Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-23
Horatio S. Earle Gives Splendid
Address At Meeting of Au-
gusta Rotary Club-Mem-
bers Present Past Presidents
Jewel to Paul D. Sargent

you've got too much prohibition In
Name" declared Horatio S. Earle of
Detroit, Mich, speaking at the reg
ular supper session of the Rotary
Club. Friday evening. You prohibit
whiskey from coming into the State.
which is probably fine enough, but
you carry tAis prohibition thing too
far when you prohibit the sending of
electric power out of the state,
and permit the hundreds of thousands
of potential horsepower to flow on
to the sea embarrassed.
The Detroit manufacturer proved a
brilliant speaker and with a message
full of pointed and pithy shafts, which
found their place under the skin of
his audience and left with them many
thoughts worthy of serious considera-
ton. The talk was replete with inn
proved platitudes and truisms-or
"newisms," as Mr. Earle labeled them,
and was under the subject of "Grasso-
logical Philosophy"
Because he had known him for the
past Is years, Paul d. Sargent was
called upon by President Herman R.
Mansur to introduce Mr.. Earle. and
in presenting him to the Rotary Club,
Mr.. Sargent declared that he was the
best salesman that he had ever known.
when he was head of the highway
department of Michigan, he sold the
people of that state on the need of
improved highways. and then he re-
signed to enter into the manufacture
of road building machinery"
Mr.. Earle effectually disposed of
the friendly implication of the intro
duction when he declared that he did
not sell his machinery and road
building materials, "as they came and
purchased from him."
The Detroit manufacturer is a ma
tive of Vermont and attended the
Black River Academy, where later the
present attorney general of the United
States, Mr.. Sargent. and President
Calvin Coolidge also matriculated. He
is the president of q Maine corpora
tion-the North Wayne Tool Company
with plants at North Wayne and
Oakland, and it was because of that
fact that he talked rather pointedly
to his audience concerning this state.
Maine reminds me of the story
about the fisherman" said Mr.. Earle.
This particular fisherman went to a
brook one day to secure a creel full
of trout. Along about 10 O'Clock he
had secured three or four good fish
when he perceived a shiny object in
the brook. Laying down his pole he
went into the stream and scooping
the object up found that it was a mug
get of gold. 'Ha.' said the man. this
is gold and worth hundred dollars.
So he reeled in his line. put up his
jointed pole and went home. That
man would never make successful
business man. Maine is like that in
b,t 70 hri,, IND
tries into the state through the utili-
cation of the unsurpassed water pow
err facilities. And then they spotted
the shiny nugget labeled Tourists
and quit fishing. Maine should ac-
/ cept the nugget as a bonus, but the
water powers should be developed and
the Bay of Fundy's tides harnessed.
until power has been developed to
light every home in this country and
run every machine of this nations in
dustrieS."
The speaker told most interesting
| ~ of his hobby. AS an officer of the
Newsboys Association of Detroit he
picked out likely lad and guaran-
teed his education, on the single pro-
vision that the fortunate boy sign a
| contract with him to the effect that
when he had attained place where
he could continue the favor, he select
| another poor boy and send him to
school and college on the same con-
] ditions.
In a gracious speech In which he
| conveyed the sentiments of his fellow
| Rotarians, Past President Everett V.
| Perkins presented Paul d. Sargent,
who has but recently returned from
abroad, where he was one of three