The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-02
Liberty Loan Must Be Over
subscribed. Workers Say.
First Showing Indicates This
viii Be Done.
Topeka BANKERS SET PACE
Million Dollars the Goal To Be
Reached in County.
Big Corporations of City May
Treble This Amount.
One million dollars.


Following subscription of s254.0o0,
nearly one-third of Shawnee county
apportionment of the new liberty loan,
by Topeka bankers at meeting IN
the Central National bank building
pel<a was set today i'll the campaign
by Fred ". Freeman, of the First
Kansas district committee. Mr.. Free
man declared that Shawnee should
oversubscribe its approximate quota
of sS00,000-4 per cent of the total
bank deposits of 100000, ,000-by
100000.
The subscription of more than d
quarter million dollars by bankers
Monday night was the initial one of
the great drive for volunteer dollars
here. The bonds will be obtained by
the banks and used in filling purchaS-
es by customers.
Bulk in Topeka.
While the meeting was called for
Shawnee county bankers, only one out
of town banker, Sims " F'irestone of
the Wakarusa State bank, attended.
This means, of course, that all but a
small amount of the bonds subscribed
were taken by Topeka banks on the
county quota.
Altho the campaign to place the
bonds is in its infancy, a great patri-
otic campaign is already being
planned. The bankers Monday night
adopted a resolution that invited the
women's committee of the National
Defense council and the -Four Minute
men of Kansas to cooperate with the
district committee in placing the APP
portionment of the loan.
The following bankers attended the
meeting Monday night:
Sims V. Ffrestone, Wakarusa State
bank: +. F. Ginger of Farmers Ma
tional bank; F, w. Freeman Mer-
chants National bank; J. w Thurs
! ton. Farmers National bank: H. F
i4Guthrie, Morris Plan bank; f. i. Ell
more, Shawnee State bank; George w
Snyder, Topeka state bank; F. C
kathS, Kansas Reserve State bank
J. r. Burrow, Central National bank
+. NJ. Bonebrake. Merchants National
! bank; S. r. Cobb Bank of Topeka
H. G. West. Farmers National, To
{ peka; +. II. Burrow, Central Trust
company, Topeka, and John T. Nor
rIsey, secretary
Executive Committee Named.
Members of newly reorga nized ex-
ecutive committee are as follows:
J. r. Burrow. chairman: +. NJ
Bonebrake, S. f. Cobb, F. p fillmore
Sims Y. Firestone, F. c. Kaths and
George w. Snyder. To the foregoina
committee was added the following
representing the business interests ot
the city: Wholesalers and jobbers. S
j. Hodgins: retailers. f. H. Crosby.
religious, Rev. l.. j. Kulp: railroads
+. l.. Copeland; fraternaI, l.. NJ. Pen
well: press. w. A. Johnson; building
and loan associations. Charles f, Jcl-
liott; farm mortgage companies, Car
rol b. Merriam
The million dollar goal set by Mr.
Freeman will apply to the amount
subscribed to thru the banks only The
figure will probably be doubled or
possibly. trebled by subscriptions oi
corporations in Topeka which will
buy direct from the treasury depart
ment.
Big Corporation subscriptions
The Santa Fe railway subscribed tc
$5,060.0O0 of the first loan. of thai
amount $1,500.000 was taken over by
the office of F.. L. Copeland. treasurer
in Topeka In addition to this million
! and Il half Santa Fe employees pur-
chased in the neighborhood of $3.50
000 worth of the bonds thru the To
peka trcasurer's office. Topeka en-
ployes of several other corporations
including the Southwestern Bell
purchased bonds that were obtained
by the compa MES direct from Nc
Adoo The Rock Island, %nion Pa
eific and Missouri Pacific railroads
also allowed employees in Topeka Il
buy direct thru an arrangement they
had with the government These
J phases of the first campaign will prob
ably be duplicated in the present drive
for war money