The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-16

Amount f. d. Pierce, state
manager, estimates is raised at
noon today toward state quota,
his figures based on the above
official reports .--..--.---.. sou,
Positive assurance that Shawnee
county is going far over the top in
it's Y. M. c. A war work fund cam
paign to raise s35,00O was heard at
the noon luncheon of the campaign
teams at the Chamber of Commerce
today. The teams reported pledges
obtained since Friday noon totaling
$6,6O3.10, making total of $2S,755.3O
collected this week. Two more days
remain in which to obtain the 1924
10 remaining The state campaign
will close officially Monday evening
and Topeka will probably make its
windup at the Monday noon reports
of the teams.
The fact that indications insure an
oversubscription of Shawnee countys
allotment does not mean that pledges
on the part of the public should lag.
1t is necessary that the quota be far
oVersubscribed. The national head
quarters has sent out word that $780,,
600, 900 instead of the first estimate of
$35, 100000 for the nation would be
needed. If it isn't obtained now it will
have to be raised later and every dol
lar deducted from any possible total
that Shawnee county may reach
means that another campaign is just
that much closer.
Good H. S. Activity.
The work of the high school team
which ends today because of the close
of the school week has been the
feature of the entire campaign The
youngsters have reported a total ST.
4O1.OO pledged mostly by students who
eyiX 10
themselves. When the team made its
report today every member of the
senior teams leaped to his feet and
\ extended the youths a vote of thanks,
asking them to continue attending the
luncheons regardless of whether. they
! had anything to report.
Biby Stirred EN- Up.
w. A. Biby, national treasurer for
the Knights and Ladies of Security,
was the principal speaker at the
luncheon Biby hurled sentence after
sentence from his lips that served to
bring his audience closer to the seri-
BUSINESS of the war. He denounced
to tell the farmer that he is being i'm
posed upon thru government regula-
ton of prices and decried the fact that
farmers are not contributing in mon
ey to the cause of the nation on par
with the man in the city.
1T almost made me cry" said Biby,
when the Santa Fe team reported men
in the shops giving. 1T should be a
crime to hint to those fellows who
are making $12 and SIS a week that
they should subscribe, while a farmer
worth $4,000 or 100000 gets off
with a donation of $5O-or $25. Its a
/ crime to ask those men in the shops
to give SIS when they have to give Is
cents a loaf for bread.
Farmer Spoiled by Politicians.
Il haven't anything against the
! farmer. He is the salt of the earth
/ and the backbone of the nation, but
I he has been spoiled by politicians.
The fact that the men in some
rural districts aren't answering is
partly due to poor system. We should
/ have a war board right here in To-
peka and send speakers thru the coun-
! try to explain things to those in the
rural districts. They don't understand
/ that if we don't act now and quick
| we're done for. They don't under
stand that if the Huns go thru the
/ Italian lines it's good night allies. And
/ if the Germans do go thru those lines
we are done for. The enemy will
swing out along the road o Moscow
/ that Napoleon took. They will swing
around and stab France in the back
Biby ridiculed the statement made
! by a grange official in a morning pa
! per to the effect that it would cost
a farmer $2.S2 a bushel in 1917 to
raise his wheat. man doesn't have
/ to be a farmer to know that ridicu-
] lous, he asserted.
| Biby declared the people must stake
their all and likened the public of
the United States to the Bank of
| England which answered a nations
| plea for a loan by voting 5000, 200, 600