The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

Secretary Badders will convince any in
dividuaI who possesses any public spirit
at all, that the twelve dollar member
ship in this club will return many fold
upon its investment annually.
Work on Broad Lines.
''If there is member of this club
who feels that he has not realized a
good and sufficient return upon his in
vestment the past year, 1t is only fair
to such individual to say that he alone
is at fault. Here is the Commercial
| club organized on broad lines. its work
prosecuted by predetermined men who
have the best interest of the city and
| its people at heart; if down deep in the
breast of some individual is feeling
| that he has been overlooked, that his
| years membership has not paid him
| well, I assure you that in the giZard OF
such individual will be found a grouch.
| 1t is only necessary for doubling
Thomases' to visit this club at noon
| day two or three times per week, meet
/, his neighbor, meet the business men of
the city, and go away feeling that he is
proud to belong to a membership and
| and organization, like which, very few
| SO large so enterpriSing and successful
are to be found in cities of this size.
1T is the desire of the present admin
| istration to secure a membership of one
| thousand active, paying, public-spirited
| and times giving individuals for this
| club.
| During the coming year it will be
| the aim of your officers and directors
and committees, to carry on the work
of the club with the same thorough
1 ness and efficiency which has charac-
! terized past administrations. New
problems and new conditions arise eacn
year. These will have the most wise
attention possible. Where precedent has
| been established and that precedent
| proven to be wrong, it will be the pur
pose of this administration to right the
same at the first opportunity.
IF you have anything you want the
| Commercial club to do, or you think it
/ is lacking or deficient in some particu-
/ lar, pray make your feelings known to
the officers of this club and 1 assure
you that every consideration within
the bounds of wisdom and means viii
be given.
President Borman's Creed.
81 have picked up here and there the
following few maxims which read we'll
| to me- although they may be lacking
| somewhat in wisdom:
do not aspire to be Kipg of the
| Beiliakers; there's too much competi-
ton for the place.
"Those who live by the hammer will
die by the hammer.
"Only the dead are satisfied and
they would not be If they were con-
| scious of their dissatisfaction.
4 eff all would work a little, none
would be overworked.
"The man who knocks on the insti-
tuition of which he is part, is stand
ing on the chute swabbing it with
grease.
: Enthusiasm is lubricant that
4 makes the wheels of trade go round
a crouch is sand in the bearings. En-
thusiasm is catching.
Wrong surely exists but we can not
right it with a brass band.
when the whole blamed world
seems gone to pot, and business is on
the bum; a two-cent grin and lifted
chin help some. my boy, help some
: The Committee Report.
The committee on state and nation
al legislation submitted resolutions
! against the proposed legislation by
congress which would increase the
postal rates on second class mail mat
! ter. The resol dtions which were adopt
ed are as given below:
"Your committee on state and ma
tional legislation has had the matter
of an increase in second class postal
! rates under consideration, and submit
the following as their conclusions on
l the subject, and which are hereby sub
2 mitted to the club for its further con-
, sideration:
: would cause incalculable injury to
: every branch of the publishing and
: printing trades of the country, and
would throw thousands of employees
5 out of employment in the various
t branches of ttis industry, representing
5 newspapers, trade journals, publish
l ers, printers, type founders, paper
1 makers, engravers. ink manufacturers
/ press builders machinery manufacture
4 ers, etc.. and enter their emphatic
: denial that said interests cause any
deficit whatever to the revenue of the
: government; therefore, be it
e Resolved. That we hereby register
S an emphatic protest against any move
1 ment or declaration coming from any
e source, which may have for its pur-
t pose any advance in second class pos
: tai rates, the effect of which would be
to seriously cripple the industry every
Y where and greatly hamper every indus
4 trial development fostered through the
f fundamentally of publishing ant
f printing
h "Resolved. That request be made fol