The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-18

r. P. McCulloch of the Anthony
Bulletin, was awarded the second
prize of $40. The other six winners
were awarded SIS each.
Following is Mr.. Cretcher's article:
"Other towns may get into the en-
tertainment game occasionally and do
the job of entertaining on a generous
SCALE but your latch string must be out
all the time. And withal,, you keep
sweet and smiling and seem happiest
with a house full of company, really
seeming honored by those you honor.
You have carried the entertainment
burden so long it appears to rest light
ly on your willing shoulders.
"As Topeka is the throbbing heart
of Kansas, so is the Topeka CONNER
cial club the muscular interior of that
heart, that keeps it regular and pump
ing. And what a wonderful, energetic,
animated body it isl Its members are
typical of the best there is in Topeka
and in Kansas, big, generous, brainy,
alert, progressive men of business,
awake at all times to the needs of
town and state.
every other year the editors of
Kansas hold their annual meeting in
Topeka. Does the town tire of it,
tertainment? Not exactly. Whenever
the Commercial club is approached
there is the cheerful reply: What do
you want? Everything is yours for
IL.
annual meeting the eutertainm ent is
more elaborate than the previous one.
Topeka really acts as though she was
as proud of the press as the newspa-
per men are of Topeka 1t is simply
the Topeka way. 1t is hospitality
that finds expression in the towns
motto.
Topeka Kan, Topeka WILL, and
Topeka does. Year in and year out
she acts as hostess to ala manner of
men and women, does it freely and
royalty, yet often unhonored and un-
sung. For many of the thoughtless
have failed to look beneath the sur
face. They accept the hospitality as
matter of course. No other town in
state would stand for it so nobly, hence
this little tribute to Toneka'ss great
ness along lines seldom mentioned.
'Topeka's commercial greatness is
handicapped by the state house. To-
peka is in reality good commercial
center, with wholesale houses, pack
ing plants, factories, huge department
stores, sky scrapers, and all the other
varied industries of metropolis, but
they are held in the background by
the shadow of the state house and To-
peka modestly submits going the even
tenor of her way, a leading commercial
municipality of the state. yet content
to be known merely as the capital of
Kansas Proud to represent the great
state of Kansas, proud to entertain her
people, she permits the state house
dome to cast it's shadows over business
enterprises great as any in the young
and boundless West.
Topeka, the state is proud of you.
The people love you and appreciate
your sacrifices, your hospitality and
your modesty at their full worth, even
R they do not always say so. You are
the gracious queen of Kansas and
some day we will present you crown
on which shall stand out il flashing
words of fire the new motto: Topeka
| Does.
Other Prize Winners.
! Following is Mr.. Pearsons article
from the Cimarron Jacksonian, which
won one of the prizes:
| Topeka, as the law-making and ad-
/ ministrative center of the state,'' says
the Cimarron Jacksonian one of the
prize winners, '.is connected by wire
| less influence with each of the los
counties Although its greatest insti-
tuition, the state house, is not filled
with the law-making class all the
time, its administrative officers are
there constantly. and the influence OF
both is a potent factor in the charac-
i ter of the city.
Therefore Topeka is the distinc-