The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-14
BIC DRIVE is ON!
One-FOurth City's Jewish-Ar-
menian Quota Is Raised.
Team Reports Today at C. of C.
Show $500 Total.
SANTA FE MAKES BIG SHOWING
Lieut.. Garrison MiIIspaugh a
- Speaker at Luncheon.
Hun Battle Territory as Torn
as Armenia, He Says.

Reports on the first day of the
Jewish-Armenian relief drive, made
this noon at the Chamber of Com
merce, showed a return of $685.. The
reports were incomplete, many of the
important teams having turned in
none of their figures as yet. With
quota of S26, 900 more than a fourth
raised on the first day of the drive,
the committee expects to be able to
close the campaign Thursday.
"Bill' Biby, head of the local COM
mittee, announced at the noon lunch
that more than 800 Topeka women
were working for the fund. and that
1t is expected that their returns will
be almost as large as the amounts
turned in by the mems teams.
Told of Hun Prisons.
The meeting today was opened by
a short address made by Lieut. Clark
son Millspaugh, recently home from
the war, where he was for months in a
German prison camp recovering from
wounds received in battle. For two
or three minutes after his entrance
into the hall, Lieutenant Millspaugh
was greeted by the $50 persons at
the luncheon. who stood up clapping
and cheering before he made his
speech. He described briefly the APP
pearance of the devastated districts of
: France that he saw, and told of the
method of pillage and destruction as
he had seen it carried on from the
rear of the German lines. In making
their retreat" he said, the Germans
carried away everything porta Die,
even cats and dogs. Things that the
American army would not think of
wasting the time to haul away, the
Germans would take, seeming to pay
no attention to anything but the de-
sire to get everything they could for
nothing"
1 Lieutenant Millspaugh told of sad
ness of the return home of the french
after their deportation, and compared
their condition with that of the Jews
and Armenians who have suffered IN
a similar way at the hands of the
Turks.
Delays Will Cost Lives.
Charles Dillon, head of the state
committee for the present campaign,
told of the urgency of the need for i'm
mediate and generous response to the
call for help. He has had kilograms
from the east SAYING that in the be-
ginning of the drive about $2,0OO,OOO
had been reported from 100 counties
Of fourteen states. Every month of
delay," he said. lin meeting the call
costs 10000 lives and incalculable suf-
fering."
body was added to the returns for
team J, of which G. E. Greist is chair
man, making the total reported today
from his team $692.75.
Team D, headed by C. B. Merriam,
showed the largest return for the first
day. Merriam reported s1,59O.25, and
the work of his team not yet com
suIeted A d. Gray of the Santa Fe
made a report of s1,S46, and only
about half the number of employees yet
reached. H. A. Auerbach reports for
his team an amount already sub
scribed of $1.412.25. Reports from
other teams were as follows: Team B,
o. E. Wright chairman, SASS; Paul
Huycke, $500; E, Robert Fullerton.
$27S; G, j. S. Ferry. s43150; H, c. P.
Adams, SOS; X, w. c. Carswell, Sis.
Justice Henry Mason's team, which
will work the state house, has not been
heard from. but large returns are ex-
pected from there, as that team will
canvass the legislature.