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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

Work Pile News—

‘It makes no difference who gets the credit so long as the work is done’

10 December, 1943

Program Paper
Available

Ask for program paper No. 626 if.
you want to see how one club went
about selling the Work Pile to its
members. This paper is really a com-
plete program based on one used in
Geneva, New York. It is made up of
several short talks designed to be
given by different members of the
committee in charge of the Work
Pile project in the club.

‘Welcome, Soldier,
Here’s a Job”’

To the Rotarians of Windsor, On-
tario, Roy Plumb, of R.I.’s postwar
committee, interpreted the Work
Pile plan as a practical and workable
means to meet a service obligation
to the returning soldier.

Getting the Check
Sheets Out to
Householders

Two novel ways of getting the
Work Pile survey check sheets into
the hands of householders are re-
ported by Governor Harry Smith of
District 167 (Florida).

The Rotary Club of Vero Beach
has arranged with the county as-
sessor to enclose its check sheets in
the envelopes carrying tax notices
to local property owners.

The Rotary Club of Fort Pierce
found its local utility company eager
to cooperate by sending the check
sheets out with its monthly state-
ments.

Double Obligation

The “Spoke” of the Rotary Club
of Rochester says: “A Rotarian has
a double obligation to know about
and to participate in plans for the
postwar period. As a citizen he aids
the efforts of his community through
the committee for economic devel-
opment; as a Rotarian he works for
the establishment of a Work Pite.”

No. 4

 

Lets

 

HERE isn’t plenty of time to

get going on a Work Pile survey.
The club that thinks it will take
up the Work Pile project “some-
time next year” is deluding itself
and short-changing its commu-
nity and its boys who are at the
front.That thinking leads straight
into the familiar “too little too
late.”

Of course we are busy! The man
worth-while has twice the re-
sponsibilities he might choose for
himself. But this Work Pile is a
MUST. Self interest, if you want
to look at it that way, demands
that we get busy, and NOW.

Nor does the fact that the
Chamber of Commerce, or the
C.E.D. has a postwar planning
program locally, provide an “out”
for the Rotary club.

The Work Pile carries planning
for postwar jobs right down to
the grass roots. It makes the re-
sponsibility of the individual citi-
zen clear and it shows him that

 

Chink Straight

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on Chis
he CAN do something about it.
The educational and psychologi-
cal effect of a consumer survey is
invaluable to the planning of
big industry and business. Here’s
where the Rotary club comes in.
It can take the initiative to cause
the Work Pile to be added to the
set-up already active in the com-
munity, whether through the
chamber, the C.E.D., or other
group. The big dividend, of course,
is that the survey will provide a
tremendous back-log of work
which will be available immedi-
ately to the returning service
men and the disemployed war
workers.

Let’s not procrastinate. Rotary’s
responsibility is clear. I know
every club will respond.

 

 

To Help Rotarians
Who Carry the Load

If a member of your club is chair-
man of a postwar planning body—
not of the Rotary club—please send
to the R.I. Secretariat his name and
address and describe the planning
group he serves as chairman. This
will make it possible for these Ro-
tarian chairmen of civic, county,
province or state, or regional com-
mittees to contact each other con-
cerning their respective activities—

all to the eventual benefit of sound-
and-sane planning for jobs for the
postwar period. ~

For a Slogan

In Ligonier, Pennsylvania, the Ro-
tary 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 developing a local
name for the project.