The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-04
ROAD 100 Per CT.
Rock Island Sets Liberty Loan
Record for West.
Fireman Out of Bed at O'clock
To Subscribe.
THREE LINES OVER 3 MILLION
Western Region Hopes for
Total of $4,000, 900 Tonight.
Santa Fe Holds Lead in Total
Subscription Reported.
THREE LINES OVER 3 MILLION

Chicago. May AT o'clock this
morning. E. F. Cooper of Des Moines.
a locomotive fireman married. got out
of bed to subscribe for a third liberty
loan bond of $50 and by so doing he
put the Rock Island system In the
100 per cent class He was the last
one of 41.167 employees OF the entire
system who have subscribed for third
liberty loan bonds to the amount of
2,s23.10O, an average per capita of
$T1-03
w G. Bierd. chairman of the west
eru railroad liberty loan cam paign
committee. says: Even the wonder
full accomplishm of enrolling every
employe as a liberty bond buyer does
not satisfy the enthusiastic patriots of
the Rock Island system and with re-
this slogan: Now that we are 100
per cent. let us put the Rock Island
in the three million class" I am sure
they will do it,
New Three Million Goal
L VI. Allen, chairman of the Rock
Islands liberty loan campaign COM
mtttee, has issued this statement 10 the
officers and employees:
The Rock Island system has under It's
banner today every one Of its great family
EltIoii- All are subscribers to the third
Liberty loan livery Que has responded to
tIe call from the hunblesr empl0ye the
Iresident all alike and all equally import
aHt in this unanimous response
Its vast army Of over II 600 railway op-
eTatIves have thus reisterated to the country
lat the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific
i-ailHay company Is 1000 loyal. pa sriotic
aud faithful. BY this united response OF NIL
lLtio.i, they have effectively shown to the
eoDie OF the eurtre country the wonderful
tan zalon or the Rock Island as great
I-dl~-y system. as well the broad f0un-
DatIol on when 1t rests; u solidarity Of the
Lien and women who are grouped together
Tor tue effle tent operation OF this trans-
Iorti lion mas hine and for every net that
lakes for it's welfare being Indicative
~ the welfare of the country.
Lit IL be our earnest prayer that this
loan 90 which we have pledged ourselves
i.iay De the medium that viii ultimately
Tort ( peace and prosperity. But we know
tlat this can not be brought about uutil.
l-iru the efforts of this nation. the world
saail become safe and a decent place In
which 70 live.
Now that We are 1ooe6. let us put the
loek Island in the three million class"
Hope for $50, 100000.
Before tonight. when our cam
paign 3soses. our total subscriptions
10 the-lhlrd- Liberty IoaH-NiH exceed
$5O.0dO. COO" said V. NJ. Alexander.
assistant CHAIRMAN of the railroad
liberty loan campaign committee OF
the western regional district This
means that u lot of hard work must
be dones but reports coming in from
many raiIyo1ds give assurance that it
will be d0ne."
Total liberty loan subscriptions of
S45.962. 500 by 5S5.222 employees of
western railroads are now recorded at
the Chicago headquarters. The in
crease in forty-oisht hours was 81
942, $50 "a subscriptions from IS per
cent of tie employees of western roads
Three big systems are now in the
three million cIass''-the Santa Fe
tnfon Pacific and Northwestern. Sew
en- roads report subscriptions over
SZ.00O,0CO and less than 100000
while two roads report between ST.
100000 and s2,000,OOe.
Thirty-nine railroads and associa-
tions, including the Rock Island sys-
tenn, are row il the 100 per cent
class of their officers and
employees being a bond buysS On
- roads, over 40 per cent of the
employees have subscribed for bonds
Standing of Big Roads.
The relative standing today of the
roads reporting subscriptions exceed
ing s1.0O0.00O is: