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In addition to having active

representatives on all public
welfare committees and _ insti-
tutions in the city, the Rotary
Club of East London, South
Africa gives much time to en-
tertaining the men in active mil-
itary service.

During recent years it has
been the regular practice for
the Rotary Club of Sydney,
Australia to entertain the Con-
sular Corps at an international
luncheon, and on these occasions
as many as 35 representatives
of other nations have attended.

The Rotary Club of Foochow,
China, contributed more than
$1,400 (Chinese currency) to
charity during the year 1940.

Each year the Rotarians of
New Plymouth, New Zealand
conduct special functions in dif-
ferent country districts with the
object of assisting farmers and
building up better understand-
ing between town and country.

More than 300 children in
Wagga Wagga, Australia, have
been taught to swim this year,
free of charge, as the Rotary
club continues its “Learn to
Swim” campaign started some
years ago.

Five-minute talks on persons
and places of international im-
portance are arranged for regu-
lar meetings of the Palmerston
North, New Zealand, Rotary
Club.

The Rotary Club of Colombo,

Ceylon recently made plans to

establish and operate a camp
for 25 poor boys.

The local refugee-aid organi-
zation of Nice, France, was
greatly assisted by the Rotary
club in planning a Christmas
party for hundreds of refugee
children.

Rotarians of Goteborg, Swe-
den, recently pledged them-
selves to contribute 600 crowns
($142) per month for six months
for the support of orphans and
needy children in Finland and
Norway.

The Rotary Club of Nairobi,
Kenya treatsconvalescent troops
to frequent cinema shows.

 

 

What Has Rotary Done?

Rotary has done many things to many men. It has touched the lives of
thousands not members of a Rotary club. It has bridged individual differ-
ences, local cleavages, national antipathies.

It has provided an atmosphere of understanding and good will which has
facilitated the handling of different problems, even in the field of interna-
tional relations. So well have Rotary’s achievements spoken for it, that in
the space of a few short years Rotary clubs have been established in some
5,000 cities and towns in almost every corner of the world.

What Can Rotary Do?

Rotary is young. It holds great promise for the future. What it can do
has no limit less than the capacity of Rotarians of all races and climes to
give practical expression to their ideal of thoughtfulness of and helpfulness
to others—Service.—Retary Spotlight, Brighton, Mich.

 

 

“T do not think that good attend-
ance alone makes a good Rotarian,
but I have never seen a good Ro-
tarian who did not have good at-
tendance.”—Rotary Felloe, Brooklyn,
Noy,

70-41

If you must kick, kick towards
the goal.—Bi-City Letter, Sumerville-
Trion, Ga.

Action may not always bring
happiness; but there is no happiness
without action.—Disraeli.

Meeting in
the Mountains

At the spring conference of
District 115 (part of New Mex-
ico and part of Texas) Rotarians
of the district were invited to
participate in an intercity meet-
ing to be held this summer in
the Davis Mountains. The meet-
ing is being sponsored by the
Rotary Clubs of Alpine, Fort
Stockton, Marfa, Monahans, and
Van Horn, Texas.

At asimilar meeting last sum-
mer, sponsored by the Rotary

~ Clubs of Alpine and Marfa, 250

Rotarians were in attendance.

It is a thousand times better to
have common sense without educa-
tion than to have education without
common sense. — Rotary Club of
Brockville, Ontario. i

~Giwing Proper Credit

Every once in a while we read
a lecture on the matter of giving
proper credit for stories printed
in club publications. Quite natu-
rally we begin to worry a bit
for fear we have slighted some
industrious editor.

Now along comes Savannah
Rotary, bulletin of the Rotary
Club of Savannah, Ga., which
expresses a thought that should
be. copied by every club publi-
cation editor. Following our
own advice, we print below this
fine thought:

If we have ever had anything in
- our club publication, original or
otherwise, that some other fellow
wants to appropriate to his own
purposes, he is at liberty to take it,
revamp and re-make it, and pass it
on to his readers as he may see fit.
Any gold coming from the Rotary
mine is Rotary gold, and we can’t
imagine any Rotary miner is going
to have it copyrighted.

Ideas are like maple sap—you have
to boil down about 35 gallons of
them to get a quart of first class
product.—The Round Up, El Paso,
Tex.

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