The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-07

said Topeka would not be on the map
f it were not for the Santa Fe shops.
| The Topeka man agreed with him De-
| cause he said Guess that's So re-
| marked that Kansas City would not
he much if it were not for their pack
l;:g houses their railroads, their manu-
| featuring interests, their jobbing inter-
Tests and that it wouldn't be much were
| * not for the state of Kansas.
| What would Chicago, New YORK,
Omaha, or other large cities, be II 1t
dustries? Why should Topeka man
hesitate to stand UP for Topeka in
rcfutation of such statement.
".When you can not answer your
opponents logic do not be discouraged
you can still call him vile names.
Topeka's Good Things.
During the present storm / stood
With Topeka man waiting for a street
| car. The cars We're little off sched-
/ tle, and had good reason to be. He
| scolded the street car system. asked
rim if he found many towns the size
| of Topeka with as good, modern ana
veil operated street car system as TO-
peka. He admitted that he had not
ard agreed that the system was all
right.
| "a Kansas City paper claiming a
large circulation in Kansas, comment
ing on Secretary Coburn's recent re-
rCrt headed an editorial. what mas
| Become of Kansas Cattle? The state
ment was that ten years ago Kansas
had more cattle than now and that
| the present value of cattle was Iess
| than ten years ago, attrlbutlns the
| fact to the beef trust In the same
| z rticle it was stated that in ten years
the alfalfa acreage had more than
doubled and that during the same
period the value of grain crops hao
more than doubled.
."rhe statement was no doubt made
in good faith but only tends to show
the kind of advertising an individual
can get at the hands of thought
less man. Had the writer stopped TOT
one minute to consider the encroach-
ment of the wheat, corn. and afalfa
acreage upon the ranges he would
have found the true reason why there
are not SO many head or cattle III
Kansas today as ten years ago.
$50 as the matter stands now,
Kansas has the reputation of going to
the dogs as a cattle producing state
because Armour and Swift have their
the extent of IS to $40 per hundred
When Kansas farmers get through
selling grain and go to live stock
! farming, as they will, Kansas cattle
industry will come to the front even
if beef is SIS to Sc per hundred
pounds.
Easy to Knock.
These illustrations tend to show
how easy it is to knock They serve
to illustrate the fact that while man
may not be knocker he Is not a
booster. Let US educate ourselves 70
boost Public sentiment is opposed to
the knocker. The booster has the
most friends, always.
"a great majority of those people
who are dissatisfied with conditions
as they exist do not mean to knock.
They are the thoughtless unassertive
individuals whose dynamic force is at
such a low ebb as to prevent them
from being positive characters The
man who isn't strong enough to be
positive is negative. Cultivate de-
cision Cultivate positiveness It's
worth while.
'"The circumstances related serve
as an excuse for some observations
which follow.
f. ssion of religion, but if he stands
square on everything according to the
Golden Rule without a shadow of
turning he is certainly in good with
AFTER you have shotsyo rocket,
don't play with the stick, start sonae-
ming new.
Stand Up for Home.
zone point 1 wish to make: get rid
of the crouch. Stand up for home and
home Institutions. Be booster-be
real booster all the time. The adver-
Using and the good to be done by
booster can't be measured by dollars
and cents. 1t is kind of advertising
Tor good which can not be had in any
other way, through any other meolum
a. any price.
"a successful business man is a
good booster for his business and for
every other business in his town be-
cause the boosting idea is so instilled
INTO his hide that he can not get rid
Of it. The business of boosting is
contagion. The business man has in
iected it into his bookkeepers, his cor
respondents, his system men, his JAM
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Electricians, elevator boys, cash girls.
They must be boosters or he won't
have them.
1.-THE town, the state, is one big bust
ness institution. The spirit of boosting
should be so thoroughly in the air that
everybody from the street urchin to the
bank president wears a smile on their
faces from morning until night an1
boosts always.
do your grumb1ing in a whisper,
and save your megaphone for praises
The megaphone was invented to adver-
tise good things, anyhow.
Borman on Buttermilk.
At the close of the address as there
| remained some time which could be
utilized in discussion Mr.. Borman was
called on to talk of some of the BIZ
products of the Continental Creamery
company.
''Buttermilk is made into two pro-
Ducts said Mr.. Borman. First, it is
used for feeding poultry and has not
substitute in fattening.
AN old system called forced feeding
used to be put in practice. Food COM
posed of half buttermilk and half other
ingredients was forced down the
threats of the chickens. but now the
chickens are allowed to eat as much as
they want without trying to force thera
to eat.
THE buttermilk used for feeding il
reduced from ten to four gallons by
condensing. The casein is extracted. It
is what you eat when you eat Dutch
cheese. 1t makes cold paint, collar but
tons. ordinary buttons, knife and brush
handles that are often sold in imitation
of ivory. These days you sometimes dc
not know whether you are buying real