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ROTARY GLUB OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES - 1943-44

Officers:
Forrest C. Allen, President
C. Gerald Hesse, Vice President
Karl Klooz, Secretary
clifton ©, Calvin, Treasurer
Solon G. Ayers, Sergeant-at-arms

AIMS & OBJECTS COMMITTEE:

Directors:

Forrest C. Allen
Solon G, Ayers
John W. Brand
Corlett J. Cotton
K, Weyne Davidson
c. Gerald Hesse
Cecil T, Hough

R. W. McClure

Forrest C. Allen, Chairman, Ce. Gerald Hesse, Re W, McClure, Karl Klooz, Ke

Wayne Davidson, Dolph Simons.

CLUB SERVICE COMMITTEES :
C. Gerald Hesse, chairmen

Auditing -
Cecil T, Hough (c)
Caryl Dodds
Frank Banis

Budget =
I. J. Meade (c)
Welter Keeler

John Brand

Classification -
Ernest Young (c)
R, W, McClure
Hovey Hanna

ae Food -
Art Weaver (c)
Stanley Schwahn
u, S. Winter
7, Dy Punk

Club Historian -

Herb Hungerford

R. C. Rankin, Floyd Rible
Club Publication -

Ted Aszman (c)

Ke Wayne Davidson

Fred Bllsworth

Fellowship & Attendance -
Father Cowell O'3eil
Lt. Randolph Neil
Gene Brune
Tom Parker
Elmer Ousdehl '
Mike Getto — fix the

Ralph Graber so. Reinet tah

Norman Edmonds — 4
Father McGinnis

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Inter-Club Activities -
Verl Bratton jc)
W. C. Simons
Jo Ce Ramsey
Wm, Quakenbush
Herb Hungerford
Russell Wiley

Music -
Corlett Cotton (¢)}
Cecil Hough
E. A, Stephenson
Van Bruner
Norman Edmonds

Program =
K. Wayne Davidson (c)
Solon G, fyers
Father Cowell O'Neil
- Ralph Graber
Walter Keeler

Rotaryann =

Justin Hill (c)
Corlett Cotton
Verl Bratton
C, R, Allen
Gene Brune
John Skie
Hovey’ Hanna

Public Information =
W, G. Simons (c)
R, C, Rankin
Walter H, Varnum
Deane We. Malott
W, F, Smallwood

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Education =
Ralph Graber (c)
Robert McNair Davis
tT, E, «aszman
Walter Keelsr

COMMUNITY SERVICE CQMITTEES:
M. S. Winter (c)
Glenn Charlton
Roger: Williams
Joe Quigley
Boys’ Work & Youth -
Soion G. Ayers 9) Ralph Graber, (c)
Fred Ellsworth
Father Cowell O'Neil
T, H. Aszman
Wm. H. Quakenbush
Riley Bwcham , Father McGinnis
Heaith Se:vice «
Goorge Hedrick (c)
Simon Eurwitz
c, B. Russell
Dr, H, X. Dolan

Military Service -
Lt. Randolph Neil (c)
Lt. Col. W. L. McMorris

VOCATIONAL SERVICE COMMITTEE:

Raymond Rice (c)

Dave Horknans

Gerald Hesse

H. B. Ober

F. E. Banks

Tt. De: Funk

Ralph Ward

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE COMMITTEE:
Dolph Simons (c)
R,. HM. Davis
W. W, Davis
Tom Parker
John W, Brand
Lt. Col. W. Le McMorris

 
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25-llabel Young

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Parker, Thomas Be
Quakenbush, Will He
Pamsey, ds Clifton
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Schwahn, Stanley Be
Simons, Delph
Simons, We Ge

Skie, John

Smith, George Be
Stephenson, Eugene A-«
Varnum, Walter H,
Ward, Ralph
Weaver, Ae Be
Williams, Roger Me
Winter, Me Se

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DATE OF BIRTH

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January 13, 1898
October 1, 1886
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ROSTER

Rotary Club

Lawrence, Kansas

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1942-43

 

 

 

 
Rotary Club Officers and Committees
1949-43

OFFICERS:

ene W. Brand, President

orrest C. Allen, Vice President

Karl Klooz, Secretary
Clifton C. Calvin, Treasurer

George B. Smith, Sergeant-at-Arms
Boarp or Directors: Forrest C. Allen, Roger Allen,
John W. Brand, Lyle Gibbon, C. Gerald Hesse, J.
Jay Jakosky, R. W. McClure, George Baxter Smith.
AIMS & OBJECTS COMMITTEE: John W. Brand,
Chairman; F. C. Allen; Lyle Gibbon; Dolph Simons;

Karl Klooz; Cliff Calvin.
CLUB SERVICE COM-

MITTEES:
F. C. Allen (c)

AUDITING—
John Stutz (c)
Cliff Ramsey
Caryl Dodds

BupGeT—
I. J. Meade (c)
Walter Keeler
Cliff Calvin

CLASSIFICATION—
Walter Keeler (c)
Ernest Young
J. Frank Jones

CLASSIFICATION
SurvEY—
F. E. Banks (c)
Dave Horkmans

Foop—
Hovey Hanna (c)
Art Weaver
R. W. McClure

Crus Histor1an—
J. Frank Jones

Crus PuBLiIcaTION—
Fred Ellsworth (c)
Herb Hungerford
Ted Aszman

FELLOWSHIP &
ATTENDANCE—
Ray Reeves (c)
Glenn Charlton
James Dusenbury

Stanley Schwahn
Richard Zimmerman
¥. D. Funk

INTER-CLUB
ACTIVITIES—
Roger Allen (c)
W. C. Simons
Fred Ellsworth
Will Quakenbush
Herb Hungerford

Music—
E. Thayer Gaston (c)
Van Bruner
FE. A. Stephenson

PROGRAM— :
C.-T. Hough (cc)
George B. Smith (cc)
K. Wayne Davidson

RoTARYANN
MEETINGS—
C.F. Catton: (c)
Gene Brune
John Skie
Verl Bratton
Cc. R. Allen

PuBLIc
INFORMATION—
R. C. Rankin (c)
Walter H. Varnum
W. C. Simons
Deane Malott

EpucaTion—
Walter Keeler (c)
Neal Wherry
Cliff Calvin
T. H. Aszman

 
COMMUNITY SERV-

ICE COMMITTEES:

Gerald Hesse (c)

Boys’ Worx &
YouTH—

M. S. Winter (c)
Wray Shockley
Fred Ellsworth
Ralph Ward

Solon T. Ayers

HeaLtu SErvice—

Simon Hurwitz (c)
C. B. Russell
Dr. A. J. Anderson

MILITARY SERVICE—

James Dusenbury (c)
Arthur H. Buhl

VOCATIONAL SERVICE COMMITTEE: Lyle Gib-
bon (c); Raymond Rice; H. B. Ober; F. E. Banks;

Justin Hill.

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE COMMITTEE: Dolph
Simons (c); R. M. Davis; Tom Parker; W. W.
Davis; George S, Foulke, Jr.

 
 

ROSTER
of
The Rotary Club of Lawrence, Kansas

ALLEN, Forrest C. *§Phog”’ Bessie
Education (19) Sch. of Educ.—Phys. Ed.
(b) University of Kansas
(r) 801 Louisiana St.
Date of birth—11-18-85

ALLEN, Roger “Roger” Alice

Auto Ind. (5) Tire & Battery Service
(b) 14 rae 8th St.

(2), 1831 IN. dds ote

Date of birth—1- 13-98

ANDERSON, A. AGC? Maude
Medicine (49 hysician, 2nd Active
(b) 713 Ver tS,
(r) 713 Vernyort St. ;
Date of birtH—619-63

ANDREWS,
(b) 735 Mass.

    

“John” Ruth
‘Lyle’? Geraldine

ASZMAN, Theodore H. “Ted? Jean
Religion (66) Protestant Churches Pastor
(b) 9th & Vermont St.
(r) 843 Louisiana St.
Date of birth—10-1-86

AYERS, Solon G. “Solon” Bobbie
Education—Government Schools—Indian
(b) Haskell Institute
(r) Powhattan Apts., Haskell Inst.
Date of birth—7-10-02

BANKS, Frank F. Krank’? Helen
Real Estate (64) Title Service
(b) First National Bank Bldg.
(r) 801 Alabama St.
Date of birth—7-10-75

BRAND, John W. “Tohn’.- Catharine
Law (44) Civil
(b) 645 Mass. St.
(r) 2114 Barker Ave.
Date of birth—8-20-07
BRATTON, Verl “Verl’? Esther
Broadcasting Service—Broadcasting Station Serv.
(b) Wren Bldg.

(r) 2105 Rhode Island St.
Date of birth—4-8-07

BRUNE, Eugene “Gene” Icle
Plumbing (59)
b) 601 Miss. St.
r) 601 Miss. St.
Date of birth—11-16-95

BRUNER, Van K. Van?’ Grace
Laundering so
pet 10th & N St.
r) 1500 N. H. a
Date of birth—10-20-85

sts “Arthur” Mary Gene

  

el @n “Clit” Rachel
Dacia Brokerage
(b) Lawrgfte National Bank Bldg.

CHARLTON, Glenn E. “Glenn”
Insurance (40) Fire
(b) Insurance Bldg.
(r) University Heights
Date of birth—3-5-90

COTTON, Corlett J. “Corlett”’ Nell
Insurance—Life
(b) Bowersock Bldg.
(r) 704 West 12th St.
Date of birth—11-21-05

DAVIDSON, K. Wayne “Wayne” Katherine
Education——Publicity
(b) The University of Kansas
(r) 2244 Ne Hee St
Date of birth—9- 27-00

DAVIS, Robert M.
Education (19) Law School
(b) University of Kansas
(x) 2210 Ni. St.
Date of birth—8-3-84

DAVIS, W. W. “WLW.” Roxana
Education (19) College
(b) University of Kansas
(r) 706 West 12th St.
Date of birth—2-12-84

 
 

DODDS, Caryl J Caryl” Mary
Gas Industry Go) Gas Service
(b) 733 Mass.
(r) 734 Indiana St.

Date of birth—3-11-82 et)
DUSENBURK, Jfines S. “James” — Ann-Vielct
Government ) Public Defense—Land BS
(b) Universit& of Kansas es ¢
(r) 1045 Keftticky St. oa :
Date of birgh—f0-17-81 a
ELLSWORTH, Fred “Fred” Lucile

Associations (4) Alumni
(b) University of Kansas
(r) 1325 West Campus Rd.
Date of birth—10-6-95

FOULKE, George Jt. “George” Dorothy
Explosives Ma Sehicving-—-¥ireattie & Explosives
(b) Sunflower Wrdnance Works
(r) 1318 Loui a St.

Date of birth-47--89

FUNK, Talmage D. iD Lena
Burial (8) ene
(b) 940 Mass. St.
(r) 701 Louisiana St.
Date of birth—9-24-84

GASTON, E. Thayey “Thayer” Ardis
Education (19) sic
(b) University o ansas

(2).-2121 N.

Date of birth—7-41
GIBBON, Lyl SLyie? Florence

Comm.—-Serv Telephone

(b) 734 Vermong St.

(r) 1709 Alaba St;

Date of birth—/1-3-05

HANNA, Hovey ys ““Hovey”’ Mary

Electrical Industry (20) Radio Equipment

(b) 904 Mass. St.

(r) 800 Louisiana St.

Date of birth—5-6-89

HEDRICK, George E. “George” Mildred
Associations (4) Chamber of Commeice ~**
(b) Chamber of Commerce
(r) 1133 Emery Rd. 2?
Date of birth—%5-8-95

HESSE, Gerald C. “Gerry” Peggy
Paper. Industry $57) Box Mfg.
(b) Foot of N. H.
(r) 1005 West ny St.
Date of birth—4-6-01

HILE, Justin’ D: bie i ad Margaret
Paper Industry ie Ra Mfg. ;
(b) Foot of N. H.
(r) West 7th St.
Date of birth—2-3-05
HORKMANS, David M. eave.” Gertie
Past Service
(r) 1317 Kentucky St.
Date of birth—2-8-76

HOUGH, Cecil T. “Cecil” Louise
Elect. Ind. (20) Elect. Light & Power Service—
Distribution

(b) 700 Mass. St.
(r) 945 Ohio St.
Date of birth—6-26-95

HUNGERFORD, H. B. “Herb” Frances
Education (19) Arts & Sciences
ee rs University of Kansas
r) 1503 Crescent Rd.
Date of birth—8-30-85

HURT, Victok C.

   
    
 

‘Vic” Wincel

Associations Athletic
b) UniversitK of Kansas
(r) 843 i St.
Date of bi 3-99
HURWITZ, Simon W. “Simon” Sylvia

Food Industry oe _ Cream Mfg.
(b) 202 West 6th St.

(r) 1925 N. =H. ote

Date of birth—8-15-96

JAKOSKY, J. Slay” Katherine
Education (19) Sch. of Engr.—Dean
(b) University, hy uae
St

  
 
   
  
 
  
   
  
  
  

(r) 1120 We.
Date of birth—1-20-96

JONES, H. Renfi¢ld* “Penny” Frances
Medicine (

(b) 107 East t
(r) 806 Arkgrigas St.
Date of bir 8-06
JONES, 1 we ST Prank Sara
Agricultur. dustry (3) Trees & Shrubs
(b) Lawreng& National Bank Bldg.
(r) 645 Mi ts
Date of bi -80

a hes “Walter” Myra
Office & Setect Equip. (54) Books & Stationery
Retail
(b) 939 Mass. St.
(r) 1619 Kentucky St.
Date of birth—9-23-96

KLOOZ, Karl ‘War’? Freda
Education (19) Administration
(b) University of Kansas
(r) 1119 W. Campus Rd.
Date of birth—5-17-91

 
 

MALOTT, Deane W. “Deane”’
Education (19-b) Admin. State Schools

(b) University of Kansas
(r) 1500 Louisiana St.
Date of birth—7-10-98

McCLURE, R. W. ‘“Mac”’

ee: Ind. an Elec. Light & Power Prod.

) 700 Mass
(1) 1635 Ind: St;
Date of birth—9-13-93

MEADE, I. T.
Finance (23) Banking
(b) Lawrence National Bank
(r) 1630 Illinois St.
Date of birth—2-22-69

OBER, H. B

cheer?

“Bert”

Clothing Ind. (12) Mens’ Clothing Retail

(b) 821 Mass. St.
(r) 700 Indiana St. -
Date of birth—2-25-73

PARKER, Thomas B.

“Tom’’

Automobiles pe Bannsiaee Cars Retail
° + wot

(b) 700 N. H
(2) 213) Mass, St:
Date of birth—8-22-01

POWELL, Iwlef.* “Lyle”
Medicine ( Far, Eye, Nose & Throat

Ore oe Be ky St:
r
Date a ht th— : 5-93

QUAKENBUSH, Will H.
Education (19-d) Business College
(b) 641 Louisiana St.

@) 725: “Miss.. St.
Date of birth—2-4-73

RAMSEY, J. Clifton
Law (44)
(b) 931 Mass. St.
(r) 1234 Oread Ave.
Date of birth—1-6-02

RANKIN, R. C.
Ice & Cold Storage (37)
(b) 616 Vermont St.
(r) 724 Indiana St.
Date of birth—3-29-66

REEVES, Ray M ;
Food Ind. ( Groceries Retail
(b) 303 Westy13th St
(r) 1512 Uniyarsity Drive
Date of birt 21-97

=NV ill”

SC litt’?

“Rob’”’

“Ray”

Eleanor »

ei
3
j

Anna

Geraldine

Grace

Ruth

Berniece
RICE, Raymond E. “Raymond”
Law—Corp.
(b) 700 a. Sé:
(r) 2141 Vermont St.
Date of birth—10-9-83

RUSSELL, Charles B. “Charlie” Lolita
Musical Inst. a? ee Organ Mfg.
(b) 612-18 N.

(e) 2232 Wome Se
Date of birth—12-31-82

SCHWAHN, Stanley E. “Stan’’ Maisie
Recreation (65) eee
(b) 646 Mass.
(r) 1124 West Hills Parkway
Date of birth—9-12-95

 

SIMONS, Dolph “Dolph” Marie
Printing & Pub. ao Newspaper Pub.
(b) 720-22 Mass. St.
(r) 1509 Mass. St
Date of birth—11-24- 04

SIMONS, W. C. “Collie” Gertrude
Printing & Pub. (61) Newspaper Pub.
(b) 720-22 Mass. St.
(r). 2500 Vermont St.
Date of birth—7-8-71

SKIE, John “John” Mary
Carbonated oC —Bottling
¢b) SES: N; |
(r) 1201 wo Campus Rd.
Date of birth—8-21-81

SMITH, G
Education

    

“George”’ Marjorie
tate Schools—Sch. of Educ.

STEPHERSON, Eugene A. “Steve’’ Florence
Min. Oil Ind.—Consult. Engr. Petr.
(b) University of Kansas
(r) 1516 University Drive
Date of birth—7-27-84

STUTZ, John G.
Associations (4)
(b) K. U. Fraser
(2) 2219. N. H,
Date of birth—

“John” Gertrude

 
 

 

VARNUM, Walter H. “Walt” Blanche
Chemical Ind. (11) Drugs Retail
ee 801 Mass. St.
r) 1115 W. Campus Rd.
Date of birth—8-21-90 :

WARD, Ralph “Ralph” Newell
Agrisuites! Ind. (3) Florist
(b) 910 Mass. St.
(r) 1530 Barker Ave.
Date of birth—9-12-82

WEAVER, A, B. , “Art” Nell |

Dry Goods (18) Retailing
(b) 901 Mass. St.

(2) 737°: dadiana: : St,
Date of birth—2-2-94

WHERRY,

 

Date of bi thee 97

WILLIAMS, Roger M. “Dode”’ Mary Ada
ee Breeding
(b) Post Office
(r) R.F.D. No.
Date of feo 19-82

WINTER, M. S, “Ship” Faye
Automobile Ind. —) Trucks Retail
Cb): 738° Nee
(e) Fito West Pills Parkway
Date of birth—11- 1-99

YOUNG, E. W. “Ernest” — Mabel

Laundering, viene & Dyeing (43) Cleaning
(b) 926 Mass. St.

(r) 1215 West 4th St.

Date of birth—5-20-77

Richard “Dick” Gertrude
. ya Color Printing
et,
mont St
irth—2-4-09

 

*Honorary Military Memberships.

 

HONORARY MEMBERS

Col. Karl F. Baldwin
Hon. Hugh Means

Dr. Frank Herron Smith
Hon. Walter G. Thiele

‘Neal? Lulu |

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| GETTO, Mike
Hotel Eldridge

GRABER, Ralph
1125 W. Hills Play.
High School

O'NEIL, Father Cowell
Catholic Church

SMALLWOOD, W. Fe,»

Univ. Heights
8.0.W.

WILEY, Russeli L.
2045 HN. H, St.,
University Band Dir.

WEIL, Lt. Randolph
eval Aviation Cadets
 
 

FROM ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

in Time of War—

Help Win the War—Plan a Post-War Work Pile— Now!

OR two years the Committee on Participation of a

Rotarians in the Post-War World has been carrying 4]
on intensive studies of the problems that will be faced, \
and which must be solved when the present conflict is
over. The committee expects to continue with this long
range program and it is hoped that the Rotary clubs will
also continue to study the vital problems that are in-
volved and arrange programs that will assist in develop-
ing an informed public opinion.
At the same time, it is generally conceded that the best
of plans will fail if there should be an economic collapse
at the end of the war, whereby millions of demobilized
men and women were unable to obtain employment.
The so-called “Work Pile Plan” appears to be one of the a
safest and surest ways of preventing such a collapse, and
one which will permit the peoples of the world to or-
ganize their future in an atmosphere that is not disturbed

3 by the fears and uncertainties that are created by any

period of widespread unemployment.

It is the safety valve on the entire |
program of post-war planning.

;
3 “ = ay anal Semel a ~ Pt ae —— em ss i

by having an accumulation of pre-arranged work in
factory, store, farm, office, construction, utilities and
other places to insure that every worker who needs a

job will have something to do.

Rotary claims no credit for originating this activity. Its

ultimate goal, post-war jobs, is the objective of several,

ELPING win the war need not and should not
blind Rotarians to an almost equally important
responsibility—to help get ready to live in the

world after the war. Indeed some of the efforts to get
ready for the post-war world may contribute to winning
the war. A boy in the armed services who knows that

people at home are making arrangements for real jobs
for him and his fellows on their return will be a better
fighter than one who wonders whether peddling apples
or going on the dole is to be his lot.

That’s the idea behind Rotary’s Work Pile project. It
is to win the peace for which the war is being fought

perhaps many agencies, some in every country. In the
United States, the Committee for Economic Develop-
ment (C.E.D.), the Chamber of Commerce of the
U.S.A., the National Association of Manufacturers, the
National Clearing House Committee initiated by the
Re-employment Division of Selective Service, and

 
others, have been making studies for months. In other
countries similar efforts are undoubtedly being made.
Rotary’s unique role is due to its location in so many
cities and towns of numerous countries and to its repre-
sentative character due to the classification of its indi-
vidual members. Its established policy of cooperating
with others for community welfare is an added char-
acteristic that will make its role significant.

What Is the Work Pile Project?

As conceived by the board of directors of Rotary Inter-
national it is an activity for Rotary clubs everywhere,
through initiative, cooperation and sustained interest,
to find and record the jobs of all kinds which will
become available when the war ends. The magnitude
of the task and its tremendous possibilities are indicated
by C.E.D. Chairman Paul Hoffman’s remark that in
the United States there are 130,000,000 post-war plans,
meaning that practically every man, woman and child
will have needs and desires to be satisfied which will
create work for others.

What Clubs Can Engage in the
Work Pile Project?

ALL OF THEM! The work pile project is not con-
fined to the United States. In Canada— Australia —
South America—in each country where Rotary clubs
are located — there will be an imperative need to solve
the problems of post-war production and employment.
Weare involved in a world economy, and the failure to
recognize this in one part of the world may seriously
hamper the efforts in others.

Neither is this an activity which is limited to the larger
cities or industrial centers. If the work pile idea is to
succeed there must be an inventory of potential post-
war work that will reach even the smallest communi-
ties and extend from there out into the rural areas.

What the Work Pile
Will Accomplish

The world is witnessing the greatest shortage of con-

sumer goods since the advent of the industrial era:

Even without a study we know that immediately fol-
lowing the close of the war there will be an unprece-
dented demand for repairs and replacement. Under the

Work Pile project we shall know approximately the ex-
tent of that demand in all lines.

Example: Smithville is a community of 5000 popula-

tion. A Work Pile survey is made, and among many

items it is found that 300 citizens contemplate putting
new roofs on their homes just as soon as possible after
the war. What is the benefit of this information?

A The contractors and carpenters of Smithville know
approximately how much help and how much
material they will have to have in order to take
care of this Work Pile.

B The boys from Smithville, who are in the service,
and who are qualified to do this kind of work have
their morale strengthened by the knowledge that
these jobs are definitely waiting for them.

C The lumber and hardware dealers of Smithville
can figure approximately how much material will
be needed and can arrange accordingly for neces-
sary increase in plants and personnel.

D The wholesalers, having this information from
Smithville and all other communities in their trade
territory, can also make their plans accordingly.

— The mills, knowing something of the total de-
mand, will be in a position to make the necessary
financial and other arrangements to care for this
production and will be ready to offer immediate
employment to thousands of men.

Obviously it will not be possible to do all of the work
immediately after the war. This Work Pile may pro-
vide jobs for several years.

Initiative by Rotary Clubs

The R.I. board thinks of Rotary clubs and Rotarians as
initiators, “stirrer-uppers,” in the Work Pile project.
The first Work Pile duty of a Rotary club is to find out
whether any survey of this kind is in process in its
community. Rotary’s policy is to cooperate, not to com-
pete or to duplicate. If it is found that a survey has been
undertaken, then the Rotary club’s function is to en-
courage its members to become active and to help make
the survey truly community-wide and successful to the
maximum. The Rotary club can also resolve to keep
the activity functioning until the job is done.
5 Regular, periodic reviews by the responsible Ro-
tary club committee

Starting from Scratch

{f no survey for post-war jobs has yet been started in

@ to check up on the progress being mad
its community, the Rotary club should take the follow- : Le ae ’

ing steps: b to prepare reports to the club
to determine what follow-through should
Consideration of the project by the club board of be undertaken by the club or be suggested
directors to the community council
This will include a decision as to how it will be to obtain complete publicity concerning the
administered—by the aims and objects commit- project.
tee, the community service committee, the post- Sam p | e Ch e ck Sh eets

war committee or some other.
® Accompanying this announcement are samples of

: ; check sheets for listing estimated employment possi-
Presentation of the project and the board's plan bilities and anticipated demands for goods and services.
for initiating it, to the club as a whole These check sheets should be adapted to suit the con-
ay ditions in each locality. They should then be repro-
duced by each community council in the form agreed
Cae one a ae a eeaieves ot aici ioca upon locally and in the quantities needed for the local

ro :
ahs ad survey.

Other service clubs Farm organizations : . .
Some Things to Keep in Mind

Chamber of commerce Labor unions

Veterans’ organizations | Newspapers 7 The Work Pile project should not interfere with efforts

Parent-Teacher Ass’n Radio stations to win the war.

Churches The Work Pile should be thought of and publicized as
: helping strengthen morale and thus be a war con-

At this meeting a community council on the tribution. ———_——

Wor k Pile project should be discussed and, if The Work Pile project should be started AT ONCE.

possible, effected. It should be organized on a community-wide basis.

It should be cooperative, not competitive.
It should tie in with similar efforts in other communi-

Consideration (by the community council) of the
ties and nationally. Suggestions as to a national tie-up

following:
f will be sent later.
What 1s the best way to get the desired It should be continued to a successful conclusion which
information ? will come when the war ends and the Work Pile

begins to provide jobs for those who need them.
Naturally this work will be spread over a number
of years.

What central clearing house will be needed
to receive and compile the data obtained ?

€ How shall the survey be financed? Let's Go!

This announcement contains enough information so

that each Rotary club can get started on the Work Pile

project. Further information and suggestions will be

e How shall the surrounding rural territory sent from time to time. Comments and questions on
be covered? the project are invited.

How shall it be tied in with similar surveys
in other towns and cities and nationally?

Ekilp Lovejoy
PHILIP LOVEJOY CHARLES L. WHEELER
Secretary President

© Sample Check Sheets Attached
 

A September Program

The RI. board urges each Rotary club to make the Work Pile project
the subject of a club meeting in September.

A program outline for this purpose will be mailed shortly.

 
 

The News Letter

3 Sept. 1943

af

WORK PILE PROJECT

Gets under way

 

Many Rotarians and clubs have already indi-
cated their approval of the very practical post-
war activity of planning a post-war work pile
now.

The project will focus the attention of every
individual wherever located on the part he or
she can take in helping to solve a very difficult
post-war problem.

USCNB Supplement

No. 4—1943-44

  

The work pile developed in any community
may not be 100% accurate but it will indicate a
very definite trend and desire on the part of the
residents of each community to do something
to provide jobs for demobilized soldiers and
war workers after the cessation of hostilities.

The details of procedure were set forth on
page 3 of the folder recently sent to the clubs
in the USCNB—We repeat them.

IN TIME OF WAR—HELP WIN THE WAR

Plan a post-war work pile now

Ascertain if any work pile pro-

ject is already under way in the
community as for instance a Com-
mittee for Economic Develop-
ment activity; a local group func-
tioning under the auspices of
‘the National Retail Dry Goods
Association; a chamber of com-
merce activity or some other
group. If so, in the traditional
Rotary manner, encourage club
members to become active in such
a survey by helping to make it
community wide and successful to
the maximum. The Rotary Club
can resolve to keep the activity
functioning until the job is done.
It may be that the plans of any
existing group do not contemplate
going to the entire community but
only to a part of it—the Rotary
club can suggest and direct the
extension of the plan to cover all
phases of community life.

If there is no survey of post-war
jobs under way, the Rotary club
can proceed as follows:

Have the club board of directors
consider the project and come to
a conclusion as to the best method
of proceeding.

Present the entire project and
the board’s plan of action to the
entire club for its information and
approval.

Since it is not planned that the
survey shall be made exclusively
by the Rotary club but rather by
representatives of all organizations
in the community, call in repre-
sentatives of every other organ-
ized group in the community to
present the plan of action and
develop a community wide com-
mittee to undertake the building
of the post-war work pile.

The representatives of these or-
ganizations may well be termed a
community council (perhaps or-
ganized only for the work pile
project). This council will con-
sider ways and means of building
the work pile—

How will it get the desired in-
formation?

What central clearing house
will it provide to receive
and compile the data ob-
tained?

How will it finance the sur-
vey—i.e. provide for the
printed forms—secure cler-
ical help to follow through,
etc.?

How shall the surrounding
rural territory be covered?

The Rotary club as the initiator
should periodically check up on
the progress to make certain that
the survey is progressing ac-
cording to the prearranged plan.
Reports should be made to the
club—periodical reports can be
given to the local press—summa-
tions in any given field can be pro-
vided to the local press.

Subsequently there will be sent
to each Rotary club information
as to the centralizing of this infor-
mation, and further steps as to the
follow through after the survey is
made for this is only the first step
—the work pile must be put into
operation at the proper time and
this activity will be of an entirely
different sort. Suggestions as to
that phase of the problem will be
sent later.

(An outline for a program on the
work pile was sent to all Rotary
clubs in the USCNB-—see No. 625)
“Christmas Mail Month”
September 15 to October 15

A paper, so entitled, is being
mailed to all Rotary club presidents
and secretaries in the U.S.A. It car-
ries the announcement that the Ad-
jutant General’s Office of the Army
Postal Service has designated the
period of September 15 to October
15 as “Christmas mail month” for
soldiers overseas, and includes rules
for mailing Christmas parcels to
members of the army outside con-
tinental U.S.A.

Club presidents can render a fine
service to their government and to
the men in the armed forces over-
seas by making this mailing infor-
mation available, at the earliest pos-
sible date, to all club members.

A Successful Smalltown
Rotary Club

Governor Paul Hunter of the 144th
district echoed the sentiments of his
predecessor with these words when
he visited the Rotary Club of Mel-
rose, Wis.:

The most remarkable Rotary club I
have ever heard of. Melrose is a village

of only 462 people, yet it has had an ac- - -
tive Rotary club for 15 years. The club.

rents two rooms over a store, using one
for a kitchen and the other for meetings,

charges its members fifty cents per week...

dues and that pays for meals, etc. When
the treasury gets low, the club holds pic-
nics, each man bringing his own food, but
paying his fifty cents.

When the governor visited this
club last year, he said:

Nothing but Rotary could keep a club
alive under their conditions...

Answering the question as to the
“weak points” in this club, the gov-
ernor said:

With such a club there can be no weak
points.

The Rotary Club of Melrose has
grown from 16 to 19 members during
the past year; it has renewed its
Fourth Object subscription to “Re-
vista Rotaria”; it conducts all war
activities and war drives in the com-
munity; it sponsors the Boy Scouts
and has raised money for Scouts to
attend camp and has taken the boys
to the camp. Surely all of this is
ample proof that the smallness of a
community is no bar to a successful
Rotary club.

Vacation Camp

The Rotary Club of Woodstock,
New York, U.S.A., owns a vacation
camp for boys and girls, which rep-
resents an investment, over the
years, of seven or eight thousand
dollars in land, buildings and equip-
ment, not to mention the time spent
by Woodstock Rotarians in keeping
the camp in first-class condition.
Last year over 450 boys and girls
used the camp.

 

Post Wax Joha<¥ onl Pile

A discussion of post-war prob-

fields, is being broadcast over NBC
every Saturday from 7:00 to 7:30
p.m., EWT. The last broadcast,
scheduled for Saturday, January
1, 1944, will be by Secretary of
State Cordell Hull.

The following broadcasts should
be of particular interest to Rotary
clubs in the U.S.A. which are de-
veloping Work Pile plans for their
communities: |

September 11—“Post-War Jobs: Re-
sponsibility of Business.’ Paul G.

_ Hoffman; president, Studebaker Cor- |
poration, Chairman, Committee for.
Economic Development; DeWitt M.
Emery, president, National Small
Businessmen’s Association of Manu-
facturers, and president, Thompson
Products, Inc., of Cleveland.

September 18—“Post-War Jobs: Re-
sponsibility of Labor.” Philip Mur-
ray, president, Congress of Industrial ‘

' Organizations; George M. Harrison,
vice-president, American Federation
of Labor, and president, Grand
Lodge of Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks; A. Philip Randolph, presi--
dent, International Brotherhood of

 

 

Sleeping Car Porters.

 

Fire Prevention Week

The President of the United States
and the governors of the 48 states
have designated the week of Octo-
ber 3-9, 1943, as Fire Prevention
Week. During this week an intensive
and elaborate nation-wide effort
will be made to educate the public
in measures for fire prevention and
control.

Fire has been a principal weapon
of this war and it has also been one

of the most destructive agents in

retarding the war production pro-
gram, so it is believed that fire
prevention education is more im-
portant today than ever before in
the history of the United States.

Many Rotary clubs throughout
the U.S.A. will be cooperating with
other community agencies in the
observance of this week. In most
communities promotional material
may be obtained from the local
chamber of commerce or the local
fire chief. It may also be obtained
from the National Fire Protection
Assn., 60 Batterymarch St., Boston
10, Mass., U.S.A.

Victory Garden

The Rotary Club of Buffalo, New
York, U.S.A., is the manager of a
victory garden with 60 plots avail-
able to members of the club or to
outsiders. The plots were plowed,
harrowed, fertilized and readied for
use by the club.

lems, by leading experts in many |

A Six Point Program: -----

The Rotary Club of Lenoir, North
Carolina, has listed the following six
points as a part of its program for
this current year.

1. Intensification of the Rotary Program
in the community as a direct contribution
to the war effort of the nation.

2. A revitalized vocational service with
emphasis on the FOUR-WAY TEST.

3. Undertaking at least one new and
worthwhile community project.

4. A more active presentation and dis-
cussion of post-war planning.

3. At least one “Fourth Object Subscrip-
tion” to the Revista Rotaria.

6. Visit our neighbor clubs at every
opportunity.

Farm and Canning
Plant Labor

The Rotary Club of Lockport, New
York, U.S.A., has been doing a fine
piece of community service in en-
listing people (members and/or out-
parce for farm and canning plant

abor.

Beer at Rotary Meetings

From time to time the question
has arisen as to whether or not the
serving of beer at Rotary meetings is

.. proper. That is a matter to be de-

termined by each Rotary club.

Years ago a questionnaire was
circulated among the clubs to ascer-
tain the sentiment as to serving
alcoholic drinks at Rotary meetings.
A tabulation of the replies showed
that in the majority of the clubs it
was not customary to serve alco-
holic drinks during the club lunch-
eon or dinner, or for the members
of the club individually to order
such drinks during the luncheons
or dinners.

In an assembly of club presidents,
at a convention of R.I. a number of
years ago, this question was dis-
cussed and it was found that a ma-
jority of those present considered

_it inadvisable for Rotary clubs to

have alcoholic drinks at their lunch-
eons and dinners.

Shortly thereafter the board of
directors of R.I. expressed itself as
of the opinion that the general sen-
timent among the United States
clubs was against the serving of
alcoholic drinks at Rotary lunch-
eons and dinners.

While it may be said that Rotary
has no Official policy on this ques-
tion, it can also be said that experi-
ence over a long period of time and
many expressions of opinion by Ro-
tarians have indicated, at least in
countries where it is not the estab-
lished custom to serve alcoholic
beverages as a part of the meal, that
the best interests of the movement
seem to be served when alcoholic
drinks are not served at Rotary
meetings.
 

3 Sept. 1943

To Club Presidents and Secretaries
5,190 Rotary Clubs » 210,000 Rotarians

The News Letter

From the R. 1. Secretariat (Central Office)
35 E.;Wacker Dr., Chicago 1, Ill., U.S.A.

No. 4—1943-44

 

Toowoomba’s Work Pile

The Rotary Club of Toowoomba,
Australia, cooperated with military
authorities in running two athletic
meets and a boxing carnival, which
resulted in approximately £900 being
given to the Rotary club for the pur-
chase of equipment to set up a gym-
nasium for service men: When the
army relinquishes use of the equip-
ment it is to be utilized by the Ro-
tary club for a youth welfare center
which the club, in cooperation with
local authorities, is planning to es-
tablish when labor and materials
become available.

The building which will house the
youth welfare center will cost ap-
proximately £10,000 and will be lo-
cated on park land amidst the local
swimming pools and athletic fields.
It will have gymnasium facilities,
dressing rooms, kindergarten facili-
ties, reading rooms, hobby clubs, etc.,
and there will be a special advisory
committee to assist boys and girls in
obtaining jobs suitable to their par-
ticular qualifications.

This project of the Rotary Club of
Toowoomba provides an excellent
example of the “Work Pile” plan. It
is a definite scheme, worked out by
the Rotary club in cooperation with
other agencies, for a worth-while
project to be completed when labor
and materials become available. It
will help to cushion the shock of the
inevitable change-over from a war-
time to a peacetime economy.

Australian Rotarians
Establish Youth Camp

A youth welfare and fitness camp
has been inaugurated by the Rotary
Club of Lismore, Australia, and the
Government of New South Wales
has made 400 acres of suitable land
available for the camp. A public
meeting, instigated by the Rotary
club and sponsored by the Mayor of
Lismore, was held and a public com-
mittee formed. Tents and other
camp equipment were gathered and
£250 was donated by the Rotary
club.: This sum was supplemented
by the Government on a pound for
pound basis, and an additional grant
of £500 was arranged. Four boys
have been sent to Sydney for train-
ing as camp leaders. An executive
committee, composed almost entire-
ly of Rotarians and fully represen-
tative of the community, has been
formed to carry on this work.

 

President Wheeler Says..

Our whole planet today is a
crucible. In it we are running a
test—whether freedom shall be
taken from mankind. Many of
our sons and daughters are on
the front lines where blood is
flowing. We, too, are called for
service—all-out service at home.
And who can better hold the front
line of the home front than
Rotarians?

It almost seems to me- as. if
some act of God created the Ro-
tary organization in 1905 to per-
mit us to be tried and tested ‘so
that now with this great reservoir
of service, we are ready for the
task which lies before us. We
know that Rotary is sound. We
have proof of what Rotary can
accomplish. It is our job as direc-
tors and governors, club presi-
dents and secretaries not only to
provide the inspiration, but to
guide our strength along the lines
that will get results. Our job now
is to get the war home work done.

Later, when this first battle is
won, we may cry for de-regimen-
tation, decentralization, and the
return to an accelerated program
of free private enterprise—per-
haps even for cuffs on our trous-
ers. But now we must quit our
grumbling and enlist all-out in a
service more worthy than any-
thing heretofore attempted. Free-
dom must be preserved.

 

 

 

Correspondence by
Phonograph

The international service com-
mittee of the Rotary Club of Lon-
don, England, recently reported
that it had received 28 interesting
and instructive letters from Rotary
clubs in the U.S.A. in reply to let-
ters addressed to the clubs by var-
ious committee members. One very
original method of replying was hit
upon by the Rotary Club of Okla-
homa City, Okla., which sent a
phonograph recording of messages
from some of its members. The re-
corded speeches were received with
acclaim by all the members of the
London club when the record was
played before them.

Why the Governor's
Official Visit?
Now that the governors are mak-

ing their official club visits, it may
be well to review the purpose of

these visits.

Some clubs have felt that they
were called upon to “dress windows”
for the occasion. Some have ar-
ranged a program of special enter-
tainment which left no time to-do
the things the governor wanted
to do. :

The governor’s visit is.a business
affair. It is an occasion for discuss-
ing with an officer of R.I. all prob-
lems of club administration and
activity, whether large or small,
which perplex the officers of the
club. The governor’s visit offers the
opportunity for seeking a solution
to various types of problems that
may arise within the club. And to
the governor, the most .valuable
feature of his visit is an unhurried
session with the club assembly
where he discusses the accomplish-
ments, plans, and problems of the
club and the activities of the com-
mittees, and really gets acquainted
with the club and what it is doing.

Lucknow Sponsors
Essay Contest

With a view to interesting young
boys and girls in national and in-
ternational problems, the Rotary
Club of Lucknow, India, recently

» held an essay contest for boys and

girls of the local degree and inter-
mediate colleges, and awarded two
prizes of Rs. 30 and Rs. 20 each in
the shape of books. The two success-
ful candidates were the guests of the
club at a dinner meeting. The sub-
jects selected for the contest were:

1. A solution for the communal problem
in India.

2. Nationalism and internationalism.

3. How to make Lucknow healthy and
beautiful.

4, Civil defense and A.R.P.

Are They in
Good Condition?

Many a tourist, Rotarian or non-
Rotarian, may judge the local Ro-
tary club and the community itself
by the condition of road signs which
the Rotary club has placed at the
entrances to its community. Road
signs should be kept in good condi-
tion to make the best impression.
Vocational Service
or Club Service?

Many Rotarians consider a clas-
Sification talk given by a Rotarian
before his club as falling under the
vocational service phase of the Ro-
tary program, but Governor Albert
Schmidt of the 180th district thinks
that, in most cases, such talks fall
under “club service.” In a skit put
on at his district assembly, the
statement is made that a classifica-
tion talk is “vocational service’ only
when the talk deals with a Rotar-
ian’s relationship with his custom-
ers, his craft association, his em-
ployees, his competitors, his govern-

ment, etc. Whenever a man talks 4

only about the history, the back-
ground of his business or his pro-
fession and tells his fellow Rotarians
about his product, it’s a classifica-
tion talk (which falls under “club
service” in the aims and objects set-
up) and should be arranged by the
classification committee.

All Rotarians may not be agreed
on the differentiation which Gov-
ernor Schmidt makes between these
two types of classification talks but
on the face of it, it would seem that
he has a good basis for his conten-
tion.

Business Advice Committee

The Rotary Club of Albury, N.S.W.,
Australia, has set up an “advice bu-
reau” to which members of the club
are invited to refer their business
or private problems. The purpose is
to make available to Rotarians a
service within the club so that they
can be given the practical assistance
of their fellows if the need arises.

A member seeking advice may
nominate the Rotarians to whom he
would like to refer his problem, and
on his application to the secretary,
the Rotarians named will be formed
into a committee to deal with the
matter.

District International
Relationship Committee

The 89th district of RI. (part of
India) has organized an Interna-
tional Relationship Committee of
ten members to study the question
of propagating knowledge about In-
dia in other lands and about other
lands in India. As the first step the
committee will arrange for speakers
on international subjects to address
clubs, colleges, schools, and the
general public. Advantage is being
taken of the presence of a consider-
able number of nationals of the
United Nations now in India.

War Orphans

The members of the Rotary Club
of Vaasa-Vasa, Finland, have be-
come the “godfathers” of two chil-
dren whose fathers were killed in
the war.

Courtesies to Speakers

Is your club considerate of each
speaker, whether he is a Rotarian
from your own club, or from some
other club, or a non-Rotarian? If
from out of town is he met at the
station? Is he greeted at the meet-
ing place by someone, and intro-
duced to many of the club members
in advance of the meeting? Is he
told where he is to sit and is that
place made available for him? Is his
introduction brief and yet interest-
ing, as helpful background for the
talk he is to make? Is the agreed-
upon time for his talk rigidly ob-
served? That is, if he is allotted 25
minutes, is that 25 minutes prior to
the regular closing time made avail-
able to him? And after the speaker
has concluded, does the president or
the chairman of the program com-
mittee or someone else thank the
speaker for his talk, and take care
of the agreed-upon expenses? After
the meeting, does someone write
him a letter to thank him for the
time he took to prepare for the
meeting and for his talk?

Even though a speaker may live
only 40 miles away, it may take four
or five hours out of his day to de-
liver a 25 minute talk at a Rotary
club at noon. This he may be glad to
do without personal compensation,
and perhaps even without reim-
bursement of expenses, but complete
understanding about all of these
points, and the extension of courte-
sies to the speaker before, during,
and after the meeting will be a sat-
isfying recompense to him.

A Friendly Atmosphere

Rotary brings together in an atmosphere
of personal friendship men of many races
and of various religious faiths and politi-
cal beliefs.

Ia,

In Memoriam

We pay silent tribute to the fol-
lowing past international officers of
Rotary International who have
passed away recently:

Vernon H. Hodges, New Haven, Conn.,
U.S.A. who served as Governor, old
30th district, 1929-30.

A. E. Hutchings, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.A.
who served as Member, Official Publi-
cations Committee, 1913-14, Governor,
old 11th district, 1915-16, Chairman, Cre-
dentials Committee and Member, Con-
vention Executive Committee, 1917-18.

Leoncio E. Maldonado, Cuzco, Peru, who
served as Governor, 36th district, 1939-
40, and Member, South American Com-
mittee of Collaboration Among Rotary
Clubs, 1942-43.

Rag GN I IO II IR Ogg

Foreign Government
Service—Diplomatic and
Consular

Rotary clubs in capital and sea-
port cities sometimes inquire as to
whether or not the classification of
diplomatic or consular representa-
tives in Rotary can be amplified to
permit a fuller representation of
consular and diplomatic service in
the club. The board of R.I. suggests
that in those localities where the
business of foreign government rep-
resentation is relatively important,
a fuller representation of those
classifications might be obtained
through the admission of such rep-
resentatives as honorary members
of the clubs.

Occupational Guidance
in Finland

Each year the Rotary Club of
Pori-Bjorneborg, Finland, arranges
for a series of lectures on occupa-
tional guidance for the students of
the local high schools. These talks
are given by representatives of dif-
ferent businesses and_ professions,
who provide the students with de-
tailed information with regard to
the training that is required and the
possibilities that are offered in their
particular vocation.

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.

Oeiras, Piaui, Brasil 5650 (D-26) 1943
Friday, 19:00, Pensao Portela. Pres. Miguel Pereira
Dias de Oliveira (groceries retailing) Rua Presi-
dente Vargas. Secy. Dr. Raimundo da Costa
Machado (odontology) Rua Presidente Vargas.

Livingston, Cal., U.S.A. 5651 (D-106) 1943
Friday, 12:15 p.m., Aeilon Hall. Pres. R. B. Mc-
Nutt (bkg.). Secy. G. H. Winton (ins.—life).

Corral, Valdivia, Chile 5652 (D-33) 1943
Wednesday, 12:30 p.m., Club Social Corral. Pres.
Enrique Carrasco Acufia (civil engineering) Casilla
19. Seey. Francisco Holuigue Guzman (iron and
steel mfg.) Casilla 19.

Toluca, México, México 5653 (D-23) 1943
Thursday, 21:00, Restaurant San Carlos. Pres.
Gonzalo Manén (deposit banking) Constitucién
No. 5. Secy. Lic. Gabriel L. Ezeta (notary pub-
lic) Villada 19.

Smithfield, Pa., U.S.A. 5654 (D-176) 1943
Monday, 6:10 p.m., Methodist Church. Pres. Dr.
Jesse L. McCracken (med.—gen. prac.). Secy.
James B. Vance (funeral dir.).

Waipukurau, New Zealand 5655 (D-53) 1943
Thursday, 5:45 p.m., Ruahine Rooms. Pres. R. W.
Carpenter (boots and shoes retailing) Box 109.

Secy. H. B. Roach (drapery retailing) Box 108.

Greymouth, New Zealand 5656 (D-53). 1943
Wednesday, 12:45 p.m., Harker’s Tea Rooms. Pres.
W. E. J. Steer (motors retailing) 125 Shake-
speare St. Seey. F. W. Baillie (farm implements)
Box 190.

Feilding, New Zealand 5657 (D-53) 1943
Thursday, 12:15 p.m., ‘Beresford.’ Pres. Albert J.
Kellow (general merchandising) 18 Manchester St.
Secy. Samuel McDowall (accounting service) P.O.
Box 121.

 
Rotary International

Chunghking—Synonym for Courage

F'rom time to time as scraps of informa-
tion have come to the central office of the
secretariat from Rotary clubs in China, that
information has been relayed to Rotary
clubs through the News Letter, and to the
officers and committeemen of R.I. through
the Secretary’s letter. George Fitch, a Rotar-
ian for twenty years, formerly a member of
the Rotary Clubs of Shanghai and Nanking,

You may be surprised to see me,
an American, standing before you
as president of the Chungking club,
and may ask: “Why isn’t the presi-
dent a Chinese?” Our clubs over
there are all more or less interna-
tional in their membership, and it
has been the custom in most of them
to alternate Chinese with foreign—
American, British, or Dutch, or other
nationals—as president...

Incidentally, life in Free China
these days is not easy, nor does the
Rotary club find it easy to maintain
regular meetings. We know what it
is to have to rush out from a meet-
ing and take shelter in the caves
that honeycomb Chungking. We
have seen houses all about us col-
lapse as if they had been made: of
pasteboard. We have had thousands
and thousands killed or brutally
maimed almost at our side, and
sometimes it just hasn’t been possi-
ble to hold a meeting for weeks and
weeks on end.

There were months when the Jap-
anese came over day and night. I
remember one period when for eight
days and nights we had hardly any
sleep. To my mind it is amazing the
way that comparatively small hand-
ful of Rotarians in Chungking have
stuck by their guns. They are in-
spired by the principles, the ideals
of Rotary, the Chinese and foreign
group alike, and are determined
that, though Rotary has for the time
being been eclipsed in those great
coastal cities of China—they can no
longer function under Japanese rule
—they are determined that Rotary
shall not die in Free China...

Most of the buildings in Chung-
king have been destroyed. Many
have been rebuilt today, of course,
but one after another of the places
where we held our luncheon meet-

ings, or “tiffin” as we call it there,
were bombed out of existence, or so
seriously damaged that they could
not be used.

Sometimes we would meet in a
Chinese restaurant and have a Chi-
nese meal, only to find that the next
week it was gone ... Recently we
have been fortunate in being able to
have the main dining room of the
new Victory Hotel. The room will
seat only fifty people, the furnish-
ings are of the most primitive type...

Finances are one of our greatest
problems. The cost of living in
Chungking, in all West China, has
gone up from between sixty to sev-
enty-fold—not sixty to seventy per
cent but sixty to seventy-fold—six
thousand to seven thousand per
cent. And many of our members are
finding it extremely difficult just to
exist under those circumstances.
Most government offices, the banks
and some of the institutions, give
living allowances. Of course, that
helps their employees to ameliorate
this difficulty but even a vice cabinet
minister today receives so little in
comparison with what it costs to live
and support his family that he has
to count the pennies, and when he
has to pay out $35 in national cur-
rency—which is only $1.75 over here
—for luncheon, and a pretty light
luncheon at that, he has to think
twice before doing it.

Of our members, a few are in edu-
cational or mission work and they
are the most seriously affected. And
yet these men do so feel the impor-
tance of carrying on that many of
them, practically all of them, are
making great sacrifices in order to
attend those meetings regularly...

You can easily imagine life in a
city like Chungking, with refugees

“GS x

*

China, and in 1942-48, president of the Ro-
tary Club of Chungking, represented the
Rotary Club of Chungking at the St. Louis
convention. He attended the club presidents’
assembly and, at the invitation of the chair-
man, described how the Rotary Club of
Chungking is carrying on. Here are some
excerpts from his talk:

coming from the East, forced out as
they have been by the millions by
the Japanese. Between forty and fif-

' ty million Chinese have been forced

from their homes to wander, most of
them they know not where. Among
these are many of the very finest
type of people, university professors,
professional men, governmental offi-
cials, and others.

We have thousands of ‘“warphans”
as they call them, children who have
been made orphans by this war, and
over five million Chinese soldiers
have been killed in this terrible war.
We have our air raid victims. One of
the most serious disasters occurred
during eighteen hours of continu-
ous alert, when people were not al-
lowed to leave the shelters, these
underground caverns dug by human
hands out of the rock. The air natu-
rally gets bad, stifling, people be-
come sick, panic strikes into their
hearts as the bombs fall directly
overhead, and disaster occurs. Such
a disaster occurred only a little over
a year ago when more than two
thousand people were trampled to
death in a panic which ensued. So
our problem in that regard is in
gaining enough funds to be of as-
sistance, and I wish at this time to
thank those clubs here in America
which have remembered us and sent
funds to the Rotary Club of Chung-
king for distribution for these
worthy enterprises...

In spite of these things that we
face out there, Rotary in China still
carries on and is planning for ex-
pansion. A new club will shortly be
opened in that great city halfway
between Hongkong and Chungking
known as Kweilin, the halfway stop
on the old air route. And we are
looking to establish clubs in other
parts of that country.
 

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The “Program Suggestions” for August and September will be based upon the above topics.

Jury PROGRAM SUGGESTIONS
FOR ROTARY CLUBS

“fRoad-Mapping”

The new club president takes over at the first meeting
in July. Let him announce his plans for the coming
year. “Dick” Wells, president-elect of Rotary Inter.
national, takes the helm on July 1. In an article, “Are
We Fit to Win?”, in the July Rotarian, he maps
plans for Rotary International for 1944-45, Keying
the club program to the broader international plans
will make a full and constructive meeting.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 3 . “The Rotary Program,” Section I
No. 20, ‘ ‘Suggestions for Rotary Club Committees,”
Section “A”
No. 120, “The Rotary Club President”
No, 134, “New Leaders for a New Year”
No. 210, “What is the Rotary Program?”
No. 224, “Three Ways to Make Committees Work”
From THe RoTarian:
J uly, 1944,
“Rotary Consults the Compass”
Dick’ Is the Name,” Tom J. Davis
June, 1944, “How Rotarians Get That W ie Paul P.

Harris
Current issues, “Little Lessons in Rotary”

“Arbitration —Talk It Out”

“Ls not what you say—,” says Hugh Mearns in your
June, 1944, Rorarian, “but how you say it.” That’s
one of the secrets in the success of this thing called
arbitration. That article may offer some quotable
examples for a talk on the subject.

For some actual case studies of arbitration, turn back
to “Talk It Out!” by J. Raymond Tiffany in your
January, 1944, Rotarian. Have, say, four of your
members discuss the four. standard arbitration
clauses which have been set up for all contracts,
labor and commercial.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 523, “Good Management”

No. 532, “Mediation—A Vocational Service Oppor-
tunity”

No. 840, “Mock Arbitration Hearing,”
From THE Rotarian:

April, 1944, “They Stay—if You Pay,” Karl K.
Krueger *

(Playlet)

“Traffic safety”

Get your local traffic chief to put on a program.
Maybe he can tell you of the dangers in fake law-
suits such as are described in “Watch Their Step” in
your June, 1944, RoTARIAN.

Or, have the safety officers of your school patrols tell
of their work in educating children to observe traffic
safety rules. Perhaps some of your members have
served on the boards which develop the school pa-
trols. Let them take charge of the program. No. 633, .
“Slow Down—School,” which tells how a Rotary
club can sponsor junior safety patrols and courts,
may be helpful in preparing such a program.

 
 

“Am I My Neighbor's Keeper?”

Some of the difficulties in international relations are
strikingly set forth by historian James Truslow
Adams in his article “I Was at Versailles” in the
July, 1944, Rotarian. Your international service
committee can make this a splendid program, ap-
plying it to the problems of World War II.

Or, devote this program to Latin America. Three
10-minute talks based on the articles on Argentina,
Brazil and Chile in the May, June and July, 1944,
issues of THE RoTARIAN would serve a very excellent
purpose.

Or, have two members debate, “Shall power politics
rule international relations?” using as a guide the
debate-of-the-month in the July, 1944, RoTARIAN.

Still another program can be drawn from Ezequiel
Padilla’s “Now, While Trials Unite Us .. .” in the
March, 1944, RoTARIAN. ;

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 701, “Explaining International Service”

No. 724, “Which Way Lasting Peace?”

No. 733, “Things That a Rotary Club Can Do to De-
velop Friendship with Ibero-America”

From THe Rotarian:

June, 1944,
“Why We Fight On,” Leslie Hore-Belisha
“Yanks in Britain,” Frank S. Stuart
April, 1944,
“We’re Going Places After the War,” H. V.
Kaltenborn
“Chile Wants More Rotary Clubs,” Juan Antonio
Rios
March, 1944, “Latin America Comes of Age,” Ed-
ward Tomlinson

“Looking at Rotary’‘s
Youth Service”

Why not appoint a member as “The Scratchpad
Man” and have him review the “Scratchpad Man
Visits” reported in recent issues of THE ROTARIAN.
For instance, in your July, 1944, issue, “Boys Who
Think Like Men,” tells of British activities, while

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“In the Swim in New Hampshire,” gives another
activity. Others are, “Art Goes Camping,” “Pulaski
Bends Its Twigs,” “Uncle Sam, Schoolmaster” and
“Yanks in Britain,” in the June issue; and in the
May issue, “Future Farmers of the ‘Farm Mallee’ ”
and “Boys and Pigs vs. Hunger.” Still others are
listed below.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 657A, “Occupational Guidance Activities of
Some Rotary Clubs”

No. 663, “What Can We Do in Boys Work and
Youth Service?”

No. 682B, “What Some Rotary Clubs Do for Boys”
From THE Rotarian:

April, 1944, “Camp Cheerful!”
March, 1944,
“Teen-Age Rejectees,” Carrol C. Hall
“Mexico City Invests in Boys”

“Youth Today and Tomorrow”

“Fighters Who Come Home” is the title of an en-
lightening article in your July, 1944, Rotarian, on
how disabled veterans are being fitted into civilian
life. Get six members to read it, then join in a panel
discussion on what to do when the boys come home.
Another suggestion can be found in Tur Rotarian
for June, 1944, in “Uncle Sam, Schoolmaster” and
“Those “Y’ Blokes,” and in the May issue, “When
Johnny Canuck Comes Home” and “They’re Talking
‘Tomorrow’ in Tampa.”

Or, set up a symposium on the basis of the March,
1944, symposium in THE Rotarian, “The World We
Want!” Let youth speak for itself as it does in this
article.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 651, “Youth Power for Days Ahead”
No. 659, “Education During the Current Crisis”
No. 680, “Training for Tomorrow’s World”

From THe Rorarian:
May, 1944, “Keep Faith in Schools,” Arthur H.

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Clubs may find in this article
material which can be used as
the basis for an interesting club

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Snventory of Kotay

by Philip Lovejoy, Secretary, R.I.

(prepared for delivery to the 1944 Convention of R.I.— May 19, 1944)

U™= the dynamic leadership of

Charlie Wheeler, flanked by his
devoted colleagues on the board,
and fcrtified by the committeemen,
district governors, and the club of-
ficers throughout the world, our
Rotary organization, despite almost
insurmountable difficulties, has gone
forward to new heights during this
fiscal year about to end.

Membership At All-Time High

Our numerical strength is at an
all-time high. A few more than
224,000* Rotarians in 5,190 clubs in
60 geographical regions of the world
is the statistical story tonight. This
is an increase of 138* Rotary clubs
in 22* geographical regions of the
world since the first of last July—
with 42 days yet to go, a number
already 13 more than were admitted
in the entire previous Rotary year.

New Clubs in Many Countries

There is romance in this exten-
sion activity. There is drama in it.
There is pathos and heartache. But,
with all, there is a virile vision.
Where are these clubs located?** 51
in continental United States, 9 in
Canada, 47 in Ibero America—in 11
countries—of which 17 are in Brazil
and 12 in Mexico. In England, with
all of its wartime activity, the Ro-
tarians found it possible to bring in
5** new clubs, and there are 2 in
Northern Ireland. Down in Aus-
tralia there is 1. Down in New Zea-
land there are 8, and in South
Africa, 1. In India there are 7. In
Ceylon there is 1. In China, with all
of its difficulties, there is a new club
at Lanchow. And word just received
from C. T. Wang of Chungking, our
Administrative Adviser for Free
China, and incoming Director of
R.I., tells us that a club at Kweilin
has been organized. There is one
new club in Switzerland, 3 new clubs
in Sweden and 1 in Finland. So even
in war-torn Europe, new Rotary
clubs continue to come into exist-
ence. We have knowledge that 40
additional clubs are in the process
of organization for admission to Ro-
tary International, these clubs being
located in 10 geographical regions
of the world.

*As of 6 June — 225,350 Rotarians in 5,201

clubs. (150 new clubs since last July in 25
~ countries—

*4*55 in U.S.A., 48 in Ibero America, 6 in Eng-
land, 9 in India, 4 in Sweden, 10 in Canada,
and 1 in Kenya.)

Membership Increases More Than
1,000 Each Month

In the beginning of the year, it
appeared almost certain that mem-
bership in the individual clubs
would decrease, with all of the de-
mands that are being made upon
men, entering into the armed ser-
vices, and engaging in war enter-
prises, or carrying on their busi-
nesses and professions under the
extraordinary conditions confront-
ing them. But our guess was wrong,
for tonight I can tell you that up
to the end of April, the ‘number of
Rotarians throughout the world has
increased nearly 13,000 over that of
last July. Why do men join Rotary?
Why do they give of their time to
organize new Rotary clubs? Why
does the percentage of attendance
remain high throughout.the world?
What is it that men see in Rotary
that causes it to be at this all-time
high?

Perhaps the answer is found in
the revitalization of the program of
Rotary, in the earnest dedication of

Rotarians to activities directed at .

the achievement of the organiza-
tion’s program as expressed in its
objects. For in nearly 5200 commu-
nities of the world there are groups
of Rotarians responding to myriads
of service opportunities to make
these communities better places in
which to live, men investing their
talents, their time, their energies
to contribute their bit that civiliza-
tion might move forward just a
little, but ever upward in that un-
ending spiral that reaches through
the clouds, the ideal, a world in
which the welfare of the individual
shall be uppermost, and where each
individual shall have the oppor-
tunity to achieve in accordance wit

his ability.

5200 Rotary Clubs Serving
Their Communities

It would be delightful, if time per-
mitted, to give a complete resume
of the activities of these 5200 clubs.
That every Rotary club in the world
may have some idea as to the ac-
complishments of the year, we have
prepared an annual report briefly
written, adequately headlined and
illustrated, which will appear in the
convention proceedings. Were it
not for a paper shortage, as well as

a manpower shortage, advance cop-
ies of this report would have been
distributed to you this year in ac-
cordance with our annual custom.
We are sure that you will under-
stand the exigencies of the times
which make this impractical. It is
hoped that every Rotary club will
read the detailed report when the
convention proceedings appears. In-
deed, it would make a good club
program.

Financia] Condition of R.I. Good

A few highlights from this report
will be of interest to you. Financial-
ly, because of the abnormal condi-
tions under which we are operating
we will have an excess of income
over expense of perhaps $125,000.
It should be understood that this
comes about primarily because of
our inability to function as we would
in a peace-time year. The reduc-
tion of the convention to a proxy
meeting means a saving of many
thousands of dollars. The inability
of a number of our incoming gov-
ernors and R.I. representatives to
attend the assembly likewise means
a considerable saving. Would that
we could have these normal meet-
ings at a greatly increased cost
because of the great contribution
they make in international under-
standing and in the development of
more effective ways of carrying on |
our program during the year! The
time will come when one of our
great peace-time conventions can
be held, and the administrative ex-
penses of that meeting will un-
doubtedly be in considerable excess
of the amount that would normally
be budgeted out of the current in-
come of that year, at which time we
can draw on the surplus made up
from the unexpended amounts in
these abnormal years.

Collections in all parts of the
world have been remarkably good
considering the difficulties involved
in transmitting funds and the un-
certainties and delays in mail ser-
vice. :

Preparing for Post-War
Employment

Early in the fiscal year President
Wheeler and the R.I. board initiated

the Work Pile project which con-
templates the making of a survey
and an inventory within each com-
munity of work for individuals and
business organizations which would
be required to be done after the
cessation of hostilities, during the
period of hesitancy and reconver-
sion. A recent post card poll of Ro-
tary clubs in Canada and the United
States, designed to learn the status
of the Work Pile project, showed
that in 73% of the replying clubs
the Work Pile was in process of be-
ing built or was about to be built.
Not to be overlooked are certain
by-product assets resulting from
_ the Work Pile activities of Rotary
clubs, such as a higher sense of
unity developed among the citizenry
of the community, a closer and
more understanding relationship
between the farmers and the city
businessmen, a broader understand-
ing of social and economic questions
on the: part of high school and col-
lege students who participated in
the survey, and new vision on the
part of the public concerning the
tremendous resources the commu-
nity has for sustaining itself during
the reconversion period.

Perhaps the most important is the
arousing of the citizenry to the fact
that every family in the community
has a responsibility for, and can
do something about, providing work
which will carry returning service-
men and farmers and dis-employed
civilian workers over the reconver-
sion period through private initia-
tive as contrasted with any system
of “made” work provided by a gov-
ernment.

There has also been a very im-
portant effect on the thinking and
morale of the service men and
women who are learning what their
home communities are doing to
prepare for adequate work for them
when they are demobilized.

Many Clubs Compete for
President's Award

The board of directors initiated a
president’s award to be a citation
to be given to one club in a district,
signifying superiority in carrying on
the Rotary program. Up to the 17th
of May, 72 districts had submitted
entries—56 from districts in con-
tinental United States, 5 from Cana-
da, 1 from Hawaii, 3 from Great
Britain and Ireland, 1 from Puerto
Rico, 1 from Mexico, 1 from Cuba,
1 from Nicaragua, 2 from Australia,
and 1 from India.

Excellent District
Conferences Held

All districts in the USCNB and in
Ibero America, with the exception
of district 42 in Central America,
held district conferences.

It is gratifying to note that dis-
trict 100 in Hawaii held its first
con erence since the attack on Pearl
Harbor in December of 1941. All six
clubs were represented, with an at-
tendance of 353.

In Great Britain and Ireland,
conferences were held where pos-
sible. An outstanding conference
was held by the 70 clubs in the Lon-
don district. Four districts in India
held conferences which were well
attended. Three of the five districts
in the European, North Africa, and
Eastern Mediterranean region held
conferences, and the district in
South Africa held its conference.

Wartime restrictions caused can-
cellation of the conferences in New
Zealand and one of the conferences
in Australia.

Clubs Active in Community
Service and War Work

In the USCNB, Rotary clubs are
engaged in every conceivable type
of war work and community service
activity. There has been more than
usual interest in vocational service,
particularly in the improvement of
standards of correct practices in
business.

In Ibero America, clubs have been
active in all types of community
service usual among Rotary clubs,
and several types particularly
needed in their respective countries
such as construction of highways
and airports through arousing the
interest of governmental authori-
ties, stimulating efforts to combat
tuberculosis and cancer, sanitation,
campaigns to reduce mendicity,
child vagrancy, and so on.

Remarkable Growth in
Eastern Hemisphere

In the Eastern Hemisphere, there
are approximately 850 clubs active
in 25 countries. Latest figures indi-
cate that since July 1 there has
been an increase of more than 1,000
members in these Rotary clubs.

Typical activities are a Rotary
club in Sweden establishing a home
for sick Finnish children, and an-
other club collecting 2,000 books for
prisoners of war; in Egypt, a club

providing free milk for a hundred |.

babies at a hospital, and, through
its efforts, the doubling of free
water facilities in the poorer sec-
tions of the city.

In India, during the recent fam- -

ine, the Rotary Club of Calcutta,
assisted by contributions from other
clubs, provided food for over 40,000
adults and 6,000 babies, as well as
countless pieces of clothing.

TR and AR Circulation at
All-Time High

“The Rotarian” magazine has
constantly grown in value, with the
result that its circulation has like-
wise grown. In April it had an all-
time high of approximately 190,000
subscriptions, of which nearly 17,000

- were special subscriptions for libra-

ries, schools, military camps, non-
Rotarians, and so on.

“Revista Rotaria’s” circulation was
at an all-time high of 23,180, of
which 16,246 were subscriptions by
Ibero American Rotarians — prac-
tically 100% subscriptions on a vol-
untary basis.

Problems Ahead

Successful as has been the year,
there are, nevertheless, problems
confronting the organization. The
very rapid increase in the number
of Rotarians means an added re-
sponsibility upon clubs to see that
these new Rotarians are thoroughly
informed in the principles and pro-
gram of the organization.

There is the very important prob-
lem concerning the re-establish-
ment of Rotary clubs after the war
in regions where they formerly
existed.

There is the problem of increasing
the funds of the Rotary Foundation
so that the great work of the organ-
ization world-wide may go forward
in an ever-increasing manner.

Other problems are more continu-
ity on the board of directors and
R.I. committees, development of a
better understanding of vocational
service and subsequent action there-
on, centralization versus decentrali-
zation in R.I. administration, close
adherence to the fundamental prin-
ciples of the organization, and
provision of permanent headquar-
ters for Rotary.

Rotary Ideals Are Universal

The ideals of Rotary are universal
in their application. Wherever Ro-
tarians are they give evidence of the
usefulness of the program of Ro-
tary. Just the other day there came
to my desk a photograph of a grass
hut just back of the firing line in
New Guinea, on which had been
placed a Rotary emblem asking for
Rotarians to register, and in a short
time a number from different coun-
tries had made their presence
known, with the result that inform-
al Rotary gatherings are held as
the exigencies of war permit, out
in that battle-scarred country. So
wherever Rotarians go they make
known the principles for which the
organization stands. And the
strength of the organization wells
up from the vision and loyal devo-
tion of the Rotarians throughout
the world.
 

9 June, 1944

To Club Presidents and See ctaries

The News Letter

From the R. |. Secretariat (Central Office)
35 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago 1, Ill., U. S. A.

 

No. 21—1943-44

 

Helps for Club Officers

To all club presidents and secre-
taries for 1944-45 whose names have
been reported to the central office
a following material has been
sent:

To the Club President

A letter of greeting and congratulations.

A pamphlet of information about the
president’s responsibilities and how to
discharge them.

An envelope with separate (loose) leaves
or sections outlining the usual club com-
mittees, their functions and how the presi-
dent works with them.

A program worksheet to aid the board,
the aims and objects committee and the
program committee in planning for the
weekly meetings.

To the Club Secretary

A letter of greeting.

A pamphlet showing the duties of the
secretary by months. (This is not sent to
re-elected secretaries.)

A list of the latest Rotary pamphlets
which should be in every Rotary club
library.

A book of postcard forms for reporting
monthly attendance records to district
governor.

A specimen report sheet.

A chart for computing attendance aver-
ages,

A copy of the attendance contest rules
and answers to some frequently asked
questions.

Any club president or secretary
elect who has not received these
helps should first ask the present
secretary if the names of new offi-
cers have been sent to the central
office. Next he should write the cen-
tral office for a duplicate set if this
material has not yet reached him.

Then if the officers read the ma-
terial themselves and if the presi-
dent passes along to his committees
the sheets intended for them, they
will be prepared for a year of effec-
tive and gratifying Rotary service.

 

 

Now

5,201 Rotary Clubs
225,750 Rotarians

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

150 New Clubs in 25 Countries
Since July 1, 1943

 

 

 

Hats Off to
Rotary International!

The following letter has just been
received from the Office of Defense
Transportation, Washington, D. C.:

June 5, 1944

Mr. Philip Lovejoy, Secretary
Rotary International

35 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois

Dear Mr. Lovejoy: .
Thank you for your letter of May 26th.

Our hats are off to Rotary International
for the very splendid and realistic co-
operation which you gave-us this year in
reducing your convention from a normal
5,000 to the total registered of 403.

We were delighted and encouraged by
Rotary’s promise to cut down its conven-
tion, and you assuredly made good on that
promise. .

I think every officer and member of
Rotary International may feel that Rotary,
in keeping with its splendid traditions,
had made a very real contribution to the
wartime transportation problems of the
carriers. :

We in the Office of Defense Transporta-
tion thank you most sincerely.
Yours very truly,

(signed) H. F. McCarthy
Assistant Director

 

Your Honorary Members

The 1933 convention, amended
the standard club constitution to
read:

Honorary membership shall terminate
on the first day of July next after the
date of election, provided, however, that
the Board of Directors in their discretion
may, by resolution, continue such honor-
ary membership from year to year there-
after. Such honorary membership may be

continued by the Board although the per-

son so elected has ceased to reside within

or to be definitely associated with .the
territorial limits of the club.

Each Rotary club operating under
the standard club constitution
should confirm from year to year on
July ist the membership of each
of its honorary members whom it
wishes to retain in membership.
Failure to follow this procedure
would appear to terminate auto-
matically the membership of an
honorary member.

TODAY'S SERVICE STORY

Rotarian Boyd Wallace, charter
member of the Rotary Club of
Stafford, Kansas, U.S.A., has been 1}
interested in boys since before
World War I, and that interest
has never wavered through the
years. He locates boys who need
help—financial for some, moral
for others, friendly for all. Per-
haps the boy’s parents believe
that an elementary education is .
“sood enough” and cannot or will
not help the boy to achieve a
higher goal. Perhaps the boy is.
the result of his environment and .
although he may have a good
mind and real capabilities, he
doesn’t see any reason to pro-
gress. Whatever the circum-
stances, Boyd’s kindly attitude,
helpful interest, advice, and fi-
nancial backing when necessary, .
have helped shape the lives of |
many boys who, through his ef-
forts, have become fine, self-
reliant young citizens.

In all, Boyd has probably helped
eighteen or twenty boys. Seven
of them have made their home
with him while they were going to
high school or working their way
through college. When he was in
the office the other day, he had
with him a boy of ten, whom he
had taken to live with him last
November. Boyd said he was lucky
to have the boy. The lad’s affec-
tion for Boyd showed that he felt .
he was the lucky one.

 

 

 

The Winner!

Twelve hundred pounds was pro-
vided to form the nucleus of a fund
which will be used for the rehabili-
tation of the men and women re-
turning from the armed services
through the annual Pit-Horse Der-
by organized by the Rotary Club of
Cessnock, Australia. For this most
popular event horses from various
collieries in the district are decked
out as race horses and ridden by men
from the mines and prominent Syd-
ney jockeys.
May Meeting of the R.I. Board

Under the leadership of President
Charlie Wheeler, 11 members of the
R.I. board spent May 16 and 17 con-
sidering more than seventy impor-
tant items which had come from all
parts of the world. A number of de-
cisions of the board have appeared
in the Convention Daily Bulletin
and in the last issue of the News
Letter. Additional decisions will ap-
pear in subsequent issues of the

News Letter as independent items.

A summary of other important
decisions is presented in the follow-
ing paragraphs:

“A Wartime Challenge”

Because varying interpretations have

been given in different countries to the _

Wartime Challenge, issued by the board
of R.I. in 1942-43, and political significance
has been attached thereto which was not
intended, the board deemed it desirable
that the position be restated. Below is
given the restatement in full:

In view of the fact that the term “private
enterprise’’ is given entirely different con-
notations and implications by those living
under different political systems, and
meanings have been attributed to that
terms as used in the “Wartime Challenge”
which were not intended, the board re-
affirms absolutely the basic principles
stated in Article IX of the standard club
constitution entitled “Avoidance of Poli-
tics,’’ and has never at any time intended
to take any action which might be con-
strued as contrary thereto.

The board is in entire accord with the
viewpoint that a cardinal principle of Ro-
tary is that Rotary International is and
must continue to be non-sectarian and
non-political.

It reaffirms the obligation of Rotarians
to do everything possible to promote high
ethical standards in all businesses and
professions, the recognition of the worthi-
ness of all useful occupations; and the
dignifying by each Rotarian of his occu-
pation as an opportunity to serve society.

The board further approves and en-
dorses the decision of the Aims and Ob-
jects Committee of R.I. at its meeting of
February, 1944, a portion of which reads
as follows:

The Aims and Objects Com-
mittee of Rotary International expresses
its deep concern lest some Rotarians or

_ Rotary Clubs inadvertently embarrass

Rotary International and injure its ef-

fectiveness throughout the world by

actions which are beyond the legitimate
scope of Rotary activities, and therefore
urges each Rotary Club to observe and

conform to the provisions of Article IX

of the standard club constitution.

Rotary and Famine Relief

The board reiterated its decision made
at its June, 1942 meeting, wherein the
board expressed sympathy with any pro-
posal to bring relief to distressed human-
ity through the supplying of clothes, food,
and other necessities, but wherein the
board recognized that this was a matter
which the Allied Governments were

studying, and expressed the belief that
they could be relied upon at the earliest
possible moment to take steps to alleviate
suffering among distressed peoples, there-
by making acts by R.I. undesirable, since
by multiplication of effort, the aims of the
respective governments might be retarded
rather than assisted.

In that decision the board pointed out,
in addition, that Rotary clubs are autono-
mous and, accordingly, may take such
action as circumstances prescribe. The
board expressed its confidence that,-when
general relief measures have been taken
throughout the world, Rotary clubs so
disposed will find opportunities of sup-
plementing what has been done officially
by the governments.

The board reiterated also its stand taken
at its July, 1942, meeting wherein the
board recognized that numerous agencies
are in existence to handle the promotion
of various campaigns to supply humani-
tarian aid and equipment and, because of
this, and the large number of such cam-
paigns that are continually developing, the

_ board expressed the belief that R.I. should

not ally itself with such movements.

Length of International Assembly
The board agreed that, if at all possible,
the international assembly in 1945 and in
subsequent years should be of a week’s
duration and be so set up as to give the
maximum amount of Rotary education,
instruction in administrative duties, and
fellowship to those in attendance.

Obligations Due R.I.

It was agreed that the provisions of Sec-
tion 2 of Article II of the by-laws of R.1.,
relating to non-payment of obligations to
RI. by Rotary clubs, shall be strictly
enforced as provided in the procedure
established by the board, viz.:

1. The secretary will send a registered let-
ter to each club which fails to make its
per capita tax payment within the three
months period calling attention to the
by-law concerning termination of mem-
bership for non-payment;

2. Copy of this letter will go to the district
governor with an appeal for his cooper-
ation in

_ (a) effecting immediate payment;

(b) or, where immediate payment is im-
possible but early future payment
likely, recommending an extension
of time;

(c) or, where payment within the one
year appears impossible, recom-
mending cancellation of the in-
debtedness, provided that he con-
siders the club worth saving.

3.If an extension of time is granted for
less than one year from due date and
the club fails to pay within the period
of extension, follow out again the pro-
cedure outlined in the foregoing steps.

4. If the extension of time has been grant-
ed up to one year from due date, the
secretariat will send a registered letter
to the club, with a copy to the governor,
to reach the club early enough to serve
as a final warning of the early expira-

tion of the maximum period allowed for
payment and the necessity, under the
by-laws, for terminating the member-
ship of the club if the payment is not
received before the expiration of that
period.

5. A period of grace amounting to 30 days
after the expiration of the one year
period shall be allowed.

6. At the close of the 30 days grace, the
secretary of R.I. will declare the mem-
bership of the club as having termi-
nated.

7. The secretary will then send a regis-
tered letter to the club confirming the
termination of its membership and ask-
ing for the return of the charter (via
the district governor) a copy of this
letter to go to the district governor with
special instructions, if any are neces-
sary, in connection with taking up the
charter and returning it to the secre-
tariat.

Pamphlet on “The Post-War
Work Pile”

The board authorized the printing of a
sufficient number of copies of the pam-
phlet entitled “The Post-War Work Pile”
by Member Roy A. Plumb of the R.I. Post-
War Committee for distribution of one
copy to each Rotary club in the world and
to each R.I. officer.

Reserve for Contingencies
of the Magazine

The board rescinded its action taken in
May, 1943, wherein provision was made
for setting up a reserve for contingencies
for “The Rotarian” and “Revista Rotaria,”
and authorized the magazine committee
to establish a reserve for contingencies
under the following plan:

(a) The net excess of income over expense
of the various editions of the official
magazine of R.I. shall be set aside at
the end of each fiscal year as a Reserve
for Contingencies, which shall be ac-
cumulative annually until such time
as the total of said Reserve fund shall
amount to ten percent of the consoli-
dated magazine income as shown by
the final audit of each fiscal year. All
excess of income over expense above
that required for the said Reserve shall
be credited to the general surplus of
RI.

(b) If at the end of any fiscal year the
Reserve is in excess of ten percent of
the total consolidated income of the
magazine, the Reserve shall be re-
duced to ten percent of the total in-
come.

(c) This Reserve for Contingencies shall
be available to the magazine commit-
tee for use in meeting exigencies com-
mon to publishing enterprises and for
the publication and improvement of
the magazine.

(d) If a part or all of this Reserve for
Contingencies is expended in a fiscal
year the Reserve shall be restored to
the limit prescribed in Section (a) out
of the first available excess of income
over expense of the magazine.
 

9 June, 1944

   

Institutes of International
Understanding

During the present Rotary year,
290 clubs in 21 districts sponsored
Institutes of International Under-
standing. Most of these have made
very enthusiastic reports and have
gone on record as desiring to spon-
sor Institutes during the coming
year. There were a number of other
clubs that desired to sponsor Insti-
tutes but did not make their de-
cisions early enough so that RJT.
could locate and suggest to them
competent speakers. Present indica-
tions are that there will be a great
increase in the number of Institutes
to be held next year. Following is
the record by district:

No. of Clubs
Dis- Sponsoring
trict Governor Institutes
105; ‘Andrew ib: Haight... 2.20.022....° 12
9 Dwisht Muller o..5)..1955 oe 2
422° Amos WaGlads.. .2o3.5 22 32 2 ee 25
127 MEW isaremOur oa tis 11
129 Will W. Jackson...... (25 centers) 36
130° George K. Marshall... -....2scac2-- 13
1923) Loo Chrysler fosc.cn. eee aes ae ns
138.> Bert €Peuncey, Ji sis.87S05. 10
VAs Paul) ¥. bemter, 33: 225% 550. ce. 6
146 Clayton EB, Humphrey: ...3. 23.25 2
147. Froncis-J=:, BUdinger . = .2.. 5 ...4% 8
1481. ‘Clarke Grandfield.. 5...42:.%.:.,,. 18
151 Howard: 2... Porter. 23. sss Ss 11
152. Claude Runaing csi ead< 6.0 ca sie sce se 5
159: Charlies ©. Evans. <2 icc. cco oes 10
164--Frank 7h SDAIN «3c 4s > eases cee 33
115) Allan J Seul ys se os oss sae ess 20
176: R.: DonaldoYauch.. «.. s... 25-25: =. 38
180. -Albert:S= ochmidts -sio. ssc as 9
184° Marv Pe Poren... ..3<.sscee acess 3
190. Charles. G. Fennent |... 3.36. 2.c5. s

Inform Your New Member

The new member wants to learn
about the history of the Rotary
movement, its principles, and how
they can be applied to the best ad-
vantage; its objects and the recog-
nized and approved plan of effort to
achieve these objectives; the oppor-
tunities which will be afforded him
as an individual to express himself
in service to others and the benefits
which will accrue to him because of
his affiliation with the club.

The aims and objects committee

of R.I. believes that club presidents
should see to it that every new
member is properly informed and
especially that Rotary information
is given to him by word of mouth.
This can be done by having the new
member, early in his club experi-
ence, attend committee and board
meetings, club assemblies, and spe-
cial meetings planned for the pur-
pose of disseminating Rotary infor-
mation.

The News Letter

USCNB Supplement

Work Pile Activity
Wide-Spread

Direct reports from 40% of the
clubs in the USCNB reveal wide-
spread Work Pile activity — and
growing interest. These reports were
made as of May 1, 1944. The follow-
ing is an analysis of the reports
received:

58% of the clubs report a Work Pile

being built.

1714% report that a Work Pile will be

built.

 

7544% of the clubs actively interested.

These figures reflect a tremendous
erowth in Work Pile activity in the
past six months. It would be difficult
to measure the impact of this activ-
ity on the thinking of thousands of
men and women in the service who
have heard of it from their home
towns. In addition, there is the by-
product value of the aroused think-
ing and sharpened alertness of the
hundreds and thousands of citizens
of these communities.

No. 1 Critical Shortage

When our fighting men go over-
seas, it takes 81 tons of supplies per
month per man to keep them there.
This requires huge quantities of
containers and packaging material
—mostly made from scrap paper.

The U.S. War Production Board
estimates that 667,000 tons of scrap
paper each month will keep the
mills at peak production, enabling
them to meet all overseas and
home-front war requirements. Col-
lections at the present time are
totaling about 500,000 tons per
month. Some mills have shut down,
and inventories in others are low.
About 33-1/3% more scrap paper
—167,000 extra tons—must be col-
lected every month!

Many communities have fallen
behind in their paper quotas and
collection drives. The schools, our
greatest scrap-paper collectors, are
closing for the summer, and this

will materially reduce the amount

of paper collected for several
months. It is important that every
community lend its resources at
once to this serious wartime short-
age.

Rotary clubs everywhere can be
of invaluable assistance in this
waste-paper emergency. Clubs de-
siring -to cooperate in this activity
may contact their local salvage
committee for information regard-
ing salvage activities, and plans
for strengthening and augmenting
them.

No. 21—1943-44

For Sons and Daughters
of Rotarians in the Service

The Rotarians in countries where
United States and Canadian troops
are stationed—particularly the Ro-
tarians in Australia and New Zea-
land—have expressed the hope that
sons and daughters of Rotarians
who are stationed at army camps
overseas will get in touch with the
nearest Rotary club so that the club
may extend hospitality and courte-
sies to them. President-Elect Dick
Wells asks Rotary clubs and Rotar-
ians in the USCNB to make a real
effort to get this message to the sons
and daughters of Rotarians who are
overseas. Tell them that Rotarians
are anxious to welcome them — to
make them feel at home. They can-
not locate all of the sons and daugh-
ters of Rotarians in the service, but
the young people can contact the
Rotary club. There is a wonderful
opportunity for the formation of in-
ternational friendships in this ac-
tivity. It is a practical method of
implementing Rotary’s Fourth Ob- .
ject.

Rotary’s First Object

Do you have faith in the development
of acquaintance as an opportunity for
service? The basis of Rotary acquaintance
is one of pure unselfishness. We have no
more obligation to a fellow Rotarian than
we do to any other member of society.
This fellowship must be on a basis of
helpful kindness. Criticism and fault-
finding are here not to be found. We must
be animated with an ardent desire to
serve. We must seek all those things
which bring people together and help
them to know and understand each other,
and avoid all those things which tend to
separate people and drive them apart. We
make no distinction as to religion, po-
litical, or philosophical opinion. We re-
member that “The highest culture is to
speak no ill. The best reformer is the
man whose eye is quick to see all beauty
and all worth, and by his own discreet,
well-ordered life, alone reproves the
erring. When the gaze turns in on thine
own Soul, be most severe, but when it
turns upon a fellow man, let kindliness
control it, and refrain from that belittling
censure which springs forth from common
lips like weeds from marshy soil.”

Richard H. Wells
President-Elect, R.1.

Newton, Massachusetts. Rotarians.
in cooperation with the Kiwanians,
are sponsoring the publication of a
monthly digest of Newton’s news
which is sent to the town’s 17,000
servicemen in all parts of the world.
Results of Brainerd’s
survey

Post-war employment possibilities
in Brainerd, Minnesota, as revealed
by the Work Pile survey in that com-
munity promise to be adequate. The
491 stores, shops, and offices doing
business in April, 1944, were employ-
ing 3,527 people—slightly more than
for years previously. Their expected
requirements estimated on the basis
of a community-wide Work Pile
survey for the period immediately
following the close of the war total
4.599. That’s an increase of better
than 23% over present employment
figures.

Three More Jobs per
Concern

Early returns from a survey among
retail stores and offices in High Point,
North Carolina, reveal an average
of close to three additional employ-
ees contemplated for the immediate
post-war period. That is three more
jobs over and above those now filled.
Furthermore, this figure does not
take into consideration labor in-
volved in close to $2,000,000 worth of
property repairs and improvements
planned by the 272 concerns thus far
reporting.

A “Tributary”

From a past president of the Ro-
tary Club of Stroudsburg, Pennsyl-
vania, Rotarian R. Van der Bie,
comes the following suggestion:

I would like to propose a new office in
every Rotary club. Namely, a “Tributary”
—an appointed member whose duty it
shall be to pay the club’s tribute to an
individual or group upon the completion
of an outstanding service. It may be a
tribute to a Rotarian who has become a
past service member, or to a group which
has accomplished something worthwhile
in community affairs. The recognition
would emphasize the spirit and function
of Rotary. I know of no other tribute
which would be more appreciated than
that coming from one’s own fellows and
club.

A new officer in a Rotary club can
be provided only by an enactment
passed at a convention of Rotary
International to amend the club
constitution which is prescribed for
the use of Rotary clubs. There is
however no good reason why any
Rotary club to which Rotarian Van
der Bie’s idea appeals should not
name some member informally to
be a “Tributary.”

 

ROTARIANS IN CHUNGKING, CHINA,
have stuck by their guns throughout the
hundreds of attacks. We are inspired by
the ideals of Rotary and, determined that
Rotary shall not die in Free China, we are
planning to carry on and to establish new
Rotary Clubs in other parts of the coun-
try.

—George Fitch, Past President,
Rotary Club of Chungking, China

Rotary—Here and There

Minden, Nevada, has secured the
establishment of an air cadet train-
ing school at Minden, and has
“adopted” the students. The club
entertains an entire detachment of
cadets at a meeting every two or
three weeks. It has provided a re-
creation hall for the cadets, where
dances are held, it furnishes 35 cur-
rent magazines weekly, and provides
a band for “retreat” service.

-Another activity of this club is the
operation of a canteen for forest
fire fighters.

*

Montmagny, Quebec, Canada, a
club of 16 members, organized last
year, is busily engaged in service for
its community. By payment of entry
fees for all the poor children of
Montmagny, the club arranged for

the children to enjoy a slide and ©

toboggan this past winter.

The Rotarians are engaged in a
paper recuperation campaign. Pro-
ceeds from the sale of a carload of
collected waste paper have been
turned over to the club’s crippled
children committee, which is plan-
ning to send two children to Mont-
real for examination and treatment.

*

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Ro-
tarians cooperated with other agen-
cies in providing private hospital
trains for the use of the armed
forces by the purchase of bonds dur-
ing a specified period. The cars,
costing $13,500, are named for the
civilian group raising the necessary
amount. When the idea was pre-
sented to the Rotary club, the neces-
sary $13,500 was subscribed in a few
minutes. A similar sum was provided
by a member of the club who had
agreed to match the club’s sub-
scription.

*

Scarsdale, New York, Rotarian
dentists provide free dentistry for
the families of all servicemen in
town. Members, by assignment,
serve as orderlies and as male
nurses’ aides in the men’s wards of
the hospital.

The club maintains a War Bond
booth, and over half of the War
Bonds sold in Scarsdale have been
sold there by the wives of Rotarians.

Twice a month the club’s youth
service committee bring to Scars-
dale 50 service men from service
centers in New York City. The men
are entertained at Rotarians’ homes,
at a dance on Saturday night, and
returned on Sunday to New York.
The wives of Rotarians write letters
to the mothers of all service men
entertained.

Teen-Age oe
a New Youth Service.

One of the best youth service ac-
tivities developed during the past
year has been the “teen-age club.”

These clubs provide a new ap-
proach to the old problem of what
wholesome social activity teen-age
boys and girls can have in their
spare time.

Here youth has its own “club-
rooms.” Boys and girls come together
for dancing, for refreshing drinks
and sandwiches, and for games, un-
der sympathetic and tactful adult
supervision.

The “clubs” are managed by the
boy and girl members themselves
and are proving to be a decided fac-
tor in the control of delinquency.

Rotary clubs interested in this
timely youth service project can se-
cure details on organization and
management of teen-age clubs, to-
gether with examples of successful
organizations, by writing to the
Secretariat requesting No. 686,“Clubs
for Teen-Age Youth.” This youth-
Service paper is available without
cost.

Food for Thought

In a letter to his fellow Rotarians
of Seneca Falls, New York, Captain
E. J. Bove, on active duty in India,
wrote:

What is going to happen to the world
when fighting has abated? What is to be
written into the peace treaty? We soldiers
cannot forget that the lives of many of
our fathers were sacrificed to the same
cause twenty odd years ago. We are will-
ing to go through the hell of war, but as
long as this sojourn in Hades has been
forced upon us, why can’t we make it
the last time for mankind? ...

What can Rotarians do about it? You
can go about the job of acquainting your-
selves with as many of the minutiae of the
problem as possible. As Rotarians, you
already know many of them. However,
you must know more so that you can
exercise your privileges of being a citi-
zen of a democracy in an intelligent man-
ner and help to decide where the United
States fits in an intelligent peace.

' Through the radio and press, when the
opportunity presents, we know that you
at home are already giving much con-
sideration to the solution of these prob-
lems which are bothering us... .

Willingly we make the sacrifice needed
for victory and consider our army life
FINE. In return, we ask that you prepare
yourselves to produce a sound, intelligent
answer to the question—whither America
at the peace table?

The Aim of Rotary

The Rotary movement really has but one
object—the acceptance by everyone of the
ideal of service which is thoughtfulness of
and helpfulness to others in every human
activity.
 

26 May, 1944

To Club Presidents and Secretaries

The News Letter

No. 20—1943-44

From the R. |. Secretariat (Central Office)
35 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago 1, Ill., U. S. A.

 

Summary of Legislation Adopted at Chicago

Council on Legislation—The compo-
sition of the council was amended in
enactment 44-1 to provide that the
chairman of the council, the chair-
man of the constitution and by-laws

committee, and the nominee, or

nominees, for president of R.I. shall
be members of the council; the pro-
vision that the president’s appoint-
ments to the council be submitted to
the board for approval was deleted,
and the number of representatives-
at-large reduced from six to three.

Voting by Mail—The by-law author-
izing the board to transact business
by mail was modified by enactment
44-2 to provide that voting by mail
be considered closed if and when a
majority of the votes in the affirma-
tive, or a majority of votes in the
negative, has been returned, irre-
spective of whether or not thirty
days have elapsed since the ballot
was mailed.

Magazine Committee—The magazine
committee was made a standing
committee and its composition and
terms of reference were incorporat-
ed in the by-laws. Enactment 44-3
also provides for the publication of
the magazine in as many editions
as the board shall authorize, the
basic edition being published in
English and being known as THE
ROTARIAN. (At present there is
only one such other language edi-
tion, the Spanish edition, REVISTA
ROTARIA.)

Term of Office of Secretary—Enact-
ment 44-4 provides that the term of
office of the secretary shall run con-
currently with the calendar year.
Instead of taking office on July Ist,
hereafter the secretary of R.I. will
take office on the first day of Janu-
ary.

Permanent Home for Rotary-—In
1928 the Minneapolis convention
adopted a resolution (28-11) em-
powering, authorizing and directing
the board of R.I. to acquire, as a
permanent home for Rotary, a suit-
able site or building in the city of
Chicago. The 1944 convention, in
resolution 44-7, amended the Min-
neapolis resolution so as to em-

power, authorize and direct the

board to acquire, as a permanent
home for Rotary, a suitable site or
building located anywhere in the
Rotary world.

Outpost Membership—Resolution
44-8 rescinded resolution 36-13A of
the 1936 (Atlantic City) convention
which had authorized the R.I. board
to experiment with various forms of
outpost membership.

Relief Fund—Resolution 44-9A clari- —

fied the provisions relating to the
relief fund for war-affected Rotar-
ians and provided that the relief
fund, earmarked for the uses and
purposes for which contributed,
shall be transferred to the Rotary
Foundation to be administered and
disbursed by the trustees of the
Foundation.

Rotary Foundation—The transfer of
$150,000 from the surplus funds of
R.I. to the Rotary Foundation was
authorized by the adoption of reso-
lution 44-11, and in resolution 44-12
the convention adopted a statement
of objectives for the Rotary Foun-
dation.-—~

The complete text of all proposed
legislation, together with the rec-
ommendations of the council and
the action of the convention, will
be published in the convention pro-
ceedings book.

 

A ROTARY CLUB can only justify its
existence in any community to the degree
of service that the individual members
make toward the betterment of the civic,
educational and spiritual life of their
community. Rotary has a wonderful code
of ethics and many inspiring ideals, but
Rotary is known and respected only if the
members take their proper place in the
worth-while, forward-looking programs of
the city in which they live. Too many
individuals are proudly carrying Rotary
cards, yet making no return contribution
to the furtherance of the aims and objects
of Rotary.—Rotoservice, Glendale, Calif.

 

Now
5,196 Rotary Clubs

225,350 Rotarians

(Of these 53 clubs with 1600 members in war-
affected countries are inactive.)

144 New Clubs in 22 Countries
Since July 1, 1943

 

 

 

Charlie Wheeler Says —

I realize what a keen disappointment
it was to many Rotarians not to have
been able to attend the convention in
Chicago. I shall always regret that cir-
cumstances were such this year that
the board of RI. felt called upon to
restrict the attendance at the conven-
tion. However, I cannot let the year
end without expressing my appreci-
ation and the appreciation of the entire
R.I. board for the wholehearted co-
operation of Rotary clubs in so loyally
observing the request not to send dele-
gates except those in the categories
outlined by the board. The report of
the registration showed that there was
a total of only 403 in attendance at the
combined assembly-convention meet-
ing—proof that the board’s request was
observed almost to the letter.

 

 

 

 

Commissions To Reestablish
Rotary Clubs

The board of directors at its
January, 1944, meeting authorized
the president to appoint two com-
missions of Rotarians representa-
tive of the diversified interests
involved, one to advise the board
with regard to reestablishing Ro-
tary clubs in Continental Europe,
and the other with regard to re-
establishing Rotary clubs in the Far
East.

President Wheeler announced at
the 1944 convention that he has ap-
pointed the following Rotarians to
these two commissions which will
work within the framework of plans
already set up by the board:

Far East

Carl Carlsmith, Hawaii

Angus Mitchell, Australia

Kish Naoroji, India

Carlos P. Romulo, The Philippines

C. T. Wang, China

Secretary to the Commission:
Philip C. Lovejoy

Continental Europe

Wilfrid Andrews, England
Charles Hunt, Newfoundland
Jan Hyka, Czecho-Slovakia
C. T. Steiger, Switzerland
C. Harald Trolle, Sweden
Richard Wells, U.S.A.

- Ali Yehia Pascha, Egypt
Secretary to the Commission:

Lester B. Struthers
RICHARD H. WELLS
(senior active member)
President, R.I.
P. O. Box 1591
Pocatello, Idaho, U.S.A.

 

Richard H. Wells is the proprietor of
the Idaho Lumber and Hardware Com-
pany and the Idaho Coal and Ice Com-
pany, and is vice-president of the Idaho
Bank and Trust Company in Pocatello.

Dick is president of the Idaho State
Society 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 Com- .

merce, and director of the State Mental
Hospital, and has been active in work
for the Community Chest, Boy Scouts,
Parents-Teachers Association and the
Y-M.C.A.

‘Dick Wells has been a Rotarian for 22
years. He is a senior active member and
past president of the Rotary Club of
Pocatello, and has served R.I. as a direc-
tor, district governor, committeeman and
committee chairman.

CARLOS M. COLLIGNON
(valves manufacturing)

1st Vice-President, R.I.

P. O. Box 109

Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico

 

Carlos M. Collignon is vice-president
and general manager of a brass goods
company in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is
director and secretary of the Banco In-
dustrial de Jalisco, the National Chamber
of Commerce, president of the Chamber
of Metallurgical Industries and director
of the newspaper, “Editorial Guadalajara.”
In 1939 he was appointed vice-consul of
the Royal Swedish Government in Guad-
alajara.

Charlie is a past president of the Rotary
Club of Guadalajara of which he has been
a member since 1925. He has served RI.
as district governor and as a committee
member. In 1943-44 he was elected first
vice-president serving the first year of his
two-year term as director of R.I.

JOHN M. A. ILOTT
(advertising service)

2nd Vice-President, R.I.
G.P.O. Box 1491

Wellington, C.1, New Zealand

 

John Ilott is governing director of the
advertising agency of J. Ilott, Ltd., with
offices in Wellington, Auckland, Christ-
church, Dunedin, New Zealand; Sydney
and Melbourne, Australia; and London,
England. His business interests include
directorships of numerous New Zealand
industrial and financial organizations.

1944-45 General Officers of Rotary International

John has been closely associated with
philanthropic and cultural organizations
in New Zealand for many years. He is
well-known in New Zealand as a collector
of books, manuscripts, and etchings.

He is a charter member of the Rotary
Club of Wellington, organized in 1921, and
a past president of that club. He was
governor of his district in 1934-35, and in
November, 1943, was elected as a director
of R.I., to succeed Vice-President Sinclair
J. McGibbon of Perth, W. Australia,
deceased.

CHARLES W.
PETTENGILL

(civil law practice)
3rd Vice-President, R.I.
P. O. Box 1250
Greenwich, Connecticut

 

Charles W. Pettengill is a partner of the
law firm of Hirschberg, Pettengill, Strong
and Deming.

- He is a Past President of the Green-
wich Bar Association and Chairman of
the Board of Delegates and Chairman
of the Real Estate Section of the -Con-
necticut State Bar Association. He is a
Past President of the Captain Matthew
Mead Branch Sons of the American Revo-
lution, a Past President of the Greenwich
Y.M.C.A., a Past Vice-Chairman of the
Connecticut Committee and a former
member of the National Council of the
Y.M.C.A. At present he is Chairman of
the Committee of Standards of the Town
of Greenwich and President and Direc-
tor of Brunswick Schools Inc.

Charlie has been a member of the Ro-
tary Club of Greenwich for twelve years
and is a past president of the club. He
has been active in R.I. as district governor
and as committee member and chairman.

ROBERT J. BOYD
(insurance)

Director, R.I.

P. O. Box 805

Panama City, Panama

 

Robert J. Boyd has been active in the
importing and exporting business in
Panama since 1921. As president of Boyd
Brothers, Inc., of Panama City, Panama,
he is an agent for steamship, insurance,
office equipment, and mail order com-
panies, and a manufacturers’ agent and
importer.

Bob is a former president of the Cham-
ber of Commerce at Colon, Panama, and
is a past director of the Chamber of Com-
merce of Panama City, and has been
active in the Panama Canal Department
of the U.S.O.

He has been a Rotarian since 1926, and
is a past vice-president of the Rotary
Club of Cristobal-Colon, Panama, and a
past president of the Rotary Club of
Panama City.

DOANE R. FARR

(motor freight lines)
Director, R.I.

101 E. Choctaw

Clinton, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

 

Doane R. Farr is owner of the Clinton
Transfer and Storage Company of Clin-
ton, Okla.

He is a director of the Last Frontier
Council of the Boy Scouts and a member
of the Boy Scouts National Council, direc-
tor of the Associated Motor Carriers of
Oklahoma, chairman of the Oklahoma
City Area Negotiating Committee for the
trucking industry, and vice-president of
the United War Chest of Oklahoma.

Doane has been a member of the Rotary
Club of Clinton since 1921, and is a past
president of that club. He has served RI.
as district governor and as a committee
member and chairman.

THOMAS R. HOOD
(drugs—retailing)
Director, R.1.

Hood’s Drug Store
Dunn, North Carolina

 

Thomas R. Hood is co-owner of Hood’s
Drug Store in his native town of Dunn,
North Carolina. He was educated at the
University of North Carolina Pharmacy
School, the Philadelphia College of Phar-
macy and Science, and the Struby School
of Pharmacy at Macon, Georgia.

Tom was a member of the Board of
Commissioners of Dunn for eight years,
and was Mayor pro-tem for four years.

He has been a member of the Rotary
Club of Dunn for twelve years and is a
past president of that club and a past
governor of his district.

OLIVER C. MCINTYRE
(wooden boxes mfg.)
Director, R.I.

c/o Capital City Box Co., Ltd.
Edmonton, Alta, Canada

 

Oliver C. McIntyre is general manager
of his firm, which manufactures wooden
boxes.

He is a director of Northwest Purchas-
ing, Ltd., of the Edmonton Flying Train-
ing School, Ltd., and of the Edmonton
Flying Club. He has served as president
of the Edmonton Y.M.C.A., and as vice-
president of the Community Chest.

Oliver has been a member of the Rotary
Club of Edmonton since 1926 and is a
past president of that club. He has served
R.I. as district governor and as a member
of the Canadian advisory committee.

JOHN B. REILLY
(pump manufacturing)
Director, R.I.

P. O. Box 64,

Los Nietos, Calif., U.S.A.

John B. Reilly is owner of the Fluid
Packed Pump Company, manufacturers of
oil well pumping machinery in Los Nietos,
Calif. He left high school to work as a
machinist in the oil fields. Later he in-
vented and developed oil production ma-
chinery and built his own factory and
marketing agencies which, before the
war, covered every oil field in the world.

John is chairman of the War Savings
Bond and Stamp Committee for Whittier,
Calif., and a member of the High School
Education Board of that city.

He has been a member of the Rotary
Club of Whittier since 1928 and is past
president of that club. He has been active
in R.I. as a governor and committee mem-
ber. In 1943-44 he served the first year of
his two-year term as director of R.I.

 

HERBERT J. TAYLOR
(aluminum cooking utensils)
Director, R.I.

1250 West Fullerton Avenue
Chicago, Illinois

 

Herbert J. Taylor is active in a number
of business and civic enterprises. He is
President of the Club Aluminum Com-
pany, President of the International
Emulsifiers, Inc., Director of the Chicago
Federal Savings and Loan Asscciation—
all of Chicago; Director of the Monarch
Aluminum Manufacturing Company of
Cleveland, Ohio, Director of the First Na-
tional Bank of Barrington, Illinois, Mem-
ber of the Board of Governors of the
Illinois Society for the Crippled, and
Member of the National Hi-Y Committee
of the Y.M.C.A. He is a Member of the
Illinois War Savings Staff Committee, and
in 1943 was Vice-Chairman of the War
Department Price Adjustment Board.

“Herb” has been a Rotarian for 21
years. He is past president of the Rotary
Club of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, and a
member and past president of the Rotary
Club of Chicago. He has served RI. as
district governor and as committee mem-
ber and chairman.

CARL HARALD TROLLE
(commercial banking)
Director, R.I.

Storgatan 16

Kalmar, Sweden

Carl Harald Trolle is managing director
for the Commercial Bank of Sweden’s
branch offices in the Province of Kalmar
and adjacent parts of other provinces.
From 1907 to 1917 he was in the diplo-
matic service of the Swedish government,
and represented his government at a
number of different cities in Europe. He
retired from the diplomatic service in 1917
to enter the banking field and has held his
present position since 1930.

Harald is the author of historical books,
many articles on commercial affairs, and

 

a number of articles in the Swedish Ency-
clopedia. He is a town councillor of
Kalmar and a member of the board of
directors in several commercial compa-
nies.

He is one of the founders of the Rotary
Club of Kalmar, organized in 1934, and is a
past president of that club. He has served
R.I. as district governor and as committee
member, and chairman.

CHENGTING T. WANG
(past service member)
Director, R.I.

Bank of Communications
Chungking, China

 

C. T. Wang studied at the University of
Michigan and was graduated from Yale
University. He returned to China in 1911,
took an active part in the revolution, and
assisted in organizing the provisional gov-
ernment. He was twice elected vice-pres-
ident of the Senate, and has served his
government as Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs, Acting Prime Minister, Minister of
Justice, Minister of Finance, and as
China’s Ambassador to the United States.
He is now a member of the Central
Executive Committee of Kuomintang,
member of the Central Political Council,
and member of the National Government.

Rotarian Wang is president of the China
University of Peiping, chairman of the
board of directors of the Kiaochow-
Tsinan Railway, chairman of the board
and managing director of the Liu Ho Kou
Mining Company, and chairman of the
National Good Roads Association. He is a
past president of the Chinese Red Cross
Association and is now serving as an
honorary vice-president of that Associa-
tion.

A Rotarian since 1920, Dr. Wang is a
past president of the Rotary Clubs of
Peiping and Shanghai, and is now a mem-
ber of the Rotary Club of Chungking. He
has ‘served R.I. as honorary commissioner,
as governor, and as a committee member,
and as administrative adviser for the
Rotary clubs in Free China.

CHARLES L. WHEELER
(intercoastal shipping)
Director, R.I.

461 Market Street

San Francisco, Calif., U.S.A.

 

Charles L. Wheeler is vice-president
and general manager of the McCormick
Steamship Company and Lumber divi-
sions of Pope and Talbot, Inc., with head-
quarters in San Francisco, California.

Among the civic and trade associations
in which he holds office are the following:
American Bureau of Shipping, American
Maritime Council, California Society for
Crippled Children, Douglas Fir Export
Company, International Society for the
Welfare of Cripples, Mills College Advis-
ory Committee on Pan American Studies,
National Society for Crippled Children of
the U.S.A., Propeller Club of the U. S.,

Sea Scouts of America, United Seamen’s
Service.

Charlie has been a member of the Ro-
tary Club of San Francisco since 1925,
and is a past president of that club. He
has been active in RI. as district gover-
nor, committee member and chairman, as
third vice-president, and as president in
1943-44,

T. D. YOUNG

(linen distributing)

Director, R.I.

Royal Arcade

Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
England

 

Tom Young is the managing partner of
Thomas Young & Sons, Ltd., linen mer-
chants, the fifth member of his family to
conduct the linen business established by
his ancestors in 1786.

He has been a member of the Rotary
Club of Newcastle-upon-Tyne since 1921
and is a past president of that club. He has
served R.I. as committee member and as
district representative. In R.I.B.I. (Rotary
International in Britain and Ireland), he
has been director, vice-president, and
president from 1939-40 to 1941-42.

PHILIP LOVEJOY
Secretary, R.I.

35 E. Wacker Drive,
Chicago, Tll., U.S.A.

 

Philip Lovejoy began his duties as gen-
eral secretary of Rotary International on
July 1, 1942, having been assistant general
secretary of the organization since 1930.

Phil has held numerous educational posi-
tions in the State of Michigan, U.S.A. He
has had extensive experience in various
types of business which he has served
usually as personnel officer or in an
executive managerial capacity.

Phil became a member of the Rotary
Club of Mt. Clemens, Mich., in 1924. He
has been a member of the Rotary Club of
Chicago since 1931 and has served as a
director for two years and on various
committees of that club.

RUFUS F. CHAPIN
Treasurer, R.I.

1320 N. State St., Apt. A-1,
Chicago, Il., U.S.A.

 

Rufus F. Chapin, treasurer of Rotary
International since 1912, retired from busi-
ness life several years ago. Prior to his
retirement, he was an officer of the First
National Bank and the Union Trust Com-
pany of Chicago.

“Rufe” has been a member of the Ro-
tary Club of Chicago since the spring of
1905 and has served as committee member
and chairman, director, vice-president,
treasurer and president.
New Zealand | Rotarians
Help Themselves

When the Rotary Club of Strat-
ford, New Zealand, which is not yet
one year old, could not find a suit-
able meeting room, it rented a
shop and arranged with an outside
caterer to provide a meal. The
members painted and generally
renovated the room. Finding it im-
possible to purchase equipment, one
member drew the design of a Rotary
wheel, another member, an engi-
neer, made a pattern and cast lun-
cheon badges 3” in diameter, using
waste light metal. The members
themselves formed working “bees”
to file and trim the badges. The
members sing to the accompani-
ment of the piano and violin at all
their meetings.

“Bombed Out” for the
Sixth Time

The Rotary Club of West Nor-
wood, England, despite several
changes in its headquarters has
been maintaining an excellent at-
tendance and a fine program of
Rotary activity.

Here is a recent letter from the
club secretary:

Since I wrote you a few days ago, I
regret to inform you that our headquar-
ters were destroyed by fire through
enemy action. I refrain from mentioning
the address as probably such disclosure
would not be allowed.

We shall now be involved in our sixth
move since 1940. Unfortunately we had
only recently removed our Youth Centre
to the same address with singularly happy

results, and felt assured we would pro-

gress from strength to strength.

These are the things we have come to
expect, and which, in my previous letter,
I expressed the hope you would be for-
ever spared in your country.

Food for Thinking

Many people pray for peace and hope
that peace after the war may be perma-
nent but they never dream of ending the
little wars in their own lives. They toler-
ate feuds in their own family circles and
in their business and social circles. If
all, who read this, make a sincere en-
deavour to put an end to these little wars,
they would be doing something concrete
to make the coming peace permanent. We
shall never help to get peace in the world
so long as we allow things that make
wars to abound in our lives. For what is
war between nations but a war of opinions
backed by selfishness, greed and jealousy
made up of the same materials or bad
qualities as disagreements in the Home.

_ —Monthly Letter of

Governor N. C. Lamaye,
Sholapur, India

Rotary—Here, There
and Everywhere

Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, has in its
membership a Rotarian whose firm
makes shell casings. In the manu-
facture of these casings there is
considerable scrap metal from the
turnings. This scrap is sold and the
proceeds donated to the Rotary
club. The fund now totals over $1,000
and the club plans to use it as a
student loan fund.

*

Orange, New Jersey, in cooperation
with other Rotary clubs in the coun-
ty, is furnishing the recreation fa-
cilities of one of the hospital wards
at a new army camp.

ova

Fallon, Nevada, sponsors evening
classes at business houses for busi-
nessmen on the training of new
employees.

*

Dacca, India, Rotarians are mak-
ing themselves very useful in the
Dacca Central Relief Committee
which is conducting free kitchens
in the city, where food is distributed
to the starving people.

*

Gravenhurst, Ont. Canada, has
sent a gift of $500 to the Rotary Club
of London, England, to purchase
footwear for the needy children of
London.

Ba

Puerto Cortes, Honduras, is active
in helping the Red Cross and the
children’s nurseries. The club has
founded the Paul P. Harris Reading
Room in Puerto Cortes.

bv

Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennes-
see Rotary clubs—169 in number—in
1942-43 contributed $37,949 to the
66-bed hospital for crippled adults
in Memphis, Tennessee, an institu-
tion which is supported entirely by
voluntary contributions from Ro-
tary clubs in these three states.

4

Sacramento, California, has set up
a special fund to pay for telephone
calls made by service men through
the U.S.O.

*

Cochin, India, has contributed Rs.
250 to the “Feed-the-Children” fund,
launched by the Government of
Cochin, to provide free midday
meals to poor primary school chil-
dren.

*

Dunn, North Carolina, has built and
equipped a community cannery
which is performing a real service.

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.

Jalapa, Ver., México. 5752 (D-23)
THURSDAY, 21:00, Casino Jalapefio.
Pres. Lic. Mario Cordera (industrial law
_ pract.), Primo Verdad 1.
Secy. Dr. Gustavo Galindo y P. (odontology),
Apartado 95.

Houtzdale, Pa., U.S.A. 5753 (D-180) 1944
THURSDAY, 6:30 p.m., Hoover’s Restaurant.
Pres. Alfons H. Letzler (auto. ret.).

Secy. L. Clair Lloyd (hdwe. ret.), Brisbin, Pa.

Blackshear, Ga., U.S.A. 5754 (D-165) 1944
WEDNESDAY, 1:00 p.m., Main Street Cafe.
Pres. Rev. Thomas P. Whitfield (christianity-

prot.).
Secy. N. Walker Burt (bkg.).

Millington, Tenn., U.S.A. 5755 (D-140) 1944
TUESDAY, 8:00 p.m., Millington School.
Pres. William L. Osteen (ed.-second. schools).
Secy. W. B. Williams (voce. ed.).

Plymouth, Ind., U.S.A. 5756 (D-154) 1944
MONDAY, 6:30 p.m., Conservation Club.
Pres. B. Leo Helvey (coal ret.) Plum and

Harrison Sts.
Secy. Robert L. Kaade (gas serv.) 112 W.
LaPorte St.

Martinez, Cal., U.S.A. 5757 (D-105) 1944
WEDNESDAY, 12:15 p.m., Travelers’ Hotel.
Pres. L. Wight Lasell (gen. mdse. ret.) 900

Castro St.
Secy. Lawrence P. Prato (drugs ret.) 816
Main St.

Varna, Ill., U.S.A. 5758 (D-147) 1944
THURSDAY, 6:30 p.m., Methodist Church.
Pres. Rev. Carl L. Olson (christianity-prot.).
Secy. Iner Peterson (groc. ret.).

La Paz, B. C., México (D. 24.) 5759
THURSDAY, 20:00, Hotel Perla.
Pres. Sr. Miguel L. Cornejo, (Nitrate pro-
ducing) Meliton Albafies 75.
Secy. Sr. José T. Bello (Groceries Reg.)
Zaragoza 31. .

Hassleholm, Sweden. 5760 (D-78) 1943
TUESDAY, 8.00 p.m., Stadshotellet.
Pres. Col. K. O. Hagberg (pub. defense-
land) Férsta Avenyen 12
Secy. Axel Ingvar (educ.-high schools)
Hanellsgatan 4.

Rickmansworth, Herts., England. 5761 (D-9)
1944

TUESDAY, 1.00 p.m., Victoria Hotel

Pres. C. W. Richardson (architecture) 52
High Street.

Secy. A. H. Smith (banking) Barclays Bank,
Church Street.

Queenstown, New Zealand. 5762 (D-53) 1944
MONDAY, 5:45, Scott’s Royal Cafe.
Pres. John S. Royds (groc. ret.).
Secy. Eric R. Hopwood (county admin.).

St. Jéréme, Que., Canada 5763 (D-170) 1944
MONDAY, 6:00 p.m. Hotel Lapointe.
Pres. Jean-Paul Rolland (paper mfg.) P. O.
Box 510.
Secy. Conrad Bourbeau (liquor dist.) 358
Labelle.

Americana, S.P., Brasil (D-41) 5764
FRIDAY, 19:00. Hotel Brambila.
Pres. Domingos de Lucca (obstetrics) Ave.
Dr. Antonio Lobo 220.
Secy. Albino de Oliveira Netto (odontology)
Caixa Postal 28.

Santa Adélia, S.P., Brasil (D-41) 5765
WEDNESDAY, 19:00, Hotel Brasil.
Pres. Antonio Joaquim Wikin (publ. at-
torney).
Secy. Luiz Silveira (dental clinic) Ave. Luiz
Dumont s/n.

Mount Holly, N. C., U.S.A. 5766 (D-188) 1944
THURSDAY, 12:30 p.m., Miss Nance.
Pres. Edwin F. Megill (full fashioned hosiery
mfg.) E. Central Ave.
Secy. W. H. Hammond (gen. law prac.)
S. Main St.

Oregon, Wis., U.S.A. 5767 (D-144) 1944
MONDAY, 12:00 M., Oregon Community
Hall.
Pres. Dr. W. E. Ogilvie (dentistry).
Secy. George M. Peterson (hdwe. ret.) 117
S. Main St.
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The “Program Suggestions” for June will be based upon the above topics.

May PROGRAM SUGGESTIONS
FOR ROTARY CLUBS

“The Business Side of Rotary”

This is about your club dues.
1. Have your club treasurer explain how your
dues are used.

2. Let your club delegate to the district con-
ference tell how district funds are raised and
spent. .

3. Ask a well-posted member to tell what
becomes of your per capita tax. “Little Les-
sons in Rotary” in THE ROTARIAN for ‘April
will supply him with facts.

4. Have a veteran member talk about the
Rotary Foundation. “Why Give Twice?” also
in the April RoTARIAN will tell him just how
the Rotary Foundation serves as a reserve
fund.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 125, “Budgeting the Rotary Club In-
come” —

No. 4072, “If Rotary Is to Maintain Leader-
ship”

From THE ROTARIAN:

March, 1944, “Rotary Has a Foundation,” by
W. W. Martin

“Do You Know Your Employees?”

Prime a dozen or so of the members to talk
on “house meetings,” employee suggestion
boxes, rewards to employees for meritorious
service, and the like, using the technique
employed in “Private Enterprise in England,”
in THE ROTARIAN for April.

Or, ask a member who has an incentive plan
in his plant to read “They Stay—If You Pay,”
—an article in the April ROTARIAN about
George A. Hormel & Co., of Minnesota—and
then sum up how he and Hormel do it.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:
No. 508, “Your Job and the War Effort”

No. 510, “Today’ s Task in ON sead
Service” |

No. 523, “Good Management”
From THE ROTARIAN:

October, 19438, Brent ideas from the
Ranks,” Don Terrio

“Victory in the Gardens”

Ask your city librarian to exhibit at your
meeting the gardening books discussed by
John T. Frederick in your April ROTARIAN.
Then have either the librarian or one of your
gardening members review these books for
the program.

Another idea: In THE ROTARIAN for April
Elmer T. Peterson relates how to get the most
from the “Precious Mud” in your garden. Ask
a practical farmer (member or guest) to read
it, and then produce a program on utilizing
and not wasting this ‘ ‘good earth” in your
Victory Garden.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

U.S. No. 10, “Help Prevent Victory Garden
Waste”

U.S. No. 16, “Attention, Rotarians! You Can
Help Win on the Food Front”
U.S. No. 21, “The Current Food Situation”

U.S. No. 26, “Food is Still Fighting for
Freedom”

From THE ROTARIAN:

May, 1944, “Future Farmers of the ‘Far Mal-
lee’ ”; and an article on a canning plant of
two Corning, California, Rotarians.

“For the Nations Must Trade”

(Appropriate during Foreign Trade Week,
May 21-27)

Chapter IV of “A World to LIVE In” is dedi-
- eated entirely to the matter of international
trade. (If “A World to LIVE In” is not avail-
able at your club library 25c sent to THE
ROTARIAN, 35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago 1,
Ill., will bring you a copy.) There’s abundant
material in this book for a talk by your
importer or department store member.

Or, have a club member read and. review
before the club the article on Brazil by Dr.
Getulio Vargas, President of that country, in
the May issue of THE ROTARIAN. For a
broader review of South American trade sug-
gest that the club member read William S.
Street’s “Now It’s Made in Latin America,”

in the April ROTARIAN.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

No. 763, “How Can Capital and Industry
Promote Lasting Good Will?”

No. 789, “What About Raw Materials?”
No. 790, “What About World Trade?”
From THE ROTARIAN:

March, 1944, “Latin America Comes of Age,”
Edward Tomlinson

February, 1944, “Looking Ahead with Rus-
sia,” Harland H. Allen

; January, 1944, “China Looks Ahead,” Wei
Tao-Ming

October, 1943, “International Cartels,” de-
bate-of-the-month

“Youth Power for Days Ahead"

(A program for Boys and Girls Week, April
29—May 6)

Send for paper : No. 651, “Youth Power for
Days Ahead,” and give it to the chairman of
your boys’ work committee with the sugges-
tion that he put on a program similar to the
one outlined therein. Or, if your club is par-
ticipating in a local Boys and Girls Week
observance ask the most interested member
to give a report to the club on the week’s

activities. (The “Advance Herald,” copies of
which were sent to your club, and the Boys
and Girls Week “Manual of Suggestions,”
which may be obtained free on request to the

6420—May, 1944—4200 —aai-2

secretariat, not only suggest daily activities
for the week, but also may be helpful in the
preparation of a club program.)

Another idea: In the April ROTARIAN is a
practical story of what happened in Sharon,
Mass., when “Youth Takes a Look at Tomor-
row” by filling all the city offices for a day.
A program where boys, especially those who
have been Rotary club guests, put on a pro-
gram as they would do it. This would tie in
aptly with Boys and Girls Week.

Or, if you haven’t utilized “The World We
Want,” in your March ROTARIAN, for a pro-
gram, arrange to have two or three high-
school seniors talk for four or five minutes
each on some such topic as “What I Want to
Do,” or “What I Expect to Get Out of Life.”
References from THE ROTARIAN:

March, 1944, “Youth Gets the Floor,’ Helen
Furnas

February, 1944,
pictorial

“Teen-Age Leathernecks,”

“EDUCATION—Change and
Permanence” —

Pit your school superintendent and/or your
school-board member against a couple of Ro-
tarian dads (and mothers, too, maybe) in a
friendly little symposium on some subject like
“What of Our Schools?” Tip them off that
they’ll find some especially helpful, quotable
material in the article “Keep Faith in
Schools,” by Arthur H. Compton, in the May
issue of THE ROTARIAN. Point out to them,
too, “Every Man a Historian’—the last article
to come from the pen of Hendrik Willem van
Loon—in the same issue.

Or, simply ask your school man to work up a
talk in which he’ll blend his own views and
experiences with those in the Compton article
mentioned above.

References from THE SECRETARIAT:

U.S. Paper No. 29, ‘“Teaching— Essential War-
time and Peacetime Service”’

(Mailed to Club Presidents in U. S. A. on March 29th.)

No. 654, “Helping Them to Help Them-
selves”

No. 659, “Education during the Current
Crisis”

No. 667, “Investments in Youth”

No. 698, “Youth in a World at War”

From THE ROTARIAN:

December, 1943, “Joe College—19438,” Karl K.
Krueger

October, 1948, “Esta Es su Casa!” Manuel
Hinojosa
 

 

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

No. 18—1943-44

 

ROTARIAN RICHARD H. WELLS
“The President Nominee”

 

In accordance with the procedure
provided for in the by-laws of Rotary
International, President Charles L.
Wheeler declares Richard H. Wells
of Pocatello, Idaho, U.S.A., is now
“the president nominee” of Rotary
International.

The Rotary Club of Tuxpam,
Veracruz, Mexico, nominated Ro-
tarian Joaquin Serratosa Cibils of
Montevideo, Uruguay, for the office.

Rotarian Serratosa has advised that.

he does not accept the nomination
and the Rotary Club of Tuxpam has
withdrawn its nomination.

Therefore, Rotarian Wells, being
the only nominee for the presi-
dency, will be elected as president
of Rotary International in 1944-45
at the 1944 international conven-
tion of Rotary International, to be
convened in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.,

- on May 18, 1944.

Richard H. Wells is the 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 Com-
pany in Pocatello.

He is president of the Idaho State
Society for Crippled Children, area
chairman for the Victory Bond
Drive, member of the selective serv-
ice board, and his State Defense
Council. He has served as chairman
of the Pocatello Board of Education,
president of the Chamber of Com-
merce, and director of the State
Mental Hospital, and has been ac-
tive in work for the Community
Chest, Boy Scouts, Parents-Teachers
Association and the Y.M.C.A.

Dick Wells has been a Rotarian for
22 years. He is a senior active mem-
ber and past president of the Ro-
tary Club of Pocatello, and has
served Rotary International as a
director, district governor, commit-
teeman and committee chairman.
He is now serving as a member of
the 1944 convention committee of
R.I. Dick is married and has two
children.

 

Children of Chengtu

Underprivileged children loafing
in the streets of Chengtu, China,
created a serious problem. To help
meet the situation the Rotary Club
of Chengtu established a “play
school” which now has some 30
pupils. They come early each after-
noon to learn to read, to sing, to
play, and to be trained in good
health habits.

To finance this project, and to
secure help for undernourished stu-
dents from enemy-occupied areas,
the club sponsors concerts, football
matches, etc.

 

Do You Know
there are

5,159 Rotary Clubs
221,430 Rotarians

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

107 New Clubs in 22 Countries
Since July 1, 1943

 

 

 

Rotary Clubs—Appoint and
Instruct Your Delegates or
Proxies to 1944 Convention

Your club should arrange for a
proxy or proxies for its delegates to
the 1944 convention, unless one of
*those who will compose the conven=
tion is a member of your club, in
which case he should be designated
as a delegate from your club. If
your club is entitled to more than
one delegate, he can serve as proxy
for the other delegate(s). If none
of those composing the convention
is a member of your club, then ar-
range for your club to be repre-
sented by proxy by one of those
composing the convention who comes
from within your district, most probably
your district governor or the gov-
ernor nominee.

Each proxy should be instructed
as to the wishes of the club or clubs
he represents with regard to pro-
posed enactments and resolutions
which are scheduled for considera-
tion by the 1944 convention. (Text
of these proposed enactments and
resolutions was mailed to each club
on February 4.)

“officers of R.I. (the President, Vice-Presi-
dents and Directors of R.I., Secretary, Treas-
urer, District Governors, and Elective Officers
of the General Council and R.I. Representa-
tives in Britain and Ireland), R.I. Committee
Chairmen, Past R.I. Presidents, the Presi-
dent Nominee, Candidates for Nominee for
Director, and Directors Nominee of R.L, Dis-
trict Governors Nominee and others who
have been designated as participants in the
1944 international assembly.

Broadening Scope of |
Vocational Service

The aims and objects committee
of R.I. points out that much of the
program of vocational service in Ro-
tary has a far-reaching application
to Rotarians and non-Rotarians
alike. Rotary club activities dealing
with such matters as, for instance,
competitor relationships, or rela-
tionships between buyer and seller
or employer and employee are of
interest and concern to the entire
community.

For this reason, the aims and
objects committee recommends to
Rotary clubs that they take pains
to broaden the scope of the influ-
ence of their vocational service
activities beyond their own mem-
bership.
“Brief Facts About Rotary”

Club secretaries are familiar with
the little folder entitled “Brief Facts
About Rotary.” These are useful to
hand to newly elected members, to
non-Rotarian guests of the club and
occasionally to others in the club’s
community.

Club secretaries may wish to re-
quest a small supply of these to have
on hand for the foregoing purposes.
Large quantities should not be
ordered because new editions are
brought out several times each Ro-
tary year containing up-to-date
data and, after July 1, the names
of new officers. Requests may be
sent to Rotary International, 35 E.
Wacker Drive, Chicago 1, Illinois.

Swedish Clubs Work for In-
ternational Understanding

Swedish Rotarians are giving
thought to ways of increasing
friendship among Rotarians in the
northern countries and eventually
among the people generally. As a
starter, the district has created a
fund which will provide annually
funds for two or three students from
other northern countries who are
studying in Sweden. Another plan
under discussion concerns the es-
tablishment in Swedish universities
of four professorships in the Finnish
language. A third project has to do
with facilitating the recognition of
academic degrees in other countries,
so that students from one country
may readily transfer to a university
in another.

The Hand of Welcome

The Rotary Club of Bromsgrove,
England, recently received the fol-
lowing appreciative letter from the
officer commanding an American
medical unit:

The time has come when our unit moves
elsewhere. It is with a great deal of regret
that we leave this community. We have
been happy here, and in no small measure
has the Rotary club contributed to that
happiness. It certainly has extended the
hand of welcome and friendship, and we
do appreciate it. You have been more than
kind, and although war does not permit
us to live as closely and as intimately with
our fellowmen as we might wish, it has
permitted us to know that the Bromsgrove
Rotarians are 100 per cent and indeed we
will not forget it.

Hospitality in Iceland

Some time ago the Rotary Club
of Reykjavik, Iceland, held its sec-
ond “Fathers and Daughters” meet-
ing, at which 35 daughters of Ro-
tarians were present.

Paul's Birthday

Birthday greetings to Paul P.
Harris, Founder of Rotary, on his
76th birthday, which occurs on April
19, 1944.

 

Today’s Service Story

Do you remember the story
about the lady in Denver, Colo..,
U.S.A., who sent R.I. her check
for $50.00 and asked that it be
forwarded to the Rotary Club of
Calcutta to help in that club’s
famine relief work?

Rotarians of Cleburne, Texas,
that they decided to raise money
for the same purpose. The club
held a “sacrificial luncheon,” the
ingredients for which were fur-
nished by six members of the
club and the wife of the-club’s
president. The members paid
$1.50 for this luncheon instead
of the usual 75c. In addition an
auction was held. In all $75.00
was raised and forwarded to the
central office of the secretariat.
which arranged with the branch
office of R.I. at Bombay to send
rupees equivalent to $75.00 in U.S.
currency to the Rotary Club of
Calcutta to be used in its relief
work.

Again we are impressed with
the fact that one never knows
how wide is the sphere of influ-
ence of a good deed.

 

 

 

Rotarians in Education

As men and women are discharged
from military service (and many are
already being discharged every
week) it will become increasingly
important to help those who did not
finish their educational preparation

‘for careers before being inducted

into service to pick up the plans
which were interrupted. In other
cases men and women may need
help in revising their educational
plans due either to their experi-
ences in the service or to handicaps
resulting from their service.

The Postwar Committee of RI.
urges Rotarians with classifications
in the field of education to offer
their services to committees in their
respective localities which are as-
sisting the returned soldiers in ad-
justing themselves to the postwar
period. This is certainly a very
practical opportunity for helpful
service to young people.

Lord Wavell, on his recent tour through
Calcutta to examine for himself the con-
ditions there, found the first body of men
he came in contact with that was or-
ganizing the distribution of food to the
famine-stricken was the Rotary Club of
Calcutta.

—‘The London Rotarian”

That story so impressed the |.

1944 Council on Legislation

The council on legislation, held as
a part of the 1944 convention of R.I.,
is called to meet at 2:00 o’clock on
Thursday afternoon, May 18, 1944,
in the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chi-
cago, Ill., U.S.A.

The membership of the council on
legislation as known to the secre-
tary of R.I. at this time is as fol-
lows:

The District Governors of R.J., except in
those districts where the governor has
designated a member of a Rotary club in
his district to serve in his place, namely:

District 39
Alberto Cordovez, Guayaquil, Ecuador

District 116
N. B. Williams, Regina, Sask., Canada

District 153
J. King Harness, Detroit, Michigan

The President of R.I.B.I., and one repre-
sentative of the clubs in each of the districts
in Great Britain and Ireland.

The Chairman of the Canadian Advisory
Committee, and the Chairman of the South
American Commiitee of Collaboration Among
Rotary Clubs.

The President of R.I., the other members
of the R.I. board of directors, and the secre-
tary of R.I.

Six representatives at large and not more
than three representatives of non-districted
clubs, to be appointed by President
Wheeler with the approval of the board
of directors at its May, 1944, meeting.

South African Rotarians
Aid Public Health

The establishment of a vegetable
market, through which the native
population buys produce at cost, is
the latest in a long series of steps
contributing to public welfare, taken
as the direct result of action by the
Rotary Club of Germiston, South
Africa.

In 1934 a dental service was initi-
ated for indigent school children,
who were treated by local dentists
in their own offices. Then came the
establishment of a dental clinic, and
a few years later, a polyclinic, which
includes, in addition to a dental
clinic, all the other clinics and sub-
departments of a well organized
health department.

Through a similar polyclinic es-
tablished for the native population,
it was discovered that the natives’
resistance to disease was extremely
low. On the initiative of the Rotary
club, a milk shop was established,
where the natives now buy, at cost,
400 gallons of milk daily.

Then followed the establishment
of a free soup kitchen which serves
more than 30,000 people annually.

The remarkable work accom-
plished in Germiston, through the
efforts of the Rotary club, has
earned the recognition and praise
of governmental and municipal au-
thorities throughout South Africa.
 

7 April, 1944

The News Letter

USCNB Supplement

No. 18—1943-44

 

Speakers and Films
on Latin America

Any Rotary club in the U.S.A.
which is interested in having a
speaker on Latin American subjects
should communicate with the Co-
ordinator of Inter-American Affairs,
Washington, D.C. This bureau main-
tains a list of more than 1,500 speak-
ers on such subjects as the Americas
and the war, Latin American art,
literature, science, politics, music,
good neighbor policy; general inter-
American relations, etc.

The bureau asks that any club
desiring a speaker be as definite as
possible in describing the type of
speaker wanted. Biographical
sketches of a number of speakers
for you to choose from, together
with information re their topics,
fees, and availability, will be sent
free, upon request. After the choice
is made, communication can be car-
ried on directly between the club
and the speaker. The fees are nomi-
nal—in some cases there is nocharge.

The bureau also invites Rotary
clubs to use films on Latin American
subjects. There are some fifty 16mm.
sound films available at 100 deposi-
tories throughout the U.S.A. These
films must be run on a projector
equipped for silent films only. A
small service fee is charged by many
of the depositories. Users are also
expected to pay transportation costs.

Clubs should apply to the nearest
Inter-American Center for the loan
of one of these films. If a club can-
not locate one of these centers, it
- should write to the Coordinator of
Inter-American Affairs, Commerce
Bldg., Washington D.C.

Pan American Day—April 14th this
year—would be a particularly ap-
propriate occasion for a Rotary club
to have a speaker on Latin America
or to show a movie about their Latin
American neighbors.

Boys and Girls
Week Material

A limited supply of this material
is still available to clubs without
charge. Write for the ‘Advance
Herald,” an attractive poster-folder,
and the Manual of Suggestions,
which gives detailed information
for carrying out the day-by-day
programs.

Classifications

Each classification term used by a Ro-
tary club should describe his service of-
fered, not a position held. .

Thousands More
Student Nurses Needed

The recent announcement of some
reduction in the quota of graduate
nurses required for the Army Nurse
Corps between now and July 1, 1944,
(Navy Nurse Corps quota remains
the same), should not be confused
with the needs of the U.S. Cadet
Nurse Corps. It does not affect the
national student nurse quota be-
cause:

1. Civilian nursing needs are increas-
ingly acute; :

2. The quota has been set as low as
65,000 new students only because educa-
tional facilities are not available to ac-
commodate the 115,000 actually needed.

3. Military needs may be altered as the
war progresses.

The National Nursing Council
maintains a current record of nurs-
ing school vacancies throughout the
country. This information is sent to
State Nursing Councils at frequent
intervals. Names of desirable appli-
cants should be referred at once to
State Nursing Councils or to Box 88,
New York City (National Nursing
Council for War Service) for place-
ment in other localities.

Rotary clubs in the U.S.A. are re-
quested to publicize the urgent need
for more student nurses and to en-
courage qualified girls to look into
the course and, if possible, to register
for it.

Attention
Club Secretaries In:

Bermuda
Canada
Newfoundland
United States

A card entitled “1944 Official Di-
rectory Data” has been sent to all
club secretaries in the countries
listed above.

In order that up-to-date informa-
tion about every Rotary club may
be included in the 1944-45 Official
Directory, it is essential that each
club secretary fill in this card and
return it to this office immediately
upon the election of the 1944-45
club officers. :

If the filled-in card is returned
promptly, it will not only facilitate
the editing of the Directory, but
also will enable the secretariat to
forward, at the earliest date pos-
sible, the letter of greeting and
helpful material which it sends to
the newly-elected officers.

Mother's Day

Last year the Rotarians of Lititz,
Penna., held an unusual Mother’s
Day celebration when they enter-
tained their mothers at their regu-
lar Rotary luncheon. Of the thirteen
mothers who attended, three were
eighty-four years old, and two were
blind, but all enjoyed the occasion
immensely. Three mothers and their
sons were seated at each table and
the program was dedicated to
mothers the world over, and partic-
ularly to those mothers of “our
soldier boys.”

In an address eulogizing all moth--
ers, one of the members of the club
said:

It has been computed that in 30 years
of work for the average farm mother, she
has served 450,000 meals; baked 5,000 cakes
and 8,000 pies; has grown 1,400 bushels of
vegetables; and has raised 7,660 chickens,
scrubbed. 178,000 articles of laundry; put
in 36,000 hours of sweeping, washing and
scrubbing. At accepted prices for this
work, she should have received $200,000! ...

Our mothers have turned this world
over to us. We are proud of our modern
age with all of its advancement in science.
However, with the present condition of
things we are going to have to admit that
we must turn to the faith of our mothers
and find a happy medium between that
which we call old-fashioned faith and our
modern age.

Other Rotary clubs may want to
follow the innovation of the Rotary
Club of Lititz in holding a Mother’s
Day in Rotary during the week pre-
ceding or following Mother’s Day
which this year falls on May 14th.

Cooperating on the
Work Pile

Community-wide cooperation is
to be sought in handling the Work
Pile project, but experience shows
that oftentimes a survey among
householders, merchants, farmers,
etc., is not a part of the program of
the other local bodies. It remains
for the Rotary club to “sell” the idea
of such a survey in order to build a
real Work Pile. Many Rotary clubs
in all types of towns and cities have
sold the idea and have thus assured
a backlog of jobs to bridge over the
reconversion period.

100%

Our apologies tothe Rotary Clubs
of Mountainair, New Mexico, and
Shelburne, Ont., Canada, which
were omitted from the February at-
tendance report. They should have
been listed with 100% attendance.
Candidates for R.I. Directors from U.S. A. in 1944-45

In accordance with the provisions
of the R.I. by-laws, the following
names were filed with the secretary
of R.I. on or before April 1, 1944,
as candidates for director of RI.
from zones within the U.S.A.

Zone 2

Name and Club: H. Kenneth Carpenter,
Heights of Greater Cleveland, Ohio.
Proposed by: Rotary Club of Heights of
Greater Cleveland.
He is a senior active member of his
club.
Name of firm: United Broadcasting Co.
Position with firm: Vice-President and
General Manager.
How many years a Rotarian: 15.
Present position in Rotary: Chairman,
Rotary Information Committee and
Director of his club.
Positions held in Rotary in past:
a Rotary Club of Raleigh,
N.C.

President, Rotary Club of Heights of
Greater Cleveland.

Member, Award of Trophies Com-
mittee, 1938-39;

Governor, 158th district, 1940-41;

Member, Committee to Study Tech-
migques and Mechanics of Rotary
from Standpoint of a Rotarian,
1941-42;

Member, Youth Committee, 1942-43.

Name and Club: A. Elliston Cole, Bloom-
ington, Ind.

Proposed by: Rotary Club of Bloom-
ington.

Classification: Religion—Protestant.

Name of firm: Trinity Church.

Position with firm: Rector.

How many years a Rotarian: 24,

Present position in Rotary: Secretary of
his club.

Positions held in Rotary in past:
Secretary of his club since 1929;
Governor, old 20th district, 1937-38;
Member, Youth Committee, 1942-43.

Name and Club: Hanford F. Cox, Clo-
quet, Minn.

Proposed by: Rotary Club of Cloquet.

Classification: General Law Practice.

Name of firm: Hanford F. Cox.

Position with firm: Owner.

How many years a Rotarian: 23.

Present position in Rotary: Member, In-
ternational Service Committee of his
elub.

Positions held in Rotary in past:
President of his club, 1921-22;
Governor, old 9th district, 1927-28;
Member, Constitution & By-Laws

Committee, 1928-29;
Member, Club Service Committee,
1929-30.

Name and Club: George A. Malcolm,
Jackson, Michigan.

Proposed by: Rotary Club of Jackson.

He is a past service member of his club.

How many years a Rotarian: 15.

Present position in Rotary: Member, In-
ternational Service Committee of his
club.

Positions held in Rotary in past:

Chairman, Pacific Conference, 1935; |

President, Rotary Club of Manila,
P.1.; 193%:

Governor, 81st district, 1938-39;

Director, Rotary Club of San Juan,
P.R., 1941-43.

All delegates and proxies from
Zones 2, 4, and 5 should be in-
structed by the clubs which they
represent as to balloting on the re-
spective candidates proposed. Since
the R.I. by-laws provide a majority
necessary to selection for nominee,
clubs in Zone 2 should indicate their
wishes as to voting subsequent to

Zone 2 (Cont'd)

Name and Club: E. Roy Shaw, Detroit.
Mich.
Proposed by: Rotary Club of Detroit.
Classification: Education—Commercial.
Name of firm: Detroit Business Univer-
sity.
Pocdca with firm: President.
How many years a Rotarian: 33.
Present position in Rotary: Chairman,
Constitution & By-Laws Committee
of his club. ae
Positions held in Rotary in past:
President of his club, 1933-34;
Member, Host Club Executive Com-
mittee, 1933-34;
Governor, 153rd district, 1937-38.

Name and Club: Herbert J. Taylor, Chi-
cago, Ill.

Proposed by: Rotary Club of Chicago.

Classification: Aluminum Cooking Uten-

sils.

Name of firm: Club Aluminum Products
Company. -

Position with firm: President.

How many years a Rotarian: 20.

Present position in Rotary: Member,
Finance Committee.

Positions held in Rotary in past:
President, Rotary Club of Pauls

Valley, Okla.

President, Rotary Club of Chicago.

Member, Credentials Committee,
1939-40;

District Governor, 147th district,
1941-42;

- ewe Finance Committee, 1942-
44,

Zone 3

Name and Club: Doane R. Farr, Clinton,
Okla.

Proposed by: Rotary Club of Chickasha,
Okla. ;

Classification: Motor Freight Lines.

Name of firm: Clinton Transfer & Stor-
age Co.

Position with firm: Owner.

How many years a Rotarian: 23.

Present position in Rotary: None.

Positions held in Rotary in past:
President of his club, 1934-35;
Governor, 124th district, 1938-39;
Member, Youth Committee, 1939-

40;

Chairman, Youth Committee, 1940-

Member, Committee to Study Tech-
niques and Mechanics of Rotary
from Standpoint of a Rotarian,
1941-42;

Member, Rotary Foundation Cam-
paign Committee, 1942-43.

the first ballot, if a majority is not
obtained thereon.
There will be no election of a di-

rector from Zone 1 this year inas-

much as Director John Reilly of
Whittier, California, was elected in
1943-44 for a two-year term. While
there will be a nomination in Zone 3,
there will be no contest in that zone
as there is but one candidate.

Zone 4

Name and Club: Thomas R. Hood,
Dunn, N.C,
Proposed by: Rotary Club of Dunn.
Classification: Drugs—Retailing.
Name of firm: Hood’s Drug Store.
Position with firm: Co-owner.
How many years a Rotarian: 12.
Present position in Rotary: Member, Dis-
trict Finance Committee.
Positions held in Rotary in past:
President and Secretary-Treasurer of
his club; :
Member, Club Board of Directors for
six years;
Governor, 188th district, 1941-42.

Name and Club: William Black Kiker,
Reidsville, N.C.

Proposed by: Rotary Club of Reidsville.

Classification: Roads & Bridges—Con-
tractor.

Name of firm: Kiker & Yount.

Position with firm: Senior Partner.

How many years a Rotarian: 22.

Present position in Rotary: None.

Positions held in Rotary in past:
President of his club;
Governor, 189th district, 1939-40.

Zone 5

Name and Club: Charles W. Pettengill,
Greenwich, Conn.
Proposed by: Rotary Club of Greenwich.
Classification: Civil Law Practice.
Name of firm: Hirschberg, Pettengill,
Strong & Deming.
Position with firm: Partner. _
How many years a Rotarian: 12.
Present position in Rotary: Chairman,
Nominating Committee for District
Governor of his district.
Positions held in Rotary in past:
Director and member of many com-
mittees of his club; -
President of his club, 1936-37;
Governor, 200th district, 1938-39;
Member, Constitution & By-Laws
Committee, 1939-40;
Member, Regional Extension Com-
mittee for U.S., 1941-42;
Chairman, Extension Committee for

U.S.A., 1942-43.

Name and Club: Fred A. Rider, Endi-
cott, New York.

Proposed by: Rotary Club of Endicott.

Classification: Sand & Gravel Retailing.

Name of firm: Barney & Dickenson, Inc.

Position with firm: Vice-President.

How many years a Rotarian: 18.

Present position in Rotary: Governor,
172nd district.

Positions held in Rotary in Past: None.