The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-27


the last week that ii his bank, handi-i
ing the volume of business it doe to-
day, handled it along the lines III
vogue at the time he went into busl-
ness, it would take at least twenty
times his present force to handle this
business and even then it would be an
utter imposibility to handle it as ac-
curately. as efficiently and as eNpe-
ditiously as it can be done WITH the
modern equipment with one-twentieth
of that force.
Il remember reading years ago the
recommendation given BY Jonn n
Mu1vane, of this city, on the adclns
machine. His recommendation was
that it was numerically correct.
The Cabinet Safe.
After this comparison of the an
cient and modern business methods |
and the comparison of the offlce &C
couterments of the two periods, Mltch-
ell launched into discussion OF the
safe cabinet, one of the most moaern
of modern office supply improvements.
This section of his paper was PROB 7
ably the most interesting feature or ms
talk regarding special office snpphes,
TT was up to "a Congregational
bishop to figure out lightweight sale
of large storage capacity for the pre-
serving of his church records. nre
said, land the first lightwelgnt saIe
was produced by the Rev. Dick OF MAT
ietta, Ohio. WHOM reduced the same by
using lightweight sheet steer pacheu
and lined with asbestos
This lightweight safe cabinet mas
been $50 perfected that from the
weight standpoint six times more stor-
ge capacity can be furnished LOT the
/ same weight as an old-style Fate, ana
from a fire protection standpolnt over
| four times greater fire protection is
| furnished as compared with the Old
| style safe.
| the lightweight safe cabinet Is not
| burglar proof AS far as that goes,
there isn't a safe made that is burg
| lar proof, but the American. Express
| company was convinced that the SAFE
cabinet was more burglar proof than
the oId-fashioned steel safe. The old
/ fashioned steel safe is SO rigid in its
| construction that when nitro-glycer-
| inc and other explosives are used the
| explosion easily springs the whole
safe on account of it's rightly. The
safe cabinet being of lightweight
| steel construction, lined with asbestos
and packed with heat-resisting com
position of ground glass and cork, is
| so flexible that when the explosion
| takes place it merely dents the safe
| where the explosion took place and
| does not affect the whole door of the
safe.
"A test was made with five charges
of explosives on a safe cabinet with
out getting into it. and it was adj
l
| plosions would have opened the ordi-
! nary safe. One of the important fac
| tors of the safe cabinet, too, is its
light weight, making it possible to get
| it into>an office and not have to figure
| on whether the building construction
will permit of as heavy safe as the
old-fashioned heavy steel safe
Mitchell's Biography
RArthur Carruth read the biography
| of the speaker of the day. He went
back to Mitchells boyhood days
wherein the subject of the biography
did everything from selling papers to
teaching the children of wealthy fam
lilies to box that there might be aid
for the big family of Mitchells in Ke-
| nosha, Wis. He pointed out that
Mitchell established the first newspa-
per route in the United States when
he had farmer boys deliver his CHI
cago papers for a radius >of thirty
miles out of Kenosha. The biography
began with Mitchells birth in Keno
sha,< Wis, in 1873, carried him thru
his strenuous bayhood days and on to
the time when he was forced to go to
! Colorado for his health Here he
| started as messenger boy in the offices
of the Denver & Rio Grande railway
and IN short time was made general
stationer. Later he went to the
Pheips-Dodge interests in Arizona as
assistant purchasing agent. From this
position he came to Topeka in 1904
and became associated with Crane &
Company He is sales manager and
4 secretary of this big printing and pub
fishing concern today.
In speaking of Charlie Mitcbelrs
activities in behalf of Topeka and for
the good of the city's business and
civic interests, Carruth brought out
teh fact that Mitchell was president
OF the Cham Der of Commerce, presi-
dent of the Shawnee Golf club direc-
tor of the Topeka Morris Plan bank
director of the State Historical so
ciety, director of the Topeka Press
club, chairman of the entertainment
committee of the Auto club director
and one of the five managers of the
Topeka Free fair. member of the en-
terta1nment and program committee
OF the Rotary club, past exalted ruler
of the Elks club, president of the Sa fe
Cabinet Sales Association of America.
chairman of one of the largest COM
| mIttees of the National Associa ton of
Stauoners and Manufacturers. one OF
the five directors of the National Re-
tailers' association and sales manager
and secretary of Crane Il Co.
Beerboflm Made Talk.
After Mitchell had spoken and
been duly applauded, the spirit of
Roeary vas again set before the mem
bers by Rotarian William Beerbohm
Opening with definition of the word
Rotary as meaning 7exalted friendship
and service to self, to others and COM
|, munity, Beerbohrh went on to elab-
crate on this outline. AS two insta noes
of the type of service that Rotary
means he pointed out the work of the
Toledo, o., Rotary club in furnishing
funds to educate crippled children,
and their efforts in the recent infan-
4 tile paralysis pla que to save some of
the infants to lives as useful ,ciitzens
The other instance was taken from the
club at Erie, Pa, nghese INSTEAD of
lavishing charity on the poor of the
city the Rotarians hired visiting
1 housekeeper who went from house to
. house among the Door, helping to i'm
prove the conditions and make the
housewives more efficient managers"
At the close of the meeting. Prof.
Frank Snow Of the Kansas State Agri-
cultural COLLEGE. department of jour