The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-10
Story Tellers Keep Flour Max
ers in Good Humor.
MIR. HACKNEY'S TALK
Advocates a Combination For
Mutual Benefit.

banquet AT the CopelanQ nOte1 fdSL
night in a state Of uproarious laughter
from the time the banQueters pushed
their chairs back from their coffee to
enjoy their cigars and the flow of rep
artee until the time the affair was
drawn to close in the small hours of
morning.
The retiring president of the associa-
ton, ]. H McNair of Halstead was
toastn aster and sat at the middle Of
the table In the south end of the room
overlooking the room filed to its ca
pacity with tables surrounded by mill
ers. export and railroad men. who
formed as congenia1 a crowd as ever
sat down to a banquet in this city.
The honors in the story telling line
were pretty equally divided between H
s. Kennedy of the National Millers'
Federation. Pat" Murphy of the Mis-
souri, association and ]. w. MCGOWAN, a
Kansas City telephone man.
Governor Stanley was to have re-
sponded to the toast The State of
Kansas" to begin the festivities. He
was unable to attend, however. During
the evening Pat" Murphy, who speaks
a beautiful SWede dialect and who III
fact told nothing but Swede dialect
stories in a fascinating manner, an
nounced that he had a good story on
Governor Stanley. He was talking to
a Swedish friend OF his one day when
the following conversation took place.
Murphy this friend said, did you
ever hear Governor Stanley make =
speech?''
Murphy admitted that he had never
had the privilege.
We'll. you don't know what you've
missed" said the friend He makes
one of the finest speeches you even
heard. Why one time during the cam
paign he talked for two hours"
What did he say?" asked Murphy.
The Swede friend wrinkled up his
face. II tank he didn't say anything.
he replied
Murphy told one on Tom McNeaL
.'MeNeal." he said. was at one time q
judge in one of the inferior courts at
Medicine Lodge and Jerry Simpson was
the officer. A deaf and dumb man did
sometime for which he came under the
pale of the law and MeNea1 sent Simp-
son out to arrest the man Simpson
brought him into court and his heart
went out in sympathy for the poor un
fortunate. He plead for leniency with
the man on account of his Affections,
being deaf and dumb. Finally after lis
tening to the pleading, McNeal exclaim-
ed oh, never mind, we'll give him his
hearing next week"
Mr. kennedy who responded to the
toast, Our Friend from Sweden" told
a half dozen stories In as many diff
ferent dialects. and then told more
stories.
Mr. MCGOWAN, the big jovial tele-4
phone man told telephone story Of the
difficulties of German who was work
ing in brewery at his first trial in US
several other stories
c. D. Hoffman, of Enterprise. who is
interested in cooperative milling re-
sponded to a toast On that subject He
began on a long dissertation on that
line of work, in the middle of which
he sat down, calling on Mr. Kennedy to
finish the story. Mr.. Kennedy finished
with a story of an incident in the build
ing of a Minnesota railroad where CO.
operation did not work.
Charles L Roos, manager Of the Kan
sas Milling and Export company re-
sponded to the toast, THE Export
Prophet" He dealt mainly with facts
in his remarks
Our company has disposed of all the
surplus -four of the mi1lers in our as
ISOLATION to an advantage, he dec1ar-
ed Every sack of -four which has
been disposed of either in the export
borne the name Of Kansas in promi-
nent place.
It am anxious to see the Kansas mill
ers adopt a uniform grade of high
equal if not superior to that of the mills
of any of the other -four producing
states The great trouble heretofore has
been that too many grades of Kansas
flour has found its way to eastern n ar
kats which were really of about the
same quality. This was caused by the
various mills each grading to a stand
ard of its own. This is rapidly being
ginning to unite in making uniform
grades. This must be done to success
fully compete with the other -four COM
panies. I am happy to say that we
are now beginning to get returns from
the export sales made nearly a year
ago Kansas flour is giving entire sat
isfaetfon, as is shown by continued
orders for the same brands bought at
earlier dates
Herbert Hackney of Topeka, whose
hobby is the federation of rniIlers. re-
sponded to toast on that subject He
said:
This is the age of merging. Great
mergers have been made in the steel
and railroad fields. 1t was made neceS-
sary because the large operators found
that to do business withous the dis
turbiug elements of the many smaller
factions it was necessary to gain con-
troll of their properties believe thar
the millers should be federated to-
gether for their own protection If the
nilIers were to form a trust such as are
some of the big eastern trusts, a hue
and cry would be raised that would be
heard in all parts of the world
Bread is the poor mans food It is
generally conceded to be the staff OF
life. Yet it is a fact, although not
generally known. that it costs more for
butter than it does to supply the table
with bread: it costs more for eggs than
for bread; and ever so much more for
meats than for bread In fact. there is
not a solitary food except salt that
goes on mans table but that costs
more each year than the bread for that
table.
The next thing to trust for the millers
is for them to combine for mutual profit:
to form a bureau with set of rules gov
ernIng the miliers who belong Let each
miller make Some concession If necessary,
and each miller tell of the difficulties
which he has TO meet and all work to-
gsther to remedy the difficulties and evils
ton is for This organization IS equipped
to disseminate all The news that IS OBJ
association As illustration of what the
usefulness OF this bureau will be- / viii re-
late how we shipped two car loads OF Hour
70 Tennessee dealer Upon receipt of
the -four they wrote that the -four was
not up to grade of the samples and re-
fused to take the -four We happened to
have representative near that place and
we teIesraphed him to Investigate He
found that the seal of the car had never