The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-20
Santa Fe Starts Campaign On
With a Bang in Topeka.
Railway Forces Do Not Wait
for Blare of TrumpetS.
RALLY OF ALL TEAMS TONIGHT
Chairman Mulyane To Meet His
ssThundering Thousand"
Bishop Wise Before Santa Fe
Storehouse Employees Today.
"Give at least one days wages. "

Give at least one days wages"
Give at least one days income"
1t is the carrying out or these slo-
gans that is expected to put Topeka
and Shawnee county over the top in
the second Red Cross war fund cam
paign which starts tomorrow morn
ing. Salaried men in all parts of the
city have taken the "give at least one
days wages to heart and hundreds of
them have already arranged to make
their subscriptions on this basis.
Dozens of business and professional
men have seen the justice of the give
at least one days income" plea and
have been heard to declare strongly
in favor of it. Many of them have
already cast up the average of the
result, my contribution to the To-
peka quota Of the $100,O00,00O second
Red Cross war fund"
Officially the second Red Cross war
fund drive was supposed to open to-
day. but in Topeka and Shawnee coun-
morrow morning at 8 o'clock. At
least the actual collection of pledges
will not be undertaken until tomor-
row morning. Tonight at 6 O'Clock
at the Chamber of Commerce the cap
tains and workers of all of the mems
Chamber of Commerce for lunch and
for final instructions. Bishop James
Wise, of the Episcopal diocese of
Kansas, will deliver the address of the
evening and is expected to send the
workers out with nothing but conf
dence in their idea of the drive.
Mulvane Is Positive.
Topeka and Shawnee county have
never yet been called on and found
wanting when appealed to to bear
their just share of the burden of
war;" "1boasted D. w. Mulvane, cam
paign manager for the drive. to a man
from the north this morning. Watch
us go in this drive. Topeka was the
second city in the whole United States
regardless of size, in the liberty loan
campaign and it is certain that when
she is called for a dinky $4,000 for
such a work as the Red Cross that
she will not fall short of her quota.
We went over the top to the tune of
some thousands of dollars in the 1917
campaign and if the citizens of Topeka
and Shawnee county heed the give at
least one days wages or income prop
osition we will go over the top in this
campaign. I was never more certain
Of anything than I am sure that To-
peka will answer the demand made
upon her with full subscription to
the $4,000 quota"
100 Per Cent at Santa Fe,
At the Santa Fe general offices the
second Red Cross war fund drive be-
gan at o'clock this morning AT
$3.50 o'clock reports were in from six
departments. The general baggage
agents department, the chief special
agents department. the general claim
agents department.. and the safety
commissioners department were re-
ported as 100 per cent subscribed II
is thought at Red Cross headquarters
that these four flags were the first
of the Shawnee county honor flags to
be awarded in the drive
The two other departments which
had reported at $3.50 o'clock this
morning had qualified to display the
honor flag with subscriptions from
rs per cent Of the employees. In these
departments the cards were going
round and it was confidently asserted
by the heads of the departments that
the 100 per cent mark would be
reached by. noon. The two rs per
cents reports were from the car ac.
countant's office and the general man
ayers office.
Santa Fe officials asserted this
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