The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-28
n HUBBARD'S TALK To GUST GAS co.
Enjoyed Immensely by Editors
at the Grand.
The Fra a Wonder i'm Art of
Words and Application.

THE most important business in the
world is farming" said Ebert Hub
bard in speaking before the members
of the Kansas Editorial association and
citizens of Topeka Monday night at
the Grand Opera house on 1.-The Ro-
nance of Business Hubbards lee
ture was masterpiece of wit and
sarcasm and history and application to
make ends meet.
First is the farm, then comes the
railroad, next the factory, next the
store, and then the newspaper. The
man who doesn't patroniZe the news
papers is a dead one, whether he knows
it or not.
Il think the writer of the future will
write less and say more, said the
speaker in his Introductory remarks.
Il think this will also apply to the
speaker of the future.
In looking in the dictionary-a book
cheerfully recommends find that
the definition for romance Is any en-
terprise or activity in which sentiments
or emotions play part. And business
the supplying of human wants.
Business supplies, food clothes, smell
ter newspapers. 1t builds roads, builds
bridges, and builds skyscrapers. Bush
ness is a system of transfers You sue
coed in business only as you supply
human want. We supplied our wants
by violence not SO very long ago.
"Civilization is a new proposition. II
has a kind of Sherwin- Williams HaVor.
1t smells of paint. Emerson says,
have never seen a man as soou as
can imagine If you want perfect
man. YOU have to make him by hand.
In 1892 the world was discovered,
and man was not discovered until
1776. Man was discovered by a man
with red hair. We have had two great
presidents. One was Thomas Jeffer-
son and the other was Abraham Lin
coin. Thomas Jefferson had red hair.
He is the only president that has had.
We need another one with similar
hirsute adornments. He is the world S
first, last and only Democrat. When
he died the rest died with him.
Woman was not discovered until
1876 She was discovered in Philadel-
phia by a man named Remington. NO
one ever knew she was here before.
A few had suspected it, but no one
knew it, and some still doubt it.
Il believe in votes for women, not
for the sake of woman but for the
sake of man.
Truth is a point of view and every
thing is true from your point of view.
You view the world from a mountain
top, from a skyscraper. from the
pavement or the sewer. 1 realize that
in America there are some newspapers
conducted from the point of view of
the sewer. But they are not in Kan
sas. They are in New York.
THE newspapers are a reflection of
the minds of the people who read them
AS we grow better we get better doc
tors and lawyers.
To-day, if the papers have not mis-
represented things, a lawyer is speak
My God! There amt no such animal.
1t is wonderful when lawyers have
reached a place when they can imagine
anything of the kind. They are grow
ing.
1--WE live in brand new world.
When you write an advertisement put
into it a dash of wit and wisdom; then
you have written something. The peo-
pie will read it and pass 1t along. New
er write a hateful thing; these are the
things that come back. Lincoln wrote
kind letters, also the greatest letters
in the world. He used the period.
ST would write an advertisement.
All good literature is advertising. 1t
deals with a time, place, thing and
a man. You can't write literature and
leave out man.
Sentiment plays a big part in bust
ness today. We make money off our
friends. Our enemies won't trade
with us.
'' Truth says Charles w. Elliott, is
the new virtue.
First man supplied his wants by
violence. Next came haggle and bar
ter. You haggle for what you want
and give fellow something you have
for it. You exaggerate what you
have and belittle what he has
To-day we are in the age where
you tell the truth. That is the golden
rule in business. Having heard the
golden rule recommended by T. r.,
who invented it, we are giving it a
trial. The three learned professions
are watching this experiment and I
think in time they will put it in"