The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12
IT'S READY FOR ALL
President BOrman Discusses
Scope Of Commercial Club.
Business Interests Of City Well
Represented.
FOR PUBLIC SPIRIT.
Purpose of Organization Is to
Build 1t Up.
Gives His Creed in Terse, Signif-
iacnt Maxims.

T. A. Borman, president Of the Com
mercial club. at the regular monthly
meeting of the organization, held last
night, characterized the list of the ac-
complishments of the club since its re-
organization as reading to the doubt
ing and sleeping like story from the
Arabian Nights
81 hear an occasional word to the
effect that this Commercial club does
not represent the city of Topeka said
Mr.. Borman. ITO controvert- such
misstatements, it is necessary only to
glance over the list of the member
ship and to examine into the methods
under which the club is organized.
1.-The bylaws of this club read to
the effect that 1t shall be composed of
the business men and others interested
in the welfare of the city of Topeka
and is formed for the purpose of pro-
noting the welfare and advancement
of the city. The government of the
organization is vested in board of
directors which shall consist of fif-
teen members. thirteen of whom shall
| be selected as nearly as may be from
and by the various business classes OF
the CITY. In addition to these thir-
teen, the mayor of Topeka and one
| of the members of the board of coun-
| ty commissioners shall be eX-officio
members of the board of directors"
Continuing, President Borman said:
For Good of City.
! "It is the principal duty of the clut
to promote the welfare and advance
| ment of the city. This can be done
principally through the advancement
of the industrial interests. The ac-
.complishm along such lines car
only be, gradual. It is impossible fol
an organization like this to Immediate.
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Topeka is the only place for the es.
| adjustment of large industrial enter
1 priSeS. This club can only foster tht
| business affairs of the CITY and assis
them in such legitimate ways as the
means at hand will permit
1.-The servants of the club in further
| ing the industrial Importance of a cit,
! like Topeka, must act more in the ca
pacity of an advertising agency rather
than in the nature of an agency which
| can subscribe money in the purchas,
! of stocks or in the procuring of fire,
building sites, or in the subscription
| of large amounts for attracting anS
locating business enterprises.
1T is more within the province O
! this organization to build up publ.
| spirit, to encourage the use of Topek;
/ products, to encourage the interest O
| Topeka business men by giving then
the right business atmosphere for tn
growth and extension, for building I'll
Il a IeeHn:
among business people that they ar
advantageously located and encour
| aged by the support of an enterprisin,
and loyal community.
| Every member of this club who ha
| watched its work and who knows wha
has been accomplished. and what ha
been attempted, cannot help but fee
| that the work of the past year has bee
worthy of the greatest commentator
and worth to each man the properties
re h k-.sl
port
Your secretary ait the annual meet
ing, made to you a report of what tn
new Commercial club had done in it
short life, which, to the doubling an
sleeping, reads like story from tn
Arabian Nights. 1t is unnecessary n
this time to enlarge upon these accom-
plishments.
Every business man, every propert
owner, every resident Of this town, ca
well afford $12 per year as his share @
the funds needed for the transaction Q
this work. A ten-minutes' talk wit