The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-19
Washburn College Surprises
Committee With $3.50 Gift.


-'rawpee county covered itself with
patriotic glory today and went fa'
.over the top in its Y. NJ. c. A war
work fund campaign. Final reports
from the teams were made at the
noon luncheon at the Chamber of
Commerce. Shawnee county's bit"
of -fhe national s35 100000 fund to-
ftlcC s42S39.65 Topeka team NO
q captaired by Chester Woodward,
led ali others with the largest amount
renorted ly any group of workers.
The climax to the campaign came
when A. A. GODDARD. county chairman
who has led the Shawnee county drive
for dollars of mercy to a victorious
s.n~"cSs announced that he had a
'ssl;rprise'' subscription to report. Ine
subSoription was one for 81 80 from
W. -hburr college. having been raised
af the institution last week by the fac
ulty and students. 1t was kept 'un-
q = ,,vcr' b GODDARD that it might be
us-d an an appropriate climax to the
WORK here
Loyalty i'm Shops.
Another feature that impressed the
workers was uncovered today by the
8 tean which had had charge of the
santa Fe shop work. Starting out to
raise 500 in the shops the team to
ta reported a total of S1,479.lO sub
scribed by the employees without sollcl-
"A
distributed by the time keepers anC
if the men wished to subscribe they
did and vice versa. The shop total
was COMPRISED of I 1.20O individual
subscriptions. The signatures were of
men representing - nations. Hun
dreds Of the donors were of German
birth and parentage. one subscriber,
members of the team cited, was an
eX-captain in the German army.
The same system for getting sub
scriptions was used in the Santa Fe
offices where a total of 81, ,215.75 was
obtained without solicitation being
made other than to hand all en-
ployes one of the pledge cards.
County workers reported an addi-
tional S969.50 to the s1,691.50 pre-
viously reported. Ernest Cheney. OF
Soldier made the county report and
preceded ii with a brief talk wherein
he urged closer relations between the
farmers and business men. The fact
that the two must work as unit de-
mands this, he brought out
Troutman's Eloquent Talk.
Senator James A. Troutman, in al
eloquent address. delivered what
might be termed the "benediction" o1
the campaign. He urged greater eff
fort on the part of individuals and de
clared that the famous saying of LORD
Nelson should in America be revised
to THE United States expects every
man and woman to do his or hel
duty"
1t was reported at the luncheon by
a team captain that L. NJ. Crawford
walked into the formers office this
morning and gave three fine billiard
tables to the cause" after making
other heavy subscriptions The table.
worth $3.50 each. were accepted anC
will probably be sent by the Y. NJ. c
A to Camp Doniphan. Okla, where
the Missouri and Kansas state troop!
are encamped.
After the reports were made tht
luncheon was reVolVed INTO "libert!
fest wherein captains of the variou
teams reported the good work done b,
individuals and everyone had chanc
to talk and relate experiences. A A
GODDARD praised the workers in
short talk. Under his able leader
ship the men have made the campaign
the most successful of its kind in To
peka ip years