The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-20
Should Be 1000 Members in
Commercial Club.
WHAT CLUB ACCOMPuSHES
Onicials Tell of Work Of tire
Organization.
~Let's Get Out and Push," Says
the Bulletin.

The Topeka Commercial club cam
paign with q view to increasing the
membership to 1000 Is on full swing!
More men are wanted to get their
shoulders to the wheel in the effort to
make Topeka more prosperous and
better place in which to live.
J. F. Haskell president Of the club,
Frank Curry, chairman of the member
ship committee, and J. Will Kelley
have issued statement directed to the
man who does not realize the full value
OF the Commercial club as q factor in
ment follows:
A Mistaken Idea.
There seems to be a misapprehen-
sion as to the purposes of CONNER
cial club. So many times the member
ship committee IL confronted with the
who does not belong to the Commercial
club. What does the Commercial club
do for me?" And he asks that Ques-
ton in earnest, believing that unless
the Commercial club puts back into his
pockets directly through Its efforts the
$12. or even much more every year that
the organisation is a failure and not
living up to its purposes. To such
questions asked by the man who really
believes 1t, the committee must try to
show that 1t IL not the purpose Of the
Commercial club to build up the indi-
vidual directly, but that the club is a
central civic organization, devoting its
energies to building up the entire city,
to benefiting the entire people and that
naturally he. the man who asks the
question. will get his reward as does
every other man in the city.
Take, for instance, the work of the
convention bureau, which brings some
fifty conventions to Topeka each year.
bred delegates will spend an average
of SO each in that time. This primarily
Is spent with the hotels and restaur-
ants. who In turn pay their rent, their
employees. their grocer, butcher. dry
goods man, hardware man, coal man.
and these in turn start their share Of
money on it's benefcent way paying
their debts. until finally some part Of
that money brought into Topeka by
that convention has in some manner
in Topeka.
Money In Circulation.
A factory giving employment to men
or women brings money from all parts
of the country to be paid in turn In
wages to the employees who spend It
directly with the merchants who in
turn keep it performing its merciful
mission Of providing for mankind needs
The Commercial club il interested in
city improvements, wise and just ordi-
nances, a proper and just expenditure
OF public moneys, the proper protection
Of property rights, the proper care of
the poor. the business like dispensation
Of charity, parks, Fairgrounds. proper
street lighting, the proper advertising
of the city. the giving Of accurate in
formation to the stranger asking for
information about Topeka, the extern
sion of trade territory. the encourage
ment of buying homo made products.
the promotion Of good roads, that To-
peka as a marketing and trading point
may be more accessible to the farmer
and smaller towns. The club encour-
ages state legislation looking to more
comprehensive highway systems. It
encourages better farming by helping
keep q great agricultural exhibition In
Topeka which helps educate the farm
err to better methods In short 1t helps
in every way possible to improve the
condition Of all the citizens and those
who are properly within her family
circle.
Will It Be Necessary?
Do you believe the Topeka CONNER
cial club is doing its part? Before an
swering this question stop and think.
Will it be necessary for you. Mr.. Out
s'der, to ask the committee members
who are giving unselfishly of their time
to call on you to ask you to Join them
in the worthy purposes of the Com
mercial club-''What is there in it for
me?"
Topeka has every right to expect Of