The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-22
Team Captains Related Expert
enceS at Noon Luncheon.
TODAY'S REPORT.


Reports at the Chamber of Com
merce this noon at the regular Red
Cross campaign luncheon of the mems
teams showed that the 1918 campaign
is nearly $4,000 ahead Of the 1917 re-
port of the same day. The total report
for the days campaign was SIS, ,965.40.
Tomorrow the women's teams will be-
gin their campaign of the residences.
But just because the 1918 campaign
is showing more rapid progress than
the 1917 campaign did is no reason for
the subscribers or rather the would
be subscribers to begin to think of cut
ting down their subscriptions" Cam
paign Manager D. w. Mulvane said,
when some of the team captains COM
planned that men who should contrib
ute more than 500 were cutting their
subscriptions to s25 or $50. "At no
time in the history of the war has the
work of the Red Cross been so close to
our own firesides and our own kith
and kin-and seeing that this is so it
seems to me that men who gave
contribution of 800 to the 1917 cam
paign would be ashamed to offer less
than that amount in the 1918 cam
pagn."
Get Credit in Next DriNe.
At the meeting this noon, S. E. Cobb,
divisional committeeman for Kansas,
explained that ''every dollar of over
subscription on the county quotas is
counted up at the Red Cross head
quarters and is used as basis for cut
ting down the quota of that particu-
lar county in the next drive
After the reports for the day were
all tabulated on the blackboard and
the results of the days canvass were
known, different team captains took
the floor and related few of their
experiences and discoveries in the
campaign.
"I ran across one man this morning
who flatly refused to contribute to
the Red Cross war fund.- asserted A.
A. Rogers, captain of one of the teams
this morning "and this man is the
manager of one of the big drug stores
of the city. 1t has also been learned
that this young man mas MADE
practice of cutting all clippings from
the newspapers which could possibly
be construed as criticisms of the Red
Cross or stories of the tales that have
gone around about the alleged misuse
of funds and materials subscribed for
the Red Cross.
Gives Name of Man.
Rogers showed reluctance in men,
tioning the name of either the store or
the man accused, but loud demands
from all parts of the room carried the
day and Rogers stated that Manager
VIII Lake of the Klingaman & Hoov-
ers drug store was the man who re-
fused to subscribe to the Red Cross
and the man who clipped the news
papers. Rogers stated that Lake was
good sort of man, but that he
thought he did not understand things,
When he does" said Rogers, 81 think
he will be all right" A strong arm
committee was appointed to wait on
him forthwith and reason with him.
One of the pet stories told by young
Lake, according to Rogers, was a tale
that Henry Allen, now in France, was
receiving a large salary from the Red
Cross.
Frank p. MacLennan took upon
himself the refutation of this state
ment "I will be responsible" said
Mr. MacLennan. "for the statement OF
the fact that Henry. Allen, who is now
in France, is paying all of his own
expenses and is working for the Red
Cross without salary"
Pool Hall Man Refused.
Another man who refused to give
to the Red Cross was John Heitmar
of the Heitman pool hall in North
Topeka, according to Capt. r. R
Baer "Heitman did not absolutely
refuse to give" said Baer. but said
that he couldn't He did not make a
subscription"
Many experiences of the other kind
were told, too. One team captain told
of man who had to borrow dollar
to make a subscription.
Captain Carswell told of a young
man employed at the Piersen Tele-
graph Co., who. on a salary of $40 pei
month, supports himself and his
mother OF course this young fellow
could not afford to give. however
much he wanted to. He did, tho
offer to make a subscription, but his
fellow employees would not allow him
to do it. The fellow employees made
up a purse of s4.4O as the .youns
mans subscription.
Tomorrow morning the woinen't
committee of the council of defense
will begin the canvass of the residence
sections of the city and it is expected
that the contributions of many fami-
lies will amount to twice the subscrip.
ton of the head of the house In thu
residence campaign the contributions
of the children will not be passed up
either, pennies and nickels and dime.