Around the Rotary World in Wartime

 

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SOMEONE

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United Nations
Education Conference

A United Nations Education
Conference, which was initiated
by the International Service
Committee of Dist. 13 (London,
England and adjacent counties)
and operated through two com-
missions, was attended by edu-
cation experts from the Allied
Governments in London, from
the U.S.A., U.S.S.R., China, the
British Dominions, the Board of
Education, the Colonial Office,
the British Council, the Inter-
national Labor Office, and nu-
merous national educational
and youth organizations.

The conference adopted the
findings and recommendations
of the two commissions, viz., the
adoption of a world-wide auxil-
iary language (English) and a
world-wide system of inter-
change of students and teachers,
which have been published in
booklet form and presented to
the respective governments and
organizations by the representa-
tives of the Allied Governments
and of the national associations
which took nart.

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Springfield, Ohio—has a welfare
committee, which has been function-
ing for 25 years. The club raises ap-
proximately $2,700 a year for its
crippled children work, employs an
experienced social worker the year
around, and provides her with an
automobile. Recently the club gave
$3,000 to the City Hospital as an aid
in the establishment of a new de-
partment of physio-therapy for the
treatment of infantile paralysis.

Detroit, Michigan — Boy Scout
Troop No. 116 was organized by this
club in 1935 at the Leland School for
Crippled Children, and since that
time has served approximately 150
boys.

These boys, before gas rationing,
were taken in buses to a farm where
they slept in the hay-mow and cooked
outdoors. At one of Michigan’s beau-
tiful lakes they enjoyed swimming,
boating and fishing. One-day trips
were frequent.

Braces and crutches are not con-
sidered handicaps to Scout activities
in Troop 116. They have been used
in 14-mile hikes—and the boys come
in quite fresh!

Albuquerque, New Mexico—A local
doctor with the assistance of the

 

Rotary and Crippled Children

Rotary club organized Troop No. 15
of this city. This troop is rather
unique in that the boys are brought
together from all over the city by
the members of the Rotary Boys
Work Committee. Meeting places
were hard to find. At first the boys
met in a coffee warehouse, then in a
community center, hotel room, a
church and now in the armory.

A former member of the troop had
such a bad heart that the Rotarian
who called for him, of necessity, car-
ried him up and down stairs. This
boy had a short time to live. The
Rotarian faithfully carried out his
responsibility until the very end.

Rochester, New York—In 1938 this
club organized a Scout troop re-
cruited from the orthopedic depart-
ment of one of Rochester’s schools.
It has grown from 10 members to 32
and includes a Patrol at the Chil-
dren’s Convalescent Hospital four
miles away.

Camping days spent at the Rotary
Sunshine Camp are not idle ones, as
these Scouts have built stone walks,
erected a bridge across a creek, and
built steps to a new dormitory. They
also participate in many of the
other activities enjoyed by normally
healthy youngsters.

 

 

‘‘The Supreme
Question—

in every human heart is, ‘How
can I find life?’” Thus recently
wrote Governor Harry S. Binks,
(Ottawa, Ont., Canada), of Dist.
170, and then went on to say
that, “There are those in this
world who think that they will
find life when they can com-
mand the services of others. But
Rotary believes that life is
found in service rendered
others. Rotary believes that the
only end of material things is to
obtain life—that material things
do count much—that they are an
extremely important element in
our social structure; but unless
you help build into that struc-
ture the elements of love and
service, your life is not a suc-
cess. Rotary says it is not enough
to live and let live; we must
live and help live.”

Lest We Forget

On the morning of November
11, 1918, before the hour of
eleven, thousands of boys were
either killed or wounded. Every
extra hour we work, every ad-
ditional Bond we buy, every
extra sacrifice we make will
help cut the hours between now
and victory, and save fighting
mens’ lives.

Have you ever taken a per-
sonal inventory of yourself,
inquiring whether Rotary has
been a beneficial influence in
your life? It might be an in-
teresting conference with
yourself if you did take such
an inventory.

GET A NEW MEMBER
TODAY!

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