The Boulder Dam Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, March 17, 1927

THE BOULDER DAM Officers FOREST R. MILDREN - - - President C. E. PEMBROKE - - - - Secretary J. T. WATTERS Treasurer C. E. PEMBROKE - Club Correspondent F. M. FERGUSON - - Sergeant-atArms We meet Thursdays at 12:15 at Union Pacific Dining Room Issued Weekly by the LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LAS VEGAS, NEVADA "The Best Town by a Dam Site" Mafch 17. 1927. Directors FOREST R. MILDREN C. C. BOYER FRANK GUSSEWELLE O. C. BOGGS C. E. PEMBROKE J. T. WATTERS WILL BECKLEY Past Presidents L. R. SAUNDERS W. E. FERRON A. A. HINMAN Program today is in che^jjre of Leo MeNamee who is making a Special St.Patrick's day aflair of it. Tor today we also have voting on the amendments suggested "by the committee changing the dates of election, and taking of office hy the officers and directors. nomination of officers and directors for the ensuing ar is also scheduled to take place if the above amendments are passed. - 0 - CRITICISM AID PHAI3E. Seemingly there is fear on the part of many bxisiness men that encouragement tends to lessen one's efforts and criticism is offers ed instead. There is no question hut what just criticism is of value, even to the most brilliant minds, whereas unjust criticism tends to discourage and curb the development of promising assistants.. Do not misunderstand - I do not mean to advocate a policy of simply turning every employee loose to run things as he sees fit - that would mean complete ruin, quickly reached.m Neither do I mean that the general manager should not have dominion over the department heads, and they in turn, over the clerks. That is the way it should be; in fact must be. - J.A.Dodge. - 0 - T.4E ZI1TD OP 3-JRVIC3 TrIAT'S RJQUIRJD The Rotograph, Rotary Club of Pittsburg, Kansas says that it is not sufficient when-a customer inquires for something ycu do not carry or have in stock, to tell him so, hut as a good business man you should know where the would he purchaser may be able to acquire the article, or make an effort to get it for him. If he has paid paid ycu the compliment of supposing you had what he wanted^ the least ycu can do is to help him, even though you are obliged" to send him to a competitot,. Service should come before personal prejudice. If you give that kind of service to a customer, he or she will come again, and you have made a friend of your customer*. s - 0 » BOULDERS 11 Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, "but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own record, to hear oui> trials, to do our work, - Strippings* PROVIDE BOYS WITH TRAIN-ING WHICH THEY MISSED Rotarians in Greene, N. Y., recently got to talking over the opportunities they had missed in their youth. The outgrowth was a short school course in several subjects that interest the boys, sponsored by the club. Letters were sent to^ioys, whose names had been given to the chairman of the Boys Work committee, telling them that the majority of men oi this day had missed the privilege of learning the things they were interested in durirts* their boy-hood and which would have,been useful to them in their everyday life The courses' did not require a great deStl >of study, but gave fundamental working principles. It included such subjects as electricity, radio, cost accounting, automobile instruction and repair and agriculture. Each course con-sisted of eight lessons, , • CONVENTION COMMITTEE MEETS During the January ijieetlhg of the board of directors the convention commit-tee of Rotary International held several sessions. Chairman Walter D. Cline, of WijHita Falls, Tex., was' in Chicago all during the board session as Vas Al, Falk-enhairer, member from .Algona, ' Ic va. Past President Guy Gundaker came on froifi Philadelphia to attend the discussions and Director "Bill" Elliott was in .session with the committee a good deal of the time when the board was, not meeting. Governor "Bill" Edwards, of the 41st dis-trict, American member o'f.the committee on publicity for the convention, "and Ray Knoeppel, 01 the transportation committee, also were in Chicago during the board sessions. K?. TWO NOVEL PROGRAMS Two Illinois clubs recently put on a novel meeting which attracted considerable favorable comment. The Kxwanee club en-listed the services of all -the college stu-dents home for the Christmas holidays for the last meeting of the year "and the May-wood Club staged a sons' and daughters meeting. At this gathering: the sons and daughters of the Rotariaiis impersonated their fathers in putting on^ the program. A ROTARY FAMILY De Ridder, La., has a unique situation in membership with a father, two sons and two sons-in-law, all with distinct classifica-tions and all thoroughly glad to be in Rotary. / /z p ROTARY IN MEXICO The manner in which Rotarians gathered to assist in the presentation of the official i charter to the Rotary Club of Huatusco, * Mexico, was in itself ample proof of what- , the club means to Rotarians in Mexico., What might well be called "an expedition" * was organized to deliver the charter to the ' Rotary Club of Huatusco. A special train was chartered from Cordoba to San Juan de Coscomatepec for a party of fifty Rotarians and their friends. This party included Rotarians from the cities of Cor-doba, Orizaba and Puebla. Upon arriving at San Juan the • party found horses ready for them and they set out ton a five-hour ride over mountain trails to the quaint little town of Huatusco. The start was made in a - typical tropical downpour. The condition of the trails can be imagined when it is learned that it had rained continuously for five days during •the week preceding. Covered with mud, the party arrived in the best of spirits in . time to take part in the banquet "that same evening. The guests at this banquet num-bered two hundred. Here the charter was delivered by the president of the Rotary Club of Cordoba who acted in place of District Governor Garza, who was-absent because of illness. The following day a barbecue was held at the hacienda of Rotarian Guillermo Fernandez, president of the Rotary Club of" IlOatusco. The barbecue was followed by a kerniess. The following morning the "expedition", of fifty horsemen rode back over the long mountain trail and took their return train to Cordoba. This was truly a celebration befitting the event. BIG INTERCITY MEETINGS Oklahoma City and Lawton, Okla., both staged monster intercity meetings January 25; the former at noon and the latter in the evening. President Harry Rogers, First Vice-President Allen Street and Past President Everett Hill were features on the PRES. ROGERS VISITS OLD SOUTH President Rogers visited the old south this month attending intercity meetings at Americus, Ga., and Orlando and Miami, Fla. The meetings had added interest be-cause they were enthusiasm sessions for the approaching district conferences on this side of the Atlantic and the international convention on the other. programs. LAY PLANS FOR OSTEND Arrangements were completed at the re-cent board meeting for the transportation of four thousand persons, Rotarians and their families, from North America to the international convention of the organiza-tion to 'tie held in Ostend, Belgium, June 5 to 10. Seven ocean liners have been chartered for the occasion. Figures pre-sented to the board indicate that more than 7,500 persons representing thirty-eight countries, would attend. Action was taken to draft the program so that the gathering would be an expression of international friendship of "business and professional men. Special trains have been chartered from several European capitals to transport na-tional delegations.- Rotarians in the Neth-erlands promised at least 80 per cent of their membership'would be present. Span-ish Rotarians wrote they had chartered a special train to carry three hundred of their number but that arrangements for addi-tional accommodations would have to be made. : • •• ? PAUL HARRIS TALKS OVER RADIO Paul Harris, founder of Rotary, was scheduled to speak'over radio station WLW at Cincinnati at 7:30 p. m. February 16. Rotarians within listening distance were planning to tune in on the occasion. The subject of his talk had not been announced when this issue went to press but as it was to be in conjunction with the Sixth Annual Convention of the International Society for Crippled Children, it was ex-pected he would speak along that line. CUBA DISTRICT CONFERENCE Second Vice-President S. Kendrick Guernsey has been named by Rotary Inter-national to be present at the 21st District Conference, held at Sagua LaGrande, Cuba, February 18, 19 and 20. RIBI SECRETARY IN U. S. A. Vivian Carter of London, Eng., Secretary of RIBI, "attended the International Board meeting at Chicago, January 10 to 14, and remained at headquarters two weeks longer to study Rotary methods and practices in the United States and familiarize himself with the work in the International Secre-tary's office. On his way back home he addressed several clubs in the eastern part of the country. \ TOKYO GIVES NEW YORK SILK FLAG Rotarian Zenjuro Horikoshi, recently presented a beautiful silk Japanese flag to the New York Club, as a gift from the Tokyo Club, of which he is president. In accepting the flag, which took the place of a smaller flag presented to the club in 1924, President .Pirie said: "To me this flag is a symbol of the feeling of . the people of Japan. They have come to us with some-thing more., than generosity. You will be good enough to take to the Rotary Club of Tokyo in particular and to Japan in gen-eral our thanks for this most generous gesture/' PICKING DISTRICT GOVERNORS John H. Uhl, governor of the 51st dis-trict, is urging his clubs to look over the field with a view of putting promising ma-terial before the coming conference for the, selection of a district governor. As John sees it, no man should be chosen who will not first of all agree to give liberally of . his time, who does hot have a comprehensive knowledge of Rotary and who does not know at least some of the measures to use when he comes in contact with a weak club. "No man should be chosen," says John, "just because he happens, to be 'good on his feet.' This is the least df all requirements, as I see it. We must not get jn the habit of picking a club to be honored or a man to honor." THIS RECORD IS WORTH MENTIONING The Atchison Rotary Club has made an analysis of its' membership and makes the following report: *• Number of members belonging to craft - associations ...:. 20 Number of associations having a" Code of Ethics 20 Number of craft associations repre-sented in the club. 43 Number of Codes being drafted 2 Number having trade rules 1 JACK ORR UNDERGOES KNIFE Word was received at Rotary headquar-ters the last week in January that Jack Orr of Miami, Florida, chairman of the Exten-sion committee, had been hurried to a hospital for an operation for appendicitis. A telegram from Jack's secretary said that he had withstood the operation well and his rapid recovery was expected.