The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-06
The Old Romans Speech.
What is writ is writ
Would it were wOrthier."

w OAAQ IL were ADlLlAAtA
Gentlemen" said President C. K.
Holiday, IF every member Of the
Topeka Commercial club would go
out on a strike, the organization would
run right along. with that noble old
Roman. Secretary T. J. Anderson, at
his desk" The major told them
about it" as follows:
This association shall be known as
the Commercial club of Topeka and
shall be composed of business men
and others interested in the welfare
of the city of Topeka; and is formed
for the purpose of promoting the vel
fare and advancement of the city;
collect and diffuse information as to
its commercial and industrial advant-
ages, developed and undevelOped; in
Vite and secure foreign and local cap
itai and labor, and make known op-
portunities for investment and en-
plOyment.
THE annual dues have been placed
within the reach of every man and
woman in Topeka who wants to help
make Topeka 6 better business and
residence city, and only amount to
$12 per year. Many of the members
contribute much larger sums, and the
money thus collected is used in pro-
noting the material welfare of the
city.
1.-THE knocker' is abroad in the
! land-especiall Kansas land-and
more particularly in the capital city.
/ The following brief of some of the
4 things the Commercial club has done
/ has not been prepared with a view of
/ pacifying the knocker-nothing but
/ the final edict of Peter at the gate
/ when he directs him to a lower alti-
4 tude will eevr settle him. There are
/ some very good people, however, who
ought to know what is going on but
who do not, and for their satisfaction
/ this statement has been prepared
Then followed a detailed inventory
I of the things which the Topeka Com
mercial club has done. In closing he
said
Recently the members of the
/ knockers club got together and de-
/ clared that the claims of the Com
/ nercial club for credit in securing
/ reduced rates on steam coal was all
/ rot, that the drop in coal rates was
/ due to natural gas being piped into
the city. Well, who secured the nat
/ ural gas2 Everybody knows that our
/ - cent natural gas is due to the
/ efforts of the Commercial club in gen
/ eral and its worthy president in par
ticular. The Kansas Natural Gas COM
pany had no idea of piping gas to
I this city until the president of the
I Commercial club took advantage Of
4 the delay in granting a franchise at
Kansas City and by devoting. almost
/ his entire time and at considerable
! expense to himself finally secured gas
for the city.
Topeka is just closing one of the
] most prosperous years in its history,
and if the fellows viii put away their
/ little hammers and second the efforts
I OF the Commercial club in securing
new industries and making Topeka a
/ better business and residence city,
/ they viii help materially in reaching
/ the $4,000 mark when Kansas cele-
1 brates her fftieth birthday in 1911.
1.r.srr at 10
+ things and it has made some mis-
takes. 1t would be remarkable If it
/ had not. So put up your guns and
] don't shoot the fiddler. he is doing
I the best he can"
DR.. Fisk on Education.
/ Whence is thy learning2 Hath Thy toll
/ Ger books cOnsum'd the midnight oil?'
Our Educational Interests" was the
/ toast responded to by Rev. D. NJ. Fisk.
/ D. D., of Washburn college, a man who
4 has gained an enviable name for him
/ self in the Kansas college world. His
4 address was fun of figures fun of act
| ual meat about the schools of Topeka.
Il He said in part: The total enroll
h ment of Topeka children in all public
] schools is $500. The grades contain
4 5.400 of these, and the high school 036.
{ The loss between the eighth grade and
/ high school in the United States as a
/ whole is so. 600 out of 323 000 In KAN
Sas the loss IS $500 cut OF 10, 700. In
! Topeka there is no loss, the high school
/ is always fuller than the eighth grades
/ collectively. About 500 win enter the
/ high school this school year. There
/ graduated IN last year from the high
school, 1S2 students. About $50 viii
graduate next January and June. OF
/ the graduates from the Topeka high
school. over 20 entered Washburn col
lege the present school year; Is went
to the state schools, and nearly 30 per
cent in all who graduated went to some
college, a most exceptional showing for
Z a high school
1.-THE attendance ct Bethany Is $50
and is larger than It has been for sew
eral years. There are Is teachers. and