MAY 15,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Women Are Tagging For Benefit to Help Children of France
Committee Aids French Gov ernment in Support of Fatherless Children
A score of University women were selling tickets on the campus today for the "Fatherless Children of France" Benefit which is to be given at the Bowerstock Theater, May 23, by Prof. Carl Prayer, Mrs. Herman Olcott, and Miss Helen Topping and her class of twenty-two dancing pupils. A ticket stand was maintained all day in Fraser Hall.
Prof. Carl Preyer, the featured pianist, will play several numbers. Professor Preyer is one of America's foremost pianists, and as instructor in piano at K. U. is known to practically every student. Mrs. Herman Olcott, wife of Coach "Boe" Olcott, is also a member of the fine arts faculty. Before she came to Kansas she was a concert singer in New York. MISS TOPPING'S PARTNER WILL DANCE
MISS TOPPING FARTHERMAN
The student body will be represented in the entertainment by Miss Helen Topping, f. a 17, and her dancing pupils, most of them University women. Miss Topping, who now lives in Kansas City, was well known for her aesthetic dancing while on the Hill, and since her graduation she has studied at the Kansas City School of Ballet. Clye Farmsworth, Miss Topping's dancing partner, will appear with her.
All proceeds will go to the "Fatherless Children of France Fund," for the adoption and support of French war orphans. The French government is starguarding under the financial burden of the war, and can allow the little children of her dead soldier heroes only ten cents a day to live upon. This small sum is not sufficient to feed and clothe a child; and the "Fatherless Children of France" organization makes it possible for Americans to become "god-parents" to these innocent victims of the war.
DESTINES OF THE WAVE
NOW SUPPORTING 150 ORPHANS
NOW SUPPORTING 100 ORPHANS
One hundred and fifty war orphans are now being partially supported by Lawrence people, at a cost of $36.50 per child, yearly. The movement to "adopt an orphan," which was launched in Lawrence two years ago, has had loyal support here, and this benefit is expected to provide additional funds.
The committee in charge of the organization has the following members: Chairman, E. W. Murray; secretary, Mrs. F. R. B Daining; treasurer, Mrs. R. C. Morrow; Miss Edith Snow, Miss Rose Morgan, Mrs. R. D. O'Leary, W. S. Johnson, Miss May Gardner, Miss Esther Wilson, Miss Amida Stanton, Miss Margaret Lynn, D. L. Patterson, and Blaine F. Moore.
By the Way
Phi Alpha Tau Initiates
Phi Alpha
  Phi Alpha Tau, honorary dramatic theater, held initiation Tuesday night at the Phi Gam house for Willis Beltz, Web Wilson, Bert Cochrane, Howard Morgan, and Herman Hangen. A 3-course supper was given at the Oread Cafe before the initiation in honor of the initiates.
Myrll Rodney, c'21, who was on the Hill the first semester, will come to Lawrence Friday to be the guest of Frances Lupton, c'20.
Ralph Casford, pre-medic, left Tuesday for his home in Byrd City. Casford has received his call for service in the National Army, and will report at Camp Funston, May 25.
"Red" Schreiner, M. A. '17, of Frankfurt, is a guest at the Acacia house. Schreiner is on his way to Jefferson Barracks.
The Calida Club gave a picnic on the golf links Tuesday night. Miss Vivian Rice was a guest of honor.
Pauline Carr, The Thompson, Elizabeth Samuel, Joanna Ghee, Helen Robinson and Harry Robinson motorized to Kansas City Tuesday night to see Jane Cowl in "Lilac Time" at the Shubert.
Prof. Noble P. Sherwool, head of the department of bacteriology , is spending a few days in Lawrence with his family. Mr. Sherwood is giving special bacteriological work to army physicians in St. Louis.
The advisory board of the W. Y. C.
A. will give a knitting tea at the home
of Mrs. Arvin S. Olin Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Kenneth J. Uhls of Kansas City will arrive Friday to be a guest at the Alpha Omicron Pi house.
Hooray "Pep" Is Found
The Pewee's investigation disclosed nothing. It did, however, assemble a reasonably authentic history of "Pep's" disappearance, and it might be well to give in full here the report of the investigating committee, which traced down every clew that might lend any light to the solution of the mystery.
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"Pep' was first missed," says the committee's report, "at the opening football game last fall. We knew the minute it started that 'Pep' was not at the game. We were a bit surprised, but not worried, for we felt sure that 'Pep' would be back for the Nebraska and Missouri games.
obserbs and masons.
"Time went by and finally the Nebraska rally came, but as soon as it started we knew that 'Pep' was not in the crowd. It would have been a livier crowd if he had been. Surely, we thought, 'Pep' will be in the bleachers tomorrow to cheer the boys on.
"PEP" FAILS TO SEE GAME
"PEP" FAILS TO SEE GAME
"The next day the game was called,
but as soon as it started we knew,
that what we had begun to fear was
that "Pep" was not with us this year. He was gone. We knew that. Where had he gone? We didn't know that. We just knew he was."
"And so ever since we have been inquiring about 'Pep' and wondering where he could be. We have strongly suspected that he was dead, and many times have felt like putting on mourning for him, but we did not put it on, for we were not sure that he was dead. To determine whether he was dead or not this committee was appointed to investigate. The committee has a most interesting and thorough investigation and has arrived at the following conclusions: 1. 'Pep' is not here this year. 2. We don't know where he is."
Thus the investigation ended, but regarding the whereabouts of "Pep" we were no wiser than when it began. All that the committee reported we had known even before it was appointed. So we gave the problem up, and decided that, for the time being, it could not be solved.
"PEP" FINALLY LOCATED At last, however, the mystery has been solved. "Pep" has been found. And the surprising thing about it all is that it should even have a mystery. We should have now all along where "Pep" had gone. But somehow we were just thoughtless or stupid, and it remained for one of the boys who has gone to France to write back after we had written him that "Pep" was not here, and inform us regarding the
whereabouts of "Pep." Of course we should have known it. But we didn't stop to think. Following is the letter of the K. U. Summie written from ever there in the trenches:
"I am surprised," the letter reasns, "that you should have expected 'Pep' to be back in school this year. I am even more surprised and not a little disappointed that when you missed him you ever had any doubts in a time like this as to where he would be. 'Pep' has enlisted, 'and is in the trenches doing his duty with the boys over here."
NEW TASKS MORE IMPORTANT
"When war was declared, 'Pep' was the first one to enlist. He went with the first of the boys to march away and he is in till the end of the war 'Pep' could never have been content to remain behind when there was such important work as the war on hand, for just now he is needed more over here than he is at K. Ur
"It is true that while he is away from K. U. the Cornhuskers may plow down the gridiron for a victory as often as they meet the Varsity, and the Tiger's tail may go untwisted till the war is over, but that makes little difference. Just now the hosts of the Kaiser have to be rolled back, and the twisting business must wait while we give some attention to Kultur.
"But when this war is over and peace is restored 'Pep' will be back in the University doing his duty just as he used to do it in the old times, and just as he is doing it now in the war."
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Weary Teacher Spills
His Sorrows In Verse
He Has Been Patient So Long Now Has No Temper To Lose
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To Lose
In a pathetic note to the Kansan, a professor with every nerve jangled to insensitivity, who hasn't heard the birds singing this spring and doesn't know that the lilies have bloomed and that the roses are budding, begs that the lamenting lay of all his tribe be made known to the world.
It seems his students have been warring all concomitant associations of war all through the year and have paid too little attention to regular work. And, consequently, he feels a little more than usual the burden of going on with a century's rectitudinal labor and Laving.
He disclaimed the poet's corner and admitted ineligibility to the Kansan's prize poem contest. The news editor claimed the copy and forthwith attached the wall of the erudite to the story that explains it:
By Anon
SICK OF IT, JUST SICK OF IT
Look at the years, the barren years,
Of a teacher's life gone by,
Think of the tears, the salty tears,
From wells long since gone dry;
Of all the things he might have done,
And the things he might have been,
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The Man "Behind the Gun" Must Know!
If you are to be a soldier, learn the things you should know! Prepare yourself in the technical details of war by attending the
K. U. SUMMER SESSION
The following War courses will be offered commencing with the term opening June 4th:
War Relief and Home Service
Applied Sociology With Reference to Problems of the War European Industry and Commerce of the 19th Century Military Science
Military Science
Min of the Great War
Present Day Earth
History of the Far East
It must be recognized that all science courses have been organized to practical war aids, and are therefore valuable in the selection of war courses.
TWO SEPARATE TERMS Enroll in Either or Both!
First Session June 4 to July 12
Second Session July 15 to August 9
For further information see or address Director of Summer
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