The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-16
Topeka Ad Club Puts Shoulder
to Wheel.
j. NJ. Irvine of st. Joseph Makes
an Address.
MIR. HEATH EXPLAINS.
Says That There Is Need for
Immediate Action.
Measure Now RepOses in the
Committee Room.
MR.. HEATH EXPLAINS

meeting which was held at the Throop
hotel at noon today was taken up
with discussion of the situation of
the state fair bill excepting that por-
t1on accorded to J. NJ. Irvine of ST.
Joseph. At that his talk was in real
fty boost for the state fair PROPOSE
ton and all other advertising schemes
looking to furthering the publicity of
the state and especially Topeka
Mr.. Irvine is the editor of the West
ern Fruit Grower one of the most sue
cessful publications of it's kind in the
United States and the editor proved
himself to be a ready and entertain
ing speaker. Twenty years or more
ago he was a resident of Topeka
where he was employed on local pa
per.
President C. P. Adams of the Ad-
vertising club and one of the secreta-
r1eS OF the reorganized commercial
club in short talk advocated the con-
soIfdatfon of the advertising club and
the commercial club into one body
with single purpose of promoting all
publicity concerning Topeka His
idea. is to unite the two organizations
in such a way that the identity of
neither of them will be lost
His plan contemplates a noon day
lunch at the new Commercial club
rooms which will be in either the
Central National bank or the Craw-
ford opera house building. One room
is to be given over to the exclusive
use of the members of the advertising
club where periodicals and publica-
tions of all kinds of interest to the
mem bers of that body in particular
may be kept on file A place where
the business men of the city may meet
during the noon hour and discuss
their business affairs and appoint
n1entS made and kept.
The luncheon which was held at the
Throop hotel proved to be a full course
dinner and this delayed matters some
what. President Adams called the
meeting to order after the first course
was served and presented Mr. Irvine
who had barely gotten started when
| the second course arrived. He placed
a period after his last sentence and
announced that he did not propose to
| talk while the rest ate and he did not
at this time
! Once more he started to talk and in
the middle of an earnest effort to i'm
/ press upon the audience the greatness
/ of ST Joseph another course arrived
/ He stayed manfullv by his subject and
| told of the great good that has been ac-
/ complished by the numerous clubs in
! ST. Joseph in the way of advertising
that city.
| He advocated a consolidation of the
| various interests of the city in one
monster organization and then long
pull and a strong pull and pull all to-
| gether. His talk was a happy effort
and one which enthused his hearers
and many of his suggestions will prob
! tive to a consolidation of interests
which are common but at the present
time divided.
Mr.. Heath Explains.
H A. Heath spoke briefly of the state
fair proposition, explaining that the bill
is now in the hands of the ways and
means committee of the house and
senate where it will die unless some
thing is done to get it before the mem
bers of the legislature IF we expect
= IS-I, - rot
together and that at once" said Mr..
Heath. for the time is short We have
been resolving to hold state fairs for
years and that is as far as we have
ever gotten along save where bill has
been introduced in the legislature.
None of these bills have ever seen the
light of day and this one will not un-
| less something is done Immediately to
get it where it can be voted upon by
the members of the legislature.
The bill was at first turned over to
the committee of state affairs and this
committee recommended it for passage
ferred to the committee on ways and
means. Then this committee discover
ed that the last session of the legisla-
ture had left a deficit for this one to
take care of. A poll of the mem bers of
the legislature shows that the bill will
pass if it can be gotten out of the com
mittee and before the legislature as a
bill.
UNLESS the ways and means COM
mittee places its approval on the bill
! it must die. We must show the mem
berS of this committee that an appro-
priation for this bill is as important as
any other that will be made during the
session. 1t is on a par from an educa-
tional standpoint with the state uni
versity and the state agricultural col
lege at Manhattan and of great inter
est to the entire state.''
Frank p. MacLennan was called
| upon and said in part: Kansas is ad-
vertised in every part of the country
/ by former residents of the state who
are now living elsewhere. It is a fact
| that the Kansas Day banquets in Chi
| cago, New York and San Francisco
| here in Topeka. Kansans do not get
/ together always at home as they
should in the Kansas spirit, but the
| leaven has been scattered to all parts
OF the world.
/ cit is fitting that the state fair pro-
| ject should be considered at this time
| by the Advertising club 1 learn from
Secretary Coburn's latest report that
! the farm products of Kansas for the
year 1903 amounted to $275, 900, 900:
| The state produced $500, 100000
worth of live stock the same year
ma king the total production of these
two alone worth S475, 600, 600 or near
ly half a billion of dollars.
| I'm 1908 the agricultural and live
stock productions Of the state were
worth s11,5O0.O0 more than in any
/ other previous year. The farm pro-
ducts for the same year were $104,-
! 900 600 more valuable than the aver
age during the past 20 years. The only
deposition to this state fair bill comes
from those who feel that the state
/ cannot afford it at this time
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