The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-13
Do You Think Boys in France
Are to You!
If So, Get Ready To Join Red
Cross Next Week.
READY FOR THE BIG DRIVE
Workers Start on
Xmas Campaign Next Week.
Three Hundred Women To
Help Canvass the City.

Are the boys in olive drab worth
dollar TO you?
Topekans. next week, will be given
the opportunity to answer that cues
ton when canvassers for the Christ
mas Red Cross membership campaign
call at each home and office The an
swer will be made thru the absence
or appearance of Red Cross service
flag in the window of your home or
office after the canvassers have called
upon YOU. The purchase OF a Red
Cross membership, costing 81. 1t was
announced by Morton Albaugn- IN
charge of the Topeka campaign today,
will give the purchaser the rlSnt 70
exhibit the service flag. Ana every
man and woman in the city viii be
given the chance to become member
of the association and exhibit the nag
Absence of such a flag in any Topeka
home or office after the close of the
CANT align can be interpreted TO mean
nothing more than that the men on
the firing lines are not worth dollar
to the occupants.
Twelve thousand of these flags must
appear in Topeka windows next week
if the citizens, as individuals answer
the above question unanimously in the
affirmative. Albaush today set the
goal for new Red Cross memberships
thru the campaign at that number.
Beginning Monday. $50 men and 500
women in the city will begin striving
TO obtain an oversubscription 20 the
goal These workers will be under
AIbaugh's personal supervision In
addition, L50 workers under c. B.
Merriam will canvass the county out
side of Topeka.
Expect Big Co. Showing.
It has been said that the farmers
have been slow to respond to re-
quests for money fer the Y. NJ c. A.
the Red Cross and liberty bonds In
the last several weeks a monster edu-
1 c. tiOnal campaign has been conducted
| thru the rural districts The objects
of the Red Cross and the use money
collected in the coming campaign will
| be put to has been fully explained,
even in the most out of the way places
of the county. The county outside Of
Topeka is to be given its chance to
make an unanimous pledge of loyalty
| interest and faith in the war And a
| Red Cross service flag in every farm
home window Christmas eve would be
the unanimous answer
The service flag to be given every
member of the Red Cross bears a blue
border with white field in the cen
/ ter on the white field is the Red
Cross of mercy. The flag displayed
| in a window of a home. with the SIM
gle Red Cross in the center denotes
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bare two members in. the home. the
right will be given to place another
red cross in one of the corners of the
flag, the smaller cross being furnished
by the canvassers-
Plans All Completed
Down at Red Cross headquarters in
the New England building today
plans and details for the campaign
were all but completed. All the work
ers hare been organized and assigned
to their territory And in addition to
the regular canvassers. the campaign
will be made more intensive by big
business firms handling the situation
from within with heads of each de-
partment soliciting the employees,
Albaugh this morning issued the
following statement to all Topekans:
For the convenience Of the $50
men in Topeka and the 500 women
who have gladly and voluntarily prof
| fered their services TO assist in the
Red Cross Christmas membership
drive, which starts in Topeka on
Monday. the nth. it is urged:
First That every family in To-
peka talk over in advance and deter
/ mine how many Red Cross member
ships they intend to take and decide
whether they shall be taken in the
mans place Of business or the home.
Second. As soon as the member
ships are taken. the service fag-shouid
/ be displayed in the window of the
/ home, so that duplication in solicita-
/ ton is not necessary.
Third. All memberships must be
/ paid for al the time taken. Have
your dollar or dollars or check ready
when the Red Cross worker calls
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