The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-08
P. J. C. 1O-CLUB
Young Statesmen of the Curtis
Publishing Company
Take Luncheon at Commercial
Club and Hear Advice.

Tow headed. red headed boys
boys with ears clean, boys with hands
clean. boys with high water marks on
necks and hands. boys with the need
of ear probing with mothers hair pin
wrapped in a wash rag, rich mems
boys poor mems boys, boys of all de-
criptions-introduce themselves as
Americans of tomorrow to the Com
mercial club members today noon.
Twenty five boys, members of p. J. G.
1O-cllb of the Curtis Publishing COM
pany in charge of Miss Margaret
Goodrich, district agent, gathered
early at the club rooms and enjoyed a
regular business mans lunch.
Following luncheon they listened to
short talks by ]. Will Kelley, secretary
of the Commercial club; William Mac
ferran, president of the State Savings
bank. and ]. T.. Cries. of the Capper
publications. The moral, salesman
ship and financial standpoint of the
boyhood of the Curtis boys was eX-
planned by these men.
Tells of Work Done.
In Introducing the boys to Topeka 5
business life. Miss Goodrich explained
the vocational plan adopted by the
Curtis Publishing company. She told
of the boys starting savings accounts
in a systematic way two months ago.
She told how some Of the boys had
only two and three dollars in the bank
while others already have bank ac-
counts running into the hundreds of
dollars.
She told of the efforts of the Cur
tbs people to bring out the best in
boys, of the vast sums spent in direct
ing the lives of the Curtis boys in
the right direction by providing Y. NJ.
c. A. memberships for boys attaining
certain qualifications. She told of the
reward of merit and faithfulness pro-
vided by the Curtis pSople after their
boys had finished high school when
they are provided with jobs as sales
men. 1t is to introduce boys to the
business life and methods that this
meeting and others will be held at the
! Commercial club.
i Urges Honesty.
Mr.. Kelley urged honesty in sales
manship to the boys told of his boy
hood dreams and of the dreams of
manhood the Curtis boys are having
now.
/ That America is still a land of op-
portunities and that the poor boy of
today has the same chance to get rich
as the poor boy of yesterday was a
declaration made by William Macfer-
ran. First opportunity which knocks
at the poor boys door is chance to
save part of his earnings, no mat
ter how small they may be- Next,
the banker stated, is to find a place
to invest the savings where they will
grow If a boy will take these two
steps he will have small fortune by
the time he is fifty years old no mat
ter what his earning capacity may be.
Are Rich Men Now.
! ]. E. Griest urged honesty in all
boyhood transactions. Also under
standing of the articles and ideals of
the publications he attempts to sell to
the public. He gave a brief descrip-
ton of the immense Curtis publica-
lions. Nearly all successful business
men of today were poor boys of yes
/ terday, the speaker declared. Those
present at the luncheon were:
Paul Bascom, Warren NJ Crosby
! Jr., Raymond Bowers, Percy Harvey
William Atteberry, Orville Sandmeyer
James Pollock, Paul Britton Milton
c. Smith, Albert Kerr, Donald Swan
Douglas Finity, Robert Akers, Thomas
Jones, Robert Wilson, Warren Parr
| Dana Anderson, Glen O'Neil. Mac
pherson Mills, Lyle Wannderston
Theodore G. Patterson. Chester Pratt
James Mack, Otis Spiker and John
Arthur.