The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-27
KANSAS COMMENT
IN HOITON TOO.

between Saturday afternoon and
Monday morning there were received
at the postofice in this city twenty
two mail sacks of Sears-Roebuck cata-
logues. Each sack contained twenty
nvS. catalogues, making a total of $50.
Each catalogue had 20 cents in stamps
on IL. This made $110 spent in post
age on the one shipment, Each cata-
logue must cost at the very least 81.
This would give a total expenditure
OF $3.50 in this one effort to secure
trade from this vicinity. As a rule the
merchants of .Holton are good adver-
| Users, yet there are some who do not
spend $50 year in this way. Some
| or those who spend the least are the
| ones who make the biggest fuss about
| the mail order business. Whose fault
Is 1T that the mail order houses get
business? Honestly, Mr.. Merchant,
who does not advertise, don't you feel
| more like trading with the man who
asks you for your trade than the man
who simply sits back and gives you the
impression that your business is not of
enough Importance to him to ask you
for 1T? 1t is likely that almost all If
not all of the men who received the
Sears Roebuck catalogues take one or
both of the county papers. Why not
offset the effect of these catalogues by
telling them what you are willing to do
for them? Try it and see If it does not
pay.-Holton Recorder.
FEDERAL CHARTERS.
The unanimous adoption of a resolu-
ton by the Kansas Bankers associa-
ton against over-issues of stock by
public service corporations and in favor
of federal charters for interstate cor
porations, giving the federal govern
ment control instead of leaving their
control to the states, puts the Kansas
bankers on record on these questions
ahead of other state bankers associa-
lions. The capital of banks is strictly
regulated and limited by law. In their
resolution the Kansas bankers ask for
the same regulation of public service
corporations in stock issues. AS to
federal charters, many railroad men
are anxious to escape from the con-
fusion of state regulations and would
gladly see the Whole matter turEed
over to the federal government, for the
s,ske OF uniformity. State regulation or
the interstate trusts, which are all in
corpoated by states, has not been eff
fective or Uniform. - Southwestern
Banker.
DR. WILEY AND PIE.
This man Wiley is going too far. He
will have to be exterminated, or he
will exterminate every toothsome NOR
sci which has RECALLED American man
since Time was. We have stood for
eliminating canned meats. We never
liked those kind of makeshifts. anyway,
as a nation, but when he attacks the
Sacred Pie, something must be done to
stop his desecrating and destructive
choose between the Pie and Wiley, the
latter will have to go. No one, not
even a scientific food experimenter, can
separate the Anne rfcan and his Pie. 1t
is a national institution like baseball
and Fourth of July. And the man who
seeks to strike it off the menu, must
expect to encounter the wrath of every
patriotic son of Columbia.-Mrs. Jar
reu
IS HOCH VINDICTIVE?
II the Square Dealers conclude to
draft Stubs for governor what will
Stubs do about it? He was the head
of the outfit that drafted Hoch. If
Hoch is at all Vindictive 1t would now
be in order for him to use all his in
fuence to get Stubs into the same
trouble Stubs got Hoch.-Holton Re