The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-02

Kansas City board in honor of the ma
tfonaf officers of the association, to
which number of Kansas, Missouri
and Oklahoma prospective Realtors
were invited. Seger reports it a great
gathering. with lots of enthusiasm and
fellowship shown and everybody pres
ent caught the spirit of President
Taylor, who outlined his constructive
program for the national association.
His plan calls for at least doubling
the number of local boards and for
{, 900 attendance at the annual con-
ventton at Chicago next June.
Farm Brought $4,000.
A 413-acre farm. three and one -half
miles south of Topeka, sold recently
by the White Land Company, to Mat
| thew McGrath, was purchased for
$4,000. The place was known as the
| Lilac. Dairy Farm and was formerly
owned by thez Bank of Topeka 1t is
one OF. the most improved farms In
| Shawnee County. The land is con-
sidered very productive as it was
brought to a high state of fertility
| by fts&prmer owner. Tons of alfalfa,
milk and grain have been produced on
the place in the last ten years.
The new owners will take possess
sion between now and March 1, 1921.
Ninety per cent of the farm sales of
the White company are made to
Kansas farmers,
| Court Protects Realtors.
| According to the National Real
Estate Journal, There is now judicial
authority for the exclusive right to
the use of the word 'Realtor' by mem
beers of the National Association of
Real Estate Board"
The district court of <Hennepin
county. Minnesota, has upheld this
| right in the suit brought Jointly about
| sfk months ago by the National Asso-'
citation of Real Estate Board to re-
strain the Northwestern Telephone
Exchange Company of Minneapolis
| from listing as realtors in its direc-
tory reaf estate men. not members Of
| Educational association"
| The word "realtor" was coined by
G. N. Chadbourn, of Minneapolis. and
was by him offered to the national
J designate members of the nationaf as
| sociations- 't aa-e
! Ghadbourn tells this of the Coinage
| of the word: zone day in Minneapolis,
a newsboy thrust a newspaper under
my nose and importuned me to buy
| it, and read all about a scandal in
the real estate business. 1 examine
into the matter and found that the
alleged real estate man was some I'M
known individual, who didn't belong
to the board, but who. nevertheless,
by reason of his being called so,
sion. We hear a great deal aboutsthe
profession of real estate. Other pro-
fessions have distinctive names and
they have certain qualifications that
come with that namf that they must
be provided with inIor6er to use that
name. For instance, a lawyer has
taken a course in thesstudy of law; a
doctor is a. graduate of a medical
school,: minister is duly ordained.
and therefore he calls himself a min
lister; but the real estate man-any
man who has enough money to pay a
months rent in some building for an
office, and many of them don't even
have that, but carry their office in
their hats, can call himself a real es-
l tate man, and in the minds of the
community he has the same standing
as any of us have.
"Therefore,s it seemed to me that we
should have a distinctive title, similar
to the titles that other professions
have. Casting about for a word for
this, 1t seemed to me there were one
or two requisites connected with this
In the first place we should be able 70
protect that title. Now a title can be
protected in several ways. Perhaps
the easiest and most natural one tina,
comes to the mind wifi be to copy
right It, A word cantot be copy
righsed that exists in any language, sc
in order to copyright a single word
we have got to manufacture word.
Now the question was what kind of a
word should be manufactured thai
might be copyrighted.
1--WE have precedent for the word
'realtor.' The old lawyers term Tor
the commodity in which we deal was
real property or real estate That
was found too long even in the slow
DAYS of oar ancestors and they short
ened 1t and manufactured the word
realty That is a word that is in cur
rent use and everybody understands