24 Mar. 1944

To Club Presidents and Secretaries

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From the R. |. Secretariat (Central Office)
35 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago |, Ill., U. S.A.

No. 17—1943-44

 

Fish for Charity

Rotarian J. K. Biswas recently
suggested a unique method of aug-
menting the food supply for the re-
lief kitchen operated by the Rotary
Club of Calcutta when he invited
anglers to take their rods and tackle
to the Dhakuri Lakes, an angler’s
paradise, and “fish for charity.”
Many anglers are following his sug-
gestion and the relief kitchen is
profiting thereby.

The Rotary Club of Calcutta has
appealed to all Rotarians in India
to send clothing of all descriptions,
old and new, to help clothe the
destitute. Shirts, shorts and frocks
have been distributed to more than
1,200 children and the club is look-
ing forward to continued useful
service in helping to clothe as well
as feed those in need.

The Proper Attitude

Recent newspaper articles have
told of cases where mothers, wives
and others have done irreparable
harm to returned wounded or
maimed soldiers by the unfortunate
way in which they have reacted to
the sight of an empty sleeve, a miss-
ing leg or other disfigurement.

When a hospitalized soldier re-
turns home, the exercise of tact and
self-control is called for on the part
of his friends and loved ones. To this
end, the aims and objects committee
of R.I. requests the president of each

‘Rotary club to point out to the
members of his club that it is im-
portant to the mental and physical
well-being of returning maimed
and wounded soldiers that they be
treated in a natural manner with-
out a display of curiosity or un-
wonted sympathy over their disa-
bilities. |

 

Now
5,145 Rotary Clubs
219,850 Rotarians

(Of these 53 clubs with 1,600 members
in war-affected countries are inactive)

93 New Clubs in 21 Countries
Since July 1, 1943

 

 

 

Rotary’s Postwar Function

Past Director of R.I. Angus Mit-
chell of Australia makes a thought-
provoking suggestion in regard to
Rotary’s function in connection
with postwar problems. He recog-
nizes that it is difficult for Rotary
to put forward something practical
for all clubs around the world to
tackle. “In fact,” he says, “it is well
nigh impossible.”

What is possible for Rotary, how-
ever, according to Angus, is ex-
pressed in the following words:

The encouragement of study, the crea- |

tion of an international mind, the elimina-
tion of selfishness, the establishment of

tolerance, kindliness, “give” spirit rather

than “take” are things that Rotarians can
support, regardless of differences, na-
tional or otherwise. If these matters can
govern action in the postwar world all
will be well.

It is not hard to see how differ-
ences of opinion in regard to trade
practices, migration of peoples, ac-
cess to raw material, and other
issues on which people differ, some-
times violently, would be much
more easily settled if Rotary and
other organizations performed the
function suggested by Angus.

A Vital Force

Favorable publicity has been a
vital force in the growth of Rotary
world-wide. It can also be an effec-
tive factor in the success of every
Rotary club.

The clubs which are most success-
ful in publicizing Rotary in their
local newspapers and over their local
radio stations are the clubs which
have an active publicity committee
functioning before and after every
meeting.

These clubs also take full advan-
tage of the fact that the individual
member, because of his many per-
sonal contacts, is the best Rotary
publicity medium provided that he
thoroughly understands the objec-
tives of Rotary and has a general
knowledge of Rotary activities, lo-
cally and internationally.

No matter how complicated it may
seem, good public relations for Ro-
tary is nothing more nor less than
the development of good will and
understanding on the part of the

general public toward the local ©

Rotary club.

 

Paul Harris Honored

On the 39th anniversary of the
founding of Rotary, H.E., Dr. Rafael
L. Trujillo, President of the Domini-
can Republic, conferred upon Presi-
dent Emeritus of R.I. Paul P. Harris
the decoration of the Heraldic Or-
der of Cristobal Colon, for his bril-
liant work of rapprochement and
service, based on the highest hu-
man ideals. (

Appreciation from
Chungking

In acknowledging the $1,500
Christmas gift of the Rotary Club
of Philadelphia, Penna., U.S.A., the
Rotary Club of Chungking, China,
wrote that it was able to give $500
in local currency ($17.00 in U.S. cur-
rency) to each of 88 families that
were in need as a result of war
disasters. Each family was required
to sign a receipt which stated that
the gift was from the Rotary Club
of Philadelphia in the U.S.A. Many
not only brought back the receipts

‘but also letters of gratitude.

Meeting of R.I. Board

The board of directors of R.I. will
hold its third meeting in the Rotary
year 1943-44 at the central office
of the secretariat in Chicago, Illi-
nois, U.S.A., beginning on Friday, 12
May, 1944.
An Opportunity for
Individual Service

The mustering out of members of
the armed forces—both men and
women—has given rise to serious
problems in connection with their
re-introduction and adjustment to
civilian life. Not only is there the
problem of providing jobs for them
and, in so far as possible, jobs best
suited to their capabilities, but also
the more intangible and delicate
problem of helping them become
mentally adjusted to civilian life
after the shattering experiences
many of them have gone through
in military service.

The aims and objects committee
of R.I. has directed its attention to
this situation. While recognizing
that the governments of the various
nations at war and different or-
ganizations within those countries
are working to solve these problems,
the committee sees in the situation
an opportunity for Rotarians indi-
vidually to render a tremendously
worthwhile service.

Accordingly, the committee sug-

gests to Rotary clubs that they see -

to it that their members are led to
understand the problems involved
and to realize that the solutions de-
pend on active, personal, and in-
dividual interest and action by
Rotarians.

Helping Their Neighbors

The work of the Rotary Clubs in
Sweden centers around the theme
of education and care of youth in
Sweden and adjoining countries.
Last year the clubs created a Nor-
wegian Relief Committee within Ro-
tary and from the district fund 3,000
Swedish crowns were given for this
committee’s work. Swedish Rotar-
ians have done their share in caring
for the 25,000 Finnish children who
have been received in Swedish
homes, and one Rotary club erected
a home for sick Finnish children at
a cost of 43,000 Swedish crowns.

Welcome to Dakar

The Rotary Club of Dakar, Sene-
gal, French West Africa, has con-
tinued to meet regularly in spite of
the ups and downs of life in that
city during the past few years. The
club wants it known that Rotarians
or sons of Rotarians in the armed
forces, who may be passing through
Dakar, are always welcome at its
meetings, which are held at 8:00
p.m. the third Tuesday of every
month at the Hotel Metropole.

Postwar Committee
in Rotary Clubs

The board of directors of R.I. con-
siders it important that each Rotary
club have a postwar committee and
urges Rotary club officers to appoint
such a committee.

Honor. Flag—Re-employment

President Wheeler calls an inter-
esting suggestion to the notice of
club officers in those countries
where it has been customary to dis-
play a flag or banner indicating how
many employees of a concern are
in the armed services. It is a sug-
gestion offered by a Rotarian, who
asked why it wouldn’t be a useful
and constructive thing for business
concerns to display an “honor flag”
on which would appear an indica-
tion of the number of returned serv-
icemen and women employed by
the concern. The thought, of course,
is to emphasize in the minds of all
the pride the concern may justifi-
ably feel in having employed the
greatest possible number of men
and women released from the armed
services.

President Wheeler suggests that
there might be in this idea some-
thing which the community service
or postwar committee of the Rotary
Club might consider carefully and
perhaps take up with the local
Chamber of Commerce, Board of
Trade, or other suitable agency.

Autographed by
Paul Harris
For a short time only, as the sup-

ply is limited, you can secure a copy

of “This Rotarian Age” written by
Paul P. Harris, the founder of
Rotary and autographed by him.

“This Rotarian Age” is the story
of the first 30 years of Rotary—its
personalities — its problems — its
growth—250 pages written in Paul’s
unusual and interesting style. The
book is attractively bound in cloth,
and will be a fine addition to any
Rotarian’s library.

The cost is only 65c a copy. Order
your copy from Rotary Interna-
tional, 35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago,
1, Illinois.

OR gg Og Rg GOR gg Gig reg
In Memoriam

We record with regret the passing
of the following past international
officers of Rotary International:

Arthur L. Bolton, Bendigo, Australia,
who served as governor of the 65th district
in 1936-37;

Charles K. Brown, Staunton, Va., U.S.A.,
who served as governor of the 56th dis-
trict in 1931-32;

Cecil K. Buchanan, Port Elizabeth, South
Africa, who served as governor of the
doth district in 1934-35 and 1935-36;

Andrew Home-Morton, London, Eng-
land, who served as governor of the 24th
district and as president of the British
Association of Rotary Clubs in 1918-19;

George H. Jenkins, Amherst, Mass.,
U.S.A., who served as governor of the
199th district in 1942-43;

Wartime Tempo in
New Milton

The Rotary Club of New Milton,
England, has expressed appreciation
for the publicity in News Letter No.
9 concerning its wartime activities
but has pointed out that the club has
done much more than indicated in
the item.

Last summer the Rotarians com-
bined with the local Home Guard
Welfare Committee to run an Au-
gust Bank Holiday fete on a 50/50
basis. The aim was to raise £250 each
—the Rotary club to name a bed at
the local hospital, and the Home
Guard to assist the Merchants Navy
Comforts Fund. The event proved
even more successful than expected
—and the total profit realized was
£666—or £333 for each charity.

In December, the Rotarians or-
ganized a Peak Week, the proceeds
to provide extra parcels for the pris-
oners of war from their borough
(numbering about 80). £400 was re-
alized from this effort. At the same
time the club ran its annual Christ-
mas charity appeal fund and col-
lected £175, which was divided be-
tween the British Red Cross, the
prisoners of war fund, their local -
borough prisoners of war fund, and
eleven national charity funds.

For a club of 18 members (five of
whom are in active service), the
above activity constitutes a record
in service to others during the year
1943.

“The Rotarian” for
Soldiers and Sailors

The Rotary Club of Aruba, Neth-
erlands, West Indies, is carrying on

a campaign to secure subscriptions
for both “The Rotarian” and ‘“Re-

_vista Rotaria” to be sent to camps

and ships for the use of soldiers
and sailors. The club publication,
“The Arrow” remarks that ‘we can
select the camp or ship to receive
our gifts or we can leave it to the
magazine to choose the recipients.
It is not necessary to belong to a
Rotary club to receive the maga-
zines.”

President Charlie Wheeler ex-
pressed his hope that every read-
ing room in every camp and on
every ship should have one or both
of the magazines in it regularly.
“The coming Rotarians,” he pointed
out, “are in the armed forces now,
and the more they learn about Ro-
tary now, the stronger the Rotary
clubs of tomorrow will be.”

Price for either magazine is $1.50
a year within the Americas, $2.00
elsewhere. Why not a survey of the
day rooms and reading rooms in
the camps near you and see that
they get “The Rotarian” and/or
“Revista Rotaria.” Orders should
be sent to 35 East Wacker Drive,
Chicago, 1, Illinois.
 

24 Mar. 1944

The News Letter

USCNB Supplement

No. 17—1943-44

 

F oreign Maps
and Photographs

In the February 25th issue of this
supplement to the News Letter, an
item ‘Have You Any Foreign Maps?”
told of the desire for such maps.
That call to send maps to the U. S.
Army Map Service was directed to
Rotarians in the United States.

The Armed Services of Canada
also are calling for foreign maps
and photographs of all areas out-
side the British Empire and the
Americas. Material on the Far East
is particularly desired.

Needed
City Plans and Port Plans on a scale of
not less than 1:25,000.
Important Foreign Atlases.

Road Maps, Topographical and Geologi-
cal Maps not smaller than 1:1,000,000.

Guide Books, Place-Lexicons, Gazeteers
and Postal Guides.

Photographs of Topographical interest—
for example, beaches, roads, lines of com-
munications.

Not Needed
Maps printed in Canada, Great Britain

or the United States, such as National

Geographical Society, etc.
World War I Maps.
Any photograph taken prior to 1930.

The more recently issued publica-
tions are preferred.

Please state whether your ma-
terial is a gift. If you prefer to lend
it, reproduction will be made and
the originals returned.

Rotarians in Canada should for-
ward that material to:
Inter Service Photographic Library
72 Queen Street, Ottawa, Ont.

Postwar Stock for Profit

Upon the initiative of its rural-
urban committee, the Rotary Club
of Magnolia, Mississippi, has joined
with the Mississippi Cattle Club and
the Agricultural Extension Authori-
ties in making it possible, financial-
ly and otherwise, for 30 production-
bred Jersey bulls to be distributed
to dairy farmers in Pike and Amite
Counties. This project will result in
better stock and more milk in these
two counties for the postwar period.

* * * *

And then there is the Rotary Club
of Woodruff, South Carolina, whose
26 members bought 26 pure-bred
brood sows, raised $121 for prizes
and promoted a better-pig cam-
paign, and provided $50 for follow-
up work ... all for better stock
‘after the war.

 

Today’s Service Story

Recently a young soldier in a
camp in the U.S.A. wrote his
mother that he would like very
much to have an electric iron so
that he could press his clothes,
not realizing that finding an un-
used electric iron in these days
is a real accomplishment.

After a long, unsuccessful
search, the mother finally went
to a little electrical supply shop,
hoping to find a second-hand
iron, but there was none. How-
ever, when the lady who waited
on her found that the iron was
intended for a soldier, she said
“Come back tomorrow. I have an
old iron at home. Perhaps I can
help you.”

When the mother returned the
next day, the lady handed her a
brand new iron, which she in-
sisted .on presenting as a gift.
When the mother protested, the
lady said: “I bought this iron
before the war and have been
holding it in reserve in case my
old iron wears out, but I want
you to send it to your boy. Per-
haps not only he, but others, will
get some good out of it. I’ll take
a chance on my old iron lasting
for the duration.”

Isn’t this an interesting little
story of personal service at a
time when we are hearing all too
‘much of people who are trying
to profit from wartime condi-
tions? I think so.

 

 

 

Army Fashion

When local eating places no
longer found it possible to serve
them, Scarsdale, New York, Rotar-
ians decided to meet in the Ameri-
can Legion rooms and have their
meals sent in from a drug-store
luncheonette. Members stand in
line and pick up their plates, army
fashion, each member taking his
turn in serving. This new eating
arrangement has increased fellow-
ship, and the club plans to continue
it after the war.

 

| Rotary International Conference
at Chicago, IIl., U.S.A.
May 15-18, 1944

 

 

 

 

A Practical Approach
to the Work Pile

The Rotary Club of Longview,
Texas, has obtained a list of all par-
ents, or next of kin, of every boy
who has gone into the service from
that community. From them they

are obtaining the names and ad-

dresses of the boys. Each boy will
receive a friendly letter from the
Rotary club, in which will appear
three questions:

1) When the war is over, do you expect
to return to Longview and go back
to work?

2) Do. you ‘expect to go back to the job

you had when you entered the serv-
ice?
If you had no job, or were not satis-
fied with the one you had, what is
your aptitude—what line of work
would you like to enter, and are
qualified to do?

- Think of the morale-building ef-
fect of those letters! What a thrill
those boys will receive when they
realize that the Rotary club in their
“home town” is not only backing
them while they are in the service—
but also stands ready to assist them
upon their return!

—Charles L. Wheeler

President, R.I.

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Approval of
“Specific Charter’

The following organizations have
indicated their approval of the
“specific charter” signed by the
heads of the U. S. Chamber of Com-
merce, the American Legion, Ki-
wanis International, and Rotary
International, in San Francisco,
California, on December 16, 1943,
and distributed to all Rotary clubs
with the 24th December issue of the
R.I. News Letter:

American Bankers Association
_ American Bar Association

American Farm Bureau Association

American Medical Association

Business and Professional Women’s
Clubs

Civitan International

Cosmopolitan International

General Federation of Women’s Clubs

Gyro International

Lions International

National Education Association of U.S.

National Grange

Optimist International

Round Table International

U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce

Commander-in-Chief, Military Order of
the World Wars

National Association of Manufacturers

California State Society of Sons of
American Revolution
Sober Second Thoughts

by Paul B. McKee, Chairman, R.I. Committee on Participation of Rotarians in the Postwar World

The other day a friend of mine
remarked, “These are times when
almost anything could happen.”
These are certainly times when the
businessman—be his enterprise big
or little—is hoping and praying that
a number of things will happen so
that he can see his way clear to
carry a full employment roll and
continue his service to the public.

If anyone is inclined to shrug his
shoulders and say that everything
will be all right, or let somebody
else worry about the basis on which
we are going to do business follow-
ing the war, let him read the fol-
lowing editorial reprinted here by
special permission of The Saturday
Evening Post:

Right in the middle of an enthusiastic
outburst in favor of something or other,
have you ever felt that gnawing way
down in your soul producing the suspi-
cion that you may be just talking through
your hat? Well, every now and then,
editors feel that way, and being un-
usually candid in this business, we hereby
take our readers into our confidence and

expose a few sober second thoughts that

are driving us crazy.

For example, it sometimes occurs to us
that people may be worrying too much
about the horrors of peace. Some of us
talk as if it were necessary to expect a
grim day when nobody will have a job
and every shortcoming would be excused
by the reminder, “Don’t you know there’s
a peace going on?” There may be no harm

in suggesting that, when the war is over,
there will be instant demand for quite a
lot of people to do the thousand and one
things that are only half done now—
repair the radio, put in that extra bath-
room, work in laundries, read meters,
deliver milk, fix “flats,” survey building
lots, repair typewriters.

Another suspicion that haunts us is the
possibility that, when we cut loose at
Congress for refusing to close the “in-
flationary gap” of consumer purchasing
power, we may be leaving out another
inflationary gap which is even more con-
tributory to inflation—namely, unbridled
Government spending power. The Re-
publican members of the House Ways and
Means Committee made a fair case for the
proposition that it does little good to take
money away from the public by income
tax if ten times as much money is to be

shoveled into circulation through un- .

necessary spending.

Thirdly, as the Calvanist preachers used
to set it up, we are often a little worried
by the talk about how, come peace, the
free-enterprise system is going to have
one more chance to produce “full em-
ployment.” If it doesn’t come through,
then Harry Hopkins and the deluge. Our
feeling of discomfiture is caused by the
obvious fact that free enterprise can
hardly operate at the point of a shotgun.
It has to have a chance to move around
a little. If, at the first sign of a tailing
off from the present orgy, the bureaucrats
ery triumphantly, “There, we told you!
The index numbers are off two points
already,” then the customers will have

to decide between freedom and “full em-

ployment” at made work. The present.

propaganda is not calculated to suggest
patience as a factor in making the de-
cision.

On the other hand, we are a little ner-
vous when we hear some business leaders
sound off on free enterprise without ex-
plaining that they will have to hump some
if free enterprise is not going to have a

wreath surreptitiously laid on its tomb

every ground-hog day. Free enterprise
implies, of course, a “profit economy,”
but it won’t get anywhere for long if it
does not also function as a “use economy.”
It is our belief that little will be pro-
duced for “use” unless there is plenty
of opportunity for profit. Sometimes,
though, we fear that Eric Johnston has
not convinced all his members that vice
versa is also true.

Our final doubt concerns the widespread
acceptance of collective security as our
future international policy. Too many of
the peace plans we read suggest a rigidity
which would permit too little opportunity
for the inevitable workings of change and
evolution, as if the international police
force would slap down dissenters first
and talk it over afterwards. We must not
forget that, as has been well said, “peace,
to be durable, must be endurable.” Some

. encouragement is contained in a recent

speech by Elmer Davis, who said that we
must not freeze the future international
organization into something static. We
must remember always to leave open the
possibility of change.” (Copyright 1943
by the Curtis Publishing Company.)

 

“A World to LIVE In”
on the Air

John Burton, who broadcasts for
station KNX, Hollywood Station of
the Columbia Broadcasting System,
devoted one of his recent broad-
casts to a discussion of “A World to
LIVE In,” the book published by
Rotary International consisting of
39 articles on postwar themes from
“The Rotarian.”

Mr. Burton’s broadcast centered
on the .article by Arthur Holly
Compton, Nobel Prize winner in
Physics. He says this of the book, in
general: “The material it contains
is so good, so authoritative and di-
versified that I recommend it to
everyone who is interested in estab-
lishing a peaceful and a just world
order.”

A few copies of “A World to LIVE >

In” are still available at 25c each,
six for $1.00, or 40 for $5.00. Orders
should be sent to Rotary Interna-
tional, 35 East Wacker Drive, Chi-
cago, 1, Illinois.

It ISN'T Too Early

The weather may still be wintry,
but that doesn’t mean it’s too early
to plan for Victory Gardens. Al-
though Victory Gardens were a
great success last year, the Govern-
ment is asking for even more and
even better gardens this year.

At the Regional Victory Garden
Conferences held all over the coun-
try during February, certain things
were stressed: (1) the importance
of early planning, choosing the soil,
preparing it and having good seed
ready to plant the moment weather
permits; (2) the economic value of
Victory Gardens in producing good
crops and aiding in the war effort;
(3) cooperation with other groups
sponsoring Victory Gardens so that
there will be no duplication of ef-

‘fort; (4) encouraging Victory Gar-

dens as a means of curbing juvenile
delinquency.

Keeping youngsters busy in the
garden keeps them out of mischief,

‘and the proper kind of sympathetic

backing will give them the satisfy-
ing feeling of having a part in na-
tional defense.

Training Schools for
4-H Leaders

There are 60,000 boys and girls in
Indiana actively interested in 4-H
Club work. The Rotary clubs for
several years have _ sponsored
schools for the training of adult
leaders in this work. Interest in the
project has grown steadily. Recently
three schools for training of adult
leaders were conducted at different
localities in the 154th district, and
all were well attended. Rotary clubs,
with the cooperation of local Coun-
ty Agricultural Agents, located men
and women leaders from their com-
munities, and arranged for and
financed their attendance at the
three training conferences.

The clubs feel that this activity
provides another opportunity to in-
tensify the “Food-for-Victory” pro-
gram.

You can’t spell Rotary with an
absent ‘“‘t.”
—Springfield, Illinois
Rotary Review
  

24 March 1944

 

 

Great
Progress

 

It would not be possible for any-
one to see the correspondence and
the bulletins that come to me from
Rotary clubs and district governors
in North America and in the south-
ern hemisphere without being tre-

mendously impressed with the prog- —

ress of the Work Pile project.

Thousands of communities are
going to be ready with jobs for their
boys and girls in the service when
the war ends. These jobs will carry
these young people over the recon-
version period. The plans include,
of course, similar jobs to bridge
over that period for the disemployed
civilian workers. Think what the
cumulative effect of this is going to

be on the economic condition of
each country,—and of the world!

Each week brings new evidence of
the applicability of the essential
elements of the Work Pile project
to communities of all sizes and
kinds, whether they be located in
Australia, in Southern Africa, in
Canada, the U.S.A., or elsewhere.

My appeal to Rotary club officers
is: Let it not be said at the close of
your term that the Rotary club has
not succeeded in arousing its com-
munity to the need for a complete
Work Pile survey which will reach
every family in order that all may
cooperate toward assuring adequate
employment for those first difficult
months following the war.

 

 

Placing Returning
Veterans

In Bristol, Connecticut, the Ro-
tary club is assisting the commu-
nity-wide committee on postwar
planning by taking over one branch
of the work, namely that of trying
to place returning veterans and act-
ing as an advisory staff to help these
veterans reestablish themselves in
the community. The government
has permitted the local draft board
to furnish the Rotary club commit-
tee with the names of veterans re-
turning to town. The club committee
writes to each such veteran, send-
ing. a questionnaire which, when
filled out and returned, is referred
to a member of the Rotary club
whose name, at the same time, is
given to the veteran in question as
a source of help to him.

86 Work Pile Leaders

In San Jose, California, the Work
Pile project is a community plan
headed by a general committee of
85 citizens under the general chair-
manship of a member of the Rotary
Club of San Jose. Their slogan is
“Greet Johnny with a Job—Help
Build the Work Pile.”

The Chamber of Commerce an-
nounced that early returns totaled
nearly eight million dollars but ex-
pected that figure to be much higher
when final returns are totaled.

Advanced students of two high
schools made the house-to-house

canvass to gather the survey blanks.

Five subcommittees are handling
the surveys among (A) industry,
(B) business, (C) public buildings,
(D) residential households, (E)
rural territory.

long as ae eee ts done’
Work Pile News No. 8

College Women

Canvassing

The Rotary Club of Glens Falls,
New York, reports that in the Work
Pile survey, largely sparked, guided
and manned by Rotarians, fifty
women from Skidmore College’s De-
partment of Business and Sociology
will spend a week canvassing the
community so as to reach every
family, if humanly possible. At the
same time the Glens Falls Area
Committee for Economic Develop-
ment will be conducting a survey
among manufacturers to obtain an
estimate of the number of jobs
available in the plants after the war
and the time required for them to
reach full production on a peace-
time basis.

Community
Cooperation

As a result of the initiative taken
by the Rotary Club of High Point,
North Carolina, postwar planning
work in that community is pro-
gressing in a highly successful man-
ner with wholehearted cooperation
among the service clubs, the C.E.D.,
the Chamber of Commerce, and the
school authorities.

Concurrently with the C.E.D. sur-
vey of industries, some 700 high
school students are canvassing all
householders, “applying” (as stated
by the secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce) “the Work Pile idea of
Rotary International.”

The survey among householders
will be followed up immediately with
a similar inquiry among stores and
offices. The secretary of the Cham-
ber of Commerce points out that the
total figures will be of importance
to three C.E.D. subcommittees on
distribution, construction, and serv-
ices.

fobs to bridge the reconversion period

 
Planning in Australia

Rotarian R. C. Hancock of Bris-
bane, Australia, governor of District
56, in addressing his clubs has
pointed to a tendency in these days
to set up bureaucracies which, as he
says, “filch away authority and con-
trol from private enterprise. Some
governmental control,” he adds, “is,
at a time like this, imperative for
obvious reasons, but one foresees a
great danger in these growing to
such proportions as to become un-
wieldy and uneconomic.”

“Private enterprise,’ he contin-

ued, “has shown out marvelously
in assisting the war effort in the

production of armaments, ammuni-
tion, planes, and ships.”

“It is difficult to understand that
enterprise of this nature so fre-
quently attracts a certain hostility

from some quarters, even though .~

such benefits constantly accrue to
these very critics.”

“One of the first important con-
siderations in planning is to assure
to men the right to develop their

own lives...it behooves us in our’:

early planning to make provision
for those who are securing for us
the worth-while things for which
we are fighting.”

“There is an opportunity for
every Rotarian to take his place at
the head of the things that need to
be done to furnish leadership in-
stead of hoping and praying for it.”

“Each community has opportu-
nities to study and consider its own
local and immediate problems. .
Could we not foster the establish-
ment of a public committee of the
leading men who could link up with
Rotarians to make a survey of local
needs when peace comes?.... We
cannot start too soon to estimate
requirements and have our organi-
zations ready to tackle the job. If
we do not plan on lines of this na-
ture we shall certainly be caught
napping and have to deal with a
chaotic state of things. Here is
planning for any small community.”

In Pulaski, Tennessee —

—the Rotary club has arranged with
the county school supervisor, from
the Chamber of Commerce, to have
the survey forms delivered to the
schools of the county. The forms
will be delivered’ to the parents by
the pupils, returned to the school
supervisor, and then go back to the
committee. This will be preceded by
about four large advertisements in
the two community papers to ac-
quaint the public with the aims of
the Rotary club.

In Southern Mice

—the official journal of the Rotary

clubs south of the equator carries
to all Rotarians the recommenda-
tion that Rotary clubs form com-
mittees which will initiate a cam-
paign for making an inventory of
deferred wants and services, which
citizens of the community are plan-
ning to care for as soon as the war
is over, so that the jobs represented
by these needs can be made avail-
able to returning servicemen. The
magazine points out that “A lot of
cooperation and planning would be
necessary, but it could be done.” The
district governor states “that Rotary
clubs can get busy and it is none too
soon to make a start.”

In Robersonville,

North Carolina —

—the first 25 returns in the Work
Pile survey conducted by this club
in its community of some 1,500 in-
habitants showed a pent-up demand
for goods and services valued at al-
most $74,000 which the individuals
reported they were financially able
to handle. This included outside
painting, inside decorating, remod-
elling, plumbing and heating equip-
ment, furniture and furnishings,
household appliances, farm carts
and wagons, farm implements, etc.
These same 25 returns showed an
estimated additional demand for 49
men beyond those at present em-
ployed.

In Windsor Locks,

Connecticut —

—the Rotary club, whose members
are drawn from Suffield and Wind-
sor Locks, is sponsoring a survey in

these two communities in coopera-

tion with the American Legion, the
Lions Clubs, the Chamber of Com-
merce, the C.E.D., and the War
Council to learn what work is to be
available to supply jobs right after
the war. Questionnaires are being
mailed to all persons in the area to
learn their deferred needs which
they are going to fill right after the
war. A general committee, formed
from representatives of the various
groups participating, is going to
carry out the survey.

In Jamestown,
North Dakota —

-—the Rotary club has accepted the

responsibility for one part of the

postwar planning for jobs for re- |

turning servicemen and war workers

Results in Colton,
California

The community-wide organization
set up for the purpose in Colton, Cal-
ifornia, has completed its Work Pile
survey. The results are impressive.
Here are some of the tabulated to-
tals for this community of upwards
of 10,000 (1940 census) :

New Residence and Repairs

197—new residence

113—add one, or
more rooms to
present dwell-

92—new garage

73—new plumbing
181—painting

69—roof repairs

ing 56—wiring or out-
70—modernize lets
home com- 66—fixtures
pletely
New Furniture and Household
Furnishings
143—new furniture 267—blankets or
for entire comforts
387—sheets

354—pillow cases_
189—table linen
223—drapes
183—lace curtains
219—window

ouse
112—furniture for
living room
76—furniture for
dining room
134—furniture for

edroom shades
63—furniture for 136—bed
kitchen 194—mattress
46—furniture for 100—dresser

den or spare 85—dining table

room 71—bookcase
282—rugs 54— chest
144—floor or table 126—overstuffed
lamps suite or pieces
21—tea wagon 113—china
141—chairs

Electric and Gas Appliances

87—electric range 107—waffle iron

262—radio 9)—heater (elec.)
180—refrigerator 121—gas range -
226—washer 34—refrigerator
117—ironer (gas)
46—percolator 65—heater (gas)
143—iron 115—water heater
142—toaster
Hardware

87—mechanic’s 38—cutlery.

tools 196—lawnmower
161—garden tools

50—pottery
289—garden hose :

Concrete Products

108—sidewalks or 43—irrigation

curbing system
56—foundation 3
Automobiles
280—new auto- 196—tires
mobiles Ti—battery
89—complete
overhaul
Jewelry
159—watches 48—jewelry

249—clocks
177—silverware

Toilet Articles

236—hot water bot-
tles, gloves,
and similar
rubber goods
Clothing

196—lingerie
194—- elastic girdles

35—cutglass

73—dresser set
65—perfume
73—mirror

389—women or girls
351—men or boys
126—children
349—shoes

52—fur coat

or foundations
397—hosiery

 

during the reconversion period.
Each Rotarian was made respon-
sible for contacting nine business
firms-and following up to get their
personnel plans for the immediate
postwar period.
 

 

I9AA Rotary International Convention

Drastically Reduced In Size

Due to constantly increasing transportation difficulties and congested hotel facilities
in Chicago, and with world-wide military activities being greatly accelerated, the
board of directors of R.I. has drastically reduced the size of the 1944 Rotary

International convention.

To transact essential business required by the R.I. constitution and by-laws. a
convention with representation primarily by proxies will be convened at the
Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, May 18, concurrently with the international

assembly. Features not required by provisions of the by-laws will be abandoned.

Accommodations are available for only international officers (including the outgoing
district governors, or their designated alternates, as members of the council on
legislation), R.I. committee chairmen, past international presidents, and district

governors nominee all of whom are participants in the assembly.

In meeting the current emergency realistically, the board is confident that every .
Rotary club, in the spirit of loyal and patriotic cooperation, will agree wholeheartedly
in the limitation of attendance only to those mentioned above. Each of these should be

designated a delegate by his club. He can also carry proxies of the clubs in his district.

Each Rotary club is urged to be represented by proxy through designating any of the
foregoing, especially the outgoing district governor or the incoming district governor.
as proxy for its club delegates. Credential certificates for such proxy representation

will be mailed to club secretaries by April 8.

All requests to the housing committee for hotel accommodations during the previously
q 8 8 p \
planned international conference (convention) are hereby cancelled, and full refund

of hotel deposits therefor will be made at an early date.

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF R.1.

Charles L. Wheeler, President

MARCH 31, 1944

 

 
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CHICAGO, U.S. A.
MAY 18 to 22, 1944

 

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35TH ANNUAL CONVENTION
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

 

 

 

 

 

A Streamlined Meeting

Rotary International’s thirty-fifth annual
Convention was conclusive evidence that
the Rotary organization is able to meet
any crisis. When it was found that—be-
cause of the tremendous increase in war-
time transportation problems—it would
be impracticable to hold the Convention
either in Omaha, Nebraska, where it had
been originally scheduled, or in Chicago,
it was decided to limit the meeting to
the present officers and incoming officers
of RI, the Past Presidents of RI, the rep-
resentatives on the Council on Legisla-
tion, and others designated as participants
in the International Assembly.

These 230 officers and delegates came
to Chicago from twenty-five countries to
preserve the continuity of Rotary—to re-
view the accomplishments of the organi-
zation during the past year—and to make
plans for an outstanding year of Rotary
service worldwide in 1944-45.

x x

Thursday Evening
Session

Rotary’s 1944 “Homecoming” Conven-
tion was convened Thursday evening
by Convention Committee Chairman Stan-
ley Long of Seattle, Washington. The
first plenary session opened most im-
pressively with the “Lord’s Prayer’ sung
in the rich baritone voice of Gunner
Charles Hovey of the Canadian Army.
Greetings were then extended to the Con-
vention by President Stan Clague of “Old
No. 1,” and Immediate Past President
Fernando Carbajal of Lima, Peru, re-
sponded with praise for the hospitality of
the Chicago Club.

In his message of greeting, Paul Harris
spoke of the progress which Rotary 1s
making in spite of the times, and em-
phasized the fact that the loss of Clubs
due to the war has been far more than
offset by the organization of new Clubs
throughout those parts of the world where
Rotary is still unhampered in its func-
tioning.

Rotarian Andres Pastoriza, President of
the Rotary. Club of Trujillo in the Do-
minican Republic, then came to the Con-
vention platform and on behalf of the
President of his country decorated Paul
with the Heraldic Order of Cristobal
Colon for his outstanding service to man-

kind. The great ovation which was ac-
corded Paul was shared by his beloved
Jean, who spoke briefly of her great
pleasure at having another opportunity to
meet friends from all parts of the world,
and particularly to meet the splendid
group from the Ibero-American countries,
many of which she had visited on her
travels with Paul.

The name of President Nominee Rich-
ard H. Wells was then presented to the
Convention. Past President Carbajal’s
motion that the united ballot of the Con-
vention be cast for Dick, which was sec-
onded by Director John [lott of Welling-
ton, New Zealand, was unanimously car-
ried. After Dick expressed his thanks to
the Convention for the great honor be-
stowed upon him, the -Convention fol-
lowed its annual custom of electing Rufus
F. Chapin of Chicago to serve another
term—his 32nd—as Treasurer of RI.

One of the most impressive features of
the evening’s program was the memorial
ceremony in honor of Rotarians who have
made the supreme sacrifice for their coun-
try in military and civic service. With the
lights of the Convention hall darkened, a
squad of four United States Marines, to a
fanfare of trumpets, marched down the
center aisle to the stage, carrying a huge
basket of flowers. Then Director Bart
Peak of Lexington, Kentucky, in the
warm glow of flickering candles, solemnly
paid tribute to the departed Rotarians
with a recitation of “Crossing the Bar”
and “They Have Not Died.’ Gunner
Hovey’s singing of “There Is No Death”
and the sounding of taps brought this
most impressive memorial ceremony to a
close.

President Charlie Wheeler then stepped
to the rostrum and after presenting his
Board of Directors and paying tribute to
the loyal support which they had given
him in coping with the many problems of
a difficult year, told of the splendid prog-
ress which had been made in spite of those
problems. Then in a dynamic address
marked by his characteristic courage and
optimism, he cited examples of how Ro-
tary Clubs which have suffered from the
ravages of war are carrying on in various
parts of the Eastern Hemisphere and
called upon all Rotarians to peer into the
future and to prepare Rotary for oppor-
tunities that still lie ahead—opportunities
such as are presented by the Work Pile
plan, the Rotary Foundation, and the or-
ganization of a postwar world in which
civilized men will fight as hard to combat

crime, poverty, disease, famine, greed,
and all the other peacetime enemies of
civilization, as they are now fighting their
more tangible wartime enemies.

xk *

Friday Evening Session

Following the invocation pronounced by
Past President Tom Davis of Butte, Mon-
tana, the second plenary session of the
Convention opened Friday evening with
an address by Past President Armando de
Arruda Pereira of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in
which he told of the splendid war effort
which is being made by his country and
emphasized the strong ties which bind
Brazil to the other United Nations at pres-
ent—strong ties which will become in-
creasingly stronger in the future. He
spoke, too, of the postwar problems facing
Brazil and other Ibero-American countries,
stating that the main problem will be to
increase the national income in order to
provide a higher standard of living for
the people generally.

An “International Kaleidoscope” —a
vivid and colorful picture of Rotary
throughout the world—proved to be one
of the outstanding thrills of the Conven-
tion. Tom Davis conducted the Kaleido-
scope and first called upon Director John
Ilott of Wellington, New Zealand, who
sketched briefly and _ skillfully the con-
tributions New Zealand is making to the
war effort and gave a few highlights of
the magnificent progress that Rotary has
made in New Zealand during the past two
years, with a tremendous increase in the
number of Rotary Clubs and in the work
being done by the Clubs. Particularly inter-
esting was his story concerning “Heritage”
—a movement promoted by the New
Zealand Clubs to help the boys whose
fathers have given their lives for the cause
of freedom.

Rotarian Kish Naoroji of Jamshedpur,
India, told of the rapid growth of Rotary
in India and Ceylon and gave a brief de-
scription of India, its ancient culture, its
enormous wealth, and the multiplicity of
problems to be overcome in order to raise
the general standard of living to a level
commensurate with the natural resources.

The next turn of the Kaleidoscope car-
ried the audience from the mystic Orient
to the Far North when Rotarian Edy
Velander of Stockholm, Sweden, told of
the difficult conditions under which Ro-
tary Clubs in Sweden are operating. The
splendid progress which they have made
may be gauged by the fact that four new
Rotary Clubs in that country have been
admitted to membership in RI during the
past twelve months. The excellent work
which the Swedish Rotarians and the
Swedish nation generally are doing to re-
lieve the suffering of its war-stricken
neighboring Scandinavian countries, was
also described by Rotarian Velander.

China was the next stop on this round-
the-world tour. Rotarian G. H. Wang,
Chinese Vice Consul at New Orleans,
Louisiana, and nephew of RI Director-
Elect C. T. Wang, told of the grave prob-
lems confronting Rotary in China, the
difficulty of fixing a time or place for
meetings because the building might not
be standing when the time for a meeting
came around, or an air raid might be on
which would make it necessary to go to
an air raid shelter. Despite such obstacles,
Rotarian Wang reported that the Clubs in
Free China are carrying on and have in
fact added two new Clubs to their number
during the past Rotary year. Rotarian
Dr. W. W. Pettus, Past President of the
Rotary Club of Changsha, China, told of
the courageous manner in which that Club
has coped with the almost insurmountable
problems facing it, and has been able to
accomplish splendid humanitazian work
for thousands of war refugees.

The status of Rotary in Mexico, the con-
tribution which that country is making
toward the victory of the United Nations,
and the fine relationship between Mexico
and others of the United Nations, partic-
ularly the U.S.A., were discussed by Di-
rector Carlos Collignon of Guadalajara,
Mexico. Particularly interesting was his
statement that 100,000 Mexican workers
have been taken from the fields, factories,
and railways of Mexico in order to help
the U.S.A. meet its war production prob-
lems, and that some 10,000 Mexican citi-
zens residing in the United States are
serving in the Armed Forces.

The International Kaleidoscope closed
in a blaze of color with a brilliant address
by RI Past Vice-President Col. Carlos P.
Romulo, of Manila, Philippine Islands.
Speaking on behalf of the peoples of the
Far East—half of the peoples of the entire
world—who are now living under the heel
of the oppressor, he thrilled his audience
in a dramatic appeal for freedom and jus-
tice for these “Unconquerables” who rep-
resent the undaunted spirit of freedom
everywhere and who are unceasingly and
relentlessly resisting the invader.

Col. Romulo’s address completed the
general program of the evening, but the
official delegates remained in the Conven-
tion hall for almost two hours longer for
the business session which was marked by
animated discussion and lively debate on
many issues. The action of the Conven-
tion on proposed enactments and resolu-
tions is recorded on page 6 of this report.

No Sessions Saturday or
Sunday

Saturday and Sunday were devoted to
sessions of the International Assembly, so
there were no plenary sessions of the
Convention.

xk *

President-Elect Wells
Speaks at Special
Luncheon

On Monday, the participants in the
Convention and the International Assem-
bly attended a special luncheon where
President-Elect Richard H. Wells intro-
duced his Board. In an inspiring address,
he forecast that the coming year—during
which Rotary will celebrate its fortieth
anniversary—will be a victory year for
Rotary, and he stated that it is time for
Rotarians to reaffirm their belief in the
aims and objects of Rotary. The past suc-
cesses which Rotary has had he attributed
to the fact that Rotary has never tried to
reform people, has never tried to change
their beliefs or opinions, but has only en-
deavored to add to the idealism of their
lives.

xk *
Monday Afternoon
Session

At the final plenary session on Monday
afternoon, the Convention elected Direc-
tors of RI, the elective officers of the Gen-
eral Council of RIBI, and the District
Governors and RI Representatives.

Sir Gerald Campbell, British Minister
in Washington and Special Assistant to
the British Ambassador in the United
States, then delivered his address on
“What Are the Nations Striving For?” in
which he expressed the hope that mutual
confidence between the United Nations
will be solidly established and maintained
to the end that effective international co-
operation may prevail in the postwar
world.

The challenge of the future, particu-
larly as it pertains to Rotary, was the
subject of an address by Past President
Will R. Manier, Jr., of Nashville, Tennes-
see, who commanded the rapt attention of
the Convention with the lucid interpreta-
tion of the role which Rotary can and
must play in the days that lie ahead.

Datus Proper of San Antonio, Texas,
presented the report of the Election Ar-
rangements Committee, and Frank Phil-
lips of Ithaca, New York, reported for
the Credentials Committee. The final ses-
sion of the Convention was then con-
cluded with a message from President
Wheeler and the traditional singing of
Auld Lang Syne.

[2]

Report of the Registra-
tion Committee
There were 266 Rotarians in attendance

at the Convention from the following 26
countries:

Argentina

Australia

Bolivia

Brazil

Canada

Chile

China

Colombia

Costa Rica

Cuba

Dominican Republic
Ecuador

England

India

Mexico

Netherlands West Indies
New Zealand
Nicaragua

Panama

Peru

Puerto Rico

Sweden

Switzerland

Union of South Africa
United States of America
Uruguay

x *

Council on Legislation

The Council on Legislation of the 1944
Convention met on Thursday afternoon,
May 18th. Thorough consideration was
given to all proposed enactments and res-
olutions, and although there was consider-
able debate concerning some of the pro-
posed legislation, the Council was able to
formulate its recommendations in record
time because of the limited number of
matters to be presented to the Convention
for action.

x *

A Romantic Journey

On Sunday evening the participants in
the Convention took a “Romantic Jour-
ney on the Wings of Song” to the color-
ful countries of Ibero America. The pro-
gram, which featured songs and dances by
the talented Navarro sisters, also included
travelogues in technicolor and piano selec-
tions by Miss Elena Hitchcock, daughter
of Mervyn Hitchcock, of San Francisco,
California, Governor of the 104th District.
STANLEY R. CLAGUE

President,
Rotary Club of Chicago

Thirty-four years ago it was the
pleasure of the then President of the
Chicago Rotary Club to welcome to

 

this city the delegates of fifteen other
Rotary Clubs who, with the delegates
from our Club, convened here for the
purpose of forming an association of
existing and future Rotary Clubs.

Twenty years later the Chicago Ro-
tary Club again had the honor and
pleasure of welcoming to our city a
convention of the Rotary Clubs with
over 11,000 delegates and visitors from
3,350 Clubs in 60 countries. Truly the
movement had become “Rotary Inter-
national.”

Tonight it is my privilege on behalf
of the 720 officers and members of the
Chicago Rotary Club to welcome to
Chicago what is the most unusual and
unique Convention of Rotary Interna-
tional that has ever been held.

We of Chicago most heartily wel-
come you, President Charlie, members
of the Board, and all others attending
this 1944 Assembly and Convention.

xk *

Convention Hospitality
Lounge

Because of wartime restrictions, no elab-
orate plans were made to entertain those
attending the Convention. However, the
wives of the members of the Rotary Club
of Chicago were active throughout the
five days of the Convention, serving as
hostesses in the Hospitality Lounge. Tea
was served every afternoon, and incidental
entertainment included bridge, book re-
views, musical numbers, and dramatic
sketches.

FERNANDO CARBAJAL
Past President, RI

During my year as President of Ro-
tary International it was my good for-
tune to visit Rotary Clubs in every
country in the Americas, from Canada
on the north to Argentina and Chile
on the south. I feel particularly sure,
therefore, that I can speak especially for
the Rotarians of this Western Hemi-
sphere. I know how they love Rotary
and how they respect “Old Number
One.”

The world of tomorrow will need
the idealism of Rotary more than ever
before. The wounds of this war will
be deep. We must be prepared to ap-
ply the soothing and healing lotion of
service to others. We must mobilize
the resources and the vast potential

 

strength of our organization for the
battle that still lies ahead.

We are here, therefore, to get a new
vision, to resolve anew that this great
power for good which has been put
into our hands shall not go unused,
but be treated as a sacred trust.

We, who have gathered here in Chi-
cago for this historic Convention, are
relatively few in numbers but the posi-
tions of honor and responsibility which
we hold make our potential leadership
very important. It is good for us to be
here in the birthplace of Rotary. We
hope and resolve that it shall be good
for Rotary that we have been here.

xk *&

Fellowship Dinners

On Saturday evening many of those at
the Convention enjoyed a special oppor-
tunity for fellowship at the British Com-
monwealth of Nations, the Ibero-Ameri-
can, U.S.A. and International Fellowship
Dinners. In addition to the interesting
talks which were given, there was special
musical entertainment.

[3]

PAUL P. HARRIS

President Emeritus, RI

We might think of Rotary today as
something like a great river, the surface
of which is disturbed at times, but the
current moves irresistibly on. The sur-
face of Rotary is whipped up at times
by the political winds which play upon
it, but Rotary moves steadily onwards;
the fiat of despots is unable to stem
the flow.

The loss of Clubs in middle Europe
during the present war has been far
more than offset by the organization
of new Clubs in other parts of the
world. ‘There has never been such an
awakening of interest in Rotary. Now,
as never before, right-minded men in

all civilized nations see the need of

promoting international understanding
and good will and no better way of
accomplishing this objective has as yet
been made available than Rotary’s
world-wide fellowship of business and
professional men.

I have been privileged to visit many
countries in the name of Rotary, and
the more I visit, the more I am dis-
posed to conclude that there are no
great fundamental differences between
men and between nations. None are
entirely good, none entirely bad. The

 

great mischief-maker is misunderstand-
ing. Every nation has contributed
much to the sum total of human hap-
piness.

ok *

Report of the Creden-
tials Committee

Oiicers) Presents 60 os ps
Delcoates Present. cn ee a 158
Nunber ‘of Proxies’ 3553)
Total Convention Vote....3,765
CHARLES L. WHEELER
President, RI

If the world of tomorrow is to be
worthy of the sacrifices of today, it must
be based on the great principles for
which Rotary stands. We are proud of

 

the manner in which Rotary Clubs
everywhere have responded to the un-
usual needs created by a world at war.
The real test for humanity, however,
will come when the last shot of this
war is fired. Will we be able to face
the problems of peace with the same
courage and fortitude with which we
have faced the problems of war? ‘To-
day we present a united front against
a common foe, because we can visualize
that enemy as other humam beings who
would impose their philosophy of life
upon us, against our will. ‘Tomorrow
we will again be facing the less tan-
gible, but no less dangerous enemies of
crime, poverty, disease, famine, greed,
Will these en-

emies of mankind be aided and abetted

and all of their allies.

by the fifth column of indifference

within our ranks?

If we are able to learn any lesson
from this terrible war, it should be in
the value of unity, coordination, and
cooperation. Through those attributes
we are winning glorious victories on
the field of battle.
them, also, in helping to build a world

Let us learn to use

which will be worthy of the sacrifices
we have made—a world in which the
spirit of service will be the governing

principle in the lives of men.

ARMANDO PEREIRA
Past President, RI

I feel proud that since the time of
the Brazilian Empire, our foreign pol-
icy has run parallel and in absolute ac-
cord with that of the U.S.A. The ties
which unite my country to the U.S.A.
and Great Britain are very soon going
to be still more solidly cemented, with
the strongest of all cements: blood.
Our air forces are already cooperating
in Africa and our first Army Expedi-
tionary Forces are awaiting orders to
depart!

Allow me to say something more
clearly interpreting the sentiment of
Brazilians: Even if it were to go down
in defeat, Brazil would still be friendly,
brotherly, and indestructably tied, as in
the past, to the same fate and destiny
as. the Ls-A,

 

America— land of liberty — where
men fought for their freedom; Amer-
ica, where borders do not serve to
divide but to unite peoples and nations;
America, where Rotary was born to in-
spire and teach men how to live in
harmony! North, Central, and South
America are only geographical designa-
tions, for there is only one America,
your land, my land, the land of our
sons!

To have faith and perseverance is to
have confidence in self strength. I
believe in God. I believe in America
and in the intelligence and kindheart-
edness of its people. I believe in Rotary
as a powerful means of establishing
friendliness and justice for the recon-
struction of the better world of to-
morrow for mankind.

[4]

COL. CARLOS ROMULO
Past Vice-President, RI

I want to call to the attention of this
conference—in behalf of the millions
of Orientals who will have to play a
vital role in the postwar world of to-
morrow—the problem of extending the
influence of Rotary in that part of the
world after the defeat of Japan.

The countries in the Far East will
need, after the war, more than any-
where else and more than at any time
before, the vitalizing force and influ-
ence of Rotary. Rotary must focus
its spotlight on the Orient where it has
an unlimited field of expansion and
service, a field where its high ideals
have so far not been heard adequately
and applied, a field so rich in possibil-
ities that nobody who has the interests
of Rotary at heart can afford to ignore
the tremendous opportunities which it

offers.

In an even more important sense,
Rotary should fix its attention on the
Far East because it is the stage whereon
the next great drama of our time will
be enacted. After the achievement of
victory, the Far East will be the theater
of great happenings. If Rotary is to be
true to its name, it must seek every
means by which its participation in
those tremendous happenings may be

insured. The spotlight of contempo-

 

rary history has been focused upon the
Far East. May the spotlight of Rotary
idealism and achievement be focused in
the same direction with equal clarity

and force.
SIR GERALD CAMPBELL

British Minister to Washing-
ton and Special Assistant
to the British Ambassador
to the U.S.A.

I know that some people like to
speak, and some toythink with all sin-

 

cerity, of freedom, justice, of “never
again” and they gain easy applause
from their audiences, but I am inclined
to think that what most of us in most
countries yearn for as much as any-
thing is stability.

By “stability” I do not mean rigidity
—not the unchanging institution, but
the shifting, supple balance of the
climbing mountaineer—in what we
have come to call the postwar world.
We do not know very exactly what it
will be like. We may have some totally
new issues to face just as, towards the
end of the last war, our thinking and
our planning was all upset by the addi-
tion to our vocabulary of a totally new
word—the word “Bolshevism.”

But, as things go at present, we should
be something like a group of partners
going into a new business without
much to hang a hat on except what
might be called “general intentions.” It
will not be much use playing about
with one another unless the chief gen-
eral intention is a chief general inten-
tion to cooperate, unless the partners
can, and want to, rely on one another’s
fairness and sense of justice, on one
another’s energy and ability, on one an-
another’s experience and connections.
That is the only way in which we can
proceed happily towards the “Journey’s
End.”

RICHARD H. WELLS
President-Elect, RI

It is time to reaffirm our belief in
the Aims and Objects of Rotary. I wish
I could bring a revival of the power
and message of Rotary in every Rotary
Club and in the heart of every Rotarian
in the world. If you are tired of the
Aims and Objects of Rotary, if they
seem trite and hackneyed to you, then
you are tired of Rotary, because therein
are the fundamentals of Rotary exist-
ence.

In Rotary, we ask each man to de-
velop himself and seek the service for
which his talents best suit him, and if
all Rotarians are serving, then Rotary
will reach its best and highest level of
achievement. There is a tremendous
power and influence which is generated
by men meeting together, a quarter of
a million of them, men of good will,
good desires, and good intentions,

<

 

meeting every week with the deter-
mination to know and to understand
one another.

As long as we adhere strictly to the
Aims and Objects of Rotary, and do
not allow ourselves to be sidetracked
into various and devious paths which
cause us to forget our real objectives,
we can avoid those cleavages and mis-
understandings which come about
through differences in our environ-
ment, in our language, and our philos-
ophies. No Rotarian is asked to accept
a particular theory of economics. No
man is asked to change his philosophies,
his opinions, nor his religion. But
every Rotarian can safely be asked to
believe high
ethical standards in business, and in the
broadening of the basis of his acquaint-

in better citizenship,

anceship, so that he may extend his
influence for good to his neighbors, to
his countrymen, and to all the world.

[5]

WILL R. MANIER, JR.
Past President, RI

The future does challenge Rotary,
and we have tried to meet that chal-
lenge. There have been many extrava-
gant predictions made about Rotary in
the past. However, I say that no predic-
tion that any one of you here could
make today would be as extravagant
as that of Paul Harris and his three
associates had they predicted in 1905
exactly what has happened in the last
39 years. |

I had my fling at trying to save the
world in far-off places when I was
President of Rotary International.
When I got back, I made up my mind
that the place to make my contribution
was right in Nashville. I’m not much
interested in doing anything except in
Tennessee and in my own community.
I believe that we are going to win this
war in the communities as much as in
the South Pacific and in Europe. If
each one of us and if each of our Rotary
Clubs can just do our full part back
home, and then multiply that by the
5,200 Rotary Clubs that we have now,
and ultimately by ten or twelve thou-
sand Clubs, we can achieve the goal of
Rotary—and with all of those members
from every classification and each of
those members a real Rotarian, there is
no telling what we might achieve.

So I say to you fellows, take Rotary
seriously, take your job seriously, but
don’t take yourself seriously. Let’s keep
Rotary simple. Let’s make Rotary real-

 

istic. If you do, you may achieve far
beyond your own vision of Rotary, just
as Rotary has always exceeded the
vision of everybody who has ever
thought about it.
 

 

General Off: cers

Kotary i ahnal 1944-45

      

4
me

WELLS CoLLIGNON ILotrr PETTENGILL

President
RICHARD: Hi. WELLS 3: ee Pocatello, Idaho, U.S.A.
First Vice-President
CARLOS: M. COLLIGNON:. 2 Se Guadalajara, Mexico
Second Vice-President
Wellington, New Zealand

Third Vice-President
CHARLES W. PETTENGILL ___ Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.A.

J. M. A. ILOTT

 

    

 

BoypD Hoop McINTYRE REILLY

      

TAYLOR TROLLE WANG WHEELER YOUNG

Directors
The above Officers and:
ROBERT J. BOYD

Panama City, Panama

 

DOANE. Re PARR 2 oe a ee Clinton, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
THOMAS ROOD oe Dunn, North Carolina, U.S.A.
OLIVER: Ce McIN TYRE #285 See Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
JORDY Dees a et Whittier, California, U.S.A.
PIPR BEI ba eORe fo Ae eg Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

C. HARALD TROLLE Kalmar, Sweden
CHENGTING T. WANG Chungking, China
CHARLES bE“ WHEEBER. n>. San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
T. D. YOUNG

 

 

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

 

    

LOVEJOY CHAPIN

Secretary
PRILEIP LOVEJOY sets se a ae Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Treasurer

RUFUS F. CHAPIN Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

 

 

 

[6 ]

Action on Legislation
No. 44-1

To revise the procedure for the appotnt-
ment of members to the Council on
Legislation.

ApopTep as AMENDED.
No. 44-2

To modify the procedure of the Board
of Directors in voting by mail.
ADOPTED.

No. 44-3

To provide that the Magazine Commit-
tee shall be a standing committee of
Rotary International.

ApopTeD As AMENDED.
No. 44-4

To provide for the term of office of
the Secretary to run concurrently with
the calendar year.

ApoptTep As AMENDED.

No. 44-5
To create a District Governor's Cabinet
in each District.
Nor Apoptep.
No. 44-6
To provide for adoption of a fifth
Object of Rotary.
CoNSIDERED AS WITHDRAWN.
No. 44-7
To remove the restrictions in Resolu-
tion 28-11 with regard to the site of
a permanent home for Rotary.
ApopTeD AS AMENDED.

No. 44-8

To rescind Resolution No. 36-I13A au-
thorizing the outpost membership ex-
periment.

ADOPTED.
No. 44-9A

To clarify the provisions relating to the
Relief Fund for War-Affected Ro-
tarians and to transfer that Fund to
the Rotary Foundation.

ADOPTED.
No. 44-9

To clarify the provisions relating to the
Relief Fund for War-Affected Ro-
tarians.

ConsIDERED AS WITHDRAWN.
No. 44-10

To modify the present requirements for
dropping the classification when a
Rotarian becomes a senior active or
a past service member.

CoNsIDERED AS WITHDRAWN AND ReE-
FERRED TO THE Boarp oF Direcrors
oF RI.

No. 44-11

To provide for the transfer of funds
from the surplus of Rotary Interna-
tional to the Rotary Foundation.
ADOPTED.

No. 44-12

To adopt objectives for the Rotary
Foundation.

ADOPTED.
25 Feb. 1944

To Club Presidents and Secretaries

The News Letter

From the R. |. Secretariat (Central Office)
35 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago |, Ill.,

No. 16 —1943-44

USS. A:

 

Havana's Generosity

1,000,000 cigars

10,000,000 cigarettes
100,000 pounds of candy
160,000 chocolate bars

10,000 records of Cuban
rhumba music

were sent by the Rotary Club of
Havana, Cuba, to allied soldiers
fighting on the world’s battlefronts.

These gifts were made possible by
the campaign initiated by the Ro-
tary club last September for money
to buy Christmas gifts for allied sol-
diers, which raised $125,000.

Last August, Havana Rotarians, in
cooperation with several other or-
ganizations, sent American soldiers
on Guadalcanal ten tons of Cuban
candy.

Empire Services Club

Since November, 1939, when the
Rotary Club of Grimsby and Clee-
thorpes, England, opened its Empire
Services Club, the doors of this can-
teen have never been closed for a
single day. Since that date over a
million cups of tea and coffee and
800,000 light meals have been served
to the soldier guests. The club pro-
vides innocent amusement, com-
panionship under the best condi-
tions, and, above all, an atmosphere
of home and friendship. It is staffed
entirely by volunteer workers.

Since last July, the Rotary club
has invited four American service-
men to the club luncheon each
week. Many of the guests have been
Rotarians and sons of Rotarians.

 

Now
5,137 Rotary Clubs
218,500 Rotarians

(Of these 53 clubs with 1,600 members
in war-affected countries are inactive)

84 New Clubs in 20 Countries
Since July 1, 1943

Brazil leads all countries (outside the
United States of America) with 14
new clubs thus far this Rotary year.

 

 

 

You Slog Through Mud...

for a mile downhill from our broad-
casting station to Victory House in
Chungking—a former Chinese club,
now a hotel. Furnishings are very
modest—you sit on little stools at a
T-shaped table with the 43 mem-
bers. You meet military men, mis-
sion representatives, business men,
diplomatic corpsmen, professional
men.

The luncheon is modest—soup, a
meatball with an egg atop, potatoes,
and a waffle for dessert. The cost—
only eighty dollars! (A good dinner
costs several times that price.)

The president, a member of the
British Embassy and a resident of
China for many years, introduces
visiting Rotarians. Rotary club flags
are on either side of him. One reads
“Singapore Rotary Club,” the other,
“Hankow Rotary Club.” These cities
are in enemy-occupied territory—
but their Rotary banners are ready:
to go back with the coming of Vic-
tory.

The secretary announces a gift of
$1,500 in U.S. currency from the
Rotary Club of Philadelphia, Penna.,
U.S.A., as a gift to Chungking’s
needy—a sum that will realize some
45,000 Chinese dollars.

The president rises and says “In-
asmuch as this is American Thanks-
giving, let us sing ‘America the
Beautiful’.” We do, thinking of those
so many thousands of miles from us
back home. We Americans are asked
to sing a song of ours and we answer
with a song dedicated to Chungking
—‘“It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More’’—
which, by the way, it is always doing.

It is a difficult life here—mud—
lack of running water —lightless
nights—difficult communications—

threats of bombing—but Chungking ~

carries on!

Taken from a letter from Geo. Grim,
Jr., honorary member of the Rotary Club
of Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A., to his
home club, describing a typical meeting
of the Rotary Club of Chungking.

ae

 

Today’s Service Story

In this issue of the News Letter
is a description of Calgary’s Boys
Town Club which is doing a great
job in helping to decrease juven-
ile delinquency in Calgary.

While Calgary Rotary has made
the Boys Town Club possible, one
man is largely responsible for its
unprecedented success. He is
Hiram Coulter, employed by the
Rotary Club to run Boys Town
Club. He is a man not only trained
to work with boys, but one who
dearly loves that work. As soon
as he took charge of the project,
it took on new life—more boys
joined, new activities were added.
He now has 200 boys under his
leadership, boys of many nation-
alities, races, and religions. Night
after night he can be found at
the club, working diligently for
the welfare of his boys.

“Hi” Coulter is not only helping
boys who might otherwise never
know the joy of wholesome and
cooperative effort in work and
play—he is building for the
future.

 

 

 

Rotarians Entertain
Children of P.O. W.

Some 1,500 children, whose fathers
are prisoners of war, were guests of
the Rotary Club of Edinburgh, Scot-
land, at a pantomime performance
of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.”
The management contributed the
use of the theatre and all artists
and staff volunteered their services.
As a special treat, arrangements
were made with the Red Cross to
release 2,000 bars of chocolate to the
children.

Plans were made at this perform-
ance to put on another show for the
benefit of the fathers of these 1,500
children, with the intention of send-
ing a special parcel to each Edin-
burgh father in captivity.

£116 for the Red Cross

Seventeen Rotarians of Port Eliz-
abeth, South Africa, recently spent
Saturday morning on Main Street
soliciting funds for the Red Cross.
Their work was well done, for they
collected £116.
Magazine Committee in
Rotary Clubs

The attention of all Rotary clubs
is called to the following amend-
ment to the recommended Rotary
club by-laws which was made by the
board of directors of RI. at its
January 1944, meeting:

The board amends the recom-
mended Rotary club by-laws as fol-
lows:

a) by adding to the list of committees
which appears in Section 1(b) of Article
VII “magazine committee.”

b) by adding to Section 2 of Article
VUI a subsection (g) to read as follows:

(g) Magazine Committee. This commit-
tee is to be comprised of the club presi-
dent as ex officio member, three regular
members of staggered appointment, each
Serving for three years, and, wherever
feasible, the editor of the local club pub-
lication and a local newspaper or adver-
tising member of the club. The duties of
the committee are to include the stimula-
tion of reader interest in “The Rotarian”
and/or “Revista Rotaria”; sponsoring of
a magazine week; arranging for brief
monthly reviews of the magazines on
regular club programs; encouraging use
of the magazines in the induction of new
members; providing a copy of one of the
magazines for non-Rotarian speakers; se-
curing fourth object and other special
subscriptions for libraries, hospitals,
schools and other reading rooms; the send-
ing of news items, photographs, etc., to
the editors of the magazines and in other
ways making these magazines of service
to the club members and non-Rotarians.

Re-election to Office

In order to give more Rotarians
the opportunity to serve their club
as Officers, it is the policy in Rotary
that club officers should not be en-
couraged or expected to hold office
for two successive years.

The board of R.I. is in agreement
with this as a matter of general pro-
cedure. However, in view of the effect
of the war on manpower in Rotary
clubs, as well as in all walks of life,
the board suggests that, where cir-
cumstances warrant, clubs may find
it advantageous to elect an officer
for a second and successive year or
to re-elect, after an interim period,
some former officer of the club.

R. I. Director from Canada

Concurring in a recommendation
of the Canadian advisory committee,
the board of R.I. has amended para-
graph 1 of the terms of reference of
the committee by adding to it the
following sentence:

The RI. director from Canada shall be
an ex officio member of the committee.

The terms of reference of the
C.A.C. appear on pages 34 and 35 of
the “Manual of Procedure” (Pam-
phlet 35—October, 1942, edition).

Club Secretaries!

 

_ Names of Individuals

Required

The names of individuals who are
to occupy rooms must accompany
all requisitions for hotel accommo-
dations at the 1944 international
conference of R.I. to be held in Chi-
cago, Ill., May 15th to 18th, 1944.
Heretofore hotels would accept req-
uisitions for a certain number of
rooms for the members of a particu-
lar club. They will not do so this
year.

To insure the reservation of rooms
for the members of your club who
are planning to attend the interna-
tional conference, be sure to indicate
on the hotel requisition form the
names of all persons who will oc-
cupy the space.

Be Represented —
in Person or by Proxy

Since the by-laws of Rotary Inter-
national provide that a quorum for
a convention of R.I. shall consist of
delegates from 25% of the member
clubs, those clubs not planning to be
represented at Chicago by personal
delegates should arrange for their
proxies to be in the hands of some
Rotarian from within the district
who will be present — perhaps the
governor nominee or the outgoing
governor or someone else who is
known to be planning to attend.

Another Honor for
Charlie Burchell

Charles J. Burchell, long-time Ro-
tarian and well-known to Rotarians
in the U.S.A., Canada and New-
foundland, and Australia, has been
appointed High Commissioner for
Canada in the Union of South
Africa. Charlie has served his gov-
ernment as High Commissioner to
Australia and as High Commissioner
for Canada. with headquarters in
St. John’s. Newfoundland. In an-

nouncing the new appointment, the

“Ottawa Evening Citizen” said:

No better Canadian High Commissioner
could be sent to South Africa, where Mr.
Burchell will go at an early date. As a
pioneer Rotarian, perhaps it is the Rotary
spirit manifesting itself in work for which
Mr. Burchell is peculiarly fitted.

Charlie has been a Rotarian since
1913. He has held membership in
Rotary wherever he was stationed—
in Halifax, Canada, Canberra, Aus-
tralia, and St. John’s, Newfound-

. land. He has served R.I. as a gov-

ernor, committeeman, and as direc-
tor and third vice-president. Our
best wishes go with him in his new
assignment.

«

Calgary Boys Town Club

In 1939 the Rotary Club of Cal-
gary, Alta., Canada, and several
other service clubs, organized a Boys
Town Club to serve the downtown
congested area of Calgary. During
the first summer 65 boys enrolled.
Before the year was out the service
clubs, other than the Rotary club,
withdrew their support of this pro-
ject, and the Rotary club decided to
carry on alone.

Since that time Boys Town Club
has grown in number and types of
activities, and in membership. Now
200 boys of from nine to sixteen
years of age, of many different na-
tionalities, are members.

When the club outgrew its quar-
ters, the Rotary club bought a build-
ing and converted it into a model
club house with workshops, stage,
lockers, showers, etc. Club activities
are model aeroplane building, wood-
working and belt braiding, swim-
ming, gymnasium and _ physical
training, hockey and soft-ball.

The boys manufacture toys, which
are sold, part of the proceeds going
to the boys, and part for the pur-
chase of materials.

Many of Boys Town Club’s best
members are boys who have com-
mitted offenses against the law and
have been in the juvenile court. The
work of readjustment in many cases
has been carried on through the
Boys Town Club. Calgary Rotarians
and law enforcement agencies be-
lieve that the fact that their city
has a declining rate of juvenile de-
linquency, when statistics show a 50
per cent increase in delinquency in
Canada, is significant evidence that
the Boys Town Club is filling an
urgent need. -

Director Nominee
Robert J. Boyd

In News Letter No. 15, dated 4
February, 1944, data was published
concerning the four Rotarians who
have been nominated by the board
of directors of R.I. to serve as direc-
tors of R.I. in 1944-45. The secretar-
iat has now received up-to-date bio-
graphical information concerning
Director Nominee Robert J. Boyd of
Panama as follows:

His classification is “insurance”; he is
president of Boyd Bros., Inc.; he has been
a Rotarian for 20 years (holding member-
ship from 1924 to 1929 in the Rotary Club of
Cristobal, Canal Zone—Colon, Panama,
and from 1929 to the present time in the
Rotary Club of Panama City):

 

All of your members “old” and “new”
will have a better knowledge of Rotary
if they will read

Kotary in 47 Minutes

Buy a copy for each member of your
club

50c a copy—45c in lots of 10 or more.

 

 

 
 

25 Feb. 1944

The News Letter

USCNB Supplement

No. 16 —1943-44

SRE RN ENE EE SES I SE Ps AO Ne SO OO WS EE AE PE EE OP

National Boys

and Girls Week
Youth Power for Days Ahead!

That is the theme of the 1944 ob-
servance of National Boys and Girls
Week, which will be held from April
29 to May 6 inclusive.

Since the first Boys Week was
sponsored by the Rotary Club of
New York in 1920, the observance
has grown to be an annual world-
wide event of increasing importance.

Hundreds of communities
throughout the United States are
preparing for their 1944 celebration,
and in many countries, notably in
South America, youth leaders are
making plans for their observance
of Boys and Girls Week.

In the United States the observ-
ance is under the sponsorship of the
National Boys and Girls Week Com-
mittee for the United States, of
which Rotarian John L. Griffith of
Chicago is‘chairman, and Rotarian
S. Kendrick Guernsey, of Orlando,
Florida, is secretary.

Because of the wartime increase
in juvenile delinquency, Rotary
clubs will find in the observance a
splendid opportunity for the pre-
sentation of a program which will
focus the attention of the commu-
nity on its most important natural
resources—its boys and girls.

Copies of the “Advance Herald,”
which outlines the program of the
week, have been distributed to Ro-
tary club presidents and secretaries.

Additional copies of this publica-
tion, and the Manual of Suggestions,
which gives information concerning
the planning of a local celebration,
are obtainable without charge, upon
request, from Rotary International,
35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago 1, Ill.

From a Rotarian
On Active Duty in India

The Rotary letters are very nice and I
enjoy each one. Please keep sending them.
Imagine my surprise when I disembarked
—the first thing I saw was a Rotary can-
teen serving tea and sweets. It was run by
English ladies and they were very nice.
I let them know I was a Rotarian and they
seemed quite pleased. It was on wheels
and for several days it seemed to be every
place I happened to be. Had I never re-
ceived anything else from Rotary, it was
worth all I have contributed just to see the
International Rotary sign on that canteen.

—From a letter to the president
of his club from a Rotarian of
Vinta, Okla., U.S.A.

 

A Personal Message
to Club Presidents

The reports of Work Pile activ-
ity at the recent meeting of the
“Post-War” Committee were
nothing short of amazing. What
some of our Rotarians are doing
to make certain that they can say
“welcome son; here’s a job” to
every local boy returning from

the service, is positively inspiring.

Contacts with all sorts of com-
munities in all parts of North
America confirm the conviction
that any town or city, to be able
to welcome its lads home that
way, must carry out a thorough
survey among all householders,
merchants; professional men and
farmers.

If any Rotary club president
hasn’t put his club squarely be-
hind such a Work Pile survey—
no matter who is running the
survey—I wish he’d write to the
Secretariat in Chicago at once for
helpful information, and state
his problem clearly.

Rotary cannot afford to let any
community down. That means ac-
tion now—not later on. It means
personal service by busy men
whose days are full already. It is
home-front support for the-boys
“out there.” Can any Rotarian
deny them that? The Work Pile
is Rotary’s answer.

 

 

 

Birthday Greetings

From R.I. Director Sir Shapoorjee
B. Billimoria of Bombay, India,
comes the following message:

On the 23rd February Rotary will be
39 years old, and I hasten to convey my
congratulations to the Rotary world which
has subsisted during the periods of two
world wars and has been a means of
spreading its gospel of peace and fellow-
ship. I am sending this letter by air mail
so that it may reach you in time when
you are celebrating the 39th birthday.
May there by many happy returns of this
happy day and may we all look forward
with all eagerness to see that peace and
good will is established on the face of
the globe once again at the time we would
be celebrating the Rotary birthday.

Have You Any
Foreign Maps?

The War Department of the Unit-
ed States Government is calling
upon Rotarians for foreign maps of
ALL areas outside of continental
America, to be used by Army Map
Service, Washington.

Needed

City Plans and Port Plans on a scale of
not less than 1:25,000.

Important Foreign Atlases.

Road Maps, Topographical and Geolog-
ical Maps not smaller than 1:1,000,000.

Guide Books, Place-Lexicons, Gazeteers
and Postal Guides.

Not Needed

Maps printed in the United States or
Great Britain, such as National Geo-
graphical Society, etc.

World War I Maps.

The more recently issued publica-
tions are preferred.

Please state whether your mate-
rial is a gift to the War Department.
If you prefer to lend it, reproduction
will be made and the originals re-
turned to you.

Forward All Material to Office

in Your Area

Chicago Library Branch
ARMY MAP SERVICE
79 West Monroe Street
Chicago 3, Illinois

New York Library Branch
ARMY MAP SERVICE

1270 Sixth Avenue

New York City 20, New York

San Francisco Library Branch
ARMY MAP SERVICE

74 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco 5, California

Food Will Fight
Until the War Is Won

The “Food Fights for Freedom”
campaign is still going strong, and
it will continue to go strong — but
only with your cooperation — until
the war is won. And what does your
cooperation consist of? It consists
of: keeping the Home Front Pledge
to accept no rationed goods without
giving up ration points; of paying
no more than top legal prices; of
erowing more in ’44; of conserving
everything possible; and of using
food most productively for health
and strength. None of these is a very
difficult job, none is very extraordi-
nary, but all of them are just plain
common sense if you really want to
help end the war quickly.
 

 

It's All in Knowing How

The Rotary Club of Norwalk, Con-
necticut, and the local Boy Scout
organization, promoted a commu-
nity Victory Garden project last
year which resulted in a prodigious
yield. Conservative estimates show
production of 2,000 dozen ears of
corn, 200 bushels of potatoes, 10,000
beet roots, 9,000 carrot roots, 21,400
pounds of tomatoes, 200 pounds of
peas, 2,400 bunches of broccoli, and
an equally high yield from other
plants and seeds.

Norwalk Rotarians surveyed and
staked off over 200 twenty by thirty
foot garden plots in a fertile eight-
acre farm, loaned for the purpose
by a local realtor. Soil tests were
made at the University of Connecti-
cut, several tons of fertilizer and
lime were applied, and pre-season
lectures presented by the University
and County Farm Bureau to the
embryo Scout and adult gardeners.
The site was ploughed and harrowed
and a Rotarian gave practical dem-
onstrations of soil preparation and

seeding methods. Seeds and plants -

were purchased in volume for the
entire group and the total cost to
the indiivdual was $3.00 for each
plot. *

The Rotary club held several pic-
nics during the season which was
climaxed by a harvest festival, when
vegetables and canned goods were
exhibited. At the festival, gardens
were judged and the club gave
prizes equivalent to $50 in war bonds
and stamps.

Rotary clubs which are planning
to sponsor Victory Garden projects
this year will find in the experience
of the Rotary Club of Norwalk an
inspiring example of the results
which can be achieved by enthu-
siastic and planned cooperation,
plus hard work.

Rotary Meetings
at Army Posts

There are undoubtedly a number
of Rotarians—active and honorary
—at most of the large military
camps in the United States. Why
shouldn’t they get together each
week for an informal Rotary meet-
ing?

This question has been voiced by
a Rotarian who is stationed at an
army camp in the U.S.A.

The answer is that an informal
get-together of all Rotarians who
may be stationed at a military camp
or naval base would be splendid, and
undoubtedly if one Rotarian at each
camp or base were to take the initia-
tive in getting the group together,
the others would quickly and en-
thusiastically agree to meet together
regularly.

Club officers may desire to pass
this idea along to their members
who are at the various camps and
bases outside the combat zones.

Milton Will Be Ready

A fund—to be expended solely in
relieving emergency needs of Milton
service men and their families—is
being sponsored by the Rotary Club
of Milton, Mass., with the support
of a representative group of the
town’s citizens.

This club of 35 members, in a town
of some 19,000, feels that while there
will be agencies created by local,
state, and federal government to
help service men and their families,
there will nevertheless be many un-
foreseen difficulties which may bring
about much suffering. To prevent
such suffering, the club is sponsor-
ing this war service fund. The trus-
tees of the fund, all of whom are
Rotarians, are setting up plans so
that they may be able to act speedily
in every case demanding immediate
attention and relief. All expenses of
the campaign will be borne by the
Rotary club and all monies con-
tributed to the fund will be ex-
pended for the benefit of Milton
service men and their families.

President's Award Attracts
Wide Attention |

Clubs throughout the United
States and Canada are now busy
preparing exhibits and statements
concerning their work during the
Rotary year of 1943-1944 for entry in
the competition for the President’s
Award.

Club entries being prepared in-
clude not only projects accomplished
during the year, but also new activi-
ties and work carried on from year
to year.

Exhibits of many kinds are being
readied as supplementary material
to descriptive statements of activi-
ties. Photographs, programs, news
clippings, club publications, and
many other interesting and original
items are being included. -

Entries may be prepared and ex-
hibits submitted in any form desired.

As the Award will be made for the
most significant achievement in pro-
moting the ideal of service, based on
actual accomplishment, the size of
the club is not an important factor.
Entries must be in the hands of the
district governor not later than 1
April, 1944.

Program Suggestion for
Rotary Clubs in Canada

As a means of enabling Rotarians
in Canada to become more familiar
with the work of the Canadian ad-
visory committee, the board of di-
rectors of R.I. suggests to the Rotary
clubs in Canada that at some meet-
ing during the Rotary year, a short
exposition be made of the work of
the Canadian advisory committee.

Nominating Zones in U.S.A.

Any club which intends to pro-
pose a candidate for director from
a zone in the U.S.A. must file with
the secretary of RI. on or before
the ist of April a resolution of the
club, naming the candidate which
it intends to propose.

At the annual meeting of R.I. the
electors from the clubs in the U.S.A.
(except in the year in which the
director from any zone shall hold
office for a second year), assemble
in separate zone meetings and pro-
pose a candidate or candidates from
such zone for director of R.I. from
among those candidates whose
names have been filed with the sec-
retary of R-1,

The electors from the clubs in
Canada and Newfoundland and
from the clubs in G.B.&I. assemble
annually in separate meetings and
propose a candidate or candidates
from each such geographical group
for the office of director of R.I.

There is no provision that clubs
in Canada and Newfoundland or
G.B.&I. file with the secretary of
R.I. the name of the candidate they
intend to propose, prior to the meet-
ings of the electors from the clubs in
these regions.

If there is more than one can-
didate for director in a zone, or in
a geographical group, the electors
ballot and the candidate receiving
a majority of the votes cast is the
director nominee from the zone or
the geographical group.

Eat More Cabbage —
in the U.S.A.

The winter cabbage crop now
coming in from Texas, Florida, Ari-
zona and California is 52% larger
than the previous record crop in
1942.

The War Food Administration of
the United States Government,
therefore, has designated cabbage
as the “Victory Food Selection” for
the period February 24th through
March 4th, and has requested Ro-
tary clubs in the U.S.A. to focus all
possible attention on the need for a
record cabbage consumption during
this ten day period.

Time is short but there are many
ways in which the clubs can help.
Club officers, tell your members, and
ask them to tell their wives and
friends. Get your local newspapers
to emphasize the food value of cab-
bage, the many ways in which it can
be prepared, and the need for in-
creased consumption in order to pre-
vent possible loss of food and de-
pressed price to growers. Here is
another way in which all can help
food fight for Victory.

 
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago 1, Il.

ROTARY SALATE TO CHINA

The Rotary Club

Suggestions for a “China Day” Meeting

 

The United States Office of War Information has designated the MONTH OF
MARCH, 1944, as an appropriate time for celebrations, meetings, and programs
for the purpose of directing attention to China, her victorious armies, and
long-suffering but brave people. Of all the United Nations, China has been in
the fight longest, and it is with the intention of demonstrating American
friendship and appreciation that the Office of War Information has requested

this general observance throughout the country.

Rotary clubs will welcome the opportunity to comply with this suggestion,
and in their meetings and programs pay tribute to a great nation that has
demonstrated its friendship for the United States in so many ways, and to

learn more about that great nation, its ancient civilization and culture, and

U. S. Paper No. 27

He
ep
Cs

He Profits Most

Literal Translation:

The Turning
Wheel Club

modern progress and unification as a Republic.

Who Serves Best

Literal Translation:
Help to Others

 

Special Features for “China Day”

An ideal program would be so arranged that the
whole atmosphere of the meeting would be Chinese.
This can be done by attention to details like the
following:

1—Decorations. There should be Chinese and
American flags in the front of the room and perhaps
a picture of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.

2—Food. Arrangements should be made for a
Chinese-style menu. Quite a number of Chinese dishes
have been popularly accepted by the American palate,
so that such preparations will not involve much

difficulty.

3—Music. Chinese music still sounds somewhat
unusual to American ears, but there are available
recordings which will. be interesting. By all means,
an effort should be made either to get a record of the
Chinese National Anthem, or to have someone sing it.

4—Special Guests. Since this program should be a
sort of official celebration, it would be appropriate to
invite any prominent Chinese in town, any Chinese
students, and Americans particularly interested in
Chinese and far-Eastern affairs.

5—Speaker. An appropriate speaker for such a
program should not be difficult to find. He could be:
(a) A Chinese consul or other governmental repre-

sentative.

(b) A Chinese student or educator from a nearby col-
lege or university.

Means Help
to Self

(c) A Chinese merchant or professional man, out-
standing in the community.

(d) An American repatriate recently returned from
some occupied portion of China.

(e) An American interested in, and well-versed in
Chinese and far-Eastern affairs.

6—The Topic. The exact theme should be left to
the speaker, but some such topics as these might be
suggested to him: “The Role of China in the Present
War”; “The Future of Chinese-American Relation-
ships”; “China and America—Similarities and Differ-
ences”; “The Chinese Youth Movement”; “New Life
Movement,” etc.

What About Rotary in China?

The first Rotary club in China was formed in
Shanghai, in July, 1919, by Rotarian Roger Pinneo of
Seattle, Washington, and Dr. Julean Petit of Shanghai.

The subsequent extension of clubs was rather slow
—only 11 clubs by 1935—due to a number of reasons.
For one thing, they were originally concentrated in
the port cities where theré were considerable numbers
of Americans and Englishmen, and membership of
these first clubs consisted principally of such Occi-
dentals with an occasional prominent Chinese.

The meetings were conducted in English and the
literature was printed in English, so that only Chinese
who had studied abroad or who had acquired a very
thorough knowledge of the English language at home
could become members.
This situation was changed, however, when, about
1934, a grant of money was set aside for the translation
of Rotary literature into Chinese. This was not a
simple task since it is impossible to translate exactly
into the Chinese language many of the terms peculiar
to Rotary; but the spirit of Rotary and its principles
could be easily understood by the Chinese, so that
“Service above Self” becomes “The Joy of Working
for Others,” and Rotary clubs are “Turning Wheel
Clubs.”

With the advent of Rotary literature in Chinese,
it became easier to bring Rotary to non-English-speak-
ing Chinese, with the result that by the time the war
broke out in 1939 there were twenty-five clubs—
twenty-six if Hong Kong is included—many of them
located in the interior of China, the charter member-
ship of which were entirely native Chinese.

Today, of course, the number of clubs has once
more fallen. Some have literally been bombed out
of existence.

Chinese Clubs Active in War Service

The seven clubs* which still remain active meet
and work under most trying conditions. But they do
remain active, nevertheless. They contribute heavily
to war relief—of which there is great need; they take
care of “war-phans”; they (along with non-Rotarian
citizens) entertain American fliers and soldiers sta-
tioned there; maintain refugee camps; support a
school for the blind in Wuchang; sponsor a leprosy
clinic; maintain beggars’ camps; and whatever other
projects present a pressing need.

The importance of these activities looms even
greater when we stop to-realize that they have been
carried on despite the physical hardships of the war
and the economic hardships of an unprecedented
inflation which has sent the cost of living up 6000
to 7000%!

*NOTE—

Changsha, Chengtu, Chungking, Foochow, Kunming, Sian, and Lanchow. Lan-
chow was organized in 1936 but was not formally admitted until 1943, due to diffi-
culties arising from the war. It is the first new club admitted in China since 1939.

However, when the war is over, interest in extending
Rotary throughout China will be greater than ever
before. There are already many indications of a great
undercurrent of desire that Rotary be extended to
cities and towns which have come to have firsthand
knowledge of the fine, humanitarian work of Rotary
in war as well as in peacetime.

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Addresses
Hankow Club

Speaking at the national convention of Rotary in
Atlantic City in 1936, Chenting T. Wang, then gov-
ernor, 81st District, R.I.,and later Chinese ambassador
to the United States, stated his hope for his country
in these words: “We have in China over two thousand
cities, each having a population of over 50,000
wherein a strong and prosperous Rotary club is
capable of being formed.”

Both Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek
have at various times expressed an interest in Rotary
and the splendid work that is being performed by
clubs in China in helping in civilian relief and in
organizing campaigns for funds for various war
causes.

In speaking at a Rotary Ladies’ Night meeting in
Hankow, before the occupation of Hupeh province,
Madame Chiang Kai-shek spoke of the National
Society of Women which she had organized, pledged
to work for the welfare of Chinese soldiers; also of
the committee which had been organized to care for
refugee children familiarly known as “warphans”;
and she paid tribute to the Hankow Rotary Club for
its active interest in promoting this activity through-
out the city.

“If it is true in personal life,” she stated, “ ‘that
he profits most who serves best’, it must also be true
in national life.

“Let us then remember,” she concluded, “that the
motto ‘He profits most who serves best’ applies to
nations as well as to individuals.”

Rererences From “THe Rorartan”:

Jan., 1944—

China Looks Ahead, by Dr. Wei Tao-ming
Hub of the Orient, by Dr. Chang-Lok Chen
Understanding the Chinese, by Pearl Buck
Indomitable Chungking, by George A. Fitch
Speaking of Books, by John T. Frederick

Feb., 1943—

The Chinese Help Themselves, by Adm. Harry E. Yarnell
 
 

~ ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

  

 

25 February, 1944
161 Additional Jobs

Returns from the first 24 members
of the Rotary Club of Roswell, New
Mexico, list 161 jobs for which they
are planning to employ that many
additional men when the war closes.
The largest single group is farm help.

These 24 Rotarians also list an av-
erage of $82,225 apiece (a total of
$1,973,400) worth of improvements
planned for their places of business,
and repairs and additions planned
for their lior:<s. Here are the details:

‘laces ©; Business:
$ 11,40) for outside painting
28,000 for inside decoration
37,000 additional space
43,000 for equipment
1,819,000 buildings, machinery, etc.
2,500 miscellaneous

Residences:
$ 1,100 outside painting
1,000 inside decoration
1,000 plumbing and heating equipment
3,200 additions
7,100 repairs and replacements
19,500 new homes

Thesurvey results have been turned
over to the postwar planning com-
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce

' aS a nucleus for their survey.

In Chula Vista, California—

—the Rotary club “primed” the
Work Pile idea, and, as they say, “it
grew from there.” The club con-
tacted other local organizations ex-
plaining the Work Pile project and
induced each to appoint a member
for the general community commit-
tee. The Work Pile has grown as a
snowball. Aside from small items
from individual householders and
merchants, impressive construction
projects needed by the community
have been put on the planning
board. The club reports great satis-
faction with the manner in which
the whole community is supporting
the. Work Pile survey.

In India—

—District Governors Foot (District
88) and Rama Rau (District 91) have
brought the Work Pile project to the
notice of their club officers as a chal-

lenge to the leadership of Rotary in

India. Governor Foot points out that
it is not an easy task nor one quickly
accomplished, and hence it is all the
more important to start it immedi-
ately. Governor Rama Rau empha-
sizes the effect on the boy in the
armed services and states he is plan-
ning for discussion of the subject at
the forthcoming district conference.

Using Survey Results

Some Rotary clubs ask, “How are
we going to use the results of our

Work Pile surveys?”

An answer is provided by the Ro-
tary Club of Savanna, Illinois, which
at the same time shows how the
Work Pile project starts to operate
effectively as soon as the tabulated
results are available.

When local businessmen in Savan-
na learned that a tabulation of the
Work Pile survey results had been
made, they eagerly sought copies of
the figures so that they might ad-
just their own plans and purchases
accordingly, for the immediate post-
war period. These adjustments touch
the wholesaler, the broker, and
eventually the manufacturer, thus
influencing the plans of these sources
of supply.

This suggests that the first step
after completing the tabulation of
the survey results is to make the
tabulation available to interested
local businessmen. They then know
what possibilities there are for get-
ting business right after the war.
Thus they can determine how many
jobs they can provide. There is no
guarantee of the figures. No favo-
rites are played. There is only an
indication that a certain amount of
business is to be had in the city and
in the surrounding rural territory.

UL Le

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

No. 7.

7 Projects

The Work Pile activity of the Ro-
tary Club of Neillsville, Wisconsin,

has developed into seven projects on

which the Rotary club is working
with cooperation from city officials
and others. These are:

J. City Planning

a. New high school building—$250,000
b. 5-year program the city has for pav-
ing and for filtration plant. .
2. County Planning

a. Forestry program to employ 50 men
full time, plus as many as revenue
from wood and timber sales permit.

b. 5-year road and building program

3. Reemployment Needs of Men and Wo-
men Now in Service

4. Work Pile Survey of Equipment and Re-
modeling Needs of Business Houses

5. Work Pile Survey of New Building Con-
struction and Repair

6. Work Pile Survey Among Householders
for Consumer Needs and Property Re-
pairs

7. Work Pile Survey Among Farmers
The census figures give Neillsville

a population of some 2600.

In Brunswick, Maine

—the Rotary club sponsored a special
Town Meeting at which a committee
was appointed to carry out a Work
Pile survey. The new committee is
actively engaged in working out the
project on a community-wide basis.

In Tunica, Mississippi—

—the 50 members of the Rotary club
are personally making a Work Pile
survey among the householders in
the city and throughout the rural
sections of the entire county. As re-
ported by the press, Tunica should
be able to provide adequate employ-
ment in farm work when the war
ends, but they want to do more—
they want to learn what the commu-
nity’s deferred wants are so that
distributors and manufacturers can
have the information and plan their
jobs accordingly.

 
77 Sidewalks, Etc.

In Colton,* California, where the

Rotary Club, in cooperation with the .

Kiwanis Club, the Chamber of Com-
merce, and other local groups, is
-making a thorough-going Work Pile
survey, the results of the first 400

consumer questionnaires have been _

tabulated. Here are some of the fig-

-*. -ures revealed:

42 foundations to build
17 sidewalks or curbs /
33 irrigation systems (concrete)
49 new roofs
55 new plumbing installations
98 new garages
126 outside painting jobs
51 home modernizing jobs
75 additions of one or more rooms
127 new residences
76 new living-room furniture sets
52 new dining-room furniture sets
96 complete new furniture outfits
184 new rugs .
235 new sheets
214 new pillow cases
76 new gas ranges
64 new electric ranges
202 new. garden hose
126 new lawn mowers
108 new watches
180 new clocks
1140 pairs nylon hose
42) pairs chiffon hose
50 mirrors
156 items, household rubber goods
26 items, cut Blass
729 auto tires (when available!)

*1940 census: 9686 inhabitants.

In Miami Beach, Florida—

—the Rotary club has succeeded in
having arrangements made for the
Work Pile project to be centered in
the hands of the Chamber of Com-
merce. The president and three di-
rectors of the Chamber are Rotar-
ians. Full cooperation is assured.

In Davis, California—

—the Rotary club is making a survey
of the educational status and prob-
able future requirements of the men
who went into the service from Yolo
County. They want to ascertain in
advance, with reasonable accuracy,
the additional opportunities and
facilities which may be required
locally, upon the cessation of hos-
tilities.

In Crowley, Lovisiana—

—as the result of initiative taken by
the Rotary club, the business club
of the community appointed a mas-
ter committee and charged it with
making a Work Pile survey on the
basis of a parish-wide canvass. Fur-

thermore, a letter is being addressed ~

to every man from Acadia Parish in
the armed forces, asking him what
he intends or desires to do after the
war.

What the Serviceman
Wants

Fostoria, Ohio, asa result of the

sihitiadive of Past District Governor

Fred Hopkins, the local newspaper

. Which is sent to all local men in the

service carried the following ques-
tionnaire addressed to them (allow-
ing plenty of room for answers) :

1. Name of serviceman
Address

2. What was your occupation when
you left?

3. Where employed?

4. If not employed, were you—
a. attending school or college
b. temporarily out of work

c. other reason for non-employ-
ment

5.So far as you know, do you plan
to return to your previous em-
ployment?
a.If at school when you left, do
you plan to go on with your
schooling?

6. Will employment have to be found
for you?

7.What trade or skill do you pos-
sess, or have you learned in the
service?

8. Are you married? If yes, children?

9.What do you suggest Fostoria
should and can do not only to
help all returned soldiers as far
as possible but also to make Fos-
toria a better place in which to
live?

10. According to ycur recollection of
Fostoria what are some of the
needed improvements the city
should mak?

11. Any furthei remarks you care to
make?

PIPNER Ss “aan tes BN SE ati Re
Rank ano AGGress fh. t45. 6) aa

In Concord, New
Hampshire—

—the Rotary club decided that the
immediate need was for a clearing
house to bind all planning efforts for
postwar employment into some con-
eerted action. It offered its services
as a clearing house, and there re-
sulted action avoiding duplication
and overlapping. Joint meetings
have been held and the club has
gone on record as desiring to take an
active part both as a cluw and as
individuals in carrying out definite
plans that develop from these joint
deliberations.

In Halifax, Nova Scotia—

-—the postwar planning committee

of the Rotary club wrote each club

-member about the plans of the lo-
cal Civic Planning Committee, and

asked them:to assist the Civic Com-
mittee by submitting subjects which
they felt should be dealt witn by
that committee, and suggestions. as
to projects deemed essential for the

postwar period to be undertaken

upon cessation of hostilities.

In Indianola, lowa—

—the Rotary club enlisted the co-
operation of the Lions club for the
purpose of making a county-wide
Work Pile survey. Local men in the
service are kept informed of the
activity.

Rural Survey

Here are the results of the rural
survey made in the high-school dis-
trict by the Rotary Club of Villa
Grove through the cooperation of
school authorities. The actual car -
vassing was done by the Future
Farmers of America of the Villa
Grove High School who had received
special instruction beforehand.

Buildings
Homese eed Lie ers 3 ..$13,000.00
Barge £7 ice ais ear as 8 .. 19,000.00
Garages. eh ks ete 8 .. 2,450.00
Qiitbuildingss ee ere To 5,100.00
RMemodenny voces ea weeny: 26 .. 10,392.00
Plumbing crs se ee 2.. 650.00
Home Furnishings
DIOVER ho hs ke ee Res 27 .. 2,605.00
Bumture. ee ee ey 25... 4,370.00
Russ 5 a oe ee eee Seas 986,00
Refriperators: ues, cere. 6 - 850.00
RACLOS (onc ee as 21... 1,540.00
IPORSi eee se een ee LL 00
Sewing Machines ........... I 50.00
Purnacegy 5 fu See iar 7 .. 2,300.00
POASUOTS sy aa Ok ee 10...  ~=116.00
Washing Machines <......... Tt 880.00
Interior Decorating ......... Sho 1,850.00: =:
Farm Equipment
POULOMODiloss ve ses has oa-6t Zerao.00
Com tiuskers 4.7 =. a 7 .. 6,350.00
WPACLOrs. el hte oe ae 34°... 41,400.00
PUG Ge cee ae ee he 17 .. 18,400.00
Combines: 2. fa. oo 10... 12,500.00
Rotary Hoss ne aac 1,770.00
Manure Spreaders .:........ 2-7 300,00
Corn Planters ..2. 7 fb P= 5, 3,500.00
Plows 5. Gt ea eae 12.2" 2,125.00
Dis ee ee a dere 61000
HarrOWws ace Se te = 32,90000
WEDOTIS® che ce ee oes 265.00
Cultivators 205s oe $s 2 2 1475,00
PAGCG Set a ae ee Tee to.00
Cory Sheller oe eee. 1 .. 1,500.00
Crushers (55, fetes ee Bes 300.00
Corn *Dumpers’ = .c 2s 3 .. 1,450.00
Gen'l Repair to Equipment.37 .. 12,380.00
New ences: (7... PTS 2360,00
Home Shop Equipment..... 10 .. 2,450.00
MOtad pa ee ei er $202,146.00

The estimated population of the
rural territory covered is 714, and
the foregoing figures are from re-
turns from 60 % of the families.
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
35 East Wacker Drive
Chicago I, Ill., U.S.A.

Suggested Topics for Future Months

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLUB VOCATIONAL COMMUNITY INTERNATIONAL YOUTH POST WAR
SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE SERVICE PLANNING
The Business Do You Know “Victory in noe Malis Youth Power Education

May Side Your , the Must Trade for Change and

of Rotary Employees? Gardens” Days Ahead Permanence

; : The Business

7 Trade “This is ae cece enen Man’s Need

June Obligation of a iatio My T a International Counseling in for Inte

: a Rotarian oe aiid Mind for Youth Wartime eee ape
in Social Planning

 

 

 

 

 

The “Program Suggestions” for May and June will be based upon the above topics.

Aprit PROGRAM SUGGESTIONS
FOR ROTARY CLUBS

“Better Unborn Than Untaught”

Here’s a program on Rotary education. It'll
gather moss— unless you keep it rolling!
Here are two ways to do it:

Get together the last half dozen “Little
Lessons in Rotary” which appear each month
in THE ROTARIAN. Hand out these articles,
one to a man, to six of your veteran mem-

bers. Ask them to work up three-minute —

summaries. Gather the men about a table
as the program begins, have a “Professor
of Rotaryology’’ call upon each fcr his
chapter of what you might call a “Rotary
Primer.” Wind up with questions from any
corner.

Or, put “Why Pay Twice?” by Perry Reyn-
olds, in THE ROTARIAN for April, 1944, in
the hands of your member best posted on
Rotary’s international financial affairs and
ee ne to round out a talk on the subject it
treats.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 240, ‘‘What Do You Know About
Rotary ?”’
No. 248, “Informing New Members”

From THE ROTARIAN:

February, 1944, “Why Is a Chairman?”
Francis Jaffray

November, 1948, ‘“Why Men Like Rotary,”
Richard H. Wells

“Sharing Profits With the
Workers”

You’ve probably heard about the meat-pack-
ing concern in Minnesota that guarantees
its workers an annual wage! It’s George A.
Hormel & Co., of Austin, and the president
of that company, Rotarian Jay C. Hormel
tells the whole story in THE ROTARIAN for
April, 1944 — and it’s a “natural” for this
program. Get one of your progressive em-
ployers to work it into a talk on his own
employment policies. Or simply have a mem-
ber draw a complete talk from it.

Or, turn back to “New Springs Under Old
Employees,” in THE ROTARIAN for February,
1943. It’s also about an employee plan. A
two-man symposium could result— and to
every member’s edification.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

_ No. 522, “It Begins With Management”

No. 523, “Good Management”
No. 533, “Personalizing Vocational Service”
No. 5AG, “Are You the Manager?”

From THE ROTARIAN:

April, 1944, ‘“‘Free Enterprise,” debate-of-
the-month

January, 1944, “Needed: Postwar Capital,”
James Truslow Adams

June, 1943, “Not a Creed of Greed,” Fred
DeArmond
“Angels of Mercy”

Purpose of this program: to arouse the club
to the need of helping in nurse recruitment.
Here are two ways to do it:

1. Get your hospital board member to give
the club a fact-facing talk on the urgency
as Rotarian M. T. MacEachern describes it
in THE ROTARIAN for December, 1948, in
“Uncle Sam Needs 65,000 Nurses.”

2. Ask the head nurse in your hospital to
tell the club how Rotarians can help in this
‘shortage of trained nurses. She might even
work up a demonstration such as was re-
ported by The Scratchpad Man in THE
ROTARIAN for January, 1944.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 623, “The Red Cross in Wartime”
U.S; No. 19, “You Can Help Recruit Cadet
Nurses”

From THE ROTARIAN:

March, 1944,
“Beating Bedside Gremlins”
“The Trouble-Shooting Red Cross”
November, 1943,
“The Blind Go to War,” pictorial
“Winning Along the ‘T.B.’ Front,’ The
Scratchpad Man

“Neighbors Working Together”

April 14 is Pan American Day —the date
commemorating the establishment of the
Pan American Union. Why not make this a
Pan American Day program?

An article in THE ROTARIAN for April, 1944,
points out some surprising parallels between
great men of Argentina and great men of
the United States. Two of your members
could present it in dialogue form.

Or, the fact-packed article—also in the April
issue—by William Street, would make an
informative talk by your importer member
or foreign-trade expert.

- References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 732, “Peace Plans in the Americas”

No. 733, “Things That a Rotary Club Can
Do to Develop Friendship With Ibero-
America”

No. 735, “Pan American Clubs”

No. 767, “Rotary in Ibero-America”

From THE ROTARIAN:

Chapter VI, “A World to live an”

November, 1948, ‘“Feathered Ambassadors,”
Donald Culross Peattie

October, 1943, “Esta Es su Casa!’ Manuel
Hinojosa

' June, 1943, “The Americas United,” Sumner |

Welles
May, 1943, “Nearer: A New World Goal,”
Gen. Rafael L. Trujillo

6420—April, 1944—4100 In.

“Youth Presents Its Problems”

Why not invite four or five students, some
young service men and women, and possibly
a young war worker to this meeting and ask
a member skilled in questioning youth to
draw them out on their current problems
and hopes for tomorrow? You’ll get the idea
from the symposium in THE ROTARIAN for
March, 1944, “The World We Want.”

The Sharon, Pa., Rotary club has a special
“Youth Week, 2? and your April ROTARIAN re-
ports on it. This may give you an idea for
a program —or for your Boys and Girls
Week plan itself.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 665, “Coordinating Community Forces
for Youth”

No. 674, “A War Casualty that Must Be
Prevented”

No. 678, “Training Youth in Citizenship”

No. 680, “Training for Tomorrow’s World”

No. 686, “A Club for Teen-Agers”’

From THE ROTARIAN:

March, 1944, Article on “boys’ legislature”

August, 1948, ‘““Teen-Town,” pictorial

January, 1943, “Man and Boy — and Job!”
pictorial

“The Business Man’‘s Need for
Interest in Social Planning”

Since the WORK PILE is Rotary’s No. 1
effort toward intelligent social planning, a

program based on this subject would be
timely. Coupled with a report on your club’s

own WORK PILE activities there can be a

review of articles in recent issues of THE
ROTARIAN showing what other cities are do-
ing, such as “Old Town with New Ideas”
(March, 1944); “The Work Pile Driver”
(February, 1944); ‘‘Work Pile at Villa
Grove” (January, 1944).

Allied to this subject is the work being done
by the United Nations Relief and Rehabili-
tation Administration. A review of “Help
for Those Who Help Themselves,” in THE
ROTARIAN for March, 1944, would make an
interesting program.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 625, “A Work Pile for Your Town”

No. 626, “Selling the Work Pile to Club
Members”

No. 722, “United Nations Relief and Reha-
bilitation Administration”

U.S. No. 23, “Pattern for Peace”

“Work Pile News’—currently issued.

From THE ROTARIAN:

April, 1944, “Free Enterprise,” debate-of-
the-month

December, 1943, ‘Australia Plans Jobs,”
Lloyd Ross
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CENTRAL OFFICE, 35 EAST WACKER DRIVE, CHICAGO 1, ILLINOIS, U.S.A.

10 March, 1944

To the Presidents
of Rotary Clubs in the United States

Dear Fellow Rotarians:

President Wheeler has approved a proposal that Rotary clubs
in the United States make their programs during the week
beginning April 3 a Philippine Day in observance of the
second anniversary of the fall of Bataan (April 9), To help
prepare such a program, we have arranged that you receive
from the Department of Information and Public Relations,
Commonwealth of the Philippines, an envelope containing much
useful data, a poster, a portrait of President Quezon, etc,

During the week of April 3 it is expected that radio programs
will honor the Philippines, Magazines appearing during April
will carry feature articles,

\

Your cooperation in the proposed observance will provide your
members with a splendid program of an international service
character, It will honor those brave people whose loyalty to
the cause of freedom at least delayed the enemy advance in the
South Pacific,

Sincerely yours,
wy : /
a
‘EAve

Philip Lovejoy
Secretary

OFFICES: CHICAGO,U.S.A. + ZURICH, SWITZERLAND + BOMBAY, INDIA + LONDON, ENGLAND
 

4 Feb. 1944

Rotarian Richard H. Wells

Nominating Committee’s Nominee for President

 

On January 21, 1944, the Nominat-
ing Committee for President trans-
mitted to the secretary of R.I. its
report and on January 26th the sec-
retary mailed a copy of the com-
mittee’s report to the secretaries of
all Rotary clubs and to the RI. in-
ternational officers and committee-
men.

The committee nominated Ro-
tarian Richard H. Wells of Pocatello,
Idaho, U.S.A., for the office of presi-
dent in 1944-45. Biographical infor-
mation concerning Rotarian Wells
was transmitted with the commit-
tee’s report. For the information of
those who did not receive the report,
the information is repeated here-
under:

Richard H. Wells is proprietor of the
Idaho Lumber and Hardware Company
and the Idaho Coal and Ice Company, and

is vice-president of the Idaho Bank and
Trust Company in Pocatello.

He is president of the Idaho State So-
ciety for Crippled Children, area chair-
man for the Victory Bond Drive, member
of the selective service board, and his
State Defense Council. He has served as
chairman of the Pocatello Board of Edu-
cation, president of the Chamber of
Commerce, and director of the State
Mental Hospital, and has been active in
work for the Community Chest, Boy
Scouts, Parent-Teachers Association and
the YMCA.

Dick Wells is a member and past presi-
dent of the Rotary Club of Pocatello and
has served Rotary International as direc-
tor, committee chairman, and as governor
of his Rotary district. He is now serving
as a member of the 1944 Convention Com-

mittee of Rotary International. He is

married and has two children.

 

Today’s Service Story

A good deed performed in Cal-
cutta, India, inspires a good deed in
Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.! Mrs. T. G.
Brashear, the widow of a Presby-
terian minister, while waiting in a
doctor’s office in Denver, picked up
a copy of the January issue of “The
Rotarian.”  Leafing through the
magazine, the article, “Calcutta Ro-
tarians Fight Famine” caught her
interest. After she had read it, she
wrote us to inquire if the organiza-
tion would accept a check from an
“outsider” to help in the wonderful
work being done by Calcutta Ro-
tarians. Upon being informed that
we would gladly act as intermediary
for her, she sent a check for $50.00
and indicated that she hopes to be
able to repeat this gift at intervals.

Word has been sent to the R.I.
office in Bombay, India, to follow
through on Mrs. Brashear’s wishes
and turn over to the Rotary Club of
Calcutta Rupees 165-0-0 (approxi-
mately $50.00 U. S. currency) and
explain the circumstances to the
club.

-Here is very practical evidence of
how an article in “The Rotarian”

'. became rooted in the heart and

mind of a reader to the point of
motivating that individual to ac-
tion.

Rotary in Sweden

One of the Rotary clubs in Swe-
den established a home for sick and
enfeebled Finnish children at a cost
of Sw. Kr. 43,000.

The Rotary Club of Goteborg,
Sweden, has collected over 2,000
books for prisoners of war.

 

Rotary Today

5,129 Rotary Clubs
218,500 Rotarians

(Of these 53 clubs with 1,600 members
in war-affected countries are inactive)

76 New Clubs in 20 Countries
Since July 1, 1943

 

 

 
Rotary’s 1944 International Conference

, It is my pleasure to issue this Offi-
cial Call for the thirty-fifth annual
meeting of Rotary International,
which is to be held on May 15-18,
1944, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Wartime conditions make it im-
perative that the program of the
international conference this year
be streamlined to meet the essen-
tial requirements of the organiza-
tion. Therefore, attendance at the
conference will be limited, as nearly
as possible to delegates only, for
the purpose of electing officers and
for the consideration of necessary
legislation. There will be no enter-
tainment features, banquets and re-
ceptions. Because of travel difficul-
ties and the uncertainty of being
able to provide adequate housing
facilities the attendance of ladies is
not encouraged.

Rotary clubs are entitled to one
delegate for each fifty members or
major fraction thereof. Each club
is entitled to at least one voting
delegate. Just as Rotarians are ex-
pected to attend club meetings,
Rotary clubs are expected to be
represented at this international
conference, either in person or by
proxy.

President, Rotary International
Issued this First Day
of February, 1944, at
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

 

 

1944-45 Board

The Board of Directors of RI.
which will assume office on 1 July
will be composed of:

The President

_The Immediate Past President

1 Director from Canada and
Newfoundland

1 Director from Great Britain and
Ireland

*5 Directors from the United States
of America

*5 Directors from other regions not
aforementioned

Robert J. Boyd .

Club: Panama City, Panama
Classification: ocean
shipping

 

Name of firm: Boyd Brothers
Position with firm: Vice president
How many years a Rotarian: 15
Present position in Rotary: None
Positions held in Rotary in past:
Served as president of his club.

J. M. A. [lott

Club: Wellington,
New Zealand
Classification: advertising
service

Name of firm: J. Hott, Ltd.

Position with firm: Governor director

How many years a Rotarian: 19

Present position in Rotary: Director of
R.L., 1943-44

Positions held in Rotary in past:
Served as president of his club;
Governor, 53rd district, 1934-35.

(*For the Rotary year 1944-45 there
will be only four directors nominated
from the U.S.A. and four from “other
countries.” Director John B. Reilly of
Whittier, Calif. (from Zone 1) and Di-
rector Carlos M. Collignon of Guadala-
jara, Mexico, will serve a second term
in 1944-45.)

 

of Directors

C. Harald Trolle

Club: Kalmar, Sweden

Classification: commercial
banking

 

Name of firm: Svenska Handelsbanken
Position with firm: Managing director
How many years a Rotarian: 10
Present position in Rotary: None
Positions held in Rotary in past:
Served as president of his club;
Governor, 78th district, 1936-38;
Member, European Advisory Com-
mittee, 1936-40;
Member, Extension Committee,
1938-40;

Chairman, CENAEM Regional Ex-
tension Committee, 1939-40;

Member, Committee on Participa-
tion of Rotarians in Post War

World, 1942-43.

(Rotarian Trolle has been nominated by
the board to serve as a director of R.I. for
the Rotary years 1944-45 and 1945-46.)

Chengting T. Wang
Club: Chungking, China

   

Name of firm: Chinese Red Cross
How many years a Rotarian: 11 -

Present position in Rotary: Administra-
tive Adviser for Free China;

Member, Relief for War-Affected
Rotarians Committee.
Positions held in Rotary in past:

Honorary Commissioner for China,
Hong Kong and the Philippines,
1934-35;

Governor, 8lst district, 1935-36; .

Member, Relief for War-Affected
Rotarians, 1942-43 Committee.

A Service of Thanksgiving

A Rotarian of Davenport, Iowa,
recently proposed a plan for church
services in every church or place of
worship in the United States, first,
following the peace in Europe, and
second, following the capitulation of
Japan.

Recalling the day and night of
bedlam, noise and confusion on No-
vember 11, 1918, this Rotarian feels
that when the day to which we are
all looking forward, finally arrives,
it should not be devoted to frenzied
noisemaking, but rather to giving
thanks for the victory so dearly
won. He proposes that every church,
temple or other place of worship in
the nation be open from 8:00 a.m.
until 10:00 p.m. so that people may
go there to say a prayer of thanks-
giving. He feels that special services
sponsored by laymen, in the various
churches, should be held, and the
sermon, if any, should stress the na-
tion’s part in the post-war world.

The proposed celebration should
have widespread publicity before-
hand. The author of the plan has
prepared an advertisement to be
published in the newspapers of
Davenport, announcing that a spe-
cial Thanksgiving Service will be
held in the churches of all faiths at
10:30 a.m., and inviting all citizens,
whether they be church members or
non-members to attend. Editors of
Davenport newspapers have agreed
to publish this advertisement when
the great day arrives.

The plan, originally proposed for
Davenport, has become known in
other parts of the United States and
is meeting with an enthusiastic re-
ception. Religious organizations,
service organizations, prominent
newspaper editors, clergymen, men
in public life, and others, are mani-
festing a keen interest in the pro-
posal.

It is obvious that since no one
knows when Armistice Day will
come, plans for such a Thanksgiving
Service in each community must be
in readiness so that they may be put
into effect on very short notice.

This would seem to be an idea
which would appeal to Rotary clubs
throughout the entire world, with
plans to be made, of course, in con-
formity with the customs of each
country.

Let the Community Know

It is important for clubs to keep the
public properly informed as to their gen-
eral activities and achievements. This is
not for the sake of gaining prestige for
the club, but rather to let the community
know that the Rotary club is a service
organization that stands ready at all times
to cooperate and take the lead in worth-
while community projects.

—Will W. Jackson,
Governor, District 129
 

4 Feb. 1944

 

The News Letter

USCNB Supplement

International Radio Broadcast
To Celebrate Rotary’s 39th Anniversary

On Wednesday, February 23, the
National Broadcasting Company will
present a special program over its
coast-to-coast network in the United
States in honor of Rotary’s 39th
anniversary.

Participating in this broadcast
will be President Charles Wheeler
of San Francisco, Past Vice-Presi-
dent Tom Warren of London, Eng-
land, Past President Fernando Car-
bajal of Lima, Peru, Vice-President
Carlos Collignon of Guadalajara,
Mexico, and J. Layton Ralston, Ro-
tary Foundation Honorary Trustee
and Defense Minister of Canada,
speaking from Ottawa,
Secretary Phil Lovejoy, from the
NBC studios in Chicago, will intro-
duce each of the participants | in
this program.

This is a “sustaining” broadcast
which will be carried by all NBC
stations from 1:00 P.M. to 1:30 P.M.,
E.W.T., on February 23, except those
which have a commercial program

Ontario. .

scheduled for that time. It is sug-
gested that Rotary Club Secretaries
contact their nearest NBC station
managers and inform them of their
interest in this broadcast. If a local
commercial program is scheduled
for that half-hour period, the sta-
tion manager may be able to record
the program and-rebroadcast it at
a later time.

In Canada, this important Rotary
program will be carried by Station
CJBC in Toronto from 1:00 P.M. to
1:30 P.M., E.W.T., on February 23.
On a delayed basis, the program will
also be broadcast by the stations of
the CBC Dominion Network from
10:30 P.M. to 11:00 P.M., E.W.T., on
February 23.

Perhaps some Rotary Clubs may
wish to tune in on this broadcast
for their regular Wednesday lun-
cheon program. Some clubs may
wish to change their meeting day
that week in order to take advan-
tage of this broadcast.

 

Why Come to Rotary?

Because there will be at least one man
at your table whose company is worth
traveling a long way to enjoy. Because
two or three will act as though they en-
joyed the meeting more because you were
there. Because someone will add to your
knowledge by talking interestingly about

his business or some unusual experience.

Because someone across the room will
wave at you and grin.

Governor Norman W. Adams
District 158.

 

 

Avoidance of Politics

The attention of Rotary Clubs
is called to the following long
standing provision of the stand-
ard Rotary Club constitution:

Article IX

Section 1—This club shall not en-
dorse or recommend any candidate for
public office and shall not discuss at
any club meeting the merits or de-
merits of any such candidate.

Section 2—The merits of any public
question involving the social, eco-
nomic, moral or physical welfare of
the people, may be fairly and intelli-
gently studied and discussed before a
club meeting for the enlightenment of
its members, but this club shall not
take any action endorsing or condemn-
ing any measure which is to be sub-
mitted to the vote of the people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

$200,000,000 for Red Cross

On March ist the annual cam-
paign for the American Red Cross
will open. The goal this year is
$200,000,000, and the American peo-
ple, as always, will subscribe, or
oversubscribe this amount.

The services which the Red Cross
is performing all over the world are
well known to every American. In
war, aS in peace, the Red Cross
works efficiently to help and heal.

The American Red Cross is pre-
pared to furnish, as speakers to Ro-
tary clubs, former Red Cross work-
ers who have returned from service
at the front, or returned service-
men who have been wounded or
otherwise incapacitated, and who
would be able to describe firsthand
the work which the Red Cross is
doing for the armed forces.

The local Red Cross chapter will
provide such a speaker or approach
the state headquarters which will
be able to send a speaker—perhaps
from a nearby chapter.

If a club is planning to have such
a speaker, perhaps arrangements
should be made for him to appear at
a meeting at the end of February,
just prior to the opening of the
campaign.

  

No. 15—1943-44

 

 

NOT the McCormick
Steamship Company

President Charlie Wheeler has ||
asked that an announcement be
made in this issue of the News
Letter to the effect that the Mc- ||
Cormick Steamship Company, of ||
which he is the executive vice-
president, is not the steamship
company mentioned in recent
news dispatches as having been
indicted.

The McCormick Steamship
Company of which Charlie is the
executive vice president, is a long
established company having op-
erated successfully for many
years from both Pacific and At- |}
lantic coast ports.

In reading any news dispatches |}
concerning the steamship situa-
tion, the name of the company
mentioned should be carefully
observed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Lansing (Mich.)

Rotogram
Rotary in 47 Minutes

Every Rotarian at some time wishes he
knew more about Rotary or had a ready
source from which to glean facts and in-
formation quickly.

If I leave Lansing, is my Rotary mem-
bership transferred?

Is it proper for me to use the Rotary
emblem on my stationery or in my busi-
ness window?

How has the war affected Rotary in
Europe?

Has Russia Rotary clubs?

What is the work of the Vocational
Service Committee? ~

These and similar questions are an-
swered in a small booklet “Rotary in 47
Minutes” by Larry Akers, Past District
Governor and Past Director of Rotary
International.

A copy is being mailed to you with the
eompliments of the club. You will want
to read it and save it for ready reference.

Committee on Rotary Education

Copies of this booklet available at
the secretariat—
50c for single copies
45¢c in lots of 10 or more
Order copies for all your members.

THE MANAGEMENT of a business is
the management of men. Help make the
men and the men will make the business.

—Charles L. Wheeler,
President, Rotary International

 
International Service
Activities

Rotary club presidents and pro-
gram committee chairmen are con-
stantly on the alert for material
which would be helpful in providing
interesting club programs. Promi-
nent magazines frequently publish
interesting and informative articles
relating to international service ac-,
tivities. Reprints of such articles
often are available for the asking,
and would provide excellent back-
ground information for a club pro-

gram, a group discussion, fireside

chat, or study of a particular phase
of international service by the club’s
international service committee.

Nominating Committees
in Districts

A few of the districts of Rotary
International have committees for
the nomination of the district gov-
ernor. There is no uniformity in the
procedure for naming these com-
mittees nor in their operation. Ro-
tary International considers these
committees entirely district matters
and neither urges districts to have
them nor endeavors to bring any
uniformity into the naming and
operation of these committees.

However, if any Rotary club or
Rotarian desires information about
the operation of the half-dozen or
so. district nominating committees
which exist, the secretary of RI
will, upon request, furnish such in-
formation as is available.

senior Active Membership

I am at a loss to understand why people
have the wrong conception about Senior
Active membership. One does not lose his
active standing by taking this type of

_ membership. As a Senior Active member

of my club I feel just as much obligation
as I ever did. In addition to having all the
privileges of a regular active member, I
have this additional advantage: If I should
move to another town, my place as a
Senior Active member would always be
open, whereas if I had a classification, this
classification might already be represented
in the club and thus I would be unable
to become a member.

—Harry C. Bulkeley,
3rd Vice-President, R. I.

Rotary Is Not

Rotary membership is not a business
asset, it is a personal liability. Rotary
membership is not given as a recognition
of past achievement. It means opportunity
for future community service.

Rotary is not a debating society in which
to settle differences or politics and religion
or anything else.

Rotary is not an end—it is an ideal that
grows daily. :
—The Bound Brook (N.J.)

Rotarian

Rotary in oa

Springfield, Ohio, has a welfare
committee, which has been func-
tioning for 25 years. The club raises
approximately $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 in Spring-
field, and this subsidy was accepted
by the hospital as an aid in the
establishment of a new department
of physio-therapy for the treatment
of infantile paralysis.

ev

Jubbulpore, India, finances a free
canteen for troops in the local rail-
road station. Wives of Rotarians are
on duty at all hours of the day and
night to give the troops passing
through a free cup of tea and a
package of cigarettes.

-

Medicine Hat, Alta., Canada, in
1943 held the largest and most
profitable carnival in the club’s his-
tory. The carnival is an annual
affair. The net profit in 1943 was
over $7,000, and the club is happy
to have this sum available for causes
to help further the prosecution of
the war and to improve social condi-
tions and maintain morale on uhe
home front.

-*

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia,
Rotarians provided an amplifier for
a local youth club, undertook the
erection of buildings for a youth
camp which was donated by a mem-
ber of the club, now deceased, and
arranged for repairs to the road
leading to a boy scout camp.

*

New Brunswick, New Jersey, Ro-
tarians recognized the outstanding
achievement of 66 local news car-
riers in selling over 6,000,000 ten
cent War Savings Stamps since Pearl
Harbor, by giving a Christmas party
for the boys. A “certificate of recog-
nition” was presented to each boy.

¥

Joplin, Missouri, Rotarians held
their 28th annual Christmas party in
December. It was a wartime party,
stripped of all “frills,” and the mem-
bers had the satisfaction of know-
ing that their economies had made
possible the salary of a “house
mother” at “Teen Town” for three
months, and the cost of a bus to
transport blood donors to the Red
Cross Blood Bank at Kansas City.

*

Rajkot, India, purchased quinine
for distribution among the poor.

Tried and True Methods

Noticing an increase of more than ~

50% in membership in the past six
months, as well as an increase in
club activity in the Rotary Club
of Sunflower, Mississippi, Governor
Daniel Boone wrote to the president
of that club and asked how this had
been accomplished. The president’s
reply is particularly interesting in
that it proves once again that cer-
tain tried and true methods of Ro-
tary club administration and proce-
dure usually bring the same good
results. Excerpts follow:

The progress of our club has been be-
yond my expectation. Our policy is to set
a goal and then attempt to reach that goal.

After I was elected president of the
club, and prior to my induction into office,
I had the privilege and pleasure of at-
tending our district meeting, and there I
found such good fellowship and heard
such inspiring addresses that I came home
filled to overflowing with the spirit of

‘Rotary. When I was inducted into office,

I immediately began to try to impart this
spirit to other Rotarians.

I was careful in the selection of com-
mittee chairmen. I placed on committees
every member of our club and impressed
upon each member that his committee
was an important one, and that as a mem-
ber of that committee, he had important
obligations. ...

_ We have insisted that our programs be
given by local Rotarians, rather than by
invited guests. It has been surprising how
well this has worked. Men, whom you
would least expect to attempt to make a
talk would always bring us something
worthwhile about their assigned sub-
jects. <<

We have tried to learn Rotary, live
Rotary, and, as best we could, impart
Rotary to others.

Bonds for the Foundation

Chairman W. W. Martin, of the
Foundation committee of Rotary
International, calls to the notice of
all club officers the appeal of the
Foundation for contributions of war
savings bonds. ‘Serve two causes
with one purchase” is the substance
of the appeal. Purchase of a war
savings bond registered in the name
of the Foundation* serves the pa-
triotic cause and serves the cause
of Rotary.

It is the earnest hope of the Foun-

dation committee that club officers

throughout Canada and the U.S.A.
will bring these thoughts to the
notice of their entire membership
and add their own personal urge to
the members to act.

*Bonds should be registered as follows:

Trustees of the Rotary Foundation, under
declaration of trust executed November
12,. 1931, and approved by the Board
of Directors of Rotary International.

 
  

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

Work Pile News—

“It makes no difference who gets the credit so long as the work is done”

4 February, 1944

 

 

 

 

‘Only 21 Bays”

ROM a veteran of a Pacific

invasion, to the people of his
home town of Gilmer, Texas:
“The Japs are mean fighters...
The battle lasted only 21 days but
my company was in it the full 21
days, and that is a long, continu-
ous battle ...Can’t say I’m ready
for another, but if another battle
or two will end this war and we
can return home, I would say,
‘Let’s get it over with’... Every
soldier is looking to the day when
he can go home. Hell, no one is
expecting to get killed. So, open
up those jobs—we are coming
through in a big way one of these

days.”

| “Bhere’s the challenge! “‘An-
other battle or two’”—“Open up
those jobs.” Where do we stand
here at home? Are we all set to
“open up those jobs’ when the
local boys come home? Or is it
going to take “another battle or
two” for the Rotary club to Sell
other groups in town on the need
for ACTION NOW on a complete
survey of the Work Pile type?

Our boys out there don’t hanker
for more battles; they want to
get the job done. Back home no
one hankers to make a Work Pile
survey, but’ how else can you in
your town “open up those jobs”
the minute your local boys re-
turn?

This project calls for Rotary
leadership. No club can fail to
provide it NOW and continuously
till the town can say to its boys
over there: THE JOBS ARE
READY.

“Open Up Those Jobs”.

 

 

 

 

 

What Will the Need Be?

The Rotary Club of Randolph, |

Vermont, decided that before under-

taking a consumer survey they first ~

would obtain specifie information
regarding likely needs of returning
servicemen, and later consider prob-
lems which returning war workers
might present. The club committee
wrote to the families of the service-
men in the Randolph area explain-

ing their project and asking for

information about the servicemen,
and the probable postwar status of
each.

Their next step is to canvass all
employers to learn whether return-
ing servicemen can count on getting
their jobs back; that will reveal
how much work must be uncovered
through canvassing householders,
merchants, village authorities,
farmers and others.

Finally the club will establish a
clearing house where returning
servicemen can be helped.

4500 Jobs in Two Weeks

Within a week the 371 Rotarians
of Portland, Oregon, contacted 2,000
business houses, requesting that
they:'complete and return the Work
Pile survey questionnaire which had
been mailed to them. The first 550
questionnaires returned (by the end
of the second week) averaged
$7,000,000.00 in work and the em-
ployment of 4500 additional people.
The Chamber of Commerce is tabu-
lating the results.

The Rotarians will contact an-
other 2,000 business houses soon;
and then the remainder.

Then the next. step will be to con-
tact every home in the city, through
the assistance of 4,000 block war-
dens.

No. 6

Work for Partially
Disabled Veterans

The Rotary Club of Bellefonte,
Pennsylvania, has proposed to the
community two projects to be re-
served for partially disabled veter-
ans while they are getting them-
selves adjusted to new conditions
aiter their release from the services.

The first project is a plan already
drawn up for tree-planting, addi-
tions, and protection — all for the
beautification of the community.

The second project is a complete
renumbering system for the resi-
dential and business sections of the
community.

 

 

What the Progress
Reports Show.

An analysis of Progress Re-
ports from some 700 Rotary clubs |
in Canada and the U.S.A. received
during December revealed the
following facts:

58 per cent of these clubs were
active on the Work Pile project.

27 per cent were only beginning
to give it consideration.

4 per cent were postponing to
January their decision on what

- action to take.

11 per cent had given the project
some consideration but had
taken no action.

Of the clubs working actively
on the project: |

49 per cent were cooperating with
the local Chamber of Com-
merce, Board of Trade, or C.E.D.

4214 per cent were cooperating
with or receiving the coopera-
tion of other groups in the com-
munity.

84% per cent were handling the
project alone because of ab- |
sence of other organizations to
participate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

 

Recreation Center

As a result of initiative taken by
the Rotary Club of Dallas Center,
Iowa, a project for constructing
quarters for the recreational center
they inaugurated, has become an
important item in the community’s
postwar Work Pile. The club reports
$7,000 in cash and $22,000 in pledges
already obtained for building the
center as soon as labor and mate-
rials are available.

In Lindsborg, Kansas —

—the survey questionnaire will be
distributed and gathered by volun-
teer workers who will have the
names of everyone in the city, so
that no one will be omitted from
the survey. The rural territory also
will be covered. Information to local
boys in the armed forces will be sent
by letter with special provision for
obtaining responses from them, so
as to help the local committee es-
timate employment needs.

If the Work Pile which is devel-
oped appears insufficient, then, with
the assistance of experts from the
Kansas State Industrial Develop-
ment Commission, plans will be
worked out for increasing employ-
ment possibilities.

In Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.

—members of the Rotary club are
almost 100% into the effort of the
Canadian Chamber of Commerce to
make a fact-finding survey for post-
war employment which may serve
as a model for all Canadian com-
munities. Householders, small mer-
chants and farmers, as well as the
large industrial concerns, will be
contacted, so that a fairly accurate
picture should result. The slogan for
the survey is, “Give us the facts so
we can help to provide the jobs.”

In Alpena, Michigan —

—the Rotary club called a meeting
of representatives of all service clubs,
fraternal organizations, Granges,
veterans’ organizations, Chamber of
Commerce, and City and County of-
ficials, to discuss plans for assisting
demobilized men and women to ob-
tain employment when the war
ceases. Results: the formation of
the Alpena postwar planning com-
mittee with the membership of some
50, divided into over a dozen sub-
committees. Work was begun at once
to gather information and statistics
through a Work Pile survey.

Results in
Savanna, Illinois

Here are a few final figures ob-
tained through the Work Pile sur-
vey in Savanna, Illinois. Juniors
and Seniors in high school made the
canvass of the entire township.

Construction and purchases

planned:
URBAN (Pop. 5,130)
New homes..... 86 Telephone
Outside extensions .... 55
painting ...... 362) *:- Radios ©5...2:2.52 160
Inside Pianos: 3 .s25< 6.35 42

decorating ...382
New plumbing or
heating eaiD:

MENG ooo
Additions and
improvements 203
New curtains and
draperies ..... 423
Vacuum
cleaners ...... 177

Refrigerators ..190
Washi

ing
machines ..... 161

WrOners. 205335. 92
Clocks 3:73.52: 162
Toasters ..322..¢< 127
Mixers: 205.526 109

Electric heaters 34
Electric fans.... 66
Light fixtures ..145

Automobile Items

Repair work....141
ATES? esos pend 241

New cars....... 236
Radios
(automobile) . 50

Yard and Garden Items

HOSe 250550 133
Lawn mowers. .120

Garden tools.... 93

RURAL (Pop. 444)

New homes..... 11
Outside

painting: ...... 65
Inside

decorating ... 55
New plumbing

and heating

equipment ... 27
Additions and

improvements. 47
Curtains and

draperies ..... 63
Telephone

extensions.... 11

Vacuum

cleaners ...... 25
Radios x22. .31c.. 40
Pianos). co5 ae 9

Refrigerators ... 25
Washing

machines ..... 41
froners 25.-... 17
Clocks 22320224 36
Toasters ........

Mixers. oc se... 22
Electric heaters. 9
Electric fans.... 18
Light fixtures... 24

Automobile Items

Repair work.... 42 New cars....... 37
EEIPES OOo oo AB's. “Radios =. si5655. 12
Garden and Yard Equipment
Hose 25.25 15 Garden tools.... 14

Lawn mowers... 24
Farm Equipment and Machinery

Fencing ........ 69 Fertilizers ...... 3
Machinery ..... 55 Landes See 6
Equipment ..... 30 New buildings.. 27

The Rotary club of Savanna, Illi-
nois, developed a unique plan for
carrying out the survey among
householders and farmers. With the
backing of the Rotary and Lions
clubs and the Chamber of Com-
merce, the Township High School
coached students of social problems,
economics, and United States his-
tory through special studies of com-
mercial and public opinion surveys,
and by reviewing various depression
periods in the history of the U.S.A.
and possible ways of avoiding one
following the present war.

The junior and senior students
were released from school one day
to make the survey. The rural terri-
tory was handled through visits
by those students who live in the
country.

Providing Leadership

Reports from all districts in Can-
ada and the U.S.A. reveal how
commonly Rotarians are chosen to
formulate committees of the Cham-
ber of Commerce or other bodies
making Work Pile surveys. To illus-
trate: In district 107 (Los Angeles
area) a report covering a few of the

‘clubs shows:

—Rotary club committee selected by
Chamber of Commerce to study probable
sources of unemployment.

—Rotary club committee constitutes half
of Chamber of Commerce committee for
postwar employment plans.

—Rotary club committee represented on
general committee of Chamber of Com-
merce for Work Pile.

—Half of the board of the Chamber are
Rotarians leading Work Pile activity.

—All 9 members of the community Work
Pile committee of the Chamber are Ro-
tarians.

—Rotarian named general chairman of
the community-wide committee to handle
Work Pile survey.

In Blytheville, Arkansas —

—the mailing of Work Pile ques-
tionnaires was preceded by a pub-
licity program carried out by per-
sonal contact and by letter, in order
to pave the way so as to get the most
valuable answers to the question-
naire.

In Gaffney, South Carolina—

—the Rotary club brought to its
meeting for discussion of the Work
Pile, the heads of the park commis-
sion, Lions club, the intercivic coun-
cil, the Royal Arcanum, and the
civilian defense organization. The
visitors met afterward with the
Rotary club board of directors, the
high school principal, the farm
agent, the college dean and other
local leaders in the club, and ap-
pointed a community-wide commit-
tee of five to handle the Work Pile
survey.

In Keyser, West Virginia —
—the Rotary club appointed a spe-
cial Work Pile committee which
called a meeting of representatives
of other civic groups and set up a
definite organization on planning.
Thus there came into being the
“Upper Potomac Planning Commis-
sion,” one of whose responsibilities
is the creation of a Work Pile. Other
citizens of the Upper Potomac area,
both householders and businessmen,
will. be given an opportunity to
participate in an effort to provide
for private enterprise to absorb the
greatest proportion of returning
servicemen and disemployed war
workers.

 

 
In Southern Ontario —

—Governor Claude Running of
District 152, “believing coordinated
effort in the Work Pile survey most
necessary, and confident that State
and Provincial organization are
essential to the fullest success,”
personally contacted the County
Councils of Bruce and Gray Coun-
ties, requesting them to petition the
Provincial Government of Ontario
for the establishment of a Postwar
Planning Committee. Both bodies
complied and each set up a Postwar
Planning Committee to coordinate
activities within their respective
counties.

In Australia —

—Governor Burgess Watt of District
65, as soon as the Rotary clubs had
received a description of the Work
Pile project, analyzed the project in
his monthly letter and told the club
officers “it can be done in the 65th
district.” Governor Watt further
cited the example of the Rotary
Club of Hobart, which in 1933, to
help combat the depression, carried
out a somewhat similar survey and
obtained pledges of additional work
to the value of a quarter of a million
dollars with a resultant tangible
upward trend in employment.

—Governor Hancock of District 56,
upon receiving the Work Pile liter-
ature from the secretariat urged his
clubs to study it and discuss it be-
cause, as he saw it, there was a real
place in the plan for Australian
clubs to be the stirrer-uppers of
this initiative for adequate postwar
employment in each community.

In Alta, lowa —

—the board of directors of the Ro-
tary club devised its own check sheet
or questionnaire to be used in mak-
ing a Work Pile survey among farm-
ers, business and professional men,
and other householders, and the
governmental unit public utilities.
Local boys in the service are to be
informed of the results of the survey
by direct communication.

In Stamford, Texas —

—the Rotary club proposed that the
Work Pile project be carried out for
Stamford and Jones County by the
Chamber of Commerce with the
pledged assistance of the club. The
directors of the board of city devel-
opment and Chamber of Commerce,
as a result, voted to carry out an
extensive postwar planning survey
including the Work Pile plan as pre-
sented by the Rotary club.

In Dos Palos, California —

—the Rotary club, after several
preliminary meetings on the Work
Pile project, invited each of the
other organizations in the immedi-
ate region to send three to five
representatives to a special dinner
meeting of the Rotary club, as
guests of the club. Their plans were
outlined, including plans for dove-
tailing the Work Pile survey with
the community development and
improvement plans.

At a second meeting with the
same representatives, a community-
wide committee was formed; the
territory was divided into five dis-
tricts, each headed by a member of
the Work Pile committee of the
Rotary club who is responsible for
seeing that each individual in his
district is contacted and the neces-
sary canvass completed. The City
Council has created a planning
commission to work with the general
committee.

The survey in its early stages has
uncovered tremendously encourag-
ing information regarding the em-
ployment possibilities which will
open up as soon as the material is
available.

* * *

Work Pile plans are growing and many
clubs starting or cooperating on Work
Pile projects.—Governor of district 179
(Eastern, Pa.)

6-Year Plan in
Logan, Utah

According to William Evans, Jr.,
mayor of Logan, Utah, more than
230 projects have been worked out
with the necessary charts, tables,
maps, blueprints, and individual
prospectus sheets as the 6-year post- .
war program for Logan, Utah. These
projects do not contemplate the use
of outside funds. The city is in a
position to go at any moment and
can telescope its six years of work
into one or two years if necessary.
Most of the projects listed for 1943
already have been completed (the
plan was prepared more than a year
ago). As Rotarian Evans says, it is
the kind of thing we “must do if we
are to avert a very serious condi-
tion” in the immediate postwar
period.

 

In Ironton, Ohio —

—the Rotary club, through formal]
resolution, recommended to the
Ironton Board of Trade that it or-
ganize a community-wide commit-
tee for the purpose of making a
Work Pile survey. The resolution
stated that should the Board of
Trade fail to take immediate action,
the Rotary club would call together
representatives of civic organiza-
tions to form a committee to handle
the survey.

 

 

Here are some of the recommen-
dations, suggestions, and observa-
tions of the RI. committee on
participation of Rotarians in the
postwar world—arrived at after full
consideration of the status of the
Work Pile project, at the commit-
tee’s meeting in Chicago in mid-
January:

1. Club officers are urged to give
consideration to appointing a post-
war committee if none is already
set up.

2. Clubs are urged to send tabu-
lated results of Work Pile surveys in
their communities to the secretariat
for use in further promoting Work
Pile activity.

3. Continued emphasis is to be
placed on the need of every com-
munity for a complete Work Pile
survey—industrial and private needs
(consumer goods and property im-
provements), and public works.

 

 

From the International Committee

4. It is the function of each Ro-
tary club, without concern for who
gets the credit, to see that in its
community the most appropriate
agency or agencies handle a com-
plete Work Pile survey.

5. In North America cooperation
by Rotary clubs with local Cham-
bers of Commerce, Boards of Trade,
and similar agencies in Work Pile
activity, appears very general.

6. There is still need to stress, first
in the thinking of Rotarians, and
then in public thinking, the benefits
which will accrue to the community
as a whole, and not just simply to
the returning soldiers, on building
up an adequate Work Pile.

7. In Latin America interest is
growing in adapting the Work Pile
to the particular needs in each
country.

8. Early reports from Australia,
New Zealand, and Southern Africa
show growing interest and activity.

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

In Helena, Arkansas — |

—the survey in the rural territory is
to be carried out through the office
of the county agricultural agent;
and the survey among householders
is to be made through a house-to-
house canvass by local women’s or-
ganizations.

In Nacogdoches, Texas —

—the Rotary club invited represent-
atives from other civic organizations
to its regular meeting to hear an
explanation of the Work Pile project.
Result: Chamber of Commerce will
be a clearinghouse for the project,
all other organizations cooperating;
boy scouts and girl scouts will have
a part with other civic organizations
in getting the survey questionnaires
into the hands of property owners
and businessmen and pick them up
again. Their questionnaires or check
sheets are among the most detailed
that have been used thus far.

In Selkirk, Manitoba —

—the Work Pile check sheet is to
be sent to every householder and
businessman by mail and will be
returned by mail. This is being
preceded by articles in both local
newspapers.

In Pittsford, New York —
—the Rotary club is laying plans

for a complete house-to-house sur- -

vey to develop its reemployment
program to take care of returning
servicemen and women. The club is

coordinating its Work Pile program

with that of the Rotary Club of
Rochester and with the C.E.D. pro-
gram for the entire county of
Monroe.

ii Oukland: California —

—the Rotary club invited to a
meeting on the Work Pile program,
-the presidents of the local Kiwanis,
Lions and Exchange Clubs, and
president of the local Chamber of
Commerce. The meeting was ad-
dressed by. four members of the
Rotary Club of San Francisco,
' including the president of the San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce.
Eight members of the Oakland Club

are serving as chairmen of the post-

war planning committees of the local
Chamber, and 31 other members are
serving on other committees. In the
Rotary club corresponding commit-
tees have been appointed:to facili-
tate cooperation.

A Practical Suggestion

Every Rotarian can begin his own
Work Pile. President Eric Johnston
of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
writing in “Coronet,” suggests:

“If you are the owner of a busi-
ness, large or small, set aside a file
in your office today. Mark it ‘Work
Pile’ and begin to build up your in-
ventory of post-war projects — not
just a collection of nebulous ideas
but a group of concrete plans in the
blueprint stage, ready to be put in
work the day the war ends. No busi-
ness is so small that-it cannot do
something to help take up the dan-
gerous slack of post-war unemploy-
ment. ...No one is without obliga-
tion in this practical erusade on
behalf of his company, his commu-
nity and his nation.”

In Idaho Falls, Idaho —

—The Rotary club reports that the
Work Pile survey questionnaires be-
ing, returned to the Chamber of
Commerce show construction work
amounting to an average of $1,500
for each questionnaire.

In Lexington, Virginia —

—the service clubs and other civic
organizations are working with the
Chamber of Commerce to carry out
a complete fact-finding survey for
postwar employment and to ac-
quaint the local people with the en-
tire project.

In Colton, California —

“the Work Pile survey is being
‘carried out with the full cooperation

‘of other Service clubs, women’s
cltibs, the Union High School, the
Chamber of Commerce, and other
groups. The survey among house-
holders will be followed promptly
by a survey’ among business houses.
The householder survey plan” is
headed, “Be Patriotically Helpful
By Doing Your Share To Provide
Immediate Jobs For Men Of The
Armed Forces When They Return

From The Fields of Battle.”

In District 130 (East Texas) —

-—the Rotary Clubs of Beaumont,

Galveston, and Houston, are giving
their active support to the planning

being done by their local Chambers

of Commerce for postwar employ-
ment. They are preparing fact-
finding surveys.

The Place of
Public Works

The chairman of the postwar
planning committee at Alpena,
Michigan, Past R.I. Director Emmet
Richards, says that their city is
working on the idea that their pri-
mary task is to stimulate private
industry and that their feeling is
that public works projects are more
the work of local governmental
bodies, although, of course, the com-
mittee will have suggestions to make
to those bodies.

 

In lowa City, lowa —

—a citizen’s planning committee of
over 70 representatives of civic and
community organizations under the
chairmanship of a member of the
Rotary club, emphasized to the com-
munity the need for general com-
munity-wide interest and for active
participation by private business,
industry, and individuals, and called
for making definite plans now for
future expansion, alteration, repairs,
etc.—in short a Work Pile survey.

In Montgomery, Pa.—

—there has been established as the
result of the initiative taken long
ago by the president of the Rotary
club, supported by the club mem-
bers, a postwar planning institute
which has been named the Mont-
gomery Town Meeting. Thirty-five
civic organizations participate in
this planning group sponsored by
the interclub council. Public meet-
ings will be along the procedure
followed by the famed Town Meet-

ing of the Air. Smaller weekly study

groups are suggested to augment
the work of the general assembly.

In Weymouth, Mass.—

—the chairman of the Rotary club
committee for the Work Pile is
chairman of the postwar planning
committee of the town of Wey-
mouth, established in a Town Meet-
ing to consider “needs which could
be translated into employment sit-
uations during the interim between
the cessation. of military endeavor
and peacetime DUrsults.” = =.

In Webster City, lowa —
—committees of the Rotary and
Kiwanis clubs, the Chamber of
Commerce, and the American
Legion, are all working One to
build a Work Pile.

  
      
   

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CENTRAL OFFICE, 35 EAST WACKER DRIVE, CHICAGO, U.S.A.

Office of the President
January, 1944

Dear Club President:

You will remember that 1933 was not a very propitious year to start
a new enterprise. However, your Board of Directors dared to dream --
and created a Spanish edition of our official magazine.

That was just ten years ago. Today, REVISTA ROTARIA is recognized
as one of the most important magazines published in Spanish. Hundreds
of schools use it in Spanish classes. Its circulation has passed the
20,000 mark. And, most important of all, it is helping mightily in
making Rotary a growing force for good in all Latin America.

I'm writing you because your Club can help extend REVISTA's service
to Rotary. It's by the simple device of underwriting gift "Fourth
Object" subscriptions to be sent to prominent non-Rotarians and institu-
tions in Latin America, selected by District Governors down there. If
you want an international service activity for your club, here is one
that you can fit to your club's exchequer.

A single "Fourth Object" subscription costs but $1.50 -- and one is
petter than none. But this year, the tenth anniversary of REVISTA
ROTARIA's founding it seems to me each Club in USCNB should make a spe-
cial effort to take a block of “Fourth Object" subscriptions. If your
club is already participating in this activity, perhaps you'll want to
add some more gifts -- even make it 100% for each of your members.

The procedure is simple: Just send word to THE ROTARIAN (35 East
Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois) how many "Fourth Object" subscriptions
you want, and your club will be billed for them in the usual way. Each
recipient -- prominent and influential businessmen, statesmen, church
leaders, etc. -- will be notified that the gift comes with the compli-
ments and goodwill of your Club.

Frankly, I can't think of a way a few dollars can do more to promote
inter-American good neighborliness with the accent on Rotary. I wish
Rotary International could do it, but that is impossible. So we'll have
to count on your Club and the 3,600 others in the United States and Canada .
that want to put our "Fourth Object" to work.

 

Charles L. Wheeler

OFFICES: CHICAGO,U.S.A. + ZURICH, SWITZERLAND + BOMBAY, INDIA + LONDON, ENGLAND

 
 
 
 
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
35 East Wacker Drive
Chicago I, Ill., U.S.A.

MARCH PROGRAM SUGGESTIONS
FOR ROTARY CLUBS

“Somebody Proposed You .. .”

Have the chairman of your membership com-
mittee prepare a talk that will help the mem-
bers recognize their obligation to share
Rotary with others. The “Little Lessons on
Rotary,” in the January, February and
March issues of THE ROTARIAN are all de-
signed to make this an effective program.
Or, a program patterned after the “average”
Rotary club can show how new members can
be added. “Exville—A Typical Rotary Club,”
in THE ROTARIAN, for February, gives a pic-
ture story of such a program.

Many a good new member is lost because
someone “thinks he’d better not,” and so fails
to propose him. Your speaker can use the
guest editorial on page 7 in THE ROTARIAN
for January, to tell of these “guesses” which
cost the club good membership timber.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:
No. 352, “Why Grow—Now?”
No. 358, “Growth Through Planning.”

From THE ROTARIAN:
November, 1943,
“Rotary Must Be Felt,’’ Ricardo Calatroni

“Why Men Like Rotary,” Richard H. Wells
July, 1943, “New Friends,” Charles H. Towne

“Help on Financial Problems”

March 15 is income-tax time—and this year
a lot of employees are going to scratch their
heads over “Form 1040” for the first time.
In THE ROTARIAN for February, your speaker
will find “A Specific Charter for Action,” a
statement by Rotary International’s Presi-
dent Charles L. Wheeler, jointly with the
heads of Kiwanis International, the Ameri-
can Legion and the United States Chamber
of Commerce, which emphasizes the objec-
tives for which our armies and navies and
we of the home front are fighting. Among
the activities to help further these objectives

is listed the promotion of “an intelligent and
interested citizenry,” which includes an in-
telligent, interested tax-paying citizenry. A
definite program on plans to help employees
fill out their income-tax returns, set up fam-
ily budgets, etc., would be a service not only
to the employees, but also to the employer
and the community.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 510, “Today’s Task in Vocational Serv-
ice”

No. 523, “Good Management”

No. 533, “Personalizing Vocational Service”’

From THE ROTARIAN:

November, 1948, “Vocational Service Is Ba-
sic,” No. 4 of “Little Lessons on Rotary”
series

February, 1943, “New Springs under Old
Employees,” B. F. Downey

“Food Fights for Freedom”

Francis B. Sayre, once U. S. High Commis-
sioner to The Philippines, and a delegate to
the first meeting of the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration, writes in
the March issue of THE ROTARIAN on how
food is fighting for freedom in the overrun
nations of Europe and Asia. Assign this
article to one of your best speakers and ask
him to report on it at the club meeting.

Or, in a program on soil conservation, your
farm-owning member can describe some of
the modern practices that prevent waste of
“the good earth”’—producer of food—vital
weapon of war. Louis Bromfield’s article in
THE ROTARIAN for February, that tells about
the once-fertile “(Mason Place” which was
allowed to dwindle to a deserted homestead,
is “a natural” for a speaker on this subject.
Or, a human interest talk based on “Fish for
Britain,” also in THE ROTARIAN for Febru-
ary, can be given on the sacrifices men make
so that others may eat. .
References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 618, “Safeguarding Our National Re-
sources”

No. 722, “The United Nations Plan for Re-
lief and Rehabilitation”

U. S. Papers:

No. 16, “Attention Rotarians! You can Help
Win on the Food Front”

No. 20, “Food Fights for Freedom”’

No. 21, The Current Food Situation”

From THE ROTARIAN:
September, 1943,
“Hurope—Where the Cupboard Is Almost
Bare,” Albin E. Johnson
“Post War Drama: Act I, Scene I,’”’ Her-
bert H. Lehman

March, 1948, “Soya Can Do,” Robert M.
Yoder and George Thiem

“Our New Tool—Science”

Why not a “radio commentator” program—
the kind where two club members read alter-
nating news items, with comments on each?
Chapter III of “A World to LIVE In,” (book
of reprinted science-and-the-future articles
from THE ROTARIAN) and the monthly fea-
ture, “Peeps at Things to Come,” in THE
ROTARIAN, would be excellent source material
for a program on recent developments of
science and their effect on our lives.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 727, “After the Clash of Arms—What
Then?”

From THE ROTARIAN:

February, 1943, “Young Man With a Wire”’

January, 1943, ‘““Needed: Post-War Capital,”
James Truslow Adams

May, 1943, “Press a Button—Get a Home,”
Walter B. Pitkin

January, 1948, “Science Remaking Our
World,” Waldemar Kaempffert

“Helping the Handicapped”

In THE ROTARIAN for March, Gladys Schultz
tells of steps that have been taken—since
World War I—to rehabilitate the physically
handicapped. Your Rotarian doctor can build
a worth-while program around this article
and apply it to local practices.

6420—Mar. 1944—4100 In,

Or, have a club member report on the article
in the March issue of THE ROTARIAN that
tells about the Vincennes, Indiana, WORK
PILE project in which is included help for
the handicapped. This same speaker can also
tell of the need for immediate help for those
youth who have been rejected by the armed
services because of physical handicaps. Car-
rol C. Hall talks about this in an article in
THE ROTARIAN for March.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 624, “Man Salvage—An Urgent Need”

No. 637A, “Rotary and the Crippled Child”

Pamphlet No. 40, “Crippled Children Work
by Rotary Clubs”

From THE ROTARIAN:

March, 1943, “The World We Want.” Sym-
posium

November, 1943
“The Blind Go to War,” Pictorial
“T Will Do My Best,” H. L. Craddick

August, 19438, “Bullfighting Doctor,” Charles
M. Wilson

“Interdependence of Agriculture,
Manufacturing, Labor”

Ask your program chairman to organize a
round-table group composed of one or two
representatives each of agriculture, manu-
facturing, and labor in the community; and
suggest that the discussion or symposium
center around the inter-relationship of these
three groups—now and during the post-war
period. Let each member of the group show
how his field of service is dependent upon the
other two, and how closer cooperation be-
tween the three groups will create a better
understanding of each other’s problems,
which, in turn, may help to solve many of
the community’s problems in years to come.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:
No. 635A, “Know Your Community”

No. 649, “The Farmer’s Place in the Na-
tion’s Future”

From THE ROTARIAN:

November, 1943, “Post-War Private Enter-
prise,’ Debate-of-the-Month

June, 1943, “Reciprocal Trade Agreements,”
Debate-of-the-Month
 

CARINCE. ROTARY CLUB

sae KANSAS | ee 1944

FROM ALAMEDA CALIF, comes the speaker for Monday, He is Walter P, Koetitz, past

president of the Alameda Rotary Club, and is associated with the
Division of Immigration and Housing for the State of California.
Rotarian Koétitz is in these parts to attend the wedding of his
son, a chemical engineer at the Sunflower Ordnance Works, This
Should be a fine program.

OUR GUEST SPEAKERS of last week——Stan Stockton La Dick Stutz were a credit to

their teacher and Victory Speaker Bureau Director, E, C. "Bill!
Buehler, It was fine forage for the Rotarians, Come again,
boys! os

ROTARIANS Raymond Rice, Fred Ellsworth, Deane W. Malott and K. W. Davidson

attended the funeral of W. A. White in Emporia last Monday,

START PLANNING now for that District Conference in Topeka April 30-May 1, The

"On to Topeka" Committee consists: of Roger Allen, Corlett Cotton,
Cecil Hough and Tom Parker. The Lawrence Club is responsible
for a great program for the _ night meeting, April 30!

FROM HERE AND THERE:

"How has Junior been making out in his examinations this summer?" a Winfield
man asked his wife,
"Oh," she replied,"he's doing mech better. He was almost on the top of the
list of those who failed," :

—-Wichita Eagle,

Overhead Dept: Two girls were waiting to see the boss, when one asked the
other, "Is my face dirty or is ‘it just my imagination?"
"Your face isn't dirty, but r dori't know about your imag—
ination," :
| =-Manhattan liercury,

"Now dear," said the Coffeyville wife at the conclusion of the meal, "what'11l
I get if I cook a dinner like that for you every day for the rest of the oer
"My life insurance, I believe," he replied unfcélingly.

--Wichita Eagle.

First Draftee: "You know, I feel like I'd like to punch that hardboiled top
sergeant in the nose again,"
Second Draftee: "Again?"
First Draftee: ‘Yes, I felt like it eesterdar kt
_--Public Service Magazine,

K WD mn

 
Around the Rotary World in Wartime

 

 

A Prayer for Servicemen

The Rotary Club of Pana, Illi-
nois, originated the idea of “A
Minute of Prayer,” at 6:00 p.m.
each evening when the whistles
blow and everyone is reminded
to pray for the men in the ser-
vice, and for peace.

Luck

Do I believe in luck? I should
say I do. It’s a wonderful force.
I have watched the careers of
too many lucky men to doubt
its efficacy.

You see some fellow reach
out and grab an opportunity
that the other fellow standing
around had not realized was
there. Having grabbed it, he
hangs onto it with a grip that
makes the jaws of a bulldog
seem like a fairy touch.

He intensifies his strong
points, bolsters his weak ones;
cultivates those personal quali-
ties that cause other men to
trust him and cooperate with
him. He sows the seeds of sun-
shine and good cheer, of opti-
mism, of unstinted kindness.

He plans his work and then
sticks to it. He talks and acts
like a winner, for he knows in
time he will be one. And then—
luck does all the rest.

—THE SPOKEMAN,
Wahiawa- Waialua,
Hawaii

 

1C-44

Vocational Service

Every man who does honor-
able work serves society. Serv-
ing society, he contributes to
the progress and improvement
of civilization. I say “honorable
work.” That does not mean
work that must necessarily
appear to be intrinsically im-
portant, but it must fit some-
where, somehow into the
program by which man finds
reason for living, by which he
gives meaning and purpose to
his life and to all life. The gam-
bler is engaged in trying to get
something for nothing. He does
no useful work, however long
hours he puts in. He creates
nothing.

The man who fixes an engine _

or curries the horses that will

pull a truck is doing something
both useful and honorable. All
labor is good and all labor is
honorable, so long as it is not
the labor of a parasite.

I think labor ought to be rep-
resented in a Rotary club. Some
say the overall man is just com-
ing into his own, ... but he has
always been of the importance
he is now,. only we have not
been sufficiently aware of the
honor and usefulness of hand-
work.

Overall men, white-collar
men, artists and artisans,
WORKERS—they ought to be
in far greater degree the recipi-
ents, the legatees, of the grati-
tude, the appreciation of their
fellows.

—ROTARY REMINDER,
Cleveland, Ohio.

 

 

“TOO LITTLE,
TOO LATE"

There isn’t plenty of time to
get going on a Work Pile sur-
vey. The club that thinks that
it will take up the Work Pile
project “sometime next year”
is deluding itself and _ short-
changing its community and its
boys who are at the front. That
thinking leads straight into the
familiar “too little, too late.” ...

The Work Pile carries plan-
ning for postwar jobs right
down to the grass roots. It
makes the responsibility of the
individual citizen clear and it
shows him that he CAN do
something about it....

Let’s not procrastinate. Ro-
tary’s responsibility is clear. I
know every club will respond.

—President Charles L.
Wheeler

Rotary Overseas

The Rotary Club of Springs,
South Africa, has raised funds
to provide monthly parcels for
local men who are now prison-
ers of war. The club has adopted
a number of prisoners at a cost
of £24 a year per man.

General Eisenhower on

“Blood Plasma”’

“Hach donor of blood should
feel a deep sense of satisfaction
by making a contribution. The
use of plasma quickly after a
fighter is wounded constitutes
the most important single ad-
vance in the surgical treatment
of the wounded in this war.

“By the liberal donation of
blood by their countrymen,
plasma is made available to the
wounded at the most forward
aid posts. From these advance
stations back to the rear every
medical installation is equipped
to administer repeated injec-
tions when necessary....

“Donation of blood is a patri-
otic service to our country. That
most Americans realize this, is
evident from the generosity of
their donations.”

Is our club doing its share?

 

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for
I have seen yesterday and I love
today.
—William Allen White

“ne
wor

 
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

 

Work Pile News—

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

21 January, 1944

In Davis, California —

—the Rotary club in connection
with its Work Pile activity is obtain-
ing through the records of the local
schools information on the educa-
tion and training each serviceman
had received prior to induction. The
club also checks on the occupation
of each at time of induction.

In Taylorville, Illinois —

—the Work Pile committee of the
Rotary club went before the direc-
tors of the Taylorville Association
of Commerce and obtained that
body’s agreement to handle the
Work Pile for the entire community.
The Association has appointed a
special committee for the purpose.

=

In Indianola, lowa —

—the Rotary club has enlisted the
cooperation of the Lions Club in
planning and carrying through a
consumer survey which will cover
the entire county. Local men in the
service will be kept informed through
articles in the local papers.

In Lexington, Kentucky —

—a consumer survey check sheet
for the community is being devel-
oped by the Department of Com-
merce of the University of Kentucky
for use by the local Board of Com-
merce whose postwar planning com-
mittee is headed by a member of
the Rotary Club of Lexington.

In Baton Rouge, La. —

—the Chamber of Commerce has
selected a past president of the Ro-
tary club to be the general chairman
of its postwar planning council and
has decided to have a Work Pile sec-
tion. Survey check lists are in proc-
ess of preparation.

In Cohasset, Mass. —

—the Rotary club’s committee on
postwar planning has formed a
community-wide committee with
representation from 20 different lo-
cal organizations, to handle the
Work Pile and follow through with
all aid to returning servicemen.

Definite rules of procedure have
been drawn up and approved in form
of by-laws governing action of this
committee which is called “Cohasset
Veterans’ Service Committee.”

In Fairmont, Minnesota —

—where a Rotarian is chairman of
the local Committee for Economic
Development, postwar planning
work was begun over a year ago.
Rotarians have been active on the
steering committee which joined in
sponsoring a public meeting in the
high school auditorium at which
plans for the job survey of the city
were discussed and approved. Two
members of the 3-man committee
conducting the survey are Rotarians.
The results so far are encouraging.
It is planned to make a re-check
from time to time to keep the survey
up to date.

In Geneva, New York —

—the Rotary club invited the sec-
retary of the Chamber of Commerce
to attend a special club meeting on
the Work Pile, the president of the
Chamber being a member of the
club. The committee chairman, in
summing up, said that he would pre-
fer to work with the Chamber of
Commerce if there was assurance
that the Work Pile project would go
forward aggressively, but without
that assurance the Rotary club
would feel it necessary to set up a
committee to carry on the project.
The Chamber immediately appoint-
ed a full committee which has since
held weekly meetings. A public
meeting of citizens is scheduled to
bring the project before the general
public.

39

Supplemental to No. 5

In Fostoria, Ohio —

—Past Governor Fred Hopkins took
the lead in his newspaper in an
editorial “Fostoria Should Be Ready
When the Boys Come Home”. Among
the things he said. that led to the
holding of preliminary conferences
and eventually the appointment of
a city-wide committee was this:
“Fostorians must not sit back and —
wait for the end of the war to come,
and then flounder around for solu-
tions to the problems they will have
to face, or worse still, be forced
to accept tailor-made solutions of
theorists, in the postwar period”.

In St. Joseph, Missouri —

—the Rotary Club of the South Side
has already received 14 completed
Work Pile reports listing a total of
$20,160 worth of repairs on buildings
—work to be undertaken at the
cessation of hostilities “to keep
faith,” as the club says, “with de-
mobilized servicemen”.

In Ottawa, Canada —

—Rotarians regard employment as
the most important question of post-
war reconstruction. In a recent poll
of the club 66% named employment;
37% considered it possible to main-
tain the present volume of employ-
ment after the war; 34% regarded
it impossible; 29% gave conditional
answers. Only 66% said their pro-
fession or business had made plans
to absorb former employees; 14%
had plans with conditions attached.

In St. John’s, Nfld. —

—the Rotary club’s Work Pile com-
mittee induced the Newfoundland
Board of Trade to appoint a special
committee for planning activities in
the community.

 
 

21 Jan. 1944

To Club Presidents na Secretaries

The News Letter

From the R. |. Secretariat (Central Office)
35 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago |, Ill., U.S. A.

No. 14—1943-44

 

1944 International Conference at Chicago
May 15-18, 1944

Since Rotary clubs everywhere
are working vigorously in the prose-
cution of the war to a speedy and
successful conclusion and in the
establishment of a firm foundation
for the peace that is to follow, the
annual meeting of Rotary Interna-
tional has been streamlined to fit
the exigencies of the world-wide
war conditions.

The conference program will ex-
clude entertainment features,
banquets and receptions. It will be
strictly a working conference, lim-
ited as nearly as possible to delegates
only, for the purpose of electing
officers and the consideration of
necessary legislation. Because of the
difficulties of transportation and
hotel facilities, the attendance of
ladies is not encouraged. The pro-
gram of the conference will be de-
voted to the twin goals of intensify-
ing the Rotary program of service
in wartime and planning for the
post-war era following victory.

Because of greatly increased trans-
portation difficulties at Omaha,
where it was originally scheduled,

the 1944 international conference
will be held in Chicago—the dates,
May 15 to 18. All arrangements for
this conference will be in conform-
ity with plans suggested by the
United States Government for war-
time meetings.

Hotel facilities in Chicago will be
limited and will be allotted by zone
to Rotarians in the order of receipt
of requisitions. Conference head-
quarters will be in The Stevens hotel
and practically all conference activ-
ities will be centered in that hotel.

To the Rotary Club of Omaha, for
its graciousness in postponing its
role as Rotary’s host, and to the
Rotary Club of Chicago, for agree-
ing to serve as conference host at
this late date, the board of directors
and the international conference
committee express their deep
appreciation.

Charles L. Wheeler, President
Rotary International

Stanley Long, Chairman
R. I. 1944 Conference Committee

 

 

 

Today’s Service Story

- Louie Hersig, 100% attender for
more than 30 years at the Rotary
Club of Madison, Wisconsin, sells
hundreds of washing machines
each year. At times he takes in
used machines as part payment,
sending them to his shop for re-
conditioning. Then, through the.
visiting nurses association, or the
churches, he learns of some un-
fortunate widow who still uses
the old fashioned washboard
method of washing and presents
her with a rebuilt washer, in-
stalled with instructions as to
how to use it.

Louie’s firm has 22 former em-
ployees serving in the Armed
Forces of the United States, in
all parts of the world, and he
deposits $25.00 per month to the
account of each of them.

When I complimented him on
these two generous acts, Louie
replied: “You can’t take it with
you.”

Phil

 

 

 

Vice Presidents of R.I.

With the death of Second Vice
President Sinclair J. McGibbon,
Third Vice President Harry C.
Bulkeley of Abingdon, Ill., U.S.A.,
has succeeded to the office of second
vice president. The board of directors
of R.I. has elected Director Harold
W. McKiel of Sackville, N.B., Canada,
as third vice president.

Vice President Bulkeley is a senior
active member of his club. He has
been president of the American
Sanitary Manufacturing Company
since 1918, and for many years has
been prominent in the civic, finan-
cial and trade association affairs of
his city.

Vice President McKiel’s classifica-

tion is “education — mechanical ©

engineering” and he is dean of the
Science Faculty of Mt. Allison Uni-
versity and temporarily acting as
assistant to the president. He has
served as president of a number of
important engineering associations
and chemistry institutes, and has
been active in war savings, war
service and salvage campaigns.

New R.I. Director

Rotarian J. M. A. Ilott, governor
director of the advertising agency
of J. Hott, Ltd., G.P.O. Box 1491, Wel-
lington, C.I., New Zealand, has been
elected director of R.I. for the re-
mainder of 1943-44, vice Director

_ McGibbon, deceased.

John Ilott has served as president
of his club and as governor of his
district. At present he holds sev-
eral important war appointments,
among them, chairmanship of the
National Savings Committee, and
deputy chairmanship of the Na-
tional Council for the Reclama-
tion of Waste Material. John was
chairman of the Joint War Loan
Executive in Wellington, which
played an important part in raising
New Zealand’s record loan of almost
£40,000,000.

For the Son of a Soldier
Killed in Action

As a tribute to the memory of one
of its members who died in the serv-
ice of his country, the Rotary Club
of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia,
has set up a fund, in war saving
certificates, for the education of his
son who is now seven years old.

Rotary HE a Glance

5,129 Rotary Clubs
218,500 Rotarians

 

(Of these, 98 clubs with 3,000 members
in war-affected countries are inactive)

76 New Clubs in 20 Countries
Since July 1, 1943

Effective December 31, 1943, the Board
of Directors of R.I. terminated the member-
ships in Rotary International of 116 Rotary
clubs in war-affected countries which were
being carried on the roll of member clubs
of R.I. These clubs were in Burma, Feder-
ated Malay States, Guam, Hong Kong,
Borneo, Celebes, Java, Sumatra, Philippine
Islands, Sarawak, Straits Settlements, Thai-
land, Occupied China, and Northern Occu-
pied France. One club in Egypt—the Rotary
Club of Pert Said—was also terminated.

 
 

The attendance average of Ro-
tary clubs remains high despite
_— — the increase in calls upon Rotar-

-. jans to give time to wartime ac-
tivities. Why is it that when there
is less time to do the things that
must be done, Rotarians are con-
tinuing to meet their obligations
of. regular attendance: at. their
_ Rotary club meetings? There are
ae probably | many answers. Fellow-
+ ship undoubtedly ranks at the
- top of the list. When times are

- dark —when every day is filled
- with discouragements and anxie-
r ties, men feel the need for fel-
-* lowship: Nothing is ever quite so
bad if you can talk it over with
your friend —and in his Rotary
club a Rotarian has a reservoir
of understanding friends.

‘Many Rotary clubs, which in
the old days were merely pleas-
_ ant places to go to listen to an

interesting address, to greet one’s

friends and to eat a good lunch-
eon, have changed in character.
The needs of the times have
brought out the practicality of

 

ik a 1 bine

Why is regular attendance necessary ‘in a eae Because
in order to become and remain a Rotarian, a member must
experience the fellowship and the close contact which
can be obtained only at the weekly meetings. He must
attend so that he can discuss with others the problems
concerning his own and their vocations, and so that he
can obtain inspiration for service to his own community
and to his fellowmen in other nations. Attendance is
stressed aS a means to an

grams, congenial meeting place

schedule. It is the ‘duty*of the

end, not an end in itself.

the Rotary program — have dem-
onstrated that the challenge of a
world at war can be met not by
changing the fundamental pro-
gram of Rotary, but by applying
it—by intensifying it —by living it -
in all of our daily relationships.

Good attendance can be in-
duced by good fellowship; well:
balanced and interesting pro-

and strict. adherence: to time

club service and attendance com- -
mittees to acquaint the members
with the attendance require-
ments; to make a study of the ©
causes of poor attendance and
then try to remove those causes;
and to urge upon the members >
the desirability and importance
of attending club meetings.

If the Rotary club is demon-
strating that it is a live, vital
service organization, every mem-
ber will want to attend regularly
and have an active part in the
work the club is doing.

 

 

Honorary Trustees of the
Rotary Foundation for 1944

- President Wheeler has appointed
the following as honorary trustees
of the Rotary Foundation for the
calendar year 1944:

Chairman: Arch C, Klumph, Clepeland,

Ohio, U.S.A.

Members: T. Harry Banfield, Portland,
Oregon

Manuel Gaete Fagalde, Santiago, Chile

Donato Gaminara, Montevideo, Uruguay

Paul P. Harris, Chicago, Til.

Herbert C. Hoover, Palo Alto, =

F. E. James, Madras, India

Louis L. Lang, Kitchener, Ont., Canada

Charles A. Mander, Wolverhampton,

England
Daniel L. Marsh, Boston, Mass.

Crawford C. McCullough, Fort William,
Ont., Canada

Angus Mitchell, Melbourne, Australia

Armando de Arruda Pereira, Sao Paulo,
Brazil .

J. Layton Ralston, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
Almon E. Roth, Palo Alto, California
Felipe Silva, Cienfuegos, Cuba

I. B. Sutton, Tampico, Mexico

Philadelphia Serves
Of the $3901 donated by the mem-

_ bers of the Rotary Club of Philadel-

phia, Pennsylvania, for the club’s
Santa Claus activities, $1500 was

- cabled to'the Rotary Club of Chung-

king, China, for special relief work.
The balance of the Christmas fund
was used to alleviate the needs of
394 families of men who are serving
in the Armed Forces.

In Memoriam

We record with regret the passing
of the following past international
officers of Rotary International:

Traugott M. Bruggisser, Aarau, Switz-
erland, who served as governor of the

54th district in 1939-40;

Samuel C. Schmucker, West Chester,
Pennsylvania, who served as governor of
the old 50th district in 1927-28.

William H. Schneller, Catasauqua, Penn-
sylvania, who served as governor of the
old 50th district in 1934-35;

F. Bond Wilkinson, Jackson, Tennessee,
who served as governor of the old 52nd
district in 1935-36;

~-Newly Admitted Clubs

For use in extending greetings, we give
you the names and addresses of the offi-

-.cers of the clubs recently admitted to

membership in Rotary International. Com-
munications received at the Secretariat

_ from newly admitted clubs indicate that

they greatly appreciate the letters of
greetings from the older clubs, even
though it may be practically impossible
to make direct acknowledgment of the
letters.

Vermillion, S. D., U.S.A. 5691 (D-119) 1943
TUESDAY, 12::10 p.m., Legion Hall.
Pres. Dr. I. D. Weeks (ed.-univ. admin.)
University of South Dakota.
- Secy. Earl M. Stevens (clothing ret.).

De Soto, Mo., U.S.A. 5692 (D-135) 1943
TUESDAY, 6:30 p.m., Victory Cafe.
Pres. Aubrey E. Vaughn (dairy prod.), -2nd
_ and Kelly St.
Secy... Walker ses (Bestel og Be and
«Boyd St.

Abington, Mass., U.S.A. 5693 (D- 198) 1943
_ TUESDAY, 6:30 p.m., Alamo.
Pres. William A. Robbins (ins. -fire), 536
: Washington St. .
Secy. George D. Wheatley: (real est. agency),
550 Washington St.

Lepanto, - Ark.; US:A. 5694 (D-138) 1943
. THURSDAY, 12:05 p.m., Legion Hut.
. Pres. J. Walter Hill. (auto. ret.), Drawer 818.
Secy. Rev. Leslie M. ioe ets done
prot:) Baptist Church...

Chertsey, ‘Surrey: England 5695 (D-14) 1943
FRIDAY, 1:00 p.m., Station Hotél. |
Pres. Joseph Moore (machinery dist.) 1,
Charles St.
~ Secy.. T. H. Winser (optical goods dist.) 55
Guildford St. ..-_

Minnedosa, nn Canada 5696 (D-116) 1943
. MONDAY, 12:15 p.m., Minnedosa Hotel.
Pres. Clifton W. Sinclair (groe. ret.) Main

“Sa Oty
. Secy. John Kosmolak (butter mfg.).

Granton, Wis., U.S.A. 5697 (D-143) 1943
- TUESDAY, 6:30 p.m., Beaver’s Restaurant.
’ Pres. George J. Edleback (ed. -pub. schgols).
Secy. Al Breseman (cheese dist..).

Maria Elena, Ant., Chile. 5698 (D-35)
FRIDAY, 20:30. Rancho 1.
- Pres. Abraham Agiiero Rivero (dental sur-
gery) Hospital de Maria Elena.
oes Enrique Inda Silva (hospitals) Hospital
..de Maria-Elena.

Jeazeiro, Ceara, Brasil. 5699 (D-26)
WEDNESDAY, 11:30, Joazeiro Hotel.
Pres. Antoénio Conserva Feitosa (phys.).
! Secy. José Souza Menezes (civil law pract.).
bee Casas Grandes, Chih., México. 5700
: D-24)-
i SATURDAY, 1:00, Hotel Central.
Pres. Manuel Ramiro Araiza (groceries dist.)
> . Ave: Ferrocarril No. 2. ~ ;
, Secy. Manuel Alvizo M. (law practice) Apar-
Stade 228.1 2? ee

Bald Knob, Ark., U.S.A. 5701 (D-138) 1943

- MOND AY, 6: :30 p-m., "School House.

| Pres: Clarence Hunnicutt (ed.-pub. schools}.
- Secy. Ed. Williams (bkg.).

Harrisbure, Ark., ‘U.S.A. 5702 (D-138) 1943"
- TUESDAY, 7 AS p.m., Legion Hut.

Pres. W., E. Bradford (fire ins.).

Secy. Ben F. Powel (auto. ret.).

Pasto, Narino, Colombia. 5703 (D-40)
FRIDAY, 6:30 p.m., Hotel Niza.
Pres. Francisco Muriel (gen. merch. ae)
Apartado 108.
Secy.- Carlos César Puyana (newsp. publish-
ing). Editorial “El Radio.’

Blackheath, N.S.W., Australia 5704 (D-76) 1943
THURSDAY, 6:00 p.m., Masonic Hall.
Pres. William R. Tate (municipal govt. ad-
ministration) P.O. Box 4.
Secy. Edgar H. Houen (general law practice)
Govett’s Leap Road.

Pires do Rio, Goias, Brasil, 5705 (D-41)
MONDAY, 19:00, Restaurante da Estacio.
Pres. Floriano Batista (law practice) Caixa

Postal 8. ;
Secy. Américo Motta Goncalves (civ. law)
Caixa Postal 31.

Henderson, Bs. As., Argentina, 5706 (D-32)
WEDNESDAY, 21:30, Hotel Internacional.
Pres. Saverio Galvagni (physician) Hender-

son, F. C. Midland.
Secy. Carlos F. Keunecke (notary public)
Henderson, F. C. Midland.
 

21 Jan. 1944

The News Letter

USCNB Supplement

No. 14—1943-44

 

Candidates for Director
From Zones in the U.S.A.

Section 6 of Article IX of the by-
laws of R.I., provides that a club
which intends to propose a candi-
date for the office of director of R.I.
from a zone in the United States at
the next ensuing convention must
indicate its intention to do so by
filing with the secretary of R.I. on
or before the ist day of April (but
not prior to the publication of the
announcement of the nominating
committee for president of Rotary
International of its. nominee for
that office) a resolution of the club
adopted at a regular meeting there-
of naming the candidate which’ it
intends to propose.

This item is published as a re-
minder to clubs in the U.S.A. which
may be intending to propose a can-

didate for the office of director in
1944-45.

Beginning with the current year,
the directors from the five zones in
the U.S.A. will each in rotation serve
a two year term. The director from
Zone 1 serving this year will serve a
second year in 1944-45. Therefore
nominations for directors will be in
order from Zones 2, 3, 4 and 5 for
1944-45, and the director from Zone

2 will serve for the years 1984+ 45 and

1945-46.

The board of directors has in-
structed the secretary to publish
each year in the USCNB supplement
to the News Letter the names of
those Rotarians who have been noti-
fied to him as candidates for nomi-
nation for director,’and has specified
that the following information be

published concerning each candi-

date:

Name of candidate gs
- Name.of club proposing candidate

Candidate’s classification (or class of
membership if. unclassified) .

Name of firm

Position with firm

How. many years a Rotarian

Present position in Rotary

Positions held in Rotary in the past

This biographical information

should accompany the copy of the
club’s resolution proposing a can-
didate for nomination as director.

14.6 Per Cent

Of the 533 members of the 78th
Congress of the United States, 78, or
14.6%, are Rotarians — 18 Senators
and 60 Representatives.

Calling — All Service
Club Members

Over the Protestant Hour of the
National Broadcasting Company’s
network at 10:00 a.m. E.W.T. on 13th
February, 1944, there will be a ser-
mon by the Rev. Dr. Ralph W.
Sockman, addressed to the members
of all service clubs.

The Reverend Dr. Sockman is the
officiating pastor of the National
Radio Pulpit and one of the out-
standing pulpit orators of America.

The idea of this special sermon to
service club members by the Rev.
Dr. Sockman originated with the
Kiwanis Club of Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Rotary International is
happy to call this broadcast to the
attention of Rotary clubs in the

_ United States and Canada so that
Rotarians who may have an oppor-

tunity to listen in on N.B.C. network

broadcasts may make arrangements

to. hear Dr. Sockman.

It Was Too Big for Rotary

Yes, the problem of leisure time
activities of. the teen-age boys and
girls of war-busy Macon, .Georgia,
was. too big for the Rotary Club

_ or-the Y.M.C.A. or any other civic

organization. : However, under the
leadership of a Macon Rotarian, all

_ of these civic clubs combined in an

undertaking which is making a defi-
nite contribution to ate Aone of
this. problem.

- Funds donated by the civic clubs
were used to furnish a club room
which was donated ‘by the Y.W.C.A.
Some 500 high school students have

- paid $1.00 for a year’s membership

dues, and it is planned that the club
will be self-supporting. The success
of this first teen-age club has met
with the full approval of the city’s
board of education, and it is hoped
that other similar clubs will be es-
tablished in Macon and in several
neighborhoods in the county.

More About the UNRRA

The United Nations Relief and Re-

habilitation Administration agree-
ment was signed on November 9,
1943. The widespread interest in this
agreement would seem to offer suf-
ficient justification for a Rotary
program which would emphasize the
value of the UNRRA and its possi-
bilities.
- A new Rotary paper offering sug-
gestions for such a program has
been prepared and may be secured
from Rotary International, 35 East
Wacker Drive, Chicago 1, Illinois. In
writing, ask for paper No. 722.

To Rotarians in the U.S.A.—

NOW is the Time

On January 18, 1944, the campaign
for the Fourth U.S. War Loan for.
$14,000,000,000 was inaugurated. It
will be raised just as have been the
three preceding loans, but in order
to do so, it will be necessary for the
American people to “dig deep,” keep- .
ing in mind that any sacrifice they
may have to make to meet their

quota, isa privilege and a responsi-

bility which is theirs as e iree Amer-
icans.

We haven’t won the war—yet. Our
successes in Guadalcanal, North Af-
rica, Sicily and the Gilbert Islands
are only the beginning. More men
are needed for combat service, and
they are being drafted. More equip-
ment is required to replace planes
that have been shot down, tanks
that have been destroyed, ships that
have been sunk. The mobilization of
trained manpower and the efficient
production and prompt delivery of
superior fehting equipment cost
ay

Thousands of our men are Seine
killed in action—they won’t come
back. Our modern mechanized mon-
sters of destruction will be destroyed
or become obsolete — they won’t
come back. But every dollar invested
in United States War Savings Bonds
will come back. It will come back to
us, because it will help assure our
American way of life.

The Treasury Department of the
U.S. Government calls upon Rotary
clubs and Rotarians in the United
States to continue to back the at-
tack. Our boys fighting in the Pacific
have been saying “The Golden Gate
in ’°48.” Let’s help change that slogan
to “Home Once More in 44.” ,

Rotary IS International! :

The Rotary Club of Smethport,
Pennsylvania, has an international
service committee composed of mem-
bers from Switzerland, Wales, Can-
ada, Australia, and England. The
committee is promoting the Fourth
Object of Rotary by having pro-
grams consisting of talks on neigh-
boring countries. They have had
presentations on Canada and Switz-
erland, and are planning similar
talks on Mexico, Venezuela, and
Australia, to complete the series.

This is one very effective way in
which Rotary clubs can contribute
to a better understanding among
the nationals in this hemisphere
and throughout the entire world.
Featuring Inter-American
Relations

. The Pan American Union has is-
ued a series of 16-page booklets on
the life, history, and customs of the
Latin American countries, which
have been received with interest by
hundreds of teachers and introduced
into classroom use throughout the
United States. The Union now is
preparing a second set of pamphlets
and hopes to enlarge the series
gradually on the basis of units deal-
ing with the history, heroes, con-
querors, native cultures, life and
customs, science and nature, and in-
ternational relations of the Latin
American republics.

The first series of these booklets,
which sell for five cents each, cover
these subjects:

The Pan American Union

The Panama Canal

The Snake Farm at Butantan
Francisco Pizarro

Cabeza de Vaca’s Great Journey
The Incas

Jose de San Martin

The Pan American Highway

The Araucanians

The Guano Islands of Peru

Rotary clubs which may be inter-
ested in using these booklets as a
means of furthering the interest of
young people of the U.S.A. in inter-
American relations should contact
the Pan American Union, Washing-
ton 6, D.C.

Conserve These "Vital
Seven”

The “vital seven” resources—coal,
oil, gas, electricity, water, commu-
nications and transportation—are,
with manpower and materials, the
basis for the tremendous amount
of wartime production which the
home-front must continue to sup-
ply. So great is the need for the gen-
eral conservation of these resources
that the U.S. Government is spon-
soring a broad program calling for
immediate, voluntary measures by
the public and by industry to fight
waste. Although the savings in a
single household, commercial estab-
lishment or industrial plant may
seem small, the possible aggregate
Savings nationally are tremendous.
Just figure out what would be
gained if every consumer of the “‘vi-
tal seven” cut down his use by 10
per cent.

Rotarians should need no urging
to cooperate in this renewed con-
Servation drive, both in their homes
and in their businesses. Every bit
saved helps toward winning the war.

 

Do you have a copy of “The Rotarian”
or “Revista Rotaria” on display at the
speaker's table at the first meeting each
month following the arrival of the mag-
azine?

 

Rotary in beta

Bergenfield, New Jersey, recently
received a bequest of $3,678 from a
teacher of the local high school, to
be applied to the club’s student loan

- fund.

Davenport, Iowa, has an active
scholarship fund of over $10,000
which has helped nearly 100 young
people through college.

Zebulon, North Carolina, is launch-
ing as a post-war project a plan for
improving sweet potato growing
through proper curing and grading.

Littleton, Colorado, Rotarians for
more than a year, have met every
Sunday for the purpose of collecting
scrap metal and hauling it to a scrap

collection depot.

Cranston, Rhode Island, sponsors
city-wide collection of waste paper,

rags, books and magazines.
Portsmouth, Ohio, obtained the

names of a dozen hospitals which are
caring for wounded war veterans and
inquired relative to their needs for
cards, games and puzzles. The re-
sponse was good, and several hun-
dred decks of cards, jig-saw puzzles
and miscellaneous games were sup-
plied.

Bradford, Pennsylvania, located a
building, rent free, and plan to open
it as a community center for youth,
under the jurisdiction of the mu-
nicipal playground. There will be a
dance floor, ping pong tables, piano
and pool tables. To initiate this
project, a carnival was held, netting
$1,200. The borough council added
$1,000 and the school board a like
amount. The center will be called
the “Bee Hive” and Bradford Ro-

tarians hope it will prove a popular

young people’s rendezvous.

St. Johns, Newfoundland, Rotarians
brought donations of salt codfish to
a recent club meeting, as a result of

which a full cask of this product

was shipped to London for the New-
foundland boys in service on leave
in London.

Warren, Pennsylvania, entertains
the farmers of the county each year,
and this year was delighted to have
a record attendance of 198 farmer
guests. Usually the farmers recipro-
cate with a “Farmer-Rotary” party.

This club has formed the Warren
Council of Service Clubs to coordi-
nate the efforts of all organizations
and to prevent overlapping of work;
the club cooperates with the county
crippled children’s committee and
raises $1,000 annually for crippled
children work; it is very active in
boy scout work, and the club’s boys’
welfare committee cooperates with
the county judge in helping to pro-
vide guidance for boys who have
been brought before him informally
for warning.

Food Still Fights the War

The role of food in the fight for
the world’s freedom will not be over
the minute shooting stops, but will
continue through the period of re-
habilitation. That means that right
now-—if we have not already started
— Wwe must be consciously careful of
our food supply. Today that supply
is greater than it has been in the
years past, and Americans, as a
whole, are eating more and better
food. But we must remember that,
though the supply is greater, the
demands are greater, since there
are armed forces to feed and a Lend-
Lease policy to carry out.

Rotary clubs should give attention
regularly to one of the various as-
pects of the food problem: to its
supply, its conservation, the best
ways to use it, and its basic impor-
tance in the war.

“For His Own Good”

After having been in Rotary under one
classification for 25 years, I thought it
only proper that some other younger man
in the same classification be given an op-
portunity to enjoy Rotary. I feel, further,
that it would put me in a better position
to do constructive work without feeling
that I was standing in the way of some
other good man’s advancement.

I have been very pleased with the re-
sults, and frankly, I feel that every good
active Rotarian, who has served 25 years
in Rotary or who has reached the age of
65 years, should for his own good, the
good of his club, and for the benefit of
others, change his membership to “Senior
Active” 2.

It is my sincere hope that many of our

_ good reliable stand-bys in Rotary will

give consideration to the possibilities of
“Senior Active Membership.”
—Roy J. Weaver, Pueblo (Colo.)
Chairman, Permanent
R. I. Headquarters Committee

A Little Home Away from
Home |

“Rotary Clubs are all alike. Sit down at
the table, close your eyes and listen, and
they are identical —identical in fellow-
ship, in gracious hospitality, in program
and in purpose. Recently, on pass to Hono-
lulu, I visited with the Rotary club and
had the most wonderful heart-warming
time. I registered in the usual fashion,
bought a lunch ticket, had a fine meal, and
enjoyed an excellent program. The con-
versation at my table was about business,

- the war, and all the other things we used

to talk about in Houston. All in all, it was
a little home away from home, and if
Rotary had done nothing for me but this
—given me an opportunity to make friends
in distant surroundings—it would have
been enough.”

-—excerpt from a letter from a Houston

(Texas) Rotarian now in the Armed Services
of the United States.
eee

Y of,
is ripe of YR PEACE

ra, v7

HERE IS A GOOD PROGRAM POSSIBILITY on.
A NEW APPROACH TO PRESENT AND POSTWAR PROBLEMS

CATHOLIC, JEWISH AND PROTESTANT
DECLARATION ON WORLD PEACE

Ever since the beginning of the war there
have been endless statements on "What Are
We Fighting For.” Not until the fall of
1943 was there a joint declaration of
basic principles by Catholic, Protestant
and Jewish religious leaders. At that
time 144 of these men put their names to
a document embodying the ideals which
must underlie any action which will be
undertaken towards the solution of our
present and future problems.

Six of the seven points of that declara-
‘tion are derived from the first one -

that moral law must govern the world order.

From that moral law would come the as-
surance that the rights of individuals,

of the oppressed and of minorities would
be secured, that international cooperation
would maintain peace and justice and an
equitable economic standard, and that 4
just social order would exist within each
state.

These are not novel or unexpected ideas,
but they are thought-provoking, emphasiz-
ing as they do the ideal approach to what
are, and will be, very practical problems
to solve.

take part.

so suGe ESTTONS

 

An Whi Geice ting club program can be built
around this declaration on world peace
in any one of several ways. If the

club is small enough have a general dis-
cussion in which all of the members can
If it is of average size or
more, have a panel discussion by a
previously selected group of men. Or

no matter what its size, have just one
member who is particularly well informed
speak on the topic, with perhaps some
discussion from the floor afterwards.

If the club would like to have outside
speakers, it might carry out the reli-
gious unity manifested among the signers
and. invite Catholic, Protestant and
Jewish leaders to present a symposium.

Once the desired kind of program is de-
cided. upon the speaker (or speakers )
should be presented with a copy of the
declaration well in advance so that he
(or they) will be thoroughly acquainted
with it. If there if to be a general
club discussion, print the declaration
in the club bulletin or in some other
form so that all the members might have
a& copy.

(over)

 
THE DECLARATION:

 

(As signed by representatives of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ
in America, the social action department of the National Catholic Welfare
Conference and the Synagogue Council of America. )

1. THE MORAL LAW MUST GOVERN WORLD ORDER

The organization of a just péace depends’ upon practical recognition of the fact that
not only individuals but nations, states and international society are subject to
the sovereignty of God and to the moral law which comes from God.

2. THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL MUST BE ASSURED

The dignity of the human person as the image of God must be set forth in all its
essential implications in an international declaration of rights and be vindicated
by the positive action of national governments and international organization, States
as well as individuals must repudiate racial, religicus or other discrimination in
violation of those rights.

53. THE RIGHTS OF OPPRESSED, WEAK OR COLONIAI, PEOPLES MUST BE PROTECTED

The rights of all peoples, large -and-small,. subject to the. good of the organized
world community, must be safeguarded within the framework of collective security.

The progress of undeveloped, colonial or oppressed peoples toward political responsi-
bility must be the object of international concern.

4, THE RIGHTS OF MINORITIES MUST BE SECURED

National governments and international organization must respect and guarantee the
rights of ethnic, religious and cultural minorities to econamic livelihood, to equal
opportunity for educational and cultural dove ee and to political baa.

oe INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO MAINTAIN PEACE WITH JUSTICE MUST BE ORGANIZED

An enduring peace requires the organization of international institutions which will
develop a body of international law; guarantee the faithful fulfillment of interna-
tional obligations, and revise them when necessary; assvre collective security by
drastic limitation and continuing control of armaments, compulsory arbitration and
‘adjudication of eps naiaelin and the use when necessary of adequate sancticns to
enforce the law.

6. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATICN MUST BE DEVELOPED

International econamic collaboration to assist all states to provide an adequate
standard of living for their citizens must replace the present economic monopoly and
exploitation of natural resources by privileged groups: and. states.

Teak JUST SOCIAL ORDER WITHIN EACH STATE MUST BE ACHIEVED

Since. the harmony and well-being of the world community are intimately bound up with
the internal equilibrium and social order of the individual states, steps must be
taken to provide for the femily, the collaboration of all groups and classes in the
interest of the common good, a standard of living adequate for self-development and
family life, decent conditions of work, and participation by labor in decisions
affecting its welfare.

‘

U.S. No. 23-Nov. '43-yY-4.000

 
 

 

JANUARY 24 To 29, 1944

THE FOURTH WEEK OF JANUARY 1S, TRADITIONALLY, THE ROTARIAN WEEK—wiTH RoTaRY CLUB
MEETINGS CALLING SPECIAL ATTENTION TO "OUR MAGAZINE” NOW STARTING ITS 34TH YEAR,
THe "WEEK" THIS YEAR WILL BE OBSERVED FROM JANUARY 24TH TO 20TH. SOME CLUBS WILL
BUILD UP FULL-LENGTH PROGRAMS BY ONE SPEAKER, OTHERS WILL HAVE ONE, TWO, THREE——
POSSIBLY FIVE OR SIX 4 OR 5 MINUTE TALKS BY MEMBERS.

"THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING 1S IN-THE EATING," SAYS AN OLD PROVERB, BUT THE PROOF OF
THE ROTARIAN 1S NOT SIMPLY IN THE READING—IT 1S IN THE RESULT THAT READING HAS ON
THE BETTERMENT OF THE CLUB. Sc THE 1944 ROTARIAN WEEK SUGGESTION 1S A PROGRAM ON:

"HOW OUR MAGAZINE MAKES BETTER ROTARIANS AND BETTER CLUBS"
HERE ARE WORKABLE IDEAS - - -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THEME: THE ROTARIAN and the Four Lanes THEME: Little Lessons in Rotary,

of Rotary Service. Have the Club Aims Six "Little Lessons® have appeared
and Objects Committee put on the program, .In THE ROTARIAN since August, 1943. Six
Each of the four Committee Chairmen who make ‘four-minute summaries by six members of
up this Committee can give 5-minute reviews the Club could make an effective presen-
of articles THE ROTARIAN has published on tation.
his Service during 1943. For example:
1. CLUB SERVICE: ‘The Chairman might mention THEME: Sharing Our Magazine. Most
and briefly review It's Service Still (Feb- Rotary Clubs see that the magazine is
ruary); Nearer: A New World Goal (May); sent to local libraries and schools. If
Our Wartime Challenge (August); and Why Men your club does, why not ask the librarian
Like Rotary (November). or school man to tell how THE ROTARIAN and
2. VOCATIONAL SERVICE: The debates-of-the- REVISTA ROTARIA are used by non-Rotarians..
month (every month), and the series Retailers ‘A report on "Fourth Object Subscriptions"
on the Alert (February to December, 1943) to REVISTA ROTARIA--those sent to promin-
offer this Chairman plenty of material. J. ent Latin-American non-Rotarians by Clubs
Raymond Tiffany's article Talk it Out! in the in the United States and Canada--also fits
January 1944 ROTARIAN, 1s "right on the such a program.
button",
3. COMMUNITY SERVICE: Out of a wealth of THEME: My Favorite Department. To
material, the series on the Work-Pile Projects get several Rotarians on the program,
stands out. _—
4. INTERNATIONAL SERVICE: A report on RE- a.
VISTA ROTARIA (ROTARIAN Spanish-language re
publication--just ten years old) and the THEME; My Early Impressions. Have a
a oe ee be new member report on outstanding arti-
use ee so, a review
of the book A World to L ta reprinting cles and authors in recent issues of our
30 articles of tke Pier ea, plus Magazine-—also, on wnat he likes mest
the current articles in this series would about it. He may awaken latent interests
make a sparkling program. in older members.

 

 

 

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