The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-19
IRAIN FAILED TO
| SLOW UP WORK
OF LOAN DRIVE
Women Continue House to
House Canvass Today.
County Subscriptions Are Com
ing In Strong.
BERRYTON WAY OVER QUOTA
Dover, Wakarusa and RichIand
| Coming to Front.
Local Workers Hope To Get
Railroad Credits.
Subscriptions Are Com
ing In Strong.
BERRYTON WAY OVER QUOTA
Dover, Wakarusa and RichIand
Coming to Front.
Local Workers Hope To Get
Railroad Credits.

fSanta Fe shops. 133.55u
santa Fe offices. es.-..-...........-. 9s.s5o
sSanta Fe storehouse. .......... e7,so0
Total Santa Fe subscriptions. 244.65o
Officially reported subscribed by railroad
OFFICIALS but not yet added to the credit OF
Topeka's quota.
All workers, including the banks.
were today straining every effort to
place the county ''over'' by Saturday
night in accordance with the an
Eounced intention of ]. r. Burrow.
county Chairman. Were it not for
the fact that the city has not received
official credit for railway subscrip-
tions, the county would have exceeded
it's allotment already. Both federal
reserve officials and railroad heads
have made evasive promises that To-
peka is to receive credit for these
subscriptions later" or after they
have been reported in full to the fed
eral reserve headquarters at Kansas
City. However none of the more
than an quarter million dollars con-
tributed by railroad men and women
here have been placed officially in the
hank reports, the latter to date being
$945,950.
Hope to Get Credits.
Topeka loan officials are making a
fight to obtain this credit, pointing out
that it IS no more than fair that the
city should incorporate the railroad
subscriptions along with that already
turned into the banks. Topeka's quota
was compiled on a basis of population
and approximately 1000 of the cityss
population, all productive working
men and women, are railroad en-
ployes.
Bill Jones. residence anywhere in
rural Shawnee county. has proven one
of the big surprises of the campaign.
| it was apparent today. Prior to April
5. 1917, the date of this country's
declaration of war. Bill Jones was a
Shawnee county farmer with an in
terest in the big prices created by the
war and usually he possessed an ar
gument that this was Europe's war
The declaration of war set him to
thinking slowly. He read the news
papers more thoroly, and then his son
went to war. Speakers came to his
community meetings and explained
what the war was about and aItho he
seemed deliberate about doing 1t. he
has finally landed in action with both
| feet The veracity for the last state
ment is vouched for by the way farm
ers are subscribing to the third lib
erty loan.
Rural Banks to Front.
''The showing by banks in rural
| districts is commenda ble,'' said j. r.
! Burrow today. Nearly every bank
outside of Topeka reports that the
! phOId dSoiShcu " II ny l1t executive
committee has been subscribed or
| oversubscribed- Berryton is three
times over. Rossville reports pur-
chases totalling $4,000. Dover is
! ready to make the final jump and
| Wakarusa and Richland are showing
indications of exceeding the speed
| limit"
Santa Fe railway employees continued
to hit the ball' here today NJ. J.
! Drury. superintendent of shops re-
ported to Burrow that the shop total
has reached s133,550 and is still GO
! ing. The amount subscribed today
in the shops was s4.e50 and the num-
Der of subscribers has jumped to J.
935. The storehouse reports that II
will practically wind up its work to-
day, and this morning H. f. Ray,
, superintendent, asserted that to date
a total of 372 employees had purchased
bonds amounting to s27,700 with the
expectation of making it $4,000 by
night, easily.
Santa Fe general office totals were
hlked today to subscriptions of $685.
$50 and 1.133 subscribers This
makes subscriptions of Santa Fe rail-
way employees in Topeka total s244.-
$50 from 3,440 subscribing men and
women workers.
While Santa Fe employees are max
ing this spectacular showing, they are
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