of them have time to read as never be-
fore—and would welcome Tue Rorar-
1AN. Hometown boys, whether in camp
or afloat, could be sent THe Rotarian;
and the Club magazine committee can
scan the local honor roll to select recipi-
ents of Club gifts.

If there’s a camp near your city, your
magazine committee could survey the
number of our magazines that could be
used—and then put the matter up to
your Club for action. Don’t neglect
Revista Roraria— with many camps
having Spanish classes, it would be wel-
come and useful.

Schools and Libraries

One of the best ways to acquaint more
of your non-Rotary fellow-townsmen
and townswomen with Rotary is through
the library, reading room, hospital,
school, college and high school — yes,
even the jail! Your club magazine com-
mittee may make a study of the possi-
bilities in expanding your program of
putting Tue Rorartan and Revista
Roraria in these public places. In the
case of libraries, both public and school,
the committee should know that the
contents of THe Rorarian are carefully
indexed (along with a hundred other
leading magazines) in “The Reader’s
Guide to Periodical Literature,” so it is
possible to refer to articles in old issues
if they are preserved and bound. Should
your libraries be unable to bind back
numbers, perhaps your Club will do that
so that the files of Tur Rorartan may
be continuously useful to students, club
women ‘and to Rotarians seeking help
for programs.

Local Press Publicity

The “newspaper member” on your
Magazine Committee can be a very ef-
fective liaison member between your
club and the local newspaper. Often-
times articles in THE Rotarian can be
given a local “tie-up.” Sometimes there
are pictures of local interest in THE
RorariAn. The magazine often can loan
the original photographs to your news-
paper, but because of the fine “screen”
used in Tue Rotarian, the original cuts
are of no use to your local paper.

Ideas for Club Projects

“Tf Rotarians at Exville can do it, why
can’t we?”

That’s a natural question for any alert
Rotarian reading the magazine —and
suggests how clubs get new ideas for
useful club activities. Each month in
the “Rotary Reporter” department, espe-
cially, brief stories report on what more
than 5,000 clubs are doing around the
world in club, vocational, community,
and international service.

The club magazine committee would
do well to call attention of the appropri-
ate committee to those items that have
possibilities for your club.

Weekly
““Minute Man” Talks

For program variety, many clubs have
a two or three-minute talk each week
about some articles in THe Rorartan.
These should be carefully worked up—
and can be witty, wise, informative, and
inspiring—depending upon the speaker.
The regular program committee may be
responsible for them, or they may be
left to the magazine committee.

Monthly Reviews

Or reviewing of the magazine may be
left for a stated meeting each month,
usually the first after the new issue has
arrived.

One way of doing it is to have several
one or two-minute talks hitting just the
“high spots” of the magazine. Another
is to have two or three minutes devoted
to the outstanding article, selecting a
member whose classification may be
related to the leading article, having this
member discuss the article from the
viewpoint of his own business.

Formula for
Sure-Fire Program

Each month, the Secretariat prepares
a set of suggested program topics—most
of which are buttressed by articles ap-
pearing in the current issue of THE
Rotarian. Select one of these topics—
or any suggested by an article in the
magazine—and arrange for home-talent
speaker.

Then at the meeting the week before
the program, have the president or

chairman announce that “Bill is going

to talk to us next about.................... and
asks that each member read the article
ie een) byt df the current

Rotarian Magazine.” If 50 percent of
the membership do that, Bill will have
an already interested audience the mo-
ment he takes the rostrum, and his bat-
tle is half won before he starts!

Round -Tables and Debates

The same plan—or adaptations there-
of—works equally well with discussions
in which more than one take part. The
round-table technique can be used, three
or four members participating; or it can
be done from the rostrum with two or
more members presenting their view-
points. The magazine’s popular “de-
bate of the month” provides an excellent
basis for such discussions. Sometimes in
the case of a controversial article, there
may be some member whose opinions
are decidedly opposed to the author’s
viewpoints. This member could be given
five or ten minutes to present his oppos-
ing arguments.

Quiz Programs

An excellent program feature can be
provided by having the magazine serve
as a basis for a quiz program. Such a
program could follow the technique of
one of the popular quiz programs of
the air. Small “Double or Nothing”
prizes could be given to those who suc-
ceed in running the gamut of all of the
questions.

The questions should be selected for
their general interest and should not be
too difficult. The members being inter-
viewed could select their questions from
slips from a receptacle.

The Work Pile Project

President Charlie Wheeler states: “I
am more and more convinced that the
Work Pile offers us our greatest chance
of harnessing Rotary’s tremendous man-
power and of tapping its largest reser-
voir of dynamic ideas.” The board of
Rotary International classifies the Work
Pile plan as the No. 1 objective for the
year 1943-44,

Each month Tue Rorartan presents
articles of its “Work Pile series.” Arti-