The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-23
BIGGEST w. S. S. DRIVE

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in advantageous spots on Kansas ave-
nue., have drafted a corps of pretty
girls to man" the castles, and have
put the teams to work on the owners
of stores and business houses.
Systematic Saving.
It is the prime object of the cam
paign to put the practice of war saw
ings in Topeka on a systematic basis.
To this end the clerks in every store
in Topeka, and the store owners them
selves, have been assigned a certain
quota of stamps to sell before January
1. 1919. In a short time it is rumored
that purchasers of goods in Topeka
stores will be importuned in the same
manner that is prevalent in the big
cities of the east. It is this. One bys
say SO cents worth of dress goods.
The change comes back and with it a
rs cent thrift stamp. No comment
on the transaction is made by the
clerk and the thrift stamp is rendered
just as if it were a real silver quarter.
The plan works in the east and the
committees in charge of the war saw
ings stamp campaign in Topeka see
no particular reason why it will not
work here.
AS an evidence of the earnestness
with which the work of the commit
tee in charge of this particular branch
of the war savings stamp campaign
has been done, person has but to
walk a block or two on Kansas avenue
in the business district. Liberty cas-
ties everywhere, at least two of them
in sight from any spot between Fifth
and Ninth streets on the avenue. Then
there is the constant urge painted on
the glass show windows Of many of
the stores.
All this was accomplished between
night and morning.
Paint the Windows.
Beginning at 6 o'clock Monday
night, every painter, sign painter and
window decorator in the city dolled
himself up in oil stained work clothes
and advanced to the attack of the
merchants business windows He
faithfully piled paint and brush and
tack hammer until the wee small
hours of the morning and today even
the sidewalks of the city carry the
m essage of the w. S. s. to the pedes-
TRANS on the streets and to the driv-
ers of vehicles. And they did all this
work after working a full day and
expecting to face a full days work to-
day. All of the men donated their
services and this morning stated that
theix only regret was that they were
unable to put the slogans of the cam
paign on the windows of every retail
and wholesale house in the city.
AT IL. on u CHUCK tulS IIOTLILS lOuI-
teen pretty girls filed into the castles
on Kansas avenue to push the sale
of thrift stamps and baby bonds from
out the port of the ctrongholds OF
democracy. Under the leadership 81
Miss Julia Larimer this corps has
been recruited and will work every
day for a period of five or six hours
Different crews will man the castles
from day to day, and each day two
crews will work in shifts. In the
mornings one crew will go into ac-
ton at 1880 o'clock and will remain
on duty until about 1880 O'Clock. In
the afternoon at 1870 o'clock another
crew will take up the advance and
manipulate the guns until about g.: go
| O'Clock.
Thursday, the day Barnum & Bal
| ley's circus is here, the defenders oil
the castles and pill boxes will advance
| on the whole Kansas avenue line to
| the biggest push of the drive. Thurs
| day the castles on the avenue will be
manned" from early morning until
| late in the evening after the circus
crowds have gone to their homes
Boy Scouts have been placed in
each one of the booths to sound the
bells and the horns of victory. Every
| time a thrift stamp is sold to a pur-
chaser the Scouts will sound a bell in
to the destruction of the Hun hordes
from. the muzzle of an American ma
| chine gun. The sale of a baby bond
will be signaIized by the raucus blare
of full sized automobile k.axor
mounted in the booths. This sound
will mean that whole belt of cart
! ridges have been provided by some pa
| triotic citizen for the ultimate destruc.
ton of Attila's descendants.