El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-26
MANY SUBJECTS
OLDROTARIANS
Concrete Ships, Battle Elk.
periences, War Work In
Peace and Jokes.

speakers at the regular meeting OF
FL Paso Rotary Thursday noon at
Hotel sheldon a concrete ship eN-
pert dealt with the peace time plans
OF the emergency fleet corporation. a
returned soldier told why the world
struggle is not yet over. a war worker
explained what must be done for sol
diers in home camps under regime
OF peace. while a theatrical man
amused the Rotarians with a string
Of good jokes
Charles f. BarglebauEh. FL Paso
engineer who enlisted in the concrete
ship building business over a year
ago. furnished the following data on
the shipping situation World tonnage
at the time war broke. 80 mlllion ,
planned by emergency fleet corpora
lions. 20 million. actually built, I'VE
million. salvaged and taken over
from Germans, Is Million; sunk by
Germans. over 20 million. deficit now
seven million
Peace Program On
The program is now on peace
basis explained Mr. Barglebaugh n
and the corporation has extended IT'S
plans so that the 20 million tons VIII
be built in five years. instead Of two
A large proportion Of the new ton
mage will be used in the Orient and
South American trade. and this fact
will mean much for the southwest
There are two big problems in the
country. labor and transportation
Most Of the scarcities were OF tonnage
rather than products. You had this
illustrated with sugar When tonnage
was released sugar shortages began
TO disappear
I do not think the concrete ship
will ever displace the steel ship. II
Will. however. displace the wooden
ones Relative efficiencies OF the
three are; steel. s. percent; concrete,
So. and wood. so. While concrete
ships cost less in the beginning than
steel. the carrying efficiency makes
the balance in favor OF the steel
ships"
Invites ROtarians.
Inviting all Rotarians TO come TO
the Khaki club at midnight New
New Years TO assist in a big COM
munity sing. Walter Macpherson, Ro-
tartan OF Joliet, III. and local war
camp community service. explained
what peace demands on that service
are. He opened by explaining that
unless the war camp service was a
community effort. IL would not sue
coed There is now a transition" he
said, and the service viii hereafter
be a community service
ne speaker fOAAEluAg4 the OAA
style stone monuments 10 heroes and
commended the El Paso Rotary plan
Of constructing a great park for the
city's heroes This is a splendid and
beautiful plan" he said. and viii ex-
press the spirit OF II PasO."
Comedy Relief.
Raymond Teal. Of Teal DuclIing
fame came at this juncture like a
between the act artist and told some
The struggles OF the Canadians in
the early part OF the world war were
outlined by the next speaker. Pvt H.
L Sanders. OF the 2Sth battalion.
second Canadian division He said IN
the beginning there were only so
rounds OF ammunition a day. while
some OF the artillery batteries had
only three rounds per gun per day.
and orders We're 70 shoot only when
necessary. He said that in the Ypres
battle OF April 1915. he knew OF one
Canadian unit that went into the fray
1900 strong and came out with only Il
men, This was when the Germans
introduced the Canadians 10 gas. and
DC caused the Algerian French to
beat it, the speaker said. leaving
the Canadians TO save Calais.
While the Canadians were de-
stroyed in body 10 a great extent he
said. they were never destroyed in
spirit"
Canada has sent $4,000 men 10 the
war. he told. and has about $4,000 who
viii never again be whole men. hav-
ing been manned in such a way as TO
lose their efficiency in civilian life
Atrocities by the Germans. such as
oatteriug the brains out of wounded
Of a Britisher who wouldn't
give military information, stripping
OF flesh from the LEGS OF another and
~ Il inc H.r-s 1rr D.
er. who said:
slit Their Threats.
That is what makes You so hellish
in the Ight- 7 can say for myself
without boastiuE or without shame
that 1 have slit the threats Of many
a German and pumped lead into many
others, but I never could get revenge
FOR the things they did"
The speaker warned against ceaSing
TO nate the foe, explaining that they
viii assume DISCUSSES and endeavor
20 sneak back into the good Eraces
OF the next Liberty loan and for do
ing everything possible for the SOL
diers over there who have won the
fight for those At home The war is
over as regards the fighting he said.
but the misery OF IL viii be felt for
ever oil over Europe" He also
warned against the fact that the Ger
mans have one card vet 70 play. that
being sympathy. which they will use
TO influence president Wilson.
Due to the inability because or eve
trouble on the part Of secretary Jack
P Sheehan to read his minutes. this
duty was performed ov Mack Hutch
ms Exsecretary Frank Fletcher. at
tired in naval aviation uniform. was
welcomed back 10 FL Paso. C.. B.
Woodal. new member. was intro
duced by Robert Erakauer, Of the cd
irrational committee The attendance
prize was won by F. d. Nixon. while
Mr- Sheehan was drawn as the goat
for next meeting. The meeting was
opened by rabbi Martin Zielonka in
prayer and closed by the singing in
chorus Of america led by Joseph II