El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-04-29
HARDWARE Talk
To ROTARY CLUB
Rotarians Presented With
Pocketknives by Rob
ert Krakauer.

Robert krakauers e1preSldent OF the
chamber Of commerce, was the princi-
DaI sneaker before the Ell PasO Rotary
club al its weekly luncheon at Hotel
Sheldon Thursday at noon Mr.. kra-
kauer spoke upon the hardware bust
17t.sr and showed how closely il is
linked TO the every day life Of the
people. Cooking utensils are sold by
hardware men, he said; clothing could
not be made without buying needles,
scissors and irons from the hardware
man: houses could not be built without
the tools sold by the hardware man.
he said prehistoric man carried his
hardware" the same as the modern
man carries his; excavations IN pre-
historic mounts have shown this,
Mr.. Krakauer presented each mem
Der Of the club with pocket knife
bearing the familiar krackalack
trademark OF his firm He declared
that hardware men have superstl1ons
and that one is that nothing which mas
a keen edge must ever be given away
Therefore, he suggested that the Rota-
ians present some coin TO the CLUB Tor
the knives The result was a contrl-
button Of 1874 to the clubs treasury
Mr. Krakauer invited the members
to accompany him after the Iuncneon
renewed the invitation later and the
two accompanied the members on their
tour Of exploration through the big es-
adjustment. which has grown 70 I'M
I mEEEE DTOn0ELlOu5 EAAEE us EeAeAA-As--
ment in FL PasO IN 1856
Visitor From California.
Chas. L. Lewis. superintendent OF the
Postal Telegraph company at Los
Angeles. a guest OF c. ID. Miller, local
manager of the Postal, was introduced
and declared. 4 think, next to Los
Angeles, FL Paso is the best city
know OF and you who know we Los
Angeles people, can appreciate what i
mean when ! say this Los Angeles mas
accomplished its growth by p1lhns To-
gether The Los Angeles people get
together and decide what they want
then they pull together until they get
IL. Rotary is the essence OF coopera-
tiOn and you cannot get IogeLher AT
these meetings. as you do every Week,
and OF getting better ideas about
uniting in lettering your city Nj
Lewis said he was no speaker, but,
like the negro who was asked 70
change a $50 bill, he said ne thanked
the club for thinking he looked ike
he could do il. He referred 10 the
telegraph business and told a story OF
a ScOtchman and an lr1shman VINO
were arguing about the respective
merits of their countries The Scotch
man said excavators had found tele-
graph wires buried 100 feet beneath
the surface OF the EARTH showing, as
the ScOtchman argued, that Scotland
had the telegraph long E-fOre the rest
Of the world knew Of it" The Irish
man said that was nothing TO Ireland
why. eNcaVatOrs have gone down AOoV
feet in Ireland and they diG not find
telegraph wire at all showing con-
clusively that ireland had wireless
telegraphy long before Scotland ever
had the telegraph
silver City Man Present.
Judge R. P. Barnes, Of Silver City,
guest Of c. W. Groom at the luncheon,
saiu he was glad TO see the spirit man
ifested between the Rotarians and said
he felt at home with them, as silver
city and Fl PssO and the people Of the
two places have the same aspirations
and their work is for mutual benefit
and growth"
Mr. Krakauer moved ne appoint
ment Of a committee from the Rotary
club TO work with the chamber Of
commerce in securing the repair OF FL
PasO's road TO the New Mexico line.
Mr.. Krakauer was made chairman OF
the committee and c. ". Groom, G. A
Martin. r. T. Stuart and H R. Nc
Z Clintock were named on the committee
by president Claiborne Adams, who
presided at the luncheon
On motion OF H r. McC1intock, DR..
r. l. Ramey was appointed chairman
Of a new committee on membership.
Az Woods appealed for the support
Of the Rotary club for the Rio Grande
Baseball association
Future Speakers.
H r McCllntocE announced that
next week Mr. Williams Of the Purity
I Baking company will be the speaker.
! The next week r F. Davis Of Draugh-
ans Business college viii talk; the
week following +. B. Simmons. under
taker- the next week. Ralph Converse,
OF the Gem barbersnop.
Following these talks various mem
bers will give demonstrations OF sales
manship. Some member will be desig-
mated 70 sell his wares to some other
member The man who is supposed to
buy viii put forth his best arguments
against il and the seller viii have to
overcome these arr-rrrnaure The r1un