The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-23
Female Section of Mulvane's
laundering Thousand Busy.
Southwestern Chairman Sends
Appeal To $50 Way Over"
roDAY.s REPORTS.

Todays reports on the progress of
the second Red Cross war fund show
that Topeka alone has subscribed
more than $3.50 already in the cam
paign-and reports are yet to come in
from the residence districts and from
the country. The grand total this
noon showed that Topeka is within
less than $4,000 of the county quota,
and it is confidently expected that the
reports of the mems team at the
Chamber of Commerce tomorrow noon
will put the city several thousand dol
county.
In the short after-luncheon speech
this noon DR.. S. S. Estey, pastor Of
the First Presbyterian church., made
two notable statements. One of them
was: THE man who stays home can
not by any stretch of his imagination
feel that he is doing the share that
the boy in the trenches is doing" The
other was: IF any man refuses 10
give appoint a strong arm commit
tee to wait on him and then push
him and push him hard.''
Lake Comes Into Fold.
Hardly had Doctor Estey seated
! himself when a member of the strong
arm committee appointed to wait on
Will Lake assumed the floor with the
statement that push tactics had won
! a convert who said he was sorry for
ment of the Red Cross and who as
sured the committee that hereafter
there would be no doubling in the
Lake neighborhood. The committee
reported that Lake had made a SUBJ
scription of SIS to the second Red Cross
war fund.
But there is one other case involy-
ing two persons where no heed had
been paid to the warning issued thru
the publication of the consequences
that will accrue to selfish ones who
put their own personal comfort before
the comfort of the boys who are bear
ing the muskets of America on foreign
soil
The case in question is the tale of
a man and his wife in the employ
OF the state at the State hospital To-
gether this man and his wife draw a
monthly wage of $50 from the state.
and with it free lodging board. laun-
dry, and so forth. Recently they
purchased a new motor car When
called on by the solicitation commit
tee of the Red Cross war fund these
two state employees not only fatty re-
fused to give, but they refused to
listen to the argument that they
alone were keeping the State hospital
from displaying a 100 per cent honor
flag. 1t was asserted and IL was or
dered that this case be taken care Of
with special attention
Must Fight Huns Here.
During the discussion which fol-
lowed reports of this kind, S. E. Cobb.
divisional committeeman for Kansas.
rose in his place at the speakers
table and in a voice trembling with
pent emotion declared. That since I
cannot carry a musket at the front
/ can look into cases where persons
at home. .thoughtlessly spread tales d.
rectly traceable to pro- German propa-
ganda.
! I'VE have to fight the Hun In
America as well as in France" assert
ed Cobb. "and personally I intend to
sift every case of disloya1 statements
to their source"
Cobb told the story of one woman
who had been telling that not more
than 25 per cent of the money SUBJ
scribed to the Red Cross war funds
was ever put to its proper purpose. II
have called on this woman" declared
, Cobb. AT first she refused to divulpe
the ma me of the party who told her the
, tale, but convinced her that this waa
poor policy, and tonight I am going ~
call on the guilty party"
Cobb said that already the story bad
been traced to a prominent Topeka
church where it has been freely dis-
cussed as a true tale of Red Crow
activities.
The whole latitude of the cam
! paigners is to have no mercy on per.
sons who are engaged in repeatins
stories of pro-German origin. and Il
was repeatedly asserted that every
| story of this character would be traced
! to its source
The situation which confronts you
/ is exactly this" declared Mulyane.
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