Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-30

products at an inadequate salary,
Joined Rotary as a charter member.
Had had very limited educational
advantages and he saya:
Rotary showed me was mis-
flt---gave me confidence to get out
Of rut." Today he is executive
officer Of a 100000 corporation
and has a growing business capa-
city.
George, a craftmap, not an out
standing leader when called ito Ro-
tary membership He says:
Rotary stimulated thorough
study OF my business" He applied
Rotary ethics and raised standards
His name today Is synonym for
thorough, prompt and artistic SER
vice. Business deproBsion and a
disastrous fire all but exterminated
his business. On his merits and
recognition as a community servant
he secured lots, built buildings, re-
habilltatcd his business and has CIV
en- more time to civic and patriotic
affairs than In any previous period
OF his business life.
Rotary has It's paradoIes From
ice distributor TO wholesale refri-
gerator. You know Paul7 Warm
hearted. genial. amazingly enthu-
siastic Rotarian. He was one OF Its
organizers and Its first president.
Studied and practiced Rotary. He
now scintillates It. The hotter his
enthusiasm the more ice he has
made and cut II stimulated him
to public endeavor. this necessitate ed
expansion OF plant and service. The
plant was sold by the owners who
retained his directing genius and he
Is now the executive officer Of the
largest cold storage plant west OF
the Mississippi river.
Rotary contacts" says Paul. (He
is also an electrician.)
Wen call him oily" Entered
Rotary as, a salesman of retail oils
for corporation, This Is his modest
statement:
Rotary stimulated me to In
Increased service and enlarged my
business horizon" This In what 40
tually happened. He dotted the city
and county map with filling stations
In which he earned half Interest.
He has brought large returns TO his
company and increased his own
earning capacity ten-fold
Made This Man Branch Ont.
"Rotary made me dissastitled with
and showed me my limitations In
conducting n residence district groc-
cry store changed my line. !
specialized my service" In three
years he has built an cuviable busi-
less, moved from rented quarters
into his own building He Is now a
leader in commercial and civic
bodies and a leader In Rotary.
Charley, his chief asset on being
called 10 Rotary was genial dis
position and some promise. He sold
cigarets behind his little counter at
an office building entrance. He Is
mot n rival Of a certain famous chain
OF stores hut In three years has so
covered7phs own field so. well with
string Of stores they have not
found entry. Let me quote him:
PUCK, this service business has
got my goat. I'm going to war"
He is a captain in the new Okla
homa national guard regiment and
his business is organized TO run it.
self for the period of the war.
Doc our physician. said
'Jf am true Rotarian and I
think am, I must set an example
to the fraternity In my classified
ton" He volunteered and business
khas picked up for him. He Is with
our boys In the service.
We call this one Pat He may
he any one ~ three in the club who
are In specific lines of the struc-
mraI game. From a tin shed, before
coming into Rotary. to modern
| - wi N N
an nestioned gave some modification
Of this reply:
"a Rotarian can't keen step with
that groun Of men and be satisfied
with ,ess than his best, rot n broad
vision and public confidence" He
did a million dollars worth OF busi-
4 ness last year.
HELMS Professional Man.
A discouraged professional man
gnve up his practice to attend to in
vestments which were in serious diff
ficulties. Financial reverses caused
him to again take up his practice.
He brought to Rotary zeal for
public affairs Rotary gave back TO
him a highly sensitlzed conscience
for giving his community the best
his profession afforded. He now Is
established as highly technical ex-
pert and says:
my clientile is paying me a fec
proportionate to service rendered
Rotary has enabled me 10 see the
greater range OF possibilities for my
profession" Incidentally he employs
six instead OF one as against two
years ago,
Ernest we call him. He Ia not tho
leading representative OF his line he
does a modest business Since he
has been In Rotary and particularly
since he was declared his business
has been hard hit He has given
weeks of time to. o.patriotic campaign
service of various Kinds. He's an
arch, enemy Of the kaiser. Last
Saturday said;
''How's business"
ED, you know how we've been
hit and we had to give SO much time
| to tho war game, hut some chow
business Is good. We're going to
make it--and listen boy--on the Q.
T. I signed contract yesterday
for large floor space on the best
corner In the city, with the owner
Of a proposed new building. Guess
what he said: I've been watching
you Rotary fellows In the civic af-
fairs OF this community and I have
confidence in them, want to give
a young business man like you first
chance at this location.
Three Rotarian have 81 per year
| Jobs out of the club because thew