The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-13
A. P. MEN AT BANQUET
Twenty-F Five Members of Traffic De-
partment Meet in X. c.

Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. 13.-Twenty-
| five members of the traffic department
| of the Associated Press from Missouri
| and Kansas held a banquet here Sun
| day afternoon to talk shop" Milton
| Garges of Chicago, division traffic
| chief, and Edgar Cutter, manager of
the Kansas City Office of the Asso-
| ciated Press, made the principal ad-
| dresses.
| Mr.. Garges recently has been max
| ing a tour of the principal offices of
| the association in the middle west.
The Associated Press has grown
| to be the greatest news gathering or
| ganization in the world" said Mr..
| Garges, simply because every man in
| its employ, both the editorial men and
| the telegraph operators cooperate
| The public does not know much about
| the Associated Press, but when the
| great papers of the country want to
| impress their readers with the verac-
| lty of a report they place little line
| BY the Associated Press over a story
and that means that the story is true,
| written by men, unbiased in opinion
| and hurried to the newspapers in the
| quickest possible time by the fastest
| telegraph operators in the country.
| Mr.. Garges told of hardships suf-
| fered without murmur by Associated
| Press employees during the Dayton
| flood, where men were forced to wade
| through water neck deep, climb shaky,
| dangerous IeIeSTdpn pores If1at a wire
| might be tapped and a story of the
| disaster hurried to the newspaper
| readers of the country.
Mr.. Cutter dwelt upon the spirit of
| the association.
1.-THE man who reaches the top in
our business is the man who does his
work every day to the best of his
| ability. We are all here to help one
another The association demands the
| best of every man. Don't think be-
"a he 10 in q
| small town that your work does not
| count You can never tell. Tomorrow
| may make your office the most impor-
tant one in the service. The story of
| the year, demanding your highest eff
| fort may break before you are back
| home. You must be able to meet it;
to lay that story in the hands of the
| telegraph from New York to San
| Francisco in the quickest time
The banquet was arranged by Her
bert L. Dunno of the Kansas City Of
| flee, who acted as POSTMASTER. AS
ISOLATED Press employees connected
| with the following papers were pres
emit: Topeka Capital, Topeka State
| Eagle, Joplin Globe, Joplin News-He
aid. st. Joseph News-Press, st. Joseph
Gazette, Leavenworth Times, Pittsburg
Headlight, Hutchinson News.
ToaSts were responded to as follows:
Good Fellowship E. C. Fable.
The Report 1 Have Sent" w. w.
Flynn.
I'm the Shadows o. K. Morrison.
THE Ladies; God Bless En- L. R.
Small.
1.-The Get-Together Movement" R.
A. McClements.
walking to Work. c. K. Eastman.
hotography-That's a Business,
J. L. Miller.
THE Traffic Department" Milton
Garges.
Cooperation Edgar T. Cutter.
"A Short Five" r. A. Richardson.
How 1 Love the Early" r. G.
Wheaton. t-#..
HAS the Check Come Yet?" s. B.
Shultz.
Nothing to Do Till Tomorrow"
Leslie Robinson.
why l Became a Blonde Arthur
L. Stock.
"A Night Rider Roy Walker.
I'm the Boss Shoes" U. L. Mccall.
Motorcycles VS.. Longevity" Earl
Harmon.
Art and News" c. E. Allen.
CLOSE to Nature F. B. Hiner.
THE NewS-Press and the Press of
News E. L. Mandigo.
How 1 Threw Gotch," 1. C. Hack
ensmith.
Bulls and Bears" H. L. Claiborne.
Catching the Saturday Interurban,"
]. E. Sanford.
why Is Wichita?' Frank S. Burris
I'm the Depth Floyd Woodwork.
1.-THE Elusive Owl Car" w. T. Duff.
Right at EN-" T. Harry Walker.