The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-14
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today that Sha vince county will be at
least. four hundred thousand dollars
undersubscfibed on its fourth liberty
loan quota even after the big railroad
and telegraph and telephone subscrip-
tiens are officially reported. It Is the
men of means who are to blame Tor
this state OF affairs, according to the
liberty loan committeemen-and It Is
these men of means who are TO reel
the weight of public opinion and the
hot persuasion of a strong arm COM
mittee with full powers to act and
certain knowledge to act on.
No Peace Talk.
Today Shawnee county and Topeka
had their opportunity to answer the
German peace note in terVs of con-
crete example. In many parts of the
nation the people brooding on the pos
sibility of an early peace have helo on
from the fourth liberty loan on the
grounds that the money is not needed.
Today Topeka and Shawnee county
had the opportunity to put a vicious
mo" into their answer to the mercy
plea of the German people by putting
the Shawnee county quota over the
top. e..--.s-.-
called into action today. and We're sent
forward to relieve the pressure OF the
strong arm committee that are under
! orders to push forward for subscrip-
tons without ceasing until the loan is
boy scouts is to be what in trench par
| lance is known as hopping up. They
are to go over the ground already go
iieited picking up the stragglers, and
bring in the subscription prisoners
which were missed in the haste of the
| first onslaught
Women Stay In Field.
The womeRs division of the fourth
| liberty loan solicitation troop is to stay
| in the field until the last bond is sold
! in the county in the active campaign.
There is to be no cessation of the
steady attack in the residence sector
of the war loan front, and according
to liberty loan officials when the to-
| tails are all counted up it wi1f>be seen
| that the women have brought many a
hitherto undreamed of dollar into the
war chest OF the nation.
| An added incentive to buy bonds was
in Topeka today in visible form. The
| trophy exhibit sent out by the United
| States government is in Topeka today.
| 1t arrived Sunday afternoon and left
| at 1870 o'clock this morning The
exhibit contained many of the weap-
! ons and machines used in the German
offensive last April and in the vain
defense of the Germans vixen Foch
turned at bay and hurled the Hun
armies from what they fondly believed
was their pace IN the SUM- livery OiiS
Of the weapons in the exhibit was in
| actual use on the fighting front not
| more than twelve weeks ago
Mako Many Buy More.
1t was expected that the Topekans
who saw this big war exhibit would
so straightway to their banks and in
crease their individual subscriptions to
the Joan, and if they were officers or
directors of corporations that they
would use every pressure to cause
their corporations or companies to in
crease that subscription also.
The Shawnee county fourth liberty
loan quota is still undersubscribed by
more than half a million dollars
and there remains but five days until
| the time set for the closing of the loan
by the government. : 1t is no answer
to- the foe to have strong arm commit
tees drag the dollars into the Golfers
of the nation Therdol1ars should be
| rendered willingly and with the ut
1 most heeFfulness-the boys at the
| front volunteer when they are called
upon to face certain death.