The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-20
RATE OF so A DAY
Names of Persons Who Need
Assistance Pouring In.
Applicants for Free Thanks
giving Dinners Bring Problem.
HOW TO GET NECESSARY FOOD
Those Who Are Willing to Help
Urged to Get Busy.
Volunteers Should Notify the
Confidential Exchange.

| In the last week, an average of fifty
names of persons who will need as
sistance in procuring the kind of a
dinner on Thanksgiving day befitting
the occasion have been received daily.
AS these names and addresses con-
tiNue to pour in, the goal toward
which local charity workers are trav-
cling is neared. But to attain it, the
persons whose names have been sub
mitted to the charity clearing house,
must be given the foodstuffs that stir
up Thanksgiving feelings. An as
Signment of baskets for every family
on the Exchanges records, is the
problem that now comfronts the sec
rotary.
Hundreds of baskets will be offered
by the organizations regularly en-
gagged in work of this type and num-
Der of church clubs have volunteered
to provide dinners for a limited num-
Der of families. But there are still
numerous homes that left to the
guidance of the family head would
house no cheer producing viands
next Thursday.
Widows who depend on washtub
for the slender and frequently uncer-
tain income on which is reared a
small army of youngsters are not
often able to vary from the regular
menu on November rs. Hard work
ing dads whose financial remunera-
ton for their labors fall below that
necessary to properly provide for
family and fathers whose wages lind
their way into the strong boxes of the
brewery agent are little better pre-
pared to offer their tots and the tots
mothers a dinner that would for the
time at least blot out little of the
bitterness those families faced. Who
will say that any of those children or
the mothers are undeserving of at
least one decent meal a year?
Should. Be Early Response.
And it is that army that is being
enrolled at the Exchange office. But
the needy are many and call is be-
son desiring to furnish one or more
baskets can leave his name at the
State Journal office or phone the
Confidential EXchange-565. Consid-
persons volunteering baskets will
make known their intentions before
November rs.
More than half the persons whose
names are coming into the Exchange
office will probably never again call
on any charitable organization for as
sistance. A complete new file is
therefore being prepared for the dim
ers who will be the guests next Thurs
day of Topeka's Gloom Chasers.
No one back of the scheme to pro-
vide every tot and all his folks with
something worth eating on Thanks
giving day doubts the generosity of
Topekans. Local charity workers de-
back and that there isn't the slightest
chance for him to see daylight this
Turkey day.
The Plan.
GIoom's number was obtained a
short time ago when the army on his
trail met at the office of the Ex-
change to agree that he had no place
in Thanksgiving festivities. And NJ |
GIoom's mineral was acquired with |
out any unnecessary formality. 1t |
was annexed in the following manner. |
A scheme was devised that would |
provide every person in TOpeka-no |
matter how low his or her funds are |
with a real Thanksgiving day feast. |
The details of the scheme are just |
these: Every active organization do |
ing charity work and the numerous
clubs and societies that assist on spe- |
clal occasions are making a complete |
every person who they believe should |
fidentia1 Exchange office as fast as
every person who will probably have |
edibles is being enrolled on the rec
ords at the Exchange.
Then to further minimize the
chance of skipping some one who will
need the layout of food, announce
ment was made that names could be
turned into the office of the State
Journal. In this manner a number of
persons whose funds will not cover
genuine Thankday assortment of food
stuffs were found.