The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-18
Brown Is Not Far Behind
Shawnee in Results.
WORKERS MUST SHOW SPEED
Bigger Totals Necessary Here,
BurrOW Asserts.
Women Help by Making House
to House Canvass.


DOnlphan 223,SOO <oZ,VVV
jackson ............... 10000 14s.S50
JEFFERSON 24o,ItO lIo,oOO
Nemaha . $50 400 3s4 600
SHAWNEE ..... I.2s1, 800 1900
Total .Ss,9aI 800 Ss s,275 ESQ
Approximately, 81 per cent of the
First Kansas districts liberty loan
quota has been subscribed, it was an
nounced today by f. w. Freeman, dis
from reports from county chairmen
show a total subscription in the dis
trict of $3,275,2 $50, the amount still
needed to put the district ''over the
top being $646,650.
Three counties, Brown. Donlphan
and Nemaha, have already overSub-
scribed. Brown has nearly doubled its
allotment. Several other counties are
shown to be ready for the final jump
that will put them over. incidentally
it is shown that Topeka subscribers
must speed up or allow the majority
of other counties in the district to go
over before she steps out to victory.
In cooperation with the efforts of
the executive committee to place a
third liberty bond in every home in
the county, womenS organizations,
under the direction of Miss Euphemia
Page, city chairman of the women's
liberty loan committee, and Miss
NJ Edna Corbet, county chairman,
ndNt1 itluncneQ a mouse TO mousse CAN
vass thru the city and county.
The placing of a liberty bond in
every home, it was pointed out to-
day by ]. r. Burrow, county execu-
tive chairman, is equally as impor-
tant as an oversubscription of the
county's quota of S1,271. 500 AT the
time the banks closed Wednesday
afternoon $775,G5O had been sub
scribed. leaving S496,250 to be sub
scribe.l today, tomorrow and Satur-
day If the loan IS to go over this
week.
Women engaged in the house to
house solicitation report to Miss Page
and Miss Corbet that their activities
are meeting with great success In
numerous instances. women solicitors
in the family have purchased and OBJ
tained subscriptions from the women.
Women Make Sacrifices.
Subscriptions by the feminine buy
ers undoubtedly call for sacrifices,
a cheaper spring hat, the wearing OF
last summers dresses and suits
Scores of women whose fathers,
brothers or husbands are in military
service are subscribing. Moreover,
while these subscriptions, of course,
are not large, they put to shame the
subscriptions of not a few business
and professional men, financial aDlllty
| considered.
In addition to the regular commit
J tees that are collecting in the bust
! ness district a number of securing
i committees have been appointed to
| follow up the first solicitors and work
| OUT on men who have been over
| looked or who did not buy when first
given an opportunity.
/ AItho loan officials firmly believe
that the loan will go over here by
Saturday night. it is pointed out by
the same officials that larger efforts
than those shown Wednesday must
be made. The daily total must run
close to $4,000 day to make
| good
santa Fe Men Still Subscribe.
| Reports from NJ. J. Drury, superin-
| tendent of the shops. and H E. Ray,
| StorehouSe superintendent, are to the
effect that Santa Fe employees are still
running on high. Subscriptions in the
shops today were S11.250. making a.
total to date of s12S, 800 from a total
| of 1865 subscribers representing
practically every nationality in Amer
| lea. Drury asserts that the shop sub
scribers will total 1000 before the end
and subscriptions it is estimated will
run right around s154.000.
| When the campaign in the store
house was launched, big clock was
erected to indicate progress The
quota assigned the storehouse was
total of $4,000 have been nearly
twice around the clock and are get
| ting ready to start on the third trip.
| Subscriptions in the storehouse are
/ running nearly o per cent of the pay
roll and every office man in the de-
partment has bought one or more
I bonds The average amount being
placed is about SIS per employe-
E. L. Copeland. treasurer for the
Santa Fe. announces that the general
office subscriptions today mounted to
a total of $9O.350. This makes the
total subscriptions by Santa Fe en-
ployes here total s245,950. The total
amount was contributed by 3,029 in
dividual employees
Arrangemen were completed to-
day for the reception at 5 o'clock
this afternoon of the modern Paul
Revere, who is riding in motor car
from Wichita, by way Of Newton,
Herington, Manhattan, Junction City,
and Wamego and making minute
| speeches along the way.
Earl w. Evans Is Revere.
| The part of Revere is being played
by Earl w. Evans, a prominent Wich-
ita lawyer Upon his arrival here he
will deliver a message to liberty loan
officials. Governor Capper and address
tconunuef on Page Two1
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