The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12
Count Only Public Subscrip-
tiOns, Burrows Instruction.
National Life Insurance Co. To
Invest $4,000 Here.
S57, $50 RAISED IN SHOPS
Santa Fe Men, However, Expect
To Make This Look Small.
McAdOO Urges Shawnee Co.
Farmers To Subscribe.

Shawnee county to obtain :he right
to fly the coveted honor flag of the
third liberty loan, must show an over
subscription of its quota by the public
and not by the banks, it was an
nounced today in a telegram received
from federal reserve headquarters by
j. r. Burrow, chairman of the execu-
tive committee in charge of the drive
in this county. With the receipt of
this information the county praced it
self anew to place the community not
over the minimum goal, but over the
maximum.
Final arrangements for the actual
drvie here and the monster parade and
demonstration tomorrow night will be
completed tonight at a meeting of the
executive committee and the chairmen
of subcommittee at the Central Ma
tional bank. At this meeting reports
will be received of progress made and
difficulties already experienced 1t is
probable that additional instructions
from reserve headquarters will also be
communicated.
Topeka Showing Good.
Reports received from the reserve
headquarters in Kansas City today in
dicate, altho the figures quoted are
from one to three days behind actual
subscriptions, that Topeka. quota con-
sidered, is holding its own among the
other sections of the district. One re-
port shows it ahead of Denver and
Omaha despite the fact that the solici-
tation of subscribers has not actively
started here. This excellent showing
has been made by volunteers only. In
the face of this, however. bankers re-
new their warning against a false feel
ing of security that the county will ''go
over" Topeka has a good start, let's
make the finish as good" is the atti-
tude taken by the men behind the
| guns.
At the closing hour Thursday banks
! here reported to John /. Morrisey,
secretary that subscriptions up to
that time totaled $3S0,4e0- -
Life Insurance Company Buys Here.
Today E. A. Thrill, manager here
| for the National Life Insurance COM
pany, received a telegram from the
| home office of the corporation So ying
that check for $4,000 worth of
| bonds to go to the credit of Topeka
M. ]. Drury, superintendent of the
big Santa Fe headquarters shops
here, announced that active solicita-
ton by captains and lieutenants in the
Santa Fe shops Thursday afternoon
only resulted in the shopmen sub
| scribing total of s57,150.
! Work in the shops was renewed
today and will continue tomorrow.
| Captains and HeutenantS will report
| again to Drury at 10 o'clock tomor-
row and Thursday afternoons fine
| showing will undoubtedly be made to
| look small. Practically every nation
| ality represented in the United States
| is represented in the shops and with
! out ar exception they have proven
| themselves dissolved into the melting
pot f democracy and patriotism.
E. L. Copeland, treasurer for the
Santa Fe here, announced that active
| work of placing the loan before the
linen and women in the general offices
also began Thursday afternoon. The
general office workers went at the
subscriptions like avalanche. de-
partment officers announcing today
that in each department subscriptions
were double those of the second loan
The work in the offices continued al
day today
Appeal to Farmers.
I In a proclamation received by tele-
graph today by Burrow from w. G
farmers of Shawnee county are called
upon to perpetuate the shot heard
round the world when fired in free
don's name by Lexington farmers by
ment thru liberty bonds. thrift stamps
or war saving stamps.
| The telegram follows:
| "It is a matter of supreme national i'm.
portance that the treasury of the United
States shall be supplied at all times viii
the amount of money needed to furnish
the food. the clothing. the guns. the am
munition required by our soldiers to figh
successfully for the liberty of America. t.
pay the allowances made by the govern
ment to the dependents wives and children
of these soldiers and to pay the life in
surance which the government permits
every soldier to buy from it. The TREASURY
must also have the necessary money to ex
tend credit to the valiant Britons, French
Belgians and Italians who are fiehtin,
alongside American soldiers on the blood
battlefields Of France. Belgium and Italy
IL the American people fail to lend thei
money to their government for these nob
purposes how can we gain a victory ii
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