The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-22
Banks Are Expected To Boost
COunty's Total Tonight.
1t Is Estimated They VIII Add
100000 to Subscriptions.
WORKERS ARE OPTIMISTIC
They VIII Not Let Up Until
Goal Is Reached.
Many Big Subscriptions Are
Yet To Come In.

Is Shawnee county going down to
defeat in its campaign to oversub-
scribe its quota of $2,000,000 to the
second liberty loan?
Bankers and business mems com
mittees leading in Topeka's battle for
volunteer dollars today were optlm-
istic as to the probability that Shaw
nee county is not going to be listed
as Stacker in the purchase of the
/ bonds, yet they realized that during
the three closing days the machinery
of the campaign must develop a speed
far in maximum of that yet display
ed if the goal is to be reached.
A survey by the State Journal to-
day of Topeka banks showed suffl-
cient subscriptions in addition to the
$1,056.000 already reported to bring
the total up to at least $1,50O,OO VIII
be made by the banks at tonights s
meeting of the executive committee e
the Central National bank. The To-
peka institutions, it was learned, ex-
pect to add to their previous sub
scriptions without exception prac-
ticaily. Amounts added will range
from $4,000 to 100000. Four of
the institutions declared they intended
to boost their purchases $4,000 or
more each.
Burrow Is Optimistic.
]. r. Burrow, chairman of the
Shawnee county committee backed up
the State Journal estimate by assert
ing that additional subscriptions to-
night would total, approximately
100000.
If no more than this amount is add
ed 100000 will have to be added
in three days in. order to raise the
| quota. Men at the head of the cam
| paign say this task will be alleviated
| somewhat by the fact that a great
MANY of the largest subscribers nave
! q
| subscriptions. They will be the last
under the wire and will boost the to-
J tai at the finish. In the meantime,
however, the committees soliciting sub
! scriptions from individuals are not let
| ting up in their efforts.
| The menace that threatens an un-
| dersubscription. they assert, is suffi-
| cient that every individual, organiza-
] ton and firm should do their utmost or
what they consider their utmost. The
| amount Uncle Sam has asked in the
! first and second loans IS only a small
I per cent of the aggregate wealth of
| the country. The bonds are as good
as cash and are the same as money
! in the bank drawing A per cent inter-
/ est. 1t may be of interest to those
who believe that the flotation of the
! loans is tending to put the country
+'in the hole. too far that Germany
! has just completed floating of her
l seventh war loan of 1000, 900
The campaign has been aided ma
! terially recently by the subscriptions
of various church, fraternal and civic
| organizations that possess sinking
/ funds. They turned this idle money
into the bonds which they regard as
| good as ready cash or better because
it draws interest invested in the loan.
| The banks continued today to re-
I ceive subscriptions faster than ever
/ before in either the first or present
| loans The business mems soliciting
committees of thirty teams continued
their work.
Freeman Statement.
F. w. Freeman, chairman of -he
I district committee has made the fol-
lowing announcement:
am confident Shawnee county is
going to subscribe it's full quota OF
the second liberty loan, providing
the people realize that there are
only four more days in which to
make subscriptions and do not de-
lay in making application for the
/ bonds. The response the last few
days leads me to believe that ap-
pIications will come in in a stream
from now until the close of the cam
paign. THE work should be closed
up here not later than Thursday
! night. so that the banks may have
a full day to report final figures
to the Federal Reserve bank al
Kansas City. F. w. Freeman,
Chairman of the First District Lib
erty Loan committee.