Januarl/, 1923

SERVICE ABOVE SELF - HE PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES BESI'
IN THIS ISSUE:
The Million-Dollar Glitter
By GEORCE P. SiIlOlER
Keep On Keeping On
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OIL FRANK CRANE
For Sale: A Fifty-Fifty Carburetor
By M AOtLl:.1E L\MBffiT
Profits: Material and Spiritual
A Series of Personal leiters
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THE MILLION -DOLLAR GLITTER . . "" " " "" " " . , .. . ' ... .. "' . . .. "" " "",,"'"
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By Georle P . Shidler, M,O.
RECREATION_THE SAINT LOUIS IDEA "., .. . . ," ' ,. " ..... . . . . . . , ', ......... .. . . .. . •
By Ndsol1 Cunlilf
THE DECLINE OF THE CiERMAN MARK " " " " " . . , "
By Elvi .... R. Kidde
PROFITS : MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL"" __ .. ,,. "
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It S,.rn~oai"m of P ......... l £Jlpcrimcn
FOR SALE: A F I FTY.FIFTY CARBURETOR
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N olel by 0....1 ... J. Phillips, F,S.A.
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ROTARY CLUB ACTiViTIES .......... . . . .... .. ................. .
THE UNIVERSITY AND RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONS
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Editorial Comm.nt (pale U )-Book R.Yie_. (pale U)_lnfoiH eo! Conc~
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PrrJidrNI. R" VM O)lD M. H"vu;l. Kansa.. City. Mo.; Fi.., VW:l·PrtNt1Il. Ro.aT PAno:SOIl'. D.yton O~io; Sm. NtI
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Fun: J. WOllARD
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MalUlf/1'Ng Edi""
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THE ROTARIAN
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OFFICIAL CALL
ANNUA L CON VENT I ON - ROTARY I N T ERNATI ONAL
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St. L ouil , Millouri, f unt I 8-22, I92)
7', .All .)lftlll Ptr ('UPl.·
'PI.". AC"C~p.i", the cordi.l in~i ...ion of the ROIl' Y
'fi.. , .~J Club of Sai n. louil •• he Board of Oirecto .. h""
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di""IOd me. ;n complianre ... i. h Ar.;cle VI.
IIr,.,. S«.;nn 1 of .h. By_Laws ' 0 ,.. y • • hi •• the
for mal officio! col! for ,h. Four'een, h Annu al
Con v.ntion of Ro,.ry I Mern.,ion,l, '0 be I><ld
in . he ci,y of Soio, Loui •• )',IiNOurI. U. S. A.,
J une 11 1012. indu.i...,. 19lJ. fOt the puTf'OK 01
re<eivinll r.~" of ofl\ce,. and committ.... for
the Innu al elcc tion of ollieer •• 1Id for .uch other
I....in..... ma,come befOr.c i •.
R ;I~'" i, R'1'"' .. nIUion in . hil ronnD'ion oholl be in
.",,_ ..cordlnce wi. h Art;,,1e VII , Seclion. 3. 4. and
S of.he Con"i,u,ion which pr<>nde .h.. uch
,,~ui "",mbe. dub o.holl be eR.itk<! 10l"<"(lracntaiion
in IIIr COfI ven,ion of Rou,y I R'eml, ionll br
ORe deiq ... fot eac h fiftr memben Ot major
frx'"", ' het«>f. ,,",,-a,y memben .'Copled.
IIIe: ",. al number of mem ...... '" be aso.hown in
tM m.,.,ben!oip reporl for AprilJlh:hot <he r eH
in which Ih ..... nnn. ion
LeI. Pro-o-idcd, how_
e ..h m.,.,be, dub oh.U be en,itkd
'0 all ... , 0"", dekpt<:.
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VIIIJ ,. h E""h "'.... ber dub "'"11 c"",OcI.,. i . a dUly to be
R,1" .. p. MI.ed I, tv.ry Inlemarionol Connn.ion
- b,.du[r_rediled<kl... teotdel ..aro;uc h
,..Id del ... t<:ot .1.em.I•• uc~deiq .... by P""'Y.
ohalJ be an ocli ..e m.... be. of. he cl ub lie "9':"'H~t:I Ind exh luch delcf ••e dlalJ be entllled
' 0 one .....e on uch q_"on pul 10 ~OI. in .he
connn.ion. Any dub "UY. II Ihe I;me of
teI..,li .... ill del .. al ... OCIccI .ft 01 . ......." !"or
.xh d.iq .... to OCI ./w:" Ihe deiqale i.
• ~III from any .. uion of lheconve",ion and
luch ah.rn.te .Mn 10 ac.;"" in place o/'he
d.Ie, ... ohall han one ..... e on all q"" .. ion.
com."II bef...., 1M .... nv..,lion d~rina .he 'ime
h. i, 10 aOlinl pl"1) .. ~ted tht due notice oflhe
IUholil",ion of 'M dol ....e Ind ,Itc' nll' . h.ll
be reponed 10 ,he .hairman of .he =denl;al,
committee.
Any active member from any membe r dub;n
a .:ountryo, her thIn th'l in .. hi. h Ihe conven_
, ion is h.ld mar a.. a. pto., for .ny .b.. n,
deJq ... ftom ouch .:oun ..,. .-he.. 10 design.ted
by proper author;lyi this m,ufCI ev.., dub i ..
....te! a conven.ion .n
Un,ted Su,... how.
ever. i. con,idered .. beil\il in C.. adllO f. . ..
Canadian
.nd proo;" are con«.n",J.
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Th . au,horit y of eve.y d.l~a le . h,ll he ui. (;rd,.li.1
~~d~~:.:r~e~i'h:'~I~tn~~n·7t,r:!~e~} C""ij,,''''
pro.;" hy .... ,j~c ..e lillned bf .he !'t"id.n.
.nd ICC ..' 1rJ' of .h. dub for wh ICh ' M member
hold, Ihe pt"OlIy. AU c... i~ ...... mu .. be pre.
ocn,ed .0 .he . rede",ia\t commi".., to enlille
d.l«Iat ..... lce. n ..... al>ll pt"OlI'" 10 paM,.,;!'...
in Ihe pl'ClCftdinp of lhe con...,nllOR. Eac h
0/5c.,. and eac.h "UI p..,siden. of Ro.a.y I nle,.
no.iotoal .,i]] hoIdin, .."iv. m.... ben.hip in a
Roury dub dlllI be I cltl..... "' ]a. . . . 1Id
enn , k<! 'Oone _ . on e..,h q .... I;.,.,.lubmi .....
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'" ,/w: conven.ion.s S-iblc in addilion '" lhe R.lu;".,
_i .... ddq..... All ...i,i.... Ro......... and
Lbtir wi...,. .- ill be we"'''III.d and .11 . ... h ... il_ .~, L<JlII
i,. RDlatiano who .... duly r....<Tft! in 0.",1>11_
all« mo, addreu . he con ...... lion .. I.... Oft<e
on afty q ....,;.,.. comi~1 before il.
Ho •• Joccommoda .ion.!"or ,heconw:n.ion mUI, H.uJ
b..ecuru!lhtO\>lh th ..ec .... rrof ... h ROIA". vi" .......
cl ~b who " 'ill be furnidted wi.h .he pmpc-r
teq,,;,ilion !"ormsabo... F.lmoar,l.l9"23. Th ... J.li..,
forms, propo:rlr filled OIIt •• hould be relurned '"
. he Ro •• r, Conven.ion Olfio:c. 1·[0'" SI .lIe••
S.inl Lou is. Miuouri. U. S. 1.'1 ond eaoh requi.
li,ion m .... be accompanied I>y • f« IIf Ie"
dolT ... (""each po .... n f"" ... hom holel .ceom.
m<>d •• io" • • re K<}uirc<l. " ' • 1I".ro"t.., dcpooi •.
O iled : hI December, 1911.
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Keep On Keeping On
The Law of the U niverse
Au Editorial by Dr. Fra'llk Craue
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HE bicycle givee us an example of a
great truth.
And that example is. thai the
only way to keep up is to /r;etp ,oin,.
When the bicycle stops it falls over.
particles of which a ll thi ngs are composed, and of the Itare, is equally true of
everything between themIncluding u s.
For our bodiel are always changing,
our nails and hai r growing, our very
bones re-forming.
Your business cannot remain .tationary; if you are not going forward you are
losing ground.
The eame thing is true of your mind.
Some people boalt that their opinionl
are just the eame today that they were
yesterday and a year ago. That is nothing to be proud of. If your mind is active
your opinions ought to be improving.
"Growth " is the word of words. It
explains everything. The mind does not
necessarily grow old with years. Some
of the youngest·minded men in the world
are over sixty. They are still reading,
9lilllearning, still pushing fo rward.
In fact, when you find you rself standing still, you may well be ala rmed. For
when w e stand It ill it is an indication
that we are about to fall over, just as in
the case of a bicycle.
No man's businen is solid unlesl it
is progressing. There is but one eafe
thing for you and me to do, and that isKup on ~ttpin, on.
And thi. is a .ymbol of one of the most
important facts in regard to the universe,
and all thinge and all people in it.
The notion that there is permanency in
what ie fixed and immovable is a deIUlion.
On the contrary, nothing is permanent,
nothing can be eaid to be eternal, but
what i. con.tantly changing.
A rock teems everla.ting, and the little
brook it rests by is ever running away;
but come back in a hundred year. or so
and the rock will have worn away and
the brook still be merrily singing:
"For men may come and men may go,
But l ao on foreve,: '
Scientists tell us that the ultimate stuff
o f matter. the atoms of which the atoms
are composed, is probably whirling, lively
thingl constantly in motion.
And we know that the " ever fixed"
stan are really huge globel rushing
thru space with inconceivable rapidity.
And what is true of the infinitesimal
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RQTA Rf A N
The Million;..Dollar Glitter
By GEORGE P. SHIDLER, M.D.
T h e wrlln f~ Q m lm, ber oj t h e Ro t ary Club (lj Yo .'!'. Neb ...,,,,,. and ~1(f!-prf!IWf!nt
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HE boyl of our town have a
million-dolb.r ,litter in their
eyn. Ninety.live per cent of
the nex t generation 01 ~le
\'ote.s, now peacefully plodding through a conventiona1 hiCh-lIChooi
eourSC', firmly bdic.ve ,holl IIOI11C' day.
when they r eI good and rudy. they will
pHI off thtir coalS, roll up their ileevu.
wade into IOIlle
of businclS. from
which, in I kw years, they will eme",c
lull.fI~td millionai rn.
In truth, Ihis
forms a m.l.jor portion of the ~ine
literature and storiu of the day. How.
ever, the th ina: that has 10 firmly fixed
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this univeual (\elution in 0\1. boy.' minds
;1 the b.el Ihat one of our high_KhooI
cradua1n hal ~a1ly become a multimillionaire. Hi. nephew enumerates the
nwnber of an and K"anU lie po ...
Kues, and pratn to tile youngsters at
tile kid-partin about tile Kveral Iummer homu on diffe,..,nl laku and oceano
that his uncle own •.
Thi , tw~lve_yea r-old n~phew does not
know that hi. uncle never earned hi s
million s in QP/'n comb.:Jt, or do the other
boyl know it-and if th ey did. that WQuid
not imprt n tht 'tttn -age mind. H e did
the big stunt 1 fulfilled the prophecy I
He'l their Auh-and-b]ood idol-their
symbol of the richu to be found along
the drcam-douded hOriEDn of Stormand-Strus Land, the habitat of Amtri~
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After Adolph (that wal the conque ring hero', name) graduated from hieh
school he wwt away to a neiehboting
ltatt and embarked upoD & medical
course duignnl to alleviate the physical
IUfferinc of lIuman ity. For Kveral
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year. he dashw. back now and then, during tht Sum""'r vacations, wt.;lrini lortoise-.helled QItlpus wind-shi elds and a
pompadour. Finally, ht graduated, and
his folks. ever after, referred to him as
" Doctnr Adolph: ' He Knled in a ntar_
by city, and found Ihat il was too t.IIJm.
People haP\M'nrd in ,....,ry one" in a
whi]., and called him by hi s fir$!. ,gme.
T HE next thing w., hea rd, Dr. Adolph
had sail w. for K.",.· York Cily, whe..,
he went into partnership with an old
doctor. Naturally thil lhrew him in with
the old practitioner's pal rnn", which di_
rectly ,..,sulted in a yOtmg-]ady palient
falling for the tortoise_shell wind-Ihield.
and the sheik hair-cul. Not having curtains on hil wind-shields, our younC
Adolph saw Ihe advantage in marry in,
Ihe patienl of the old doctor in spite of
the f:act thai $I'e owned one-third in _
iernt in one of the largut and ~Jt­
known manufacturing p]ant s.. So, being
o f pure Nordic extraction and possessing the hereditary impulscs of conquest
and ponession, Doc married her.
Then Ihe "Au" epidemic: came on and
hi s poor, young wife died. So did tht
old doctor. When everything had ~n
_ttended to, our young friend found him_
scll thrice a mill ionaire and the pol lle.lOr
of a lucrati"e office practice in the won
det eity of Ameria. Now, he con t.o
Chicago to hal'e his d othes built and to
BoltOn to ha,'" hi~ tedh clean", and
filled..
This morning I O'terh«rd hi. small
... phew laying it off to _ bunch of boy.
on the football side of our house:.
"Why," he exclaimed, '1te has seven
automobile. :md one truck; two motor_
boat. and a "~am launch; hone. to r idc;
c"(fythi ng to make a fell ow happy, I
can tell the wor]d."
"What', the thances of our doing the
same thing?" on~ 01 my boys asked.
"Better than hi s evcr wete,~ his
nephew " ol um«rw, "because ht's sitting pretty now, up in the gan, that
grows millionaire.. I can
acquainted
with them, introduce you fellow. and we
can ret all we nero, liick I I a whime."
...... ..,sult of this kind of talk, the
whol e affair has 10 fi red the imatinatioo
of OUr 'ttcn _ytar-oldl that they cannot
sec anylhin, but H" en-oJlwnn figure ..
A. a matter of fact, this millio,gire stuff
is onc of Ihe big ideal that AmeriQu
boy, had bettcr $laugh off a. II)On ...
convenient. Income IItatisti Cll for 1920
show that out of Hnn million two hundred and fifty-nine thousand nine hundred
and forty_ four individual . filing returns,
only thirty_three indi vidual. in the
United Statts paid tu es on incomes of
one million or more.
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Hems to me Ih!l.t th ere $I,ould be
placed itl e" ery high school a cour~
on "PerJOllal Habits and Economy."
Such a courH would give to the young
men .nd women & more pn.ctical vicwpoi nt of li fe , and tnch them, during
youth, the need of a definite purpolle,
and the Ttward. of virtue and the pePalty for miJtake.. This course might
well begin in the Freshman )'car and
continue throuch the four year.. It
would consist of teaching the Item reali ties of life thrcc or four time. a week
in such a way that every )'OUR, mao and
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young woman would havt a
st ratum of solid, worldly knowl.
edg.: upon which to build his
moral and spiritual edifice.
The pro"erbial objtttion 10
luchln~ io school anything
defioite about morals and businH. i. thai boy, must learn b)'
experience. As if a beginning
fa rmer Jhould go out into his
plowed field and .lOw morning
glories and Russi an thi stl es just
for the experience o f grubbing
them out for the next $ix yta r s.
TIliok of the handicap h~ has
to Ofucome compared to the
young nUln acron tht road
who!ot fathe r explained the
ri~ht thing to do. 'J"M old ""'y
has largd)' been to take the
wind out of his young uib by
k tting him blow onto a fOlll
reef. As wcll let a boy sund
in Iront o f a speeding automobile and be struck in order
that he may know enough to
stay off the highway; Or to let
him kick his pedal ext remity
through a sheet of platt-glass
in order to comprehend that ht
should ntHr run imo a big " lIIclow.
E"en thtlle exam)llt. might be callrd
into question, but who woul d want hi§
son to bet ...",e inf«ted with a lOOI thsome
disease in ordu to lea rn to keep away
from the red·light district? These ar_
guments about the ne.:usity of per$Onal
uperience of a detrimental nature come
from the ancien t prop:lganda of COnvent ionality nourished largtly by t hose specially interuted in itl continuation. TI'e
railroads spend millions to prevent accidents because they have found that it
p:l)'J. Soldiers in the late war were
trained, drilled and rVtearsed before the
hattie. "If you don't know, you11 cet
k illed,~ was the terse, stolid adviu giYen
the marine. at Quantico. Fifty yun
3£"0 il was not 10 fatal to make common
mistalcu becllUse Ihe economic condilions
wue not 10 crindine; one could p West
and t ry apin. Today, di,·ideDdt mounl
U miltaku In"'n. In this day of timeeloc:kI, curves and percentages, when
you make a sc r ious mistake IOflltof1e
taktl you r place.
TI,e IO rt of school COUrse I propose
would have to be specially presented and
be taught by a peculiarly fitted person
who was not in it jusl for t he sal ary
alOfle. It could be made wonderfully in_
teresting and prcmtable; incidentally II
would do as much pracl ical good u any
cou rse offered. It would contain matter that would make every pupil think
every day. It would increase immtdi_
ately the joy o f living, the happinen
of thinking outside of 5(:hool as wel! as
inside ; it would simpli fy at once t he cost
o f IIChoolinll' for each individual pupil,
thu. influencing the ,·e ry home immediatdy. What would be taught in suc h
a cour",,? Why, the si mplest things in
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tiel. And then that greal rupon.i bil;ty
of discove ring or leading the youth to
diKO\·er for himself whit task each
...·ould like to adopt for his life·work, and
then following this with a comparison
or ehllCking o f their du irn against their
mental. physical and social cap:lcity.
SllCcial lecture! by . uccusful men in
nery community would sc.ve 10 demon.
_trate th e practical side of profeuional
n'ld industrial vocations of many kind s.
As :1 loundat ion for :1 ,·ocat ion we
wo"ld di.cuss the practi cal, e,·trycl.ay.
a)t~-<.1l d ways of the btl.iocos world : the
.-a11l~ of a dollar, earned and unearned ,
thrift lind savi ng_ 11()( in the
ste reotyped way, but by SUbili.
lUting a ntw idea_"A Work.
ing Knowlnlge of Your I nde.
pendency" and "Imkpcndcncy
and H appineu," rather than
"Riches and Relponllibilily."
U I us teach the young folk,
~uch n,athemat ieal and absolute
bets ~ s;
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the world: the very little, ti ny, everyday
facII that make up th~ summary of happinus and contentment for a large pc r.
centage of t he total populatiOfl of the
,,·orld. The course would contain $uch
subjecU al Time. What is T ime? 110'"
do we recognize it ~ What docs it mun ?
The proper division of the twenty-four
houn of the day inlO Food. Exercise,
Amusement, Slttp, and Talks. There
would be a discuuion of proper food, :
then, uercise--how much time each day
should be properly de"otw to t his; and
which forms of exercise were beneficial,
which harmllll, and why.
A PROPER
knowltdge of anlUnmtn ts would be taugh t : the inju ry
of certain lorms o f ent(Ttainment: why
,lnd wherefore : how much time daily and
weekly .hould be proPl'rly devotw to
:unl1SCmcnts at different agel. There
,,'OUld be lectures On sleep; pictures of
hrain-cel1s be fore and afte r a food sI«p :
tht requirements at different periods 01
life; the lendenc::ies in reaction that too
little $leep produ«!;.
There would be a number of Ittturu
on how much time should be ginn 10
our daily tasks, whether it be COing to
school or working 10 provide a liyell·
hood: the habits o f ,·ariOUI racu in ,~'>
viding ta lks for their children:
age they arc gi,·en various
;;;.;ri,
We would suggest to them
how any boyar girl with Ihe
vision may .arn or save, or
ea rn aM UYC $5.20 a month al
lourteen )·tars 01 age, not with
the idea of being rich , but conI.
fortable and useful in this life, able to
hell) the needy, rtady to do hi. bit at all
tim es. We would bum the wonden of
this Independency idea into the yow'g
man'. brain .'iO thoroughly that he would
come to cl ing tenaciously to 54-7 per
cent interest in so far :1.1 p:lyilli' it out
himllCH is ooncernW.. ut him grasp
definitely the idu that any reuonaNe,
perlOllal sacr ifice o f rnorncntary, unnecessary thrill will more than pay,
"Pinst Iht tim~ when t he income from
hil aco:wnulation shall hayc produced a
sum sufficient to ptlrChallC the nceellities
of life. Lei him know that even a ditth.
digg<:r can become independent in the
United States, which i. st ill the miracle
of Amerka.
l.et us show him that the reward lor
his trouble will be that he will never
fall for his good friend'. folly, pitch.
ing hi. savings and hi. very freedom
o f attion ioto some bl ue-sky enterpri .e
at 50rIIt moment of enthusiaJlll.. If he
does not g<:t th is knowltd&"e in high
school, then !'i«f'uity must teach it to
him later on, and because he i. not get_
ting it today, 97 per Cent of Americans
losc all they have accumulated when they
ret to be about forty 10 forty-five year.
of age, start oVer again, and lose lIfilin
at the threshold of old age, when they
cannot ordinarily hope to reo;over.
Let u. teach our boys tht glory 01
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THE
ROTARIAN
honest work, well done-the
folly of trying to dod,e it.
El<plain to tliC'lll whal F rank.
lin, Washington, Je fferson,
L incol n and the kfUI ""' n of
all countr iu have said about
working with t he hands.
Let U J a ll the anention of
OUr young men to the :mcicm
Jewi sh customs. In the time
o f SL Paul the Heb •.,,,· customs held thu the fllt~r who
d id not tu<;h his IOn a t rade,
laurhl hi m to ~ a Ih id of
t iltH: and opportunity. which
was jU$!: a. bad as a Ihid 0 1
~,.. The boy fin ilj,w th e School o f
t he Book .II thi rteen yurs o f .,e, and,
be fou he could go on to <:OIl ege ~ had
to learn a trade---(O do somcthi nc with
hi s hands. 51. Paul , him",If , learned to
n,ake tents and mend Ioa il,. a trade which
supported bim all the YU TI 0 1 hi, minist ry afler hi. wealthy family bad dilinhe r ited and di5(lw lIW hi m because he
had embraCfll Chri stianity. More than
a mere 1ivilll:'. it kepI him ;n touch wi th
the common working people, from within whose Tanh any grut change from
the ui , ting order of thin,s had to ~me.
W
H ENEV ER our boys are brought
to the point where t hey realize t he
importance of going to work, and saving
instud of spending, just then and there
they will devdop a lCriOUI interest in
what lOr! of an oc:eup;ltion t hey will
adopt to se rve mankirKI. Our pre..,nt_
day system of cl utteredli,';n, amon, OUr
)"oung don nOt. encourage a deci sion
unl il the list yea r or two o f eoIlqe,
whm the vi sion of NeCeY;ly with her
cat-o f-nine-taib Ihreatens their ex istm ee. And it ..,em. to _ that it would
be a di il inct aid to moral ity .ti1lO to
have every boy imp rened with what
ten doIl. n spent fool ishly, to no good
purpose at fifteen you of are, might
have purch$ed in com fort and content _
ma lt in old ace. <Arta inly it would, at
IUlt, produce a slowing down of the
u~lion 0 1 credit whi eh ha., ac~rd­
ing to F rederic ]. Hukins, resulted in
a condition where, if debts meant jail,
one-hall the population of the United
Statn would be behind lhe ba ra.
Mr. Haskin s SIllies that the perllOnal
indebledneu of h ~~',« '
people is
in exccu of
Th is is
approximately
each man,
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If you add 10 this
the indi" idua!' s Ihare of the ftderal
d~bt. the figure i. incrtasd to $764 per
cap ita or $76,425.623,000 in Ihe a"rt.
p te. Furthermore, he Rates that the
Amer ican people owe the banks in tuh
loans $27,666,823,000. He est imatu the
in stal lment plan indebtedneu to be $5,000,000,000. Literally million s of faroi .
lies are using furniture, wearing clothe.
and r eading books, playing pianos and
othu musical instruments, .ind ridinr in
automobiles for which they are payin/:"
on the inst.tilment plan. Apin he declares that about $1,000,000,000 is owed
on dollar-down and, as the humori, u
u,y, a doll ar-a-week-as-]on, _as_you-live
plan. The iutereR; n, question is, would
people continue duin, th is if they had a
good idea of what it rtally means ' Probably 50, because moil. of them could not
liquidate. But the eomin, , eneration
could be made 10 change by education.
I t would seem that there is little use
;n t ryin, to efface the st)'les aDd fadl
o f fancy 10 lon, as we ner' ec:t to Crtl le
the proper foundation, for u A braham
Li~ n uid, "Will powu depends Upoll
a ~mbination 0 1 two th ings, morali ty
and seH_interm.H Let uS create a d ....
sire for the wonh-wh ile things aDd sell
that to t he younptcrs at the im;u l ion
and imprc ssionable time of their life. It
beeomo:s a national duty when we COD lider that our very civilizaliou r iKs or
fall s wi th the varying quantity of quality possessed by the indi vidual. composing Ihe social nrder.
As 10 the responsibility of parenthood,
have we nnt smilingly sli ppeti lhis upon
the already humped and creaking Ihaulders of Ihe public schools 110 thaI Ihe
c,'cr furlhu di fferential in, social aCl iviwoman and child.
January, 1923
ti n may cl aim enn a t reater
portion of our time ? Wh at
may we expect of OU r ch ildren'. judgment if we are un willi ng to devote enough time
to them to Hub]ish tl\e boIJtering inHuence 01 st rong
home con tacu ? Who would
~ mthusiutic enough to claim
for the school inAuc:m:e an
wtq u.ite substitute for th e
ex;ample and .illlOCi.ition o f
rul mothe n .ind f.ithus, such
n wu supplied to the child ren
in the slower lIOCi.i1 life of the
PUt generation ? T he cou rtly ch rm 0 1 the Elizabe th n era exists
only in the memory o f the Rudmt of
history ; the CoIoni.ti d;iys with their
delight ful American customs are a p;lrt
o f the plUlint p;ll t ; the Ch' il War pe_
riod with its ~aut i ful home life li ngul
only in the memory 0 1 a few re"",i ning
veterans.
T HE Indust r ial En vironment, unnoticed at fi.,I, has come upon us l ike
a Hood of waten. 11 i. not only here but
has ri llen 10 our vcry armpits. The small
of stature even now are erying out for
help. Inventive geniu s and discover ies
hal'e riven UI methods of eommunieatioll and t ransportat ion that have ve rily
dra wn the people of the world into one
.mall commun ity. Is our cul ture k« pillr
pace with our scient ific and indust ri.ti
advances?
And while no race, 110 nation has yel
developed a culture to k« p ~ee wit h the
(e\"tr ilh life tlli t i, now in the pTO« IS
0 1 evol ulion. would not Ihis teachi ng 01
~Pe rsonal Habits and Ecoaomy" in our
public Khoob hel p our young men and
women to r ise to the plane o f the New
Condilions? Would it not hel p us to
b mi]iari,e our ch ildren with the requi re_
ments of T rade and Commerce where
in the very size nf thing. only a symbol ic concept i, pouible? It can only
be through a knowledge of IhtIC prac_
tical a nnamenU that we can hope to provide steps to a highe r plane from whence
our children may not only be able to
cope wi th the new lIOCiai .ind industria.!
order o f the world, but may in nry t ruth
ha ve those principles grounded into Ih~it
he ing that will enable Ihem to answer the
call for able and sincere leadership when
il comes.
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THE
ROTAR I A.N
9
In Toyla nd " ...... One of t he ope.... produ.,..;! at th. MUDldpal Th ..t ... ID P_ t "uk, Sillnt Loul •• Th. nunel")"
rhy m e ..u na with their bnutLfu l natural badr.tround
the prOper dramatic Uiu. lon '«Ih. f.11")' t.t ••
til".
Recreation-the Saint Louis Idea
By NELSON CUNLIFF
,
'I
DirK /or oJ RKrI'lItionJor the City of $DInt Loui,
AM a cit ilW of no mean cit y r'
With an air of qui et assur·
ance that i. not in the lean
boutful, hut is Ihe ve ry acme
of pride in hi. home town, the nat ive 01
Saint Loui s Sf'ems 10 typ ify t his famous
and pride ful stalenw:nl o f Saint Paul.
Perhap. t hai is one of the sc:c:reU of
Saint Lou;5-1lnd one of the reasons
why Saint Lou is is not betler known to
the world at large. T he lYe rage cill.
l W has a " ery , real pride in hi. city,
bul at lhe u.me time he h", h«n trained
from hil youlh 10 be a most hospitable
hoSI. HOlipitality means that the host
shall in no way cast as~Tlions on the
home o f h i. jlUest, al the Arne time Uk·
ing great pr ide in hi. own ~.
Saint Loui s p«Ipl e reall y do not bou t
enough of their city, althou/:h Illey love
it possibly 1.$ no people in the world
100'e the ir home. For Saint Loui s is a
ci ty of homel, of home·loving people
and of real homey Ihinr.. It is because
o f Ihi s fact that Saini Loui. people
could boast of quite a n\U1lber of things
that other citits do not have--the sort.
of thin/:s that homey people wanl in
their home town.
N"o city', obligation to ill people end.
with pol ice and fire protection and .. rn·
sonable amount of free schoolin,. That
is the con" ietion of Saint Loui s.
" Man," it reaffi rms, "don not live by
bread alone."
And just here Saint Louil Invu the
beaten t rack of muni cipal ities. The
Saint Loui s opir it takes a hand. If it
an in spire, jf it can broaden t he cui·
ture o f its people, it bene6ts, 10 it be·
lien s, e,"CD more lhan they. If it can
bd ng them lOf::elhcr in a spir it of fel·
lowship aTld sol idarity, if it can make
tbm. understand tach other and enjoy
each others' company, if it can cmpha.
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Saint
Mun icipil
T
Op..... is of e.pecisl ;ntnnl
Rouoriana thrO\l,hout the wodd in
HE
Louil
10
that onc of the chief £nl£rtainmwt
lhe: Rotary Intcl"ftltioDli
COI\V~lion w ill he I lala p....due.
Don ..,. the lIunlcipaI Open Com.
r.... turH of
""n,. f .... RotarianL
The: 0.,..... to be pl"Oducn! that
ni,ht will be u",«tn! by POPIlIar
YOU of tha Ro\al"J' Club. ol tha
world, the Cit,. of Sam! Lollil h ...•
In, . ...""d 10 produce: _hatue!"
_ . In itt repawire nool..a; I
m.jMI,. of vOl ..... monl the mem o
ben of ROI"'" ciolla ol Rotary In.
ternaticmal.
Dct&Us of the YOtin, .nd a liu
of the opeI"Q to he ""'" In makinl
the ..,1«Don will be unl to the
cllllIa in due time from the o ffice of
the Secntary, Rotary I ntern.tional.
size in their play its fine old traditions,
il h ... gone far, it belie\"tS, toward rtal.
izing thai honor~ble pride with whith
Saint Paul spoke about his old home
town.
Thus Saint Louis has advanced in the
spirit of ill c;t;zwship very much al
the Rotarian has advanced from thc her·
mit-crab daYI of Clllltul £ ... plo,.....lel the
buyer hew.re--and those later daYI of
the "roa r ing nin~tie5" when in bll l;n£1&
it was "every man for him,..,lf and the
devi l uke th e hindnlO$t."
And for the same reaSOR s, sioce it
real izu that in business 2nd good. citi.
zenship is but a high form 01 KOOd busi·
ne.........u.o... th ings wh ich inspire and
broadtn and develop the indi"ldual,
whether througb their c:u1tural value or
through fdlowlhip and undersf :llv1ing,
pro"ide higher ideals to attain and. malte
U lier the way to IlUCCCSS.
Thus Saint Lou is npplies II good Rota·
r ian doctrine I" ill own problt ms.
The vi si tor .1.1 t he Rotary convent ion
at Saint Louis next $ummcr will ... c
a hundrfl<l evidcncn o f Ihill. Outstand·
ing, of courSf', will be the beauti ful
system, culmi.
park.and ·playground,
nal ing in Por~t I'a rk with its 1.•180
.crn of rol ling " 'oodl and , its twn i,
couns. ilS ball grounds, il. lagOOn for
canoeis", and it. rol f cour M's. He will
se<t: , . immi ng ·pooh and bathhousci SCllt·
tered onr Ihe city and p>.lronil fl<l by a
myr iad of young folh IhllS e,u,pi ng from
t he ..·.rmth. He will find in congc~fI<I
dist r icts a greal fOUnlai n, the length of
a city block, pou ring fonh its fine.
' prayed st ream, in wh ich the l ittle
youngsters may rlln and play.
In Forest Pa rk he will find a zoo, with
it l un ique bear pits, a replica 0 1 an Ozark
mounta in Kene, where the big beasts to
all appearances have libe rty, 10 cardul ly
concealfl<l are the barr iers that separ.te
them from the crowd. He will find •
rare collettion of birds, a host of strange
fUlhery animal li.
B ESI DES the playgrounds , the parks,
the swimming·pooh, and tke bath·
house" he will find the Municipal Social
Cwte .. ; and if he hu good fortune he
may potI sibly visil Forest I'ark on th at
great day for the 'fOImgol eri when Ihe
"Papa a ub" has t he kilkE iu from the
socia! c:cnlerl as its guests.
The " Papa a ub" il a ci vic·spiritfl<l
group which has atsllmfl<l the re sponsi.
bility of giv;nK these younper•• rar£
KOOd time. It is compotlro of lead in&,
btl$ineu and profenional mt n. It ar·
ranges field day , porU and providu tl1t
prizes. It maku it a point to see that
enry youngster h.. a KOOd nouriJh ing
IlInch-and-pEcnty 0 1 icc cream I It
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THE
ROTARIA N
JOfluorll, 1923
receivro the inspiration for his famous
play, TII~ Sign 0/ ' h~ eMU. These
fadl limply Iketch a tradition. And
t ha t tradilion flowers in the Saint Louis
Munici~1 Thut./: which, wilh its swnmer ilCason of ten wf<:ks of opcra, is
unique in America: for it is t he only
mUllici~1 opcra in the Unittd States,
and it i. the onl)· civic mu sic.al vemul"<:'
in A"""rica ,,·hich is mo, e than :ocif.
SUPJlO";nf·
Til E Rotarian ",ho visits S:r.i nt
Louis
thi. i UII"'Kr
sec and hear Ih~
MUlliti~1 Opera. HI: will find himself
one of an audience ,,·hich ranfes nightl,.
from 6,000 to 10,000 : he ,,·ill 10000l,.
learn that optra can be dellKK ratic. Ue
will lind thaI in this theate r there are a
Itw :ocall priced at $2.00, that the prices
lor the rell Kale from $1.50 to 25c, and
that there arr, e,·cr,. n ight. 1,lIOO free
:ocat. lor the II:OC of th".., whQ frel lhey
cannot afJord to pay c,·en these very rcasonable price. to hear the classics 01
light opera, comic opera and operetta
Kiven b,. a (ast which is matle up of the
fineS! arti .1I 0 1 thei r kind in America.
The Saint LOlli s !'.Iunicipal Theater
was eoneeivtd in 19 16 whrn as a ( ivic
venture an out-of-door pr esentation of
As YON Lit~ /1 "'3S ol"fanizro with Margartt Anglin as ROIO/ifld, Robert B.
Mantell as J",qUtl, Frroerick Lewi. as
Orlando Ind Sidney Grttnstrttt as
TONdulofl'. O n the banks of the River
de. Perel in Forest Park was found an
open ltage. Jp,ace flanked by two 70-foot
oaks which framro I protunium arch,
and toward which the hillside sloped
gently to Ifford JellS for the audil:llC<:.
In Ihat Iylvan thealer II most DOtable
production Wal fiven. In the same $pOl,
a fe'" months later, was fiven I peTfonnance of ] oJtphine Preston Peabody'.
prize plly, Tb Pip".
The follow i", season Sa,m Loui s
plannro an I:ntertainment for the con,·wllon of the ASlOC:iattd Adye"ising
Cl llh~ of the World. A performance of
,,·m
Cricket pract Ice In Forn ' Park, Sain i Loul •. Whe the r th e bailer m a de a "dud, au"
or, _ "cenlury" ha had Ih t .. Uar.clton of playl nra on a 8n.. pil ch .
has ill return, for Ih .. kiddiu under the
direction of the city's bureau 01 recrcation will produce a pageant bf:fore the
cby i. old. l' robably 5OI1lt story from
the Arabiln Nights will be told on the
huge stage o f th e Municipal Theatre.
with hundreds of little folks in t he wllets---. colorful and rhythmic backgTOURd apins! which Ihe stOl'"y of AIladin or Ali Baba shall be: told. There
will be folk daneu in '.Y costu~J. t hus
conl inuing ;n the new world the finc,r
immigrant trad itions of the old. And il
is thue ruivnl traditions and Ihil IlC'w
spirit that is flUW and blended with
Saini LOll;". Own tnditio,,. and made 10
serve the higher pUrpo!le:1 of civic con-
sciousness and. loya] citi~ensh;p.
However, of thi, Municipal Thu(n"
more later. An evening y;sit i. in , tore
for us. MUnlime the Rotary funt will
walk aeron to Ihe City Art MUm.lm in
Forest Park, a mapilieent stone struc·
lure wh ich was onee the Pal ace of Fine
Arts al Ihe , rtllt Louisiana PUr(:hase
Expo.ition and which i. lLIuolulely
unique among American art museums in
that il is supporlro by • municipal tax
'·otro by the people of Saint Loui. and
,·otttl willingly when th e queltion was
put up to them.
The City Art Museum rank. high
amongst the falleriu of America. In
point of serv ice to iu people it i. prob·
ably third. Rich cndowments from individuals in other citin have I)royidetl
lIOmc finer coll«tions elsewhere, but this
instilUl ion, always free ,.nd alway. mUiTl(" welcome the vi.itor, is growinf rapidly in quality and character of its exhibiu and ;1 perfonning II municipal
service with itl loan coIlectionl, i1$ traydinf exhibit.. its IlOry hour for ehil-
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dren tbat makn Saint Louis extremely
proud o f what it spend5 for arL
In ]efJenon Memorial, at the north
entrance to Forest Park, which houses
the intcrestinf collections of the Mi.,
!IOUri Hi SlQrical Society, is a pI.ybill of
a Saint Louis theatre of 100 years ago.
It ;1 mote than 100 yun since profulional performances were lirst f iven in
the then vill~. Saint Louis was for
many years the keystone of the ~Wtst­
em Theatr~" Old Sol Smith, Noah
Ludlow, Mark Smith, Ben de Bar, Sol
Smith Ru~ll-tmst arc soene of the
outstandinf oId-ti""" namu. It was in
Saint Louis that Edwin Forrest replial
to a confratulation: "I play Ollld/o, I
play Mpcbl'lh, J .. IN L . .., ." It was in
51. Loui s thaI Wilson Barrett, :u a re~"II o f Robe .t G. Infer5ol1'. challenfe,
,
A n'heanal.. t the
.r.... with.
~t Opolll .aIr '10..,_ In ,....... t P..... Twa hu",.Q 1.....,..lh.
~.lId low Ii ! II f ormlll "
"'ckpound of amt bn uty, .
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Januarll. 192a
Aid" was cho~n. Saluar, the MdropoIilan opera tenor wu the RlJdlJlftu.
Agostino, stage directOl" at the Metropolitan. was the produ.:.er. That ushered
in a Ka50tl during which seven socielin
used Ihe Mnnicipal Thuter 'or perfonn·
ancn ranging from grand opera and
Greek pmn to a fashion show. In
1918 Ihe thuttr', muR notable use was
for the production of TItomas Wood
Stu'ens' patriotic pageant , Tit, Drtm.... g
,,' 110, Sn" N/ to which he had provided
a new fin:ole, Fighli"g ' or Frude .... For
" wo:ck it ran nightly in the Munici~
Thut er and the funds it raised were ti,e
nucleus of the Saint I..oui. community
war eheR. The ....-orld war ended, and
1919 $IW mun icipal opc:u inaugurated
:u a definite ]l.art of the civic pl"Ofram
of Saint Loui•.
Today, the Mun icipal Thuter consi"s
of a concrete·Roored amphitheater, Z25
fecI wide by 256 feet deep, comfortably
scaled with permanent opera chain, and
surrounded by a pergol a-shelte r wheTe
10,000 pe rson. may find adequate rduKe
from sudden ~U111m er storm!. Every
one o f the 9,270 ",aU has an unobstnlded view of the stage and throughout the audilorium every performance
has been heard di stinctly. Between auditorium and Ilage il an OI"chestra pit
capable of accommodating ISO instrumentalisu, a very euent ial thing atOM.
In municip:ol ..opua performancn, a large
symphony orchcR ra-the playeu lIlI»t1y
from the Saint Loui, Symphony Orches ..
tra-i. alway. u~_
The stag.: i. Ihe largest in Ameria ,
eXlending lat feet in width and havi~
a depth of 90 feet. The two huge oaks
which framed the prOkCnium 101" thaI
fiut out-door Slialcupure performatl(e
line been relained and Ire a fealure of
the pennanent lUee whicll lias evuy ad ..
~nu.ge in liehlinr and tetlin&" pouible
10 adapt from the indoor COtTUtW!rcial
Rage to
usts. Shrub. and low
Irtu fonn a background 10 the stage,
I>e~-ond ""hich flo"", Ihe Rivtr du Peru.
THE ROTARIAN
11
Th .. be$.. de n at I he Sa int Lou l.~. The four bl.ck ...... II~e In an enyl ronmenl
whtcb closely Imlta l... the ha btt. t of thel, brethren In thl O&ark Mountalna.
11'e "'e,,", is cTossed by a permancnt IiTit product ion o f As Yo" La. 11 on
foot br idge 10 th~1 the dre ssing rooms. the littl e ftat !Klow the hi lls ide, has the
the $Cenic studios, and the property Municipal Thea ter cost the lupayen of
warehouloes-jllst ac rou on Ihe Olher SainI Loui l onc cent.
bankt--are usily aeccssible. A dupli _
Gte stage for rehearsals will be erected T HE municipal ordinance which ded i..
Ihi s next spring. Thue are all adjunct.
catel that portion of Foreu Park 10
to the ti>cale r plant.
the ptl rposu of a theater made thi. wise
To pul a money value upon such a provision: It shal l be u~ only for enplant would be almost impossible. From tertainments of I civie or municipal in ..
ycar 10 year it i, toni5Qntly growing and lerell, admiuion whe reto shal l be free;
constantly being enlargm It i, a.-:lil .. or, for ....·hich, if I nominal admillion be
able alway. to the peoplc of Saint Loui. chargtd, there shall be set aside for each
for entertainmenl cnlerpr iloel o f a civic performance 1.8ll frce xau available to
or municipal cha racter. It provides a any Sa int Loui. citizm. And further, in
rallyi ng place £01" civic forces, a meel .. case an admiss ion i. charred any ilIr ..
ing plate for Saint Louis people. It of .. plu,,"ge from r«eipta abon thc cost of
fe., to the citizenship an enlertainmedt production shall be rctumed to the cily
at a nom inal pr i(c, or free if Ihe ind; .. 10 be dt-voccd 10 the improvement o f thc
"idual prefen; yd, not onCc si nce Ihe Iheater. Thus a Iiltle foresieht has
glt'en to Sai nt Loui. th is un ique and re ..
markable institulion.
Municipal opera was finl initiated
when Sa int Loui. busi ness and profes ..
sional m", in 1919 from their realiza ..
tion of the value of Ihe Munici pal Thea ..
ler as a C'VIC ent ertaillmen t-cenler,
sough t 10 mak e it permanent through an
tstabli. hed stallOn wi th an establish ed
program rather th an let chance di ctate
occasional and sporadic U!;CI. They were
~hown the clausu which pro"i de free
scali and entrrpr i5CI of (i"i c inte~u.
"That's all righi," they Aid. They were
d ir«lW 10 the rule which turns any p0ssi ble profit back inlo Ihc thUler ilsel f.
··Fin",'· tllcy answe red and immed iately
organi nd thtm!IClvCll into Ihe Municipal
Theatfr AlIOtialion which is uniqlll:
among buliness inst itUlions SIn(e ill
chancr prohibils a profit. Thnc was
eslabli shed in 1919 a .ix weeks' sum ..
mer opera season in the course of
It. ...:tlon of . t ypical " opaa . t.-" 0,.... . "dle a ce la ForMt Park, SaJat Lou ie. Th.
amphltb_tw ..w s«ommodat. oaatty ten tbouaa ad paople ..
(C"" /;"IU'd II. tGat tz )
III "'''0
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12
THE
ROTAR I AN
January, 1923
The Decline of the German Mark
By ELVINA R. KIDDE
F
OUR yQrs ha"~ pnsed since Ih"
prodama{ion of ~ace. heralding
the md of the ,reatest war the
_ world lui tvn ..,jUlessed. and yet
these four yc.. rs havc failed 10 bring 10
the nations 01 Eur~ the ilability and
calm o f pn_war days SO ardently dcsirM and SO 1O."ly n~flkd. Thai d,e
br.c dloru o f statesme:u and ccQnOmist!
have b«n doomed to fail ure up
10 the preso:nt time can be '1.1_
I. ibutrd in In'at pa rI 10 t he
acute lind widupread ~nomit
and poli t ical cr isis ",hkh hal
bcen going on throug hout CcnIral Eu rope. GCTm:'Iny in pa r -
petted reparations paym~nlS from Ge , many. which thc latter now procl aim.
hrndl unablc to pa~..
It "·as not 10 be assumed, of tOUrK,
that the gul f belween a monarchial and
a reptlblican form of go,·c rnmenl in
Gernuny could "" <..an ned withoul t he
!{realeol diffICulty, b,,1 il wal generally
beliC\"ccl that afler a .hon prriod o f nn·
' hl. a proper adj ustment could be m"de.
T ime. howe,oe, . hal pro,·ed Ihe fallacy
o f such a belief for Gennany today givn
outward signs of inlem al di!lOmers o f
the gra\"«\ ~tu re.
Thi. inability 10 create a republican
lor", of gonrn"",nt funclioning as an
.. nlily liu in the eharacle, of Ihe German
f'<"OI>l .., who allhough wcldrel logether
u"""r a cent ral government
,inct 1870, ha'·e always pre·
" "'rei Itrong individual char_
acterisl ic. o f Ille state of which
they formed a parI.
an agglomerat ion of .man
A sstalU
Ilieir l'I;onomic life
ticular has preuntw the gra\'ut
problems 10 the Allies, for
while accept ing the Veru.i1In
Trealy, which impo,oc,s upon her
heavy obligation s,
sl." hal
failed
to as~u me the ' "spo" sibi li l ici
demanded of her and her fail .
ure to comply wi lh Ihi s agrccIIlCII! has in tum had fa.-nach·
ing effects on the eoonomie life
of the countriu wh ich are today
th~ crreli tor. of Germany.
Thue is little doubt t hat Ihe
.,·uage German ( il inn at Ihe
tilm' of the lign in~ of Ih e Iru.!y
did I>IX falhom Ihe ex tenl of the
obligations en tailrel, for exhausted Ifler what sumed in _
tem,i""b1e ~ar. of .tuffering.
prate formed the I,eart·, dur_
nl dui re and any condition.
u"""r which Ih" might be 0btained Rcmrd p,eftrabl~ to any
further prolongat ion of the hor .
rOri and privations of war.
There is li ttle doubl al so Ihal
Ihe .i",atorin 10 the truly.
while n ali.ing the Hverily o f
t he measure.. were , neverthe·
less, hoprful of a more fllvor.
able outcome than t he term,
H emed to imply: but .inee sub5C'IUCnt events have ,hatler«i
this illusion, which seemed to
take r oot also in tl,e mi nd of
the German public, and since
condil ions in G e r m. n yare
growing more and more sini s·
ler in asprct, France is being
made r espon sible for the eom·
plete eollap$e with which the
State is threatened. And while
t he enemy i. being r eviled no
thOUShl Or considerat ion is
giv.:n to the fact Ihal the neigh ·
bor republic is also su ffe r ing
and the French exchange ratn
have dropped apprec:iably for
l he obvious reason Ihal Ihe
F...,nch budget had been condi.
lioned to a degree on the ex. ~,------
""""" . , 1'0<l1k _
A.I.oD.l<.
A n Inform al plet ureof Pre.ldt nt £bKl of (}<,rm any l ak" n
a. he .... Ieuloll tbe Econom kOOn ...... h eld at lI am burt
for d ioeu il io n of Germa n te-Hl ablll hment a nd the repa,_
al lon . ...... blem . H I. eiK t lon t o thl! pceddeney In 191' .....
th e reluit of h b .ell" lI y In pcO<Dollnl the Inlun.tlonal
pollUa of the SoclalDemOCl"1ltlc party. "'hk h In tum .... '
tb. outwme of ao;tl"hy In t ..... e- unlon afl"11n.
was Qu ite indcptndcnl on e of
the other unt il tht maste r hand
o f Bismar( k aoxom pli shccl a
consolidation of all Ihe statu
and pri ncipalit ies in t he king_
dom, creating thereby the German en,pi re, which was to unite
forever into one indi,soIuble
bond all thoN: who called Ihrn"
IcIvcs T eutons. Some stales.
vanicularly Bavar ia In the
IOIJlh, looked w ith disfuo r
upon Ihi. union, but Ihere follo"·cd an era of prospr rity
which did much 10 ....rd. sti ll ing
any Itrong feel ing o f opposi.
t ion. It WII during Ihis lime
that lhe e,"OI ulion o f Germany
from an agricul to ral into an
indust r ial nate was also accom·
pl ishcd and .he rapidly ruoc rgetl
from oblCUrily and grew into
promi nence a. a World Power.
A nd as eTOlution took place and
her industriu grew, the Gennan
be,an to sub""t hi. lifc to ma_
terial mcasuremmUl and he beame an CX~nl of Ihe bel ief
that t he " wonh of a man con·
.istetll in th abundanec of
Ihin,. a man or nalion hal h"
and thaI the human race must
ex ist pr imarily for t he product ion and barter 0 1 things. Th e
God o f Efficiency was bowed
down to and wor shipped by all,
for did ODt the t1e,·elapment of
d liciency bri ng glory, richu,
and power to t he Empire and
indi rectly 10 t he indi,-idnal ? So
it ,,-a l Ihal both in govcrnment
and education a system was
c,·oh·w whereby nch member
of tlle Slate mighl lake hi. place
in Ihe ICheme o f greater ex·
pansion wh ich WaJ to be accom.
pl iJhed, and in Ihi s scheme ' he
individ..... l "'II.! ta"8ht Ihal hi ~
will WIlS " iI, that his life must
be looked upon aJ only an in6ni·
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Januarll, 1923
THE
ROTAR I AN
13
EM.I, 1:~_Cha n(t ll o. Wirt h, a nd Ge nenll Von S.,.,kt (u lreme left), wua h ere phototnlphed In lped in. the 1I0nor
of Ihe Germa n Na tional Army. du rin, I he celeb .... tlon of Conltlt utlon o.y. t he Ih lrd e nnhenet}' .Inee t he birt h of
Itapu bll c In 1t19, Thou..nd . of men h an bHn ... Imllated In lo Germa ny' •• rmy of prod ucllon In 'Vicull ure
Induu ry, Ihrouah t he .boll, hlnl of uniyern ' m ilitary l ralnln, e nd Ih • ....suction of Ih e mlllt ... y forc ...,
.,
Icsimal part 01 a great whole, that he
must submit himself to the need, of the
Sute, whOle lint requirement of every
ci tiun was abject ~ience, Trained
to obo:y comm;o.nds one genention followed another and as prosperity continued to bo: a rueU in Ihe house, lhe Teu_
ton', belier in the super iority 01 hi. nee
grew and confidently he followed his
chief loward, wbat w.u thoughl would
pro.,., to be a "place in the Jun." But aJ
neither the life of an individual or that
of a nation can be onie«d to function
with absolute !NIthelIl3tia.! preo;iJion.
and inasmuch u the human faclor called
egotism ...tw.y. enter. into IUCh a IChnnc
.s e.. oIved under William II'. reign, 50
il Wall that the drtamed-of roal wu '
nt,·tT reached, Tocby Ihe idol has fallen
-hopes and longing. o f a dea.de ago
have given place to the wildest de5pair ;
poIiciu aM bo:lieb 50 loudly proclairnro
have bo:en repudiated; and from thi ,
State, di~bled and torn in fragments.
lying prost rate in the dust, has !lttn born
the Gennan Republic with a form and
substance indeflllable, attempting to
create order ont of di50rder and making
a vain effort to instill confiden~ and
trust into a disunited people, It is a
herculean task the govermmnt is (On_
Iront~d with, for the diueminll' voicn
of the populace are ma.ny and Germany
today;, becoming the wilderness and the
howlinl:' place of poiilica.l partin (trowing more and more threatening in their
atUcks.
The IlnaS5inal ion of Minister Rathcnau pro"ed a most unfortunate circum.
stance ior Germ:my at it W;oJ admitl..!
generally, e"en by hil ~miel. that he
pos.scl~ I gfa5p of economic and p0litical questioos .. no other German of
bis time and that he had 111051 SIlCtellIful ly ~nd effCdi"cly eornbatt..! the at-
tacks that had been direct..! towards the
I~cpublie by destructi,'e radical is",.
He
pouelsed a very clear in.ight and a full
understanding of the needs of the GerII13n Sute and of the tremendous crushing prusure th"t w;u being exerted both
by internal conditions and extern.al enemies. Since hi. passing, cr isis hal followed crilil with the rcoult that !lIe
entin· nation it now engulfed in a madstrom which i5 plungi ng it towards COtnplde destruction.
_107 WOI. w .....
Dr. Wilhel m Cuno. forO'lft' director of
I.he II.m:'~_AmIHiCin Slumohip Une.
.. ho IU
... Cha ncellor Wh lh a,
chancellor of the German Relcb.
Scarcely had spring eiven place to
sununcr when exprCllion, of an impending catastrophe were to be heard on
every hand, and yet to the outward eye
no ruined oountry had ever presented 50
flourishing ;llI appearance. Factor iu;llId
huliness housel of every delCription
leemed to be producing to the maximum
of their e.pacilie.; Cl<portt wowed an
imrease and statist ics prov..! the llrout
buyin, power 01 the Germans thtmaelves. Hotell C'terywhere _re filled
to overflowin.; cafn I I in pre-wir days
were crowded with GerlIl3ns, well
drased and well shod ; and streets
thronged with busy people-al l OI1twanl
signl of prosperity. A. the weeks paned,
however, and as the last ray of hope in
external financial aid, which had been
more or less confide ntly looked for,
v;lllilhed, it became quite clear that the
m;o.rk, like Ihe Rusaian ruble and Austrian crown, would be doom..! to worth lennen,
T HESE sym[ltoms o f lear, howel'cr,
nlade IhenlSelvei altpa.ent on the Ger_
!NIl! exchange where e,'er)' effort wa s
made by Germani to t ranlier to such an
extent as was possible into other exchan&,n, Speculation in dollars was par.
ticularlyactive from the capuin, of in dUlitry down to the sm:r.ll-aalaried clerk
and lillie shop keeper, and as speculation
continUM the vast printing of fiat currency increased in Gernlln),. In Ihe lUI
w~k of June alone thil paper currency
was al¢mcot..! by 11,000.000.000 marks,
which. however, before the tlCpiration of
another month had again proved wholly
inadequate. In the .utunrn of 1922 the
further decli ne of the tmork and the
SubKqlKllt Ihort3(e o f papo:r ~y ncceuitated the print in, of "Not&,eld" by
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TilE
ROT A RI AN
Janllllry.
1923
......
Athl ~tle ~¥ent a a riO held frequ entl y for t he benellt 'of crippled "'ar ~e teran. In Germany. Tbl, I, a picture of I ~.t demon _
u ratlo n recen tl y held for th ~ ,",nelll ,of d llabled IOldle.. In Wlltenbert PIIU , Berli n. and t he phot otraph . ho.... lOm e of the
(:rI ppled vetera", " 'h o OODllil led In the var lo ut even",
the <Iillerenl cit in, Thi , money could
be used onl)' in Ihe citiu where it wa s
i§sued,
Wh.m one eon.ide" t hat Gernlany'.
gold holding. u this lime are praetiall),
Mgligible and eontruu her condition
... ith pre_war d.o.)'1 ... hen she had out standing leu than 5,000,000,000 marks,
ampl), ~ured b)' gold rnerve .. IOnIC
idea can be fonned of lhe iuc\'i table disaster Ibe hu courte<l from the "cr)' outset b)' hcr cea$CIc» prOOuction of poIper
~)',
But thi, printing of paper
money, :..idc from the demoraliling
ellKI it has berull to aert 011 German
conunerce, hu brought even more seriout consequencCl to the German pe0ple in their OOme$l.ie life, In September,
follo ... ing Ihe crash in the value of German currene)', livinr CO$l.' increued 290
per cent, an<l there enlued in conse'Juence almost a complete breakdown on
Ihe p... rt of the people in the ir financi ...1
I),litem.
I NASMUCH ... 5 it is an economic law
that prictl must al"'a),1 a<ljust them_
5ell'el to currenc)' inRation or tleRation,
wa~1 mu st o f nKusi t)' be made to correspond to such a r ise Or fall. Howcver,
in the case of Gennan)' the dKline of
the mark hu been 10 ~iolent and 10 rapid
that the n\:llchiner)' to readjust pricu
and wattl to ~ Jarrc and ludden a rise
to c:o rrupOlld with dcllation hal proved
in;o<lequate, and thc result has been thai
advanctl in the price of commodities arc
constantl)' far ahead of an)' inereue in
wages. Undcr such conditions Ihe nIOSI:
,""rions CODKqucnc<:'1 ma), be looked for
and I~I'<: is liltle oloubt that during t~
. ~,------
coming wi nler intern;,) disorders will
make themseh'cs Icl t ;n strike. and other
fonns of violenc.:. An indical ion of
internal troublc nf this nature was to be
obsen-ed during the uri), part of October in the Ruhr region when thc metal
workers of t he Krupp Works dedared
a otrikc, and while for the time being
thil IoCClion ..,.,ms to be al rest, there i.
an undercurrent 01 unreSI which ma)'
momentaril), fill'<: forth,
T o complicate an al read)' difficult situation still further, the 1922 crop, due to
W1fa~or;ablc
climatic condition.. hat
fallen far below the needs and apettations of the Gcrm<tn people, with the reo
sult that il became nKe5sary to fix lhe
price 01 bread (2 kilos) at 450 mark$,
and it i. quite ceruin that at the winter
advancu Ihi . commodit)' will again ad,'ance in pricc, Coal , 100, has ."ffered
a sharp upward trend in price, owing to
the shortage of production for home
conli",nptioll, so that il will lle<:ome prohibitive for a large percentage of the
populace, Trau>1ated inlo ever)'da)' experiences these factors will result in the
greatest misery and discomfort 10 the
German people, particularly that class,
which in the cold parlance of economic:.
are dcsignated ali parasitel---1l'tnsionen
and th05C wbose income ;1 der i"ed from
the in tercst on stale securilies, It is th is
class in Germany toda,y which feds Wt
it is being 1I0...~)' bul surel y squeezed
out of existence, for the State linds
itself in no position to gi"e them the
necessary financial aid. and while _
societies and a fcw la rgc_hearted indio
"idual. have exerted Iheir beR elfOris to
~mdioratc Ihe ... lfering of Ihis clan,
the respouloC of the public to appt.;lll for
l1elp ha~e been lackiur, A, both public
and pr ivate fund . a re " ery much depleted at Ihi. ti me, the outlook for the
future i. ,"e r)' dark ind«<:1.
H lIew drop in the value 01 the
EACmark
thrutenl the life o f thi. clau
of people, and al more and more mone),
i. needed to purchase eYen the bartlt
nKeuilics of life, this class, on bed
income$, wilhout rCiou retJ of an)' othcr
kind. dismantle their hou 'ltl in Ihe hope
tbat the sale of a t;"en article may sa""
Ihem, for a time at lust, from IlUTT;Il ion, III the department 5torU of praeticall)' e"er)' Germall cit)" be il largc or
lII11all, ma)' he found wllat is known as
the "Rentne r " corner, where articles of
e,'ery description are ollered lor .NIe,
Amonr Ih is motIe)' arra), rna)' ~mctimu
be found heirloom. which have been
treasured for centuriu and which onl ),
the most ex trcme need would cause lhe
owners to di spose of. They furni . h mutc
eviden« of thc plight of Ihe count r)'.
for to part with Ihem is in a wa)' to part
with family and nat ional tradi t ions far
more valuable than ordinar), b.mily
wcalth,
One da)', nndoubtedl)" the mark will
be stabilized and one day, pcrhap$, the
Gtrman nation ",ill r ile agai n, bul it will
not be unlil .... ithi n the nat ion ilself the
spirit of ''''Wl' q. ; /luI now 00 dominant
.... i\l ha"e (iven place to an UmcR effort
to force upon the mind, of all the ..,n'lt
of Ihe line words of l.amcnnai. that
" Human soc.iel), is baocd upon mutual
tiving or upon the sacrifice of man for
man, or of each " ... n for all men ; and
s.:u:rifiee i, the "ery Clsence of lOCiety,"
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January. 192,1
THE
ROTARIA N
15
Profits: Material and Spiritual
- as revealed by the personal experiCllces of
those who have t ried " Service above Se lf"
"ONE _,.i.g,"
of
tM, .. of ~zpr'w. (~ is _"II 0 'u:hoJ~ wildr"'~SI
a-,,,,ol~
Lf1tt"tll; ..rod sO Illur Irllr,s f,o",
prop', 11'1.0 1HttJ, o('lroDIlylut,d Ow ,,>III. of RoI"ry's
1110/10 ..', 1IIorlil <I I!o/ IIIN' of I'M" l"c"'"lio,.. Si,.cr Octoo",
wIu!:,. Til E RQT,"'II)f carried If br~f ,tquI/ for llin, ptrso,./JI
kllnl, lit, "rI.nt,(,TI Itllt', bte... c"",I,.g jll by twry lIlI1il. TII,y
wrrt "uiwd f,o ... pro"" i,. 011 uog/Its of lif" "rid f.om lro·
rroL diH",,., co."lri,_f,o", N% no"s "rod f,o ... p,opi, u,loo
It«d .. rw, ailrNd~d 0 Rolo,:! dl'b ",ul i"trf,otfl 3"'''''9 o.d
old ofih. BtU fro •• u'Jo,,'rorr 10Nret «rod f,o". QJIo",~ c/"SI
III~, CO"". Iii, 9;1' af Ih, «".m'r' "'''1 a'1I-"'.\I1 lIi~ ,,, .....-"1
Ir ....'t I,i.d 'S,""cr "II"", Srlf "rid i, dou I,ad ' 0 prolitl.
Fi." Prisr
T wal lh.e '«'(I"d T".ld.y 01 Se p·
I.mb". , 1001. Tt~ w.i, .. WII Ihen G
younll' luperinl~nd,nl of schaah in •
sml l! Soulhern cily. Tht Ichooh ov.r
which h" pretid~ had open"d on Ihe Mon ·
d...y morninll' p~'·iou.. All Ih"
and
bull!" o f 6ucb I d.y Ind luch I lime wt: ..
in evidence r'..,ry .. ht... It " 'n no tim.
for visilorl.
Into Ihe KI\oo! buildine in "'hieh Ih,
,u~rinl.ndern·. off;';'e WI' loc:al ~ am~ •
q"irt mann.. td man mon: th.n fifty,..,. ..
of 13~ The quitl manntrtd man WI, Iht
,uJltrin«:n<km of ",hools ;n Inoth« city in
Iht samt Slale, a city noIt<! fo, Ihe fine
tduational adnnl...,1 off~.td 10 ito youth.
The oIdcr ...... ~d IIonor0:4 Ihe younger
man ",ilh his Pn:!ft>Ct on 1"0 10""", oc.
calions. once al lundwon and once for onl,
... brit f int«vile". Thi. "'.. no time for
inluvi"," bul tbt youngtl' man Aid in hi,
heart; ~ProlUlional and ~r_1 courl"',
requin: thaI I loratt ..If Ihi. morning and
find lime for vi.itine ",;Ih this goad ..... n
in .pil~ of btxltinl difficultio$,R There
lollowtd I Ioog ,·;,il Ind I dilCl1uion of
all Ihe thine. Ihal t .. o ochooimen wllo
inlertll,d in Ih .ir work mUll inevitably
dilctlSl. And Ihm Ih<:'e wa. In lpolon
frorn lhe )'oun/l:c' lupc:rinlmdent, who
coold nol invite the oldcr man 10 hi. home
for luncheon: lor Ibt wife o f Ihe yOUnger
man lay in in a distant ""'piuL And
Ihe olde. man ...·ml away.
In Ih.« ,,·cek. Ihc.. was a funeral for
Ihe oldtr m~n in a lIaid nld village be.ide an hillorit ri,·cr. SoniC .. « k. wen l
by and Ihen Ih ... e U ,,,e a Itory 10 Ihe lurviving ,upc:rin,endtnt. Tht "WI now ,'" lIed
on h~" eont 10 hi. hO"'e cily ~"d leoo..red
hil re.ignalio" bKaUIe o f m"" u. An a p·
p ..dali,." board of tduc.ni on rduocd 10
a<xcpt ;1 and gl\'. i""ead a y,ar'. Io:ue
01 ablence on half pay. Thi. the older
man aoctpttd art<! .. mt IWIY ~UI nOI with.
out I"urilli: h i, em['Io)'efl lhal ht mun
lOOn poI. on art<! Ihal a y""ne man in the
northern ltClion of lhe ltate whem he had
v;,i,ed on a ,·try bu. , Stpt,mbr:r momina
would fill bi. polilion acnplably. And the
)'00"" man, .. ho had no IhouKbl 0 1 tht
older man'. i1tnas, and " '110 had no lhouahl
of Iucao:dinr 10 hi. poIition aft ... hil
death, .....1 to • • p.... did lilllt cily and
I
,,,,h
"'e
,
~------
Tiotst Itlltrs
",,,,,It
,10", is ;"'~rt" ;"g--o.d of'~'i"'u I",gic-ftw Ih unil",
Iorole "ot Iouilolcd 10 ,rf'Olt llui~ ,,01 Utitl. AI)OII ,ad
,10,.. yOIl will Itt II.Ilo"illrtd IJI o. ~ widr '(I"Ot of 10_"",,, tx·
p"itwu rrffutn/ A"t, Q.d IAr .. .tlitlld, of u ..y. ill n'IokA
110, Rol"", mollo co .. Itt o~plj,d.
I " moliNg IIo~ (r.l",nIs of tlr, tlortl p..utl, $IJ, $10 11M $1J,
,tsptctMI" Wt Iotn't lood 10 1t/,eI lloolt 1,lItT. wlo;clo suOMd
10 Itt f IJr110 1Ir, but ngo,sl ;o"s or '~ll<"ltd ,", IIIOSt n ..rllo"'Ioil~ ,Z"",pi'l of "uroia." Th /Qslt It/l.l' 1101 bu,. tll.ly. Wt
. ort 0/.0 pI ...."i"g 10 l"tStrlt t IJ"" mo" af tlour ItlltTl iro 'Io~
F,b,.,,,,ry N .....br~. Tlrr forslstlrelio" of I,"trl follow:
' CT\'<:<1 I""re for I.... ch-~ lCU> .".. broulIhl
Service Through Courtesy
up .n inte""";n~ f.",ily and lefl Ihe choic.
e,1 fri..,d . of hi, I,fc only 10 "C~pl _
caft 10 la.~u fields ~nd If ..lter . e. pern.i.
bilil''''' And the }'ounger man, now 8'''Y·
h~ltI.d and "pulhi"g r.fly~ him . elf. gin.
Ihan k, unto I~ t Lo.d Ih.1 00 a ",,"ain
Sc:plember mOTn'!ljt' h.e "' •• rou rl~u, with·
ou l thou~hl 0/ ..If. F"" w;,dom an" h_p_
pin, .. a nd charael .. and """, of ,..., mo. .
1",0.1 Ih;ngl of lif. "'t 'e added unlo him
011\ 0/ an ex~r;'nc. t~ al had no ulterior
Sunco:
mOlivc hack 0 1 il_
From a Prisoner
Sm",d Pri=l
t"" foun"". of
U NDOURTEDL\,.
tary
e'· ... liIougM lhal hi.
M'\' c t
Romet-
$1.« ...... Id pmtll':ll" th" ,,·...n. of I .tal.
prison Ind be heard b,. ,..,.,.,pt,..., ........ ithin
... Ql!'e of """'eM WIll. and """I ~ .... .
ComPl .... livdy yOImg in ~rs, .... , ol d
in e"~.imcc. t had come \0 • stage in life
" 'hen: lhe doctrinrs of Ihe u riou, dtnO,n_
""alion. 0 1 eh.uti.nily h3d nothint ... i,hin
thri••<:ope ... ',h ..,hieh 10 allnd and hold
m~
The la .. II f society ..... 10 me ••
, \rudure 10 be brolr.....ilh impunil),--Ih.t
il . if I"" policeman " ' IS not around. I
Ihink I h .., ...che<! ,h, pa"ing of Ihe
rood" Ihe p)aee where one word could
cithrr AVe o. condemn , I "'IS '~f\'in<l a
"",'en"" for ..ime a,," il wu nOI my firsl
.. nl"'"" 10 a pm.1 instilution, Not yel
h.d t d«idcd ,,'hclh~r il was more profil.~Ie to conform 10 society's IOW l or to go
"n di!rtgard,,,1I' them and make I livinll
wilhout swcat;"11 loil. I Jaw Ihe .lIne·
lion. of bolh Ih e eonformi . t'5 and none",,("'mist', lif~ and had nol d, l, m,in,d
which 0 1 Ihe.e life idea. to adh, .. to.
AI ... . .." It of I \'i, il 10 Ihis prison b)'
ROla.;"n
. 1 r~h'od a copy o f
Rotary', Code: of Elhic... Tht reading of
it <:au ... d Ihoughl and the II""'Rhl cau""d
introo~ion and Ihtn mu.in~1y I Piet" ......
the li fe th. , onc ,,'ould Iud il h~ 1011o"",(/
1M ICiehingt of Ihe "COOe_ R Then alonll'
umc the monlhly i"uc o f T H~ ROT".' ....
and 11o"'t I fllund the upxitionl of th.e
,,·OO1h""" o f Ihal Go/tiN< Tut "I R",....,.
What hav" I brnefiltd from the rndinjl: of
art<! adh",ing 10 the Rotary Ilonn : StrfJiu
S,II-l1. Pr" fit • .!fosl Wl<> Stror'
Bul'
I ha .... lurned from _ [if" lrull rntlInt
."bot,..
("",,,i,,
b0110 Ipi,itlUll 11M """trial."
nothing bul lu flerinl. bolh phy.ieaHy and
menIally. I hav" won Iht r .. ~tt of the
official, and by .. inning their .....pttt I hi...,
I.amed 10 '",peel my",1f and 10 00 con·
duct my • ."f al a U time, that at no lime
will I Ittl ashamtd of myself. r have
'frV~ bel t Ind I I a Tetu lt I haVt profited
botb phy,ically and "",n lally-phy.ic.II,.,
~u .. a lrulled ".ilo"", il aceord"d u ·
ccptionally good li"ine condilionl-<t\en\.llly.
bccau"" I have trlduilly advanced in my
"'(lrk 10 lhal loday I am able 10 IrQ forth
from Ihe oonftnel and earn my
bread.
Spi riluan,. I ha"t. Ihroueh my .lUd,. of
Rotary and Ihrough my .md... Jlandill.ll' of
Ihe .Iopn of RoI.ry kl~ thaI it is
far bett •• lor a man 10 hav" a diJCriminat.
ine rqlrd for th.e dhical .. ther than the
pecuniary. I ha .. e mad. m"",lf fil for
ulOCialion .. i,h 1>01 ",.1 pc:opk and when
I PUI from Ihi. indOlure t can IrQ ..... fodmt Ihal I .. ill hold 10 the ideal: Ht
Pr-o fill ,\(011 WAo S~. B" I.
A PJt'Illl"" Ilf .. STAn J>. I!!OIf.
""'ii,
A Mother '. Glorious P rofits
nird Pri:;,
10 me lhal I .. ould he an tgOl;st
I T a«m,
III Ay Ihll I .. rve
hut I do
~
",,"t.~
not
mirt<! Slyine t ~t I hav" pro~l<:<l 11101/. M)'
old Iy~ ... iler has alto I.o,,'n old in ""....
itc. hUI .. hal ha. il p.ofiltd, as il ....d i,
th .. junk pile : "" ,he Olllf. hand , while I
have . each«l middle AgI', t ~no fir from
"'om ont. and rich In pro"'" P roAu in m}'
(I.e a .. Ihe Ihi~el of Ihe ,,,i ril, not of
monoy. fo r lOnIe .. a,.. in servinII' olbet!, I
did not have In opporlunily , n •• ..., much
money. Ldl Ilone ,arly in lift with t ..o
bahiel and I mnrtgaetd ho!n~. I ha," ""ly
trod Ihe V ia Dolo ....... Ihal thoul:lnd. of
OI~r women Iread. who hne the .. , ponli.
bilil,. o f beillg bolh falh., and moth .. to
Ihti. dlildrm, It anecfl me thoueh f""
anyone 10 .... y llIfy admi,.., O1y COII..,e
and my .ltitude toward lif~ I have d"""
only my duly to !hoM: .. hom I broughl inl(l
the .. orld and nil man or ",'OII1In d ...l'Ta
any credil for do,. . I""ir duty. It h ....
btcn m, privil'ee 10 work fro", IUD 10 lun
:lnd lhen throll«" many lone enn ..... f""
my ehild",n. and fOf' OIhe ... tlLal I 1oYt•
A blind blher, I lick . i,ler. and ........y
Ot """ (I f ...,. kith and kin han: fomtd in
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THE
me tl ot only a finam:ia l prO(l but a . p;r;t"al
prop. II I WaJ Kninl them, I did nOI
e( t the fun benefit of Ihe . ..1iurian of
ROTARIA N
Januarll, 1923
"""'K"
came a
membtr of lhe Y. M. C. A.
I Ihrc .. myseH hurl and lOUl into all kind.
or community work.
F our ycar. later I took anothu ,nventory
of rnyfClf. and " 0.1 , nail,. ..' onished . 1
"'hat ;1 di ..losed. I found that I ..as oul
o f &bl. my income had """bled. and I
had the nucleus of a f und for the pron.bi.ol
u in, day; but ~I of all, I ...u hap(l, and
conlcntod. In un ..lfish ..... ice I had nol
only . epined my ",H.reopett, but .... d won
Ihe reopcd o f lhe communrty in which t
Hved.
A f... dol's Io.ter I came .ero.. Iht word.
w'lh " 'hieh th,. ltalemcot opI'n", and il
.uddcoly downed upon my mind ,hat Lile,.
Relieion, and Love. art ",..,..Iy ....... dl unit ..
nle.uured in tenn. o f "fYi«: ,hal on ly
Ihrough sety,cc can ~ discovtr thaI Ki"9'
do ... oj God .. hieh w. arc r:omm. no:1ed 10
_k. I ....d pro,·td 10 my own u,lidaction
the Iruth of the otat.ment : ~ H, ~r1Jfill
... 0 J! (bolh .pintual and lemporal pro~lt)
ter;"! ill<r..... not from any mal' ed,
ingmu ily on "'y part, btu from Ihe c0operation 0 ' ••• yice ",,'rnd~ from Ih, em_
K r vino, for I wa, tOO bu., \0 think o f the
r loyl'H and by the man>l~nl to the
eth ical .ide, &. Ihtll: waf _10..)'. bread and
emr lo,. .... until in 1~ 1 7 it ..... bkd UI 10
rne.a t to be provided. and the th ing. that
p. ora'e back amona Our employcc . &5 per
uplill Ih •• pint a r. o ften miu." whm it'.
rmt 01 lhe Iron profit. The OIMT 3~ per
a daily bani. 10 ktq ).ir. Wol f from
cen t pa id I h~ o .crhud, laxes. "Itrnt, . nd
campin, on one', doorstep. I hue r\CVtf
• na_ ~hlt protil on the in,-Ulment
thouaht much _boo,1I It't"Y ioe ; jUlt .. ml
W'hrn takinl!' ,nto CGnlidcnlion that the
along and did what Waf 10 be don., and
lame l_r.1 line of bulinal ..... followed,
!leaUIt' the POlIn who moulded my piI' lhe ... me amount o f profit wat ~rured in
t itular day. rYe moe "- mouth Iha' turned
the cl\i_le •• and all of Iht work 'Wal done
up U 1M rome •• and ,winklink .yq, it
on a ,lra;,htoOut contract pm. it Jccml
:ohn)'" IHm, lik. a kind of a jok.. I ha~.
10 UI as if leni« to OOle another pa,. 10
.. orked Ih .....h . and 1 haye ralted '''0 of
• e rcal cXlcnt, AU of the emplo)'ees shared
th. gr.ndest, Iw~I UI children ;11 all the
in Ihe profill III the company and the ... _
world. My ,i.1 had one yea r in coIltp
em ployee. tNt I we,.., taken Over from the
be fore .M ma u ied. and my boy 1100" 10
old comp;lny We'" employed in like capac;roIlq-e nell ! fall, T hey are my ,rofilS. In
tits in the
company.
taking "- trial bab~ o f my lift, the profit.
Had we continued in lhe ... _ old _,.
an: rno ...... Ou.. I ""')' h>.vc lost «ruin
with every "'an getting
he could .od
OfIPOf\unitjq fo r ~nonal /lain, bUI r don"
carin. nOlhinc 1M the company. no
1<·... 0 ~Ul·" ,10, bnl. ¥
1«1 th3\ I hue lost ."1Ih;nC of the self
the bul;"'U wo"ld have been upon t"A ROT .... I... N.
that " mi;"h t have bet n. Wht n my ch;ld ~
rocks 1t:1lrs nco.
called me "llIctoed 1 fl!Cl likt Iht Biblical
[n 10tO. 6~ peT e.nl of the contracts
mother of old: lhen I Ic~ alor, ;n th~ 'tr v.
l:ok.n were loose. to a " ral ""len t. In
Our Answer: Profit Sharing
ice o f ~a ... beanl,. in the dUll of many
1!l2O. OI!I of 1M! comp lete contractl there
defeal", and rca
Ihal .. n ice begcu
READ Ihe " Iiclc in your magazine rcla· w.re on ly 3 InSIe. and Ihe Br~~teSl of th ....
la r,er profilJ than . ny Olh~r inn, lmtm .
tive 10 "",,·;ce. It il a hard malle' 10'1
WI I a very o",an percmtag. of II><: com ract
R. D. C.
me 10 d~,dt botw.cn l en ice. cB-<lpe.alion .
Ilfice.
and ju.!ice. dp«ially whrn dealin, wilh
In 1r.! 1. thl, bu , ;nul ..a. lu m ed over
one', "", plo>_I.
complelely 10 the emplo,ees withou t chaTl"e
A F ailure at F orty·two
In Ig IO. I look over a con , tr uclion bulion their pan and we aT. 00'11' t ryin, oul
"S E EK ye firot lhe Kin,dom o f God neU !hal ..al IholO: ;nlt: about ~~ pcr ernl QI
a _Ihod of ~rortl d iv;din~ a mong- ou r tul and . 11 o f ChClc ,h inlS Ih.lI be added los",.. TI~ first yrM we d;v,ded Ihe small
to,ne.. in our preun t line o f bUlind'"
unlO you.N ... id Ihe Sale 01 Galilee. The amounl of profit. the largel t man receiving
which i. mill luppH... W. can not leport
motto o f Rota.y Inltrnational-" He profiu about Su.OO, TIIil busincsJ ran alonr for
full,. on thi . al il hal only IIftn ,n operamOlt who Ser"VeI the bcr.IN-is bul another yea ... cach JUr the profit .r.owin, a ma_
tion for a fe ... mo nth. b ut
wa, o f ""prc» ina- the ... me , _ _ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
fro m pruent indiutiom. it
thourhl, and tht upcrimee
gotn, to pan o ut full, as
which I am .bout 10 . mte
"",11 II onr upeCla tions.
provC'l to me Ihlt bolh are
\V. do not know wh~lhcr
literall, trut.
Ih i. i.... hal you txpol'CI 0 .
At the ace o f forty. cwo I
By PHJL CARSPECJtEN
nOI. but we , .. bmit it 10 )'Oil
counted m, ..11 a failure. I hid
for appronl and we do not
Itooan._ of Ih .. II" le ... """..
lived my life wilhout a lhought
care co have our namn pubfor lhe ",. Hare of od.. rs, ex lis hed w ith il ;n any way.
HAT willihey say when mr work is don~.
«1't. po,haps, my immo:diat.
althoug-h thil ,taCemen t tan
family. and I fca. I had o ftcn
And Life f. des out wi lil the selling 5t'":
be yen~cd il you deaiu.
pot II><: sratif'otalion o f l1\y o .. n
That he buildcd a business of goodly size.
M, S.
dni.." before thei r pk.,u,CI.
And
embla
zoned
his
name
on
financial
skies?
1 had nOI IIftn a luCUIt in
Tha t his standing was shown in Bradslrect and Dun,
bu,i,..u. my intomC .. al small.
"In the Spirit of the
And Big Business paused when his cou rse was run ?
and my " Cbtl wCt't • IOltree 0 1
Master"
..,'Orr,. 10 me.
That his na nH: W 1I5 sufficient on hond o r note,
On my 10rt"' JCCOnd hirt""a,.
And the banks all honored the ch~ks he wrOle?
N M Y ~xPtr;"'nct. Ihe per1 took IIDCk of ",y , piritual
IOn who hes t ill u" ..I..
Tha I his record was dean, and he never swerved
and malerial &1. .11. alld fo und
Ihe
tn!lh of 'he Rotary
F rom hi ~ $Iead fa~t <:(III Tse 10 success deserved ?"
mylelf bankrl1pl, I was rtll_
m otto-"SUV;Ct a bove Sf.! f
lell. dipppoimcd. and ,Ii•.,.,,,All very well , in a wo rdl y way_ I-Ie 1'.o~ u mo. t ",·lt o
\(nt~. I knew t WI, capable
And yel not the thin gs I hope they'll say.
le . ~u btl l," il my mother_
of better thinls. and [ beean
All nlouC th e way of her
10 an aly.e my life 10 s« what
11ft.
has io",d OCher •.
Wh ~n I .ife goes Ottt with the dying day.
wll w'OI1I1.
.een Ihe ~5! ,n t hem - even
In iookinC around for • • 0T he5e are the things that I hope chey' ll say:
ill Cl, e face of their worst lulion 01 my problc"" t di,"
That
he .trr~!ed I h~ morn with a snatch of soug.
and hu .ened Ihem f.ith _
co"ere<! that my f"cnds ...·ho
f
ully. wholeheartedly. and
And whistled a nd smiled when a ll things went wronl!
were both happy a nd pros [)Cr·
,lad!y. S ...... I and greal rcOul were lbole who alw.,..
Thai he treasured the friendship o f child and brute
w. ,d~ Ire hers- perhaps the
had limo: 10 do IOmelhing for
F a T more tha n he ~herisi'>ed the world's . epu le ;
best, II.. <:Otllinlled opporthe, r leUow-mCII.. t uked my_
if
eve
r
he
wayued
and
walked
astray.
T
ha
t
tIInity to .ene.
self_Mil anyOne happier lor
It Iftml to me that the IC·
He groped his way back in a penil ent way :
havillr known you?" "Is the
e ,.., ' of m y mOlher'. "'''''ce
world an,. beuu for your hav _
Thai a hea r1en ing hail OInd a r heerin,l! ~tni1e
i~ hcr in here nt nobil;'y o f
inr- H'·cd in it 1" 1 ...·u foreed
W
ill
be
mi
ssed
f
rom
the
paths
that
he
trod
:twhik"
e .... r:acter, Fiut o f al~ ,hc
to an ...-e' "No" to both que.·
Th,s
be
the
lone
of
Ihe
world's
refr.tinis h'sh.n,indcd. Ioyable. "nt"""" I, IherefOlt, ruol"ed 10
It')' anothe ••YI \(m of IivinC.
H lfilh . HI I·conlrolled, and
Else J shall feel T ha'"e lil'ed in \'3in.
I joined a dtun::h and taulht
delichtllllly .en,ible. Someill the Su nday School, I ~
OtIC on(e Aid of her. "She i,
"'w
an
"""bt.
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What Will They Say?
W
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Januarll, 192:1
TilE
j!ltor,uplible.~
1 h~~t almo.t !le,'er
hu.rd my mOlher Hprcach.~ but .he hu
ItWliud ,pl~idly.
Quid< to distin_
cu;.h 'iCIot fTO'" ",ro"g, .~ has a!",aYI
11000 Itcadfully for the riaht. By her
o",n quitt. strong nample, ,he has
hclJ\Cd othen to do tht Unle.
My
mother ~u had sorrow in her life, and
heovy bUTdml. But she h:l.. borne the..,
. tronaly, unMmplaininrty, with fa ith in
God Ind in the righl Ihal co nquers
... ronr. Throughout her life, .he has
kept )'Oona in .pirit. Today, It "uentyhe, .lIt il hen ly Ili~c to the intoruu
of her c hildren, h~ grandchildren, hcr
nei,hbor.. he r city, and the oUllide
wo rld.
Yur . fl e. yur .he met the dutiu 0 1
a doclor'. wife, in tet .Sted in my fa ther'.
wo rk, an d hd ping hi'n by n,.king our
home I t happy and re.tfu! a s po..,ble.
and by hu compan;"n,hip. Slit broulfhl
up her three child .... n in .....h .., happ;·
n""., . nd wholesome work ""d play.
Later .he helped to make
PO"' ble for
my brOlhu, m,. ".ter, I nd myself to ao
to colltge. 'Yhen we thT« .tarted out
on OU r Mcarccn H of m cdieine, nu ..;ng.
• nd leaching. rupect;vcly, .100 followed
uS by hu unftaR"ging inttrtl t and con~.
d.n«. She con tinu.. to "' IRnd by" u,
in ou r wo.k and ,n al ! wa)'l.
M,. mother', ICn';CC hal nol been li mittd
1(1 her ;m_diate family. I .hal l neYet forad the com~ioruhip and lov .... pat .... t
Clre .. hich .h g.n
iII' ..... ndmother ( lor
many yean. mcml>n' of (MI' ~) who
I;ytd pat! her nindy_ .;',th birthday. My
mother i. lhe devoltd comrade of h•• e,ghl
~ran dc"ildfffl.
She i. t<lu~l1y ready 10
mend Ih.;r sk>ckinr. Or mitten., to oew
buuonl 00 their C03tl, or 10 play gam ...
Or ha,.., I "party" with th tnt. Year in and
yea. out, .he h. welcomed to our ho.... ,
aunls, undu, """.inl, .nd friends. And
m~an ... h;le. my mother hal lound time and
in~rnt always 10 help in Ihe ....... k of her
church. and the " 'clfarc o'pn",,,iotu o f
her city.
AI to my mOlher', t>foli t.1 She has not
"I.;d up" nute.ial weahh. Out of her
moderate ;n«lme, how.yer, .he h" the joy
of helping Olbe.. leu fortunate than he'Itlf. Dut ,he i. rich in the reward. that
me.n moot. SIM: h.. tIM: happinen o f ha~_
ing .ervtd God and her fellow-n>en .n
her lile, SIIc ha..
devoted Ioye and
adm iration of hcr children, I'.ndc;hild ......
~latiyn. and cl~ ..st fr icndl.. My MOIMr'.
fr;'"dl, my ,illn'S. an" mine. always ask
for mother ... ith 'I>«ia[ aff~tion and n _
ptd, and show her, upon all occ;u;ons,
autnlion no! unmixed wilh ch; ... lry. Her
faithful maid, who h., been wilh her for
..,..enteen yea .., ;. loyalty rut1f. Eyen
thote wbo do not !mow my mother w.lI,
l;J.:e and honor her.
Pernapi the belt part 01 my mother'.
w.... ia: il that ;t h.. been unoonscionl,
siven in the Ipir,t of the Malter. Bccause 01 this, she b31 b"""rhl OIIt the
but in OIhen.. What bigher sery;« o r
reward ?
C. S. C.
,I
m,.
1""
A R eply From England
arc Ihings in lil e which IOUch
T HERE
the .... rt, and lhe feeliog. wh ich a ....
productd annol find nprellian in dull
word,. The elimination of wlf for wrvitt
br ..... a , r ... t rew,.,.d_II und .... tanding
and • io'oe o f fellow·moen. Dccausc thel
ROTARIAN
k!i~v~
ill Ihdr mot lo """,e of the _;-,_
Rotuw,. IJktd lDnIe ''''Iy odd ladl from
lhe PQOIUI dimid in our lown, to enjoy
a d.,. ;" the evuntry wi,h .hem II the farm
of a RotaTian. It "". lbe spi.it of the
gatbering lhat imprased on.. The gaun t
fiaure whiCh follow, so muth in the fOOl,Iep. 01 our poorer brethren Wit ,n'.. ing_
that dark cold form of ~harity, Brother
helpod brother to enjoy him..,lf. It did
ane'. linn good to Set III.cm rnnn inK and
jumpinc 011 the greenswaT!!. frolio,nl in
lhe hay and taking in the pUTr, f~.h .it
that men ,row .trong on. The Rot""nl
who worktd ... ith the tea and Ihe .ports.
and the,. did no! lupcrvi.t, they rcally
.. orktd, repr"...,ttd 'e~eral PTofe,,;"nl and
"arions Italion, in life, oot that da,. th.,.
were one in • common brotherhood wilh
the poor TIgard lad. ' they are try ine to
lead to brij(htu, !.cller Ihing5- The expre.011 lOme o f thole poor piflChtd !ac".!
Someone WII Ihinkm. of .hem .nd in •
p.actieal mannft' tool I think in the he.",
of Ih"'t men of Robry had crept the .piril
0 1 ~t ,lUt mm who ~rsl IIW tbe lilhto'-day in OUr lown, the man who PYC
01i~e. Twill and T iny T;m to Ihe world .
I hue walch.d Ihem at Ihe clnb room 100,
The lame ,pi rh i. Ihne, sloriou. and
triumph~nt. They may not It<: the rtSU!tl
in Iheir g."eratHln, but Ihe,. will come
,nto lkotc liw:, lhat are Cotst in rouaher
mould. lhan IIOIne ....,n'.; Rotary here i.
leaching ;11 Ie'"",s 01 ..,....itt. I haye been
pr;Yi!q:td 10 " 'att h Ihil work and hel p in
a lin,. . " y, aud I have lrarned that the
only currency in lhe wOTld ,,-hieh will buy
lhe ProhU attached 10 . hi. " 'ork, i. thr
Currency o f Se.yK... I un . hul '"Y eyt.
and ...., Ih~ir tall. ' f~cel in the clubroom
whith i••11 Ih~ homt th~t some of thue
poor lad. 1I"'e which i, pu .. and aood. It
it d ifficu lt to "'ritt 01 ,,-o.k Ilke thil. Se .... ;oe con, i,t. o f <ked" nol word .. II\d 'he~
i, 10 much "Nr serrioe al lhe ... gather;ngl.
1 haye lefllhem I""lin, happy .hat lhere it
so much loye in thi, publie ....« It. One
Ihing i. «r, ain. In .... ving "IlT brethren
".~ .hall ~nd Htong11tS in Itt ... books in
the runnill r brooks, $ermon. in 110"", and
good ,n eytrythin r." I h ave had a grUI
wealth of profil which money connot buy
fTom r!imp'CI o f ROI ..ry work here
.mong" ,ht poor lad. of Ihe town .nd it
il a plea"nt talk to say 50 he..... There;'
in.piral;"" to ITut thonghIS in thi, won·
derful broth~fhood. The (>351 ~ . . o f war
hh~ ,nadt uf long: fot ~. and in ...... ioe
to ,he link men of tomorrow ane an get
a Rlimp.. of Illat dayw~.~ r. . . . .r ~ ... m. oIIon .broll ... to.II"r
And 'h bo"l.
l ud.d
,. ,~. ".<11.""., 01 ...n,
n.. f<tl .... .,. . .r ,be World."
,ion,
ft.,....
E. ]. C.
Another Man's Check
I r""d
WA S pflClicmg law in • weltcrn railcenter.
day Ihert ca."'e into
On~
the oIIi« a )'fPI1t1g m"", wuri.. ow:raHI,
c~p, an d jumper o f Ihc ..... il.oa<lt •. He had
a rood look i" hi' <ye., bUI from hi, lalk
one cou ld ea.ily g"<"" Ihat ~ had ...."
.om~lh;"g o f the life of a "rounder" in
""'''e lar8e dty.
HAII" n , ho .... much do )-ou. . charle •
suy fer advioe,~ he ..ktd_
I uplained 10 h;m that it depended somewha l upon the nal llre 0 1 Ihe caw.
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He look out a roll of bills and in,itled
upon handing one over 10 me. H .. then
went directly to the object of ha call.
"'Vllal <:&/I they do 10 me,~ he .. ked,
Hf.r ca,hi,,' anothtr guy'. check with the
",me name?~
Af,"r ""merou. '111e.tOonl. I ~nally gol
hi. ,IO'y. He l'ad bee" trucking at a loul
freight hou'C, and hi, fo .... man. whetht.
righl!y M wronsly, had discbafRtd him.
and the J<1ltIl& RUIn though t ~ had a iutl
,ricvancl!. At an, ratl!. whco he went 10
the ofIi« to ,et hi, HI 'me.~ the time check
wa, for • rauch larger amounl than WII
d~ hira, but it WII made out in hi. name.
He ca,hed Ihe che<k, knowmlt: that a
"high.. r up" happentd 10 have ,he •• mt
name a, hil and that Ihi. ehe"" mull have
been intmded for the other man.
"Now, what Un lhe, do to mel" he
.pin asked.
.'Don anyOl'le rise Imo. about Ihi, r I
inqui""'.
HNo.~
I lIudi.d him • minute and then told
hi", il did nol mailer 10 much what "they"
rould or would do to him, but Ihat the ;m_
porl~nt Ihinr Will what lie would be doinS
to him..,lf by keeping Ihis lOon., which he
knew did nOI belonll 10 him.
"But t.hll link had no right 10 fire me,~
he exclaImed.
"Pernap, he did wrong in that, N I uid,
"but what h.. tha. 10 do "';Ih )'OUr bcp.
mr thi. monty? Anyway, it i.n't the foreRUIn', money.N
I thought I w... beginning 10 make lOme
impr...1on, lor he apin look nut h i. roll
and bega" to counl it OU the table. I looked
him stra;,ht in Ihe eye .ftu a mi1lule Or
'wo 0 1 .ilrn« and asktd him, ~Do you
,..;mt to make. luCCeu in lifer
Finally he an.wered in • ralbet- hu.1cy
>'oice. "Y ..., .it, J do.
NWtll, tben; I ..id "you
..,11
lurn righl now lhal you will haye to work
for it. You can't I.t somctbing for nothinr
;n this world. Anything )'ou ret without
giving work, money, 0 . pTo,",,-rty for will do
yOu more harra than good. You will rully
be hdp;ng your own chancel of . UtccSl if
you take thaI money ,hat doc",'t belon. to
IOU back to the lrent and tell bim YOll arc
IOI'r1 ~o u took iL M
He .aid norhin,r, but counted (MIt 10.....
money and pul it aside: from tht re" .
Th ..... lakinc up thi, pi~, h.. said, MBut if
I take this bal:k lhe q;..,t will h.o .. e me
p;nchtd for taking thaI ch~k.M
I told him Ihat if th .... wso any trouble
about it to h.. ve the arent call me up, .nd
1 9aye him my Clrd. He.al do,..., with hi.
head bo ... ed Owr the table. minute, . nd
. ben, jumping up, he said, "111 do it, lon,.
ler, and J want 10 thank you.N
J got up and held OIIt m,. hand. and when
be look it I PUI my ~ .... t.iner'" hack inlo
his. The ttaU ro1~ down bi$ cberlu as
he ..,id, "You sec. I 'crYtd a l.nIl in the
workhousc once in Botlon, and I_I wa,
I><.inning to think m~ybe I was on my
way hack to one of them plaCH agoi1l. I_
I ,U(.I you've sa"ed me. T Set it:tll no ... ~
About a half hour lIte. the "g.nt taUed
me up 10 tell me that the money had been
relumtd and that he had found tha. th ..
compan,. had plenty "f work for the )'OWII
mall to do.
S. A. S.
(cg., ...",• ... tcg. f6J
M
rna,. "
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THE
ROTAR I AN
January. 1923
For Sale: A Fifty-fifty Carburetor
A story in which Old Gannon keeps a cOlitract-JamagCII
s l11 gs a so lo~,and Jimmy K e1lt b uys a carburetor
•
By MADELINE LAMBERT
I
F Jimmy Kenl, of the Kent Machine
Works, were puuued by • "spirit"'
as he rushed madly frOID hi, lillIe
car, up the porch Itrps and into hi.
home, it mu5/; han b«n Ihe spiril t hat
ruIn all hppy dUlln;". J immy, plai nly,
w:u happy. The buoyancy of his stride.
Ihe glad li ft of hi.lhouldcn and most of
;011 hi . grin_ it W;II l ueh a good, substant ial, "all', r ight with t he world" grin--
IoOmc amazing rood luck.
W ith a hoea. hug, he g.edoed what appeared 10 be an ~nimatro bungalow apron.
but above which a piquant and wholly
charming lace wa s v i~ ihle. TIlt hug was
~spoke
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5t renuou~
~nd
'I uaney
t nt gup.
that il snlOthered the p >'
cha rm into Rn al most incoher·
In thnt bear hut; was J immy
Kent's
.,
prllyer of Ihanhriving. He
"oould,,'! havt calltd il a prayer. The
expression on h i, fact wuld never have
Iranslated it sdf inlO the dud words of
a dignifi~ )l<'Ii l ion. Rather it seem~ to
»y, "" rn .0 dan ltd thankful for this
home and my wHe and my good luck today that I wOllld jll5t like 10 hUi:" the
",hole IIni,·u se."
" I've found a bal:' of gold!" he excl aimed. u he l il led hi , ,,'il,,'_ face and
kissro he r " 'ilh hi s charactcri"ically
rough lenMrnc.u.
"Jimmy Xtnl! You"'e mussed my
hair all up and rubbtd oft' all my nice
powdu,"
~A. if hair and powder "'ere ' n'port.
ant ""he n one', hu!band baa found Ihe
bag o f , old lit t he n>d of Ihe rainbo ......
"Oh. me, Oh. m)·. How vcry nice
Ihat he h:ls found a big rogo o f gold.
Now I may have a fi~leu cooke r and
n<:w drape' and maybe a li ttlc ck(trit
aU my own. eh?"
Jimmy loved t hai leasing note in he r
voict. Thty locktil arm, and hUTried
to tht kilchen.
"Would hi. Bighnus deign 10 u_
lliai n tn hi, poor. humble Un'ant ju.t
ho'" the rai nbo", happened 10 dump her
trea.$urc in YOllr lap 1"
" Honest Inj un. il· ' no fairy tal e-il
;1 does read like one. I hve pinched
"'ylotl f a dozen l imes today to be . ure
[ Will awake.
['m half afraid ye t thai
[ will "" ake up aoo lind Ihal I d reamed
. ..
."
~bry
Xeul pUUled Jinuuy'" full 200
potlnds o f brawn and mU Kle inlo the
little white kitchen rocker . ,,,fd setlled
herself delcnninally on th~ a1ge of Ihe
kitchen eabi neL
" Nary a bite do )'OU J:~ until you tell
me " 'hdher ),OU have struck o il or
I~nded the Gordon Qrorr.
Eit her OIIe
.
~,------
n'ight ha,·c a roC of g<>Id in it for bal IUL"
"Neither, my _td lady, Bill I'w:
st umbled 01110 an idu for my tngine to.,by Ihal ,,·iIl m.ake U I rkh, You'l now
h~"e a fa"->5 in"entor for a hulobJo nd."
We wiU ha" e to pardon Jimmy Kent'.
exc itement for he had worked hard ~nd
failhfully On hi s gas "ng,"e for ten
)·ta rs only to si rike a snag finally til
the method of mixing gu ,,1><1 air. Of
Jate he had grown sc:n5ili,'c about hil
inability to soke hil problem.
"I was dearing up lOme corrHpomlcnce at my desk th is morning when
wmcone showed a CTalY inventor guy
into my office. He had a model for a
ga. cng,"e somet hing like mine-only
his was wor;;e. T here are a tloten on
the market right now Ihat are supc-rior
to hil. He wanted nlC 10 go in with
him on the p.a.lcnt and then gel the Ken!
Worl<! 10 malre them.
"11,e plans ""'re no good. I knew
Dad ,,'OuIOO'! touch them wilh plitfl_
Bill I let him talk :wd when he btpn
'un Ihe carburnor ( y<MJ know thai IS
where , ','e been litil lip on my engine )
-\\'dl. you wouIdn'l mtde rstand. nobody
could from hi . blueprinl--but Ihal guy
bal a limple little dev ice for mixing
air :lIId gas that h<ls the Perfection ' OGlor but a cily block."
"IF....ouId
I hadn't been a poker shark. he
ha.-e been able to read tllC $Urprisoe aod joy in my fae"C. It was all I
could do to sit still. I " 'amed to ),,11,
But r calmly sat :lnd li stened. 11len I
explain",", to him that hi . engi ne ,,'U no
good. showed him a duzen others ou the
market Ihat had hi s beSI",", (of wursr .
, stured dear 01 Ihe carburetor) aoo do
you kllOW whal that fcllow d id? Big,
tall. skinny guy. mu, 1 weigh around 200
and he sat there in hi s ch air and cried.
He look it so hard, I didn't ha.-e the
heart tn leU him Ihal Ihere ",asn't a
chance in the wodd that the Kent MAchine W orks would tah his engineen'n to manu facc ure it on contract, So
I got r id o f hint by promising to present his pl ans to my facher and Ihe
I.>oord of directors and Iold him to drop
in lomorrow noon for hi s anlwer."
"But say, that im't all , 11lis partie·
nl ~r r~inbo", lexby 1"'CI 3 ball' o f gol d
at each end and ~."" """er ",ould gut»
what was in Ihe ol:ll('r b.". It wa! an
in" itation to join Rotary. !"'O\O' whal do
you think o f ~Ir. Jimmy Kem? I kind
of thokcd up OHr it. There a rc ,;u
'n3ny bi,ger nl,," of my c1uliflCalioll
cli,ible. I can', understand it yet. Perlu.ps 111 wake up and find I drt:amed it."
"VII'S. but J im. ",hal about the Ill ·
n-ntOf' llu.t cried~ y"" said hi, engine
wu nO ,ood and cl,en .roo say !Ome part
o f it is belter than any you have "'"""
able to dC\';sc,"
" For,et it. dear. y "" don 't understand. I uid that his engine was no
rood and it isn·t. He couJdn't lind a
machine "hop in the country that would
git'e him Ii.-e cents for hi , plan <Ii it
~ ppc-ars on the blueprint.
1 doubt that
he could lind anyone that would make
thtm for him on contr:l\:t. It's just that
Ilt has n umbl r:d onlO a liltle device for
mixi ng ai r and ga!!-for making a more
pc-rfcct mi:tture o f thcm than any pl an in
\1 Je now. I don' t bdie" e ht eV~n know.
hi nlself wllRt he hilS stumbled on. He sure
doc~n't show it on the w ri nen plan-not one man in a hundred would get il."
"Bul. Jim, if he had a pate nt on lbat
one linle part lhal is so good ~nd your
company wl nted it. Ihey would be glad
to (>IIy him for it, wouldn't tlley?"
"Su re, but he docsn't know Ihe com·
pany wantl il. T hat', the joke, T1.at old
geezer wouldn't ha" e enough sense to
gd the carburetor patented il ld!. He's
10 cruy ove r IhOK prints tha t all he
call set: is the whole engine. He pan
them I nd carUK, thenr and coos and
erin over them. hugg ing those plans for
dar life ami Ihal en"ine of his isn'l
worth .. darn--..xecpc t he carbu retor."
"B'l!, J immy, if you used thoR plans,
or his idea for the pan tha! you want.
wouldn'l it be sort of_well. you knowso rt 01 Slea.l--unfa ir to him r
And m the manner of ~ ,·try Adam
with hi s Eve, he ch:utgetl tile ,ubject.
Jimmy was prelly quiet while Mary
fini.hed her prep.1fation o f t he evening
meal. Fate wa , such a fickle jade. She
lifted man 011 !lLch ",avu of juy and then
b",,'pM him into people who were 10
finicky and couldn'l understa nd. He wa~
gl~d wh en dinner ofl'ered him a diversion.
But hi, food la$led fl at. Usually he
ate wilh rfliill, bul everythi ng lon ight
seemed 10 lack sal t or IOmcthi ng. He
Will nncomfortabl e and yet could not 10'
cace the c.~\l SC o f hi, di5COlt\fon, Mary
was 'I\l ict, too. She did have such a di,.
aK ruable w~y o f raising a quest ion and
Ihcn calmly goinK aboul h u own busi·
ness as if e>'eryonc wanted to settle
C'\·trythinr for themKlvc$. For iSOrnC
rUlOll, he felt angry with htr tooighL
He final ly pu. ltcl back his chair,
IN.ngr:d hi, napkin on the din ing table,
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January, 192.1
THE
ROTARIA N
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"Falu eulm a t " . m ,. )'OIIn& ,i~. An y WllrM thgt i. d ilh o ........ bI . i, d amn poor
hll. ln_ for t hl. firm . W. _ ill h .... to Ill" a "l" ue desl if ore • • peet to tet one'"
and bru shfd hi s ""ay Ihrough Ihe [;\';n,
~
lIis lingers drl1mllled resdel5ly on the
hea\'i1 y I1phoislerf(i cha ir·arms.
His
e)'u were 1i)[M. IInsceit\K, on the lon"
gracdul. I,..a,.in, branchu of a line.
old cul.leaf birch oulside. Uillall,. the
l iny. sharply lenaltd Ie"'''' gue him
keen delighl. Now he Ioaw IlIem not.
He IIttme.j unconsciOUI 0/ Ihe thingl
around him Ihal 1I$"wI,. gne him grUI
physical comfort. the perfectl y adjl1sted
lamp, Ihe cooI'enient lable of papeu and
magaz ines and thc padded ottoman that
elevaltd his fcet to just u..,tly the
proper angle. He look a d,ar from his
humidor Rnd JigJutd it, Irom force of
habit rather t han de,i re--unawa re all the
while that he w35 omi n ing hi. CU5tom'
ary happy Imile lor Ma ry who had 'CI'
lied in her eh"ir ",r051 thc table with
her mending.
He wal al war wilh himself lor be.
ing 5cvemttn tliilerent kindl 01 II fool
for teninr hi. bu5i nUI 10 Mary. . . .
Soon she inlerrupted his diloagrccable
oceupalion b)' r«Ipcninr Ihe eonveru·
,,"""' t wu loyely, Jimmy. for IIIe lellow~
10 ask you inlO Rotar)'. Will il be
of an advanlage 10 you in your
neu ?"
"Sure. I will Ial:e a lot of pride
And 111 lake a lot o f plusure in
. ~,------
much
busi.
in it.
IMi r
...·ttkly luncheons. They uy t haI the
fellows ha"e a hap of good. clean fun.
II 0\Ii"h1 10 help business, too, for it
does gi"e a firm " higb iitanding in the
•
•
eolldUUDlty.
And it ,,'U ~hortlr ailer Ihi. Ihal
I(IIDIlbing happened. Jimmy was not
Il1perstiliOlls. He w:o.s a .... ~. yOllng
bu.i~51 man.
lie didn'l belitve ,n all
lhi. IUl"rnalura! stuff lhal i. being
pa u ed around nowadays. At lust, ht
, leVU
had read Lodge wilhout erump-lin&" up hi. newspa per and pooh.poohing supe rnalural " ,s,ons as p i!lle. And
so " 'hn a shado,,'y, veiled figure stood
by hi. sidt and hi. wife §timed UIIaWare of ilS pre.ence--he tr ied 10 brl1sh
it away as a freakish lo rm o f hi. cigar
smoke. BUI it remained. He rubbed hi s
eyes, wom]ering if the old eye t roulM
had returnl-d and meman)· re!:"isterell a
,'ow to cuI 00,,'11 II" numbe r of hi. tlaily
smokes. Bul the figure ~I ill remained
and now it spoke ;n soft. low 10nes.
" You plan to join Ihe Ranks of RoUr)' r"
K ENT was 100 lIartl..d 10 do
JIMMY
more than nod an afli rmati'"e.
"Are )"011 ae<jllainted .... ith its rcspon·
.ibilitiu :as well :as ...·ilh iu pri"ilegu.
with Ihe 'gin' as well as the 'lake' ?" If
Ihe voi« had bcm lUI kind, if il had
pO$II:lStd a !:"hostly qllality like its habi.
lat inslead of Ihe .~ nalu.:lI lonu of
a ,ood hwn.an ,"Oitc. J inun), would ha,'e
shrieked hi , ne,alioo instead of mere1)'
shaking hi. head.
And Ilt nt"tT could explain whal hap-pe-nfd next. He wal con$Cioul only thaI
Ihe figure took hi. hand and Ihal I;me and
' ...... I«md 10 fade into nqli,ible quanlilies. They l lood ,n a bUlineu house.
It was Ih. otrlC;U o f the lirm with wh ich
Jilnmy had bttn connecled Ihe fiut yur
out of college. Oltl Gannon, while.
haired bill agcrelli"ely alert p t at hi.
huge, mahoran)' d esk. in a well.remem·
bered pose. Sheet. of ligures lay belore
him. At hi, r igh t hand stood a tall.
Ihi n. bespectacled, young fellow wilh an
open notebook in his ha"".
Ever), lone of Cannon'S voice carried
di sl inclly. "You uy Ih al your discov·
ery o f Ihe omisl;on of one clal1sc in ou r
comract will permi t us 10 bruk it, law.
lul1yl" J immy rerm:mberfd lhat look
in ol d Cannon's eyes that had ..,emed 10
get Ihe ,ist of Ihe man before t hey
Iritd 10 rel lhe gi sl o f the matter. Thert.
fore. he Iym.... thized heartily wilh the
fellow', "i.ib!e squirm as old Gannon
<:Onlinufd :
"_nd Ihat lilt decreasc in prites
would gi"e u, a dt<:idfd adunugc
Ihroug-h Ihe cancellalion o f the con·
II"lICI?" J imm), saw Ihat the fdlow was
intent 00 Gannon', band as it rc.ac:hed
aCTOlI lhe duk and. rrasped. 3 wheel·
shaped papuweighl. "And Ihe ancel·
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1.1.1;00 of Ihll contraci is d ishonorable,
is it not?"
The clerk with the notebook blurted
OIl! hi, answer uncercmonio.nly, "Yeh,
dishonorable, nl.Jybe. Out iI's damn I:"ood
business. "
And then Gannon smilrd as he laid
the p.a.perwdght back on the desk.. ~ Fal~
~I imalc. Illy young Ii "~ Any COOrs.. that
is Iliihonorable ;, damn poor bu~inesll
for Ihi s finu. We will h... ,·c \0 gil'c ~
"luarc ~lcal if we uprct to li:CI Qm'. Sr·
sKkJ lhe good name of t his firm wOIlld
actually !lUff... a biRer dolla.,·and~"
10M in the long run from the stipa of
dishonorable dulings lhan we CO\lld possibly hope 10 gain through the cancellal;on of thi. <:om.a..l . Th is firm will
do businns in an honorable w"-y-i f ;1
an'l milkc a fai r profit Ihal W3)~wc'lI
qui t J"
Jitmny was glad of a chance to p«k
in on CannOll. He had wondered if hi.
old friend had challicd. And he wu
shrewd enough 10 gather that Old Gannnn hlld wnn his right to hi' evident
pride in Ihe Rotary whed-not lor what
he look I rom Rotary but what hc gali~
to it.
G ... mon ', office l3ded fnllll ,i l:ht a.
thcy ~st.ed rapidly through .pao:~. They
wcre back in J immy'. Own neighborhood
at the comer grocery. Jimmy had 10
laug h as he III'" "Old Golden Rule Jarnagen" weighing sugar wilh the ioaItlC
ICrupuloul Ure for enet wcigh t. t hat
had gi .. en him hi. nickname and made
him thc bUll of a g reat number of jol.:t.lI.
He ...... a meek, unauumi", l itllc mao.
painnakingly bonc.c and colI!leqlKnlly at
a d i$advantage with some of h is less
ICrupulOU' competito r "
F OR thc fint time in all Ihe yu .. that
Jimmy h3d b«n buying grocerics
thcrc, he KrIsa! lhat t1~ sl ig ht .coop of
Jamaren'. thoul<kr. Illight be a wearinc u dlK to the .:on.wr.nt l\ruggle to re_
m:.in honul ;n the face of hishollu t
c;ampel ition.
nllt he never drC3n~ t hat old Jarnagen might be a Rotarian. He would
have imagined that Coleman of the Paramount Groce .. woul d have ken Klcct"d
to lin the grocer c1lll$ific:at ion. I\ot Qf\ly
did jimmy have JOI11 e difficulty in placing J arnag"n u thc choice of groce ..
bllt he wondered how in the world J arnagen h:.d cvc r accepted t he i"'·'tation.
He cert:.inly wasn·t the locial Iyj)('. iii,
question w.:as answered immediately for
Ihfy were in the hot el dinin&" rOOm and
the weekly Rotary luncheon wu in full
Iwin,.
J immy call1:ht hi, breath in allrprioe
and crabbed at his 'hadowy friend for
allpport. For the re in the &"r(MJ1' of carefree, happy busi ne u men A t J am:.,en.
laughing and .ingin, .nd joking w ith
the mt 01 them. H e held hil b r~Olth
again whtn he htard the prelid~nt fi ne
Jal"Uj;m lor not linring loudly enough
.nd loru him to pay the pm:.lty of a
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THE
ROTARIA N
solo, To hi. SlI rpri iJe, J amag"n r esponded with, "Round her neck she wore
a railer r,ht>!",·· and Ihe Stoop wal all
gone from his ~houldeTO and h~ had Ihe
beatifIC look on hi. face !ha! " child
weaTO whn it takel II daTe.
A wooden man wuld hne Setn how
nluch good 1I1e cheerinl tdaution. Ihe
fine busintss com radeship of Ihat IIOOIt_
<by "",,.:I was doing for janlagen-that
he ~Grlud 110" r.ght to that iellnwslt ip,
hence reai\"ed hIOre from it. And J immy
K~lt was no wood.." man.
Thw the cheer of the room faded and
in. te3d of the laughter alld song, jimmy
~ nd hi, guide wrr~ in ""nsc l il.:IIC".
JaftuarlJ. 1923
They iJeemw to be at a great he;ght aoo
were looking down on a conglomerate
mass ;n which the youn\!" man could distinJ: uish neither .hapc. form nor signific~nce.
lie ~ tht "",planation that
u me 50 readily from the 5h..oo,,·y form
be,ide him.
"Tluu which i, going on down there.
m)· Irimd, is Big Business , L illi e nlUi~
"cn-Any Old BII';ne... Every man
11111<1 wrest his share f rom the g me ral
stock JOI11e Sn.1Ichit\&" for hIOTe t han
their share, 50"", conlent with less than
their I hare but ,.:II conduct ing their bu !iinUl according to a pcrlOftoll atandard of
(Cu , ;" " .. d ~ .. t "g< 31)
The Rotary Code of Ethics
By C II &SLEY R. PERRY
Ron A B!.Y Ihere i~ no one thing in
all Rotary literature in which Rotarian.• have taken a greater interest ... ,<1 for that matter in which the
publ ic has taken a greater inte rest than
the Rotary Code of Elhics for bnsincu
men of all lines, adOPIW at Ihe 1915
Rota ry Con,·ention.
In Ihe Jllly, 1921, issue oi T IlE RoTa. t ....., Past I mernational Pruid.:nl
Gltnn C. Mead preStmed an aIllIY';1 0 1
the Rota.ry Code of Ethiu wh erein he
SCI forth thaI it is not a code o f ethies
at an, but rather :a ton feilliion 01 faith
or c~ I have no desire to lue isme
with Glenn, and in fact find it ,'cry easy
to agree wi th him in part, hUI it lItems
to me lhat a eatC£lI] st udy o f Ihe Rotary
Code WlIrrants U5 in saying that it is a
Code of E thics rontaining bolla a crud
.."d G u l a/ sla"dards a/ ,,.,,cl irr. To
pro .. e my poi m, I submi t the 100lo"·ing
edition o f OUr code di .. idw into l wo 1tCtion s-a creed :.nd Standards 01 praetiu.
~othi ng has ken added, nathin, ha,
])oeen subtracted. All that foll ows here
,.. ill be lound in the preoe11l COOt or in
its in troduct ion.
THE CREED
As .. RolorlaM I btl~t:
TIuJI my· yout;"" i. a ,,·o' thy ""e, afford_
'''' tn. a di<lin<1 opport"nity to UrVt
P
.I>OCN:ty.
ThaI il i. my ,hny '0 im pro '·e 10)"ICH,
i,,«eaoe my efficiency, ."d ~"l:o rKe "IJI
~".ice. an,l by '" domS", ~1t~.1 mv fait h
in the fundam.."lal prmdple of 1I.0tary
Ih . t- Il e I'rof,,, ~l o~t Who s.e"·el D~$\:
Th .. , ;t i, my dUl)" to rn]i.e lhat I am a
bu.;"".. m'on wilh a ,,"orth)· am~ition to
i llCcccd bnl Ihat I am fir" an ethicoll
",an and wi.h no ~u=u that if not
f"""dod <ItI Ihe bigh." jU01ice and
morality;
T IuJI the exchange 01 " '). good .. '"y ICTV_
ice. and m)· idea. for profit i. legitimal.
and "thi",,~ pro,·id"d ,loal ~Jl ""rliel in
the CXcllanl. are benefited th.r~by :
one of the IIT""te" as~. 01 a prof . ..ional or !ousmesl man iI hi. frimd.
a"d ,ltat ;;ony advantall. pined I>r ....:uan
of friend ..... p i..... in.m]y ethocal and
proper:
TIw, true frimw dem>.nd notlo in, ,, ( one
a""t~ and 'hal any abuiC: of th• ...,.,-
T"",
fidence of frie nd. hip for profit i. for.iRn
to Ih. ,plrit of ROtary .IId in yiolation 01
III ethits ;
1"I'~1 Ihe Ifni" , of ROlary i. not in rom""tition bnl in ro-opoe r>1 ion; that provinciali.m can nevn t"" ·e a piKe in an
inll;!IItion like Rotary; that Hum:an
Ri,hll are not con fined to Rot ..y d"h.
but Ire IS
and I I brNd al the human ra« it KI : and that lor these high
pu rl'OM" Rotary ",,1st.;
Tltal the'e i, un;.·frlality to ! h ~ Golden
Rlll~, A ll TAi~91 IV"" ........... Yt W~0J4
Th. ,
Sho" ld Do U,,'~ Yo" , Do Ye
Ern< So U~I~ Tht ..., and that SocictJr
belt hold. locethcr ..·ben IIQIII ] OPpo rIIIIIily Is .corded .11 men in t"" natu..,,1
reoourca of our planet.
deer
JI,"
TillE STANDARDS OF PRACTICE
AI • R otario. J #lnI<ilt:
Th" , my busineu . tandardo oh:ail !>a'·e in
th .... a Mte of 1)"1I1~thy for OIIr commoo humani,, ;
Tltal "'y bu.i"u. <lNlin, •. "","ilion .. and
rdat;,;,o, lha ll .hr-Iy. O::l1l1e II!oI/ 10 tm
iUlo ooolideralion my hiJIhcll dun .. a. a
memllu of lOcidy;
ThaI in e¥cry po.ilion in bu.inuo life.
in e,·t ry reJpOnJ ib!ity that comes before
ni t , my chie f thought .hall be to fill lhat
rtsPOll.,bilitr and dischar,e "'y duty 10
!hal. when hue endr<l ..ch " I them, I
,h.1l have lift.d the Itnl of hum:an ideal.
and achieve",.n t•• lill ie higher than I
found ;t:
That [ will "OC' my be.t .nd.. vor. to . Ie,
v~t e th • • !.ndarn. of Ihe vocalion to
wh ich I "II! en".ed and "" 10 ~ond~et
1IIy
that OIh . .. in '"y \"O<:a!;01l
shall find it wi.e. profitable and cond,,~ive
To hal'l'ine!! to emnlate "'y exampl e:
Thul 1 will cond1lCt my bll,i"... in 'lIeh
• ""''''II:' •• to li ye • per fect 'UYM:e equal
to or e,·w bellU thn my competilor"
and, when ill doubt, 10 , i'·e .ddr<l service
bo:}·ond the strict m""lll .... 01 dou~1 or
obli!l. tion ;
T"'" I ,,·ill con.itlcr no personal ."cotU
J"'I ItimaTe or eth ico.l which i. ~ffiI by
takin!> un fair advantagt 01 certain nppor·
tnn il1'" in \be IOC;.I order that a .... ab .....
]UTely dmit.d 10 othe.., and that I . ill
nO( taR I dvantale 01 op(lOrtUniliu to
achit-yt m:alcria.1 1tK'tt1i that oth~ .. . ilI
nOl \Ike beallI-C of tht q",,"ionabl~
morality in...,,,·*<1;
T"" I will 110t be nIOr~ oblipted to a
Bralher Rotarian thall I am to eYery oolx:r
11130 in hu",.n soc:it-ty.
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THE
ROT AR IAN
21
Some Footnotes to History
Origi1lal Guildhall Records (L01ld01l) Throw Some I1Iterest/ilg
Sidelights all Historic Events of 1775·1776
Notes by CHARLES J . PHILLIPS. F. S. A.
M fltnbn 0/ Ro'tIr)I Cub 0/ London, Enl./llrut
RIS I NG OIJt o f the gTC;Io1 RObry
Convent ion in Ed inbu.gh in
June, 1921, and the JUtt«d.
inC v;5it to London of t he
grUler ponion of the Ameriun delqate., it wu ~n of my duly (in
conjunc:lion with many keen worker. on
Ihe convenlion commi tt ees) 10 arr;ange
" isit, to plaalof interesl in and
around London. Among other
places of grut historical impor.
tance we were able 10 arrange
a r ecepti on by the Lord Mayor
of London at th e Guildh all , and
alter that a "isit to the various
paris of thai ancient and hi s·
tori cal bu ildinr.
W ilh the kind coll abo ration
of [he keeper of the recordl at
the Guildhal l, we were able 10
show 10 m.any hundred Arneri.
e;lon vi sitors a number of urly
records regarding ;n panicuiar
Ihe even ts of 1775--6.
A larre number of these vi silorl upreued a wiah to hue
copies of Ihe records and lef[
ca rds with me to ICnd ume, if
I was able to obtain perm.ission
10 photograph the most impor·
!.;anI documents.
A fter I. Ion,
delay the Library Committee of
the Guildhall Wtcd, thai there
was some question of copyrigh t
and rcfuJCd perm ission to re·
produce the documents in fac.
simile, but P"c n'e ever)' facil ·
ity to K;Io[ch the Guildhall rec·
ords and to ~y and quole such
as I wi shed to Ule.
I think that onl)' a few of the
keener Arn e ri e :l. n historian s
have used the Guildh;loll rcc:ords
to any extent, and [ consider
they are "ca"iar" to t he great
bulk of my fellow· Rotarians,
dther in Ame ri ca or o"cr here.
In my opinion, one of the cogs
in thc creat wheel of Rotary
must be the carnell endeavor of
e"ery true Rotarian to do all
that lin in hil power to form
and ceme nt bondl of mutu.al CJ·
!Cem, and of lrue lmowled&"e of
one anolher bet"'een the two
grcat hranchCl of the Enilish.
speaking racc-Ihe Ame r ican
and the Briti&l•.
Man), book s, historiCl, tUIbooks and anklel havc been
.... ritttll upon Ihe tnntl thai ltd
to the War of 1775 w,th the American
CoIoniu, bUI it ICt'ntS to me that thc
"iews of the greal melropolis of the
commerce of Brirain-the City of Lon·
don- han nner been clearly IQled f rom
the actual documents available.
It appears Ihat the unjust war forcrd
on a.n inolTensivc and law·abiding people
in 1775 beart lIOme an;l/ogy to t he war
forccd on Be[gium and Fr;mce by Ihe
Germans in 19 [4. In both c~ it was a
war caused by the will of the ruler,
backrd up by the militar), pan)', and in
both cases. I t hink, thc bulk o f thc bu!;·
nell world was Ipinst war.
n'e following copics of Ihe actual rec'
ords apptaring in t he minutebooks of the eommon couneii
o f the City of London, indicate
that the Ci l), of London was bit_
terly opposed 10 what is slalrd
to h ~Ye been arbitrary and op·
prcssi\'e measure s.
I do not propoJe to dcal with
tbe yar ioul mattCTl that finally
caused war between the Amer i.
can coIonicl Rnd the homel and,
but eonfine my rcmarkl to the
reeords now existing in the
Guildhall.
T the end o f 1774 a general
til'Clion wu held and the
rcsult provrd in fl.\'or of the
ministry and distinctly antiAmc r iean, but this WaJ not the
view of tbe guat City of London, as iIIown in the protttd·
ing' of the coun o f c:ommon
eouncii held at Ihe Guildhall.
I wiJI first qutMe from the
proc«dingl of the 2ht Febru·
;lory, 1775, 1.1 a meeting o f the
common council in the Guil dhall .
'"The lord mayor laid. before the
courl a copy of .. bill dependinr in
'he Uoute. of Common. enlilled:
'A bill to ru tr.;n the Inde and
commcru of the Province of
~1"lIachu'ttll
nay and New
Hamp,hi r. and Colon ic. o[ CQ/I·
III!clic.m and Rhoxle b land and
I'rovide'~ Plantatioo, ;n Nonh
Amer"'" . . . and 10 prohibit
.uch Province' and Colonic. from
ca rrying Oil .ny Fi,hety on the
nanln of Newfoundland . . . .'
~ R UOI.l'W: Th~t the nIU,UrCl
of Adminiltration re' ptttinr our
fellow••ubj«" in A muica adOllted
by Ihe late Parliamenl, apJI(.r 10
Ib is eonn in the hiehClI dq..,e
danrerou. and al.t ming- and de·
mand Our . . -1 ..,riou. attention.
The mtll1(lrial thtn sel fonh
that , inee the opinion of the
coun had al rudy been declartd
;Iogainst "the Act for the makingo r IOOre effectual provi sion for
lhe govcrnmtllt of the Province
o f Quebec" t he eourl aim
A
ft
•
•
THE
Ihought i, cqu~Jly Ihti. tloty to har
tulimany again" four other actl of
Parliammt wh ich ,,'Cre "e~l«mctl highly
inju r ious to our fellol\' 5ubjttiS in
Amer ica," These acts Were ( 1) for the
be lte r rCi'Ulalion o f the go" ~ mment of
Manac.hlUlltts Hay Prm'inee; ( 2) an act
for the impartial administralion of j ustice in the catoes of penons qlN'stioned
for a ny act done by them in the c:<ccution of the law for thc suppreuion of
riots and tllmultl in Masu(huSClts Ba)'
P rovirKc; (3) the notorious act in COlln«lion with Ihe closing of Boston Harbor; (4) and lastly a n act providing for
,nore suitable quarte r~ for the o/IiceTl
and soldiers in Hi s Maje~Iy'1i seT\'ier,
TIM: "'emorial presentctl to P a rliament
by the court protcstctl that thtK actl
are "not only contruy to many 01 the
fundamental pri nciplu of the E nglish
Const itution and most Clltntial right l of
the subject, but also apparently incon_
sistent with natu ral justice and equity,
a nd we ~r(', therefore, of the opi n ion that
Ou r fellow ~ubj ect5 , the Ameri cans, are
j ustified in every con stitutional opposition t o the said actl,"
ton neil
II meeting t\\'o
T dHaYIE common
later, on the 23rd of February,
nt
1775, rceci"ed
re(lOrt from the comn,i!tu whi ch had been appoinlctl to consider
~ci~tanylhe term, of the Fi she ry Rill ,
A iler ht:lrinJ:' t he rrport, Ihe com mon
counei] agreed t o lend :I Mlemn ]!<'tilion In the Commons of Grul Brilain in
rar]iamenl then usemblctl,
'1"hal althoullh your P t tiliontrl kar
~II due rupecl 10 , he Policy of thou ACII
of Parliamenl .. hieh ha •.., aneien tly pres.,..ed 10 Great Brila in a "ceusary ~"d
hencficial , h Ire 01 Co.nmerct "'th our
Colonies." Ihc petil ion rud, Myet Ihe),
arc e"tfl:dinil ly alarmc.! 1I Ihe (On...,(Jue"tt5 tha t mUll enluc il Iht Bill no'"
depend in&' in Ihe HOO Oll rabie HOU$t
should pall into a La"" , , " The
.... id Bill u your Pctilioners conceive bein l unju'l l), founded he(auJC it involves
Ihc whole in thc Pu,,;. hmenl for ,he ~"p­
pou d Ofl'enJCI of • Fe..,
" T hai it mull in ill con~c'1,lICnec. o .. u·
whelm Ihouund. of H i. MaJ..ly', Loyal
and u•• lul Subjeeu with . he "tmot l P ov_
erty and Dil lre" jnalmuch a. Ihey ",ill
be Ihereby deprivod o f Ihe Fi.heri~I
which a re the n'lIlra! ,"e~ nl 01 5"l' porlin l:l' ,hem •• ]ves ~ nd Fa miliCl,
"Thl Ihc " l mOIl eoaf" ,;on will nroh·
ably euue Ir.m enforcing t hi. nill if
n. ...d inll) a L IW, II il can llol b. '''1'poled Ihat • lI , u I " "mhe r 1)1 ",en nah,rally hl.dy an d brave will 'lui~t!y Ju" mit
tl) a Law which will redu"" IlIt ", al"'l)",
II) F amin e t hty n I)l ha vi"" within them_
... Ive. Pro"; lil)n ,ufficienl lor Ih~ir .,,1._
• i.tenc.:,
"Thai ),I)ur Pel ilionerl ftel fo. Ihc
many hardship. which their Fellow.
Subjeeu in Ameriea alr eady labour under
f.om Ih. execulion 01 It,·era] lale Ac'll
o f Parliamfn l evidently parti.1 an d np_
pru.i.e and which ...,em In ~ eXlended
and con linued by Ihi. Bil l. inumue h II
il ron'rm. those Aell whit h in partieula.
calt. d~priye Ihe Amniun Subjeci of
Tryal b)' J ury, prohibiu lhe inhab',an ..
from calTyi"ll Prowi. ion. fro", one Colo ay 10 another, in wil" a Con lraband
T rade under Milila..,. P roleeli"", pre... nh an), Suhjeo:t "f GreM Rrit.in or Ire-
.,
It
ROTANIA N
la nd from i>f,ing part owner of certai"
American Ship, Or Ve ..d, and Ye n . a"
und ue and dangerou s "ulhorily i" , he
Governor and Council 01 )1a..aChU.elll
n.y :_
"Your Pel itione. . . herefo.e humb ly
pra)' Ihil Honour~ble Hou se ') ...1 lhe: .aid
Rill may not past iblO • Law,~
AT
a lurt her meeling of the commOD
CQIlncil nf Ihe Cit)· of London o n
tht 14th o f Ma rch, 1773, it was decidco;l:
T o send a pttitioo against tht said bill
10 the House of Lords and Iht s,"lme is Itl
IltII in fun with ey'" stronge r wording
Ihan in Iht cUe o f tha t to the Hou.e of
Conml(dls,
I n th is ""tilion tht follow ing words
uc:cur:
11la1 if Ihis act becomes law" It can ha Vt " 0 olhr ~fJ~cl ,ltan to
" 'iden tha t unhappy IIrnch which now
.ubsists belween tl>< Coloniu and , he
ll Olh .. r Cnnniry a"d may therefore be
productive of Ihe mo.t danKOroul wnlequenc~. 10 both,
' , . The American
Coloniu have cnntribuled ine.lim a hle
benefil. 10 thi. coun try , , , and
your P etilioners prelu me to a,ld Ihal opo
nr... ive meaoure. re,pecl in s: the Colonie.
mu " evenma lly b. highly ""t ni eion. 10
Grt,1 lI.itain, which h. betn broulI M 10
ill prelenl Digni , y a nd ."Ien dour by Ihc
F reedom of il' Conn itul ion and in Ad _
herent<: 10 Equity and Humanily, but
may be reduced to r>..truC lion !ly meuurel lou nd e<l on Injusl ice a nd DelI!"li. m .~
Three weeks later th City of London,
Jtlnuo.I"Y, 1923
!ional Rlj:hl5, Ihal no part of Ih. Domiu_
il)n can be IIXed, w;,hou! being R' pre_
Itn led, Upon Ihis Ireat ~·atli nll Priacrp le,
Ihey mott arden lly wi.h 10 Ite Iheir Fellow-Subjec t. in America secured, , , .
"I t i. therefore witb Ibe decpel t COllcern, Ih al we h.~e ICCn t he sac red Seeur_
ily of Rtpru.nlatio n in Ihe ir A. ltmbliel,
wrel lt<J from Ihem-Ihe tri. r b)' l .".-y
aboli.i>f,d, and Ihe odiou . powers of Ex_
cilt e"tcnded 10 . 11 casCl of Rnenue-Ih!, Sa."CI1:Ia.,. of their HOUItI laid open to
V,olal"'" allh. will and pl ..... nre of eve .),
Officer a nd Servanl in the CuU<mt.
Libc Tl y and Life rendort<J precarious by
. ub;eelin. Ihem 10 be drallged over Ihe
Ocean, and lried f~ T rcnon and Felony
here, ..'here Ihe dll lan~ making il im.
1'~II'h"t, fl)r Ihe mOl! Gu iltlca. 10 maioI.,n h" rnnoc.:n ee, mu ' l <!eli .. er hin' up a
Viclim to Minilluial Venl'concc, . , ,M
Before quotinz a Inle r rcccivctl from
New York, it i, ne«Q:lTJ to Ilate in a
few wor<£" Ihe eOodition of affairs thert
in 1774-7S,
Duri,1i' the preceding ytan the Kro,,'ing Icnse of grievance had r ..,,,l tctl
throughou I Ihe CoJoui cs in Ihe creation
of Commi ltees of Cor.. spondence, U$Ually elecled a t public menings, 11.c N ew
York Committee of Corr espondence had
bcell .~,ceectled in November, 1774, by a
Comm,tt ee of Obse rvalion to carry out
the measures adoptctl by Congress a t
Phi],delphia, So di ~ln rbcd were condition, in New York after th e battle of
Luinglon, that the Committee proposed
Ihe fo nnation o f an Alloci 3tion to prevent mob-rule and 10 support the ci vil
aulhority. Accordingly on April 29th,
1775, Ihe Article. of Auocia\ion were
rtad aod sigTied at a publ ic IrKtling by
ove r one l housaod freeholde rs, frermen,
and inhabilants of IItt: CilY:>nl1 Count y of
New York and a few daya [aler the C0mmittee o f the Association was elected by
the ordi nary \'oters in the wards.
Ih rough it. rtprescnuli ,~. usembled in
Common Hall al the C uildlUl!I , ~poJ.:e 0111
in no uncertain manntr, condemning '"
I",,, the propo.ed J:'O.'ernn,enl "elion
"gain~ Ihe A",... itan CoIoni.s.
Tht following is an eXl ract from Ihe
Conunon H al l !look of Ih~ City nf the
..me d:!te :MMecling 01 lhe l l ay :>r, AJdn".en and
U...,rymen of Ih. Cil), nf London in
Con,mon H all a.sembled al I .... Gui]dhall T HIS body o f rtprcso::ntative men no""
appealed 10 the City of London in the
~ I h, Ap. il, Ir. ~.
ioflowing Inter addressed from Ihe Com"Decided Ihat au humble add ru •.
Remon.l rance, alld P elition be p r ..en fed mitt~ Chambe r , Xew York, on Sih M.~"
10 Hi. MaiUly a2ain'l the mealures I77S,
ad""led w;lh "'I>"CI 10 Ameri(a, , , ,
~ 'V~
, , . declar .. OIIr abhon .. n .. " M)' L ord and Gent lc~n,
MO inin RUi,hcd al ynn ar .. hy yo ur no01 the ",US11'e' whith have been pu""ed ,
hit
.. erlion, in lhe cause of [.iberty and
and a r. now pu"" 'n!l, 10 .he Oppre uion
inl~rtl l cd in t he expiring Comdeeply
of ollr Fellow,S"hjec," ;" America , T hese
merCe
of Ihe Empir.; you nccellari!y
meaSU't. ar e big with all the eOnlccon,,,,3nd
Ihe mos l rUl>"cllul 311.nlion,
nuenee. wh i"h can abrm a Free and
Th~ lIencra l Committee of Association
Com me rcial Peopl~ d~tp an d perhap.
10.
the Ci ly and C...."'ly .. I Ne w York
131011 wound to Com",e rc~, th~ ru;n o f
heR IU"e Iherefnre 10 addrcn you, an d
M an"htt"re~ , Ihe dim ;muiOll of Ihe Rev_
tbe
Capi tal of lhe Bri ,isb E ,~ pire, Ihro'
en ue a nd the COli seQuen t iner e ~ "e nl
On the >ubjetl of Amer iits
Magil(ra!CI
Taxe., Ih e ali en ali:>n 01 Ihe Col ouiu, an,1
can wronlf l, Un", 10 Ihe brigh t ln h~ri_
the hlood of yOll ' MajUly' ••"bjrrl.,
"nul ),our Peli!ione.. look wilh Iu, lance 01 Englilh Frtedom. Ihe Inhab ihorror al Ih. ron•• quencu than al Ih • lanlS of lhl l eXlen,ive ConliMb t co.n
pu rpolc ul Ihese me'.ur •• , Nor dC<'f'ived nenr .ubm il 10 the Ilfnnmininul Ynke,
by Ihe • .,..ciou . Artifice of calli"" Dc.- nor n'O"t in Ihe 2aUin!f Felter. of Slapo!;'m-Dil'lnily,-Ihey plain ly !>tree;" e vcr)'. Th .. di.opoSll I of their o... n PrO~ Tly
Ihat the real purpo ... i~, 10 ulabli, h arbl- wi th perfect Spon tanei ly and in a manner
wholly dive.'led o f uny .ppcar.ncc of
lrary rower. o ..cr :aU America.
Con,lninl,
il their i"dele .. ,m]c Birth"You r Pet.i l;oner~ eonee;,"e . he I.i herri,ht,
Thi.
exa lled Blcs.i... Ihey arc
tics of the wholt 10 b. in.v il. blr connttled with lhose 01 e.... rr I,"rl of an ruolulcly d •.termincd 10 defend ... ilh Ihe ir
llIood , an d T .... d .. r il uncon lan.inated to
Empire founded on , .... cOmmo" , ijlltll of
"hnkind, T hcy cannol Iherefore ob .. , vc Ihcir POlterity,
wilhout the g. ealesl lcar and alarm, Ihe
~yo" will not Ih.n wonder al tJlci.
Conllilulion riGbled in ~ny pa rt o f You. ,urly Ju loul:r. of Ih~ <k.i,n to er'-':I in
Majes ty', Domi"io,,~, The)' elleem il an .hi. land of Lib<crly, a ne!pOli, m 'CIrcely
•• ...,nl ",1 u".llerahle I>.ineiple 01 Libe, t)',
10 be p>.ralleled in the PIlres o f Anliqu it)"
the SOurce and SUnti',. of .11 «>fIol;I .. _ or Ihe volume. of mode. n limu : I
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JanuarlJ. / 923
Ue5poli,m conl,"inr
in Pow~r allumed by
the Rtpreoell1ation o!
• port of Hi. Ma·
jut)"1 . ubjectl, al
thdr So"~reigu .ill
and Pleas.. re te. Itrip
the Tnt of lhei. pro~ly. And wlta,
are lhe Enaints of "'dminiltralion 10
utalte thil <kitr..,li,·e Proj«.l/ Tho
l>u11 on T c:t; oppre..;ve Rut.ainu
on the Commerce of the Colon~;
the Blocbde of lhe Port of Smton ;
the Otanae of Intemal P colif:e in tM
WallAd>ulI:ltJ and Ou.bec; the Eotablilh_nt of Po!""r in the IatltT.
"nd tilt Extensioo of nl Bounds; the
R..in of OIIr Indian Commer« ..,.
~lalioo. nleulated to "'nntnd ••c
that ....binary Gou.n"",nl; .. nCOnrtitutioo.1 "'dmintllY Juritdif:lioo
throu,houl the CoIoni",; lhe In .
y,uion of OIIr Ri,hl 10 a trial in Ihe
.....1 Capital Calle'l by • j ... y of
the Vif:ina,e; the horrid Cont riyance
10 ICr~n from P .. nishment lhe
Bloody Exec.. lioners 01 .\lin;'le.ial
Ven,cance: and, not to mtnlion Ihe
• .,1 of the Black Catalogue of our
Grievane.., Ihe hott,le O\>C.. lion. of
an "'rmy, who hne al.eady shed Ih.
Blood of ou r Counlrymen. TIle
Slru,g!e. e~eil.d by Ihe dcIUla~l~
Stamp ....1. have 50 lately ~mon1!. . If<.! to the world Ihal American'
.... ilI not he l \.oytl, Ihll ..... rtand a,·
tOl1;.hed al Ihe lroll [mpolicr of Ih.
Ministen.
· Penoit ... f.. rther 10 ."ure YOll,
Ihat Amcrif:a i. RrCO"'n 10 i"itable
by Opprellion, 11ta, ,he lnlt .hock in
any part, io by the mOil POwcrfutand
sympathetic: aft"fdion in'lanta~sly
felt thro' the whole Canlinent.. ..
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ROTARIAN
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u "rH E )linion. of Po ...·er here nuoy now
1 infonn yOUr Administration. if they
an eftr lpeak Ihe Ia"",a,e of Truth, Thai
Ihil Cit)' i. . . one man in the Ca ...., 01
Libcny. Thai 10 Ihi. end our Inhahitants
are almolt .. nanimOlllly Bound by lhe
enclosed Auo",atian; That it i. (ontin ..•
ally ;t.dvanein, to Perfection by add;"
tmnal ... b.cr;plion ..... 'hat Ihe)' are ruc>,
lutely bent 00 , .. pportina- Illtir Cammitl«,
and Ihe io lend(d Proyincial and Conli" ealal Conlrnoe.; That Ihere ia ncol the
leut do .. bl of Ihe Ellicac), (.ie) of Iheir
Example in the olher oountiu; 10 .horl.
Iltat .. hile Ihe whole Conlinent .,
ardently Wilhina- lor pn~e, on l uch lerm,
as can be acceded lco by En,liJhmcn, Ihey
are inddat;lable in prtpa"n, for Ihe last
Appeal; Thai luch are Ihe Lanlulle and
Conduct of our Fellow Ci llzenl as will
be further manifelled by a R.pruental'On
of the Li.utenant Governor and Council
cof Ihe F i,,1 I""a", 10 Genual Gage at
Hoe ton, and to H i. MaJelly'. miniltefl
b)' t he P acket. Allure yo.."elvtl, "'I'
Lord and Genllemen , Ihal ...... pe.k the
rea l .tntimen\l of Ihe Conledented Ccolonie. on Ih. Con linen t Irom Nova 5<:o\i.
10 Gecor,ia whcn we declare, That all the
hcorrarl af a c;yil w.r will never ccompel
Ame,;c. lco I ~bmil 10 Ta:u lion by authority of Parlia menl.
~A lincere Rca-I,d 10 Ihe public .. cal
and the ca ... t of H\lm.oily, an hearty
dui,. to . pare Ihe f.. rther EII... mn of
h.. man Blood. OUr loyalty to OUr Priocc
and Ihe lcoye ..e bear 10 III OUr FellowSubjeet. in Hi, Uajelly', Realm a"d
Dominionl,,, f..11 Coorielion of the .... m·
Cli Allachment in Ihe Capi tal of Ihe Em.
pire, to the C....e of ]ulllce and Libcrlf,
have induced ... to addr~ .. you on Ih1l
mOmenlou. lubjeel ; Conlide" l thll the
'.
5 eptemil<r, 1774,
and drew up the ad_
d re .. 10 Ih people
of Great Britain. In
Sep tem~r, 1779,
hew1\. I appoinlf<.!
mon,ster plenipolenliuy to nerotiat~ a treal)' bet .... eo.n Spain .nd
Ihe Unilt<! SllItU. He was largdy
instrumental in negotialing the
pcace ",ilh GTtat Br ilain in 1783.
TIle following year Cong.e" chose
him as secretary for foreign affair . . .nd from September, 1789,
10 june, 1790, he was chief just;ee
o f the Supreme Court. In 179-4
Jay ",as appo;ntf<.! mini!le r ex·
traordinuy to Greal Britain by
George Walihinl.'tOrI and he Ihue
ligntd Ihe treaty koown as Jay'.
TrUly. After his return 10 America, Jay was elecled Go"crnor of
New York state. In lBOI he r etirtd to hi . estalel in Wincheslcr,
N. Y., alld spent the rest of h i ~
llie in secl ..sion.
was 0 1 Scotch
<lesc(lII, h;~ ancc5tOTi hayi ng emi·
graled ~hout 167J, and receiyf<.!
grantl of '"Livingston Maoor" on
the 1100501\, which eomprisetl a
,re"l
of what i. oow C .. tchess
,
and Columbia CO\Intiel. Philip Li,'ingslOll was a member of tilt N. Y.
.h ....·mbly 1759-1769, and a mem_
I,(r o f Ihe Contine ntal eon,reu
from 1774 to his tIe;:uh, and u such "
signer of the Dtelar;lIiou 01 Indq)Cnd·
ence. lie was one of Ihe founders of
CQlumbia Uniw:uit y.
ls . ...e Low, the Ch.irn\an o f lhe As·
toOCiat;OII. lhourh anknt in the defmsc
of Colonial Iibc"ie.. wu opposed to the
demand for indepe:ndeoce, and 011 Ihe
confiscalion of hi. property, retirf<.! 10
England, "'hert he died.
LlII:UTBIfAHT AIRAItA'" BRASKn scl"Yed
.. nder Colonel Las.ker. He was the author of many of the popular ball"ds of
thil period. iii. "Another New Year',
Add.ell" and "Ge neral '. Trip to Morris·
lown" were favorite song. round the
Amer; ..,n camp-lire.
I'UJLJ t' LJVIS GSTOS
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pm e coseni mCOI ;ye. wilt i"duce the mOil
.. i80<0", uenion. of the Cily of London
10 nllore union, mutual Conlid~nce and
Peaee 10 Ihe whole Empire.
~\Ve hne Ihe honor 10 be. my Lord
and Gentlemen, your tnO$' obedienl and
alfeetionale Fellow-Subjuls and H .. mble
Se'''"nll.''
I .... Lo_. (b;"""• .
J_b. Jay
r ...
Joa..
Lew;.
A,-
n il UoI.......
J_ Du ...
& o..yclm.<k
Will. s..""
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Con..I;u,
L""'....
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Ab .... 1I,;..,t •• hoh
H •• rr II......
II<>to.n it.....
[oort Bonot ..
J ... ~k T." ••
A. P . Lo.. ,
OU!d B..
I .... R ...... cl'
Gobri., U. Ludl . ...
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Il<Ibt.
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Will. Wohoa
Do"L f'hn;,
F~
J.,
Sam<o.I 11 _ _
Jobo
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Lo_,
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lII<o..u..1I
Job II-t.
J..."b B.,..
Geo, .. ja...... ,
Jok. Wbit.
Gob. W. L<HlIo ...
Joh Loot ...
T_pka ••
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Rkb,.-d Y....
An._,
01;0"
J...... u
Tompl.","
v •• 1"nd,
h ... taioIt I'lou
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T. CU" •• ;u'
Ab. " .. 11 ..
A few words may lot said about some
of the signalari.. 01 Ihis <.Iocume"t.'
isAAC ROOSE\'l:LT was a memil<r of Ihe
PrO";ncia! Congrcss in 1775-77 and of
the Stale Serutle in 1777-86 and in 178892, and was a direcl ancestor 0 1 the greal
pres idalt, 1beodore ROII~vclt.
jou,," JAY was born in 1745. H e was
a deleiate from New York City to Ihe
Conli""nt.;tl Cong«n at Pbiladdphi. in
I""
T HE old Dutelt element ;n
New Yo.k
;J vOllchctl for by s.. ch names as Eycrt Hancker, Cavid Heckn.an, Cornelius
Ooppcr, Peter C.. rtcni .. s, Jacobus Va ..
Zandl, Evert D\I)"ckinck. Henry Remse n
and Isaac Roostvell. Several ,Ireet~
"down to"'n" are named after Ihesc
worthies, and descendanll of somt 0 \
them stilillourish in New York.
The hon1l!. of mal1y of these .... rly settle .. were ~jaeenl 10 Ihe end of the
Island. ncar Ih e flallery, "nd toda,y .... e
~nd well.koo,,"'n A.ects in New York
"amed after thue prominent seltler..
~lCh u: Beo.kntan 51., CUOU1C St., Br""",",
S t., Reade St., De L.ano;o:y 51., McDougall
51., P~ni~ S t., and non by in Ilrool<·
lyo we ~nd RenlJCII St.
(CII"lj"H~d oa "'flr ]9)
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A Saving Wage
A LL can not be proprieto rs o r
e,~n
managers. Some
must alway. work for others, o r a t least for salaries and wagn. To those who work fo r salaries and
wages, old age is certain, and sickness and acciden t
very likely to come. If we advocate t hrift-if we ad vise saving so met hing ou t of one's income \0 a 5 to pro ·
vide a reserve for the da ys of misfortune and old age ,
we mus t, to be consis te nt, s ta nd not mere ly for a Iivin!>
wage, but for a .Jat'illg "!Luge. And what is a saving
wage? It is a li ving wage plus. And what is a living
wage? And how much or what proportion of the liv_
ing wage do we .nean by plus! Conditions of envi.(">nment and personal habit regulat e standards to a g rea t
extent. And conditions of envi ro nment and pe rsa,:,li
habits vary from one extreme t o the o th e r.
One interesting princi ple has been se t dow n by the
Ka nsas industrial code. The law declares " that it is
nece nary fo r the general welfare t hat a worker shall
receiv e a fair wage an d have health ful a nd moral surroundings while engaged in his labor. " And a fair
wage is further defined "as one which will enable a ma n
to provide himself and fami ly wit h all the necessities
a nd a reasonable share of the comforts of life ; and
that in addition a fa ir wage should provide o ppo rtun ity
fo r in tellec tual advancemen t and rea sonable rec reation;
that a fa ir wage should be such as to enable parents to
provide their ch ildren w ith good, moral surroundings,
opportu nit ies fo r education and a fair chance in th e
race of life; and that a fair wage s hou ld ena ble the fru_
gal man t o pro vide fo r sickness and old age."
The Kansas code, it see m s to us, has he re laid
do wn a general pr incipl e that deserves more than passing intereu. Whether we call it a fair wage o r a living
wage or a savi ng wage-t he lact remains, each employer ha s a deep rupons ibility to his trus ted a nd loyal
wo rke rs.
Okmulgee's Successful Expen'ment
T HE more nea rly one approaches the po~ession of a
fine education, the more ignorant he is apt to leel.
This apparent paradox is explained by the fact th a t
each addition to one's stoc k of kn owledge opens up
new vis tas of unexplored educational realms and ins pires to furt her lea rning. Although the sum of human
kn o wledge is so great that no man may hope to do
mo re t han acquire a good acqu aintance wi th any one
majo r bra nch of learning in an ordinary lifetime, t he
advancement of th e ra ce de pends largely on the numbe r of men who can obtain a good education.
Because of this, the outsta nd in g wor k done by th'!
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January, 1923
Okmulgee (O kla.) Rotary Oub in promoting interes t
in highe r ed ucation will m ake positive the luture pro grt5S o f that ci ty. The club mai led le tt ers to 900 boys
o f t he uppe r grades, urging them to continue w ith
thei r educatio n a nd offering them assis ta nce. Where,'er it was fou nd t hat the boy's family was more o r
less dependent on his earn ing5, and t hat thi s condition
tended to preve nt hi m from attending the secondary
school, t he club tried to arrange a part-school, partwo rk plan, which w ould eli minate the obstacle t o furt her t rain ing.
H. B. Brun e r, s upe rint endent of schools, who is
al so the president 0 1 the Okmulgee club, aided mat erially in the work by in t roducing into the gradeschool curricul um a numbe r o f th ree- mo nth "Broadening an d Fi nd ing" cou rsu. These cour ses help to link
up the grade-school and the high-school work, and they
give the boy !lOme idea as to what high ,school cou rse
he can pursue with the mos t profi t to hi mseli and his
community.
Contract s
M EN
make con tracts wit h eac h othe r and have faith
in one another that the contracts will be carried
out. H erein is the foundation o f socie ty. T he fa mily,
the tribe, t he natio n, all rest on t his foundat ion. Ha vin g confiden ce in one a notb er'. participation in a cont ract, men trade and barte r the ir worldly goods and
t h us beconle businel5 men. H owe\'er, no t only must
confidence be maintain ed in busi ne ss, but generosi ty
also mus t play itl pa rt. H onu t efforts to fulfill contracts dese rve consideration at all t imes. The coming
gener a t ion must be ta ugh t to have not al one skill in
building o r wi sdom in ma naging, but faith in o ther
men's efforts to fulfill thei r cont ra ct s, and al!lO so me
measure of generosity in writ ing off losses wh en m en
ha ve hones tly t ried although th ey ha ve failed to fulfill
a co nt ract.
Tllrift
WEmust aU agree tha t the happiness of the human race
or a ny part of it depends upon il5 thriftineu. If we
would serve best we must conserve and uti lize our reSOUrtt5. If any nation cou ld afford to forget the need of
thrift it would seenl to be the Un ited Slales, and yet
Americans are having a Na tiona l Thrift Week Ihi, month.
It includcs a pageant to celebrate ~njamin F ranklin's
birthday, Ja nuary 17th. If "Poor Richard" hadn't been
a thrifty lad, he wouldn't have been a succcssful man. It
is well to celebrate his birthday and it is well to do it in ~
way wh ich will teach lessons of thrift .
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TilE
ROTARIAN
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Under Direction of WUliam C, Bamburllh
of t he BeaMon Institu te
I" ,h.,. c.l .. m n" boo .. , If• • "'h .... " 10 . u"'·...... Meh ••• upul.'b
. u i .... "'. fo. ,Ac ..... dc"'.' tAil m .. ,.,;" • .. nd ,A.i.....oci.. ' ••
Economics a nd Business
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E(OII~Mj(l,
by
F.
W.
T.o.unig. 2 yob. TIIl,d rey lsed edi·
tion. New York; Macmillan & Co ..
11122. Pp. ~ ~~, ~1&; in<.lu.
Hillo? of ECO~Q""C Tllo Mgill, by
Le w.. H. Haney. Revised edition.
New York: Macm illan Co., 1Q22.
Pp. 611; biblio,raphy ; index.
'"'rod,,,ho.. '0 li.o K•• n;, P robl".u,
by Jam." Oy,.rl Mag«. New YDrk:
Charlu Scribner', Som, In:. Pp.
363; charts; lable,; index.
Eco"o",;, MD,jVU: .I. Study in Ih.
P$ychoiollY 01 Econom;c Theory. by
7...,nas Oork DickinlOn. Cambr idae:
lI o.... ard UnivcnilY I'r..., 11122. Pp.
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NCREASING demand for knowl wgc
of «onomic principles .o.nd their .p.
plie.ation to the pr.o.ctical busi neu of
the <by hu brou,ht to the fore lOme of
the ~u workt of the PUt ,eneration,
new editions coming on lhe market bee.au~ of Ihe insillence of busineu nscn
that their offieial fOll:es lhall be better
equipped than in the pa31.
Profenor Tau"i" of Haryard, has
revi.$Cd his alltIOSI da"ie work providing a statement 01 "principles o f ec0nomics in suc h form tht Ihey shall be
comprehensible 10 an educated and in.
telligent periOn who hi not made any
.ystnn:ltic lIudy of the lubjecl." We
un vouch for that It~ten'ent and any
reader of the book, with the qualifiCa_
tions mentioned, can prove it for himiel f.
As he has ma!le the book 10 deal with
the ilJ(justrial conditions of the United
Statn (.I.I well as of all modern COUIItriu), it i. peculiarly applicable to the
intereStl of leaders of businen. He
states that it is nOt exactly a book for
economilt",
It, but rather a book
for the lay mind .
This edition has been chanled. to
m«t t he ,reat imprO"emen" in the
bankinl .y~tem of the United Stat ts,
Ihe ,reat ehan,es and economic lesson.
e.ausoed by the world war, and th e new
<lc"e1opments in taxation.
,\ domin;mt knowledge of these principles would &IsiS! any executive in
fO,'Cmi"J:" hi. busincu. If hi, aJ..xi.o.lcs
were equally equipped with wch knowl_
,t.
.,
edge hi. working forces would be .Irong
and JOIInd in their relations with t he
buying and consuming public.
A LON G a different line 01 purpose and
wit h an equally desirabl e usefulness,
Mr. Haney ha s re,·i..,d hi. Hislory of
cC01Io mic Thought so that it co,'en an
addilional ten·ycar period in its preaen·
tation 01 the positions takcn by numerOul eco/lomists of all times. That such
a work i. 5upplemental to Pro lessor
Taussig's goes without »ying, for the
latter has founded his principles upon
his own adjustment ni the thoughts of
all economists, and it is well to have a
source book of economi<:: thought meh
as thi ..
It also givu ample opportunily for
such profound study as many of us dooce.asionall)". It is easy to apply nryin,
inter prelations for oursehu as a result
of OIl r Own application of principles to
our own indiyidual problems.
AU thtor ies are discussed; there are
numerous comparisons oi diver,i",
opinions, and we find a clarily in his
though t supported by a lucidity of diction " 'hich ...e <:::In rccomn,end to business men and their ass.ociate!.
With a third direction of purpose.
Prolessor Magee undertakes to consider in a practical m;mncr twenty mod·
ern economic problCtlls, presenting Ihcm
as concrete condi tion s of the present
time and requirin~ immwi~te consideration of some solut ion. Statements are
made gi"ing the definite problems ~n<.l
t he thought of the re~der is spurred
into activi t)· by the direct question s
which arc put to him.
A co,,,ideration of these problems ",ill
dircct OIlr minds from ,·aluable acade mic
diK\l5Sion to practical business analysis,
all 01 which may ~ very helplul to our
own enterprises.
When a seientific book is written in
.I. style which intereSis because of its
picturesqucness, and .... hen that science
is economics, the subject h<t.s either in_
spired the au\l'or or there is a romance
hidden in \l,e science. II il our impres·
.ion that in ECMlOMIc Molivu, by Mr.
Dickinson there has been a fusion of
thOle two conditions in t~ author',
mind, for he seems to have been fu<::inatro with hi, frequent di llCOvery that
human nature di vert, the lorcc:uted
performance 01 fixed principles to a degree which must be recOflIilw and
r«konw with in any practical relationship to that sciente.
In almost every pa,,, there is evidence
of human psycholoe-y having its effect
and influence upon economics; in many
instances there arc impedimenl. to economic procedure which <:::In only be
cre.ted by the psychology o f man doing
as he pleases and IlOl u others woul<.l
have him do.
We recommend thi, work 10 e" ery tales
manager, advertising ~er, general
",arulger ar>d » lel promotion 'Pccialisl,
bce.awc il will provide many p~mi5cS
for e.aulion in determining the laclnrs
upon which markelS mUSt be analyzed.
~nd many stl(,estions for market study
alon, li nn rarely con sidered.. And maoy
ideal. can be erubli,hed in business
'lITair, through ima,imllion derivi"J:" ilS
focus 01 y, s,on from the prudence
' pri n,in, from the studies of economicpsycholoe-ic contests deser ibed in this
work.
1f.. ,,",~ NfI' Iff. ;" ,h Biblt, by WiIl"m
Lyon Phel", (Rotarian, New Haven,
Conn.). Ne ... York; a. ..ICl Scribner'.
Son .. l PU.
pp. sn.
01] BELIEVE that a knowledge of Ihe
Bible without a collegc cou rse i.
more valuable than a colle,e coursc
without the Bible."
Following Ihi s
Profusor Phelps dcvotCi his analysis
0 1 biblical incidenu and their hum~n re_
lationship to the wly. and manners of
mankind of th e present time, By SIKh
modern applicat ion we not only comprehend more clearly the actions and
inci<lcnll surrournlin, those early men
and women, but Iheir experience. help
often tl> point the way lor uS as W<:
journey alo",. With. deft toueh the
aut hor places each incident in a h,ack,round oi historical detail clearly paintand interntin,ly described.
The great perlOnaliliu of the Bible
stand rCT~aled in a pure li,ht in t he
several stories narrated in Professor
Phdps' volume. All who read this book
w
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T HE
will ~ led b,ack to thei r U,blu with
more intere st and (Teater apprec iation
and with an elieme!! 10 pursue farthe r
Iheir knowledl:'e of Ihe Great Book. Th e
5Criu ori Kinally appe~ rfd in the Lodiu'
JourruJI and t he ed itors ha ...e 11«"
t he recipients of hund reds of letters of
appreciation for thes.e ~aut iful and inspiriT\&" slo:elche.~ by Proleyor Phflp' on
Bible dau"le., and $Iori"l.
H"""
ROT A RI A N
in its application to g rown ·up" a, for
the 50ns 01 any of UI. It i. al50 tssentially a book for the undircctro boy just
coming 10 hi s own throug h guid:mce by
tliow. who are reclaiming c'liun! i ro,,,
Ih;: empiinCls of ""rly Ii i". Rotarians
plU5c lake notice: it i. a book for your
ward.
T.'IO M~'"
QI E,.glislo W","""
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PI.,.,uu.
Peler Mark RoccL Ne .... York : J ~I'"
R. And.r..... Co.. lr.:!. Pp. 011.
in w.vcnlieth )'"ar, Ihi. clanic COlli ••
often to Ih" ironl, renewing its plac"
in each g.....,ralK.m and laki ng its pI;u:,'
in the group of Ihe iew mOM USC-ful books o f an illlclligenl mind's equipmml. ~ u.cr of th is " 'ork I:row ~ 10
usc: il incrusingly, as he ad,"anc", in
hi. know!...!,e :md lurni ng and his 'Ie:ce55;ly to e;cpr ess himself morc and
more cle arly 35 w.1l aJ mart "nd more
accurately.
\Vilhout R""et at hand, any man',
diction i, without that mo.1 tLsdlll of
all attent ion-i nspecl ion and sllpe .... i~ion .
It is true Ih at th~ growth oi one', vocabul:o.y m,,)" be: too freq uent anti aften
by
TA~
1' ....iI ,II.,. a,", J,,~ ,~.lis .. , b)' Ch~I'
Ifr S. Lord. New Yo. k : Macmillan Co..
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TO
book Ihe I;:rm
can "'" applied 115 10 lew others on
Ihi~
"~u,hoTl lati " e"
the ~me snbj ect. M •. Lord was U50IhrOU&"hciated " 'ilh Ihe New York
oot i" (Ttalest days, as member of ils
.taff for 41 yea .. and il, m:maging
editor for JJ ytart. The S II" was a re ·
Rection 01 Mr. Lord', best mi nd and
:obl;:5t performance. 111 position w,u
mai ntained by hi 5 management of
Oades A. Dana', pri ncipl es of editorshi p and hi. own principle, of pro ... iditlJl:"
Ihe new l for Iii;: JlCO\)le.
In lu rn Ihi. book i. a reAecl ion of t he
pract ice o f thoM: princi ples, pre sented
to th e youlh 01 Ih is C(lUntry who arc
;:age. to shin e in Ihe profe$$ion of the
lourth eSlate. He has made a book,
howe" er, wh ich i. suilable for Ihe Jlutly
and direction 01 older men Ihan cub r;:'
porteTJ, and il i, peculiarly $u; labl" for
n'en of affai rs who desire 10 rmke an
imprusion upon <xhe,. Ihrough their
letters, reports, aoJdreut., and <locu-
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,imply written in Ihe dauic
Anglo-Sa:<on ...·hid' Ihe anthor has proiesocd thew. IWO dccadu. It i, only
fair to sa)' that her" the rtader rnay ,il
at h is f~t and take from hi s store t he
principle. and Iu.~h;np 0 1 m:lIIy )'uu
of diligenl Ifain ing and pracl ia.l eXperience.
7'MM gllII of YQ MIIo, by Samuel S. Dc ...·cy.
New York :
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Co., IPU.
Pp.
T H E recl or of St. Paul', &:1>001 may
have wrilten Ihi. wilh Ihe youth of
the wortd in mind . He ""y have tllINgh'
lhat he WIIS doing hy the young as he
woul d that he could ha ... e Men done by
when he was you ng . But-he has also
pre~,..,u a guiding hand-book for the
grown-up' which Rot arian. will appre·
ciate, and wh ich will create tlew conception . of the jo)"s of living: which will
inspire many to see whe re ~fore Ihere
has been 110 sight.
Yet, the book WII wrilten for 1/1;:
direct purpow. of at lracling Ihe interest
o f the yooth nf 15 to 18 in life ; to make
him de,; re 10 live wit h a h,lness o f life
which will conti nue until he passe. with
th" thoughts in hi, Ittart and tltt words
OI!. hi. l ips, " I hne lived." Thai H en,S
to M 1M ult imale objCC:1 o f Ihe book :
anrl. fnr1unatcly, the in«nti" e is as rood
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Business Is Business
By BERTON BRALEY
" B USINESS is B lUi"eJ~;' I/If LIlt'"
Mil" said,
"A IwIlle tJ'h~r, 'n;trylAiMg gotl:
IVA...-, Ih, ollly gostel is 'gel o.~otJ:
Aout
spare Irieltds ," l ots,
'Sloy Or bit slai,.: is 1M .s 090" cold,
.,'1.'<:r
Y Q• .... 1U1 SlrMggl~ Qotd sltuh orod I~II' ,
For 8IUi,.~ss is lJ"';,uss, Q figlo l fo, gold.
Wlltre 1111 IhQ/ )'011 tW ;1 fQi, I~
"lJlUiMtll is Bouilltll, 1M Big Mo." 1fJ.d,
"If boItI~ 10 ..lake of 10 ,.,10
A "flU 10 yield .... .".",e ...,i.. , olld b,tod.
Mort tiN""" lind joy o,.d ",i"h;
Tiout Ort slill 10"06 bo>tdill Qltd bllC-
,o. ..,nl
11'.\0
. Q" j"ltglt-brtd bttulS of Irooe,
BNI Ihti, ItM"'bn dwirodirs willo !>Ossi" g
Y'O Il
A ..d d,ad is Iht eodt lloty ",,,dt I"
"B"';" , ss is B"';"us," "'t Big AI"" said.
"8", iI's so," etloi"g l""I's '110ft, fa,
mort;
For il ,,,,,hs .rwtul gardffll of drlfr/I
delJd,
A nd , il iu il bllill "oao rOIl'
Whert 0" " Iht du , ond gfOJ Ivolt rQ,.
F rolll I/,t " w"ee>'"s sw'ft QdlitJllu;
Busiltcsl is M"gie
loils for
BUJi,.rlj is T rNt R Q"'OKer."
'h,,'
",a"
"A ood thQlt "'/oQ "",.,",", it Q rMlIo/tlS liglot
H"", on y Ih rmstlL'u 10 blo.."
If Ihty l uI " 0 ..,mit 01 llot itttl ddigh/
1M p-Iflyitlgllu /Jigger Gallle,
TI,t 9O"'t thlll el.llil OK thc IoNrlllMd h,-IJd.
Tht btl! of "",,.', slr~"gllo oltd "crve ,
" B";lttll il BlUi"en," llot Big MIIM sflid.
" ApuJ /100/ B.riltus is 10 u"'"t !"
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tOO loose; yel, il checked by Illc man)'
met hod. pr"" ided by Ro~t, such a
gro.... th o f ..-oc.,bulary may be 50Und :md
sllre.
'The book should IIOt need introduction
to anyone of the prucnt t;me. Thi s.
llO\>'.,·er. i. I. sugge!ltK.m to our rcadcn
that they all3Jl prowioJc Iheir uoociatC5
in bnsinn, with copiu for dllily usc>Iha l is the lust to Itt expected of it in
a.rt}"(lM', hand •.
CQpi,o/ .~tJ '~Irru' " A Crilial Hillary ~f
Economic Theory, by E.,."" ¥ . Bohmfl.a....,rk. New York : Jobn R. An<lcrson
, Co.• 111:2.
}>p.
TilE rtpubl ieal ion
~~ t ;
indo:. .
of Ihi, " 'o rk is of
grut in'portanc~ . It hu bun one
of the SUrCe work, in the ma rkel for
.'!OIlle lime, arMl i. al50 a danic """ghl
for by KOlIOm ist. and ~nancien.. That
it hal held ii, foremost place: in economic
thought and pracli cal fin.1nce for th irty
rurs i. e ... id~nce of iu sound pri nciples
and uselulnen in Io:~nrral bllsi ness af ·
f~; ...
115 si nlplici l)" 0/ rca",,";ng; it. darity
o f npplicd thoughl ; ;1$ logical deduclion , alld gene ral freedom fro," error,
"lace it in the foremost ' :onks 0 1 liteTatu •• of a seicntific natu re. It i. a work
Ihal ~honl d Le in eve ry husinc!i5 library.
and e.~ily accessibl c 10 thow. who arc
~Iud.n!l 01 modem progrns in ""mmer_
eial and industrial affa i.s..
}(~"Io.tl,
by Feli" u ¥uy. New Vork :
A. 5,01<... Co... tft2. Pp. leI :
F~trick
illu ... ; indu.
F O R the student of Raphael. for the
10"er 01 hil Slyl". for the aumirer of
the bUllly of hi~ paintings, for lhe COIInoissenr o f Ihe fi ne arts of the .i"lcenlh
century. fo. th" man gen erally inte rested
in Ihe grealer old m;l.5teT5. th is work has
h«-n ~ ....ell and has been la¥ishly
illuSlra lcd.
The great Kali ... ity iorllu Ihe snbjcct
of half of the book, hning h«-n the
subject al50 01 much hislory and COrrespondence during that century and cnn
ill\o Iht prtw.nl CeHIII ' )·. Th e C(lUr5e of
such a Slory I I i. g; ...11 h"r;: for th;:
firM l ime provides a romance of art and
0 1 R m.ulerpicce equal 10 good ficlion in
interest.
CArth, Claui", by Rrro!! A. Smith. COn_
<i" ,,~ t i, Slewart Kidd 80: Ca .• 1922. PI'16~.
T HI S compilation of ftne Kaules played
by clai~ ic checker d ';""pions 1II1 o... er
Ihe United Sia les will pro,' ide pl~a,u rc
and gratification to anyone who lo ... n
a gMt(: Ihat is among Ihe oldest in the
world. It il p.uentcd with many diagramli lihowin,!:" openi ng l, mOVel, and
f,ni~I~1. It p:lrlieularly proyidu for th~
"""'ict, nnmerous (IO), hOlU o f the:
checkers on lh" board for the opening
01 unuSUOIlIy inte restiT\&" rames. and will
Ille:relore advance the intuti! and \I",
popular ity o f the celebrated indoor . pon
lor long .... inter C'I"Cnings a. wd l &!I
around Ihe count ry-store stO\"e .
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R OTAR I AN
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INFORMES CONCISOS DE LO QUE SE
HACE EN EL MUNDO ROTARIANO
N la bella c,udad de )Iat;!nzas,
Cuba, se ha cdcbrado rec'ent;!.
mellte una hernlO"" fiesta rot:n,a
ell honor tie uno de los IIIas ,Ius.
trn l~riodistas tie aqucl pais, d Excmo.
Sr. jose I. Ri\"Cro. Doclor en Deretho
Ch'il y l'ublioo, y brillantc escritor.
El DireClor del Diorio de la Mari..a
llego a MManzu aoompaft.ado dd D r.
Rafael Maria Anglo. famoso orador "!'
celi' oria/ina, que descrnpei\O con si ngular acieno cl imllOnante cargo ole Subaeo;ret.l.rio de l nstrucciOn Pilblica Bella,
. Ri.... nn; 111mbiin aoompaftaron
"ero v:nit» re<.bctoru de su
Los yi silantu fueron
E5bci6n del Fenotanil por una Comi.
5i61l dd Rotary Club, integrada por cl
Dr. Antonio Recasens, entus ia51~ Presi _
dente del mi smo, d Sr. Ricardo Lin~ru,
SargcnlO de A rma s, y d Sr. Felix U.
Cas.:r.$, Direclor tiel inlportante {>(ri6dico
mluarICero EI /"'l'arcifJi, y muy aCliyo
rot:nio.
De la Eltati6n del Ftrroc.a.nil K di.igieTOn al Hotel Lou"re, dondt lcs lue
sen'ida UJI3 e:;plmdida oornKb. Termi _
nada ella, pauron d Dr. RiYero y 101
quc Ie festejaban :II "C;uino Esp;..iiol "'
,Iontk d P.uidmte de 1.1. meneionada sociedad, Sr. jose Ma';a Peru, con su
c.,ballcrosid~d y alcnciOn ca.acteristicas.
ob""quiQ a 10. yisiu.nles.
)Iomcntol delpll<'s. en la soc,edad '"Li_
cw de Matanzas:' sc eelebm un a "elada
lirieo-"'u~icoll. La parte music~l e5IU" 0
:l c3rgo de los reputados proicso.e, ju~to
Ojan/i:Unn Y Aurelio Hem;i.ndu , pian'ita d primero y .. iolinista cI ""gun<1o.
Ambos O£r~C;CTOn un coneieno que al.
canzo muc:hoi aplausol.
El Dr. Medardo Vitier, gloria de la
tribuna cubana. uledritic:o de la Escueia
Norm;>] de Matantas. y WlO de los cr;.
tie<» mal conci~lUudos y doeumenlados.
pronunci6 una brillant;"ma c:onferenc:ia
nul.ida de hernlOsos conceplOs y atre .. i_
E
<las ideal, sobre lema tan ;me re unte
como "La S;gnificaci.:.n de jose Enr,que
Hod6."
Al siguienle dia, domingo, .'IC celtbro
cn la Iglesia Cato:dr~l una Solenlne )Ii$ll,
en la que nficib a tOOn ritual cl Dr. Jenaro Suirel, Prcsbilc, O. De la Iglesia
,wiQ la conliliya hacia las pinlOrUCa! alturas de 1.... Cumbre, dude donde se di,·isa uno de los m.1S bellos panoramas de:
Cuba. Visilaron La Colonia Inlantil Ve..
aniep instalada en aque! higienico I~ r.
"! justo y IOStenida por los rOiadas de
~ I:..ann., 'Iue ~n ella dan abr igo, alim..,ntllci611 una, juccos orl:a niudo3,
aten~i6n n,,'diea, )" ,ados los cuidadol. a
un buen numcro de n ino! pobre!l. EI Dr.
Ri"ero c;llifici> esa oor3, senciUamenle,
pcro con do! palabu s que 10 dicen lotio :
Gmnd~ y He,lflosQ.
D~
alli, 3e enc.1m'oaron it 1:1.1 altura¥
tic )loI11I1errat, desde las cnales K con·
lempla toda Mataous. eomo a .. ista de
paj a ro. y se admira el fer:u: y p.ecioso
Valle de YUn' UT'. En aquella. alturas
it: dectu6 un aJmueno olncido por el
Rotary Onb. A esc ballfJucte a sistieron
muc hiliimu {>(r:;onas de la sociedad mao
tarICera; y en <'I 5C pronunciaron fcr·
"ientes briooi. por La pro~{>(ridad de
Cub,:!" )" (lOT el arraigo del rotari . rno.
EI Rotary O ub de Mat~nU5 recibib
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"l"d I
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ciudades do: Texas 3$i;;I,e,on a ntol
fcsle jos.
gusea a
L Echarse
tie
THE ROTA.IAl< aproye.
~ Sla ocasion para ,b . La
biem·enid:l. a la h~rmosa r~"i'la "'~ II~u.a1
LIl NollI Rolo,ia, cl 6rgano,ofic:ial del 25°
DiltrilO, quo: $C l'ubli(:3 en 1. 1·I.bana
boojo.b. direccion tiel Gobcrnador de Dis·
IrilO, A"d ina Perez. E51e qllierc .. _I..,ncr una publication quc sirva para la
p~nda de los noblu idnln del TOlariam, a fin de que sean gftIerollmCTIte
conotidos para bien de la hUm<Ulidad y
de la patria; para publiar las disposicionu del Gobcmador y aeuerdos de los
club, del Di5trilo; 10$ ayiso! de ada uno
de eUos a sus miembros y cuanlO sea
ntees.ario para 5u mejor funcionan'iento
y para que 101 extranos conMca" nuestra
labor allruista, c:ivilizadora y progresiva."
Esla rC" iSla muy bien arreglada y con·
fcccionada, a la cual deben subscribir
lodol los Rotarios cubanos, pienu el
Gobemador Peru enyiar con 5u5 cumpli.
miCTI las a los funciona riol del Rot" ry In·
ternational )" a 105 Rotary O ub. de halll.
espa/klla afuera de Cuba . Ofrtet...,.
nos parabiencs y nos saJuOOi rotarios y
eordialu a La Nol .. ROlarill.
Et\delcl muotlo
me5 do: rnero 10;; Rotary ~lubl
"ao pre star La
al
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at~nt'on
J~r n:,~,~ ~c:~,o::'::j e~tI:~c~n;::';~:~: t~abajo tn pro tie l~s n'~oi .. l.a. condi.
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. . . _Clones ",entales estan rtbc ,onatlu I1my
" e ~~'t por. ~ pcr eela orl:al11l~C1011 de eeru con 135 condiciontl Hs;ea... 5i
53110
r 10
'In" tI,o alai ,h"11110' a~t~s 'Iue 111"'e'on lienc e\ n;no un cuc
Ingar tn honor ,Ie 10' v"otnmc·.
ui ual quedara reclO me~ll11ent~. ~n ]a
l'ruporeilm que i t Iltoa rl l;e111po de el
L nuevo Rotary Oub de Monterrel', con aelividades bien dirigidas, se dil_
M<!:<ico. fue recibido en 1.1. fami lia minue 1.1. tenderlCia a 1.1. delincucnci • .
del ROiary In ternational el ZS de UO\'iem - Debe tener (1 muchacho un cucrpo luene.
bre. Una rran 6uta 5c: c.,l cbr6 el 16 de I i " .1. lief .,1 IIM'jor hombre pos;b!e y el
dicitmbre en la cuaI 0:1 Rotario Fred W. mrjor cindadano. De 101 nfueTZOS de
Teele. Comi.ionista E' J>e<',al plIra Me". 10!1 Rotarios p;lra .. I dua rroll0 If.ieo de
ico. pre5enlo .-l ccnificado oficial al club. I.. ninol Ie podr:>11 negar resul tados
lluchas Rotario. de )I'::<ioo y de las
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Almue".o
cam ~ue
ofrteldo por el Rotary Club de Mat. nna ell hOllor det lIuI 're
O1rector del "I}!arlo de 'a MarIna," el deano de los pertodkos.
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ITTSBURGH, PA.-On November
2.lIh th~ Pittsburgh club in .. ;ted the
wlK)le Thirty_third Diuriel to a n
inter-city m«t at Ihe Syria Mosque in
honor o f International President RlIY
Havenl, who, together with hi, wHe and
Russell F. Greinu and wife... i.ittd the
Pittsburgh dub that day. At noon buffet
lUl'1cheon! for Ihe mcn and for Ih e women "'ere held III the Fori Pill Hotel.
Aftef a talk by Ray Havens, Ihe Boy'"
Weelc films displaycd al the Los Angelu
Convention WeTe explai ned by R u~l1
Greiner. One 01 the feature lOngs of
the meeting was "Bubbles" and during
Ihe .inging the enl\!rtain~nt commill«
rdca~ II number of ioRated balloon.
P
which Bo.ated above the table ..
There
we~
,i,hl-Ke;nc tours and a
ROTAR I AN
reception al the AthlH;e Oub lor IhooK
who had gone to Los Angeles in the
special t rain 01 the old Sixth Di§l.icl.
The six o'clock dinner was attended by
~tw«n 1,000 and 1.200 persons. Only
one dub in the district was not r~pr~­
sented. At ~ach tabl~ were fh'e P itts_
burgh Rotarians and Rotary An n) to
guel Ih~ visitors. Bailoons again came
into play. but this t ime th cy wcre tied
to th~ forks and kept in lively motion I
A ftcr the dinncr the assembly adj ollrned
to th~ auditorium where add rusc. were
given by Pruident Spangl~r of the
Pittsburgh club. Governor A. W. Smith,
PRilt Governor Roy Neville, Ray Ha~J,
and Rlluell G reiner. Mra. Hnens and
Ray also sang for the gathering, as also
did Mrs. Norella, whose Rotar;an hu.-
Januar l/, J92J
band led the orch~ltrL Another in.ture
o f Ihe ~Ilt~rtaj nmen t was the pruenla.
lion o f all attendanc~ Clip donaled by
Governor Tony Sm;th, which was won
by the Scottdale club w;th an atletKiance
of 74.4 per c~nt. Announced as "th~
one Kdou. not~ of the ~nnjng,M a debate on "Th~ Repudiation of the Rotary
Code of Ethic s"- Royal Gold~rger
versus Denny Shale r_proved very
®
MIlXICO Cln', MItXI CO,-At the cnd of
its first ye:u', Krvicc the Ga r ibaldi play_
ground which was secured for Mex ico
City by th~ Rotary Oub, ;. lIill fUlletioninC efficiently, Th<e daily anr~ nwn~ r of per lOOl usi ng Ihe pl ..yground il
950 and undOllbted1y Ihi. ave ral:ewill
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Throu,h tta CXHIpotl'llUOn of a an.l olftdal tbe W.,h la,to n , D. C. Ro l . ry C ub .... able 10 furnl. h Secrel.ry I)f,nby wltb
ple nt y of n ....1 a unf)l pbera . l . recent luncbeon. AJlhou a h the "aot:." had Ihelr own IDdlyldual idCN.' 10 how. uoUann
alIould be "'OI'n , II mUll be . dmltted tb.t the efleet WILl plCNln&ly orl&lllltl, a n d the Secre l • .,. e n Joyed the m eetln, .. much
.. the RolariaIM e njoyed bll . <count of h ll irip t o the Orlenl .
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increaR u the playc r(Kmd work becomu
beller knoWn. The club ;1 already planning the construction of a Iwimmi ng
pool. and the playground has beoome 110
popular among the children that mud.
f ree Ml p il IIIppliro. The organiu.l ioll
of variOUI gamel 100 athletie tontut s
is allIO under w.y, .nd • pl.yground
leaden' dub is proving. vut help to
the committee: in chr~. The couuui. _
tee hu reeogni zfd that if a Jirhting sys_
tem were installfd the playground could
reOOn a much createI' IItTYite to the
working dan, and the lirhting projCCt
is being carefully eonlidet'Cd. In the berinning the committee were IOnIcwhat
hamperfd by a number of .ccidenls,
which were mostly due to the inexperience and over~nth"s iasm o f the
you nger children ; but this difficulty has
now been overcome.
The A l:ltC Coli, the el"b publication,
will publish a IItriel of S p~n ish-Engli sh
lu!lOD' in a graphic form. Each lesson
will occupy lour page. of the magazine.
and the innovation will undoubtedly
prove nry beneficial to the club nlembers. Po"ibly other bi.lingual dub. may
adopt thi s policy, and thereby enable the
mcmben to become better acquainted .
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Durin •• rKent conference of Ih e Rotary c1"bfI of Maine. Ihe Wa te" lIte dub raue
a m iscellaneous shoWi!r for Dturlcl Governor Roben W. 11111 and ht s fam il y. Sheet·
Inl, dre" tood_. " 'rlling PlIper, co.l. l owel., c. ndy. lIou r, can ned ranod l, ROUry em.bl em rot' automobile, nK ktie, I I<.eklng.. Ilt k . hlr l. l It king dol l, and pie pl.t.... ",eno
a mong Ih e many •• Ud H repreoenUnra Wa l ~ I1I" lndu.ul ... a nd bU ltnH' men. Th"
Gov .... n ....'. dau\lht er. Emil y. lilted ....en . I..... n h oldtnl Ih" key 10 Ihe City or
POnL.UID, Ol~-Thirty-nine """n._ Showhetan. which ...... p. uen led to Goftrnot' 11111 00 the .. me Irlp. Richard, ated
"'hlch Ih" d ub memben In.llled be
bers 01 the Portland dub met rcuntly three, II Hen . Ithe lefl of the four. fool
. H ot 10 Salem f .... Ihe Governof'. family In.tead of beln! dlllribuled among the
to organize a Rotary dl'" in publ ic
.lmOf,t perfect allendance U Ih e I howu uncheon.
speaking. The members will be dividfd
into two clasllt$, and each ..,ction will third activity in co-opcration with the outline IOI1lC of ilt activiti ... and to con·
hold w«kly ~etinr'"
Chamber of Commerce.. All the newly- tribute Rotary information .00 inspir.made citizens were invited to ~tlcncl a tion..
No;w HAVI!H, Coss._The New Haven fMCting, and those who did not Tqlly
club has confinfd its major activities 01 were inlcrvie~ personally by Rota_
Oci.>lIsnuac;. NilW You;. -For over a
the )'ur to three subjccU: the Do-Good- rian... As. result of t heR interviews century Ogdensburg on the 51. La ..... rma:
Chut Commil1«; the 8.ack-to-Scbool the attendance .11 the m«ting _5 rrUI- r i",r managro 10 get along without a
ly uimulat..:! and the new <;itizcns enmov~nt : and Ihe edllClltion and enbathinr be.e h, I I it did not get along
couragement 01 new eilizen... The Do- tered into the spiril of the ""'Cling wit h Iwimmi ngly, .t least it managro to do a
Good-Chest Committee: hu been in oper_ surprising enlhu5ium. By rootentral_
fonn of the Au.slr.lian c ......1. Then the
ation for four YUTI and the cont ribu_ inC' on these meaSUres for the permanent cor. of Rotary began 10 mO'fC: • beach
tions from mcmbers which thi. c:ommil- good of the communily the club feels WI., lu lled for three year.; attm<\ants
tee adminisler have pro"ed nry useful that it is doing ilS best Rrv.te.
we rc hired ; lwnber was purch.sed for
10 workin" lIudcotl .nd other boys who
the build;nr. ; all before the dub had
duirtd a better fducation bul had no
MIAIoII, FLA.-The Miam i duh recent_ time to conside r ways and means 01
financial support. TIle lame committee:
ly held what is belie"ed 10 hve bun the ITICtting the bill ... Then tach Rotarian
..rangu annually for the transponlllion
bigge51 inter-ci ty meet in Florida. dug into hi. pocket and the bills wen:
of the boys o f the Uniled Worke,.. Boy.'
~ea rl y 200 Rot~rians, rcpres..nting the
paid. With no money to erect the build_
dub f rom Ncw " (aven to a ca mp thirty
Key West, We sl PaTm Beath, Fort Lau· ings. each ROMrian donated st\"Cral
miles away, and has also arrangfd for
derdale. and Miami clubs. gathered in hours lnhor, lind the buildings wenl up.
the support of many of thelC boy. al
the San CarTos grill, where caeh one O f couru there were obstllCln to overtI.e camp. The c'¥l1mittu takes action
enjoyed the well·balanced program of rome. M ~ny of the volunteer hclpel'l
on all appeall for financial help which
IOIIgs and speeches by representatives had to he intrOOllCcd 10 c,.rpenter·. 10011.
are mad e to the club, thu. c.loing away
of the ,·.riou5 clubs.
AmQng the notions of the dry (tODds
wi th possi ble dupl ication o f effort.
Liwt. Com. Randall Jacobs and other member was the ide. that • cron-cul
The Back-to-School mol'cment is un der 1M guidante of the Boy.' Work officers of the U. S. dc~roy<:r "Conver..," Jaw was inten:hangeable with a rip-saw.
were sped.l guesu al Ihe mcd:ing, and The llO!IC .nd throat 'p«ialist wanted to
committee:. At the end of each 5chool
ye.. a leuer is tent 10 all boy. grl.duat_ added their bit to the gn\eral entertain_ UR only tongued and groovro lumber,
ing from grammar school. pointing out ment by giving the fI.mous AnnI.poIis and t he lawyer insistro on lea .. ing •
the advantage. of hirher tducation, I.nd yell.
number of loop-holu in the roof. But
another letter it 5Cl\t 10 their parent ...
Tcle~ams of ~eeting from District
Ihe construction went 011 and • beach
The l ,zso lette,. sent OUI were anl~rtd Goyemor Pi erpont. Lt:n Lewis. presi- lupper provided by the Rotary Annes
by over 30 per <;""t of the reo;ipienn and dent of the Key West club. and from the marked the drivinC' of the theoretical
the boy. hive come to look to the Ro- Tampa and St. Petersburg clubs W'Crt golden 'pike in the I.st board.
tary club for eneoun.gemenl.
read by the IICCrctary. EI.ch of the clubs
During Ihe first $QSOII t he beach was
The Civics Committee: hndl~ the rcprtscnted wu ri\"CtI an opportunity to ,,!led 10 an extent undreamed of by iu
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Januarl/. 1923
The Elftn&ham (Ill.) Rotary aUbrHenlly h e ld a n enlhu,ta.tlc m eelln(l, "'hkh •• u acled many vllllnr •• A d elf,.. 'kln of Ch1cooao
Rotarlano Wera mel a, IhClllaUon by \hl. " ru bo" '",epllon commllt eeand n rted throuah the town on haync" , .. hlle red and
Ilrftn II.... blaled merrily "Iona Ihe Un., o f marc h . A ChIC1l(l,o:> quartel ... a. feat ured In Ih, e ntert a Lnmtnt pro.,..m .. h leh .c_
~mpanJed .. 'l uaU d Inner.
Rur. ChapIn , International T.etlI URr, ""ul W_lbu~, pR.lde ol of Ih, Chla.o club . J oe Hahn ,
Martln Luna and ol her Chic_rio Rotarlano put on .. Rola'y eduC1lllonalliunl .
god-fathers. Children were admitted
free and adulll were cha rged • Sm>.1!
amount, more for the purpose o f holding
the braeh 10. the children tho 10 aid
in the support o f the beach. Th is sca5Ofl,
relieve the dub m(ffitiers from peroonal li.bi!il), and . 1110 10 obtain funds.
Rotary Buch was incorporattd for
$I,OCXl. Shares were MIld at $5 each to
meet the bud,~t for the coming year,
luving enou,h uniuuni ) tock to be
iOId in the next two )·ur. to m~ the
budgrts for those yu.rs. Careful rec·
ords of ;lI1Cndanc;e and expen~J ha" c
brrn ktpt ;100 the Rotary Oub is mter·
in&" on a campaign to "sell" the idu. of
;I community beach to Ihe city.
When
this is Kcomplished Rot:Iry Beuh, Inc.,
will tum O"er iu as~u to the cily for
further devc:lopmenL
to
PIIOe~ I )[ ,
rusStmblrd and lormcl the word "Ro·
tary" in li";ng Idters. ....her t hat eacb
Rotaria n and Rotary "'"n wu escorted
On a tour of in spection by committees 01
one 10 three boys who saw to it that the
..;siton missed no point of inlerest. Nex t
came "chow" which was swiftly disposed
of, and theo the boys enjoyed a couple of
hours dancing with the Rotary Anne ..
musi<: being l umi slled by tI,e tiO.pit<:e
"",·al band. ....0 c.·ttl'ng I..O£ram wu
a rranged by th<: Community Service and
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".IZ.-.... t a rtttnt lunch.
eon the Phoenix club voted unanimous-\y to under"'rite the Boy Seout move·
ment for $6.0IXl for t he toming yur.
One speaker ga"e a rousing talk on the
needs 01 the ScoUIi and asked that
nch Rotar ian make him~1f ruponsi·
ble lor $60 loward the work for the
com ing year. The PllGenix club ha s
always been a good friend of the Seout
movement but this is t he lir" time they
have attemptnJ 10 underwrite it.
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Sroli:"~£.
WAs lI.- The report s of
the Crippled Children', department of
the Spokane club show that an average
o f one child each w«k for the past
)·cn hal btea tucn UTe of. and alonetime there were ten children patiml$
at the ho~pital. Many little orrviC<'!
ha' ·e mn performed by Rotary Anna
.nd by the committee OUl$ide 01 the
actual hospital UeatmcnL Onr V. SOO
has bern ' pent this ycar for hospital
(lire and medical ,upplieJ for thelll'
children, while Rotary doctors ha"e
given valuable service gratis.
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SAN F .... sc lM:o, CAL-Several hun .
dred 5&n F ranciKo Rotarians with their
families rutntly enjoycd a visit to t he
Nanl Training Station in San Francisco
Ray. Perhapi the busicst :md happie>!
man in the wbole erowd wu the st:ltion
thaplain. " 'ho is altO a Rotarian. From
1M: time Il'ey were greeted by the Com·
mandant until ~lapJ~ the visitors h;u1
not a dull mome.nL F irl! on Ihe program
wall a pande, thea a number of the boy,
the Y. :\[. C. A. In addition to scve ral
good musical numberl there were ad<l reuel by Capt. Landenberger, COIl'",a nding officer, and by the Rotary club
prcsKknt and other Rota r ians. Both the
Rotarians and the prospective Iailors
gainfd new ideas as to the value of eaeh
OIher's training.
With the pa..lo.nf Edward J.l'llIat ..... lt
tha Dululh Rotary Qub 1_
a charlcr
mcmber aod nne ..00 ..... t ..lce dub
presldeDt. Ed ..... also one of t he early
di.-ectono of Rotary In ternatlon.i , pau
esalted ruler of tbe ElI,.lodlle. presid ent
of the Frencb Nnunollu.don dUb. prul den t of tbe local . nd Itale automobile
.....'d.tlon •• and .n ac:th'e ..orker In
nerythlnll thai prOmllled the dm
bettermenl of bl'lo"n OI' •• lale.
OAKl.\l<O, CAL.-On Novembe r 14th
the Oakland club, with 226 active memhe rs, held a 100 per cent meeling.
Three members were ab~nt on the
e"cntiu1 day but tl~ir attendance was
reported by wire from the Rotary clubs
of New York, Kansas Ci ty and
Glen<lale, Cal. Two member! Came
irom hospital quarters 10 attend, one
of them. who had been in the h05'
pital for eight 11I0nths. was brought
thiny mi1el 10 the meeting. He was
greeu:d .... ith a special fOIIg and seemed
to feel that hi s t r ip was "",n worth
" 'hile, Other spreial fOIII' were sung
lor the benefit of various ROtarians and
the pe rson.:ol allusions they oonlained
brotl(hl fonh roars o f laughter. A
Th;m"' .. ivin .. Cheer Conunittce had been
appointed to dispose of _ y contribut·
ed by various members. The members
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proved partieu!arly responsive at this
meeting and many ron fnsed 10 birth_
day. and ann;versariel or did a little
advt'rti.inC-and paid the penalty. AI_
torethcr $252.25 WlS collected for the
day and contributions tame in 10 fast
tlmt the dub presMimI had lOme difficulty in hallin, the flow to allow Rotarian
Julun .... mold of the Shanghai Rotary
Qub to gi,~ • brief talk on condition.
in China..
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Rlclnlo"D, INo.- Timothy Nicholson,
social 5(;\'I],ill ; E. Gurney Hm, rox
cul IU';"': and J ohn E. BuDdy. anist,
weI'<: welc:omfd at honorary member1 of
the Richmond Rotary club rettndy.
Each of the three honora ry m~n
hu achieved distinction in his own line,
and has doot' work which will inspere
his «Immunity and hi , italt'. Mr. Hill
hold. some fifty or 10 medals aw.rded
by the National Rose Societies of ,America and France, th e Royal HoniculluTliI
Societies of Great Britain, and other
organizations. Mr. Nichol$on ;. a leading Quaker, i. in tertlted in higher edllalion, and has done much to tecure
reforms which amcl io~led the bad con dilionl for~rly pI'C"a!ent in variOliI
atate insti tutions. The landscape. of Mr.
Bllndy, which have done much to se(:UI'C
Indiana a pi &«! amonl' the emten of
Irt. art! the mort! remarkable ~nce the
Irtist i. largely ...If.t ~ined. The addreu of weleomc to the honorary member, was made by William DudlC)'
Foulke, who is ~ted by Ceorl'e Adc as
one of the twelve l'I'Cate,Jt men in Ind .....
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B.-The lunchfOn
given for t he Frtdcricton Rourian, by
the Tablliintac Goow Ollb rettntly, was
a unique event in the businclS and social
annais of the city. The «Ulion WIS
the fourth anninrsary of th e Goose
Oub, which is • 10(31 organization
formed for lOCial l porting activities
with a $llU.1I OIIuidc membership.
The menu well represented the dforts
of the wild-roose hunte., and sped.l
n'enu cards were provided which will be
cherished as sou" cnirl of the good fel .
lowship enjoynl. The history of Rotary
FHDDICTOS .
N.
ROlary offi ci al. recen tly ....,lIed on i'Tuldenl lI ardl na at Ih. Wh it. IIOUN and l b.
plam for Ihe fortb comlna ROlary Annl.lnary Wee k In F . ...... ary . ppu.led to h im
ao mucb tbat h. COnHn l td to alw. oul a prtaidenlil l m NUla_ on aood d llu n. hlp
for Ih_ eUnl. The pictu re . howl (Jeri to nibt ) Knowltl Cooper , presld.1.nt of th.
W•• h lnalon (D. C.) Rotary au b ~ a lY 1I •• enl, Intern allon.1 Pndden t ; . nd
Ru_1I F. Greln. r, Put I ntern ational I'raI ldenl .
briefly. outlined by Ihe Rotary club
pruident in his address of t hank&.
Will
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POTTllvt~U.
P..._Thc Potlsville club
enjoyed a real mu.ica! Irat recently
when Mada~ Seh uman-Heink, famou s
conlralto, COn5Cnted 10 sing at a club
lunch«m. Madame Sehuman-Heink i,
an honorary memb... of the IXnver
Robry d ub, :and WUTI a je_lled Rotary bullOll whicb W:I$ prescntrd 10 her.
She sang bul OIIe song, but her aooif1lce
will long rrmembe:r the dtpth and fed _
ing of its noIeL
s
TIJ$C"'oos~,
AlA.-Two ,nc,,*rs of
the Tuscaloosa Roury dub have re_
cf1ltly made notable contributions to weir
community. Rotarian Dave Rosenau. a
charter membe:r of the cl ub and promi _
nent busin ess man. has offered a l ih'cr
loving cup valued at ~ to the citiun
who performs the best 5Cryice for hi!
community Ihi. yur. The award will
be decided by a comm;lIee indud inl' rtl'_
rurnlati"e! of the ROlary and Kiwa ni s
club. , and Ihe Chambe:r of Commerce.
Rotarian Jim T. Home has a great intere$! in boy ... SO he quietly gave the
local Boy ScOUIJ 9] aCfes of i:round to
be: uJCd as a training ground for "our
fulure d tiuns" and as a start in a
stale-wide tonKrYation mOVCl"Ult. The
ground COM $2,500.
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DoNN .. , Tn. -The Donna club hired
a JPf!(:ial Pullman and all of ill 22 1DeI!l'
be:r. travelled 400 miles to attend the
rettnl inler..,i!y meet at HO\Uton. On
Ihe return Irip the Donna. Robr;"".
brotl&ht along a large ,il vcr cup as a
liltle IOUvcn;r of tbe;r activities al tht
Houston mttt I
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JEIWIY CITV, N. J.-Evcry linlC JerKY
Cily opens .. new public K hooI, the Rota ry Qub co~s forth with a prt!sent of
Ihc Stan and StriJ!C " School No. 6
received iu flag rettnlly, the Rotary
a ub secretary giving the addreu of
presentation.
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All.TIN, TEX.-Newspaper comment
in Austin shows that the drort . o f the
RObry dub in promoting Father and
Son " 'eck are be:ing apprecialm by the
community. The dub brough t Frank H .
GalllCl. a well.known lecturer, 10 discuss
the boy problem during the wcck and
hil Ulks have aroullCd much inlerest.
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WhU . on I t r ip to t h. P.clllc coast, J immy SebuUan conee-hed tbe Id .. Ibn.
I ·.enaer coacb \V'O uJd meta. tood trade m ark for t he Nort b Platte (Nebr.) ROl lry
Q ub, . me. It el.nd. for ......""" . nd each d u b bu.
of ...,..k to do. The Nort h
Pl.lle dub Iherefore adOPled Ibit dtaltn , I nd ..cb mem ber don bit; bHt 10
klep Ihe caf morina.
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P lI ILlrIil UItG, ('...-The Philipsburg
club recti"ed i\l charter at 6:30 p. m.,
Oetober 3 1st, and one. hour later a Rotary float swIID{ inlo t he Hlllowe'en
parade of tllal town, while the Rouri:anJ
alto ~ rackd in red and wbite uniforms.
Dislrict Governor Lumb o f Harrisburg
presenled I"~ chart~ r to Ihe dub and in
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THE
ROTARIAN
Jonuarll, 1923
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Tb.·~berd.., n
(Mia.) ROlal')' Ch.h '".nlabed • number 'of th_ 'bu.n. 10 ~n .. bl. th. rural Kbool c hildren 10 .ncb tb. pubilc
KboOl.ln Aberdeen. In Ihl. I....,. th. children are 'abla! lo h ave nine- mon th, ' KbooUna 'mInd of fou r month .. Hd> year.
AberdHD· n....-:h.. th'-'a'lar,"Separata Sch ool'DIItrlct" ,In ' the I late, 'and pl ..... t o add .. moderp hlah'lChool buUdlnll nut
year.' The Rota,., aub .. Ill .1.0 IOcretlH the 'Dumber of b _ tlut )'tar. Kcnneth Wishart, the club PRIIJ.dent, Ia _ n
bothlad the Rota., , Itn drUlld in while. To his Idl
Rotarian Jimm ie T. Webb, l uperintendenl of Ih. "'hool. Fha ",hoo!
hult _ _ AI In Ih. for_around (four kn",Un, aDd One on the runnlo,""-rd) and Ih. K h oolbo". at the ..'rema rlaht and le rr
' KPKU.dy are the hu. drlnn• .
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hi. relltll.ki lI.tlled the .ignificano;e of
Rotary and the opportunit y wh ich it o ffered. Rotar ian Jack O'Neil also o f
Harr isburg ,"";ewed the code o f eth ics.
and PTuiden t WaTd Fleming rupotlded
for the new Rotarians. n'e Philips_
burg dub has ~n in stf\lmen\a1 in having a graded course in music made p,arl
of the public school curriculwn. In a
gavd contest for the highest attendance
for 5(ve ral month. among the Rotary
clubs of Punxsutawney, DuBois, ae.r_
ficld and Philip5burg, Ihe Philip$burc
dub won out in Odobe r and is dctermined to kHp the cavel.
the recommen!btion of the Educat ion Committee the
Puadena dub N.S established 11 Rotary
Loan Fund of $ I.soo. Amounta neM to
exCftd $100 a "''''''Mer wi ll be loaned to
Pasadena boys in high school 0 . college
who are apprond by the Education
Committee and recommended to the dub
for character, capacity, and nH'd. This
fund is upidly becom ing a valuable
PA5.4DI"A , CAL.-<>n
serv ice to the community, and tht dub
has slightly changed tht ir motto 10 read:
" He profi ts most who n rvel best II,~
risi"g ge"eralio"."
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ON!!.IDA, N. Y. -The Oneida club put
on a novel stunt lor the rt«nl offieial
visit of District GO\'crnor Bill Cai rns.
A whetl lour fm in diameter was con·
.structed of wall board and pai nted in
Rot.a.ry QlIors. On the rim were 55
teeth, uc:h tooth repruenting a member
of the dub. Ca rds mrrelpODding to Ihe
arne ,i~e as the teet h were pri nted and
u.eh Qrd bore the rwne of one of the
d ub mentbfcrs. The cards were ddivtred
to the membe ... the !by befOf<' the Di,·
Irict Go"emur', vi sit and each member wH instructed to be prnent and
plac:e hi . card ove r one of the teeth.
Both the teeth and t he ca rds were
notched so tN.1 rubber bands could be
lIIippW around Ihe card and looth. If
Ihe member could neM attend in perlOll
he was required to send some member
of his family to place hi , card on the
whed atld to bear a nOie to Gove rnor
Bin explaini ng hi , ablt:n«, and wh~ther
or not he had made it up by atl(ndance
elsewhere. All members were fu rthe r
instructed that in case every card waf in
ilf place the whHI woul d be lighted and
spun by t he hand of the Distr ict Governor 10 lignify t he activity of Ihe club.
But should !lilt card be missi n, the
wheel would not revolve, .i nc( no gear
wh«l can function properly with a
m, n mg cor. And-it W at ;nf(fredwoe be unto any man who should keep
the whee] from movin&" I WhCll the
time came e~ry cor ... at in placo: and
the whed duly . "oI,·ed. Only fin membeu were absent, two bc<:ause o f deaths
in the ir families. T wo OIhefi attended
in other (itie. and one WaJ on a business
lrip to pan s remote f rom any Rotary
club. T he Itl endancc: per«ntage for the
eVCllin, Wll 94.
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BD.LINGU AIoI , WAI K. -The Bellingham club hu launched a campairn to
find a solution for Ihe city'l water prob]em. Whether 10 enlarge the preso:nt
'ystem or to build a $1,000,000 .ystem
with a source of supply
in the mountains ]8 miles
away-th at is Ihe ques·
tion agi tating the community. Through the ini tia·
tive of the Rotary dub a
commi tltt of npresenta·
tivCl fron, the Rot.a.ry,
Kiwan is, Lions and other
eivic org:lltizations has
been organized to obtain
data from impartial and
aulilorilati" e IOUrcu and
to present the findings for
public d iltU$lion.
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Member. of the Mobilt club
united in eXle n di n ~
M OIIU,
Th b concrele ..... d lnl pool, ... hlch I. H'l'e nty.f!ye feel In diameter, ... bulll by Ih. Rot·. ry Oub
of MOOM J . .... Sot.kal ehe .. an, .. lIh Ihe pon ed. of a rnlnllrel &bow Ihal dn.. CIIptldt y audlen.,..
for Ihree aucc Hd_e nl&bIL Th. club belle_" that thla donallon to Ih ' plllYlr0unda h .. don.
mar. 10 n illblbh ROIlr)' In thl public cnnlidellClllhan a nythinlthe club hg undertaken.
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Io.lluo.rl/. 1923
With the Rotary Poets
Three Gifts
Service
Oy JOliN S. ALAN
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s...... 0 ....
gi/Is IMI 1Iol, Il10 ....,
A ·bari,.g
Tlm'r .II"g' ITO'" l/ot EIISI
I /,c~e
co "'~ .
Iii, Srrvict urwd " W111r1d sl~i/~-uKJr,. .
T/o ..." /o" ..d " " "'t~..tJyi.. g /0111'.
1/ n'.... ",t . INCIo O~t Wt todD"
W~U bri.g 0.' gift_ .. ~, """.
IIo,n.
/OI<"~
l/ot "aIN t
S<"I/ . ""(,,,Jlh. " .d
A"d brr,,//o,·
"1Id
Iltnt /0 10)'.
of RollI~y.
"Sonnet to Poets"
By CUARLES N. G ILB ERT
Ilo....t • • 01 AI_..,.. N. Y.
dnJte HoI I/o, I/o OHgllls .11 /oId,
P OET,
0/ sltrell
So tI,,,. DICk nOI /I,y Ir.... 01 vtru will,
1..l1VfS
So , ltntcollS. Oil. srt! 110, fai r /ruil
g,in.·cs ;
II " ]"HOI su Ih" sa" . lIor tvtr , t oc/o
Til, tog" go:t olld Ihirs/i.. g IotOTl s 0/
,~,
W/oo CO",ts ,.r,telllni. Th, to,iOMS"1'1I
durivrs
The 'w aili"g ''''orld willi t Hlpl" fr.illtSl
sllew,s.
010. Itllrll ,".. IUIOII Ihot llu
sc rll,lO~s
Itocll'
_,bl" llet,
/ro_ llee li/dul
Wlull
".,orlld ctJJ.l
All A,lerodue, 11101 noelo",." lle~ "yt
Alld III~ilIs lilt Io",rl rou" u", lId~oMS
BtO"'y'I/Io,"'i,
TIe ..y slo~o ocd Ie" ..01 willo IM,rlUI
tlTII"ry,
8,., dtfll, d,,,,,, IISid" l/ot
/'0'" all
fI,r yTMW"" ,ha~IfU-'lis llei", IMele
IITI /0 /r )'.
By W. R . CUIBBRSON
• .. ' ..... of a.- AD.-.Co.l.
D OWN IIIroll91o 110, his'o~, 0/
world ,
As , i ..., ill ruo nJ lollS ."focrlrd,
We rrod II,~ slo,y. lIS il lold
UIO,. ill tog", gI"ri"g, bold,_
0 / d"Ns ,",/0""t4 b, ....... wloo gll1U
TIo,ir all. , '," li/e, 10_ ea"", to stZ1H.
ANd i,. lie, gNi" g. wid O/ IM.glel
0 / ,rit'llU {1fIill 0' 1e0,.01' br(lffglcl .
BMI 1t;/1o 0"
i,tI,,./
U/01I ,'rvoiJ i"g "tl/'~"""I .
tog,,,.,,,
•-Illd ,id, b, silk willi 1';dllri" tuelI<.
T Io, slon·rs 0/110" ""' .. • ,,<I4 ..e;
Of
"'Io olt IloolIglIIs wrrt ;rif/a/t
"""II
..",ds,
Of livcl Illid bare by Itl/i.sh g~."dl,
A"d 10 Ihe;r ig"o,..i,.io"" NOds,
Fo~go "t .. ~~ by / Otl o..d f,i",..u,
Tilly ,assed, ONd 0. III" , ogts It ...."
No "roilt o/llI, i, acco"'~islo"'''''I.
.4"d Ih ~ollglo il (I// ol"soN eltar,_
ihol ",0 .. ""/.1/ /iv, 10 how lI,.d /to~,
A lld Illro ltgh 11001 teo" llot l~oUh Ioe'll fi"d
U PlSrlfish stroie" 10 "' oNkind•
.4"d i .. Ihalltrvice Iht """",
Thol marh a "'0"" Ir" .. roor/hip/tu.
A "d 0" IIIId 011 /Ie" slo~y rruds.
0 / ""til" /1e0 ..y11l1 o..d , igle/euMS du ds.
0 / hi", tt,leo souilictd leis so"
To worllli, a/ 110, ,1I~i.. e fI/ /loid.
A !'d t"elo u:~ .. ' dllWfS
lois lI11Jt.~
.,.'0
WM / III gave,
A"d co~ritd 0""
Fo~ i. t401 ,tQ"Y real ... .. ,.ktlDU....
God jocdgtl by lie" duds "'//fII,
No, tartle "OSIUSiONS I<nn llo t woy,
Wlor. ;unrog 10 llell/ ' ''''g_ ..1 /Jdy.
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The Show Down
By NA.."I TERR ELL REED
.NO"y [rin,d
T 1IIEHE'S
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By McG REGOR C IIARLES IRONSID E
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No~ givell b, sordid #i.. , ,.or ptl/.
A,. tar",,' of O,ItS (ItC'1I Irll~ l tit.
Orll, a It i"d word, liltltly spcltt,.,
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.4 ..d llot tllOnII li Olid-clllsp lilrilli,.g
Ill roug"
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THE
ROTARIAN
January, 1923
For Sale: A Fiftyfifty Carburetor
YOUR OWN ROTARIAN PUP
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THE
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ious to rei the ir share arc losing fIT
faster Ih;)n the, pin, Souto:. there
are who are lazy, indifferent and
«.."'t the game not worth the c;mdJe.
Othe r, are working ilJ, rd but are gnbbinll' Illl from one .ide of the lClICr:al
51.o<:k and lITe not gelling a balan«d n_
lion of Ih is world', goods. Sec:, thc rc i.
one m;m who has coIle(:ted a creal: man
of gold bul he has 1051 hi, soul, There
is another who hu been 10 intent that
he has missed the joy of hi, famil"
ThaI tall fellow there had not been dishomA in a big way bul hi5littl~ dishonulie. have taken all the lavor £r(IIII the
r~st of hil ,ain and his metl of pottage
latks ph, Sec. tho.. few-thcy are
lou$)', a li ule busier th.n the resl, They
aTe helping eve ryone nc.r them as they
hew off Iheir share, laughing and bandy·
ing good fcllowth ip as they work- pul ling Ihe hoe s! oJ t hemselves into the other
fellow" work .s well,
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conduct. Now look clotdy and you
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(r«\u..,t Inle<Val,; ili.nenorln ar" 0/'
varybIc ]"",1"" and oIr« *!ar&e choke
of """to.. Send for book let.
Without draft with tho "COMMON
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Jimmy was back again in his own
comfortable arm thai., He t hourht his
guide hd dumped him down a bit uneeremoniously but he rubbed his eyes,
adjusted hi. fCiOI on the pcrlcct ottoman, ligh ted a cipr, reached for his
fa'lOr;te m.paine and preten<kd to read.
But hi. t,eI rud nary a word on that
printed page, He Wall mentany taking
noIe of an of hil worldly goods and he
smiled u he realized man, sublime gi fts
.. ith which he had been blusro. H e
shi,'ered i u~ a little--then glanced surreptit ioully at hi, wife, and dca~ h is
throat :
"About that in\lenlOr chap, Mary. I'm
going to tell him tomorrow that if he
W:;l,£lU 10 put hil carburetor up against
my engine. we will P~lent it and go
~hy-~fty on the proceedt-"
"God bien you, Jimmy Boy," said
Fresh Air
Europe - 1923
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WINDOW YElmU.TOR WOHS
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Coates tn Rio
IT IS TRUE
"He Profit. Mo.t Who Servea Beat"
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that with the rank and file
it u.uaUy happena that
th e man who t a l k. th e
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longest and loude.t about
SERV I CE i. thinkin ,
about what the other Idlow
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With the arri...! of Mr. H e. b<rt CoaIU
01 i'ol onltvideo, on the Lamport and H olt
It.ame. "Vand,l'ek" [•• t Monday .ft...... oon,
planl for o' lf1\n!alna • Rot.ry a ub in Rio
are 1><1'11 initiated.. 1.£ •. Coatu ~II bttn
live. . .pee;'! credentials by th. Inter.
national Bo.o.d of Chicago, to o. g,niu •
dub In Ihia city.
Mr. Coat~1 it Ihe haod of Ih~ ~rm of
Coat •• and Company of Monl~\lideo. ~ad
hi, eompany hal ..vual branchel io the
IIOIIthera cilieo of 8"..i!. Mr, Coato it ac_
companied by hit ..i' e .0\1 they a~ on
their hoont,nIOOn tri(l, hnine been ..... rried
ill Hew York a fe. da,l bela« the . tao .....
Jailed, While in the United Stat .... Mr,
CoaIO ,mended the annual """\lmlion of
the ROlary Cuba in Lot AD,tlo. .nd m0tored a.ron lhe con tinent 10 Hew York,
The trip tool< tell 1rtCko, and m !"OIlte h.
ddi .....d a number o' .dd .... _ before
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J a" uary. 1923
TH E
Recreation - the Saint
Louis Idea
(Conl i,uwJ 'ro ...
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If)
Robin H ood, Boh~IH;(J" Girl, El
Co(>ila .. , The Mikado, TIt~ W izard of
whi~h
Ih, Nilt ;lnd Tilt Cllimtl of Nor_lUiy
were played. Before t he $eason was half
through ruin 'tared the new organization in the face. The dirttlors ailed
\IPOIl the bw;ioe5s nxn o f Saint Loui s..
"We' ye got 10 gd • ,reat m;my mor.,
people to go to Ihe opera. W~·Y" 1;')1 to
I how them what we've ,ot."
Blocks o f t icken were purcha5ed. and
,iven to employees.. W ide interest wa s
immediately manifest~d.
The t ide
mrned; municipal ~ra W at "wid." And
while tl>.. red of the kaJOD showed a
profit, at the close th", spanlOrs faced a
$15,1m deficit.
Th.". wtnt down in their o",·n pockets
and paid the bill. "Money well spenl,"
they Rid ..
NE:XT scason wilh ci&:h l weeks of
opera Ihere was a small surplus.. "Do
we reimburse oUTseh·e,?" they asked.
"Not at ;Ill. Sec Ihe charter. Possible
profil must &:0 back inlO the theater."
"Fine."
AI the dose. of 1921, the prallis were
$24.000. That paid for the complelion
o f the p.o rgob. shelter, and provided lor
the first 01 the p"rmanenl XlItl. It gave
a fund Irom which better performance&,
a stroni~ r cast, and mor~ elaborate stagings might be and .... ere prov ided for the
1922 season. BUI it went farther.
From Ihe surpl us profit of 1921 the
Mun ic ipal Thuter Assoo;iation providoJ
a f ree municipal opera-choru. sc:hool and
trained dur ing the winter months and
,pring, 270 Saint Louis boy. and girl&,
from whO$( ranks at the op"ning 01 the
1922 K3.$OII was chosen a chorus o f
ninety .... ith a ballci of .i"tcen. William
Pal"lOrl, chorus master and assistant
musial dirttlor o f the opera. was di rector o f th., school and the rHull ol t bc
pre-leason lraining was a chorus of
fresh, clear ,vices, quickly respon,i Ye in
operatic work. Th is was a fellloTC of
the paSI leallOD for which ,·iiitin, critics
and musicians had only the high.,.t prai u.
Previous prolenional ehoruoe., recruited
in New Ynrk had lIf en jlded in voice.
Their singing had been ltamped. wilh the
brand of jan. and previous to lasl seaIOn, Municipal Op"ra had e"a,-ed th~
introdud ion of some local boys and girls
into Ihe chorus with good TC5ults. lIewenr.the complete IlKcns of an all-Sain t
Louis choru. last !IO:uon was e.. en a $urprise to those who hnd conceived tbe
plan. Ult imately Ihe Municipal Theater
hopes it may he able to establis!, a I rce
school in which not only chorus but
principals may he t rained for operatic
"'vrk.
Nobody wtan dre ... dothes or diamond
ROTA RI AN
not for pretentious display. Betw~n acts
one wanders through Ihe aisle visiting
for an cceuiotul word wilh the fritnds
otle i, lucky enough 10 find a,not1£" 10,000
P"ople. Betwcen the aets the bo)·. buotle
about with toda.pop and icc cream oonCi.
Nobody is on hi. dignity. E,·eryone hu
a good t ime under the inRuen~ 0 1 clean
lun . nd good music. Ihc coolin&: bruzel
:md the ltarlit &ky. Does it pity ~ TIlere
isn·t a Saini Louisian bul knows bi s own
nei,hbon better from som«me he h.n
~t, _thing I>.. has learned betw.,.,n
atlS at Ihe ~ra. It's Ihe OOInmun;ly
rallyin, pl~ce. t...ast su",,", 2.SO,(XlO fl'I'Opie met out there during the eight week.
se3.$OII. It is not difficult to lorecast
half as m:!ny more wilb n(xl iummer'.
~ason o f ten we..k. during each w~k 01
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which itvm per formances will be ,iven
inSlead of the JUt each wed< in the past.
Of courH it payL i ls v;lllW: to ciyk
spirit and 10 dean cili~ensh;p ;s incalcul able. And aside f rom that--well, t he
Municipal Themlcr 101" its last , ummer's
OCason has $4 1.000 in profits Ihal it has
to cxpe:nd ,n better production. for Ihe
commg year.
Mary had been spanhd by her mother.
she was crying in the h.:LIlway when the
",ini~e r mtcrW.
"Well, .... ell. whal's the matter with
my Iiltle ,irl today~" he askw.
"II hurt,," ~he soL>bed.
"\\' hal hurt., my dear?"
·"Th h.<tck 01 my lap."
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THE
ROTARIAN
Tell Your Fa.mily!
You can ne ... e r know when aome thinl might happen 10 YOU!
You m ly be I ..... d inl- in .orne di, t ant point of the U.ni t~
Sta tn o r Ca nad.-an accident may o«ur- you, family II
wired- wh.t 10 do)
Where "er you may be. auiatanee ia nca r- the loca l R ot ary
Funer.1 Di r« t o r . H e c.n be quickly rcached th rouilh your
home R otary Secre l ary . H e will t ake careo! you- renderinil
a ny .. r ... iee requ;,ed-contci.,nl iou.ly. pain' l akinKly . carefully .
Whe l her for you. fo r a mc:mber of your family , or for.
friend . the Auoc:iated Rot.ry Funeral Dir«tor il alway. rcady
wit h a .y mpa t hetic. careful. . cient ific service.
Associated Rotary Funeral Directors
" Always Among Fri en d, "
M. HEF IER'S SONS
nflalbu .....b • .
AFTER-DINNER SCRAPS
lose,our
MARK THEM WITH
CASH'S WOVEN NAMES.
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Special prices made on quantit;y orders.
S amples sent on reques t .
3+.117- L .So.MainSt.
LosAngelu,CaI.
J." J . CASH, Inc.
1521 Chutnut St.
So.NOTWalk,Conn.
Detroit, Min",,_
Club No. IIO!.
S~ci>.1 RtprtttnUlt'n. Chal. H. Pruton .
of Min neapoli .; pre.iden t, ]. J. Wadt;
lure '.'T. t' . td In nn i•.
Loaan. W_ Vircinia. Club No. I ~c.::.
S...,.:ial Rt prntnt. I..... , J ohn E. Norm.n,
or Huntington; prtaidc:nl. C. ),l eD. I-:nl["
Land; 1I« ....' I.ry, Numan Jackson.
OnUrio. Califo",;..
Club No.
12M.
Silecia l ktprUtnlatj,·~. "'red E. Whylc.
of Porno",,: pruid ent. C rombie AlItn ;
IUrttary, C. Durlon T h rall.
Rml ...., Onl., Canada. . Club Xo. I~U.
Special kcp rttcntat;vc: E. A. 01nr, of
Ottawa; pruidcnt, H Ullh MacDonald;
Iccrctary, R<><L F. Fra..:.,
W akefield., M....ach""tt...
Clu b Xo.
1$6. Spo:ci.1 Htl'rU""lal;vt! Charln E.
K(lIblO". Jr .. of Maldc,,; pre,idenl. A L_
ber t K. 1..:0111;" .; ,cCTclar)" 1}Qnald G.
1101.0,.
W hittier, California. Club No. 126 •.
S"" ,,;' I /(q'.c.c"ta ,i vc: Elliott \Vyman.
of t o. ,\nllde.; "r"'<letl!. Panl J. Den_
, .,CU ON • • QlJur
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Januarll. 19!3
8 Lxpo.itor BId,.
.Brantford, Ont .
n,nll C'; ~crcury. E<1,,·,..d Kcubey.
Ltw,.ton, Jdaho. Club No. 1265. 5"".
cial Represen tarive: Frand. ~en kin •• of
~I olco ",, ; prtlidetll. I'.od Khn ll; Icere_
U ry, H. II. llralloll .
Monro ... i•• Califomlr.. Club No. 1269.
SI)('cial RepruenU live : Loon V. Shaw.
o I'u.dena; president. \\'aller £. K ule;
leeretary, Lincoln G. Bad,.. s.
WinlerHt, IOWL Oub No. l~iO. Special Representative: Wilber Con klinI', 01
Dc, Moinu; prelident, £d. ),f . S",i lh ;
""crttary. Robert S. Cooper.
Marlow, Olr.lahoma. Club ~o. 1271.
Special Reprelcntative ; Roy L. Jones. 0/
Chichlh.; prelid.nt. Grady W. Shipp:
'eoretny. lbut i« D. Bryanl.
Swnmil, New Jene,.. Club No. 1212.
Special Reprrltn\.lOtive ; Albert Cbtl<, of
Morritlown; pre.ide"I, C. H . Smilh ; ICC_
ntary, \ \' . •1. Dc .... r.
P ullenon, California. CI .. b No. 1113.
SI,ecia! Repruenlati.-c: Harry Riley. of
Anahd",; pre-idenl. W m. :\1. [r"'in ; ,u·
re l.ry. Joh n R. Meni'U.
Pari., Illinoi.. Club No. 1:14. Special
Reprcltn lali.·,,: Thot. L Kemp, of Terre
Haule. I ndian.; yruidenl. Allen D. A l_
hert : atcrtlary, Claud G. Rud.
Olenwood. Iowa. Cl ub No. 1 2;~. Spc·
ei.1 Represenl ative: Ed. R. Jac kllOn. of
Council Slulh; prOliMI1I. Georgc Mo_
gridg.; ..,c reta ry. Carl H. Oti •.
Pit_n, N~w J er.~y. Club No. 11H6..
SI'<e;,,1 H.<pru< nlll'vc : W. H 0 wa r d
Sha,p, of V, n.:iand ; pruidcn ,. J. lI oward
.\lorri~; I<erenry. Wini. Tull i. I'orc h.
DeLa ......, Wilconoln. Club No. 1277.
Spec;"1 R~p'e .. nt.ti.·e: Chll. L. Fifield.
01 janu... ille ; president. Leon L Lillle_
fi~ld; Ittretary. H. H. :\1elch.,..
SurkblUnett, Tu.. .. Club No. 1278.
Special Repr • ..,n la,i"e: I'. A. Roge ... 0 1
Wich,ta Fan.; pre,idcn!. E. B. Grcnncl1;
""cretary. \Y. H. Sieber.
GlmdaJl, AriaOll&. O ub No. Ing. Special Repruent.lti"e : Goo. H . Todd. of
Phoenix; prelident, C. W.lter Taber;
...... t luy. Duncan ),f eRuer.
T&Iloho_. F lorida. Club No. 1230.
SpKial Rep..",nlltiv", Ed. R. ],rl'er, of
T ho",.nillc. C • . ' prelident. Fred C.
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THE
Some Footnotes to
History
A
(Co II,i N,," fro... tagt ~ IJ
T a meeting of the Common Coundl
at the Guildhal l on the 7th July, 1775,
the lette r hom Ntw York was ~nJidued
a~ ;t was . no] ved :
"Tha' an hum ble addre". and Pet;Iion
be prtlented 10 Hi. Majeuy from Ihi.
Cou rt pra"inc Ihal Hi. MajuI)' will be
I,ln.ttd 10 sus(>Cnd Hostil;tiu Icainll our
i~llo ...·ubj«.. in North Alllerio;a ami
adopt such conciliatory mn.urn .. ,nay
rU lore Uniou. Con ~.uncc and i'uce to
the whole Empire.
A committ«: ... as appoinL~ and a
~t it ion wu dr.,,·n up and appro,·n l. In
iI, ap~ared as foilowl:
"The Charatlcri't;c of Ihe peol'lo:, Sire,
over whom "ou . eicn, h.. ever been
equally re marked. lor In unparalleled.
Lo,.1I,. 10 the ir SoVC'eill l). wh ile Ihe
Prmc iple 01 the Contt;tu l,on hu been
the rule of Ihi, Govunment. as ...ell II ..
Srm Oppooi lion. wh. nu er Ihe ir right'
have bun 'n vaded.H
Th e r emonstrance 10 the K in/:" Ikdarcd
that "every morncnt'. prosecution of this
fatal war may loostu irreparably the
bonds of that oonn"ct iOlt on which th e
Glory and t lte SlIfet y of the Br iti sh Empire de~nd ."
A little later on we learn ,hat the
magistrat.. of the City of London re_
fused to back Ihe warranlS for the cnt ry
o f pre ugangl into the city Ind made
every effon t o prevenl Ihe !!Uspen5ion of
Ihe habeas corp... acu apin SI the
Amerieans, while Ihe COtlllnon tolIncil
rdused to take any part in the 5ubscriplion of war fWld. or. in fact , '''p""rl
the war in any way.
One tan p lher from thue intere51;ng
old mi n.. te·books of the I; "ery and com·
mon council, Ihat the underlying com ·ic.
tion of the tragedy and foUy of the war
rtmainfll with t he c;t iznls o f London,
and was u pressed f;On siltcntly in frtq"nll pet ition, and add ruKI to the king
and parliament.
The notorious Wilku.. who was Lord
Mayo r of London in 1775. on 23 rd Augu§t o f that yea r produced a letter which
he had received from the Congress at
Philadel phia, appealing to the City of
London 10 medi ate for the restorat ion of
H
~acc.
Thereupon th e livery of the Cily of
London prepa red an add rus to Ihe el ecIon of Great Bri lain, whi ch was adopt ed
as "Ihe address of t he Lord Mayor, Al_
dermen and Livery of l..ondon in Com mon
Hall lS~mbl cd." Th i, wa, ordered to
tJ.c publi ~ ed in the pa ~n.
"All Ihu the Colonics ..k~d (or waS
pcace, liberty. an d ulely. T hey had
pledJed Ihtmlelyu to be rcad)' and ...;n.
in il In time of war 10 .how Iheir loyal ty
to the Kina and 10 allill him "" t h money
and men 10 the ulmOIl of Iheir abili lr.
T hey had ,""unll,. "'Ide a final I ppul In
Ihe hope tha I Iht effu.ion 01 blood might
be n l ycd. bu l 10 Ihis appeal no anSwer
had bet .. vouchnftd.The address to the el«to.. of Great
Brita in conc:l udcd a, followl'"'This, Icn lltmen, i, Ihe Ilarmini lta le
of A m~ riu .... hich fi lt, u' ... ith . n"i.l"
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and Ipp.thension. We I~me nt the blood
which bas b• • n alrud)' .hed; we deplor e
the £a te of tho •• bra" . men wh o arc de"oted to hazard Ihe;r 1;",,_nOI I llainll
tht enemits of the Bri ti.h name. b.. t
apinll Ihe lriends of the glory and pro,·
perily 0 1 Great Britain ; We lui for ' he
honor 01 the British arms .• uUied-nOI by
the misbehaviou r 01 t ho.. who bore Ihem.
bU I by the misconduct of Iht minisler.
who employed IMm 10 'ht oppression of
Ihdr fello ...•. .. bject.; we arc alarmed I t
the immediate in supportable eX"'''"t and
Ihe probable consequence of a ..... r which.
"'e arc eonvineed. originatu in yiolence
and 'nj llll'ce. and milS! end io ru;" ,"
Walpole ca.lled Ihis '"a decent but "ery
§t~ address," and th. common CO"" .
cil of the City of London followed Ihis
liP with "ddru,..,. to bot h H ouses of
Parliamen t on the 251h of Octpbe r, 1775.
strongly in favor of a ecssat ion of hostili t ies, bUI the ministe rial part)" wal too
§trOllg and the ..n just war went on 10 its
foregone conclusion.
I think these few exl racts from the
G.. ildhall records inlere"'ng. as I~ac;ng
on' record llo(, little known fact , that t M
great comrrM:rcial body of Ih. British
Empi re centring in Ihe Ci ty of 1..0ndon.
.... re dead againA Ihe war wilh the
Amer ican Coloniu and did all in their
{lOwer by try,", to P'I"u;adc the king
:I.Ild go ... m~nl to end Ihc ir persec ..tion
of the,r brave. hardy, and inoffenli...
fellow·subjects in the Ame rican Colonie~
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The University and Religious
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WELCOME the im'itatioo to write
about the ...,...wled reiigio.u foundation s that are erected or projuted in the cities of Champaign
and Urhana in the neighborhood of the
University of Illinois. Thi' ,i"n me
another opportunity to t ry to correct
certain misleading otatemenU that ha~
been made in connution with t hue projects, to the embarrassment of the U ni_
versity of I!li nois.
u t me say in the first place that all
statements that these foundations are in
any .eme or in any dcgr~ a part of,
or incorporated with, or in , the Univen_
ity o f Illinois, arc wholly and unqualifiedly untruc.
Ent husiasti c publicity
agents have put out statemen ts about
their various foundations " of t he U nivenity of Illinois." Th is phraseo]OfY
was lharply objected to. Then they
changed it to "at the University of IIl i.
nois," wh ich is ~raphiu.JJy corrut in
a sense, but still is misluding. Theile
foundations arc DOt on University
ground; they rft:cive no financial support
of any kind whatever, either in money
Or use o f rooms or oquipmml or materials, or anything else, from Ihe Univenity of Illinois; nOr can they have any
o/fu;ial connution with or receive any
support from the university. Such a
relationship woul d be unc:onstitutional,
unlawful, and contnry to the public
poIiey of Illinois and the United States.
The facts CODCiOming these foundations
and the reasons for them I will t ry
brieAy to recounl.
In the fint place, t he Wesley Founda.
tion, established by the people of the
Methodist church of Illinois, i. alre ady
in uislence. A beautiful stone building,
afte r the model o f one of the old colleges at Oxford, where Charles W ule)'
was once a stooent, was erected and dedicated by tke Method ists mOre than a
),ear ago and luu been in use ever s;no;:e.
This building is in U rbana. The people
01 the Christian or Disciples' denomination ha~ a large church with rooms for
50Cial and club purposes, some of which
they use in giving r eligious iustruction
to thei r adherents, as the Met hodists do
in the W esley Foundation, For a year
or 10 the Catholics have had a house in
Champaign as their CVlter. The P resby_
ter ians. I thi nk, and perhaps one Or two
OI her Mnominations, ha,'e providftl for
such «nters in S(HI.., way, althOUlh nona
but the Methodists as yet have ereded
a building.
The purpo$Cs lor which thelle lounda_
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tiOlU have been established are religious
and lOCia]. Such foundations a re DOl
IIC«sury where the number o f students
to be cared for it 10 small that the lou.!
ehur(.hu an do the work. In many
]arge institut ion. like a State U niversity
there il I considerable number of boys
and girl. in attendance, belonging to this
or that religious denomination. For ex_
ample, there we re bst year at Ihe Uni_
,"ersity of Illinois, 1,810 Methodists, 1,116
Presbyte r ians, 515 DiKiptu, 477 CatholicI, 399 Baptists, 44S Congregational ists,
314 Episcopalians, and 312 Luthe rans.
The ~ young people are away from home
ni ne or ten monthl of the year. They
have left at home father. and mothers
who are lOIici tous about thei r religious
welfare. Shal] the)' be ]eh to shilt for
themsel,"u during the nine or ten months
of the four yearl they are alOOent. ~ A
local church has il. own congregation
and ils pastor hu his hand. full with
that congregation. He an not take on
the a&kd pastoral and churclt duties
lI«usary to care for 80IlIe five hundred
to firt~n hundred adherenu temporarily
in his pari.h. Morcol'Cr, !lIe temporary
conAitutnts need different trutment, 10
to speak, a different kind of handling,
from the memben of the established
congregation. Ohen the regular pallnr
of a church can not do for them what
they nefti in a religious way. Obviously
they need a special consideration and
IOITlC special method o f treatment.
A GA IN,
of the young people of
uch denomination have been accustomed to teeing the chu rch at home the
ral ]ying point of the lOCial activities of
their communities. They naturally t um to
thei r church in Champa ign or U rbana
expecting to cont in ue t he young people'.
club meetings and reading soc ieties and
stud)' cl ub. to which they we re accUltomed in their home churches.
The above are t he two reasons for the
est ablish~nt of these foundations. Shal l
the fathers and mothers be told that thei r
o;:hildren ITe ]eft to shift for themselves
religiously and lOCially ~ Can we bel ieve
that the religious development o f these
)'oung people will take care of itself?
Some ltay take the view that provisiOll
for the. ure of the religious li fe is 001
neeeQary, that they should be le ft to
themselves. With this view. as a cililen
and a father, J, at least, can not agrtt.
In my opinion, the edueation of the
young ;. nOl complde unle.. religiOUl
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5Choob and state universities of this
democ:ntic republic ril:htly ha~ been
forbidd~ to ci"e it because wruuO"tr
evil COI1""qllC'nee may follow from the
omiuion, the uil of giving il would be
much greater. Therefore, such traini""
must be pn:l\'idw in ,ome OIher way. by
OIhe!' q:etlCie" These foundations are
such agencies, pro,·idtd by the fathe",
:and mother, who make up lhe church
congregations o f thcK v"rious deIlOlu;nalions. They arc underur.king through
their ehurcllu 10 supplement t he tues
which Ihey pay to provide I«Ular wocation in the University. with <;onlribulions
to provide, outside of the Univc,.ily, religious wuulion for their child ren.
Thc publicity "gents o f lOme of the
foundations, ,, well ".!Ome other people.
have made much o f the fact that credit
for course, of , tudy pursued in the Wes·
ley Foundati on . nd in the others, has
been trftnsferred to Ihe rccords of t he
University. There i, nothing new, novel.
or improper in th e Uni" ersity'. accept·
;1\1;' for credit :I. subject of substantial
tducalianal value when puuu«l succen·
fully in "nothcr institution. even though
it be " subject which t he University does
not or can not tueh. The Universit},
constantly translen trwit for I tuoienL!l
from OIhrr <;oltcgCl :and unh·euiti"s.
E"ery college and univers ity doeJ the
same. These foundations have state
charters" educat;orW in~ilutions. There
il no more reason for refusin, to gi,~
crwit for work done in thfttl, if the
work il of a propet' cha racter and stand-.rd, whm loc.alw in Champai", or Ur.
ban:!.. Ihan there would be if they were
Ioc:atw lit Galesburg or in St. Louis.
The Methodis" and othe.. have PUI
specially Inined men ",ith doc:tor'. dc.
gr~s, and with Cltpericnce in teachi"",
in charge o f these foundations. Thn~
men, u memlxr. o f the faculty of charterW wU(ation31 inJtitutious, 1!3ve offered
courMS in SOme subjects nOI taught by th~
Uni,·enity. Und~r "'-r iet c;onditions, such
as should aply to any other in.titution,
th e Un',·tU;' y h"" accordw by tran ofe r,
credit for t he work ,hu5 done.
It has ne,'e. stetnc<1 to m~ th.t ,hi.
phast of Ihe movcment wu 01 any greal
importancc. The number of stlXknts who
have .,'ailW themselves of the opportu·
nity to take ,uch courses i. smal l, and
I'robably always will be. The grea.t WOl'k
of Ihe foul>llat ians ",ill be done in the
dusu of ~tude.nt. studying ,ubjects for
which crwit il not and can not ~ given.
Thest arc ,'Olunlary dassts, and even
now outnumbe r many time. those of the
oth er kind. It i. cl~1 of this kind that
the found.:lt1ons mu!ot f05l.er, 10 far as giy.
ing rdigiou. instruction i. c:c>n«med, if
they arc 10 be lar,d" SUttCuful and arc
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ROTARIA N
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to justify the inV<:~tment of eon$id~ rabl~
amQUnts of loon~y.
R.:Iifl:ious edutation of Ih~ kind de'!Cribed is more or I~u ,le,·.:Io(l«l at Ihe
Uni"ersiliu of Minrl'-'JOta, T exas, Kan_
sas, Missouri, and Nonh Dakota, III th~
Kansas Stme Agri.:ul tu.al College, and
at the Iowa Slate All'rieuitural Coll~r.
But at no one of tbrm, I Ihink. hn Ihe
work progressed 10 far as that of lit.:
:\IHhodistJ in Urbana. The san~ errdit
rdations tht arc recOC"l1i~cd ~t Urbanl Champaign are recogni~ed at the University of MisiIOUri, Iov.·" Slate College.
Ihe Unio-enily of North Dakota, the Uni.
,·cuity of Kansas. and elsewhere.
From all this il will be I«n thaI there
is nothing novel in Ihi, n>O"eu~t, noth.
ing to be alarmed at, no eneroachmnt of
church upon 'Iale, and no evuion of
existing Jaw.
En.y denominalion has an ~'Iual r ight
wilh ever)' ocher 10 ereCI bu il dings On
land it owns in C1'ampail.'1' ami Urbana,
even though the Unh·ersity o f Illinois
be in Ih~ neighborhood. These fountla lion s. wheo regularly charte.ed as educational inslitulions, mu st recei"e the
same Irralment th at OIh~r similar organ _
iution' get.
Rotary Club Acthrities
(Collli""r4 fro ... I'M. FI
hearly congratulalions to 1..« Zimmem
"'ho has just eompleted hi s Mth )'~ar
of perfect allend:lnce. Lee became a
member on June 3rd, 1915, and for
Ihe following two years att ended 82
luncheons and missed JJ. This left him
in the ~only flir" fTOUP and Icwrdingly
he made a fresh !UTI on September 27th
1917 and since tben has never miSled a
5Cheduled meeting. The club pruidmt
lumed the meeling oo"ff to l.H for tm
minutu while Lee expressed hi. appreci~tion and staled Ihal Ihe profit he had
derived from Rotary had come largel )·
as a result of hi. Ilead)' attendance.
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CIIA IlLE!! CtTY, I A.- When Ch.,rles
Cily Rotarian. held a f:et-toruher mteling with the people of Ro.::kford recently
one of the featu.u was the usual ball
game with an indoor ball. Ap.opo~ of
Ihis game, the Charles Cit)' club lend s
us a ba seball SIOr}': Accoruing to t he
dope a Ro.::kford batter Jifted a fly high.
over third when all the bale~ " 'ere fun,
and the bal! lodged in an elm tree some
thi rty feet above ground. The Charln
City third baseman promplly did t he
squirrel acl, retcued the b;rJ1, COIrried ;\
down with him and touched all three of
the base runners (who had acamp"'red
home mean",'hile) declaring Ihem 0111
because the)" had lefl their !)uI" before
a fly to the outfield had been cauel1t Or
reached the (round. The umpire $ U'_
tained hil eonlention , and tbe Charles
City elub claim thi, is the only ease on
record where a th ird baseman has made
Like I landmork, hllowed by tim. Ind dilniSed. by I &meNtion
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Januarll, 1913
a t ri ple pl ay unalliltrd, and in addition
got the ball from the top of a tree 1
The Rotary Annn al'" had a b.all
flame which provided plt'fLty of excitement but no ,,,eh unusual plays. The
Charles Cily club finds theoe trip, to
5Ilrroundin~ lowns have a very helpful
influence on the C(lhuuunity.
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B." tl 5WICK, GA. -The wc«uful cul·
mination of the Baek·to-Scllool cam·
paien conducted by lhe Bruns" 'iclri: club
th rough a special committee and with
t he WoOperation of the County Board of
Education W.ll marked by a banq~ at
the dub', headqua rters. There were
more than ISO guests preKflt at the banquet includ ing all the school teachers,
the counly boa rd of education, and others
eneared in educational work, in addition
10 the Rotary Annes. Each Rotarian
personally entertained one or more of
the tcachen and boefore the evening was
over everyone knew eve ryone else by his
or her given name. From questionnaires
sent 10 parents during th e summer an
accurate li st o f pupils who5C return 10
schOOl was doubtful was compiled. The
follow-up perlKlnal campaign resul ted in
getting SS per cent of th~se back to
K hool. In addition to thi , lOIIIe boys
who w~re at work were induced to return
to school. several Rotarians oontributing
to make up the weekly wages of thae
boys which m1,hl (ltherwi5C have been
loot to their dependents. Text books
"·ere furnished P\lpils who could not afford to buy them. A,. result of thi,
u mpaign the mrollment at the high
school h.u passed all record. and do""r
rthl1ionshipl belween school authorities
and parents have b«n established. The
banquet was moR enjoyable, the addruJotJ boeing interspeued wilh 1OD(s.
",Unll, v.. udcvil1e, and music. It is
planned to make it an .. nnual affai r in
conjunction w;lh one o f the Lad;cs'
I\i,hl pro,rllrns.
1'0101 0""', C... LIP'.-An interuting .. ttendance conteSl that Jlartro October 1st
and will last three: month., ;s boeing
wall"ed by lix cl ub. in the citrU5 bell:
San Bernardino, Colton, Redlamb, Riv_
erside, Onta rio, and Pomona. ROInian
Peacock of Ri~eTlid" has donated a . ilvCr cup to go 10 the club with the high_
U I percentage attendance during the
three mon th s, lind oonsiderable friendly
rivalry hal been itirred up.
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H" Ck."S" Ck, N. }.- :"{embers of the
Hackensack dub recenlly took the children of the Ber~n Counly Children·,
Home for an .. utomobile outing 10 the
Bronx Zoo. n..: ",atron gue the chil_
dren thc:ir lunch<'On at an earlier hour
than usual and by one o'clock eyery child
Wal drused aDd ready to realize one of
their cheriJlted ambition_to see Ihe
aninWl at Bronx Zoo. The children til·
joyrd every minUle of the trip, .. utomo
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Januar&/, 1923
nter
I/finfer
I
ROTARIAN
bile ride, ferry trip across the HudlOn,
the ride throuth New York, and most 01
all the sig ht of thousands of bird. and
animal s-and po.n icularly the monkeY$l
Cracktrjatk and candy hel ped to pass
the time on the trip back and after profuse thanks from the children and th eir
matron the Rotarians returned home
wondering whr'lher Ihe kiddie s or them .sclvu had had Ihe most tnjoymomt dur ing the day.
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I n accordance
with a Wiih cxprcned by GO"unor Tom
Da"is o! the old T wentieth District Ihal
eath club in hi,; district would take
charge of a crippled child, Ihe UlatkfOOI
dub found a child whose condition might
be improved by an operation. This boy.
Mil ton Mile$. had 1051 both of his parents
and H\'ed wilh reb.tives. Through some
deformity he had nevcr "'alked like a
normal child bUI had moved around on
his hands atm knecs, and ht had tlC"er
a\\ended sthool. Aft er abu ining Ihe
consent of his guardian, Dr. W. W.
Beck acting fOT Ihe club too\c the boy
to Salt Lake City b~ )lay, had the op·
eration ~dormed by ;on orthopaedic
surgeon, uw that the boy received the
nece~r)' hospital treatment. and later
h;od him transferred to a convalescent
home for ;0 snort time. The boy i. now
li";ng ncar Blackfoot. and a\\ ends achool
regularly. going back and forth in the
rtgul ar school wagon. He gc!U alollg
quite well on hi. k et, but for the present
does better with crutches. He ;lttended
a rt«T1t luncheon of thoe dub ;lnd ;011 the
t"/l·fnty.nine members arc much pleued
at havin, had this opportunity to make
Milton a useful citizen inilead of a hel pIus cripple. The dub will watch his
fulure progress, and mIty perhap' be
able to hel p him in other way •.
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BLACKfOOT,
You and your family . hould
epend this winter out-of-doore
in California.
There are perfect motor roeds
and well·kept golf linb.
E J:c e llen t schoole fo r the
children.
Cozy inns and luxuri0u3 resort
hotele,or, rent a bungalow and
enjoy your own rose garden.
F ou r daily trains via th e
Santa F e.
Two of them carry Pullmans
via G rand Canyon N . tiona!
P ark.
F red Harvey meal. "all the
way."
moil
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For fifteen yean I h.ve hem wri tina:
",hich 100 .. btoo.>aht bod
.0 hiP U 62'70 oaIn (that "'U f... oubocriptiooo
•....w ..1os lotion
........1], and 0<CnI 01 "'Y Iott ... loon mode
lrom 7'J'0 10 10'70 mait:!ol oalto on <>Ow p"Ji",i.
t ...... tho price 0/..,..,. 0/ ",Nth '"" ",.Il 0 • .,.
• 1Iw>dred dolla...
Beaule 1 have an inn ti.ble appetite
I.......... I ..... make ,.,... price 0/ 110 for ...
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8o$rON", )i"ss.-A dcleg;otion of B()5ton Rotarians and Rotary Annes reeently
enjoyed the hospitality o f the New York
dub. On lheir ;lrrival the BoIton ians
were met by a special oo""",lIee and
after breakfast went up to the top of the
Woolworth Tower. After in$~ct;ng
the scenery o f .. few surrounding coun tiu and latcr the tr;ollie .ignala on Fift!!.
A,-.:nue , the dclegate. were taken to the
McAlpin for luncheon. Afterwards the
delegatu hoarded the good shi p "Touri~t"' for a 4O-mile panoramic sail around
New York. On the bo;I.t they were
joined b)' the Bo.ton Rotary Annrl who
h~d been
inspecting the departrMnt
store.. After the party returned to
~hore they wcre taken to the Lambs aub
and ~nj oycd e,·tning dinner in Ihe atmo.phere of New York'. theatrical
world. A trip to the Hippodrome ca rried the theatrical atmosphe re a bit
further and proved a plusant ending to
the day'l aa'vi, ies..
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lel winler inter·
rerewith you r favorite
game. Get It. ernig Golfmet er which ena bles you to
play indoon or out t beyear
r ound re,l:ardle.5s o f th e
weather. The actual d is·
tanceof every sho t , whether
II\ay OO wi th iron or v.. ooden
dUM, accurately record ed
0 11 the dial. The night of
t he bull ILl it revolves
around the upright indicates ,,·helller it h ... been
clea nly hit , "topped" or
"sliced ." Ilequi ....s a space
only 11:1:14- feet.
Entertain your friends these
long winler even ings willI a
round of lIolf on the Golfmete r. Secure the exercise
that " 'ilI keep you well.
Home IJraetice that will
IJu t y ou a t the top of your
lIa me wben the OOUI'!IC open.
in t he I,Jring.
P rice M 7.5O. West of t hc
l\l i!lSissippi River 829.00.
Ship ped expres~ prepaid on
receipt of eheek or e. o. d.
CRAIG GOLFMETEIl
COMPANY, Inc.
304 Van Alst Ave.
Long bland City. N. Y.
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Send 6 of Your Collan
Profits: Material and Spiritual
(COfI /i" " rd
to Troy for . Launderin.
like the Maker. &lye them
TIColla
pro\'e to you that the
riown finish is "lih
uew," we will launder 6 of
your s tarch ed collars FR EE.
And to make mailing casy
we will fumish yon wilh a
1r,1ndy Mailing Box.
Wnle .. .. w roor Ike BOK
Collartown Laundry
4S4 Co. .... .... 1'100. .. of TroT. N. Y.
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c.... ..... If. "dol., A'_
AlIOurrRl NAblWS II 1I..ws. II ..
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O NE
Octobo r night ..-t wtrt rtturnina:
to Tokyo from Hak""t, a notw
plact of hoi .pring., about GO milu aw.y
frQrn Tokyo.• ftcr hum,. .ptnt our .. ttk_
""d Ih.".~. 'V~, {OUf yOl1" 1I" m"" ahOl.I"",",
ridin, in a fiv._I'usen, •• tOll.in. car.
II wu lale hours, bttaule we l1~rted lal~
i" Ih. "'(I"h l. 'n the hop. ,hal we mighl
not be i",erl.,ed wilh by Iraffic on Ih. way.
tl wal ralll.. coLd. )'<1 We had Ih. lop
do"·,,, ., .... ..·isllCd to IPf'Cd I i fut I i ,,'e
",,"Id. W. w..,.., romninl al •• pttd of 30
m'~1 an hour. 5O<Jn aft .. our <lfparturc.
' ''01''''r en a._ following ou. The road.
...er. 511 bad. and .... ,,·Cr. ipttd .... 00 fUI.
, bal I"" ar 1011ow,,,C u, .... d l'OfIllantly
I" .IICOU"' .... ,nueh dun Irom u,. Sovenol
Ii....,. Ihq al1moplnl 10 a lch up. but each
lime in .-ain.
Aho"'l Iwo o'clock in 110. morning " 'e
IlIIlsed Ihrough a "nail village. and bad
I"" Ldl iI, wh"" ..... noticed many viLlaK."
galhcri"ff 01' Ih • • ~d. several wilh Lan _
Icrn. in their hand.. They .i", aled II I 10
nOt>. We did, when a EuroPl'an airl came
up 10 u, and lold u. of a molor accidenl
Ihat .he and IItr companionl had bad. W e
alich led and came to the 10:0:"", " 'here """
) ......ng Europan lay on the road, .lmoal
dud. A village doctor .... a. a"""din, him.
ADOI"'r Eu""fX2n holdinl lhe dyina man
a .."iou. ly ..kflI lhe doctor aboul lho: youn,
man'. (Onditioon. The dodor could not
Ipnk English. nor any of lho: Eu.opa",
could 'PI'ak ].partUe.. W . inlerpreted beI",o:o:n thmo. and a"isled in ta king care of
,ho: injnred man. One of OIlr party IIU.
hi. ovtrooal '0 one lirl, who b.d ,iven
her own up for Ih. dying man; and be .... d
10 ride back hom. wilhout O"er«ra ' Ih.ou~h
Ihe col d nieht.
We ....... wid I .... t the three you"g Euro.
Pl'an .. .... ilh 1.... 0 g;r!., wue relurninl from
".makuta, a It.-bucll, about 3.S m;!\':t
from Tokyo. whe« th~y had .lay.d l in
"~ry late Sunoby niCht. One of Ihc young
mto wal d rh·i,. til. car. The ca r at full
• .,...d ran l.Iainlt a lel~pllic pole and
..-al lma.lhed.. Bo.idd , he )'011"" man.
OIhtr pa.oet\I... too w.n more or I.u ;n_
ju.,",,Wbile .... e .. ~re kep' al lb. scene. 'ho: car
I..... ' had been follo .. inl u. fina lly U lll ht
up w"h u. and apparen,ly
"~aid no
attenlion 10 lhe happening, and palnd on;
pou ibly they wtre glad Ihal 'hey lhould
nOI .n<:(lun'. r any more dU l t. We IIarl.d
ulain for home, lpoedin, u fall as be for •.
aoo came about t.n m;lo. more. "'he" 10
our ."'priot found ,h....... car 1.11"" into
... lman rh· ..... aiking lor ""r hd!> 10 pull
it ""I. The P;O """IICU "'ere more Or I.n
injured. bu' nol ..eriou.ly. TM brid,e o'·.r
river ..-:a. undcr ~ir, and ....If 01 it
.lroady r~d. bul the olher hall ,.il1
left as il ....... A lmoporary bridle .. al
built nur b" bul Ibe .ignal 0 1 dangrr " '11
"OIhin, bu' only""" . malt .I«tric lighl p...
liP on a ""Ie, which was ;,.. ufficitnl. The
driv .. could nol SH Ihe d~nller du.ly, an,1
"''' on Ih~ half d.s' royed bridl •• hence lhe
accident. 11 \OlI. nOI hil fault ; and .... d
.... no, kep' al Ihe scene 01 ,h. linl accid."t, poll ibly w. ,";~hl llav. mel tke lam.
acciden t oursdvc..
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A Letter From Japan
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R_fta Carbon Fr_ All linda of
JtutlUlr,,, 1923
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Answers tht: Call of Sorrow
y Oilou••ask
doe, il pay ' 0 ilUl into .ction
ubli_ .lopn of
Above
~s.rv~
s.,1f?~
"Iy ""I'<"ri""e. an. we ...
,\ I.w y~afl ago, ... hil ...... ing at pal lor
of a chu.ch in a .ma ll community.• call
""me one day from a ".igllbor;n&" vitlag. to
conduct a funeral Icrv;ce Over tile re,nain.
0 1 an aged rretu •• wI..... dyinC de,; re .... ao
'h~t I officiate. He wu nOI • memhe'0 1
my congregalion. a oo r doubt il he wn
""cr a mmobcr of any Church. Indeed, tho
o"ly tontact ........ d had ...... durin&" the
war
when, a.... _m"", of the coun'y
council of def ... sc I .... d Men commis,~
in """ of ""r Itl r-chamber scuion. 10 ....ndle Ihi. eUe of a man unwiUi"lL" '0 coopera'e in an)' o f the wu .iml, .u.ch ..
"""" ibutinll 10 tM cau,,, .. or buyinl bond.
~nd War Savin,. Stamp .. I liltn l a f .....
h<>utl w;Ih h,m, oold bi,n a '1'101& of W. S.
5 .. and n~"~r ~w him ;,ra in.
The lop,-di. tan« call ClIme on. F riday
~flernoon lat.
in November: a ch illy.
dreary rain, af ter hav in, horr; bly moned
up lho: dirt country roadl, .... tryi"l" de,_
PI'",tc1y to change into SIlOw. I .... jusl
(On""1,"",,i,,&" from a .. riou. lieg. 01 ·ftu~
and pncumoo'a. T~ lu .....1 .... to be
MId Salurday aftemoon. 10 trw: chanctl 01
being unahle to oene my church Sunday
morning looked pr. tty cood. On top o f all
Ih" then was an important oocial lunctiorl
,hal e~ni .... which my wife .1 .. dl .,
TDJ'ftlf wa. mOil an"iou, not to min. My
beller hall pleadC(! .. ilh me not 10 go.
alleging hu h h conlid.ralion... All ....
,'acked again,1 the 18-m,l. IriJ>-hOl1Uhold,
hea1!b, common .. nlC and incli"" tion. TI>e
old gentleman had no lea:itimate claim 00
m.; he had nO relati".. nor friendl ""ho
could be offended. There .... a' • mini . te.
;n hil commllnity who could li~ him <10._
cent bnrial, and be.idet, he .... probably
dead for kttPI, and could .......... epro.ch
me in 1'<1"100 r
O ne eo,uidtralion, bowner, biocl<ed all
Ihi. reason and Inlle-lho: pa"or', rode 0 1
elhiQ, .. hid! amtainl an unuJlK!uble rule.
namely. that the call 01 IIOrrow shall . bo",
all eIlC com. firll! T bat peculiar hu ..... n
need thaI "",hrond. ,he .rav. iI the moal
... c.ed 01 all. an,1 the tr ue pallor ilU ' "
above ,ell Ihi. ICrvito: in , ime 0 1 IOrrow,
.,.h"" !OU1. wander in Ihe u lley of Ihe
.hade w.
So, o f couro., I w. nt. A handf"l of
drenched farmer "tia:bbo.. ilootl by tl>e
0""," ,raH; Inc unde n aker held . n um ·
h.dl. Ove. _. and ;n.illM! on pulling m)'
hat on my h ... d. W. IlItek in 'he mud on
l ho: \IIa)' home. 001 I ...i,·ed latc Saturday
.... ning. chilled. and weary. thoulh happy
in lhe Ittli"lL" 'hat I had .son. my du'y and
,hal my OOIlscienu ..... , cltar. Ther. are
Ihil'll tha, money cannOl ooY. and <>rooe i.
Ihe p;oolor', joy in havinl ~n failhful
when no one hUI Him .,.hom he ...... H
kno.,., ,he pric. paid in efforT. The profit<
of Ih.I t.ip " ·.".e inlan,ib1e. bu' none lhe
I.....al and vital and .. orlh while 10 on~
"'ho triu to love h;. f.llowmen and PUI
seni"" 10 'h em abo"e l elf .
BUI lhe se<\uel ? Of coo... no fee "'a.
forthcoming and none ... a. an ticipated flO.
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Januarll. 1923
THE
upedee!. The incident 01 t~ wild, muddy
ride..., .lmost 10fJ<lt!en amona 'he multi_
plicity o f min i. tui.l mirlutiae, when one
d...,. the folio... ,,,, Ipring tM m.il o:ontainee!
• musaae from • l.... yu U t~ county Hat
UJu>g tlut the pa~ .. 01 the (\culltd ~_
and_... ~ ..... de ,I c1~ .. that Ihe miniliU officiatin, .t hi. !unreal shou ld .... ~id $2$.00
and "Plea.., find encloscd dleek for that
amount " That _. the l.ITC"! ftc I have
rec~i,"Cd .... f~ 0 • • ilKf', . nd now, tell ttIt",
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ROTARIAN
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A Shock Absorber with a Purpose
Cumulative Benefits of Service
ONE a ttemptl to deh'e into memo.y for
IFsPft'IIic
inltances to
the po .. er 0 1
IIf""ft
it1"vi«: he il H ry apt to ~r,e with a
p...pandennce of evidenn in t~ nqati...,.
Fe ... intlanees "f direa roturn. from
Scrvi« arc Lorae cno"Sh to be "lOIictable
and lew a.e ... , ily 0 . directly t.act"Il More
C&teI of inlratit"d... ill "" lou ',d imp.tue d
upon onc', memory : 50 if 0". lrpc"d. upon
Ip«iDe item. t~
i . I' ocrally d i,appoinling.
We GIl, therefore, li , t lOme ,,,,..o,,a] u~ric:ncc:. to 1"01"" the value of our Rotary
Motto; but, if we are OOnttl, aud ha"e
..... de careldl , ..urch, We can rocoum a,
many or more 10 prove the ellael oPpolite.
U nHJfi,h 1C,,·ko:. "Service abo~ St.1 1."
... hich. liberally contlrued, il ..,nke wilh_
out upccl.1.lion of immediale rccompm ..,
hal it.l groUel1 value in dlmrin, the tlue
01 01>(". o-..n mind. A .. Ifi,h individual
cannot tum, O,'C' n'Khl. intO I demonlt. ator 0 1 true "Rotary Service"; and, il h.
.... tchu for inunediate rqult" he il 1ikel,.
to go back into his old ..If in d'S,u.l.
The "al"" o f Seniti true ICrvic:e i,
both Ipirilual ".~ maluial. Results arc not
COIlily irKed in delail. The elf«t can only
be noticed, after months 0. )urs, by tak_
ing I~ i .. ,~_~ ("""...,,~ til II., iruJWid_
1141, and 1M .,dt...fC(~ co.diliu I>r" '~I't~­
ily oj lilt hsi.,u a, • wbole.
A member of Rotary dUrinK len ,. .... s or
more, I lIarlee! practicing Rotary princqlles
in my li fe and in my bu.inaI only lOme
five or .'x JUri "KO- I
Jhat I ha ....
COUil tic11 more lrienda loday IlIan I had
then. I
Ihal I 1m makin, far more
money than I .. a, makinK Ihm.. I It""""
thai my b..nine.. ha.t been "o.. ina falle.
and mo~ healthily thn it ever did before.
1 h ..... that I have fewer lroublu Ind
and Ihl l I ,et alon, bcUu with
m,. cnlJ)IoY«1 and wilh every Onl: el ...
Yel, I could not die any IpecirlC inllanctl
of eilhe, IpidlU I or maltrial J)r(lfil wilheut
b.i"ling in a.t ma"y rno' e on Ihe 'e>"er ..
l ide. H ow can We define 0. dele,ibe ~r­
lku la. ca... of anythinK 10 intanKiblt .nd
wlooK value i. in accumulation .
It il not any on. thinK .. e do or Iny one
day'. dloft. It i. what We do today (tI .. ·
u·lto/ uv <I" 10 _ .."'" o~d 0
IlIo,,",u<l tllltU 10 ..tI'~fIIl" . It i, Ihe dr(lp
of ...111":1" a.t comparod ""ith the ~Ieeful
lake, the uocf" l ,",we. r ..." ·o;,, O. the
nli"3", ..... ~teful to ... II1 .
I I we 50 conduct OIJ, I,v", tad, day ..
10 .... ,·t, lomorrow, one more friend and
one mot"e pica""" client 0. eUllomer, we
arc on 1M ...,.,d 10. realinlion o f !be. va.JUt
of tru. ICnin ""hich roll. up lib: 1M tra.ding IRO""ball, ytt ... hich do.. not melt
under the hot ,un of competilion.
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You wiU.pprcciatc the oomfol1 and plcuun: derived from thD...eof "Ant-Sbob"
bealUID th~ do ...... y wilh side Iway, robound .nd lhocb
I n decign the
"Ant·Shok" .. not an . t tempt to jult produee. aboek
but to produce the
belt ohoclr .tax ber m.de.
."""btt",
Attention Dealer.
H,," itt an item which you can sell on ten daya' triaJ., IItaU"e in the Irnowlee,e
that i\l manlliacturr:r itt behind you. Surely lUeh a quality product fa worthy of
)'OW" oons:idtfarion. Our .lq plan fa bonnt, IOUnd and pc:nn&n«ot. Write today
for detaill and territorial i
, o·.l iIIo .
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Dl.tribut...... QUINCY, ILLINOIS
ANew World's Record
Writing .t the r(CQI·d-bre.kinj:
&p(ed. of 144 net won:Il a minute
for one hour, Mr. H oaafdd 1"( r:.ined hit title al World ', Champion Typiat, and the Underwood
typewriter IOOred it. Ieventeenth
OOIlR(:Utivc victory in the Seventeenth WOfld', Champion, hip
Typewriter Conteat, beld at the
N.tional Buaineu Show, Grand
Central Palace, October 23, 1922.
The thauaand dollar trophy and
every med.l in every e'p . . WCr(
won on the Underwood.
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J anuarll, 1923
Rotary Club Activities
A very nice
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pil i the d;'ol~<t IDd attracti ..e
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COI'PIIYVIUE, KANs.-The CoffeY\'ille
dllb has bought 100 ac res of land to be
used I I a Jl(nnanent bo)'s' camp. The
land was s«urcd through voIlintary d0nation from the club member .. The tract
Jiel three miles north of the elly and is
bounded on one side by the Verdegris
Ri\'Cr, which affords splendid bathing
facililies. FI'OOl the ri" er the land riKI
abruptly to an elevation o f 250 f«t.
Oiffl, a deep ravine, and plenty of timber gi"e the t ract great s«nic beauly,
while on the nonh side is a valley with
rtntle slOJlC5 and a fine n::.tu ral amp"
theater for campfire ptherinp. 1bere
are plenty of open spaces for layinr Ollt
playing fidds and the club looks fnrward
to the de\'Clopm<:nt of the camp as a
great, la5li ng service proj«t.
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ME MP HIS, TI NN.--Charter mtmber.
o f the Memphis club. 22 of then: still
active out of the original 53, put over
the best entertainmen t ~rogram the club
has had in month... A pantomimic roll·
call with just ~nough "horse play" to cn ·
Jiven the luncheon, convinced the club
that group meetings bring out some
mighty good talent , and provide an d,
fenive method o f continuing the ac,
quaintance work- always a problem in a
large dub.
In answering the roll call of charter
members uth mcmbo:r bad an original
means of """wing his business or pro.
fession, and the articles and c:o:hibilS
were both interesting and mtertain inr.
Late ar rivai s were escorted to ...hat apprared to he the only vacant seat in tnc
;oo:n. It proved to be a highly-charred
el«tric chair. and the surprise removed
Ihe last t race of dullness from t he meet,
ing. Brid memorial serviccs were con·
ducted for four charte r members who
have died since the club was orpni~ed
in 19 14. Soor.e of the trial 1 and t ribula,
tions of the urly days o f t he club Were
feclingly described by t be second presidcnt.
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BAYONliI!, N. }.-In ru pooJe to &
lununOrtS f rom thei r president who declared thaI it was imperative that they
appear to consider J. matter 0 1 g ...v~
importance, the Bayonne club p thu ed
at thei r headquarters. Just as the pre.'dent '1'1. about to d ivulge the reuon for
the rathe r unusual call. the assembled
Rotarian s hurd the beat of a mumed
drum and the measured t read of march .
ing men. The sound of a funeral di rge
was heard outside, and a hody o f men
approached the building bcarior in t heir
midst an oaken casket. Th<: amued
R<xarians u owded toward the windowl,
and stood in silence as th~ marching mm
approached. UYonder comes the matter
o f , .....e importance to be laid before
dent, and the womJcrmenl of the m~n. '
be" increaKd.
AI 1m: procession advan~nl the ROo
lar ians could recOC 55izc local business
men in the ranks.. Th<: column mn,'",
on, lhrce KOre and ten men, " ith down .
cast eyel, muchi55g in pe:rfen uniilOO to
the subdued drum beat. Then d;~
1PPOIlrners rru:rchn:l sol emnly inlO the
Rotary meet ing.
By this time the Rotarian. had rcrog'
ni.ed Iheir visi tors as pra~tieall y the
enl ire membersllip o f the local Kiwanis
club. They n<xed that fou r members of
lhe Kiwani s ba~ball tnm bore lhe rose
covern:l casket, and t hat the "mourners"
" 'e re othH Kiwanian ' who h.\d pl ayn:l
ba~ban; had tuted the IW«IS 0 1 vic_
lory a yur ago and had l ipped of the
bitterncu of defeat thi s season ipp thei r
enrounters wi lh Rotary.
T he pallbeare r. placed their burden
lenderly on a bi~r, then ore of them
lifted the cover and revealed to the wondering Rotar ians the baseball trophy, a
. ilver cup. donated by A. A. Smith a
year a,o, won by Kiwan is and now r~·
turned to Rotary.
the
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put
over a
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stun t wh ich surprised
e.. ery member
the Rotary d llb.
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SALT LAKE CITY. UTA lI.-The m~m­
hers o f the Sal l Lake club have banded
themselves together in the "Old Seoul!
Onb" to raise financu for the work of
the Salt l.ake Diilrict Boy Scout Council, wh ich is one of Ihe largest councils
in America with a mcmbeuhip of 2.214
KotItL The ~Ol d Scou!s aub" is orcan'
'led to nise $10,000 and the nucleu, of
Ihe mcmbcuhip consists of Salt Lake
Rotar ia ns who have pledged $5,000 in
$5 memberships. US! year the local
d ub raised $J """, Each of th~ 196
members of t he local club "lIdopted" a
member of lh e Boy Scouts and will
maintain the executive c:o:pcnse of this
boy for one )'Cl r.
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STOCK1'(;N , CAL]'.-The Stockton club
were deeply impressed by the report of
th ei r lItP'Yice committee whose function
it il to promote crippled children's W()Tk
055 behalf of the club. Among those
whom the R<xarianl hav~ assi5led is a
beautiful lfi-year-old girl, who was born
with I deformity of both fttl which
forced her to walk on her anldn. As
thi l un fortunate girl ,rew into young
womanhood she became very IItnsilive
abottt her afRiction and "aded society
and school. Outside 01 her immediate
family her only friends were her dumb
pe:tl on the farm. With IOIl1C misgi ..ing. ncr parents lin.ally «lDseDlcd 10 lin
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allmlpl! to alleviate the wndilion ha.d
only resulted in failure and furlher su ffering. Wilh a Robry doctor giving his
K..-ices and the c:omm illee guarant« ing
the hOl pital expen!IC', t he operation wu
periomlffl On Augmt 5th , The succes.s
of the . urgffin's s1<ill was evidenCffl by
the pal ient he rself, who walked into a
ROlary me~ting two month s later. leaning on the arm of one of the commi ttee.
AI lOOn as lhe tendernul con"'!uent
upon the operat iOll perm its, the girl will
begin Iraining for a guduale nurse.
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F"'L!. Rn'D, MII!I5.-Tht K<:Ond anni_
versary ~eting of tht Fall RiveT club
broughl congralulations from manyOlher
clubl. and the annivtrsa ry mceling was
attended by 2\1 perlOns induding reprt !ltntativu of !ltVen neighbori ng clubs
and many club officials. A special trIte rlainmml pr"l:'r;m, wu pro.. ided and all
the UWlts and talks wenl over in fine
Uyle.
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MONT. _ T1'e
"Andy
which has ~en usw by a
LIVING!iTON,
Gump" stunt
numbe r of dubs--adoplw from the famous canoon characler of Sydney Smilh
- I,appened to work out especially well
at Livi ngston as One of the Congnsliona! candidalu wu prtlent al the
lunchton .... hen Andy .... as nominated for
office. A week bter this tdea:ram was
receh'w and .... hen rud to th e club addw
10 the amusemenl of the preceding wtek :
"Your telegram of congratulation rtcei,·w. Accept thank s of myself. Min.
and CheslU, lor the intern t your club
hu taken in my up-hill light for Con.
greu upon a one-hundred-per-cent No
Man', Colla r platfonn. You are probably not a,,'are that I am a Rotarian and
will during my stay in Wash ington t ry
.nd fully uempli fy itl mOito 'Scrvice
abo"e Self.'-Andrew Gump."
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VT.- A reeent combination
me~ting 01 the G aremont, N. H., and
Rutbnd. VI. , clubs was hdd on neutral
ground at Ludlow, Vt .. about midway
between the two Cili ci. It was a TOIISina: IIIl'ding and there was a good de~
of friendly ri .. alry for lim honors in
~$Iunll." The judges were unable to decide which club was entitled to the
decision, so it was called a draw. This
parti~ular ev,,-nt ha s arouK(1 con siderable
inuresl in ROlary among Ludlow citizens, and the Rutland club .1110 hope to
let two y~ars of persistenl cHon rewarded by Iht formation of a club at
Burlington, nea rby.
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ROANOK~,
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V ....- In IIOme w.y or othcr
II Roanoke Rotarian lea row tha! the pa_
tienll at the Virginia State Sani tarium
for Tu~rculos i$ we«: trying to raise
funds .... ith which to install radio ap.
paratu.. He agrew to raiK Ihe fund s
and to install two eomplete oullilS, One
for the bed-ridden palients in the inIirmaT)', and onc for the more fortunate
ROTAR I AN
one5 in Ihe amu~mem hall. After considering ways and means he approachC'd
thc directors of the club and .sked thtm
to assist him in arranging a subscription
dance. They patiently li stened to his
but refused to assist with the
'~~'Y unanil110usly approthey handed to the
11
in structing him 10
purchase and install Ikt radio out61s and
to report to the club at the next meeting
that they werc installed and in operation.
The apparatU5 was purchased at faelOry CIKI., the installatiOll was made free
of charge by Gaytor's electr icians, and
$35 of the original amount was returned
to Ihe club treuury. Never wu $490
spe nt in a ~tter cause, and the joy of
these 300 patients--20 miles in the mountain, of IOUthwut Virginia_Hllening to
music from Kansas City, Ip«chU from
Chieago, church service. fl'Oln Piltlbu rgh and so on, can ne"er be: musured
in terma of dollars and etntL
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E~G I",
h.L.-After winning the State
ch.1mpionlhip in 1921 t he Elgi n high school authorities arr"nged two interItetional football gamu "'ith the Ansonia (Conn.) high school, an eastern
championlhip team, one to ~ played in
Ansonia in 192 1 and .he other in Elgin,
in 1922. AnllOnia ....on in 1921, 13-0.
T his fall the eastern IIthooi continued
" 'inning all games by large KOrel. Elgin
on the other hand 1051 all itl tlIperiencw
players and throughout Ih e 1922 sUlIOn
won but OIIe ga~.
T he ;nle'!lCctionai game at Elgin wa s
schwuled for November l 8I:h. and two
" 'ecks before that date the football fans
:md citizens generally were bemoaning
the £:act that the interstctional was
scheduled, for they could !lte nothin&, but
a humil iating defeat and a hea.vy expense
to the Elgin school.
Recognizing thei r opportunity for
service, the Elgin Rotary club invited th e
high school p1ayeri, c~ch, and faculty,
to its weekly luncheon on Novembe:r &h.
The prineiplu of Rotary were Cl<plained
nO{ only to new club ~m~ rs but in
football "yle 10 the team. Unu]6.h
""..-ite, loyalty, and ~perat ion were
wII>fl'Ired with the team work.., vital on
the football 6e!d.
As 1\ result of this meeting a new
spi rit was in alilled inlo the hoy, and into
the Elgin fol ks gencrilly. Other or.
ganiut ion. were asJ,: w to htlp and a
fousing reception was arranged for l he
Ansonia leam, more than 3,000 people
...... iting up till midnight to glUt t hem.
Variou' committees assumed "-harre and
for a few day, Elgin Wttlt football eruy.
Of the 5,000 who attended the game
probably 4,900 expected to !lte the Elgin
tcam dcfuled by a substantial sco re, but
t he big attendance at the game was
largely due to Ihe pcp m«tingl "aTled
hy the Rotary club and conli nued by
various committ eeL
CCDftl;II""d D. tGg' vJ
ARy ..... did .... rood ;..d&m.."
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wh.n oht
tlw.t Kit.
Strop f.. a.n.u-. But p i I
.~....d. It ani,. tUe. . . ..... to
puU tIw. aid bI.de bock &JOd la<th .. tho
thio::k "t.tbet .Jq.~ leather. -'- ......
.tin. wIlol . ·l'huOOt it rnokco.
I ....... .1....1 ........ "'" .....e--1n
Joel I ~. it. M, K.-StrOpped W.de
.... _ ' . . . . . 00 .. villy u.,i!·••• U,
- ' ...... to the f....
M"y forp; . nd kI. th. price rna<\l
on.nd I w........ ...",.ioed to lind tJ.ot
il ' 001 only $1.10. but J don'l hold l hol
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or<I<th "'R, t .....
tlw.1 -..ell to __ r .... lIotft ....... tho
_..w bI&do ...... 1-ItOOt . ... ~ ... it '"
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1'.. 1011'" ali"" /,iwds tbtid botw
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Moot rood
dnIti .Dd hordwan: atora ocll ........ but
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jf)"OW. docon'l, MRC! ,...... <huk ditt<1
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J a nuarl/, 1923
ROTARIAN
Attendance Contest R ecords Broken
T i. again necessary to omit tM
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I deu ils of the Attntdan.:e Contut
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01 ....tin ..
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It i. 'mposli1M to gr! the tabular matter K I and
proof -Tca,1 in the short period before tht
\im~ the ""'!rui n" go<el 10 pre ...
from
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0011 o f 10 d,ulailtl u.e thu e
l ill box" b«aule Ihey Ian
l ime and eHminato t rouble I Pu-
h.,. you could ult them in YOUR
hD.intis. We'll be Illd to l ell )'001
more about them.
MYERS MFG. CO .. e .md...., N . J .
JoI>n II. Booth. J>, •• ~'
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Bucbaat. WelJ:..,..
tie 1\ Cott«l c-I"
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Cubl TnJes
Ford Rubber
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Innenolina for
Shoe Manuf..eturea
The Landen Bro•• Co.
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Thi. ;1 boinl writtw F riday llOOn, 0..
~mbo: r 15,h 1
The Aumdance Coote,'
tabulations for NOftmbor han hut been
finished-thinks 10 the splendid ~ .....
lion of the IOft.no ...
The NOHillbtT repor t is the moll ;nteretlin, that has ~n made in ononth_
probably in Klint. way. the most ..,markable thu hi. ever b«n relurned. Four
neW Internat;onal r«ord. 01 aUendan«
h.ve been u tobli.hed. They a",:
A neW aVera,e for [ntern.lional Rotary. The average lor November, tll22, i.
84.~1~nd thi, ",dud ... a reduced averaile 10 . . ve ....1 dubt and dill ric" octa.>O<Ied by m...:ed dub av~. fOt" meetin ... ,ulptnded not in accordan~ wilh t ....
Itpl holiday, dnlh or other unlll ....1 rondil;o" .. hich would have made Iht hOldinM
of such a meeting inappropriate. The preyious hi,h reco rd for Internu;onll Rotary
..... mad. in March, 1922, when the _Vtrale
"'1. &I .U per eenl.
Among the big club. holdinl IOO-per..:tn l
rnfCti ..... during November. wa. on.• ~udI
mHti .... by the Rota ., Club of WmRlptg
with a nwmbenhip 0 HII IMI the day of
tbe mHtin/(. The prn;oll' rKOrd for luch
a meeting by a club with I brge "'«nbtrship i. divided bct,.,HfI 1ftmphi' which beld
I
IOO-ptf-ttll1 !Meling in October. and
Oakland, one in November. 11M: },fernphi, club had one more .clive mm1ber on
iU rOlltr lhe day it htld its meeting IlIIn
had Oakland; however. the Oakl lnd d llb
hd .vcry aet;ve ....,mbe r o f the dub in
Intndanee ·... t home" .nd h.d in .ttend·
I...:e .Iso .n hononory m ..... ber. One 01
the J.lemnbil mcmbe,. made a .pecial Ir;p
Ir:lm II.ly to Barnlon.a, Spain. and obI.ined endit by meetinll .. i,h Ihe Bar~lona
club.
There ..ere four dillricll ..hich IIId the
honor of .n .ttendantt perct1ltagt above
IMl pcr cent
Di,trict NO. 4, Anhur E. J ohn"on, 'ov_
erno., headed , he li$t 01 d"lrict pcr«nlagu with UM'j{.. T he 12th District, AI·
bert Fau1<;oner, govemor, ume I«Ond with
UK"'. Third from Ihe top of the lill
comU Ihe 5«ond DUIric1, John R. Wil ·
Iiams, loytroor, .. ith IIt.t7~, and I ....
Sc:ycnlh Diotrict. led by '.mn H . W.hon .
governor, slipped into lhe IIO-....-a:n t d.st
b1 a lIIinbrudth, w ith !IO..9O'1t.
Rotar ian. . .Ito are inle""ted ill lilt AI'
tendance Contell will be alto inlerc. led to
Irnow the rules, .upple....,nl.r, slate....,nll.
a nd inle rpretation under .. h,( h the com ·
pi!ation of figu ... lor Iht conl ..1 i. made.
2. Any .",ive ....,mber o f Ihe dllb. IIot
I"e.. nl, wlto al lend, a .evula r metli", of
anolhe. club htld within Ihe n me w,..,1r
(L t., from meelinl day o.J h i, d ub to tht
d<l)' belore ill lIeXI .Iated ,""elim]: <lay, 110 1
10 exc,..,d '"t" dayt----<:onvention action
plus inttrprelalion by IlIIernational Board)
may he ,iven full credil for .ttendantt in
his dub.. Such .ttendance II alKMhtr mftling ."""Id be reported by , he I«rcllry of
the hoot dub.. If Ihi, i. o .. erloobd or im.
pr.ctical, Ihe yi.ilin, member may make hi.
o"'n report by Idelram or in ...;tin,.
(HOI ..... S.... o,,<ad ..... at I~' _II .. ~ f ••.
d~b. i f om o,jdil;"
10 zII .... _ , .... own
<hob of Ih .."... .... k, ohoJ! nol to. I.",,,,,, ... In
ond .... J!
boz .....
10 olI........
d in Ih . . .. ..;.~ ... _
-.Ii,• • ' on, .u_<tI, dub .o.k.)
.,h..
Ih. ."••d..... ,.. _
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001
,,'.d
Any .clive member of a club who i.
l"rving a. I Gencr.1 Offic<:r, or a. Dislrict
Governor. Or al Inlt ..... tional RollI")' Com·
mitteem.n, or Specia l Rtpreocnllt ive of the
Districl GoYernor. Or io Ihe employ or Rolary Inlernat ional, abtcnt lrom hi. dub
n>«ting on Rocar,. bu,iness, may be ..ediled
wilh allend,nce II any meeting' of hil dub
mi .. ~d while On such bUiinOSI. Such abItnce. ihoul d he reported in writi .... 10 the
club secrtta.y.
4. Rotorian, abltnt whil~ en rOUle 10. ill
altendanct aI, Or relurning from I n International Con~en t ion, a Di.trict ConltftDl:t
or a regularly announced inttr..:ity mttIin"
may be c",diled wilh .tt.... danee. Such abSftII:t, ,hoold be reponed in writi .... b1 lbe
chairman of the deltption 10 the
~. Only Ihose dubt ,hall be counted ill
the attendance CO<\lut which have Iheir repon, in lbe hand. of the Di.l r icl Governor
by midnilht o f the ~Ib of Ihe ,uc.:ccd'lIIl
month On which the Sc:crttary is reportinl. The Di,l ricl G<m:mor'. conden,...! re_
pon mllst he in the office of tht Inlernational H ndquarters by midnight o f Ihe
151h of Ihe month 10 be counted.
•. Dllrinl Ihe prOll"" o f Ihe contest a
,mall numen! indicating the number of
timc:. a dub ha. been in the Ten H i,h 0'
Five 1..0.. dast o f ilt particular divialo"
will be pr~r.x~ to Ihe club namr in the
allendan« report. A dub forced ou t " f Ihe
Ten H igh Or Five Lo.. du. one n' onth,
if il rom .. back in Ihe . u««ding or • IUbsequent monlh, will be crtd;,;ed wilh the
pr"iou! lJ!I>Caran« by pr~lixin. a num~r.l
one poinl higher than ,hal whICh 1311 . ppeared.
7. During the prOl(rtIl o f the w nltlt
small numerall indicaling the oumber 0 1
tim", a dist r ict hat ""'n in the T .... H;,;h
..ill be prefixed 10 lbe dllln.1 numbrr. Tl,o
d;lIricl ... ill be rated each month according
10 lheir pcrc<:nlage of att~ndance fi",,"8. Newly orpniud ciullo elecled to
membership in Rota.y Inltrnational, .fter
the first day of a given monlh, .. ill nol be
inc:ludtd in Ihe allendance conlcst until the
m.... th immediately following that in which
RU LES FOR THE CLUBS
their tle<:t;on took place
Adopttd by the ~9U Rot(lry
Interpr~tation. and Other Dellila
COIlt'.","",
In addillon 10 the foreloinl oIIie;'1
I. AU aclm: memberl in ~ood lIanding
Rule" Iho:re are a nllmber o f ;"Itrprctain the club on lhe day of the: m~lini" mllJl
t;Oo. and alreemenlJ, ... hk-h may be toonbe eoun ttd I. pn:stn l or abltn l .• nd a tpared to lhe "Ground R ules," fOf which
t""dance mull be "idenc,"" by 'ht mtmprovi,ion ;, mad~ in oIIieial n,lt. lor most
ber', hein« PlV('flt lor 31 lUll GO per ~enl aU .thletie I.me.. Th~re al,,·ay. lo re .peof the lime d"otod 10 Ihe n,~"(:ting .ttended
cia l condilion. in . l1eh games which " " nut
tilher al the member', dub or ot Ihe . egbe fo.uecn by the rul.s committee' nd I.,..
u!l r mcrtina: of lJOI11e olh.. clllb. IS ht . e_
.. hicll regulations are pcnnilled by mutual
inaft.r provided.
19fftmenl-thi. in the illlertSt »1 • birtr
conte,L It ia in conformily with Ihi, ""i rit
o f fa ir pby that th.! followiD, are iqoofpOnted I. a pan of the p~u~
(.) A Rot ..ia" On not ~nlicipatt his
l.
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THE
Rotary Club Activities
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pari of th is story is found in
the '''iull. !"ot only that Elgin won by
a wdl-o:arnw score of 10-6 after a game
of ~lcgc caliber, but in the IU~1I
taught. Th" " ictory wu soIdy duo: 10
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leam ,,'ork on the pan of the playtT5,
and such I,,;un work waJ due 10 Ihe
1'><:arly co-oper:uion of the Hlti • ., city.
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U'CUTn. ESCLANIl.-Canoo Elliol1,
I'Tui<knt of the Lei«~lcr dub. bali ~"
askft! to hold a special Rotary ~nitt at
hi~
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church ~Iore th. ~nd 0 1 hi, y~ar a~
presi<knt, and the ~n'ice hu ~~n arranged accordingly for Dece~r 10th.
;\, good r~pr~~tation of ~ic~liter Rot:uian, and Rotary Annes is all(! u""cted for another meeting in Oe«mber,
when th~ dub will presen t a gift to
Leicester Uni"ersity College.
of
Rotary·Lunc.hlOlM, TUM.,.,
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O u QUOt~, Iu ...-The Ou Quoin club
is taking an active interest in boYIi' work
and recently paid the expenlCs 01
eigh teen boys wh o wished to attend the
Oldu Boys' Conferen", of the Y. M. C.
A. at Centralia. Three Du Quoin Rotarians accompanied the boy. on the
t rip. The Ou Quoin d ub allO sent a
strong representation to the charter
night meeting of the Benton dub, the
chane. being pr~~nted through the Du
Quoin club.
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EUllaA. N. Y.-The Elmira club recently enterl<l,ned some fifty newly ,~
citizens at a dinner. while the Zonta
dub entertaillft! the wi.'C, 01 the new
ClUzcns. Special programs with appropriate histor ical and civic addresses were
arranged by both dubs. At the conclu •
lion of the ~parat e club program, the
new c,tlzens and their wive. w~r~
escorted to the auditorium " 'here citizen.
.hi p cenificate. and American Ha&,s were
presented.
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ROTARIAN
:\IAITOOl<, lu..-The annual boyl' picnic 01 the Mattoon dub pro"ed 3 great
success, and some fifteen humlred boy.
and fifty Rotarians comb ined their energies lor mutual enjoyment.
The clinic for crippled childrcn is open
e,'cry month and is doing good work.
"Camp Rotary," whi ch was conducted
lor four weeks during the summer, wu
greatly enjoyed by the Z50 Boy SCottts
who lpent .orne time there. A feature 01
the camp program was th e "eamp fire
hottr,~ when so"'" of the Rotarians met
" 'ith the scout. for informal diKuuion
of yuious moral, educational, and ,'ocationa! :octiyit ies.
The club is also working urntitly on
iU Rotary education progr;un.
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WWT01<, OKLA.-The Lawton club re ccntly cnlen'lined the Walters, Altuli.
Dunc;m and Marlow cl ubs during a diseussion of the business method. program
outli ned by Rotar), International. Each
club ...~. aJligned a p;!rl of Ihe progr~m
~"d interell in toties o f ethics ..·as greatly
<timula tcd by this meetin&,. Rtpre""n·
lativcs of the La .."ton and Oklahoma City
dubs ~,'e out-Sl:mding ~rnsel and auother feature was the lIunt put on by
lhe Wal ler. club. The)' were anigncd
the problem of KT\'ice in busine", and
dC','tl.opc<l the idea b), ,howi ng stores, one
where the eustomc ... were neg[e<:ted in
favor of ehedrcr lames, and the othe r
",here the Rotary code of ~thies had
brottght the spi rit 01 Kn"ice.
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BAKlu,uLD, CA L. -The Bakersfield
dub have been testing out the "group
plan," both for attendance and for the
various club actiyitie!. The plan h'ls
worked well in both instante. , the attend·
ance averages having increased and the
club', acti .. ities ha .. e ~en handled wit h
len duplication. There are six grouP!
which work as follows: (I) Cooperation with the stat~ in IICcuriug the plant·
ing 0 1 tree. along highways; (2) visiting
public s.chooh alld promoting intere5t in
..:hooI work; (J ) cooperation with the
city in various sanitary measures; ( 4)
im pro\'ing the apprOlLch to the cetndery
and environs; (5) establishing an
athletic field; and (6) supervision 01 public playground... The club will also
finance the Boy Scout work for the y~ar
and will .rranle for Rotary ligns along
all roads. Seventeen of forty·nine grade·
1C1I001 gradu:llel thi s yur were induced
to continue their education and the ma_
jority of the others had either left town
or ~ lIOme other ~ reason for not
continuing IIChooi.
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Pu::sarrr, AlIl.--OH r $1,000 wu the
profit from the Rotary club min strel ahow
gi"en for the benefit of the children's
playground. The home talent put on a
fin~ show and the ·Hotarian. were ably as. isted by H'e Hotary Ann" who sold
(;u1<ly b<::t"'ecn the acts. T hC' program
included a chalk talk, musical numbers,
nl:tgic, a ~et ch entitled "Dorothy's
Dream," in which Dc ..... thy·. toys came to
life and entertained :h~;~ mistress and
were entertain ed by her, ~s ",I: as the
usual minstr~1 songs and dan .. , T llf
house was "lIOlol out" ~fore the t ;: " n
arose !
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W t NClllt5TU, ISIl.-A t itll recent annual brmen' m«ting, the \vinch~ ster
club entertained many local o/Iieial$ and
had a, g~st of honor the Hon. Warren
T . McCray, Governor of Indiana, who
diKuned bUl ine" and alrricultural pro..
pecta. The club devotn a port ion of ils
bu,in~51 se5lionl to a Ilud)' of the constitution of the United Stales. Twelve
talks are to ~ made on this subject, as
followl: Introduction to constitution,
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executi,'c dep.lrtment, judicial depart·
ment, inter-rdatiOIl of Slate ar>d federal
go'"nnlllent, method of anli:ndment, su·
prelllacy of Federal government, ratification, first IlVeh'e amendments, last 5e,'cn
allltndmcnts, and revie\\'. It promises to
be on~ of Ihe most inlucstinlt and in_
struc ti"e features yet adoplffi by Ihe dub.
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THE ROTARIAN
January, 1923
A lI'TR"LIo'.- The
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bourne club is I~king an acti."c interest
in the playground movement and is coo!",rating with the Playground Association to decide as to the best w~y in which
Rotary Can t ~kc a larger share in this
work than it has done up to the present.
Thc :\1c1bourne association has already
bu ilt three playgrounds and suppliffi a
caretaker fo r each, hut it is thnught that
these recreation ceme .. will become more
dIec!ive if pro!",rl y t ra ined play leaders
can be placffi ill charge.
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SAlol DIEGO, CM .. -Those San Diego
Rotarians who did not mind a lillie incle melll weather recently accepled the in·
vitati on of a Ila"al chaplain and boardffi
the "U. S. S. !lleh'ille" to learn more
about life in the n~'·}'. The program
started off with six boxillg bouts ktw~n
memkrs of the :lleh·ilk·s crew an,1 men
from other ships. T hen came musical
numbers and stunts hy a'luanet from the
1\3"al Air St.1tion, classical and aesthetic
dalltes by pupil. of 3 local school. and
more music. A ft er enjoying a fine lunch
th e Rotarians returned to shore, well
pleased with their e"~r i ence.
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CU.-Charter No. 1264 was
presenled to the Ontario dub by Distr ict
G","emor John R. Williams 011 NOI'ember
15th. The ch:trter mtclinf:( was auendetl
by ridegatiotls from the Pomona, River·
side, Redland s, San Bernardino, and Col ton clubs and their Rotary Anns. Upland,
which h:ts a Rotary dub in proce ss of for_
mation, also sen t repr~ set!lati ,· e$. Among
the n,any surprises and spec ial futures
which added to the g:tiety and interest of
the occasion were the bou'luets of blue
corn flowers and gold ·button pompom
chryoanthcmurns anached to the place
card. "lid th e card s themselves which
bor~ indidd,,~1 cartoons of each Rotarian. Addresses. slUms. musical num·
oc rs, :til added to the enjoyment o. the
gathering. The OnlariO club has already
undertakell two forms of Rot ary .e n· ice,
the ' ''!,port of the local Red Cross work.
alld the arrangement of a Rotary sub_
dil'ision for the ,\mericaniution of
Mexicans. Thi. laller activity helps the
newcomers in the community to secure
their own homes on an easy_payment
plan, and fiit.,.,n of the Ihirty 10\5 h:tve
already been sold, several mOOern. though
modest, :,ome. having octn erected.
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, ALTOO)<A, PA.-The Altoona duh re:
cently entertained the Board of Educa.
tion and the principal of the city and
county schools. Se"era! interesting and
timdy addre •• co were dc1ivcrffi on thi s
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oceasion, and much good fdlowship was
mjoycl
At anotllH meeting tI,e club entertained membe rs of the Catherine T o",.,, ship and Brush Mountain Poult ry, Pig
and Calf dubs. There are severa! dubs
ill thi . group which ha'"e made an allnual
profit of $1.000 Or more from the stock
Ihey care ior, The entcrtai nmCIlI of
the§<: boys and girls ;s an annual el'cnt
which is greatly <:Iljoyed by both !~o­
tarian" and guests.
The Rota rians,
Ki wanian., L ion. and Quot arians held a
joint banqut t and dance on Halloween,
the various dubs all showing Ilreir appre_
ciation of tbis opportulli ty for increasing acqua intance.
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CII ~I STlA)<IA,
NORW AY.-A report of
the activities of the first N"orwegian dub
con t.lins the following suggestion; "The
Christiania club is doing its utmost to
build up Rota ry on a solid basis. How_
cver, Christiania lies a little off the beaten
path, alld t he work of securing a good
hold for Rotary in Norway will be somewhat difficult ullies. Rotary clubs all oyer
thc world assi st. We wish to fed that
we are part of it t remendous orga ni .ation.
We want to have an enthusiastic mCm~rship. Other dubs can help u. by hav·
ing their memkrs, some of whom may
be of Norwcgian origin. write for a li.t
of our members and thm kee p in touch
with us."
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WICIIITA, K"SSAs.-Five medals for
all .around scholarship!; ha\"~ ~tn offered
to pupi15 of Wichita ""hools by the
Wichita Rotary dub, in acoord,.nce with
a plan to cncouTagc higher educalioMl
BEAUTIFUL b ig bell
made by the Gorham
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Company specially
for use
at a R otary M eeting, where
its agreeable: but insistent
voice risa dear ly above the
usual eheerfu 1din. $36 comp lete with stri ker.
work as well as citiunship, The awards
will be made not only on the basis of the
student's ability to "dig" but also on his
whole attitude toward the school. his
ser,-icc to school and co"'munity. his
respect for b ,,', and his initiative in good
citizensh ip. T he competi tion is open to
all grades and the decisions will be made
during l it" last week of Ihe school yUT
on recommendation of the pri ncipals and
Icache rs concerned.
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CtSCIN!iCATi, Omo.- Following its an-
nual custom, the Cincinnati dub gave a
Thanksgiving dinner for a number of
blind persons. The", wa, a large turn oul of dub membe r s 10 act as guides and
ho!ts on this occasion.
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N.'fOIU, MIss.- The work of the
Natchez Boy Scouts made commendable
progress, and the boys k came profic ient
in woodcra ft, despite the lack o f a camp.
When the Natche: Rotary dub !earned
of the Scouts' needs a committee was
appOinte(! to procure a suitable camp" sireand to erect therron a log cabin;\ where
the ~OUI$ could find protection frorn indemcnfwcather. The use o f II teri"-ac re
tra.:t of woodland was g ranted by local.
eiti ...", ...nd the cabin was ertcled by the
Rotarians. Offiication exercis<:s were
hd d recentl y and the scouts and the Ro-
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tarian5 both fttl haPllier ~ause of the
feUow$hip and Dew ;nten:su which this
gift has made pos.ible.
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V ....-Some hUIldrw or 50
of the Lynchburg Rota rians reunrJy Id!
.... iyu ano.: cares at home ,,-hile they fared
£o" h to entertain an equal number of
college girts from all sections of the
country. ~ co-eds were attending the
gathering of the WQIIIen's Intercollegiate
AQOC;atiOl\ for Stunt Gonm""'nt at
Randol ph- Macon College. Negro ..an,s
and 5tories, orcheSiral and 'l()l:a1 $el«tion$. and a brid talk by the mayor were
intn",",r~ with fun and frolic, 10 that
th" "yening p;issed all too ... pidly--<!spccimlly for the Rotarian$. The usembly
hall of Ih" Vi rginian Hotd was Irans_
formrd into a good imitation of a sorority
house by a liberal application of college
]lennants and urninl deeorations.
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SI1l;LaYVTUE. ILL.- After losing in an
attendance conteSl, Dr. J. L Hoover and
hil co-worker! ]l3.id Iheir <kbt to Dr. J.
C. Westen'ell and hi s team with a turkey
di nner for all Rotari .... s and their ladiu
and a number of I:'U"sts. 'Ille respective
leade.. ga~ interesting det ail s nf Ihei r
eft'o"! in the contest. Voo;:al and instrumental numben were renderrd by IOlne
of the ladi e$. and Dr. Frymier, surgeon
of a missionary unit in Africa, descr;brd
his work. T he Shdbyville club ~I ... gne
a turkey dinner and enterta inmenl for
ninely boys artd girls.
Hln:<)R>', N. C. -Th e annual minstrel
.how o flh e Hkkory dub provrd a romplete 5I1CCCSS, the house king practically
iOld QUt before the opening hour. Before th" show the dub held a par~de,
wh ich was led by t be mack Hor!lt
Cavalry troop and the Lenoir College
band. All the grade-school children were
a1lowrd to join in th" parde and Ihei r
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FAI.L R".u, ~1Ass.-Unde r a plan fostered by th" Rotary dub the nutritional
problems of Fall Ri\"Cr' s school chil dren
will be taken up early in January. The
proposal indulles a sun'ey and the u tahl;shn"",t of an institution by Dr. W.
R. P. E"",rson, of BoSion. Support wat
pledgrd by various clerical and lay !ed en of the community at the org:tniution
meeting held reantly. In making hi $ re_
1>Or\. on the situation the chairman of lhe
Rota ry dub rommitte" pointrd 0111 that
the dub "'as to ]l3.y all ""pense entailrd
in the ~liminary sun'~ D)' Dr. ElII('rI0Il and also to contribute hd.wnn $4,000
and $5.000 towards tbe establish"",nl of
Ih" inSlilulion.
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presence se n 'w 10 remind Ihe public of
Ihe poor children " '1", will be: ;).idw by
the proc«dl of thi s show. Both the 1OI0s
and the chorus numbc:rs wue handlw in
fi ne style by the local lalent ~nd jol<e.
flew f~sl belwun whilu.
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you wish to th e isles of your d reams :
H "w,\u . Ample accommodations
on s ple ndid linen now ma kc it p0ssible for you to sail d irect fro m any
one of the fou r P acific Coast seaporU nuned below, to a I:&nd when:
t he gr-eat out-of-doon is youn 365
d"ys in t he year.
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west from the P acific Coast of t he
Un ited States. Thevoyage,of about
six days over calm, sunny seas, is
one of unusu al enjovment.
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bn.-The I ndiana pol i~
club h.., rcundy nailed iUdf o f some
opportunitiu to render OII' m nding Krv.
W:.:. SoIlH: WHks ago H(n« OmloC, a
wtll·known Indianapolis Rotarian, was
held up and morta!!y wounded by 1"'0
bandit$. Despite his ~thletic (OIIitilUlioo
hr finally succumbed, but not before I
dozen f~Uo"·· R OInrian l. in I'<:lponlll: to
the president's cal l. had offered to mbmit 10 a t randn$ion of blood in a deipe r.
ate atlnnpt to sa,'e OrotIC', li fe . TIle
trandu. ion was not sul'!icio:nt to a,'ert
death. ~ ROl ary club attcnded Omle',
funcral in a body, and h:!.I offered a re·
ward o f $1,000 for the arrelt of the ban·
ditl.
Th ere is 1\ho a movcment in indian·
apolis to rai se $2.000.000 for a hospital
for cr ippled children. The ho,pi tal will
bc: dedicated to Jamc, Whitcomb Riley,
famon . Hoo. ier pod. Th~ Indianapolis
club appointed a spccial committee for
th is drive, and up 10 dotte the 310 memo
ber, ha"e iubscribed nu rly $100.000,
with indical ions that t he total will he
larger.
TIle first enning p3rty of the dub
was htld at t he O arpool Hotel on De.
umber 51h. Mo", than JOO Rota r;ant
and their families were present.
Ind ianapolis Robry abo claill1ll the
largtst Rotary bowling league in the
world. There are 145 club nlenlhe"
listed as mnntloCrs of the ''''0 leagocs
wh ich a re bowlina: an 8 1·rame lerie •.
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Z.-To foo:us public
all(fllion on the moral • .soxial. and , pir·
ilual lraining of young K~' 7.(;1lalld. th..,
Wel1ington club re«ndy arrallged and
suc<essful Ly (aTried OUI an (Xlcnsive
p"'£'ram during "Boys' WHk End."
Nurly thirty schools and insti tutions
!ieDt rq>reKf1tatiV( ~ to take part in the
program, which O(I(Dcd with a "community sing," Uoy SeOUl demonstrat ion,
physical -dr ill displ ay, and entertai nm..,n t
featu rn on Saturday nighl. On Sunda)'
special sc rvitu were arrangw al all tht
city churches, Sunday .Khool ~ al'Kl Silol..,
classes, and t i~ly :uldrcuCi were gi"en
on di ffe rent phases of boy s' and )'oung
me n' s aClivities. On the MOIJJay Ihcr~
was a grand seven.a·lide Rugby tourna·
ment. and a six·a·llde Soccer tournament
at Athletic park in the morninL:. Tht
finals were pl ayed off iLt intervals in the
sports durini.' thc afternoon. Spc<.:ial
sports and entertai nnH:nt s were arran~
for the younger boys. The Welli ngton
club hO~1 10 make this Roy,' \Vuk End
an annual event, in which the general
public will lake a kun interest.
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