The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-19
Viewed From ANY Angle, This
Is the Kansas Choice.
Federal Board Impressed With
the Arguments Here.
NOT ONE PHASE OVERLOOKED
Every Advantage of Capital
City Was Sent Home.
and Industrial En-
enlargement Here.

: Viewed from any angle. argued
FROM any viewpoint and based on any
condition, Topeka is the logical loca-
fion for a federal land bank. That
was the final word driven home to
members of the federal land bank
board by Topeka boosters who pro-
auced hundreds of printed columns of
argument for the bringing of one of
4he land banks to the Kansas capital
city. Every statistician who compiled
Sigures favorable TO Topeka's claim
Was called before the board and the
days hearing was a record of the
Blessings that have come to Kansas
pnd the territory tributary t. Topeka
When members of the land bank
board left Topeka late Monday night,
statistics were yet ringingin their ears
They were reciting the record of the
days hearing to Secretary McAdoo.
Zach member had a clear definite bit
Cf testimony which reminded him that
Topeka was the logical place for
land bank, whether the bank territory
1ncluded Kansas and Missouri, or
Kansas, Missouri. Oklahoma and Ne
braska, or Kansas, Missouri, Okla
1orna and Colorado, or Kansas, Colo
Tedo and Missouri. Look at it any
way you desire, there was always a
clear line of testimony pointing to To-
pelSa as the one logical place for the
bank.
Mothers Arguments.
j. c. Mohler. secretary of the state
board of agriculture, drove home
Strong arguments for Topeka. Mohler
1vas the man who helped to put a
crimp in the claims of Kansas City,
Kan. as presented by p. w. Goebel.
Afohler asked the farm board to look
at the map. Then for a few minutes
he kept a stenographer busy writing
Statistics.
OpatUap+iat1, Of tho total land area
of the United States is in the Kansas
Missouri district, he told the board.
One-siXteenth of the rural population
of the nation is in that same territory.
.One-thirteenth of the crop receipts of
the country come from that same
country. One-twelfth of the nations
live stock is raised in the Kansas-Mis-
souri, district. One-tenth of the value
of the nations farm land is in the
same territory And then as clinch-
ier-one-nfnth of the aggregate amount
of farm mortgages of the nation come
lfrom the district. Then Mohler con-
fcluded his testimony by putting To-
peka in the logical position to handle
the loan business most successfully.
MERGERS Plea.
JOS. Mercer state live stock sanitary
commissioner. told the board that a
land bank in this territory would pro-
mote the growing of live stock and in
crease the demand for farm homes.
Topeka, Mercer stated, was the proper
place for the establishment of the
bank.
Bankers from all sections of the
state were called as witnesses. Some
of the men who appeared before the
board are among the states most
prominent and influential bankers and
business men. They are in touch with
every detail of the states commercial
and industrial welfare and know min
titely conditions in the states which
may comprise the central western dis
tricr.
Not one phase of the case was over
looked. Crop records were offered be-
fore the board. Records concerning
the raising and shipment of live stock
were available. Statistics concerning