The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30
SHOUT FOR KANSAS.

Topeka to the fore again. It is with
pardonable pride that attention is
called to the fact that the capital city
of the state proposes to use with its
own expressive and suggestive slogan,
Topeka Kan; Topeka WILL a re-
sounding war-cry for the whole COM
monwealth, "And Kansas Is A Great
State.' It's magnificent sentiment
and is in the nature of the proper re-
spect of child for it's mother. And
1t should be shouted from the house
tops and hill-tops of every community
in the Sunf1ower state. Almost every
city and town in Kansas has a slogan
or a motto which it is using with good
effect to advertise its own glories. 1t
is up to all of them to follow the lead
of Topeka and tack onto their individ-
ual battle shouts the general paen of
praise: And Kansas Is A Great State"
Let there be no jealousy because the
suggestion comes from Topeka. There
is glory enough in the broad and fertile
plains of Kansas for every person and
town to share in and to help make
more glorious. And it is not believed
that a better method can be found.
1t is due to the state of Kansas that
her cities and towns should do every
thing in their power to advertise her
wonderful charms to the world. They
would not amount to very much, nor
would they continue to grow If it were
not for the possibilities to be found in
the virgin soil of this fair common
wealth. AS the state grows and de-
velops at large, so will the cities and
towns within her borders take on
Cd rsz Sc
plenty in Kansas to advertise to the
world The statement that kansas is
a great state is rather a monumental
one, but it can be substantiated in
each and every particular.
With her golden fields of wheat, the
extent of which is difficult to compre-
bend; with her multitudes of acres OF
waving corn; with her rich plats of
alfalfa and other hays; with her
patches of potatoes, if from twenty to
fifty acres of these apples of the earth
can properly be called patches; with
her apples and other fruits and berries
when seasons are favorable; with her
sleek and almost untold numbers of
cattle and hogs; with her horses and
mules that command the best. prices
wherever beasts of burden are sold;
with her nelpIul mems TOO numerous
even to be estimated: with her rich
mineral deposits of coal, of zinc, of
lead, of salt; with wells of oil and sub
terranean caverns filed with natural
as;-with all these and many other
things is it any wonder that great is
the state of Kansas? It could not we'll
help be otherwise Naturally in
her towns and cities, manufacturing
Industries and businesses of all sorts
are springing up with the rapidity of
mushrooms but with the stability of
mountains.
Of course, the many business activ-
tiles of cities and towns help in a way
to make a state great, but the great
ness of state depends upon the ex-
tent of her natural resources and their
intelligent development. 1t Is these
things that make prosperous cities pos
sibie. This is recognized on al! sides,
but it has often been the case that
cities in booming themselves have for
gotten to say a word for the common
wealth that has made them. Topeka
has let her memory lapse in this re-
gard for the last time. Topeka will be
doomed to the limit of human energies
and enterprise, and Kansas will be
doomed with her. Let every COM
munfty do likewise.