The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-06
George Hart Spoke Most ElO-
quentIy on "RemingtOns."
may BUILD WADING POOL
Club Anxious to Donate Fea-
ture for Ripley Park.
One of Speakers Urges In
VestmentS at Home.


more than a month. In addition to
addresses delivered by George William
Hart Of Remington fame, and FRANK
TIP. MacLennan, editor of the Topeka
Estate Journal. other prominent busl-
mess was brought forward for discus
-sion by Robert Stone, Rotary presl-
.dent.
After a brief explanation of the
Gage Lincoln statue project a sub
escription paper was sent from plate TO
1plate and $3.50 subscribed toward the
purchase of the Lincoln statue. RoD-
@ert Stone declared himself in favor OF
<the spirit of the project but expressed
hope that the statue proper would
fpresent Lincoln more as the man ne
really typified than does the miniature
-statue being presented by the young
Topeka artist at this time.
RanI1in's Wading Pool Plan.
z. w. Rankin the active chairman
of the public affairs committee, pre-
scented his plans for wading pool
to be built in Ripley park at cost OF
about $3.50 to the Rotary club.
The pool. as outlined by Chairman
Rankin. would be constructed of con-
crete and would vary from six to
eighteen inches in depth. 1t would be
filled constantly during the summer
months with running water ana would
be favorite place for the children IN
the vicinity of this popular East side
park and playground.
This wading pool, if built, would
be the first to be constructed in the
Topeka park system and would be a
nest egg for many more over the
municipal property. c. l.. Mitchell of
Crane and Company expressed mis- CO.
operation with the plan and told Ro-
tariaps projects of this nature were
the real intent of Rotary more than
subscription fund such as had been
presented to the club a few moments
before However. Mr.. Mitchell ex-
, pressed himself as in favor of rails
ing money t.y other means for the in
stallation Of the Lincoln statue on the
state house grounds.
Fred Slater Speaks.
d. Following addresses made by Mr..
Hart and Mr.. Mac Lehman, Fred Sla-
ter Topeka man and American con-
sui at Sarnia, Canada, was called
upon to talk. Mr. Slater lauded the
Rotarians for their spirit, told a story
br two and took the common sense
view that meetings can drag out too
long ana cut his speech short.
After assuring fellow ROtarians that
he had no competition but sometimes
2 little irritation" George william
Hart. the Remington man. launched
into his subject, the Remington type
writer. The wonderful elastic line of
. typcwriters handled by the Reming-
ton people was dwelt upon to consid-
cradle extent by Mr.. Hart.
1T might interest you to know that
we have over so styles of typewriters.
We can furnish you with a machine
that will write on a postage stamp or
one that will write a four foot line. [
can sell you typewriter for SO and
l can furnish another that will cost
YOU more than $4,000. ] have here a
picture of the largest practical type
writer in the world.
1T has 40 adding machines on it
and can add one or forty columns of
figures at one time. and at the same
time make any notation. This ma
chine could be further equipped with
a cross footer, so that it would auto
matically show the cross foot total or
balance. 1t will write, add. subtract
or cross foot, as we'll as accumulate
the totals OF the 40 columns.
You cannot conceive of the i'm
mensity of the typewriter business. its
scope, its uses, it's educational value.
/ have been almost frantic the last
two or three evenings endeavoring to
prepare a paper which would at least
give me some slight claim to the priv
-ileee of belonging to the Rotary club.
/ began to read and without any at
tempt at symmetry I give you some of
the results.
First to North Pole.
First 1 read an article of how the
Remington typewriter was first TO
make the journey to the North pole,
then ] read another article which took
The next article took me to the
Himalaya mountains To China, with
Teddy through Europe, in airships in
France, to Korea and hundreds of far
away places where the typewriter has
become an office necessity. And the
. languages of practically every country
in the world have been mastered by
our machines.
The largest sign in the world adj
vertises our typewriter. To place it
Hfn#Tas1 q IL
switches, no less than 10000 connec-
lions, eight railroad cars to transport.
three months to erect. lion, in the
Mohawk valley, New York, town of
about 5000 inhabitants is the birth
place and still the home of the Rem
ington typewriter. 1t was lion which
gave to the world. the Remington
typewriter. In Ilion today, devoted 20
the arts of peace. is a plant twenty
times the size of that once devoted to
the arts of war.
The first word printed on a writing
machine spelled progress. That first
typewriter was a Remington.
Therefore, progress became I
Remington ideal and today Remins-
tons write in 1876 languag es, have l.
TQ6 keyboards and are sold in 1913
countries.
The Remington typewriter has
been practical and an actual peace
maker. 1t has written nearly all of
the peace treaties of the past 20 years
and it is my earnest prayer and sin
cere wish before this year, 1916, has
ended. it will further add to its laurels
and achievements by writing the docu-
ments which will bring peace and
prosperity to all the world"
Hear About Other Rotary Clubs.
President Stone then introduced
Frank p. MacLennan. as "A Rotarian
who had recently returned from a long
stay on the Pacific coast. He had
been asked by the program commit
tee to present to the club project +
which the committee had decided the /
club should endorse and endeavor to |
carry TO a result. Mr.. MacLennan I
said that he was in favor of short |
MONDAY sessions and that, inasmuch |