Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-18


 duction in the width of the driv'~ ways, and the reuse of the crushed rock put down by the Iron Mountain several years ago.
 Six New Members.
 The club acted fayorably upon the nominations of six fo" membership. These were w. l.. Jones, district manager of the Southwestern Bell Telephone company H. F. Trulock, ls representative of the cattle growing interest; Lawrence Dixon of the Pine Bluff Bottling company; Beaurle Kaufman, as an associate, from the Smart Auto company; Leo M. An Grews. as representative of the farm ing interests, and Fred w. Hoyler, local manager of the Western Union Telegraph company. IL was brought out that the Rotary club is the only organization in which the Western Union will pay the initiation fee anl dues for it's managers.
 Mitchell D. F'ollansby and Herbert J. Campbell, prominent Chicago at torneys here talking depositions in relation to suits instituted in the fed Neral court at Chicago asainst the Cot ton Belt by insurance companies Tn the names of local cotton companies, as a result of the fire at the Doris B. compress two years ago, were guests at the supper. Mr Follansby made brief address on ths duty eacA American owes to the nation at th's time, and declaring that since we "have realized the dream of our an cestors," who founded the republic, i've ought not to hesitate, and that nothing can daunt" a clear thinking people, thankful for the opportunities they enjoy, and whose duty it is 70 be "intensely loyal at this time."
 Mir. Campbell found a common ground with his auditors at once by referring to "a man fo' whom we all feel friendship; man known .n Chicago as Mark but among you. his home people, as 'Fayette.' Mr' Campbell referred to Fayette Bell, native Pine Bluffian, az ''one of the finest men" he had ever met, and who was highly regarded by his associates in Chicago. Mr. Campbell thought it worthy of complimentary mention that MT. Bell "had risen with great rapidity," going from a clerksh1p n 1904, when the speaker first knew Mir. Bell, to "he general counsel of one of the big railroad systems of the country, "the Chicago, Rock Island < Pacific" He predicted further ad- vancement for MT Bell.
 Joseph Gilligan and E. T. Larsen, representatives of Dallas, Texas, l moving picture house, told of Rotary club work with which they were fla miliar, and complimented the mem- bers Of the locaA organization for entering the Rotary circle.
 Dr. E. c: MeMullen discussed the | need for a camRaign against malaria, | and mentioned what is being done in other sections to stamp out the dis ease. The fight against tuberculosis | was also explained briefly by Dr. Me- | Mullen, who asserted that Rotary can help humanity by lending it's aid m this work. % ,.s
 At the suggestion of George Adams, who said it is. ,pgoper that RotaTians 1 make acknowledgment of the esteem in which a man is held and of his ser- vices to a community, Thurman Lou than and Sol Klarberg were appoint ed a committee to arrange for din ner in honor of Byron c. Fowles, superintendent Of the Pine Bluff company, who will leave soon to as sume charge of a power plant at Kingsport, Tenn. This dinner will be open that all of MT. Fowles' friends may have opportunity to show him honor. ~r H. K. Toney, the president or the club, announced that committee Of ladies from the library association had requested assistance of the cluo in obtaining home for the library, and that he had invited the commit tee to appear before the club. The ladies will be invited to appear next Tuesday at 12:45 p. m. :,
 Dr. J. w. Stevens and Mitchell Selligman made brief talks" on Ro- tary, and the Fourth avenue project
 respectively.
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