The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-11
Camp Detachment Leads in
Liberty Loan Drive.
Subscribe IS Per Cent More
Than in Last Campaign.
ONLY UNIT "GOING OVER"
No Soliciting Accompanied
Campaign Among Soldiers.
Pleasing Result Due to Co
operation, Lieut.. Rucker Says.

THE Camp Quartermaster detach-
ment is the only unit of Camp Fun
ston which subscribed for more bonds
of the third liberty loan than during
the second liberty loan campaign
That IS the message which Lieut.
w. L. Rucker, executive officer of the
Camp Quartermaster detachment, re-
ceived this week when he made his
final report or liberty loan Subscr1p-
lions by men and officers of the de-
tachment Lieutenant Fuckers re-
pert revealed the following gratifying
facts:
The soldiers of the Camp Quarter
master detachment purchased more
bonds by approximately IS per cent
than in the second liberty loan cam
Iaign.
This is in proportion of every other
man of this detachment making
subscription.
The large increase in subscriptions
is particularly commendable in view
OF the f..ct that there was no solicit
ing, that all purchases of the bonds
were voluntary, and that cash pur-
chaSeS predominated.
Lieutenant Rucker was placed in
charge of the work of listing subscrip-
tions by Captain Frank, camp quar-
| termaster, when the lieutenant was in
| charge Of the Finance division. Since
the campaign started ne was lTduS-
ferred from the position of officer in
| charge of tee Finace division to that
| of executive officer, succeeding Capt
Tco1e. but during these changes there
| was no halt in the work of receiving
and recording subscriptions.
Two rallies were held by the de-
tachment during the period of the loan
campaign. While these gatherings
were designated as liberty loan meet
| ings, as much attention was given by
| ~ =
| service and cooperation in perform
| ing the duties of the camp quarter
| master detachment as to the desira-
bility of lending every possible aid to
| the loan campaign. At these meet
| ingS camp quartermaSter officers and
men were the speakers. and the O.
M. c. orchestra provided music The
| gatherings served to stimulate even
better work than in the past in the
detachment, and also led the men to
plan more generally to save in order
| to add to their contributions toward
| victory for America.
| Lieutenant Rucker and all the other
officers of the detachment are happy
over the volume-of the subscriptions
made by the quartermaster men.
| Il know the men of the Camp Quar-
termaster Detachment" said Lieuten-
ant Rncker in commenting on the
bond purchases to a friend. "And
they did just what I expected they
would. When history records -the
deeds of our splendid countrymen in
this war, the loyal and patient devo-
ton to duty of the quartermaster men,
unheralded and unsung, will not be
forgotten. They don't get the glory,
but they do deliver the goods in as
worthy manner as members of other
| branches of the service.
| 1.-The pleasing result of the cam
paign, I feel. is due to the hearty CO.
operation of the officers and men of
the detachment and the splendid help
of the Camp Quartermaster orchestra. 81
Claude L. Gamble of the camp
utilities branch is now the ranking
enlisted soldier of the quartermaster
detachment His promotion to the
rank of quartermaster sergeant
senior grade, was announced in the
the last week. This is the highest
on-commissioned rank of the quar-
termaster corps. With it Sergeant
Gamble will receive compensate OF
ISL a month. Sergeant Gamble en-
listed from Chicago, where he was q
senior in engineering at the University
of Chicago. Other recent promotions
in the quartermaster detachment in
cluded 8, the following: Sergeante
Thomas Ekrem, Oliver Spaeth, Will
liam G. Brown, william s. Martin
, Henry Schmidt, Thomas F. Dummy
Ray E. Challand and Harry E. Hill
!, | The following were made corporals
Wood WEIGH, Earl r. Harmon George
w. Epp, Frank f. Burke, William
! c. Bradley, William T. Thompson, H
: M. A. Fe1dmeier, Thomas Gahagar
land F,ueeDe " Overstreet