The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-27
AT ROTARY LUNCH
C. L. Mitchell Told of Modern
Stationery Business.
Pretty Stenographers Distrib-
uted Crane & Co. Literature.
BELLS FURNISHED APPLAUSE
CuspidOrs as Souvenirs to the
ROtarians.
Arthur Carruth Gave Biography
of c.. of C. President.
BELLS FURNISHED APPLAUSE

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| on this occasion by features not usual
ly on the program. Interspersed thru |
| the entire noon hour were number |
! of songs rendered by Hampstead |
/ Bently, of Philadelphia, singer now
| appearing at the Orpheum thecter. |
The song hit of the day was Khaki |
BILL the official marching and regi- |
mental air of the Kansas regiments. |
! The words and music were written by |
Harry "Slats" Watson, linotype oper- |
ator on the Hutchinson Daily News.
/ Immediately after the invocation,
B. P. Bartlett conducted a singing
cIass--the class comprising the entire
/ body of Rotarians present at the meet
! ing. A special feature of the song
| service by Bartlett was the addition
/ of a third verse to the song Amer
| lea" and Bartlett saw to it that every
man present bore his part in the
singing. The added verse sung for the
first time in Topeka today is:
God save our splendid men
Bring them safe home again,
! God save our men.
/ Patient and valorous.
| Patient and Valorous-
| They are so dear to US,
| God save men.
| Two new applicants were officially
| elected members of the Rotary cluo
| this noon. The vote for was unam-
nous. The new members elected TINS
noon and their classif1cadons are
| Edmund James Kulp, lecturer IN war
work; Otto B. Cutler, wholesale gro
Ger.
/ Mitchell on Floor.
The inimitable Charlie Mitchell per-
| formed his little feature of the day
| stunt in a most unexpected style ana
manner. It has always been the Gus.
| tom of the office Supply Rotarian to
| strive to do it the same but make IL
different" And he did. The former
| Kenosha news magnate proceeded TO
i drag two of his pretty stenoSraphers
| into the service and literally fllleo
the hands and pockets of the aston
ished and spellbound Rotarians with
collection of Crane & Company office
supply bulletins, calendar pads, novel
cuspidors a Crane & Company want
book containing the various adver-
Using cards and business getter let
ters put out by that firm during the
past year And every man was
thoughtfully provided with special
and improved advertising pencil TO
use in writing office supply orders for
filling by Crane & Company. Another
| thing especially noteworthy in the
distribution was the song book sent to
/ Charlie Mitchell by the L. E. Water
! man Pen company, which was used
by B P. Bartlett as occasion for start
ing a rotary singing school. And II
/ rotated with a vengeance.
| Now in preparing his paper it came
to Little Charlie" that there were no
| proper and ample means provided
mere men with which to applaud APP
| propriately such a wonderful talk as
he was to give, so he sat down and
wrote to Frank Waterman of the Pen
company of that name and begged
for aid Waterman bethought him
self of his education as a salesman at
! the hands of George w. Crane, now
deceased, and promptly furnished
Mitchell with collection OF little
bells And Mitchell, equally as
,5o7 h hl1- IF
the Rotary club present with one of
the little bells Just before he started
to talk The bells were used and with
a will. but not always in just the
places Charlie" thought they should
NntcheIrs Speech.
Mitchelrs little speech, only it
wasn't so devoid of ideas as the little
seems to indicate, began with the
customary salutadon- He proceeded
to state the needs of business men in
the matter of office supplies and in
substance gave the men present a
) fairly complete list of the things that
should decorate the January date on
their desk calendars. Mitchell said
!. I'm order to establish filing sys-
TENS which are in vogue today-in
order to get business men to- purchase
and equip their offices with this new
) equipment it required the hiring of
men to go out and explain to the bust
: ness men these improved systems for
! letter-filing, invoice-f filing, card in
= dexing, etc, and one OF the largest IN
situations taking up this new system
| lost a good many thousand dollars the
first two years of existence because
the business men were loath to make
) the change, and it necessitated putting
: big forces of statesmen in the field
, for educational purposes.
TT is mighty seldom that you go
into an office outside of few OF the
railroad offices of today and see the
J | oId-fa shioned letter copying book. the
vat of copying cloths and bIotters-
very seldom that you see the old
: fashioned letter-press standing in the
! corner, such as we saw in every office
not to exceed fifteen years ago.
1T is within the memory of every
man seated at this table to look back
> upon the old system of bookkeeping,
when firm that tried to do busineS
without day book, a journal and
ledger and handle every single sale to
: the minutes detail thru these three
records was considered very loose in
business methods.
, mot only has there been a complete
revolution in the systems of filing and
housing of records. but the systems for
| our accounting departments have
come in for their full share of atten-
ton.
t Multitude of Forms.
! There is now furnished by one of
: the largest loose leaf manufacturers
approximately 225 stock forms in
loose leaf systems for the detail of
the commercial business which is not
inclusive of the systems in loose leaf
that can be supplied for the profess
sional fraternity the numerous
l forms of ledger rulings for loose leaf
} 1edgers.
2 Just stop and think a minute of
t what the adding machine the comp
tometer, the cash register ETC., have
done for the business of today. An
interesting article of efficiency could
: be written regarding any of these ma
chimes
Take the check-writer, the check
i protector, the money-changer and