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HIGH-SCHOOL
VICTORY CORPS

Q. What are the main objec-
tives of the High-School
Victory Corps?

A. 1. Training youth for that
war service that will come
after they leave school; and,
2. Active participation of
youth in the community’s
war effort while they are
yet in school.

Q. What activities does the
Victory Corps promote?
1. Guidance in critical serv-
ices and occupations.
2. Wartime citizenship.
3. Physical fitness.
4, Military drill.
5. Competence in science
and mathematics.
6. Preflight training in aero-
nautics.
7. Preinduction training for
critical occupations.
8. Community services.

Q. Where can information be
obtained regarding the or-
ganization of a Victory
Corps?

A. U. S. Office of Education,
Washington, D.C. Ask for
Victory Corps Series Pam-
phlet No. 1 “High-School
Victory Corps.”

 

 

 

Health for All in Fiji

The principal aim of the Ro-
tary Club of Suva, Fiji, in com-
munity service for 1942-43 is the
inauguration and support of a
public appeal for funds for a
Child Welfare Clinic being con-
ducted by the government medi-
cal department. The clinic meets
the needs of all races in the com-
munity, and will ultimately have
its benefits extended to other
Pacific Territories, as medical
students and nurses of the Paci-
fic Central Medical and Nursing
Schools receive tuition in the
Clinic. The club will raise a
minimum of £3000 for the build-
ing and equipment of a main
center.

3D-43

What Am I Doing,

As A Rotarian?

At no time is the stimulant of Ro-
tary more needed than during the
present war period. Every Rotary
club should exert every effort to
maintain the active interest of all its
members. Rotary meetings should be
held without cessation and those
meetings should be made so interest-
ing that all members look forward
to the privilege of attending. We must
do everything in our power to help
win the war. Rotary clubs will do
well to help organize local defense
councils, and after that—keep them
alive by doing something. Don’t criti-
cize the other fellow; see that you
are doing your part. Make your club
a beehive of activity; cheer those who
are less courageous; keep your chin

- up, and never accept defeat.

Make a thorough survey of open
classifications; keep the ranks d.-
with new members; revitalize your
club by new activities.

Sometimes one hears a member of
a Rotary club asking: “What is Ro-
tary actually doing to justify its exist-
ence?” Would it not be more honest
and more correct if instead we asked
ourselves: “What am I, as a Rotarian,
doing to justify Rotary’s existence?”
If we can answer that question satis-
factorily the first question is un-
necessary. We must not forget that
it is the individual Rotarian who
makes the Rotary club and that Ro-
tary has a right to expect that all of
its members shall serve loyally, with
good will and to the best of their
ability.

—District Governor Joseph H. Jordon,

Dist. 117, Duluth, Minn.

 

 

Wartime Activity
Overseas

A particularly good piece of
work is being done by some of
the members of the Rotary Club
of Cape Town, South Africa, in
helping to run the “Troop Thea-
tre.” Every day when convoys
are in port a show is put on, and
on Sunday nights a first-class
entertainment is provided—pro-
fessional and amateur perform-
ers giving their services. There
is no charge for men and women
in uniform. This is providing a
boon to them, for especially on
Sundays all those who have not
been absorbed by the many pri-
vate invitations to the homes of
citizens have little else to do
than “mooch about the streets.”

The theatre accommodates
about 1000 seated and almost as
many more standing. The fact
that there is a full house at
every performance is evidence
that the “Troop Theatre” is fill-
ing a real need.

As much silk goes into one para-
chute as goes into more than 100
pairs of hose.

HAPPINESS

Happiness is the greatest paradox
of nature. It can grow in any soil,
live under any conditions. It defies
environment. It comes from within.
Happiness consists not of having, but
of being; not of possessing, but en-
joying. It is the warm glow of a heart
at peace with itself.

For what a man HAS, he may be
dependent on others; what he is,
rests with him alone. What he ob-
tains in life is but an acquisition;
what he attains, is growth.

The basis of happiness is the love
of something outside of self. Search
every instance of happiness in the
world, and you will find, when all
the incidental features are elimi-
nated, there is always the constant,
unchangeable element of love—love
of parent for child; love of man and
woman for each other; love of hu-
manity in some form, or a great
life work into which the individual
throws all his energies.

—The Rotogram,
Sandusky, Ohio