The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-22
OLIGER is DIRECTING WORK
Fashion Show This Week Was
Only Beginner.
Then "Pay-Up" Drive Will Be
Launched Soon.

"A L. OIiger, secretary of the Cham
Der OF Commerce, has a lot of new
ideas which are shortly to be put into
action, with the result that the dream
OF making Topeka bigger and better.
will come true.
Soon there will be a Cleanup and
paint-up" campaign in Topeka The
whole town is to be districted, with a
campaign manager, and every person
in town given an opportunity to clean
up yards-to repair sidewalks, to re-
place torn and tattered flags. such as
now float from even big business
houses, with new ones. There will not
necessarily be much expense to the
individual in this campaign, and what
there is will be money well spent.
This is also in line with the cleanup
policy advocated by the government;
in other words, just a big, universal
country wide spring cleaning, as JIM
portant, in fact, to the sanitation and
beauty of business, as the beating of
rugs and washing of woodward is to
the home.
THE attention of the public will be
directed to this spring house-cleaning
by slides in the picture shows. and by
over the Chamber of Commerce will
direct its efforts to good roads and
trade extensions. Everybody is pull
ing for good roads, so with good roads
and machines-and all but two or
three unfortunates have cars-folks
can run into Topeka from all the small
towns within a radius 'of twenty or
thirty miles. and not know they had
been away from home.
Fashion Show Only Beginner.
The big show that was pulled off
Thursday is but the forerunner of the
biggest, snappiest fall fashion show
ever given in Kansas. There will be
living models-mannikins, to show off
the goods the merchants will have on
display.
OF course everybody has heard
about the "Pay-up" campaign, which
is billed for April / 4 to 10, at which
time people will be invited to clean VI
accounts. That, too. will be in the
nature of spring house cleaning, and
that. too is in line with the suggestion
of the government. Henry Auerbach
H. s. Street and F. L. Lindemuth, are
the members of the committee which
will take charge of the Pay-up cam.
peign. The attention of debtors will
be called to their unpaid accounts by
window cards, posters and Stickers
which are to go out with all bills.
A Journal reporter called on some
VI the business women OIL the city
find out what as individuals, they jim.
{ .ded doing toward helping out thi.
Campaign and making Topeka such g
live, commercial center, that Tulsa
Okla, Kansas City and Wichita would
become uneasy.
lone OF the things which should b'
brought home to Topeka people, SnC
particularly to the women of Topeka
is that it is disloyal to the town il
which their money is made, to spenC
that same money somewhere else, it i:
pointed out.
Women Are Doing Part.
Miss Adds, who is the secretary anC
treasurer of the Kansas Retail Jew
eiers' association. when asked for he
views on the problem of making To
peka a better and a bigger place
stated her opinion with a quotation
from Shakespeare, There's nothin;
either good or bad but thinking make
IT So Business is not limited by eithe
the male or female, but is the resul
of thinking. The result of thinkin,