Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-22
DUTY OF BUSINESS MEM
ADDRESS BY WADE ELLIS TO
CARRIAGE BUILDERS.
Banquet at the New Willard Ends
Annual Meeting Of the Ma
tional Association.

With banquet at the New Willard last
evening, attended by more than 400 mem
bers of the association, the annual meeting
of the Carriage Builders National Asso-
citation. which had been in session since
Tuesday, was brought to a close. Assist
ant Attorney General Wade Ellis. who
was introduced by Maurice Connolly as a
coming President of the United States
made the principal address Of the evening
We are a great working people, a
great business people, he said. 1--WE
have no room for drones. We own one
third Of the wealth Of the world. We are
richer than England and all her colonies
Or Germany and France combined. And
You business men are the stokers who are
feeding the fuel beneath our national
life.
Duty of Business Men.
"Out of 5000 new laws that have been
enacted 22.OOO have dealt with affairs of
business, such as transportation. COM
merce and the like. In the Supreme
Court of the United States in ninety nine
cases out of 100 laws bearing upon bust
ness come up for Interpretation. And yet
in the Congress that makes those laws
81 per cent of the membership consists
of lawyers. l think it is the duty of
business men to get into the game Of pub
lie life. to some extent. at least. Don't
complain about the laws unless you do
your duty in having something to do with
the making of them
Hugh Chalmers, president of the Chal-
mers- Detroit Automobile Company. de-
livered an instructive address on the prin-
ciples of advertising and craftsmanship.
+. NJ. Newell. director of the reclama-
ton service, spoke briefly on the work
done in the west in making waste land ar
able and announced that Uncle Sam will
be able to give a citizen a farm of from
forty to eighty acres, provided he will Oc-
cupy it for five years and pay for the
water privileges.
Officers Chosen by Convention.
At the final business session yesterday
evening Cincinnati was chosen as the
meeting place in which to hold the next
convention.
In addition to the new president, w.
H. Mcintyre of Auburn, Ind. who was
elected Wednesday, the following officers
were elected or appointed yesterday:
Vice presidents-W II. Roninger, ST.
Louis, Mo-; John L.. Mason, Davenport,
Iowa: Otto Mack. Mobile, Ala: E. S. Be-
Henderson, Ky. H. G. Shepard. New Ha-
ven, Conn; S. B. Cooling. Wilmington,
Del; Fred l.. Nickel, Chicago. Ill; C..
Hefiinger. Kansas City, Kan; Albert o.
Schwartz. New Orleans, La; c.. W. Nash,
Flint, Mich; Arthur p. Karbach, Omaha,
Neb.; John E. Hayford, Newton, n. II. !;
c. S. Caffey, Camden. N. j.: I. ]. Sui
Ivan, Rochester. n. Y: w. c. Heath.
Monroe, N c.: A H. Miller. Cincinnati,
Oh o: T. J. Storey, Rockville Ontario;
George w. Behl. Reading, Pa; John u.
Craft, Evansville, Ind; Owen Lilly, Mem
phs, Tenn; Charles G. Bosher, Rich
mond, Va: Charles Abresch. Milwaukee,
Wis, and w. G. Norman, Covington, Ga.
Secretary and treasurer-Henry c. Nc
Lear. Wilmington, Del.
Executive committee for three years
J. D. bort, Flint. Mich; J. II. Hassel.
Amesbury. Mass: L. Strauss, Newark.
n. j.; A. G. Brunsman, Cincinnati. Ohio;
Norris Woodruff, Dayton, OHIO; Maurice
Connolly, Dubuque. Iowa; to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of +. NJ. Muir
ply, Pontiac, Mich, to serve for one
year. Theodore Luth, Cincinnati Ohio; to
fill the vacancy caused by the death Of
c. F. Kimball Chicago. to serve for two
years, c. G. Hull, Connersvil e, Ind.
A feature of yesterdays session of the
association was the performance Of Prof.
II. J. Howell. who for more than an hour
entertained a large gathering. He dis
played considerable skill in his presenta-
ton Of some of the most difficult sleight-
of-hand and illusiOnary tricks.