Around the Rotary World in Wartime

 

 

Rotary in New Zealand

The following are only a few
of many activities participated
in by Rotary clubs in New Zea-
land recently reported by past
district governor Fred Hall-
Jones (Dist. 53):

The Heritage Society—This is an
incorporated society which has asked
Rotary to establish branches through-
out the country. The object, briefly,
is to foster the careers of those chil-
dren who have lost their fathers in
the present war. This will be a major
activity of Rotary this year.

Health Camps—These camps are
the direct product of the Rotary
clubs, who launched appeals, pur-
chased sites, erected buildings, and
set up Health Camp committees to
run the camps. The splendid £9000
building at Nelson is the direct prod-
uct of the Nelson Rotary club. The

Wellington club makes a special ef-
fort and raises £200 annually to send
children to the health camp.

Rural-Urban Meetings — Palmer-
ston North last year had 40 farmers
at a luncheon, and later took them
over the research plots of Massey
College. Nelson entertains some 20
farmers annually, and the New Plym-
outh club holds a special gathering
twice a year in some country town
with the local farmers.

Dunedin brings in 20 boys from
the country and gives them a week
in the town visiting factories and
firms, and a week in the Y.M.C.A.
camp at Waitati. Mosgiel selects
farms where agricultural students
from town can do their practical
training.

Picnic for the Aged—130 aged folk
were taken out this year by the Gore
club to an afternoon tea and enter-
tainment.

War Finance—Particularly in the

’ main centres club members, through

their business organizations, have
collected large sums for war loans;
Christchurch sold over £80,000 of
bomber bonds; and Auckland found
nearly £10,000 for the Patriotic. Hast-
ings worked on the Queen Carnival.
Timaru is running a copper and
silver trail and an auction, and the
ladies of Rotary a shop.

 

 

Rotarians Have Their

Part to Play

In the bulletin of the Rotary
club of Wampum (Pa.), for
May 7, 1943, we find the fol-
lowing: —

A great war is in progress.
It has long been in progress.
The present armed hostilities
are but one episode of it. This
war will not be ended when and
because armed hostilities have
ceased. Humanity will continue
to be in turmoil until the prob-
lems that confront humanity are
solved.

Rotarians have their part to
play in this great war. The
Rotary program proposes and
urges that men shall be thought-
ful of and helpful to each other
in their business and social rela-
tions—in towns and cities, in
urban-rural regions, in nations
and in the cooperation of na-
tions.

11B-43

Men can not carry out such a
program by inactivity or by
wishful thinking. In numbers
the Rotarians are comparatively
few but in influence they may
be powerful—if they will to be
so. They must have courage to
invade every field of human
relations with their advocacy of
tolerance, understanding, good
will and cooperation for the wel-
fare of all as the basis of right
human relations.

—Chesley R. Perry
RI. Secretary, 1910-1942

Rotary in the U.S.A.

Berkeley, California, Rotary
club recently sent a check for
$100 to the Oakland Naval Hos-
pital for the purchase of hand-
craft materials. It made possible
a program for ambulatory and

bed patients which includes

weaving, leatherwork, belt
knotting, painting and sketch-
ing, clay modelling and wood
burning.

B WY and STAMPS

PROGRESS IN
SAN FRANCISCO

The Rotary Club of San Fran-
cisco, where the post-war Work
Pile project originated in the
local Chamber of Commerce,
states that the first seven re-
ports completed by industries in
the community showed nearly
$10,000,000 in jobs ready to go.
They are expecting from 150 to
250 of these reports when the
survey is completed. None of.
these reports involve any public

‘spending or debt; all cover pri-

vate enterprise only. It is be-
lieved that 1,000 or more men
will be working on the compila-
tion of these reports in making
up San Francisco’s Work Pile.

The Boys on Furlough

Whenever you see one of our
boys in the service home on
furlough, be sure to extend an
invitation to come to Rotary as
a guest. Don’t leave it to some- ,
one else thinking that some one
may know him better. It will
make him feel all the better if
four or five ask him to come,
and we certainly want to extend
hospitality to our boys in the
service.

—TuHe Spokes Man
Unadilla, New York

Not Leave Undone

A great Teacher once said:
“These things ought ye to have
done and not to leave the other
undone.” This is a pertinent
word of caution to Rotarians to-
day. We must help with ration-
ing, civilian defense, building
Work Piles, studying post-war
problems. We must not leave
undone those services to boys
and girls, to community welfare,
to business standards which Ro-
tarians have done so helpfully
in the past and which are quite
as important today.

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WAR BONDS

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