The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-16
FIRST DISTRICT IS

Oont1nued from rage One.l
Call of the chapter members in Shaw
nee county and in Topeka were pro-
II unced today by the corps of solicit
tors-and it is reported that of the
1000 persons who first received call,
from the 1000 campaigners not
single one failed to reach for his dol
lar and his pen.
: In many of the stores and offices in
the business district of the city. the
roll call of the employees has already
been called. The clerks have already
turned in their dollar membership
fees to the store managers. In these
places it is all done. All that remains
for the teams to do is to pick up the
money, pass out an honor flag and de-
part.
Finish by Thursday.
A peculiar feature Of this drive SO
far as Topeka is concerned is the fact
that all of the teams started out at
the same time this morning. Always
before the business mems teams work
ing in the business district have had
at least one day the start of the wom-
ems teams working in the residence
districts. But in this campaign they
all started at once. 1t is expected
that the main work OF the solicitation
will be finished by Thursday night,
given over to the fine tooth comb
process of hunting down the singles"
and the reluctant ones
1t has been announced by D. w.
Mulvane, chairman of the Shawnee
county campaign, that there will be
reporting luncheons" at the Cham
Der of Commerce or anywhere else
during this campaign. The reason as
signed is the flu epidemic. The coun-
ty campaign officials do not wish to
take any chances of spreading the dis
ease in the name of the Red Cross. for
the stated reason that the Red Cross
has taken an active part in the CAM
paign to stamp out the disease not
only in Topeka but in every city where
the plague appeared.
Mercy Work Helps Drive.
This work of the Red Cross in the
flu epidemic is incidentally expected
to have a salutary effect on certain
persons in Topeka and Shawnee
county who in other campaigns have
been inclined to be more or less chary
of making subscriptions. Numbers
of these persons have directly bene-
fitted thru the ministrations of the
Red Cross in the emergency hospitals
and in their own homes. 1t is ex-
pected that all persons will remem-
Der that the Red Cross did it's work
in Topeka, quietly and effectively, and
! that in remembering they will quietly
and effectively take out a member
ship in the society for themselves and
Santa Fe Going 100 Per Cent.
The drive began at o'clock in the
Santa Fee offices and shops. At 10
o'clock ten of the twenty-eight de-
partments in the offices had reported
100 per cent membership subscrip-
tons. w. B. ColHnson, chief clerk to
F. c. Fox. general manager, stated
| that the work of p1edging the offices
! 100 per cent would probably be COM
pleted today. He is personally direct
| ing the drive under the direction of
Mr.. Fox. This afternoon only a few
departments had not reported.
| At the shops all the departmental
CO ptains were at work, and not a sin
gle instance of an emp1oye refusing to
! buy a membership was reported at a
late hour this afternoon. Among the
| departments in the offices which re-
| ported within two hours after the
drive began wei the claim agents
office. the freight auditors office, the
operating department and the tax
commissioners office