Evening star., 1915-01-30

and will crush out Of the imaginative
minds all the workings of the high
the the crushing work Of the rotary
wheel. 1t will be helped. augmented
and assisted in every way by flying
squadron" also organized last night.
This will consists of nearly one hum
dred high-powered automobiles which
will catch up with and suppress all
ideas of pessimism which may have
These auto. will take aboard every
visiting rotarian from other cities be-
fore he has had a chance to put his
foot on the wood paving blocks in
front of the Union station, will carry
him whirling around the city to prove
to him that there's no business depres-
sion in the District of Columbia, SO
that he can spread the gospel, when he
returns home, Of Washington, the Ma
tion's City" adopted last night as the
slogan of the ninety-day boosting
campaign" for Washington.
TELEPHONE Barometer Cited.
The telephone barometer of business
showed excellent" and moving toward
better" All efforts to shake 1t to
see If it had stuck from conditions in
the past failed. It was an actual rec
ord, and the business men who COM
p"ee INC NotaIy CiuD say tney KNOW
1t Is true. All attempts to read it
otherwise will fail. They know be-
cause they are business men, and hard
by line Of business or profession was
not represented in the gathering
SO the boosting campaign is on, and
will swing for at least ninety days,
during which time 1t will have been
given such start. the member say,
that the momentum will carry the
rotary wheel and the flying squadron
70 No.
Pessimists, knockers, gloom, high links
and others of this class had better
cross the streets at crossings only it
was announced, and the nproceed eau
tiously or they will be crushed by one
or the other.
Every rotarian Is to be a booster for
''Washington-the Nations City" THIS
slogan should appear everywhere, on
stationery, advertising and in the
new wspapers. 1t was agreed, until busi-
tract the habit of boosting or be crush
ed in the rush.
Rotarian John L. Weaver started the
boosting last night at the banquet,
when he declared that 1t had become
a set and accepted opinion in some
quarters that everything deserved to be
knocked" 1t had become a habit, he
said. Statements have been published
that 10000 houses in Washington were
vacant.
Statements Grossly Exaggerated.
II have consulted every reliable source
| to verify this, and have found 1t grossly
exaggerated" he said "Such an opinion
passed freely Is not a compliment to our
city. and should not be spoken when it
| is false. Get behind Washington and
boost
r. p. Andrews also declared there was
no falling of in business, and that con-
ditions had been better than ever before.
d. $ Porter, general manager of the
| Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Com
pany, declared that the telephone was the
| best barometer of business conditions, and
| that the first thing a man did when cut
ting down expenses was to cut out an
Eextension telephone or two No such cuts
had been made during the year, he de-
| clared. but, on the other hand, more than
2.100 new telephones had been installed
| during the year.
William L. Shannon, for the .'hones''
end Of the real estate business, said con-
ditions never were better The amount
| of first payments on houses made during
the past year showed general increase
over the previous year. he explained.
| First-hand information about unem.
ployment was obtained by E. C. Ora.
ham and presented to the club He
said he had spoken to a Salvation
Army worker about the number OF
there was no abnormal condition here
as regards the numbers of jobless
The worker had noticed no change at
all.
| Urges Adoption Of Slogan.
William John Eynon explained tina,
the firm he represents had during tn.
year adopted the slogan "Washington-
The Nations City, and had put 1t OF
all it's stationery. He urged that al
of the Rotarians, as well as bushes,
men in general use this slogan.
/ r. w. Bolgiano complimented tn,
street railways of the city. declaring
the people here enjoy better cars
cleaner cars and better service II
every way than anywhere else in tn,
country. He declared the attitude O.
the many patrons Is to knock" tn,
service whenever there II the slightes
delay G blockade Of any kind. H,
urged tnat the car service be boosted
saying the ofdcials are doing every