The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-03

and program involving the printing
business of the city was carried out.
1t was one of the most successful
gatherings in the history of the two
organizations.
The Evening Program.
club, opened the meeting. He adj
mitted that the Press club wouldn't
stand for a Rotarian presiding officer
and introduced Paul Lovewell, presi-
dent of the Press club. as the toast
master of the evening. Lovewell. in
a witty retort, told of Beck's diplomacy
and his dealings with the women of
Topeka sugar administrator. Call
ing Secretary Cecil Howes to the
speakers table he ordered pinned upon
Beck a sugar medal of honor of huge
dimensions.
Lovewell then introduced Harrison
Clarkson. who wasn't there. He told
of Clarkson's print shop as one of the
unique institutions of the city, due to.
its insurance form specially
He next introduced Charles p.
Adams. his boss" who spoke on the
topic. "Topeka-A Printing Town"
Adams in a most interesting account
of his experience as a reporter and a
bookkeeper on the State Journal. told
of the early struggles of this paper
shortly after it was taken over by
Frank P. MacLennan. Adams also
of the city. including his own. the
Adams Brothers concern. incidentally
he came back at the POSTMASTER. who
is editor of Adams's Merchants Jour-
nal" by blaming him for the high cost
of living in dealings with merchants
over Kansas.
Frank L. Pinet. who was supposed
to talk on News for Tea chers." was
unable to attend the dinner due to ILL
ness and his place was taken by Oscar
| - !,
| Estate in Topeka. Swayze told of the
first union printer strike in the city
an incident in which he as foreman
was engaged in military" way. His
stories of early newspaperdom in To-
peka were fascinating.
DR.. S. j. Crumoine, secretary of the
| state board of health, author of the
How to Keep Healthy" in the State
Journal Saturday evenings. spoke on
THE Column Conductor" Doctor
Crumbine predicted the day when
newspapers will be a collection of fea-
| lures for the information and enlight-
eminent of the public. Doctor Crum-
| bine's talk was in the form of an
analysis of the newspaper situation
| of today
The final speech of the evening was
| made by Tom McNeal. For twenty
minutes he kept til crowd in tears
of laughter. His stories of his arrival
| in Kansas, the bedbugs in Wichita
MOTEL, the TAX thieves OIL western
Kansas, and finally to the time he
wound up in Topeka were explosively
| funny. He ended with an oratorical
| tribute to the products of Kansas-es-
pecially the recent man-product. the
| states contribution to the war. II
was one of the best speeches Tom Nc
Neal ever made to a Topeka audience
| Issued Program.
One of the features of the dinner
was a booklet, THE Topeka Rotary
Press issued by the committee on
arrangements and edited by Arthur
| Carruth. The most interesting article
| in the booklet was a survey of print
| ing in Topeka by Hugh McVey. He
pointed out that there were fortyfivt
publications in the city with a circu-
lation in all parts of the country
More than 500 carloads of white pa
| per are used annually and million
| dollars year are received in sub
scriptions. The publications employ
| 1900 persons and the postoffice de-
| partment receives a million dollars
| for carrying the mail.
| The committee on arrangements for
| the dinner include the newspaper men
| of the Rotary club: Charles P
| Adams Burt P. Bartlett, Arthur Cap
per, Arthur ]. Carruth, jr.. Harrison
| Clarkson, Phil Eastman, Walter John
i son, Hugh McVey. Cecil Howes, Frank
| p MacLennan, Marco Morrow. Frank
| L. Pinet, Charles l.. Mitchell, W. w
| Rhoads and Charles c. Younggreen.
i b P. Bartlett enlivened the affair tr
| LEADING the diners in Rotary songs