The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-26
Makes Total of 100000 Lib
erty Loan for Road Here.
Only Leaves $4,000 for To-
pekans To Raise Now.
CAMPAIGN CLOSES SATURDAY
Only One More Day To Lend
to Uncle Sans Fund.
Call to All Banks To Remain
Open in Evening.

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway and its employees nearly fin
ished taking on the kaiser today. To-
morrow the employees will put the
final punch in Shawnee county's I'D
erty loan knockout
E. L. Copeland, treasurer for the
road, announced today that employees
between Eel Paso and Chicago have
subscribed, thru arrangement of the
company whereby they may take
bonds on the instalment plan, nearly
S40O, 900 to the loan. OF this amount,
Mr. Copeland said, approximately,
$4,000 will be purchased thru To-
peka banks and will go officially TO
the credit of Shawnee county's quota
The application for the 100000 VIII
be placed with the Topeka banks to-
morrow.
The employees amount will be in ad-
dition to the $4,000 of the COM
pany's first $5,000,000 subscription
which was placed thru Topeka banks
last week. This half million has al
ready been included. according to Mr..
Copeland, in tile $1,673,000 already
reported by the banks. The policy OF
the Santa F'e in placing its 5000, 600 OF
employees subscriptions in Topeka
banks means that between now and
Saturday night the banks themselves
will have to raise only S151,OOO to
bring the total subscriptions to the
| quota assigned the county. This
| amount, at the least, it is estimated.
should be reported tonight. Because
of this fact, however, it is not re-
| gartied unnecessary for those who
have not yet purchased bonds to
ignore doing their bit. 1t is just as
4 important to oversubscribe the quota
as it is for the total quota to be
reached. Bankers urge that Shawnee
county should not take a chance of
being list I as a Stacker" Show the
east, which is slow in subscribing,
| what the west can do is the motto.
Kansas Reserve Bank Takes More.
President Kaths of the Kansas Re-
serve State bank, announced this an
ternoone that his fnst.&ution would
subscribe for at least S25, 900 more in
liberty bonds. "Our first subscrip-
ton was for $4,000, then we took
$4,000 and now we will subscribe for
$4,000, possible more" Mr.. kaths
said.
Closes Tomorrow.
shawnee countys second liberty
loan drive will reach it's climax to-
night and tomorrow and the drive
for volunteer dollars will end in To-
peka at o'clock Saturday night
]. r. Burrow. chairman of the
Shawnee county committee of bank
ers and business men. issued call this
morning asking that all banks in the
city remain open to receive subscrip-
tions from IL to 3 o'clock in the after
noon and from to o'clock in the
evening. At the same time he called
the final preliminary meeting of the
executive committee for session at
the Central National bank. He asks
that all bankers report their full ad-
ditional subscriptions at this evening S
meeting so that they may be wired at
once to the Federal Reserve banks
thereby alleviating confusion and an
! avalanche of reports tomorrow.
Because of the inclement weather
which kept out of town members OF
the committee from attending. no ex-
ecutive meeting was held Thursday
night was announced.
IF there is a man in the city who
has not yet bought a bond and is able
to do so, it is up to him to do SO,
said ]. r. Burrow today. THE mar
behind the guns in France must be
backed up or Germany wins"
Federal Reserve Plea.
In telegram to-day to the State
. Journal. J. L. Cross. deputy governor
of the Federal Reserve bank at Kan
sas City, made the following plea:
with only two days remaining tC
complete subscriptions to the second
liberty loan. only extreme vigilance
! and increased effort on the part OF
the liberty loan committees and al
! banks and trust companies thruou
l the country can insure success. w,
have information that officially re
last night barely exceeded two billion
! dollars. While we know of grea
number of subscriptions in this dis
trict which have not been covered IN
our official figures by subscription,
by banks and trust companies with us
were 1t not for this knowIedR,
we should feel extremely depressed
with the present showing. To quot,
!. / the secretary of the treasury. .Abov.
4 al it is desirable that not only tn
three billion minimum should b.
reached. but heavy .oversubscriptiol
= should be obtained The minimum
allotment for the district to produc
subscriptions for three billion dol
r lars is $12o, 100000. The maximum
f allotment to produce five billion dol
lars subscription is 100000, 900. Som
: | of the districts have exceeded thef
. | minimum aIlotments but others ar
. tagging behind. and it is regrette
Q that district No. 10 is among the lat
9 ter.
e prosperity reigns thruout this dis
l. trict. and it should be cause for per
g sonaI embarrassment to every indi
g viduaI citizen if for any reason tn
= district fails to produce its full maxi
= mum quota of 5000, 100000. This ha
not yet been accomplished. and onl
= two days remain. Liberty loan com
0 rnittees thruout the district should in
e dicate to each community the amour
s of its quota and working with bank
e and trust companies should striv
u vigorously to obtain those quotas u
g urgent and unremittine appeal TO tn
d people. District No. 10 should nc
i sleep, until this campaign is brougf
to successful conclusion
n FEDERAL RESERVE BANK.
J. L. Cross, Deputy Governor"