The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-02
Big Patriotic Meeting Will Be
Held Here April 13.
Dorothy Brooks, Noted Boston
Aviatrix, Is Coming.
Il. {. VIOLETTE TO SPEAK
Topeka Will Get Into Big Drive
Next Saturday.
Security League and Theaters
To Help in Campaign.

Miss Dorothy BROOKS, nOteu boSIoH
aviatrix, and E. E. Violette. manager
for the speakers bureau of the Tenth
federal reserve district, both finished
orators, will be the principal speakers
at a rousing patriotic meeting to be
held at the city auditorium Saturday
evening, April 10, it was announced
today The meeting will be held in
connection with the third liberty loan
drive which will begin April and
will climax the first week of the cam
paign.
Attic completion of final arrange
ments for launching the drive here
are being held up somewhat by fail
ure of details bearing on the third
loan bonds to arrive from Washington,
the organization of the forces that will
push the campaign went steadily on
today. J. R. Burrow, county chair
man, announced today that a meeting
of the executive committee of the
campaign, which is comprised of ev-
cry banker in the county, will meet
tonight in the directors room of the
Central National bank. At the meet
ing important steps of organization
will be taken and ways and means of
putting on the drive will be con-
sidered.
Security League to Help.
All thru the country, preparations
for making the drive intensive and
full of powerful public appeal are
under way. The Topeka branch of
the National Security league held a
meeting this noon at the Chamber of
Commerce to compile arrangements
for assisting in furnishing speakers
for meetings that will be held in every
rural school house in the county Fri
day night. The meetings will be in
celebration of Americas first ami
versary in the war. The Security
league will furnish speakers for
about twenty of the eighty meetings.
other organizations will furnish ad-
ditional orators
A1tho the executive committee of
the campaign will take but little part,
Saturday will be a day of demonStra-
ton in Topeka.
The Women's Christian Temper
ance union and the Daughters of the
American Revolution are planning
big meetings at the auditorium, both
in the afternoon and evening. Satur-
day will also be the day when the
streets and business houses will take
on an intensive patriotic appearance.
At the headquarters of the executive
committee today hundreds of pounds
of advertising literature and posters
to be used during the campaign were
received. All this advertising goes
out Saturday morning.
TheaterS to DO Their Part.
Theaters are also planning to do
their part. In addition to talks from
the stage at every performance by
Four-Minute men, special patriotic
features are being planned at the ma
jority of the playhouses. G. L. Hoop
er, manager of the Orpheum, an
nounced today that he has obtained
for the first four days of next week
a superfeature film, The kaiser
The Beast of Berlin production
which has aroused much favorable
comment from critics in the east The
story, while it lacks battle scenes, is
a gripping one and shows all the gilt
ter and glamor and brutality of the
German imperial courts. Hooper OBJ
tanned the film in connection with the
start of the campaign and sidetracked
all other programs for the first four
days of next week.
Featured highly in the program of
the entire campaign will be the meet
ing the night of April 10, at the audi
torium In addition to addresses by
the Boston birdwoman and the Kan
sas City orator, additional numbers
ing of w. A Billy, c. L. Mitchell,
Walter johnson. Mrs. D. w. Mulvane
and Miss M'Edna Corbet has been
named to look after the additional ar
rangements and will hold a meeting
for that purpose next Monday night
F w Freeman, chairman OF the
first district of Kansas committee, de-
cIared this morning that the public
would look with more favor on the
third bonds than on the first ana sec
ond. A few days ago Freeman sent
ont letters to purchasers of the nrst
ond second bonds calling their atten-
tion TO the third loan. This morning
Freeman's mail contained several APP
nlications for blocks of the coming
securities
Members of the county executive
committee are waiting for notice from
Washington relative to the time limit
received to the effect that the issues
will be nonconvertible.
Doug Isn't Coming.
Douglas Fairbanks, the movie matt
nee idol will not appear in Topeka
during the campaign as announced,
according to a telegram received to-
day by Burrow- The telegram served
notice of cancellation of all speaking
dates in the tenth federal reserve dis
trict.
The cancellation YVES undoubtedly
dine to Kansas City's action in advis-
ing the movie star that there was
nothing doing when his publicity
manager asked for a parade of boy
scouts, a military escort, 100 automo
biles and $50 business men to put on
a demonstrate
At the meeting of the Security
league this noon J. Will Kelley, ]. r.
R1rrow and c. L. Mitchell made short
talks Burrow outlined the liberty
loan plans so far as they have been
made 1t was decided to hold another
meeting Friday noon, when Burrow
will tell of the details of the third
bond issue. Each member present
pledged himself to take an open stand
for the object of the league and fight
German propaganda.
Speakers selected to talk at the va
rious meetings in rural school dis
tricts Friday evening included:
c. E. St John, Hugh Fisher. Hugh
McVey, Luther c. Bailey. w. H Was
son. Earl Akers, H. o. Caster, Robert
ID Carver, Mrs. H O. Garvey. Herbert