The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-14
Final Plans Made for Roosevelt
Memorial Campaign.
Executive Committee Held
Meeting at C. of C. Today.
SHAWNEE co. QUOTA $4,000
All Subscriptions VIII Be Free
VIII Offerings.
School Children WIN Contrib
ute on October "a.

7 The Roosevelt Memorial campaign
and Shawnee county next week
probably Wednesday. At a meeting
of the executive committee of the
drawn and the county and city direc-
tors were given full authority to go
ahead with the details of the organ
ization.
W., A. Biby. Familiarity known TO
every Tonekan as big Bing Bang
campaign. Colonel A. NJ. Harvey is
the director for the campaign in the
city of Topeka and Senator w E
Schoch is director of the campaign in
the rural districts.
The Roosevelt Memorial fund quota
for Shawnee county. including To-
peka is $4,000, all of which amount
is to be raised by popular and free
will subscription. No strong arm
methods viii be allowed in the cam
paign and every solicitor is to be in
structed to Just mention the cause
and if a man wishes to help perpetuate
| Americanism in America take what he
offers" It is expected that every man
interested in the founding of a founda-
ton for the incubation of American
ism will give a substantial amount.
Talks Mt Meeting.
Short talks were made at the meet
ing this noon by Earl Akers, state
campaign directory; by F. A Seaman,
director of the campaign for the
| schools of the state: by Frank p Mac
Lehman. and by Charles Sessions. 1t
goes without saying that Biby occu-
| pied the floor for a few minutes.
In his short talk Frank P. MacLen-
| nan set forth that the Foundation of
the Roosevelt Memorial on the Ameri-
| canism of America thru educational
| basis, constitutes that very memorial
which Theodore Roosevelt himself
would have wished had he been asked
| MacLennan was a close personal
been a house guest at Sycamore Hill
| and Oyster Bay a number of times.
Earl Akers in his talk outlined the
| progress of the campaign organization
4 in Kansas and asserted that never in
| any campaign has the heart of the
people been SO much enwrapped in its
outcome. y
| Seaman Made Talk.
| F A. Seaman voiced a story of the
. campaign in the schools of the state
which is the first indicaton-and
| Kansas is the leader in this-of the
| far reaching effect that the Roosevelt
| Memorial will have in AmericanizinS
| America. October "a has been set
! aside as the day for the Roosevelt
| Memorial in the schools. On that day
the children>in every part of the state
will be informed by speakers of the
! life Of the great American. And the
| state school committee in charge OF
the campaign has prepared series OF
! study courses designed not only to
show the life and work of Roosevelt
but to inculcate the ideals of Ameri-
canism for which the great president
stood when he Yves alive.
Charles Sessions pledged himself to
hi n f-O
he is asked in the way of work or
money.
! In Akers's talk, Carol B. Merriam
| was paid a high compliment which
| came more or less as surprise to the
| committee. 1t was told that Merria m
was director of the campaign in the
First congressional district of Kansas.
and that his organization was already
| functioning like a well oiled machine
| Merriam's district. according to Akers.
| was the first district in Kansas to be
/ fully and completely organized for the
drive.