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.

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Paul Harris
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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.