The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-15
4 WILLIUN OEhEO
That Many Red Cross Stiekers
Sent Out Here.
Everyone Urged To Help Fight
White Plague.
OLD COBBLER RESPONDS
Peter Fisher Sends in Dollar
for the Cause.
Topeka Must Prepare To Care
for War L. B. Victims.

Nearly .Q00, 600 Red CrOSS NiAilsN
mas seals are in the mails OF III IL III
morning according to statement "
Phil Eastman when asked regarolIiSS
the attitude of the city to TINS deIldn4 ~
/ on their charity. If only thlru Oh
these seals are solo peIoTe ~ tIaT1
the cash sum realized VIII more tt lEd-
cover the expenses of the Topeka III
berculosis sanitarium next year
Unlike the practice in preVl"n
years of sending the FUNDS raIseu I'M
/ the sale of Christmas seals TO some
/ other city for use there, practically the
entire sum raised thru these seals TINS
wear will remain in Topeka to be useo
| in stamping out the tuberculosis
| scourge in this city. The disburse-
ment of the funds will be under the
direction of the Public Health Nurs-
! ing association and the principal item
| of expense under their management IS
the upkeep of the sanitar1um east Oh
| about eighteen inmates of the san1tar-
i iurn but there are accommodations
| for forty or more patients. Unfortu-
| nate only the eighteen can pc cared
for owing to the lack of funds. 1t is
hoped that the people of Topeka VIII
respond to the call this year with such
a purchase of Christmas seals that
every case in the city can be given the
! needed attention and education in pre-
ventive methods.
Fight War Plague.
Tuberculosis is the scourge of the
| armies of war torn Europe and just
as soon as our boys reach the front
the returning transports will, every
+ one of them, bear a freight of new sur
ferers of this plague 1t seems that
, tuberculosis is now the agent or war
! rather than typhoid as in other wars
4 Hospitals are choked with cases OF tu-
! berculosis that are result of the ex-
posture in the trenches. But most or
the cases of war tuberculosis are IN
the incipient stage and can be cured
if the proper attention is available,
which it isn't in the war zone There
fore the home towns of the boys must
be prepared to take care Of them
when they are invalided home afflict-
ed with the scourge- And by buying
Red Cross seals without stint you can
| help to prepare the local authorities
| to be ready to meet this when it
! comes, and it isn't far off either. it's
! only a little while till the spring will
be here and the Americans will be
fighting in increasing numbers in the
| icy trenches of France and Italy
Buy Red Cross Christmas seals to
decorate your Christmas packages and
let the emblem of the Red Cross be-
! come as common a sight on bundle
or a box or a package or letter as
United States postal stamp. Only in
this way will the way be made easy
and the quick road to recovery opened
to those boys from Topeka who have
| offered their bodies in the wars of de-
/ mocracy. They have given all they
4 have to offer, themselves and their
money without stint; surely the peo-
| pie at home can do no less than back
them up with their money.
CobbIer Helps Cause.
One old Topeka cobbler and mend
er of shoes, Peter Fisher, has fully
realized this and has sent in one of
the few dollars he has gained while
creasing and staining his fingers with
the waxed thread. Peter Fisher is
/ well known to nearly all Topekans and
/ his little shop at Seventh and Buchan-
an streets has been haven of refuge
for all the small boys of the neigh
| borhood for upwards OF two genera
! tions. In a letter to Mrs. Chester
| woodward, executive secretary of the
| Topeka Public Health Nursing asso-
citation he says, in writing cramped
and wording painfully thought out
| ter with stamps. 1 enclose one dollar
! bill for the stamps. I am spending
| the winter, here lin Manhattan) with
my daughter and granddaughter. 1
am an old cobbler, SO years old, past
working for a living. My daughter
takes care of me. 1 am willing to do
my bit to help on the war as much as
l can. May God help us win this war
for humanity's sake the world over"
/ If this toll broken old man can con-
| tribute one dollar from out his slender
store to help care for the boys surely
the able bodied citizens of Topeka can
do no less and ought to do more Some
of them have. It's your turn now
and if no stamps have been sent YOU
it is not much to ask that you send in
your dollar. anyhow and the stamps
| will be sent YOU