The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
Stare subscriptions Reported.


THE man who will not contribute
to a cause of this kind would send
his own mother to the poor house;
would traffic in the soul of his own
sister or would send his own child to
the orphanage. Go to it fellows. And
the man who will not help the Y. M.
c. A. make a home for our boys at
the front is the meanest kind of Il
Stacker"
With those assertions, DR.. Frank
Loveland. former pastor of the First
Methodist church in Topeka, sent the
100 or more business and professional
men who comprise the nine teams
that are making Topeka's Y. NJ. c. A.
campaign away from the noon lunch
con at the Chamber of Commerce to
redouble their efforts. Seven of the
teams reported that they had raised
$4,71S.50 of Shawnee county $35, 600
quota this morning. One of the teams
reported that it had not yet organized
to work effectively and another was
not ready to report
Eight Teams at Work.
At the noon luncheon a place was
provided for the high school team
which is comprised of students The
boys reported that they had obtained
pledges from thirteen boys to the eff
feet that the contributors would work
and earn ten dollars apiece and give it
to the cause. Eight of the business
mems teams are working this after
| noon. The ninth will be in action ear
ly tomorrow morning. great effort
is going to be made to oversu bscribe
! Topeka's quota
DIR. Loveland, in his talk declared
that the Y NJ. C. A. is giving men
in camp and in foreign service what
they want, a home.
Emotion" he said. sis the father
of motion. If we send our American
boys into the trenches humming
/ Rock of Ages, they will form a fight
| ing unit that no autocratic govern
ment on earth can withstand
Preceding Doctor Loveland, Leslie
| C. York inspector of agencies for the
| Equitable Life Assurance Society of
| New York addressed the diners, who
were presided over by A. A. GODDARD,
: state chairman of the campaign. He
urged that the work that is being done
/ by the Y. NJ. C. A. is a most import
t ant part of the war.
! Preliminary reports received up un-
+ til this afternoon by F. ID. Pierce.
/ manager of the state campaign. from
! scattered counties and communities in
the state, were to the effect that. count
= ing the Topeka subscription. $54.41s.50
! of the Kansas quota of $525, 900 has
! been raised Pierce forecasted that
! the allotment would be versubscribed
( II Other counties ana QlStrlctS 90 as
I well as those which have already made
their first reports. Pierce also re-
| ceived a telegram saying that Presi-
/ dent Wilson and prominent cabinet
members today gave out hearty en-
dorsement of the Y. NJ. c. A. cause
and work.
A letter from Scott county Informed
Pierce that last Friday the county
raised its quota of $500 in a few hours
and is still going. Reno county's quota
of $4,000 has been raised in the city
of Hutchinson alone and the cam
paigners are now working the rural
districts Pratt county campaigners
! wired count our quota of $4,000
raised"
Lyon county's. quota of $4,000 had
been raised in the city of Emporia.
The rest of the county is being can
vassed. Campaigners in the Twelfth
district comprised of Cheyenne. Raw
lins Thomas, DecatuR Sheridan and
Norton, wired that they have stopped
talking quota and guarantee an over
subscription of their $4,000 allotment
Saline county will oversub bscribe
ner IS, 600 quota" is the advice thai
has advised that it has raised its 81
00e allotment and has raised the goa
to $4,000. Linn county has voluntarily
raised its allotment of S3500 to So
000 Wakeeney, in Trego county, ha,
underwritten the county quota Of
$3.50. Russell the county seat of Rus
!. sell county. has raised $3.50 of tn.
Il county's $1,000 goal
About 100 hoys in the high school a.
F'redonia have pledged -. 200 wbe1
told il was too mu"h they declares
: il wasn't enough. They have agreed
to earn the money and then pay i
over. Mankato, Jewell county, re