The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-15

to Mrs. Graves.
To Get Chain Back.
"ThatH be fine" said Hoyes.
Well do it tomorrow" Mrs. Graves
will receive her chain back but it will
not be returned until after it has
been the cause of more than 500 to
the Topeka allotment thru the rattle.
Seven of the nine teams in the city
$3.50 added to the fund here since
Wednesday noon. This brings the to-
tai to date to S22, 104.20. This leaves
only $12,S95.SO to be collected before
the campaign ends Monday in order
to raise Topeka's allotment
Indications in the amount repOreS0
today that the campaign is beginning
to lag was partially offset, in that the
workers were moved to a determine
ton of greater effort, by addresses by
Justice Silas Porter of the state su-
preme court and NJ. V. Wiley, chair
man of the state executive committee.
The amount added to the total col
lected today was not half that re-
flee team and the North Topeka team
did not report. w. B. Collinson, head
of the office committee. said he is
working on pledges today and as to-
day is payday hundreds of employees
are waiting until in the morning when
they will make cash subscriptions
The same is true insofar as subscrip
tions are concerned of the Santa Fe
shops.
Big Reports Tomorrow.
Big reports generally are expected
for tomorrow. 1t was announced by
the team leaders that all big depart
ment and other stores in the city
are being organized today and tonight
the employees, in assembly, will be
addressed in each store After the
talks subscriptions will be taken. EN-
ployes of a few of the stores will be
assembled on this order tomorrow
evening or tomorrow noon.
Justice Porter, in his talk, endorsed
the way the Y. M c. A and Red
Cross funds are being raised.
The humanity in heart ties in
! these funds, placed there by those
who give to them, can never be
equaled by the act of congress where
under the government would raise the
FUNDS by taxation" he said
Justice Porter brought out that
much has been said that would give
one the impression that the Y. M, c.
A. and the work that it is undertake
ing is slckly church proposition.
An orator the other day" he said,
overlooked his banks and urged that
we send men over the top singing
| ROCK of Ages Imagine a Jew going
over the top singing Rock of Ages
why, there are men that go over the
top with curses and fearful oaths on
their lips without knowing they are
+ doing it and the recording angel when
/ confronted by the devastation of Bel
GUM and Poland, will never make
record of these words.
Give Soldiers Comforts.
What the Y. M. c. A. is trying to
/ do is give the men in foreign service
some kind of home-like surrounding.
And without the Y. NJ. c. A. we can
not keep men in normal conditions
with them amid the surroundings they
i fight under. The Y. NJ. c. A keeps
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up to where it should be and the Y.
NJ. c. A. and Red Cross causes are
/ shoulder to shoulder as to merit.
Justice Porter spoke from the
standpoint of a father who has two
sons in the service, one in the English
army in France and one in the Amer
lean army. His talk was forceful,
crisp and impressive.
/ One team leader. in making his re-
port told of widow with a small
/ cause. She did it voluntarily and
was not solicited. Stories told, as re-
ports were made. by some of the
/ team leaders, were not without their
ludicrous side. Chester Woodward.
who was working the state hospital
/ began talking to a woman who inn
mediately wanted to pledge $4,000.
1t was not until then that Woodward
| found she was one of the inmates and
not a nurse as he supposed.
The high school assembly listened
/ to a talk this morning by DR.. E. J.
fKulp and the plate was passed" The
! boys pledged $322.50.
The State Campaign.
Basing his figures on official re-
/ turns from over the states, F. D.
Pierce, state manager of the Y. NJ.
C. A. war work fund, estimated at
noon today that three-fifths or APP
/ proximately, 100000 of the Kansas
quota of $525,O00 has been raised.
| Official reports from counties and dis
4 tricts assured Pierce that $199, 062,
not counting the amounts raised in
/ high schools and colleges, has been
raised at noon Wednesday.
/ The grand total officially subscribed
! to the high school allotment of $780,
/ 900 was today brought to $10,367 by
official reports. College teams wired
in a total of $10,547 toward their goal
| of $4,000.
School Donations Extra.
/ Pierce said today that while the
! high school and college campaigns
are in connection with the state cam
paign proper and the money will go
for the same object, the quota has
not been included in the $525, 900,
which the different Kansas districts
are raising. Whatever amount is
raised by the schools and colleges will
| be counted in addition to the state
proper allotment.
/ The high school and college cam
i paignS are meeting with considerable
! success and enthusiasm. In Hutchin-
! son, Wednesday, according to NJ. V.
) Wiley Hutchinson, and state chair
j man of the executive committee of the
campaign, who is in Topeka today, all
girls in the high school are pledged to
go without treats" from the boys If
the boys would subscribe to the fund.
The girls made their proposition
le-barreled and declared also
they would not accept presents from
boys who did not subscribe the $40,
earn it and turn it in to the fund.
Wichita Boys Busy.
Boys in the Wichita high school
have pledged S1,1SO to the fund and
the Hutchinson highs raised $3.50.
The banner subscription from high
| schools hnNtaNtar. cnrrnaS from, Oh n rnt1te