Around the Rotary World in Wartime

 

 

GETTING OUT A
CLUB PUBLICATION

Getting out a club publication
is no picnic—

If we print jokes some folks say
we are silly;

If we don’t, they say we are too
serious.

If we print original matter, they
say we lack variety.

If we print things from other
papers, we are too lazy to
write;

If we don’t print contributions,
we don’t show proper appre-
ciation;

Like as not some fellow will say
we purloined this from an-
other paper—we did—and we
thank—

—THE SPOKESMAN, of
Ashland, Kentucky

P.S.—Where they got it, we
have no idea!

No Club

Can Stand Siill

No Rotary club can stand
still. The inexorable laws. of na-
ture dictate constant change, as
witness the seasons, the tides,
human life. Your Rotary club
either waxes or wanes—in the
pattern of your leadership—in
membership, in attendance, in
fellowship, in enthusiasm, in
civic effectiveness. There is no
place for complacency in Ro-
tary; on the contrary, there
must be a constant infusion of
new blood—otherwise time alone
insures deterioration.

—District Governor Charles
H. Meeker, Dist. 197

 

Meeting in San Francisco,
California, December 16, the
chief executives of the
United States Chamber of
Commerce, the American Le-
gion, Rotary International,
and Kiwanis International,
issued a statement, since
widely quoted, which reads,
in part, as follows:

“Believing in the loyalty and
ability of our individual mem-
bers, and with faith in the
strength of our respective units,
we call upon them to intensify
their efforts and to seek the co-
operation of other organizations,
and the support of all freedom-
loving peoples of the world in the
promotion of the following objec-
tives:

“1) Enthusiastic cooperation in
all activities which will help to
bring the war to a speedy and
successful conclusion;

“2) The assuming of a specific
responsibility in the reconstruc-
tion period to the end that we can
help to create a world economy
which will be free from the evils
of tyranny, slavery, and oppres-
sion, and to maintain personal
liberty, to plan, work and live
without fear of exploitation from
any source;

“3) To work together in the
development of plans in each
community which will bridge the

A Joint Proclamation

period of reconversion from a
wartime to a peacetime basis—to
the end that the individual may
be assured of opportunities in the
kind of work he desires;

‘“4) To work for an orderly but
certain demobilization of wartime
controls at the close of hostilities
in order to foster and strengthen
the system of free enterprise.”

It was further stated that to
accomplish these objectives it
would be necessary for the indi-
vidual organizations to promote
such activities as:

“1) The development of sound
fiscal policies which will permit
men to build adequate reserves
for the promotion of legitimate
business and industry as a serv-
ice to society, thereby aiding in
the development of new frontiers
for individual opportunity... .

“2) An equitable plan for the
care, rehabilitation and employ-
ment of servicemen and women;

“3) A program of education
which will develop an intelligent
and interested citizenry—apprecia-
tive of the privileges granted by
a free democracy, but truly aware
of the individual responsibilities
entailed therein;

“4) Training of youth in the
ideals and responsibilities of citi-
zenship and developing in them
an understanding and apprecia-
tion of the opportunities in free
enterprise.”

 

 

 

WORK PILE

In Ligonier, Pennsylvania,
the Rotary club committee has
proposed to the club board a
contest in the local high school
(with prizes) for a slogan in
order to pave the way for the
Work Pile survey. Some consid-
eration is being given to the
possible desirability of devel-
oping a local name for the
project.

FRIENDSHIP
Acquaintance is a stepping-
stone to fellowship;

Fellowship is the open door to
friendship;

‘Friendship is the foundation of

happiness. ie nr (Miss.)

Rotary CLus

Australia-Soviet
Friendship

A cordial invitation was re-
ceived from the Australia-So-
viet Friendship League by the
Rotary Club of Hobart, Tas-
mania, to attend a lecture on
the Soviet Union.

—Rotary Crus or Hopart,
TasMaAnriA, Bulletin

Rotary Overseas

The Newport, England, Ro-
tary club has supplied the crew
of the club’s adopted ship with
75 pairs of sea-boot stockings,
six pairs of string gloves, pull-
overs, socks and scarves, all
knitted by Rotarians’ wives. —

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