The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-17
Rewards for Victory Loan
Workers Arrived Today.
BurrOw Announces That First
Subscriptions Are In.
ELABORATE ADVERTISING PLAN
Every Business House Window
To Urge Subscriptions.
One Institution Subscribes for
$4,000 in Bonds, Today.

Detailed plans to make the victory
loan drive more intensive in ShaWnee
county than any of the four previous
campaigns were being rapidly COM
pleted today by j. r. Burrow, county
chairman. Burrow announced that
speakers will appear in every theater.
at public meetings and school district
gatherings thruout the city and coun-
ty. Posters in seven different impos-
ng designs are being distributed
thruout the city, and by Monday, the
first day of the drive. will be on dis
play in windows. Boy scouts are dis
tributing the posters. Merchants and
others, however, were asked by the
county committee today to call at the
office of John Morrisey, secretary, and
obtain supplies of the posters.
First Subscriptions In.
The fifth, or victory loan. it was
said. will start in Topeka at once. In
cidentally, it is announced by Burrow,
the first subscriptions have been
made, despite the fact that it is four
days early. Two subscriptions, one for
$4,000 from the Bankers Deposit
Guaranty & Security company, and
Burrow for $4,000. were announced.
The largest pre-drive subscription an
nounced, however. came from the
Aetna Building and Loan association.
The Aetna has kicked ih," it is an
nounced, with a subscription of $780,
O0O, to the credit of Topeka's quota.
! Altho these early subscriptions are en-
! cOuraging, a warning against over
optimism is sounded.
Burrow today announced: that his
executive committee will -be COM
prised of the following prominent To-
pelaBs: f. NJ. Bonebrake, George W.
! Snyder, r. f. Hodgins, E. H. Crosby,
F. ]. Funk and E. d. Clithero.
Burrow also announced that the
membership of his subcommittee
will be practically the same as in the
| fifth loan, with the exception of a few
| changes.
Executive \Committee Meeting
/ Friday night a meeting of the exc
! cutive committee will be held to make
final plans in the method of getting
tsU descriptions. The time for voluntary
and solicited subscriptions will be set
\ and it is entirely probable, it was
said today, that heavy solicitation
work will be done.
Thirty-five German helmets-evi-
| IDENTIFY dress headgear, were received
by Burrow today from the headquar-
! ters of the Tenth reserve district. The
| helmets, an accompanying letter ex-
planned, are to be used as prizes or
| awards of honor to victory loan work
ers. The letter stated, however, that
/ if the county committee wished to
( give the helmets to libraries to use as
paste pots or to the postoffice for
cuspidors, the Tenth district head
! quarters would not object.
/ The basis on which the helmets will
( be distributed will be decided at Fri
| day nights meeting of the executive
committee. 1t is said that the helmets,
| representative of those which are be-
! ing distributed thruout the country,
are those captured by allied troops
| from German storehouses. They are
| dress helmets" says John Morrisey,
land evidently are the ones the Ger
mans intended to wear when they
came to this country
In a statement issued today by ]. r.
Burrow, Shawnee county and Topeka
| are asked to make the victory loan a
! thanksgiving loan. The statement fol-
lows:
Victory Loan Thanksgiving Loan.
/ The last of the big government war
I finance drives, and the one that is to
1 finish the job, will begin Monday, April
21, and last until May TO- 1t is up to the
loyal citizens of Shawnee county to show
that their patriotism is the real stuff
| While the war is over, in a sense, and
reaction is taking place everywhere. L do
not believe that this is entirely true of
Shawnee county. which has gone glori-
Ously the top in four campai gns.
Let's show our boys how deeply ap-
preciate their sacrifices in fighting our
battles. This money will pay to bring the
last of them home, to re educate those
who have been seriously wounded and ter
ribly MANNED. and for the large prepara-
tions made to do our part In the winning
drive the Hun.
! VIII Shawnee county buy victory bonds?
We will take our full quota. We paid
literally for war and will pay more will
ingIy for peace. J. Il. BURROW.
Chairman Shawnee County Committee.