El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-01-09
Rotary BURIES
PLAIN OLD Bull
Club Holds Solemn Ser
vice Over Dead and Gone
Former Associate.

Former Associate.
''Bun"-his fun name being plain
/ Old Bulls dead. His funeral was
held by FL Paso Rotary at its regular
meeting. Thursday noon. at Hotel
sheldon. Rev. Fuller swift conducted
the funeral services, and urged his
/ hearers to substitute Truth for the
& late colleague. while H. R. McClintock,
former president. now located at Los
/ Angeles. urged the Rotarians to be
wary OF little Bulls that might crop
up and to stamp them down at once
The Cortege.
After the opening prayer BY rabbi
Martin Zielonka. the funeral cortege
entered Pallbearers about the black
coffin. bearing an inscription. Plain
Old Bull" were Al Fraser, C. G.
MCKEE, Jack Ballugh and Leo Ferlet
while, with Joseph II. Evans as leader.
a quartet including "a yale Josepa
SegaI and Arthur Millican, sang a
funeral march parody, entitled. Bull,
EulI. Plain Old Bull Is Dead" Follow
Ing this. Rev Mr.. Swift delivered his
funeral sermon, in part, as follows;
Mr.. President and Fellow Rotarians;
I'VE have here before US the re-
mains OF our late friend and staunch
ally, one so long and lovingly known
among US in Rotary as pain Ola
Bull His demise comes to Us as a
great surprise, for he has always been
such a healthy specimen in various
forms Of public expression in the
rreat southwest Only last Thursday
he was living. breathing presence in
:. plain Old Bull has long been a
member Of Fl PasO Rotary, some say
from its very inception There are
those who DO declare that Bull has
never been absent from a single meet
ing Of Rotary. regular or special Ana
when we come to look back through
the past year. we recall that IN too
many speeches Of prediction ana the
comments thereupon, there mas
breathed the spirit and life OF Plain
Old Bull
1T has been whispered about here
that there are some Few members OF
Rotary who have been more closely
affiliated with Bull than others In
defence OF the dead. let me say, ana
without fear OF successful eontracl G
ton. that Bull has always been who'll
" impartial in his affiliations with
the membership OF Rotary
Bull has had notable part IN eE-
cry political campaign from the re-
construction period. after the civil war
to the last spectacular scrimn1age lot
congressional honors. in the last
named event, with attentions evenly
divided between the aspiring candi-
dates, and IL has been limited that
Pr1I vas trimming himself TO repeat
the operation in the coming spring
- ave have all been on most intimate
terms with Bull Ny friend, George
LeBaron. viii bear me out N ne ne
statement that in his work In the
council Of defence Bull was one or tne
first he met every morning when ne
went to headquarters to begin the
days work. DR.. Ramey VIII assure
you that he never went into con-
sultation over patlent. out ma s 2l5i
was in on the case some where. Ana
II Bull had not died when ne did, ne
PERHAPS would have been visiting the
ministerial alliance, and some even
suggest that he was there once IN
awhile-in disguise
zee aGeutlemen. Most OF US belong to
! some sort Of fraternal society where.
upon our initiation, we have present.
ed to US some symbolic lesson ana
while there IS usually a little fun con-
nected with the play, there IS also a
valuable lesson taught, so that while
we NAV relish the fun. we also recol-
Iect the lesson I understand that IS
the purpose for this tomfool introduo-
ton to the real program OF the day.
The air Is full OF programs Every
conceivable sort OF organization or So
cietv tbat can find any letters in the
alphabet left with which 70 tag u
self, is proposing to do certain things.
What are we as Rotary going 10 40 .
I'VE are a big organization. but We
must be busy as well as big. We are
fat with talent and possibilities, but
we must be fit as well as fat
who will take the place Of BullZ II
we are true to the principles OF Ro-
tary we must truly enthrone Truth
al rrmn-n fehan muEETUIEneu
Following the funeral Of their late
colleague. Rota-ians proceeded TO tax
until 1870. the time limit, without
completing the expression OF the
wishes OF the individual members as
regards improvements IN the city dur
ing 1919.
Otis c. Coles, president Of the cham
Der OF commerce, opened the discus
sion by general outline OF what the
chamber has accomplished during
1913, pointing out that. despite the
fact that the year was a strenuous
one. every debt nd been met and the
annual statement will show credit
all Of which was accomplished with
smaller budget than every before. He
told Of helping IN the current move
ment to secure fire protection for the
Peyton Packing prents and OF a sue
cessful Effort, sometime ago. to pre-
vent the diversion Of a 100000 gov
eminent contract from FL Paso- he
pleaded with all Ito center on the
chamber OF commerce and you viii get
results, whenever you have any good
suggestions to offer"
Points Out Negligence.
President G. A. Martin pointed out
that we have all been too negligent
OF the chamber Of commerce asking
for greater cooperation by the mem
bership in future, such as attending
regular meetings
H R McClintock. following the
president, declared he was perfectly
satisfied with his change to California
IN every way, except that he missed
his FL Paso friends.
Sentence Suggestions
The members then expressed their
1919 desires. and some Of them obeyed
the suggestion 70 confine themselves
TO one sentence. Typical suggestions
were: Joseph II. Evans, Carline to the