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

 

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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

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