The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-10-29
Committees Appointed to In
vestigate Conditions.
FINEST CITY IN THE WORLD
Every Effort to Push the City
to the Front.
Interesting Session of Club ut
Noon Today.

LIZ. Roy b. Guild, chairman OF the
public affairs committee of the To-
peka Rotary club, in a report made
before the members of the club in
regular session on the seventh floor Of
the Mills building at noon today, adj
vocated that the club get behind a
movement looking towards the solv-
ing of the delinquency problem for
Topeka. The finding of the commit
tee was that the failure to deal eff
GENTLY with delinquency in Topeka
and Shawnee county is a fact most
important to the community at large.
The subject will be discussed at a
future meeting OF the club. In the
meantime two committees appointed
today will make Investigations per-
NIT reports. A committee consisting
of Charles Mitchell and Charles H.
Matthews will investigate Jail condi-
lions in Topeka. C. B. Merriam and
Frank p. MacLennan will report on
the public welfare work in Kansas
City under LIE Roy Halbert, formerly
of Topeka.
DIR. Guilds Report.
In his report DR.. Guild said: I'VE
all believe in Topeka. If we did not
we would not be in an organization
more in the Topeka that as to be. Be
cause Of that we desire to know how
to remedy such evils as exist. We
know that saying Topeka will be the
finest city in the world will not make
it so. Because Of our confidence in
our city we have had it surveyed by
expert, unbiased Investigators. who
have told us what they have found.
people who see the report will ask
first one question, Now that Topeka
knows her assets and liabilities what
will she dO?'
ALREADY a great improvement has
been made in our milk supply
through the efforts of DR.. Rowles. city
milk inspector.
Future of the City.
"Your committee on public affairs
agreed that the most valuable service
we can render our city is to attempt
to correct one of the most serious
needs laid bare by this investigation,
seeking to work along the line in
which most of the people of Topeka
would be interested. We found that
of our city and county to deal effec-
lively with the problem of delinquency.
This failure is not due to our officials
but to the totally inadequate equip
ment given to them. There is one inn
mediate service which we can render
which is to help create a public Opin-
ion which will demand that Topeka
and Shawnee county establish the ma
chinery by which we can be in line
with all the work that is being done
in twentieth century period institu-
lions. f.s.
Our jails. city and county. give the
opportunity to punish criminals but not
to deal with them so as to return them
to citizenship better prepared for life.
Every man, woman, boy or girl, arrest
ed in Topeka and compelled to await
trial-unless bailed-is worse off than
when arrested.
ASK any policeman about the bull
pen and he will tell you how far he
tries to keep away from it because it is
so filthy and full of disease germs
COulson ON Telephones.
Fred Coulson, secretary of the Kan
sas Independent Telephone association,
read an interesting paper on ''Tele-
phony." S. L. Courtney gave a biog-
raphical sketch of Mr.. Coulson's life.
In the course of his paper, Mr.. Coul-
son had the following to say relative
to the municipal ownership of tele-
phones: Some of our citizens in the
best of faith advocated the municipal
ownership Of a telephone system-now
of an obsolete type because at least two
other systems are more modern, on. a
plan which if carried out, would have