The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-19

r tell lntelilgent American what the
salvation Army is or what it does. If
they want ten thousand dollars let's go
out and get it,
DIR. f. J. Kulp-"Anything Blackjack
Pershtng wants with his forces in
France. let him have. it. He says he
wants the Salvation Army.
Governor Capper-"PersonalIy, Off
c1aily and financially am for it,
These were just a few of the state
ments that marked the beginning of
the ten thousand dollar drive for the
Salvation Army war activities fund at
the Chamber of Commerce this noon.
Topeka is asked to raise $40, 900 or just
one-half of what Wichita was called
on to raise.
Robert Stone was elected chairman
of the drive committee by acclama-
ton. Theodore Hammatt was elected
secretary treasurer of the campaign.
Robert Stone, w. A. Johnson and D.
W. Mulvane form the committee in
charge of the drive and of the ap
pointment of team captains.
1t came out at the meeting that
Army huts on the American front in
France and there are 1913 more on the
French an English fronts.
Select Team Captains.
The team captains will be selected
this afternoon or evening and tomor-
row noon at the Chamber of Com
merce there will be another meeting
to plan the details of tie drive.
Help put the Salvation Army lasSies
in front trenches on the battle front
to minister to the lads" that is the
slogan that will sound the tocsin cry
of the big Salvation Army war activi-
ties campaign which was launched
today.
Not in the familiar blue dress and
bonnet O NJ n
brave girls go into the zone of fire,
but clad in olive drab and wearing the
famous Montana hat the Army's
angels of mercy risk their lives in the
hell of shell and shrapnel and ma
chine gun fire to carry first aid and
comfort to the boys as they go over
the top said Henry G. Bowden, Kan
sas campaign manager this morning.
ITO maintain this service in the very
forefront of the battle the Salvation
Army is calling on the American peo-
pie to provide the necessary funds for
the work. The quota asked for in
the United States is 100000"
Four of the Salvation Army lassies
are already on duty in the front line
trenches held by the American ex
peditionary force in France, according
to a telegram received at the Saliva
ton Army headquarters in New York.
the dispatch from New York says:
Four Salvation Army lassies equipped
with gas mask, steel helmets and re-
yolvers, have been admitted to the
actual battle front of the American
army in France and are carrying on
relief work, according to cablegram
received by Salvation Army headquar-
tiers here today.
The young women are Ensign Helen
Purviance, Gladys McIntire, Mrs. Ham
mons. and Mrs. Hickey, and so far as
known are the first of their sex to go
to the American iring line. For some
months they have been Guaranteed in
a village where American troops are
billeted on returning from the trenches,
their work being the mending Of cloth
ing, preparation of hot foods and
drinks and similar service. They left
for the front lines at night, January
n, the message said.
Sedgwick County's Quota $40, 900.
Wichita and Sedgwick county have
alreaoy raised $11 900 of their $2O,O
quota and that in three days of active
campaigning The Sedgwick County
War Fund club has undertaken to
raise the remaining $4,000 early next
fall. 1t is expected that Topeka will
live nm TO her reputation of always