vidual Rotary club has autonomy in the
selection of such community service ac-
tivities as appeal to it and are suited to
its community. But no club should al-
low itself to become so involved in any
community activity that it forgets or
neglects the other objects of Rotary. The
well balanced Rotary program should
be kept always in mind.

Other Community Agencies

In the average community will
always be found some of the follow-
ing agencies: churches, parochial
schools, and church societies; Sunday
schools; evening or special schools;
fraternal bodies; a chamber of com-
merce, commercial club or _ business-
men’s association; charitable organiza-
tions, humane societies, women’s clubs;
an advertising club, better business
bureau, creditmen’s association, real
estate board, automobile club; trade
groups, labor groups, farm bureaus;
and various other educational, patriotic,
Although or-
ganized for a specific purpose, most of
them also undertake some activity for
the betterment of the community.

and historical societies.

In addition to all these, there are
the city officers, county officers, and
state (or provincial) and federal agen-
cies at work in the community. Many
of these officers or agencies are keenly
interested in opportunities to improve
the civic conditions of the community.

One of the greatest opportunities
before the Rotary club is that of help-
ing to establish the right relationships
between these many agencies and par-
ticularly between those who direct
policies so that all may work with a
common purpose.

The Community Service Council

Sometimes this can best be accom-
plished through the formation of a
community service council on which it
will be desirable for Rotarians to serve
and in which it will be possible to
coordinate, and in many instances to
combine, community efforts.

It is in this service that the Rotary
club frequently does its best work.
Many communities’ find themselves
burdened with a host of semi-charitable
organizations. Because of a lack of
close cooperation, many of these organ-
izations duplicate each other’s activities
and there is no one group strong
enough to persuade each organization
to select the field best suited for its
endeavors and to leave the other fields
to other specialized organizations.

The Rotary club, representing as it
does a cross section of the business
and professional life of the city, is in a
position to endeavor to persuade such
organizations to confine their efforts
within such bounds
duplication and be most effective. An
example of this has been the insistence
in many localities upon the establish-

as will avoid

ment of a Community Charitable
Fund or Federated Charities Budget, in
which all charitable organizations of the
city are brought together for fund rais-
ing purposes and placed under the
supervision of a joint budget com-
mission, representing the chief con-
tributors to the fund and general civic
organizations.

An Example

The general survey may: have indi-
cated that many boys in the community

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