The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-11
Successor Will Be Elected To-
morrow at Noon.
SOUP FEED BIG SUCCESS
Directors Made Excellent Wait
ers When Not Smoking.
Miss GoEike Furnished Vocal
Music for Affair.

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of AIexander'r-the Alexander part be-
ing carried by Charles l. Mitchell,
president, who expects to be retired
from office at the annual election of
officers to be held Saturday noon |
Like Alexander of old, Charles l. |
Mitchell. called by one the ''pUlchri- !
tudinouS." announced that the party |
was his party, and that the night Of
January 10 was the Mitchell night to
howl. and if any bowling was to be /
done he would do it. He did 1t was
MitcheIrs party and he ran it; any
obstreperous speaker was promptly
cut off by the pounding of Mitchelrs
trusty If unsafe gaveI.
Beginning promptly at 1880 o'clock,
the board of directors proceeded to
prove their ability as walters de luxe
by serving more than 500 guests with
great bowls of oyster soup, with oys-
tiers. and cup after cup of steamIng
coffee The directors, some of them.
showed the traces Of previous expert
ence in handling the enormous trays.
One of the august body even was able
to say Yes, sir. No, sir. Very good
sir" with the best brand of imported
English buffers. Nor were the mem
bers of the board lacking in the estab-
Hshed prerogative of the waiter fra
tern1ty, namely the acceptance of tips
The only fault there is to find with the
walters was that they persisted in
smoking on duty-it was said that
they would be canned as soon as the
/ tables were cleared after the supper.
and they evidently were, for none were
on duty this noon
Miss Golllke Sang
Right on the dot of 1870 O'Clock
Miss Marguerite Gohlke opened the
program with three vocal numbers
I two announced and one as an encore
Then after a fitting introduction bv
President Mitchell. Charles Dillon
4 Ia 81 he ~
evening with prompt response to a
pulchr1tudinous president" For a
period of fifteen minutes Dillon held
ms audience in the proper leash with
a fund of stories. which soon rose into
a Scathing denunciatiou of .-those-citi-
/ zens, so called of Topeka who are so
st1nSy and mean and self-centered
Z that they Will not subscribe to any war
/ fund, viii not purchase liberty bond
/ or Red Cross membership, nor even
/ invest solitary quarter in a thrift
stamp" Dillon closed with warlike-
! pacifist quotation.
Following Dillon came a season of
/ committee reports of WORK done the
past year and recommendations for
plans for 1918.
Back Madden Bill.
Among these reports a motion was
put for the Topeka Chamber of Com
mRce to ratify and back the Madden
bill, now pending in congress. 1t was
voted to get behind and push. The
MADDEN bill provides for an increase
in the maximum salary of United
States mail carriers from $1,000 TO
$500 per year
Justice Henry F Mason took I'D the
burden OF entertainment at this stage
in the game, and effectively broke the
monotony of dull committee reports
with recitation of various funny fea-
lures of filling out a questionnaire
He touched on the claiming of exemn-
ton and the varying motives of the
reg1strants in putting forth their
cialmsi he patted the coIored people
on the back for their patriotism and
then launched into a definition Of the
value of war in teaching the citizens of
the United States to place a true value
on things in general Closing Mason
gave-a definition of the flag in poetry
and prose The red stripes in the
flag. Mason said, represent the
rivers of blood shed by the citizens of
the United States in making US what
we are today
More committee reports were made
Hghtened by humorous introduction
of the contingent of seven high school
representatives of the proposed Ju-
Nor Chamber of Commerce. The uni
versal military training proposition
was officially recognized as a good
thing for the youth of the nation bv
the Chamber of Commerce and the
work of the Kansas Good Roads asso-
citation came in for a share of atten-
ton
g w Maggart, pastor of the First
Lutheran church was the last speak k
er on the list, and he effectively prov
ed that preacher can, on occasion
make A non-religious and truly hui
morous speech DR.. Maggart, in his
talk struck the keynote of Toueka's
greatest public need. outside of a suf-
flc1ency of gaS-a union station
MiteheIFs Swan Song.
After all this had taken place and
the people were in a receptive and
mourufu1 mood, Charles L. Mitchell
! took the floor. and sang. in mourn
full numbers bis swan song as presi-
dent~of the Topeka Chamber of Com
merce- Whatever has been accom-
plished.' declared Mitchell has beer
accomplished not by any single man
or any group of men, but has been &C
cOmplished by the Chamber of Com
the plea that lies nearest to Mitchell
heart and the thing that he believes
viii be the greatest accomplishment
of the Chamber of Commerce wher
Chamber Of Commerce, when he sees
a stranger either in the Chamber
rooms or in a place of business. should
greet him, and make the stranger
comfort and welfare his business OF
the moment Especially is this true
when the stranger is a guest in the
i Chamber Of Commerce rooms Let ev.
cry stranger visiting the Cha u1ber Oh
s. Commerce go away with this feeling
the Topeka Chamber Of Commerce i.
4 a mighty fine place to co.
The king is dead. and he has suns
his death chant-who is to be the mex
4 king will be determined tomorrow
1 noon at the annual election of Officers
] for the Chamber Of Commerce
4 ODerat. on Helen (,ouId,s Husband