The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17
Campaign Will Open All Over
Shawnee County Monday.
Must Sell to the Amount OF
$66,213 Before Jan. 1.
SALE TAKEN UP BY THE STORES
Merchants and Their Employees
Enter Into Competition.
Gold and Silver Stars for the
Most Successful.

A system of gold and silver star
decoration for clerks and stores which
sell $500 or more worth of war saw
ings stamps has been worked out bv
the retail merchants division of the
Shawnee county war savings stamp
committee. according to statement
made by Robert Fullerton, chairman
of the division, this morning.
Clerks who sell $500 worth of the
small, green government securities Will
be given a gold star to wear as a mark
of distinction and badge of war serv-
ice performed. Clerks who sell $3.50
worth of the stamps will be given a
silver star. Stores which sell $500
worth of the stamps will be given y
silver star and those with a record. of
1000 will be given the gold decora-
ton.
Merchants in all parts of the county
are already going into the campaign in
earnest altho the official opening date
is not until Monday. Stamp sales are
reported as being on the increase in
nearly all of the big mercantile estab-
lishments in Topeka today, and Fuller
ton said today that he expects TO issue
a number of the gold star decorations
at the opening of the official five
months campaign Monday morning.
w. S. S. 'Pil Boxes"
The war savings stamp pill boxes"
which are to decorate Kansas avenue
for the campaign are nearly completed
and the contractors who have volun-
teered to do this part of the work OF
the campaign say that by Monday a
sufficient supply of the war castles
will be ready to fortify Kansas avenue
from end to end. In this day and age
and in America, blockhouses and feu-
dial keeps are in the discard-or have
been. But Monday morning the days
of the pioneers and their defensive
Notifications will be in evidence on
every hand-and Fullerton says that
every hand is expected to seek a peck
ct at one of the booths several times
before the close of the campaign.
q. L. Hooper, manager of the Or.
pheum theater, is in charge of the
pep part of the campaign He ha.
arranged for a series of street corner
soap box sessi- ms where four minute
speakers will endeavor to push ths
sales of the stamps to the maximum
In addition to the soap box oratorica
feature, Hooper has announced tha1
the campaign will be pushed by {
mobile force of speakers and singer.
! mounted on motor trucks. Wherever
a crowd is, there will be this big truck
with its living freight of patriotism
instillers and war savings stamp sales
men extra ordinary.
Must Sell $4,000 a Month. ~'
The Shawnee county quota in the
Retail Merchants division of the wal
savings stamp campaign is $66,213-
an average of about $4,000 per month
for the next five months. Fullerton
and the merchants who have beer
called upon to push the campaign ar,
confident that with the competitiy,
cooperation of the clerks and sale:
forces that an over-the-top record will
be made for the division
The stamp sales competition will b,
especially keen between the clerks ant
their employers. 1t is the first tim,
IN the history of war work campaign
hin Topeka in which clerks and EN-
Fpioyers have been put on an euua
| basis of competition. This time tn,
store owner is under the same obliga
tons to the government in pushing tn
| sale of war savings stamps as is tn
| clerk. The mere fact that a mai
owns a store does not excuse hin
from selling his share of the stamps il
| his store-$6 worth per person pc
month, applies to clerk and owne
alike and craftsmanship is the onl
| thing which count-