The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-01
4 SANTA FE PAPER
Passenger Department Issues
Monthly Agents Bulletin.
ticket Selling Talks" Pub.
lished BY ]. n. Cornell.

The Santa Fe railway has adopted a
new plan of cooperation among
agents and the passenger department
as q whole. A monthly bulletin, pub
lished in Topeka, will be issued from
the office of J. M Cornell, general
passenger agent. and circulated all
over the Santa Fee proper. Ticket
Selling Talks" is the name of the pub
lication. which il arranged by A. D.
Morford, advertising agent. The first
number of the circular was sent from
the offices today.
The paper il well written. attrac-
lively arranged and is effervescent
with material Of interest to the ticket
seller and the agent. It is planned to
make the bulletin solve the problems
Of the man behind the station bars
Contributions have been asked from
agents. In all probability the bulletin
will be enlarged in the future.
In explaining the purpose of the
publication. General Passenger Agent
Cornell says on the first page Of the
current issue of Ticket Selling Talks"
the passenger departments new pub
LEGATION Ticket Selling Talks Do you
like It? II you do, tell us why. II you
don't. tell US why. Ticket Selling
Talks In written for you, Mr.. Agent
for your benefit and for your guild
it easier for you to sell Santa Fee tick
cts and for you to tell the people about
Santa Fe vacation lands. It's one Of
the integral parts which go toward
making that great unit-Santa Fee
teamwork.
There are many things which you
ought to know and which we can best
describe through q medium of this
kind MimeOgraph circulars, printed
forms and letters are all right in their
place. but they are cold-blooded at
best. We want to exchange with you
some Of the virile, f1esh-and-blood.
business-getting ideas which every
member Of this organization possesses.
impressions. They will be printed, and
should help your brother agents We
think that an idea exchange is one of
the best little business boosts that
there is. but it isn't effective unless
everyone pulls together.
Let US have some stories of how you
do things-the everyday problems
which come up in your ofhce-small but
irritating. Perhaps the next man down
the line has discovered a new and
easier way to handle them.
II not.-w can at least reach better
understanding by collective mastfca-
ton"
In advertising the memorial day fea-
ture in Topeka the bulletin says:
Officers of the state organization OF
the G. A. r. at Topeka, predi.t that
100. 900 persons will visit the city for the
dedication of the new Memorial Hall,
MAY q. The Grand Army. it is ex-
pected. will attend in full force-espe-
c:ally as the meeting is to be in the ma
ture Of a last grand reunion. 1t will be
in session for three days, May Is. q
and %.
National Guard regiments will pa
rade during the festivities, and every
one who attends is bound to have an
and instructive time -
Kansas agents are requested to get
the people of their communities inter
ested and help to swell that 100000.
Point out to them that 1t is their duty
as patriotic Kansans to go. Newspaper
gram and transportation facilities will
be sent to a selected list Of Kansas
agents in a short time 1t may be
necessary to furnish special train ser
vice, and If this is the case. details will
be announced later.