Around the Rotary World in Wartime

 

 

Helping the Underpriv-
ileged in South Africa
In Rotary In Arrica, the Ro-

tary Club of Durban, South
Africa, reports that:

“We have taken a long step
forward with the club’s pro-
jected holiday homestead in the
mountains for parties of the un-
derprivileged children of Dur-
ban and coast. The scheme is
warmly applauded by press and
public. Donations already in
hand exceed £5,000, of which
sum a large proportion has been
donated by Rotarians.

The construction committee is
now getting to work and will
very shortly finalize its plans
for the buildings, the site having
been already surveyed and a
general layout decided upon.

What An Auction!

The following is an item from
Hicu Gear, Rotary club publi-
cation of Lewisburg, West Vir-
ginia:

“Last week’s program was
very unique and worked out

for the day solicited several
merchants in town for items to
be auctioned off in terms of
War Bonds. Some idea of what
kind of a job was done might be
gained from the fact that five
pounds of coffee sold for $1,100
in War Bonds; a set of knives
brought $2,500; a smoking stand
went for $4,000 and when turned
back for resale brought $3,000
more. A $50 scholarship to
Greenbrier College brought
$600; and since the purchaser
had no use for it he turned it

over to the club to be given to

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some worthy student. The time
was limited and all did not have
a chance to purchase, but in all,
18 sales were made amounting
to $21,150. It was a great sale
and proved to be a very inter-
esting program.”

“And,” your editor might add,
“a very profitable program.”

 

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A Thought of Tomorrow

As we see unfold from day to
day, under the drive and spur
of this greatest war of all time,
the manifold magic and wonder
of applied science, in infinite
applications, many of them ut-
terly new in practical useful-
ness as compared to past, and as
Wwe project our minds toward
the horizons of the future in
feeble effort to contemplate to-
morrow’s world, surely it must
come to us that though man has
come vast strides from his fire-
less cave to now, yet he is just
beginning his journey to his
greatest destiny. Tomorrow, not
today, should be his finest era.
And it will be provided that he
acquire, apace with his com-
mand of power through science,
the human understanding which
will give meaning to the term
civilization—that he learn to live
amicably and constructively on
this, our common earth, with his
fellow. oa

—Editor—RotomaH News,
Tomah, Wis.

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Now I get me up to work,
I pray the Lord I shall not shirk,
If I should die before tonight
I hope my work will be alright.
. —R. I. Past President
Tom Davis

 

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‘It’s Up to You’

It’s up to you if you want to
use the new “living newspaper”
script on the food situation
called, “It’s Up To You.” Re-
ceived with acclaim at its initial
production in New York on

- March 31 this new play edu-

cates its audiences on food facts.
It. employs the documentary
technique of short spot scenes,
space staging, blackouts, loud-
speaker voices, film sequences,
and projected scenery. Two ver-
sions will be available: one, a
regular 114-hour show in six
scenes; the other a 25-minute
tabloid. School and other com-
munity groups may present “It’s
Up To You” in local auditoriums
or in available motion-picture
houses. Requests for scripts or
more information may be ad-
dressed to Alan Schneider, Edu-
cational Services Division, Of-
‘fice of War Information, Wash-
ington, D.C.

Here is a good opportunity
for our club to render a valu-
able and timely service to our
community.

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