The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
This Appeal to Be Made to
Every Citizen of County.
Plans for Xmas Membership
Drive Outlined Today.
A FLAG IN EVERY HOME
That Is Slogan of Shawnee
County Committee.
Albaugh and DIR. Kulp Speakers
at Luncheon Today.

Christmas drive OF the Red Cross
sounded this noon at a combined
meeting of men and women committee
workers at the Chambe-. of Commerce.
Morton Albaugh opened the speaking
by sounding the slogan of the drive
and announcing the determination of
the workers to place a Red Cross
flag in every window in Topeka by
Christmas eve" Albaugh asserted
that the Shawnee county drive would
win and that by the time the cam
paign closes every farm house in the
county would be displaying the en-
blem of mercy, and that the Red
Cross would blaze in every window
in Topeka.
The feature address of the Iunch-
con was delivered by DR.. Edmund
James Kulp of the First Methodist
church. Starting out with a sketchy
history of the war, DR.. Kulp declared
that today Germany is able to throw
nearly ten and one-half million men
in the field and that to oppose this
force successfully the allies must fur
nish opposition of like size. The share
of the United States from the man
standpoint he estimated as not less
than 1000, 900 men. And to back
these men and care for them as they
deserve to be cared fc it is the duty
of every true citizen of the United
States to become a member of the
greatest power for relief the world has
ever seen, The American Red Cross"
German Spies Denounced.
Doctor Kulp was especially vehem-
ent in his vitriolic denunciation of the
German spies that infest the country.
This nation must be made dangerous
for the spy, and exceedingly danger
Gus. These vipers of the earth should
be forced to spend their blood as they
spend the blood of our boys across
the seas Instead of the delights of
the internment camp these cumberers
of the earth and enemies to democracy
will now be forced to the doubtful lux
ury of prison term at hard labor.
In this war mercy is the cause at
stake but in our defense of this d
mirable quality we must not forget
that the best mercy in the case of
spy should be of the relentless variety
and not the kind hat fosters while il
Furnishes"
The luncheon today was merely the
opening gun in the great Christmas
ordered to be recruited to full war
strength and the outlines of the cam
paign were laid with sureneSS and
hdispatch. The Sh--wnee county drive
Especially came in for attention. I'm
der the direction of Miss M'Edna Cor
bett and H. S. Morgan the rural school
teachers will be organized into an eff
cient fighting force and will imme-
diately begin to smooth the path of
the membership juggernaut that
will start on its relentless way on the
morning of December II.
Obligation of All.
Teachers must realize that mem
| bership in the Red Cross is an obli-
cation which no patriot will attempt
| to waive in the present crisis. Our
boys have gone forth to fight the
/ battles of democracy and the stay-at-
]
their money, to the last cent, t.
staunch the flow of blood from the
I heart of the nation. Membership ir
! the Red Cross is a patriotic duty and
| the rural teachers must take a promi-
nent part in the present campaign
! This is the message of the county sup
! erintendent of schools to the teach
ers of her organization and to the vo-
tiers and citizens of the county.
The National Red Cross society is
bending every effort to inaugurate {
new era in the expiration of mem
berships. All persons who are mem
! bers of the Red Cross are urged t.
waive their present membership and
take out new one to expire in jan
! uary, 1919. This will do away with
a great deal of the expense of the
membership department, and will
/ the same time enable members to
| renew at a time when the thought of
mercy and charity is uppermost in
/ far lost that he can experience no
such emotions.
Membership for Year.
Membership in the Red Cross will
hereafter be for the calendar year
whether the membership is bought in
January or in May and every mem
bership will expire on the first of the
year following the purchase. Horace
Hall calls on the present members in
| Shawnee county to waive their pres
| ent memberships and help the Red
I Cross to eliminate unnecessary ex-
pense.
But, in this statement the head of
/ the Shawnee county Red Cross does
not mean that any one who refuses to
waive his present membership will
! lose, on the contrary such members
will retain their membership to the
regular expiration time, but from now
on, beginning with mem berships sold
in the campaign starting December II
every mem bership will automatically