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. .