El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-08-27
HERALD To HELP
BUDGET FUND.
Will Receive Subscriptions
and Turn Them Over to
Chamber of Commerce.

Subscriptions to the chamber OF com
merce budget fund will be recelNeI5 -
Inc FL Paso Herald and QeliFe 81 - ~
me chamber Of commerce budsst tEii ~
committee Of which R b. OrhuoIAA -
chairman.
This was announced at the triangular
! luncheon Of the chamber OF eoInIngL,CTT'
the Adclub. and the Rotary cluD gLllCl
was held at the Hotel Sheldon 1luls-
Jay Robert Krakauer, president OF ~
SndmDer of commerce, announced ma
Iicit neraId would be reques6Seu 80 70 -
1Ledu subscriptions of from ~ Genus "
( ~ or more for the budget iunG from
clIizens who had not been seen by me
SQUEEZING committees
me budget fund luncheon was
typical FL Paso affair The dining
room OF the Sheldon was CROWDED ana
me speakers were all enthusiastic ABOUT
me city, its future and the budget Iund.
HoDert krakauer, president OF the
ehamber Of commerce, presided ana IN
produced the speakers. Rev. Herman Z.
Forter. OF the First Methodist churcn
was the first speaker. In introducing
him. Mr.. Krakauer said that his church
was the first church organization TO
given $50
Urges Unity of Purpose.
Rev. Mr.. Porter urged a unity Of pur-
pose and told the business men that the
Duoset fund was the un1tying agent
thaI would bring together the different
parts OF the city into one perfect whole
nc ANAANtL4EE IN LLllS CITY IS 10 uAh4uE
into groups" he said. You must get
your mind on the city as one, just as
the Dlble says the body is one Every
part Of FL PasO should be interested in
the budget fund for it viii work for
unity The business interests should
get behind the budget fund, for the
more people who come here the more
they VIII prosper. The churches ought
to be interested in the budget fund. Al
though churches are always poor. none
Is TOO poor to be left out and If the
CHURCHES are left out you are doing
them an injury. A church that is not
interested in the development Of a city
ought to quit business.
say that FL PasO is a good place
70 LVe IN When Methodist minister
says town Is good place he knows
Tor ne travels a great deal Raise the
budget fund, turn it over to the SPLEEN
qlQ chamber Of commerce and let them
deliver the goods"
Rev. Mr. Easter Speaks.
Rev. Henry Easter, Of the church
OF st Clement, was next introduced.
he was late in arriving, president
hrakauer said, because he was busy
writing a personal check for SO 10
subscribe to the budget fund. Rev.
Mr.. Easter said that he had never be-
HeVed that a city needed street carni-
EaIS or county fairs. bur that conven-
tons were a good thing for a CITY as
they brought money into a town and
did not take il away. He said that a
city should stand for clean streets,
good schools and other civic attrac-
tons Il have lived here Il years.
the minister said Il would rather
live in Ell Paso than anywhere else in
the United States"
Fred W. Freeman, a former e. Paso
business man. told the meeting that
ne had Travelled over the country west
Of the Mississippi since he left FL
Iaso and that FL Paso was the best
city in the west c. c. Mcdonald
spoke as a newcomer and told Of the
favorable impression that was made
on the delegates to the Democratic
convention by FL Pasc.
Others Boosting City Now
Mayor c. E Kelly said that he had
been talking FL PasO for so years and
now it was not necessary TO talk FL
PasO as the outsiders were doing that
for US. He said that he had made an
effort TO have a budget fund set aside
by the city and county for the cham
Der Of commerce when he first be-
came mayor.
Pop Corn Vendor SubscrIbes.
c H Jackson is the most talked Of
man who has subscribed to the cham
Der of commerce budget fund. He
owns a peanut and popcorn wagon at
Oregon and Franklin street The