The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-20
Three FOurths of Kan. Counties
Begin Big Food Drive.
State Campaign Takes Deep
Root in All Sections.
FOREIGNERS SHOW INTEREST
Usage Banker Lends Money to
Buy Young Cattle.
House to House Canvass Being
Made Among Farmers.

Three-fourths of the los counties of
Kansas are today in the big food
drive. Hundreds of letters and tele-
grams received by Governor Capper
indicate that the campaign for in
creasing food production has taken
deep root in every section of the state.
A number of counties >are making
house to house campaigns among the
farmers. In other counties, big mass
meetings will be held Saturday.
While the campaign for a greater
crop acreage in the state is being eX-
tended to the rural districts, men
in charge of the organization of var
ious branches of the campaign, are
gathering valuable ia cts to be present
ed at the meeting of the defense coun-
Gil in Topeka next Wednesday. 1t is
believed that by Saturday night ev-
cry county in the state will have
difinite, positive organization. Funds
for the campaign are being pledged
by number of bankers who are will
ing to care for demands in their coun-
ties.
Foreigners Take Part.
Even the foreign element in the
southeastern Kansas mining district
is displaying the spirit of the food
campaign, according to a statement
in Topeka today by F. w. Brinkerhoff,
city editor of the Pittsburg Headlight.
L
ed back yard gardens, Brinkerhoff
stated, and in recognition of the de-
mand for greater food supplies the
Pittsburg commission will next week
grant practically a fifty per cent re-
duction in water rates for garden
plots. The rate will be reduced from
forty to twenty-five cents for gardens,
Brinkerhoff stated
"Not only is the district entering the
food campaign in a proper spirit, but
Brinkerhoff AT one mining camp
the men-nearly all of foreign descent
refused to enter the mine until the
operators had raised the stars and
stripes"
In Usage county, according to a let
ter from H G. Sicher an automobile
campaign is being conducted thru the
entire county. Large posters are be-
ing distributed and full page adver-
tisements are being published in local
papers.
Loan TO Buy Cattle
One result of the Usage county
campaign was apparent today when it
became known that Walter l.. Payne
state treasurer and vice president of
the Pioneer State bank of Burlingame
had directed a loan for the purchase
of a train load of two-year- cattle
to be placed on Usage county ranches
Cattle and feed are high. Yet when a
group of StOckmen planned to pasture
IHeJf ldnu IIllS summer, Payne Q1rect-
ed loan which will result in bring
ing fortytwo cars of Texas cattle into
the county for the summer.
The cattle will be fed cotton seed
meal as well as Kansas blue STEM The
cattle will enter the state weighing
about 900 pounds and will go on the
market in 100 days weighing from
1900 to 1900 pounds each. Action
in bringing the train load of cattle
to the state is just one of the evil
dence of patriotic response to the de-
mandS of the defense council.
Night meetings are being held thru
out Ford county, according to letter
to Governor Capper from L. J. Petit
john of Dodge City. A monster mass
meeting will be held Saturday and the
county is being thoroly organized for
the campaign.
Howard Dunlap. an Emporia bank
err, has announced that funds will be
provided Lyon county farmers for the
purchase of seed and other necessary
expense in producing a maximum crop.
Similar action is being taken by many
other Kansas bankers.
F. w. Dixon of Holton has asked
Governor Capper to urge the federal
government to assure the farmers a
minimum price of 81 for wheat, 81
for potatoes. rs cents for corn and 81
for apples in order to insure bumper
crop productions turnout the nation