The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-11
Topeka Must Speed Up Her
Red Cross Supplies.
Workers Wanted for Morning,
Afternoon and Evening.
EVERY WOMAN CAN ASSIST
County Well Organized for the
Drive of May 20.
ESQ Team Captains Have Now
Been Selected.

A call for Topeka women to work
in the Red Cross rooms beginning
Monday morning was issued today
Owing to the delay in getting the
shipments of materials for surgical
dressings this work for the month OF
May is one week late. There must be
extra workers every day and IN the
evenings and at the different rooms
where the work is being done IN oruer
to turn out the Topeka apportionment
during the balance of the month. Inc
materials of the dressings were or
dered in ample time but the "eldys
incident to the shipping thruout tne
country caused the delay OF an ell
tire week.
Women workers are needed at every
hour of the day for the next three
weeks in order to complete Ihe as
eignment given the women OF 1oPe enc
The surgical dressing rooms must po
kept filled to capacity all the liz
from now until the end OF May MO- II
ing workers are as necessary as
noon workers. For the last Weeh tiio
women have not been urged 10 colhS
because of a lack or materials -
ONLY suc IN work as could De oohe W. W
the materials on hand was undertdken
PIT now that the materials for the
front nacl<ages are at hand the women
of the CITY are needed. The dressings
are the front line packages Inc -
aid bandages which the men can U.s.
when wounded. Every one Oh 'ne
nackages may save life on the pdt-
t1efield as first aid counts most nldleii-
ally in treating wounds ,, o.r
Every woman in Topeka VINO can
helm. and they should sacrifice some
household duties to do so, shoulo slEe
the Red Cross as much time d. Po,
sible. beginning Monday mornlnS am ~
on,ltip,,ing until the assignment IS
completed.
Topeka and shawnee county
nrettv well organized for the 1.eu
Cross war fund drive which peSlIs
Nav 90. d. w. Mulvane. chairman o.
the local committee, reported that ne
had 2S9 team captains ALREADY seIeE
ed for the drive. These team cap
tains are now making up their ~ +he
and in the course of a day or so che
list of active workers for the drlVe
Will be completed. The tabulatlon Oh
the team follows:
santa Fe shops, ITO; santa
storehouse, -; Santa Fe genera Oh
fices, 20; fre-sht depots' Pass .a re
depots. !; railroad yards, l; santa re
and Stormont hospitals, l; CHRIST
hrspital and Bethany college, l. state
institutions /; Washburn college, l.
Washburn law school, L; country
school districts 3; women's teams 81;
mems .eams, u.
The work of getting the war funo
has been arranged in the light of pre-
vious experience in this work, not
only in Topeka but elsewhere, ana
the teams will have the system to be
used this year much better, easier
and devoid of duplication, which was
apparent in many instances last year
More than one-third of million
separate articles have been shipped
by the Topeka chapter of the Red
cross in he last year. Miss Carolyn
Thomas, chairman of the shipping
division of the local chapter, reported
this week that the total shipments
we're 391,SS6 pieces end there are
$4,000 pieces in the shipping rooms
awaiting the proper wrappings and
boxes The report gives the following
detailed statement of the shipments
during the month of April: