The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-05
KEEP UP DRIVE!
Baby Bond Workers Make Next
Weeks Plans.
Four Minute Men viii Help
Arouse TOpekans.
H0USE-T HOUSE CANVASS
Mail Carriers Will Make APP
peal at Every Home.
$4,000 Worth of Stamps Have
$4,000 Worth of Stamps Have
Been Sold Here.

The four-minute men have re-
sponded to another call for their serv-
ices, according to q statement by
Charles s. Elliott at the Chamber OF
committee in charge of the baby bond
campaign in Topeka In answer to
the call the four-minute men Will ap-
pear in all of the Topeka theaters
next week to start the hue and cry or
a systematic and long drawnout cam
paign to push the sale of the THRIFT
stamps and the war savings certlfl-
Gates in the city.
THE baby bond campaign is ur-
like all the other campaigns SO far
put on to raise funds for war work,
said Chairman Elliott. TT is the De
sire of the national committee that
this campaign shall be carried on in
a systematic manner and not put on
a basis of sudden and historical pa
triotism The baby bond, aside from
being a help in financing the war,
furnishes an IDEAL way for the peo-
pie to acquire the much 10 pc desired
habit of saving. and to do this and to
make the sale of baby bonds a sue
cess. it is necessary that the campaign
be conducted on the basis OF a perma-
nent campaign and not merely rush
and furore for a short space of time
The sale of liberty loan bonds-coCld
be conducted in a hurry for as soon
as one was sold that was the emo OF
it: but in this baby bond campaign it
is necessary that the people invest
small savings for a period of at least
five years.
Rigby Makes Report.
w. o. Rigby, postmaster, has an
nounced that nearly $4,000 worth OF
the stamps have been disposed of
thru the efforts of the mail carriers
and the banks and financial institu-
tions of the city. One instance of the
fierce and heavy competition of the
mail carriers to sell the largest num-
Der of stamps and so be breveted by
the postcfIice department was relat-
ed at the meeting by one of the mem
bers of the committee. 1t seems that
one of the mail carriers was present
at a meeting of the A. o. L. W. lodge
Thursday night, and he was so full
of the spirit of the war savings cam
paign that Immediately after the close
of the business session of the lodge
he forthwith herded the members
into a corner of the room and treat
ed them to a lecture on the advan-
tage of saving by the method of the
baby bond The effort of this one
mail carrier resulted in 100 per
cent sale to the members of the A. o.
U. W., or at least that is the way the
story goes.
Big Campaign Next Week.
The campaign will start next week
with mail solicitation of the resi-
-dence districts of the city, and to sup
plement this the committee hopes to
interest a sufficient number of wom-
en- of the city so that a house to
house campaign can be conducted
thru them. This plan of the women
making a house to house campaign
has been tried out in Kansas City
with astonishing success. The women
Of Topeka are in no way less eff
cient in their undertakings than the
women of Kansas City and it has
generally been the case that the bal
ance tipped in favor of the local
women on such occasions as they
have striven together for the same
objects The committee expects the
greatest possible results from the Coz
operation of the women of Topeka.