The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-24
TO FURNISH CHEER
Inmates of State Institutions To
Be Made Happy.
Welfare Organizations Are I'm
usually Active This Year.
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DINNERS
Gull Holiday Today at Kansas
State Penitentiary.
American Legion to Care for
Disabled Ex-SOldiers.
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DINNERS

Christmas cheer will be brought to
the poor, the dependent and the un-
fortunate in state institutions and prl-
waite homes thruout the state. Wei
fare ORGANIZATIONS have been unusual
ly active this season to see that santa
Claus overlooks no one in distress.
Special Christmas dinners and hoh-
day entertainments are planned in all
the state institutions, according to
Malcolm Gray, secretary of the state
board of administration.
The citizens of Atchison have raised
several hundred dollars to see that the
200 children in the State Orphans
home are remembered with gifts, in
Guiding candy and toys.
The Christmas menu at the Lansing
state penitentiary has been announced
by Warden NJ. F. Amrine. 1t in
cludes roast pork. apple sauce, candied
sweet potatoes, creamed gravy oyster
dressing, celery mince pie, coffee.
oranges and apples. Today is a full
holiday at the prison with special
church services in the morning. A
quartet will sing Christmas carols at
the prison Christmas eve. On Christ
mas day a motion picture show has
been arranged.
Special Christmas Services.
Special Christmas services have also
been arranged at the federal peniten-
tiary and the disciplinary barracks at
Leavenworth. At the barracks the
program consists of services in the
morning conducted by the chaplain,
boxing exhibition in the afternoon and
a motion picture show in the evening.
The Square Circle club of Topeka
IS in charge of a Christmas tree cele-
bration at the State Boys Industrial
school. A free motion picture show is
a feature of the Christmas observance
for the boys in the reformatory at
Hutchinson.
The American Legion and its auxil
larry plan to reach every disabled ex
service man in the state, whether he
is in q hospital or at home. The num-
Der of ex-service men in Kansas re-
ceiving disqualification varies from
three hundred to six hundred, accord
ing to Mrs. Ray Hile Calihan. state
president of the American Legion
Auxiliary. These are mostly transients
who are later transferred to otherf
states for more prolonged treatment.
The chief hospital centers are Kansas
City. Kan, Leavenworth, Topeka and
Wichita.
The salvation Army. Rotary, Ki-
wants, Lions and kindred organiza-
tions are in charge of Christmas dena-
tons for needy families in the various
cities of the state. In many instances
Big Brother and Good Fellow organi-I
cations have been revived for the
season.
A Community Party.
In wichita the Kiwanis club was
host at community party in the
forum Thursday night, the climax of
which was the distribution of $500
well filled stockings from a Christmas
tree by Santa Claus. Col Sam Amidon
viii hold his nineteenth annual Christ
mas dinner next '10onday noon at
which 1900 persons will be fed and
entertained. The supplies for this din
ner include 100 turkeys, fifteen bush
els of potatoes. three cases of celery
500 pies and 1000 rolls. The Salvation
army has planned to distribute $50
Christmas baskets to needy families.
In Hutchinson the Big Brothers
raised a quota of $4,000 to be used
in furnishing baskets of
food to the poor. Any unused balance
viii be given to the Associated Chari-
ties to buy open aid tents for tuber-
cular patients
In Parsons a community program
has been arranged for Christmas eve.
Groups of students from the high
schools, academies and Sunday schools
will go from hospital to hospital and
from home to home singing Christmas
carols. This will be followed by a
program al the muniCiDal tree.