The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-17
Volunteer Salvation LassieS Out
With D0ughnuts Tomorrow.
First Report Today Shows
$500 Subscribed for Home.
B|BY IN FIRST STATEMENT
Makes Plea for Support of
Heavy Contributors.
Is Highly Gratif;ed With Prog
ress of Onslaught So Far.

The second phase of the Salvation
Army home coming campaign is just
beginning to hit it's full stride today
The first general reports were made
at a meeting of the team captains at
the Chamber of Commerce this noon
and showed a total subscription to
date of $4,000.
This amount represents the sub
scriptions taken in the business dis
trict of Topeka to date-but it is not
the entire subscription of that district
by any manner of means. The cam
paign in the residence districts is
entrusted entirely to the school chill
dren of the city and their reports is
not yet ready. At the luncheon today
the biggest report was made by l.. G.
Rain whose district, between Sixth
and Seventh on Kansas avenue, came
in with nearly $3.50.
Tomorrow Big Day.
Tomorrow is to be big day in the
Salvation Army campaign and the
streets of Topeka are to know again
the tread of Salvation Army girl solie-
itors. One of the Topeka Business
colleges took a volunteer list of girls
for work on the street today with q
big response. Miss Ruth Seybold was
named as chairman for the street
squad which goes into action temor-
row morning
For the street campaign the girls
will be dressed in blue and will be
HATED in the true Salvation Army bon
nets. The girls will be armed with
| big coffee pots for the collection of
coins and with doughnuts as rewards
for contributors.
Six of the girls expect to invade the
sacred precincts of the Washburn
football fieldjust before the X. U. game
i tomorrow afternoon and there solicit
| contributions from the crowds. Misses
| Ruth Seybold, Beatrice Mcclure,
| Gladys Keeling, Anna Nelson, Anna
charged with the football game solicit
tation. On the streets during the day
| the following girls will do the solicit
| iting: Misses Sess Owens. Gladys Fox,
Emma Boyd, Hazel Nielsack. Marjorie
/ Benin, Marcia Stafford. Ethel Pultt,
Mabel Rockey, leila Waldy, Lucille
Cottrell. Estelle Smith, Marie Hollis
| ter, Marie Dahlgren. Floyd Northrup.
Faye Keck, Ellen Trout, Mary Wood
ward and Irene Fisher.
Billy Issues Statement.
| Following the announcement of the
| street committee and its work tom0r-
/ row Bing Bang Bill Biby issued what
| is perhaps his first formal statement
| in any campaign. This statement fol-
| lows:
| ~ am highly gratified with the showing
| of the Salvation Army home coming fund
campaigners today. This was really the
J first report day of the campaign and the
| subscriptions totalled $500. wish to
especially thank those big subscribers who
I kicked in in this drive to an amount al
most the equal of their subscription III the
| first part of the campaign last spring.
| Il have instructed my campai gners ami
! solicitors to accept no grudging dollars III
| this drive. What want is strict free
| will offering-so that when we turn the
new building at Fifth and Quincy street
| over to the Salvation Army 1t will be free
of debt and will represent true thanks
gift of the people of Shawnee county and
| the city of Topeka.
| 'To those among us who are well fixed
| in the goods of this world ! would like To
say that PIE campaign committee is well
pleased with the contributions they ma lie
! in the drive last spring and that it takes
| occasion to urge upon these subscribers
| the great help their additional support VIII
be in this concluding drive; We do not
| detract any from the fact that the heavy
subscribers did their part nobly last
| spring-and we merely wish to ask that
| same measure of support at this time
| it is sorely needed.
| But If any of these heavy contributors
| feel that their financial condition is such
| that they find they cannot make an adili-
tionar subscription in this phase of the
drive the campaign wishes 1t distinctly un-
| derstood that it feels that these men have
done their part whether they make an adj
| dftional contribution not.
| In checking over the cards of sub
scribers in the spring campaign of the
salvation Army it was found that many
of the heavy subscribers who well t.
the fore IN all other drives, cut the per
centaee of their subscriptions down fol
the Salvation ARMY fund and a specia
plea is directed to these subscribers to in
| crease their subscriptions to their uSua
| generous cOntFthutfoTs in mast camDoiVu