The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30
Local Business Men Approve
Factory Aid Plan.
Increase of ''Dinner Pail Brig
ade" Will Bring Prosperity.
WEATHER STILL HELPS TRADE
Merchants and Realty Men Re-
port Heavy Sales.
Permits for a Dozen Dwellings
Issued This Month.

The plan to make Topeka city in
dustriaI." as well as city beautiful .
will be the important topic of CONVEX
sation among the business men next
week. Then it is that an effort will be
made to raise in subscriptions $3.50, 900
in two hundred and fifty hours.
convincing booklet explaining the
factory aid plan in detail has been is
sued by the promotion committee of the
Commercial club under c. E. Elliott.
1.-THE burden of building a city should
fall upon everyone, in proportion to his
or her ability to help says the book
let 1--WE are all proud of Topeka
Beautiful but we submit that the most
beautiful place in the world to live is
where everyone is prosperous = and
prosperity and good health insure hap
piness.
From an artistic standpoint we have
Topeka Beautiful, now let us satisfy
the needs of men by making Topeka
BUSY and make her beautiful in every
sense. A few men cannot carry the
whole burden, but we herewith present
a plan whereby a number of men can
assist in this worthy enterprise to pro-
mote this city: and when success shall
crown our efforts. more people will
share the credit. and the plan hereafter
submitted does not burden anyone.
I'VE already have enough successful
industries in Topeka to give a living
dustries to a city. If we could just
double this number. in five or ten years,
Topeka would be twice as large a city
a it is today, and we need not ask you
who would be the beneflciaries. Even
one thousand men and women added to
the wage earners in Topeka means
much larger pay roll, every dollar of
which is spent at home. All classes are
benefited the merchant, the banker,
the retired capitalist, the real estate
dealer. ''the butcher and baker, the
candle stick maker" the lawyer. the
doctor. and even the undertaken. all re-
ceive their share of the city's increased
prosperity.
That ''Dinner Pail Brigade
Upon nothing to so great a degree
does our hope of material progress and
growth in population depend as on the
increase of the dinner pail brigade
with its dependent host of women and
children"
When the factory plan materializes
it will not be necessary for a man
who sells Topeka goods to go out with
a map to show his customers where
his firm is located. Everyone knows,
of course that furniture is manufac-
tured at Grand Rapids, automobile at
and a salesman selling any of these
products from the cities named finds
his work of selling half completed
when he announces his city, because
ms city is hiIoWn ny lSds9Oh u 10
manufacturing. The object of the
plan of the Commercial club is to |
make Topeka a center for certain |
goods. Topeka now has |
numerous factories which have posi- |
bilities in the way of greater develop |
nent.
Business Is Brisk.
Business in Topeka has been brisk |
this week. The fair weather has been |
conducive to bringing hundreds of |
shoppers to the capital city. Cool |
morning temperatures have caused +
TopekanS to realize that it is time to |
put on the "thick ones" CONSEQUENT |
ly the sale of winter goods is in prog |
reSS.
The 100000 realty sale on Kansas
avenue mentioned this week showed |
that outsiders have faith in the bust |
ness possibilities in Topeka.
This week several good farm deals |
are being closed, and considerable |