The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-14
That Is Decoration To Be
Given Loan Dodgers.
Strong Arm Committees Will
Act as Distributors.
GIVE NAMES TO newspapers
Total Will Be Short With Big
Subscriptions Added.
Workers Will Hold Final Drive
Council Wednesday.
THE BAROMETER.


yellow ribbons for those who can
subscribe but have not-for those who
have subscribed but not enough"
That is the sentiment which was put
into motion form at a meeting of the
captains of the fourth liberty loan
strong arm committee at the Chamber
of Commerce this noon. 1t means
that SHAWNEE county is still nearly
half a million dollars short of its al
lotted quota. 1t means that Shawnee
county has cast aside the glove and
expects to go out after subscriptions
with an iron clad fist and vicious de-
termination in the hearts and souls of
the workers.
Acting on instructions from the Sec
retary of the treasury, the Shawnee
county liberty loan executive commit
tee today demanded of every bank in
the county certified list of fourth lib
erty loan subscribers showing the
amount each man has invested in the
newest issue of bonds. This list is
to be gone over and carefully checked
by men in the city who know the abil
ity of certain citizens to subscribe.
Many Tried Trickery.
Some prominent men well able to
buy from two to five thousand dollars
worth of the bonds quietly slipped in
to a bank-not the one where they do
they were not especially well known
| bought one or two hundred dollars
worth of the bonds and congratulated
themselves that they were so easily out
, of it, workers assert.
1t is such men as this that are to
feel the weight of the yellow ribbon
system. The strong arm committees
are to be furnished with lists of the
elacker money barons and are to be
sent out Thursday morning with IRON
clad restrictions to hit hard and show
little mercy on the Stacker. Peace
talk and influenza have done much to
| make the fourth liberty loan campaign
| hard shedding. These two things have
| prevented many persons from going
| into the flotation of the loan as whole
heartedly as on previous occasions.
But neither influenza nor peace talk
will have any stopping effect on the
strong arm committees which are to
go into the field Thursday morning.
Big Meeting Wednesday.
A general meeting of the men and
women liberty loan workers of the
city of Topeka and of the captains of
the country districts has been called
for Wednesday evening at 1880 o'clock
at the Chamber of Commerce. 1t is
up to every one of these persons to be
present at this meeting for final in
structions before starting out on the
final smash Thursday morning.
AT the meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce this noon, it was advocated
by certain of the captains that the list
of Stacker yellow-ribbon subscribers to
, the fourth liberty loan be turned over
to the newspapers for publication and
it was further advocated that If the
newspa pers refused to print the list as
news, the liberty loan executive COM
mittee buy advertising space for the
purpose.
Woefuf days are coming Thursday
and Friday for those Shawnee county
citizens and Topekans who have failed
in their duty to the United States gov
ernment and the Yanks overseas in
their slight subscriptions to the fourth
! liberty loan.
1t was brought out at the meeting
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