The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-25
Topeka Chamber of Commerce
Membership Passes Goal.
Final Count Today Showed
1,71O-Quota Was 1,6OO.
WILDCAT TEAM BEAT FLYERS
Rivalry in Contest Ends With
lines Men Ahead by Two. =
"Bing Bang Bill'' Billy Is High
Man in Campaign Drive.


Chamber of Commerce in any city of
$4,000 population in the United Sta ties.
but has the largest Chamber of Com
merce membership per capita of any
city in the world. according to Otto
B. Cutler, retiring general of the
membership campaign which closed
today.
The final count reported at today
Moons meeting ran the total of new
members to LILO.
1T has been glorious campaign"
said General Cutler, and 1 believe
l am Voicing the general sentiment of
all the majors, captains and heuten-
ants-as we'll as that of Private Price
when L say that no Topeka project
was ever tackled with so much en-
thusiasm. Everyone worked day and
night. and the rivalry. between the
Flyers and Wildcats helped things
along. I want to offer hearty con-
graduation and deep thanks to every
worker in the drive"
Wildcats Win Over Flyers.
Maj. W. H. lines and his division of
Wildcats turned in a grand total for
the entire drive of 329 members,
thereby defeating the Flyers. under
the leadership of Glenn Bybee, who
had grand total of 327. lines and his
men led by a narrow margin all thru
the drive,
I'll hand it to the young bucks
with Bybee, tho" said lines today. 81
had bunch of old heads and those
youngsters nearly ran us off our feet
I'm glad to be able to go back to
work and sleeping now and then
''Bing Bang Bill Biby turned in
the largest individual team grand to-
tai Biby's work netted 102 mem
ninety-one.
Captain Fox. of the Spiders. made
today's high record for money. He
collected s125 of the $462.5o collected
by the entire division of Spiders.
Today's Total.
Today's totals for the various teams:
Major Ralph Baer. r........... 5
Major Glenn Bybee. e........... 90
Major W. H. lines.
Major ]. E. Mcfarland. ......21
Ma jor w w. Eden.
Major w. w. Webb. .......27
General Cutler introduced DR.. Ross
Crane to the membership drivers
after today's luncheon. Crane gave a
brief talk on Better Homes" and in
vited all present to attend the week s
exhibition and lectures at the audi
torium.
J. H Mclaughlin. of the American
City Bureau who will remain in To-
peka in charge of the. installation OF
the reorganized chamber, made his
initial bow to the crowd at noon to-
day.
one member of the drive expressed
the result of the campaign in these
words:
I'm glad it's over-but 1 never en-
loved anything more The work was
hard. nerve -straining. and to do it JUS
tice, we had to neglect our own pusl-
ness. but the joy came in remember
ing that the work was for the better
ment, in every way. of Topeka. Any
man who lives in a city, pays rent,
makes his living from the business of
the inhabitants of that city, should
be willing to work for the town.
That is the way every worker looked
upon the drive. We're glad it's over
but we're gladder that we helped:
Do you remember-Lives there man
with soul so dead. who never to him
self hath said'-Yes? Well substi-
tute city for 'country'-and you have
the spirit of the workers in the drive" "
Today's New Members.
Following is the list of new mem
bers reported today: