MILTON P. FULLER President CONFERENCE OFFICERS * CHARLES H. MARTIN... DR. ARTHUR BUFF..... PAUL L. LOVEWELL..... IRWIN VINCENT ....... wamiecs guise Vice-Chairman aslosiusuccucwersen Secretary WALTER M. PADGETT FERN F. CLINGER : FRED M. BONEBRAKE Vice-President Treasurer S$ e:6: foe ta ty 123rd District Conference of Rotary Topeka, May 2 and 3, 1943 Meat eso eeinsisies Chairman Meise seu sic caes oon Treasurer Dear Fellow Rotarians SO-0-0-0$ You haven't really made up your mind about coming to Topeka to the District Conferences....Mighty busy these days what with no help and try- ing to keep up with government regulationsse.es. Tires not much good any- Wayeeeee Beon to other conferencesesse+e Hotels probably full anywayeeceee Don't know whether we can keep the club going much longereese. BROTHER, Brother, Think Again! The program committee thought of all those excuses and a dozen mores Why, they thought so hard and long that Gov. "Brose Johnston and ex-Gov. Cece Howes smoked three cigars a-piece} May= be that's why they came out witheceee eeeA PROGRAM THAT'S DIFFBRENT! First of all they cut it down, compressed it Practically into ONE days ‘Course, there is going to be a darned fine program Sunday night, and if you like golf there's Sunday afternoon golf. But the conference proper is just One Dayeese. Monday,’ May 3e Then they said, this has got to bese. eesPRACTICAL! USABLE! RIGHT UP TO TODAY'S CONDITIONSt So they went over all the "necessary stuff" - - and they bundled that all up into a neat little morning program, with just a mere 30 minutes worth left over for the last thing in the afternoon. Then, at 11:20 aeme, they said, we'll turn loose the "big guns" and from then until 5:15 pems wetll really go to towne YOUR CLUB GOT WAR-TIME TROUBLES? Maybe where to eat? Maybe how to keep up membership? Maybe how to get good programs? Well, whatever it may be, or they may be, this program has the solutione There'll be club repre~ sentatives there who HAVE solved them, and will tell you how! It will practically be a round table discussion and youtll get more ideas- - good sensible, workable ideas- - than you ever dreamed a District Con- ference could produeee In fact, the whole theme of this conference iseees SOLVING WAR-CREATED PROBLEMS! A lot of those problems are immediate headaches; they need CONFERENCE COMMITTEES attention right now! Others are post-war ¥ problems to come... and they need a little Hee ee ee thought right nowe That's covered in the MUD ois tags ceccncs oseopenese cons assus IRA PRATT next section of the program, under the a nee «title "Rotaryts Four Freedoms". Maybe you POM sg a EDWARD N. CHAPMAN DOGORATIONS, 66. cincesisccer ee WARREN RUTTER LOCAL TRANSPORTATION.......... ELLIOT H. WHITE MOVE: <1 cess cn cans FINANCE. o..-0<05