The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
Campaign Workers Think 1t
viii Reach This Figure.
Amount $4,000 Above Mark
Set at the Start.
CONGRATULATE WHOLE CITY
Teams Take Part in Big Jubilee
Celebration Tonight.
Contributions Are Still Pouring
Into Headquarters.

Congratulations on the splendid
Red Cross campaign"
This was the message flashed to H.
2. Davidson, director of the National
Red Cross campaign, from General
Pershing now stationed in France. And
the message was seconded by every
committeeman and worker of the Red
Cross work. The same message is re-
peated to the public of Topeka for its
patriotic work and tremendous Red
Cross subscriptions.
The message is sent to the public by
Rev. Edmund ]. Kulp. D. w. Mulvane
and by every one of the local cam
paigners. by the press and by all pub
lie institutions of the city: "Congratu-
lations on the splendid Red Cross cam
paign."
Today was celebrated all over the
country as "Pershing day. by the mil
lions of Red Cross enthusiasts. And
the public, too, joins in on the celebra-
ton. Subscriptions by the hundreds
poured into the Chamber of Com
| merce. Many were additional dona-
tions, pledged in addition to the first
offering of Topekans.
I'm no other way can America show
her loyalty so well as in the Red Cross
work" this message from General
Pershing continued.
Pass $4,000 Mark.
No estimate of the work done today
can be made until the twelve team
| captains of the city make their final
report this evening. Topeka, however,
will pass the 100000 mark in the Red
Cross campaign if subscriptions con-
tinue to pour in during the closing
hours of the campaign. The final hour
will arrive at $50 tonight when the
jubilee banquet and a big entertain
ment will be staged at the Chamber
of Commerce for the 100 .tireless
| workers of the local campaign.
The success of the campaign will be
officially announced this evening at
the closing festival of the workers.
The teams, the executive committee
and the advisory committee will meet
for the last time. The teams promise
to come in on the last lap of the race
with still energy left to report the
100000 collected or pledged.
Saturday noon the total passed the
$4,000 allotment by nearly $4,000.
mated at nearly 100000 and the
pledging thermometer promised to
shoot still higher.
Work on Pledges
| Such a busy session of the campaign
committees as today's has not been
seen since the early programs of the
workers. Three stenographers and
nearly a dozen men worked until mid
| night Saturday, all morning and had
still more work to do this afternoon.
All this work is over the pledges taken
! Saturday morning and Friday night
| In addition to these countless
( pledges. church collections taken Red
Cross Sunday for the organization
have not been turned in, nor have the
donations given by the theaters of the
city Saturday night been totaled
| Work and more work is all that the
| executive 10
rest of the week.
/ The Oakland Campaign.
AS a result of the Red Cross cam
paign in Oakland 5000 was added to
the fund today, four streets not having
| been heard from at noon. About
twenty-five workers assisted in bring
ing in this amount, each street being
worked by a team and a captain. A
great number of people living in Oak
land work in Topeka and have already
Peterson who is at the head of the
| Oakland campaign stated that he ex-
pected to have about S4OO when the
canvass is completed.
This Pershing Day.
A special effort is made in each
| city to respond to the message from
Pershing sent from France to the ma
tional Red Cross officers in which he
stated that it was his earnest desire
! that the Red Cross would oversub-
I scribe their SlOO,OOO,UO0 campaign by
nearly so per cent. He further asked
/ that large portion of this money be
spent for the wounded Russian SOL
! dierS who are now recorded as having
! a mortality rate of more than so per
| cent.
Better care, more improved con-
| valescent camps and the care by wo-
men, those were Pershing's plea to
! the American citizens and were the
reasons that every single working
man and woman should contribute to
! even a part of his or her last dollar
The final program of the 100 faith
full workers of Topeka will be held
| tonight at the Chamber of Commerce
1t will mark the completion of one of
the most difficult tasks that has been
performed in the city. 1t will mark
the success of a people with hearts
true to their colors' and to their sons
The Windup Tonight.
The program tonight will take the
place of the monday luncheon of the
workers that has been held at the
the campaign. DR.. Edmund j. Kulp,
as commander-in-chief of a victorious
army, will of course be the principal
speaker of the program.
Work on the campaign will close to-
night for the solicitors and canvaSSerS
| but the executive committee will prob
ably work until Thursday or Friday
! checking over the reports of the teams
and institutions of the city.
Additional List of Subscriptions
| Following is an additional Red
Cross list over the long list printed
to-day on page >. of the subscriptions