brands as low as 50c
SKOFSTAD
ONE CASH $15
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829 Mass. St.
You Did It
You students who have given us a liberal patronage all years are responsible for another big season for the Oread Cafe. It is now time for us to say "Adios" and wish for as many back next year as possible.
A little suggestion:
If your parents are here for commencement, bring them to your cafe and you can bet your life we will try our best to help entertain them.
Until we meet again
E. C. BRICKEN
( The Oread Cafe )
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If you want a drink made in some particular way, it's up to us to make it that way!
No argument—you're the "doctor" and whatever you say goes. It is but a part of our perfect service to "cater to your wants."
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1031 Mass. St.—
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