The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-12
PASSES $4,000
Washburn Endowment Fund Is
Growing Steadily.
Days Work Adds S3,442 to the
Grand Total.

TOpeka Is gong TO nave a SOOO OF
bad reputation according to the speed
with which the sixty thousand dollars
needed for the Washburn endowment
fund it raised. The fund has now gone
past the ten thousand dollar mark and
is growing right along at the rate of
three thousand dollars a day But the
Immediate success of the local cam
paign is going to have such far
reaching effect upon the friends of the
school, outside Shawnee county, that
it is felt that the Topeka share should
be pledged in short order.
In the working out of the plans for
endowment it was thought that To-
peka should pledge two hundred thou
sand dollars and the friends of the
school outside Shawnee county should
pledge $275,000. The million dollar
endowment would be completed with
the raising of these amounts in Kan
sas by reason of the gifts from east
ern friends and the general educa-
tional board.
Topeka lacks the sixty thousand dol
lars of contributing her share to the
fund. 1t is really less than fifty thou
sand dollars now by reason OF the SUD-
scriptions received this week.
Just think for a moment how much
of a leverage this will give US as we
try to raise the state share of the en-
dowment" said President Womer at
the noon rally Whenever we discuss
this endowment outside this county,
almsot the first question asked is.
Well, what did Topeka do?' And we
tell them that Topeka has raised
$4,000 and is at work raising the
other end of the share. And these
friends of ours out in the state at once
suggest that they will gladly subscribe
when Topeka raises its share.
Waiting on Topeka.
"Now, when we go out into the
state again Just think how much bet
ter we can work when We can say,
Topeka has raised her snare we
have numerous subscriptions out In
the state contingent upon Topeka, S
raising her share of the endowment.
So you see how important it is to
Washburn and to Topeka to make this
campaign a success in the shortest
possible time and get this endowment
completed as far as Topeka is con-
cerned."
A total of s3442 was reported by
the teams at the rally at noon today.
This was the total of pledges since
noon yesterday and includes the be-
quest of the late A. w. Knowles, who
left a provision in his will for gift
of 81 900 to be used in completing the
Topeka end of the Washhur2 endow-
ment.
The workers in the campaign have
made a discovery and that is that the
women of Topeka realize. apparently.
more than the men the great value of
Washhurn to the young folks of the
city That makes the women much
more liberal than the men in their
subscriptions. In theo experience
meetings that follow the formal rally
| many of the workers tell of how the
wives had insisted upon larger sub
scriptions than the husbands first
proposed.
eve had one woman tell her hus-
band she would go without a new win
ter cloak this year if he would raise
his subscrintion $50 said one worker.
"And he did not only raise it $50 but
SIS. and said if his wife was willing
to go without new winter coat he
would not buv ne woverooat. But
that isn't going to happend as they
will make the pledge in small pay
ments covering a neriod of five years.
Pay in Installment.
The workers reported that there was
knowledge that the subscriptions
could be paid during a period of Jour
or five years. A great many people
who felt that they could not give to
the endowment fund were surprised
and much pleased to learn that the
subscriptions could be paid in small
| installments over a long period They
felt that they could not make a cash
contribution just at this time or in the
immediate future, because of circum-
stances, but they were glad to sub
scribe when they found that the pay
ments could be made at later dates
and in small amounts.
The workers are finding it easier to
get new residents of Topeka interest
ed in Washburn now than earlier in
the campaign as nearly everyone is
| discussing the efforts of the college to
raise it's endowment. Those who had
already contributed are easily inter-
ested and most of them add to their
former pledges.
During the rally today the Wash
burn Glee club sang several of the old
Washburn songs and stirred up a good
deal of enthusiasm among the work
ers, some of whom had not heard the
old songs for many years.
1t has been decided that the detailed
subscriptions would not be listed dur
ing the remainder of the campaign
and only the. subscriptions of above
fifty dollars will be published. The
subscriptions reported today were.
Previously reported .........S T225 90
A w. Knowles Estate. ........... 100000
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