The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-22
Reports From State
Are Not Encouraging

"Good old bleeding Kansas said
l.. F. Phillips state war fund campaign
manager today, has put 1t over on Us
and we learn she not only once spilled
blood but she is spiling her mercy dol
lars in this day and date. Kansas last
night reported to J. l.. Johnson, cam
paign manager for the southwest dis
trict, that she had gone over the top
and was oyersubscribed. Kansas may
have been the first state in the country
to attain this honor
Reports Are Wanted.
1.-THE only chance for a place in the
sun now for Oklahoma and a PLACE 10
gather star dust viii be for her to
double her share and do it quickly. |
am pessimiStc today about the outlook
and the only thing that can reduce my
pessimism would he to have some kind
OF reports. one way or the other, from
a number OF districts from which have
not heard at an For instance dis
tricts II, II and rs m eastern Oklahoma
have not sent luc We do not know
whether its business rs usual with
them or whether they believe thev will
give the Red Cross war fund a moiety
OF their time this week. Similarly we
have heard nothing from districts |, z,
and 7, in western Oklahoma,
Mountain View chapter at Kiowa
has rung the bell for 500. Poottawa
tonic county comes in with $4,000. In
district IA, Duncan with 5000, Wau
rika with s. 500 Comanche with 81 400
Walters with 81 42o and NARROW with
$500 bring up total Of $,l25. Steph-
ems county has gone over the top.
Muskogee Is Over,
I've had a wire from the chairman
for the southwest Red Cross district
this morning saying that l78 chapters
in the district had reported figures
amounting to $5,l0000O Muskogee's S
share was $4,000 and she now reports
pol 900 Tulsa county's share is $780,
600 and last night she reported $98,640.
Usage countys share was $4,000 and
she has now recorded $4,000
1--WE believe at 10 o'clock today II
Is fair to credit that fifty-four chapters
heard from so far have contributed
S850,000 The best little town in the
state so far, so far as this campaign
Is concerned, is Waurika. whose citizens
have tripled already the quota assigned
10 that community. ! believe, more
over, that fifty out of the l0l chapters
in this state will double their share
before the campaign is over.
Campaign Becomes Harder.
To-day is the first day the hard pull
bf the campaign starts and continues
with the pull increasingly harder until
The campaign closes Monday. Okla
homa has been doing fairly well in this
war fund drive II is true We have
subscribed three fourths of Our quota
but il must be remembered that was a
minimum quota, Kansas reported its
quota oversubscribed at 9 o'clock last
hight From Our early reports, if we
had not credited much of what we were
told to over optimism we would have
been led to think every county in Ok
lahoina was going over the top the
first day of the campaign and doubling
Its quota on the second day.
present results tell an altogethe diff
Weren't story. II certainly hurts to think
Kansas has il on us. There is a ray OF
sunshine in the fact that thrifty little
Ardmore has oyersubscribed her quota
by more than $4,000 and Ardmorc
thinks she will oversubscribe by al
last $4,000 before the campaign ends
Fully thirty Red Cross chapters in this
state have as yet sent in no report at
ell.
Word reached state headquarters ot
the campaign today that Coal count,
hes contributed more than $500. Max.
veil. Oklahoma, had a quota Of $500
6ut her chairman says she is withir
whispering distance Of $4,000 as hel
total