The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-27

PLAN next DRIVE.
Kansas Will Be Asked To Give
$1,5S4,GOO to Red Cross.
Southwest Division VIII Work
for 10 Million Goal.
COBB BACK FROM ST. LOUIS
He Says All, Details of Cam
paign Are Arranged.
Everything Will Be Conducted
in Business Manner.
COBB BACK FROM ST. LOUIS

Amount raised in southwest division of
Red Cross 1917 war fund campaign:
Kansas *S.uos'oS
missouri o,oof'oOv
Texas Observation-Disclosures. 1.492 900
Arkansas Observation-Disclosures. 100000
oRiahoma '
Never in my experience have
put in twenty-four such hours as l put
in at St Louis this time at the meeting
of the divisional committeeman of the
Red Cross" declared S. E. Cobb, divi-
sional committeeman for Kansas for
the 1918 Red Cross war fund drive.
Never has an equal time been SO
given over to business and business
only. The Red Cross is on a basis of
efficiency in this campaign as never
before in its history
Cobb went to ST. Louis Saturday to
attend a conference of the divisional
committeeman of the five states max
ing up the southwest division of the
Red Cross. The object of the meet
! ing was to crystalline the plans under
which the 1918 Red Cross war fund
campaign was to be handled. The
men at the meeting decided that moth
ing in the 1918 campaign should be
handled in a haphaZard way, and a
set of plans which had been worked
out by the national officers of the
| American Red Cross was discussed
and adopted. The printed details of
the plans will be sent out to all the
| county and district managers before
april 10. The Red Cross drive in the
southwest division is expected to be
model of efficient and coordinate eff
! fort.
| Kansas wild Do Her Part.
Kansas was assigned a quota of a
!
/ lars as her 1918 goal. Kansas came
/ to the front with nearly three and
| one half millions in the 1917 cam
paign. The committeeman from
Texas took exception at the quota as
signed Kansas in this drive, but was
assured by Divisional Committeeman
| Cobb that kansas will come to the
/ front all right regardless of assigned
quotas
H. Cobb has already started the
wheels of his campaign machinery to
grinding. He has appointed division
! al field representatives in all but
| three of the fourteen divisions in the
+, state of Kansas. These men together
with the county managers will proba-
bly, be called to big mass meeting Of
the campaign men at Topeka on
April Is. The executive officers of
the southwest division and their asso-
/ ciatc3 from the different departments
will be in Topeka for this meeting
/ To explain the pan winch is TO De
| followed in every county under the
| jurisdiction of the division officers.
The executives of the southwestern
division VINO will be in Topeka for
the meeting April Is will be headed
| by J. L. Johnson. chairman of the
| southwest division of the Red Cross
4 The members of the executive COM
mittee of the southwestern division
of the Red Cross are: For Kansas. s.
E. Cobb of Topeka; for Oklahoma.
L. E. Phillips; for Missouri. L. r.
| Carter of ST. Louis: for Arkansas, ].
r. Vinson of Little Rock: for Texas
| Hugh E. Prather of Dallas and John
! T. Scott of Fort Worth.
Fourteen Districts in State.
| For the purposes of the 1918 Red
| Cros.; war fund campaign the state
! of Kansas has been divided into four
| teen districts or divisions At the
/ head of each district is a man called
the divisional field representatives
Cobb has already appointed eleven of
| the division al field representatives
and has assigned their territory. The
appointments of divisional field rep
rese1tatives announced today are:
District No. &c. A. Hale of Yates
Center representative: Anderson.
Lynn, Woodson, Allen and Bourbon
| counties.
/ District No. Sc. r. Adams of Kan
sas City. Kan, representative: Leav-
! onNOTLns WydnuOlte, DOQSidS,
| son, Franklin and Miami counties.
| District No. 4-Sheffield ingalls, of
Atchison. representative: Nemaha,
Brown. Doniphan and Atchison coun-
ties.
District No. George Godfrey
Moore of Topeka, representative:
Sha wnee. Marshall, Riley, Pottawato-
mic, Jackson, Jefferson. Geary. Wa
baunsee and Usage counties.
District No. 6-William Allen White
of Emporia. representative: Morris
Lyons, Coffey, Chase and Greenwood
counties.
|. District No. DIR. ]. w. Graybill
representative: Rice, Mcpherson,
! Marion and Harvey counties.
l. District No. 9-W. Y. Morgan of
Hutchinson, representative: Hodge
man. Pawnee. Stafford. Reno. Gray
/ Ford, Edwards. Kiowa and Pratt
l-counties.
| District No. I'D. J. Hanna of Sa-
lima. representative: Graham, Trego
/ Ellis, Russell Lincoln, Ottawa Dick
inson. Ness, Rush. Barton. Ellsworth
and Saline counties.
i District No. 12-Otis L Benton of
Rawlins. Decatur Norton. Sherman
i Thomas and Sheridan counties.
! District No. 13-J. II. Cavanaugf of
/ Dighton. representative: Wallace. Lo-
gam Cove. Greeley, Wichita, Scott
i and Lane counties.
District No. 14-Judge w E.
Futchison of Garden City. representa-
tive: Hamilton. Kearney. Finney,