Around the Rotary World

in Wartime

 

THE NEW PRESIDENT
OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

“RICHARD H. WELLS is pro-
prietor of the Idaho Lumber
and Hardware Company and
the Idaho Coal and Ice Com-
pany, and is vice-president of
the Idaho Bank and Trust Com-
pany in Pocatello. He is mar-
ried, and has two children and
one grandchild.

Mr. Wells is president of the
Idaho State Society for Crip-
pled Children, area chairman
for the Victory Bond Drive,
member of the selective service
board, and chairman of the
Postwar Planning Committee.
He has served as chairman of
the Pocatello Board of Educa-
tion, president of the Chamber

of Commerce, and director of
the State Mental Hospital, has
been active in work for the
Community Chest, Boy Scouts,
Parent-Teachers Association
and the YMCA.

Mr. Wells is a member and
past president of the Rotary
Club of Pocatello. He has served
Rotary International as Direc-
tor, Committee Chairman, and
as Governor of his Rotary Dis-
trict, and as a member of the
1944 Convention Committee for
Rotary International. He was
elected President of Rotary In-
ternational and assumed office
July 1.

 

Post War Plans

A clearing-house center for
veterans has been established
by a well-thought-out plan in
-Bay City, Michigan, for Bay
County veterans returned from
the armed services.

Representatives of 17 nation-
al, state and local organizations
in the county came together
upon the call of the mayor, to
discuss organizing a local clear-
ing-house committee for reha-
bilitation and employment of
veterans. The committee was
set up and detailed plans and
procedures were adopted for its
functioning, and a method of
financing it was worked out.
Among the agencies established
as a part of the Veterans’ Cen-
ter are these five: educational,
vocational training, rehabilita-
tion, placement, and health.

The chairman of the execu- .

tive committee is a member of
the Rotary Club of Bay City.

Talk is cheap—because the supply
always exceeds the demand.

TA-44

For Merchant Seamen

The Rotary Club of Guelph,
Ont., Canada, held a horse
show, the proceeds of which
went to aid the Merchant Sea-
men’s Hostel at Sydney, N. S.,
which is sponsored by the
Guelph club.

I’'s HOW You Say It

Twenty years of work on
problems of human relations
have made me aware that one
of the prime reasons people fail
to get along smoothly with one
another is the seemingly un-
known fact that the voice tone
often transmits a message con-
tradictory to the one registered
by the words we say. ... One
“How do you do!” becomes
“How nice you are!” Another
“How do you do!” becomes “Go
to the Devil!” A “Do you expect
to be away long?” may turn into
“Here’s hoping you never come
back!”

—Hughes Mearns,
THE ROTARIAN,
June, 1944

 

Rotary’s Task and
Opportunity

Even though we keep our
heads among the stars, we must
not forget that our feet are upon
the earth. There can be no
doubt that we are living in one
of the great formative periods
of the world’s history. We have
reached the end of one era, and
are standing on the threshold
of another. A new world is
waiting to be born, and the
question we have to decide is,
what kind of a world the new
world is going to be.

Prophets in every land, the
men of vision in all races, are
agreed that if the new world is
going to survive, it must be one

‘in which the nations shall live

side by side in friendly coopera-
tion, pursuing a moral purpose.
In other words, the world that .
is to be must be a friendly
world.

Could our Rotary clubs face
a more fitting or congenial task
than this, or one more in accord
with its basic principles? Noth-
ing on earth is so powerful as
an idea whose hour has come.
Enshrined in the heart of Ro-
tary this idea of friendliness has
persisted. No greater tragedy
could befall Rotary than that
this hour of opportunity should
pass by, and the opportunity
lost of enthroning friendliness
in the heart of the new world.
Surely, we have been called for
such a time as this.

—Harry S. Binks,
Governor, Dist. 170

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