UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
RED CROSS LOGATES UNDER WATKINS' BANK
Organization of More Than 1,000 Members Prepared for Active Home Relief Work
The Red Cross Society has established headquarters under the Watkins Bank and the organization in Lawrence is being perfected to do work that will soon fall its lot to the Red Cross. I asked that all charitable and philanthropic work line up behind Red Cross. The statistics gathered in the Red Cross survey on April 21 are being rapidly compiled so that they may be of use. Roy E. Burt, c'19, has withdrawn from the University of Michigan's office hours at headquarters every afternoon from 2 to 5 oclock.
More than three hundred new members have joined the Red Cross in Lawrence and 216 members of the faculty, pushing the total membership of the organization here to over a thousand. As soon as the Red Cross is fully organized in Lawrence, a county organization will be formed in the community in the county. Already Baldwin has set to work and promises to secure a membership of five hundred in the Red Cross Society there.
The work so far has been in collecting linen for bandages and packing for shipment according to the instructions issued by the national headquarters of the Red Cross. All supplies will be shipped to centers where they may be sent out as they are needed. Over five hundred families in Lawrence have agreed to give old linen for bandages.
Several classes in Red Cross work have been organized. Miss Edith Snow teaches a class in surgical techniques through the third and fourth Saturdays. Miss Noble has a class in bandage cutting and Miss Pearl Laptad conducts the classes in general instruction. Dr. Child has a class of more than one hundred K. U. women.
Prof. J. N. Van der Vries of the department of mathematics said this morning: "Almost every family is taught to say, 'I usually have no idea of how they may be of assistance. What the Red Cross is trying to do is to put all charitable and philanthropic work on hold.'" Everyone has an opportunity to help."
"What we want to impress on the people," said Mr. Burt yesterday afternoon, "is that we are not after men to go to the battlefield, but we want people here at home who are willing to help out of the war or supplies of some kind, or who are willing to help out the Red Cross in some way here in Lawrence."
In the survey 128 families said that they had no garden but would plant one if land was assigned to them. Many others said they had land they would donate for gardens. These names have been turned over to the committee on gardens in the Chamber of Commerce.
BY THE WAY-
Sachems Initiate
Sachem initiation was held last night at the Kappa Sigma house for John C. Fast, Russell C. Friend, Walter B. Havekort, Fred J. Fackson, Harry Morgan, Harry Montgomery, Harry Dormin, Marion R. Hoehner, H. Schoenfeld, Marvin Taylor, Richard L. Treweke, John E. Todd, Page P. Wagner, Rudolf Uhrlaub, River R. Pickering, and George Potsy Clark, honorary member.
Theta Sigma Phi Entertains
Theta Sigma Phi entertained two guests a tea yesterday afternoon to Mrs. Eustace Brown's rooms to meet Miss Kate Stephens, of New York. Miss Stephens gave an informal talk on the "ideas of a newspaper Woman." She spoke of ideals of the race and of family traditions which afford strength and inspiration to the woman journalist.
The French orphan adopted by the W. S. G. A. made the thirty-fifth child adopted by people of Lawrence and of the University.
French Orphan Fund
Mr. George Foster reports that almost enough money has been paid into his office in small amounts to pay for the support of another child. A few more such contributions will be the support of another war orphan.
Spring Meeting
The Y. W. C. A. meeting next Tuesday afternoon will be a spring meeting. There will be special music and the Hall will be decorated with flowers. All women of the University are especially invited to attend this meet-
Maria Deibel will be leader.
Party at Westminster
Conscription in dates? No, that goal hasn't been reached. Both the daters and the dateles among K. U. folks are invited to the Student Party at Westminster Hall tomorrow night at eight o'clock. Entertainment plans are kept secret, but this has leaked out: Somebody will commence!
Collegiate Alumnae Lunch
Collegiate Alumnae Lunch
The members of the Collegiate Alumnae will hold their annual lunch-on Saturday, May 5, at the home of Miss Indiana B. Indiana Street, instead of at Miss Winston's as previously announced.
House Party
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority will entertain with a house party Saturday and Sunday for out-of-town guests.
Pledge
Sigma Kappa announces the pledge of Leone Carter, formerly of Olathe.
Forty Club Dance
Forty Club Dance
The Forty Club Dance give a dance at F.A. U. Hall tonight.
CARTOONS ARE NEEDED TO AID PREPAREDNESS
Prizes Offered for Best Results to Stimulate Recruiting for War Units
War Units
Information concerning the Patriotic Poster Competition received this morning by the School of Fine Arts has been posted in the hall of the department of drawing and painting, on the third floor of the Administration Building.
Five hundred dollars in prizes is being offered by the Conference Committee on National Preparedness; two hundred and fifty dollars for a navy to induce men to enter the navy, and the same sum for an army poster.
The United States feels the need of two posters to stimulate the recruiting which will arrest the attention and awaken a spirit of patriotism. And while the real reward will come from the consciousness of having rendered a public service, yet the committee on national preparedness is offering as a financial consideration prizes of $250 for each poster.
The national need of such posters was felt to be sufficiently urgent by W. K. Hekking, instructor in drawing and painting, that he had assigned a class in composition for preparing of art, for either summer, before knowledge of the national committee's offer reached the department. Mr. Hekking urges every one who has a good idea for such a poster to develop it and offers any one in the University work out the technical parts of his illustration.
"The attractive force of the idea will be the main requisite for this sort of a poster," said Mr. Hekking as an artist, "because it serves as good an idea as an artist."
Some of the specifications for the patriotic poster are: The design should be in color preferably and accompanied by a suitable slogan or sentiment; size, twenty by thirty inches with 100 square inches at the bottom for appropriate lettering. The ideal poster will give to the man who
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The final date for submitting the design is 5 p. m., Monday, May 14, 1917. They should be sent to the Conference Committee on National Preservation Henry A. Wood, Chairman, Forty-second Street Building, New York City.
have read of treatment of prisoners
have seemed greatly exaggerated,
especially the sticks and stones at
boys who throw them down.
GERMANY IS FAR FROM BEATEN—MRS. HOFFMANN
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CIVILIANS EXCLUDE FROM CAMPS
"It is practically impossible for a civilian to get permission to visit a camp. I could not get permission to visit the camps with Mr. Hoffman. He took our little daughter Louise to the first English country on Christmas day. They came back loaded with presents which the men had given her from their Christmas boxes from England."
The Russian prisoners are employed as garbage collectors, and street cleaners and other branches of municipal service in Berlin.
LEFT WITH GERARD
Mrs. Hoffman left Germany the middle of February with Ambassador Gerard's party. The German government gave the party a special train with dining car service and pullmans for most of the passengers to Zurich, Switzerland. No fare was charged. The Y. M. C. A. secretaries intended to go to America with the Gerard party but a cablegram from New York told them to wait at Zurich for further orders. They stayed there a month. One of the men arrived in Switzerland and the others ordered to stay in Switzerland to work in the camps there. There are 30,000 men interned there.
EVERYTHING QUET IN PARIS where Mrs. Hoffman spent a week in Paris, "The city is brilliant with the uniforms of the allied soldiers but that is practically the only indication of war. The city was raided by policemen and soldiers, but there was no noise or confusion except the warning of the sirens. The people have become too used to raids to become excited.
"We sailed on the Alfonso XII and had a quiet passage. Only two boats were seen. Everyone was entirely indifferent to danger of submarine attack. We were certain that we would have a safe crossing. Mr. Hoffman intends to stay in Germany until the end of the war."
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ENGINEERS LIST ALUMN
K. U. Points to Army's Need for Mechanical and Chemical En-
The School of Engineering is registering all its alumni for possible service in the army engineering corps Cards have been sent to 800 alumni of the school to find out how many may be listed in the Reserve Corps.
Many alumni already have enlisted in the engineering section of the Reserve Corps, but the army is more in need of men for the ordinance section, especially mechanical and chemical engineers, it is said.
Cards will indicate the kind of service for which the men are best fitted, and whether any steps have yet been taken for active service. These cards will be filed with the national service register.
Some of the fields in the Engineers' Reserve Corps are engineer enlisted reserve, ship draftman, work in arsenal, civil engineer navy department, engineer, quartermaster department, reserve and foreman for munition plants.
engineers for Ordnance Section
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MRS. GEORGE TALBOT DIES IN KANSAS CITY
Mrs. George L. Talbot, 509 Tennessee Street, died yesterday in Rosedale Hospital, Kansas City, where she had been ill for some time. The body will be brought to Lawrence today and services probably will be held Sunday.
Mrs. Talbot was fifty-six years of age and a member of the Baptist Church. She lived in Lawrence about two years. Her son, Homer Talbot, is head of the municipal reference department of the Extension Division
of the University, and a daughter,
Lucille Talbot, is a senior in the
School of Education. George Talbot
and Homer Talbot are in Kansas City
today and will accompany the body to
Lawrence.
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AT THE VARSITY AND BOWERSOCK THEATRES TODAY Marguerite Clark in her latest success 'The Valentine Girl'
By LAURA SAWYER—Admission 15c—Shows Varsity 7:30;9:00-Bowersock 7:45;9:20 Note-TOMORROW this picture will be shown at the BOWERSOCK ONLY
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BRYANT WASHBURN in "SKINNER'S BUBBLE"
Did you see Skinner's Dress Suit? Then you know what a beautiful picture is in store for you in this new Skimmer play. The same characters appear in an entirely new situation.
The wonderful human touch makes these players appeal to all. It is your own home life; the story, the struggle of a young man and his bride to win success; their defeats. their triumphs.