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THE ROTARIAN
Our Readers'Open Forurrr
Letters are inuited from readers offering comments upon articles, or setting
forth neu uieupoints on Rotary problems. They should be as briel
take away from him. That is his bridge, from
'Good Natured Satire'
. . . in my opinion,
Tltese Men! Nina Wilcox
Putnam's answer to Stephen Leacock's Tlte Euerlasting Woman Question, in the August RoTARIAN, is the cleverest bit of good natured satire
it has ever been my pleasure to read.
Bos MnsoN. Rotarian
Mason Type utriter Erc hange
Hornell, N. Y.
One More Fil
In my opinion you could have selected no
one more fit to write a series of articles on
guidance than Mr. Walter B. Pitkin. I enjoyed
reading his last article and shall call it to the
'No
Vanishing Ducks
THEY
I
... and
fo be done about it?
are disappearing
what's
Should all hunfing be stopped?
The bag limit be lowered? Live
decoys be oullawed? . . . These
and other aspecfs will be dis-
cussed in the debale-of-themonth for October.
Julian Huxley
rrrr
'Science arrd Yorr'
fAI
THOUGHT- DEVELOPTNG
message from one of England's foremosl scientists . . . in
which he asserts that science
lags in applying its resources lo
human
needs.... lt's adifferent
approach to the problem of
praclical service for humanity.
/The Path to Glorry'
By /Red' Grange
FRANK discussion of "how
imporlant is foofball" by
the most famous player the sport
has developed in America. . . .
You'll be especially interesfed in
comment on professional afhlefics and its opportunities.
his
O
Watch
for
Your October
ROTARTAN
group's atteotion this evening.
C. R. SroNB, Rotarian
Supt., Munhall School
Munhall,
Distict
Pa.
'Siluer Platters' for Youth?
. Having just finished reading the article
by
Ma!colm Thomas-Peter in your August RoranreN,
my reactions are boiling up within me until I
must try to put them down in words for my own
relief, at least.
What does the youth of today want? A broad
highway of life, smooth cement, and an eight
cylinder carl I don't ask that for my sons, and
I have two of them.
My husband has worked hard for thirty years
for a living and gracious surroundings for himself and family. We have been willing to do
without-even yet we have no radieand go
debt to give our boys all the education for
which they are willing ro work.
A few years ago the sons of our friends were
in
stepping
or more
out of college into positions at $100
.per week, buying cars and tearing
around the country side. The girls must have
Spode China, sterling silver, and all that goes
with them before they were willing to start a
home'-and many of those who got it were
wishing to obtain a divorce in order to acquire
another husband and more luxuries.
Then came the crash, while our elder boy
was still in college. People said, "Where will
our young people 6nd positions?"
I thought and said "I'd rather my boys grew
up during a depression when they have to work
foundations to the last square foot of paving, and
across the continent his cheerful weekly letters
give his small salaried parents more thrill than
any one ever got out of making a fortune in the
stock market.
That was one year out of a great Eastern University and it is now two years and I could
go further and tell how he has since gone dorvn
in caissons as building engineer, but that is
neither here nor there. To his parents, he was
as much a success a year ago as a laborer.
This is not an outstanding case. I meet women
often whose stories of the success their boys
are making put mine to shame.
Do you wonder I was cross when a fine looking young man came to my door with a subscription list for the striking relief campers? I
never turned a boy away asking for work or
a meal, but I said to him, "What about work?
The hop yards in this district are advertising for
workers." He replied, "But what'll we do in
the Fall?"
Now there you have it, instedd of picking
up an ax and making a trail they'll take a pride
in, youth today is' asking to be assured of a
broad paved highway stretching for miles ahead.
A CauepreN Mornen
Mexican Bouquet
We are moved to writing this letter with no
other intention than that of expressing the joy
which we all feel in this club for . . RrvrsrA Ror,tnre (Spanish edition of THr Rotanraw), that publication written in such pure
Spanish. In our opinion, and no doubt in that
of all the peoples of our language, it is a source
of great satisfaction to its editors and must
surely be likewise to Rotary International, inas-
much as it is a marked triumph to succeed in
editing such a correct publication in a country
of a language difierent from ours.
Rorany Cr-us TaN[prco. Mrxrco
Tampico, Mexico.
lro Is It?
W
I snapped at the Mexico
City convention of the young lady who was passHere is a picture
rng out
on golf links, were being handed them
on
silver platters."
College over, the elder stood in line with
hundreds of others willing to take a laborer's
job when engineers seemed over plentiful. He
carried cement bags on bridge foundation work,
took a night watchman's job on equipment an-
in mid-river, Iifted heavy timbers-never
complaining and tickled pink to be earning his
chored
own room and food.
An
engineer, knowing him for a graduate,
him if he'd like to "take the air,' and
go down in a caisson. Would he, just! Anyasked
thing for experience. Below zero weather, help-
ing to put steel across a wide river with
sweep of wind and sometimes ice on
the
the
girders-brought never a complaint. Reward?
Bossing a gang on cenient work in the spring
till paving was finished.
That experience is something no one can ever
programs.
I was looking
down at the finder
While
on my Kodak, a Ro-
hard to overcome difficulties than when positions
requiring half a day in an office and the rest
full
as possible.
tarian appeared
from somewhere-
and here he is beside the
sloe
flle senonra.
senorita. Now
.Now tnen,
then, I would lr4e
like t0
to
6nd out who he is so that I can send him a
print-also one to his mother-inlaw. Won't
somebody help me in this matterl
H. S. Wrr-sun. Rotarian
Vice President, Southwestern National Bank
Canadian, Tex.
" . . . Fanciful Eraggerwion . . . "
I
am astonished at Trrr RorenleN publishing
an article exploiting such unethical
principles
and false conclusions as "The Fable of the Two
Cars" by Andrd Maurois
If the fable is typical of
in the )uly num$er.
I doubt, it
is certainly not so for this continent, thank goodness. But I suspect that the eminent biographer
does not know what he is talking about and
is merely romancing fContinued on page 481
France, which
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NUMBER 3
SEPTEMBER, 1935
VOLUME XLVil
Contents for S"pterrrber, 1951e
THE Usns or
AovnRSIrY
'loseph E' Pooley
Rotary has ploughed a straight furrow
Wnv I Lmn rHn BnrrISH.
despite the economic depression-and callow critics'
.
' ' 'William Lyon Phelps
By way of a friendly response to Thomas Burke's
WrrnnE rHE FnoNTTER
I
Lifte Americans
Lrwcnns
in the August
issue'
9
Mary Brecfrinridge
A story of service-in-action among eighteenth century Kentucky folk living in the twentieth'
Tnn PsvcHorocY oF Fnr,r-owsHlP.
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'Amos O' Squire ' ' ' '
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A prison physician points out a thing or two about an often misunderstood Rotary activity.
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ro ConncE
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A debate-of-the-month which "brings into the open" a common criticism of modern education'
Yrs.
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countries lately entered by Rotary.
in
changes
social
and
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Rotary Crossu.,ord Puzzle (57); I
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Fy a whistling boom and the spanfter's cracft
And the uheel's short fticft and the water,s churn
With a thirst to go uhere the darft lzulls ride
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SEPTEMBER, I935
fhe Uses of Adversity
By Joseph E. Pooley
N the so called "good old days" of our
material
prosperity, when our economists were sure of them-
when our politicians hailed the era of a
"chicken in every pot and two cars in every garager"
idealisms of all kinds were pronounced myths, and
Rotary wheels were said to be a'wabbling. In those
days, the whole movement of Rotary was tolerated
in certain quarters as a more or less farnboyant optimism, or fayed by cynics as an unpardonable display of sickly sentimentalism.
Pick up almost any magazine you choose that
catered to the intellectually discriminating, and there
was some disparaging note of Rotary or Rotarians.
True, the disparagement was usually slight, but to
the man who thinks he understands something of
the world about him, and has formed some workable
philosophy which he seeks to employ in his everyday living, this disparagement, however slight, was
disturbing.
"Poor dearsr" it seemed to say, "let them be happy
and uproarious, they do not know quite what it is
all about anyway; they are bulwarks of the economic
status 7ilo, and as such are valuable. Their illusion
is complete; for the most part they have a mental
eclipse and their fun is harmless."
Nor was Rotary the only butt of the intelligentsia.
The whole service-club movement was regarded by
many of the self-admitted "best minds" as a lush
excrescence, a frothy exuberance that had little substance within itself, and any likelihood of its survival
through any crisis was next to improbable.
But how times have changed !
And how Rotary has persisted ! New clubs have
been formed:in the midst of all the economic debacle,
and members, struggling manfully in many instances,
have remained upon the rolls of Rotary. The "flamboyant optimism" and "callow exuberance" are now
being described in quite another way. Anyone showing the slightest cheerfulness is now said to be
"taking it on the chin." It has become respectable;
nay, heroic.
And why has the Rotary movement persisted ?
It has had, I believe, a tremendous power as a
resuscitant. It has caused the .members meeting toselves and
The service-club movement, once
twitted by professional cynics
for tharmless exub eranc e', has
thrived despit e the d.pression.
gether once a week, to "forget itr" or at least to
discover that the falling ofi in business was not
strictly a personal nor even a local responsibility.
Misery loves company. The Rotary club supplied
the company, and the misery was free and to be
found in immeasurable quantity. The gossip, the
banter, the singing of songs, where volume pays
heavy odds to harmony, the warm handclasp, the
friendly, familiar faces-all these have had an invigorating and vitalizing influence.
lO figfrt the good fight, to finish the course, these
are objectives that every good man worthy of Rotary
membership, sets for himself. But in order to reach
these objectives, he must also "keep the faith"faith in himself and those about him. A Rotary club
furnishes the milieu, the setting for the maintenance
of faith. While sitting alone in his office it is possible to have his confidence in human nature so
shaken that it becomes easy to believe that ninety
per cent of the people are dishonest and ninety-nine
and forty-seven-one-hundredths of them are impure
from an ethical standpoint. Then comes the meet'
ing of the Rotary club. Here are fellows one can
count upon in any emergency, Here are men one
has broken bread with for five, fifteen, or even
twenty years. Faith in these fellows ? Well rather.
Confidence in one group breeds confidence in another and faith in one's self. Perhaps that New York
city salesman was sincere. Perhaps the claim of that
Chicago firm was justifiable. Perhaps, yea, even perhaps that San Francisco outfit will make good on
that note after all. One leaves his club with a lilt
and a lift that is translated into his own business.
Oscar Wilde once said that "a cynic is a person
who knew the price of everything and the value of
nothing." Even a cynic cannot keep informed on
prices these days, and his ranks are being decimated.
You cannot fool a real Rotarian on values, and his
ranks are being augmented. Rotary has definitely
proved its validity through its uses in adversity.
THE ROTARIAN
6
An 'Adaenture in FriendsltiP'
"My inaariable rule
in traaelling in England is neaer to speaft
f.rst. . . .It of ten leads
to pleasant conuersation and sometimes to
lilelong friendsltips."
Continuing the series
of articles illustratiue
ol Rotary's most char-
acteristic method of
aduancing cordial relations arnong nations
and
-understanding
gooduill betateen
indiuidual
citizens.
fllustrations by
Raeburn Yan Buren
lfhy l Likc the British
By l{/illiarrr Lyon Phetps
IS A pleasure to express my appreciation of
the article in last month's RoTARTAN by the distinguished English novelist, Thomas Burke, called
W lry I Lifte Americans. It is a generous, wholehearted tribute to the chief quality of the American
character-amiability. As to his detestation of the
American small boy as seen in Europe, all I can say
is that the small boy had better stay home. The
American novelist, Henry fames, so far ago as 1878,
painted an accurate portrait of the American "kidbrother" in Europe, in his immortal story, Daisy
Miller. This small boy, Randolph C. Miller of Sche-
lT
nectady, New York, was a ubiquitous nuisance. His
family put up with him as they pur up with bad
weather.
Yet, even so, there are exceptions. In T he Kentons,
a novel by William Dean Howells, published in
t902, the small boy Boyne is altogether charming.
"He thought he was an iceberg, but he was only an
ice cream of heroic mould." . . . "Boyne was a mass of
helpless sweetness, though he didn't know it." There
are boys and boys. My parents devoted more attention to my religious education than to my socialwith the result that I was, at summer hotels, for
SEPTEMBER, t935
7
example, more of a liability than an asset. Small
boys are naturally destructive ; they can be, and often
are, devastating.
I think Henry fames's presentation of Randolph
C. Miller would please Thomas Burke:
Presently a small boy came walking along the path-an
urchin of nine or ten. The child, who was diminutive for
his years, had an aged expression of countenance; a pale
complexion, and sharp little features. FIe was dressed in
knickerbockers, with red stockings, which displayed his poor
little spindle-shanks; he also wore a brilliant red cravat. He
carried in his hand a long alpenstock, the sharp point of
which he thrust into everything that he approached-the
flower-beds, the garden-benches, the trains of the ladies'
dresses. In front of Winterbourne he paused, looking at him
with a pair of bright, penetrating little eyes.
"Will you give me a lump of sugarl" he asked, in a sharp,
hard.little voice-a voice immature, and yet, somehow, not
young.
My invariable rule in travelling in England, or
in a railway carriage on the Continent where there
are Englishmen, is neuer to speafr fira. I recommend
this method to all my travelling countrymen because
it cannot do any harm, and it often leads to pleasant conversation and sometimes to lifelong friend-
ships. There are many Englishmen who
have
formed the idea that Americans are pushful backslappers; to encourage intimacy would be like encouraging the friendly advances of a young dog.
Refraining from speech, yet of course with no taint
of surliness, has always in my own experience been
fruitful of interesting results.
lr, FEW years ago I took one of those splendid
Fnglish express trains from Paddington down into
Devonshire. The only other occupant of the compartment was an attractive young Englishman, twentyeightish, who looked as if he might have been a
University Blue. I went on reading; toward the end
of the second hour, he began to talk, and we had a
most friendly and agreeable conversation. At the
end of the third hour, he started to leave the train,
and to my surprise, suggested that at Christmas
(four months ahead) we should exchange epistolary
greetings-which we did. Keep your mouth shut
and they will always talk.
The difference between the surface of the British
and of the American temperament ir, I believe,
largely caused by the climates. America is flooded
'.Th7 aulr!ry morning.in England during auturnn and winter is a gray drizzle . .. the Englishman slogs out
in the drizzle and quite naturally leels li\e greeting eaery old friend as il he u)ere an absolute sffaltger."
THE ROTARIAN
8
with sunshine; the reason why the British talk about
Italian skies is that they are not familiar with the
Yankee firmament. The winter sky over Cannes or
Florence is nothing like so blue as the sky over
Bridgeport, Connecticut, or Trenton, New ]ersey,
or Tarrytown, New York. Those who go to Italy
or to the Riviera expecting to find a climate like that
of South Carolina, Georgia, or Florida, are in for a
severe disappointment.
The average morning in England during autumn
and winter is a gray drizzle; the average morning in
the United States is brilliant sunshine, even if the
temperature be near zero. Two or three hundred
of this kind of thing have an effect on manners. The American rises in the morning and, as
he goes out on the street, feels like greeting every
stranger as if he were an old friend; the Englishman
slogs out in the drizzle and quite naturally feels
like greeting every old friend as if he were an
absolute stranger. Such are the effects of climate.
Remember that the latitude of New York is about
the same as that of Naples;
compared to the British, all
Americans are Southerners.
The difference is seen in
the national sense of humor. It has been well said
that American humor consists in exaggeration, and
English humor in understatement. Plenty of exceptions, of course; but the remark contains much truth.
Furthermore, the Englishman does not see why anyone should "take liberties"
with him except an intimate friend. He does not
understand the jocosity of a
person passing him in the
street, which is at once understood by an American.
years
The intimate conversation
of a New York taxi-driver,
while he pilots his car
through the amazing intricacies of traffic, disconcerts the British passenger.
Now, I am not proud be-
t
r
"There is also
some-
thing about British indifrerence that wins my
respect. We Americans
are perhaps oaer-ea.ger
to haae people loue us,"
I am an American, for I had nothing to do
with it; but I am glad that I am an American. I love
my country, its climate, and its people. And, of
course, I love its creature comforts.
cause
But I admire the British immensely, and for a
variety of good reasons. The English countryside is
the most beautiful in the world. England is like a
garden. It is strange that with a climate mainly
chilly, there should be a tropical profusion of fowers.
The gardens of the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge are .indescribably beautiful. Although I
would rather live in America than in any other country, when I remember certain scenes in England or
read about them in English novels, I have an intense
and utterly illogical feeling of homesicfrness. If I
knew now that I could never again see England, I
should feel a sharp pang of pain. I love England.
The late Paul Cohen-Portheim, an extremely able
_and cultivated Austrian fContinued on page 581
SEPTEMBER, 1935
liue uery much as did their forefathers who threaded the
Appalachial, passes with Boone and Seuier more than a century ago. Their mnnner of liuing is rough and
simple, but their standard ol honor is high. The Frontier Seruice nurse has callcd in this grouP lor a clinic.
Sequestered by the mountains, these people today
Where the frorrtier Lingers
By Mary Breckinridge
Volunteer Director, Frontier Nursing Seraice
L.7
NE of the English nurse-midwives who came
over to work with the Frontier Nursing Service had
spent a year on duty in the 700 square miles of
rugged mountain country covered by the Service
when she was asked to write a paper for a British
nursing magazine. She brought it to me to read.
It began like this: "America is a country in which
the big cities stand very far apart, and in between
people get about on mules and horseback." She had
been a year in the United States and she was writing
of conditions that she personally knew-conditions
all too little known by most Americans.
In facing the problems of the remotely rural folk
in the Kentucky mountains and other parts of the
Appalachian range, the first thing to do is to appraise them in terms of the eighteenth century.
Once accept the American backwoodsman of that
Back in the Kentucky Mountains
are devoted doctors and nurses
helping an r 8th century folk to
adjust themselves to the 2 oth.
period as an actual specimen of life as it is lived
today among several million people in an area nearly
as big as Great Britain, then it won't be difficult to
understand the dual problem facing the Frontier
Nursing Service.
On the one hand, we have to meet and understand life as it was in the eighteenth centuryi on
the other hand, we are confronted at every turn by
the inroads the twentieth century is making on this
remnant of the eighteenth.
Because people travel five times as fast today as
they did a hundred years ago, it does not follow
that they are necessarily better people, but unquestionably they are diflerent people. The American
frontiersman was, and still is, a person with a high
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impartial remark, "Yes, he got two years.
Now, for a killing that's too much. For
stealing it wouldn't be so bad-but two
years is too much for a killing."
The Texas ranger in his day with more
than one killing to his credit would hang
a man for stealing a horse. It's not the
viewpoint of the twentieth century Rotarian,
but it obviously was the viewpoint of most
men, high and low, some one hundred
years ago.
There is another quality in our mountain
civilization that is totally different from the
twentieth century, this time to the good,
Here eighteenth century
duelling suruiaes in
feuds-butuotnan
is respected
eaery-
,/
where.
Photo: Cauffeld & Shoot
standard of honor, but
it wasn't, and isn't, the
standard of the twentieth
century. One reads a
great deal about the feuds
of the Kentucky
mountaineers, and is prone to
forget that the idea that
personal quarrels should
not be individually handled is quite a recent one.
Men of the intellectual
ability of Hamilton, fackson, and Clay all fought
private duels, and would have felt'it beneath them
to refuse a challenge.
The difference between a "killing" and a murder
was clear-cut in the days of the eighteenth century,
and is still clear-cut in the Kentucky mountains. A
cold-blooded murder for theft is practically unknown. Stealing is a crime so low that anyone who
steals loses caste at once and forever.
Awhile back; one of my neighbors killed a man
over a personal issue. While attending the birth of
a baby in a neighboring cabin we overheard"this
Horse or mule-
is the usual
mode ol trdnsPortation. Th.is nurse is taftbacft
ing a utounded man to a seruice station lor medical trealment.
and that is the utmost chivalry for
women. For all her physical hardships,
the frontiersman's woman was greatly cherished by her menfolk in early American days.
In the Kentucky mountains, even today, an insult
to a woman is unknown. Our nurses, and even our
young couriers, can go through the loneliest country with perfect safety and ride out at night on their
duty with any man anywhere. There are few parts
of the world, if any, where woman is so safe.
To sum up, although the eighteenth century backwoodsman had not the standard of the twentieth
century, he had his own standard; and it is that
standard which still prevails among isolated mountain folk.
We have said that the problem for us, who work
with these people, is dual. On the one hand, we
have to understand and live in the eighteenth century, and, on the other, we must meet the confict
SEPTEMBER, 1935
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of the impinging twentieth century upon our old space on our little planet on which we are tenants
civilization. A year or two ago, when men by the for only a brief,span of years.
If the enormous dislocations of society could be adthousands were pouring back into the mountains
after the breakdown of industry, one of our nurses justed without the appalling hardships which they
found a family from the coal fields who had taken have hitherto always inflicted on men and women,
possession of an abandoned one-room cabin, a cabin and especially on. children, we would indeed apwith neither doors nor windows, and with a roof proach the Golden Age. For the first time in the
scarcely deserving the name. Years before they had few thousand years since the human race has had a
lived in this section, but had been inveigled out by written history, we are beginning to develop a social
the promises of the mining fields. Gradually work consciousness. The three periods of civilization
shut down. When their savings (for they .were which have produced, perhaps, more great intellects
thrifty folk) had been spent, they had drifted back to the square inch than any others, were Greece and
Rome in their palmiest days, and England in the
to the hill country to which they once belonged.
nineteenth century.
Yet anyone, in the glory that was Greece, could
T"t woman, lying on a pallet of leaves and rags,
an abandoned child to the wolves-and noand
throw
sallow
The
man,
tuberculosis.
of
dying
was
gaunt from starvation and anxiety, made a shift to body cared. During the grandeur that was Rome,
prepare such food as the neighbors had given them, one of her senators.said that he thought it was not
and to look after a family of four little children, right for people to take abandoned children and
one a hunchback. The picture was one of utter, ab- deform them in order to make money out of them
solute destitution. The twentieth century had drawn as mountebanks. He stood alone in the Senate. All
this family out when they were young
and hopeful, had used them, and then,
needing them no longer, spewed them
back into the hills, with health gone
and resources exhausted; with no livestock and no land worth tilling-nothing with which to rebuild their lives.
Now, why do we find a Kentucky
mountain family in a condition such as
this? For one reason, the Washington,
the Berengaria, the great navies of the
world, are now burning oil instead of
coal. So interdependent is our twentieth century life that here in the Kentucky mountains this remnant of the
eighteenth century has not escaped, cannot escape, its powerful disrupting
reverberations.
"I accept
the Universer" said Margaret Fuller. When Carlisle heard it he
said, "Gad, she'd better." The mystics
have always taught that you cannot
pluck a fower without troubling a star.
Whether we like it or not, we are all
bound to one another, rushing through
Neither snou, nor blistering heat dcters
the nurse-miduiues uhen a call cotnes
in from a home in this 700-mile
long "laboratory ol human seraice."
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the rest unanimously agreed that abandoned chil- square miles of rugged mountainous horseback coundren had no rights,
try penetrated at only one point by a highway, now
During the great rise of industrialism in England, about twenty-four miles in length. Over this whole
a period represented in the National Portrait Gallery territory, the Service, through its many wideli' sepain London by a galaxy of noble heads, the
rated nursing centers, maintains a group
children of the poor were taken at the
of nurse-midwives who travel on
ages of six or seven, and even
horseback to attend women in
younger, and worked twelve
childbirth (we average now a
to sixteen hours a day in the
baby a day), to nurse the sick,
mills and mines, worked
practice the tenets of public
until th.y died. The fight
health, and teach hygiene.
of the small group headed
We have an eighteen-bed
by Shaftesbury to get the
emergency hospital, our
age
of "infant labor"
own medical director, and
a consulting surgeon. We
cociperate with the federal
a dayrwas violently opposed
and state authorities and
for a generation, not only by
with f oundations for the
self-interest, but by the best
eradication of trachoma and
citizens of the day.
hookworm, and we have given
The teaching of Christ that a little
nearly 70,000 inoculations against dischild is of such supreme value to the 2.4" n*ory,ffiuAo ;, ;o*- ease-typhoid, diphtheria, smallpox,
Father that anyone who injures him utioul. Hdl ,hc r*rses comc 211|influenza.
would better havc a millstone arou o6 lrom En9land' lal lrom Am*ica' our mcthod of work is through
his ne& and be drowned in the depths of the sea- local committees of leading mountaineers. We charge
this teaching it has takcn the race nearly two thou- small fees for services rendered and for supplies, paysand years to understand. Out of a broadened social able sometimes in money, more often in labor, in
consciousness the race is beginning dimly to fore- fodder for our horses, in pickled onions, quilted
shadow the time when all will clcarly see "that there 'tivers," skins of "varmints," split-bottom chairsis no wealth but life," and "that three times in every anything that our neighbors make that we can use.
ccntury the only wcalth of nations is gathered in The najor support of the work comes from direct
the dust, and must. rise once again from helpless voluntary contributions, or through our committees
infancy."
rn vanous crtres.
The Frontier Nursing Scnice has come into ex- The plan of the Frontier Nursing Service is modistence in ordcr to bring the twentieth century in cled on that of the Highlands and Islands Medical
its most constructivc forms to the people who were and Nursing Service in Northcrn Scotland, the
left behind in the eighteenth. There is no phase of Hebrides, and the Shetlands, instituted in the regime
the remotely rural problem which thc Service docs of the late Sir Ledie MacKenzie. We havc studied at
not study and seek to solve. Its laboratory covers 700 first hand this Service fContinacd on pagc 501
raised to nine years, and
their hours lowered to ten
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SEPTEMBER, 1935
Illustrations by Wilfred lones
The
Ptychotogy
of
Fellowship
By Arnos O. Squire
Fortner Chiel Physician, Sing Sing Prison
HAVE BEEN convinced for years that, apart
from the ideal and purposes of Rotary, there is a
scientific or psychological reason for its growth in difficulties brought on by the depression have made
thirty years from a membership of four to more us a little more conscious of the mechanisms by
than 160,000 around the globe. There is something which a man can "take it on the chinr" recover him-
I
more than the social and altruistic motives which
draws us Rotarians together. Most of us aftend our
regular meetings because something which we call
"fellowship" attracts us there.
The fellowship of Rotary works upon us psychologically. It afiords an opportunity to discuss our
aflairs with a group of selected men under conditions which make informal and intimhte conversation possible. In other words, fellowship in the atmosphere of Rotary enables us to find ourselves and
to start over again on the right track. (Scientists
would call this a process of re-orientation.)
I do not believe that we have realized the impoitance of relieving one's mind through the discussion of problems until just recently. Widespread
self, and come back again. Because of this discovery
we are stronger men.
As an example of "getting things off your chest"
(for which psychologists still use the Greek word,
catharsis), let me tell you a story of an incident that
happened in Sing Sing Prison while I was chief
physician there.
We have always had what is called a "Warden's
Court" which consists of the warden, the physician,
and the principal keeper. This court passes on the
delinquencies which occur in the prison during the
week past. At the time of which I speak, we had
noticed that one of the inmates appeared to be coming before us almost every week, either for doing
poor work in the shops, or for other misconduct
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l+
thought that the psychologi,
cal moment for our talk had
arrived, I summoned him to my
office and dismissed my helpers,
so that we might be alone. I
had him sit in a comfortable
chair, not generally used by convicts, so that he might be as
much at ease as possible.
When he was composed, I
spoke to him about his prison
record and his frequent misconduct. I also told him that
I had investigated and found
that, in all the time he had been
in prison, he had never sent or
received any mail and had
never had a visitor. I told him
that I believed that his lack of
ability to conduct himself in
accordance with the simple
rules of the prison was because
he had something in the back
of his head which he should
talk over with someone in
whom he had confidence-in
other words, that he had repressions and that he had best get
them "off his chest."
"Doc," he said, " giue me the
hardest iob in the urtob ptison."
such as breaking prison rules. Because of
quent appearance, his term had been increased with
each infraction until it was nearly twice his minimum
this fre-
sentence.
I said to the warden, "I'm
this boy to the hospital, because it
One day,
going to take
seems
to me
that he is a medical problem." So after his next
appearance before the court, he was taken from his
old cell (which was about a century old) and was
admitted to the hospital where he had a comfortable
bed with sheets and pillowcases and where he had
excellent food.
This, however, did not please him at all. Every
morning, he asked me, "Why am I here when I'm
not sick l" I could only reply, "Sometime, I'm going
to talk with you. I am busy now, but I want you
near when I can get at you."
I waited about two weeks, watching George improving in color, contentment, and calm. When I
I
assured
him that we
were
alone and that he could place
implicit confidence in me, and I urged him to "come
clean." After a few moments, this great big young
man (he was over six feet tall and weighed more
than two hundred pounds) began to unburden
himself of his real and unreal troubles. All the
pent-up hopes, fears, and hurts of years came forth
in a long recital. We talked more than two hours.
I tried to show him how he had magnified some of
his grievances out of all proportion to their true
significance. When we had finished, I told him
that I would ask the warden to remit his punishment so that he could start all over again on a new
and unspotted page.
sprang from his chair. *Doc," he said,
"give me the hardest job in the whole prison."
This was quite a change from his previous attitude. Before, he apparently'had been unable to perform very simple tasks satisfactorily. Now he wanted
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the most difficult. My impulse, of course, was to say
"Yesr" but after a moment's thought it seemed wiser
to send him back to the task he was doing before
he was admitted ro the hospital. After he had gone
back to his shop, I called up his keeper and his foreman and told them that, if there was any further
trbuble with the boy, it was to be taken up with me
first. I did not want him to be "hounded" because
of his previous misconduct.
George remained in Sing Sing for three years after
that conversation. Never once, during that period,
was he "chalked in" for poor work or misbehavior.
Finally, he was discharged.
Eight years passed. It was a cheerful Christmas
Eve. The doorbell of my house rang and I answered
it. There stood George with a tidy package under
his arm. He asked me to come to a car standing in
the driveway. There sat a young woman whom he
lost not a moment in introducing to me as his wife.
15
"I've married the best girl in the worldr" he said
as we were walking back to the house. "She knows
of my record down 'under the hill."'
ltUR
chat ran on interestingly. I asked him
what he had been doing since he left Sing Sing.
He told me that he was manufacturing women's
garments and that during the eight years he had
been away from the institution he had lived comfortably and had been able to save twelve thousand
dollars. The box of fragrant cigars he gave me"a Christmas present"-attested his comparative
opulence.
"Docr" he said as he was leaving, "this whole thing
started eleven years ago today-that time you and
I talked it out in the prison hospital when I found
myself."
Psychologists will readily recognize what had
happened to George. Our little chat had relieved
tensions and had given motivation for his conduct. We may
not realize it, but Rotary also
provides mental hygiene in that
it gives men a similar opportunity to get a truer perspective
on their problems and so to
"find themselves" again. Rotary
is, thus, an antidote for what
scientists call "fights from
reality."
It is natural for human beings
to desire to associate with, and
to be appreciated by, their fellow men. (The so-called "gt.garious drive" and the "drive
of the desire for approval.")
Rotary fills these natural desires
by making a man feel that he
"belongs" in the scheme of
things and by giving him an
opportunity for release from the
pressures of life through play.
Certain short-sighte d critics
have tried to belittle Rotary because of the singing and the
banter that go on in the carefree fContinued on page 511
'!It uds a cheerlul Christma,s
Eae . . . There stood George uith
a tidy pacfrage under his arm."
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Yes-,
IS THIS A DEBATABLE QUESTION? Some think
so. At least, thcre is a difference ol opinion on the
subiect . . . n,hich is thy it is here brought into the
open fot candid discussion. Briel readerl comment on
this debate-of-the-month n'ill be n elcomed.-Editors.
Says lfarren Piper
payers who more or less support
most of our universities.
President, Warren Piper & Co.
At about this point my opponents
will accuse me of trying to comAr' RE too many people going to college ? I think mercialize truth and enlightenment,
so, because I am convinced that a large proportion
and of having no regard for the
of college students get no real benefit from a so-called personal satisfaction which the educollege education. In fact, I believe that college is cated man recqives from his own
a distinct handicap to a large number and that it culture. So I'll break down and tell
spoils as many as it helps.
you frankly that in my opinion the
These are strong words, and since I shall be called average college graduate has no
upon to defend them I should be given a fair chance more education nor culture nor into explain them. To start with, I am not referring telligence than the man who did
to students who take professional courses, i.e ., work not go to college, and he frequently
which leads to a degree in law, medicine, engineer- has less.
ing, architecture, dentistry, and similar definite fields.
The college man usually assumes
College training is essential to them; they are he has more, and, what is even funentitled to seek it because they know what they want nier, he often believes that he is
and are usually serious about getting it. My criticism really a superior person. But after
is really aimed at the great groups who enter college twenty-five years of contact with
to take so-called cultural or academic courses leading him by the thousands in every city
to such general degrees as bachelor of science or and state through various fraternity
bachelor of arts. They enter without knowing what and university alumni organizathey want, and they leave without wantinj what tions, I fail to see where college has
they know.
helped the average graduate except
The more aggressive of them eventually become to build up his egotism and increase
part of that great horde of bond salesmen, insurance his presumption, sometimes referred to as personality.
agents, advertising solicitors, broker's clerks, autoProofs ? Well, I'm ready if you are, so let's go.
mobile salesmen, and realtors. The rest probably I think the prime purpose of any institution of learnbecome shoe clerks, gasoline station attendants, and ing in these still more or less united States, in
which
chain store helpers.
I happen to live and of which I speak at the moment,
And are not those occupations honorable, whole- should be the production of better citizens. we can
some, and necessary? Of course they are! But what only judge the worrh of institutions by the
alumni
is there about any of them that requires a college they produce, and I claim our colleges fail to proeducation? I mean the investment of four years duce a fatr quota of active, intelligent, interested cititime and about four thousand dollars of somebody" zens. And there is considerable evidence that they
money, to say nothing of the burden upon the tax- are producing more than
lContinued on page 521
SEPTEMBER, 1935
t7
to provide for ? For the good of
society I For the good of the applicant ?
Undoubtedly some would say that the
limitation of the number of college graduates is desirable not only in the interest
of the applicants but in the interest of
society. Their idea is that the number of
college educated men and women needed for
the general welfare is relatively small. They
appear to hold the view that this group
should fix the ideals and standards of progress for all the rest.
Other advocates of the limitation of the
number of college entrants appear to believe
that if too many people are highly educated,
there will not be enough left to do the common labor of society. They are concerned,
as some of them say, with the question, "Who
will do the dirty work l" They seem to think
that it is their duty to see to it that there shall
be enough "hewers of wood and drawers of
waterr" and that the number will be inadequate if so many young people become colcolleges
lege educated.
Society does need a certain number of
hewers of wood, as well as a certain number
of college professors, lawyers, and followers
of other callings. T he real point in dispute
is the wisdom and riglrteousness of permitting anybody but the indiuidual himself to
decide in uhich group he aill try to be. One
may express an opinion as to a boy's probable
fitness for a certain career on any basis he
chooses, but there is a tendency to change
"yoa, are not able" to "you may not" and
"you shall not."
Another motive which has led to a demand
for limitation of attendance is the growth of
a sort of intellectual aristocracy. There is a
feeling among college graduates and professors that they are a superior class. Like other
aristocracies, they do not want that class to
President Etneritus, Uniuersity ol Illinois
become too numerous because that would
destroy its exclusiveness. This motive sometimes influences individuals who are not conI HB CRY that too many are going to college has been scious of it and would deny it. That it exists,
heard so often, especially in recent years, that it has almost however, is beyond dispute.
It is fostered by some on economic grounds.
become an educational slogan. But few who use the phrase
As President Emeritus E. A. Bryan, of the
have ever undertaken to define it.
It may fairly be asked: "Too rnany for what?" For the State College of fContinued on page 54f
David Kinley Says
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THE ROTARIAN
Band Birds
for a ]lobby
By lYillianr
l. Lyon
President, Inland Bird Banding Association
Rotarian, W aufte gan, Illinois
TIWO
of us who
pursue the hobby of bird banding drove
over, the other day, to visit a colleague who has been getting
exceptionally fine results in this labor of love. As we climbed
out of the car we paused to look at a bird trap of unusual
appearance. on the porch next door a woman stopped her
rocking.
"Did your" she demanded, "come to see about the things
this awful man here does to birds ?"
"we came to find out about his bird banding," we admitted.
"rt's simply terribler" she proceeded. "He catches birds there
all the time. Do you suppose the government would stop him ?"
"r don't believe so, madahr" I had to confess. ,'He is doing
it for the government, under a special government license,
and he is doing such a good job that we came to see what
we could learn. we're bird banders, too." Her front door
slammed so hard that it jarred my back teeth.
That incident, I would do well to observe at this point, is
a pretty good introduction, first, to the loyal fraternity of bird
banders and, second, to the public's lack of information about
us and the fascinating hobby that holds us in thrall. But there
should be nothing mysterious about us or what we do. In fact,
we want everybody to know all about it, and we would welcome you, gentle reader, to our ranks.
what do we do? It's simple. we capture live birds. Then
we affix to their legs a regulation aluminum band, and let
the bird go. The band carries a serial number. That number,
the date, place, and species are recorded. When a fellow bander recaptures the bird, or discovers its body,
he reports the data to the address on
the band-the United States Biological
Survey at Washington.
Funl Thrillsl Excitement? Yes, a plenty! Imagine you, yourself,. getting
a report from South America
on a bird you banded in
your own backyard ! Put
Photo:
Willianr I.
Lyon
SEPTEMBER, 1935
in the shoes of that Sault Ste. Marie banker
when he learned that returns on birds he had
banded, plus reports he had made of birds banded
elsewhere, proved that the Evening Grosbeak
migrates east and west during the summer or/er
hundreds of miles. Not a single professional ornithologist had suspected that before !
What percentage of banded birds do we hear
from again ?
yourself
l9
of wild animal is so fierce that civilized mankind
everywhere must, for its safety, use strong metal
bars to keep it from their homes. It is the insect:
the house fly, the mosquito, and a million other
tiny pests. They spread all manner of disease,
from malaria to yellow fever, from sleeping sickness to dysentery. Let insects make free with our
fields and forests, and presently they are barren'
Now insects are kept in bounds by one natural
agency: birds. Birds eat many times their own
Dpf'ORE I answer, remember that there are only weight of insects every week-insects that would
about 2,000 of us bird banders actively at work in destroy our foods, raze our houses, invalid our
all North America. Keep in mind that many of families. Then, for good measure, the birds devour
these birds make annual round trips of as much the seeds of the weeds rhat would choke our fields,
as 10,000 miles between their northern nesting our lawns, our gardens. Wherever they go, flying
over boundaries which for them do not exist, birds
places and their southern winter homes. (The classic
example is the Arctic Tern, which breeds as fat do good-far more good than harm. I have yet
to find a bird which is not useful and help\
north as it can find land and winful to mankind. OnlY a very, verY few
ters 11,000 miles away on the
can be regarded as not-too desirable
southernmost outposts of
citizens. What hobbY could be betland within the Antarctic
ter than one that contributes to the
Circle.) Consider that
myriads of birds are lost
in storms at sea during
migrations, that myriads
are killed inlonely wastes
and jungles where civilized man is unknown.
Friends have guessed that
we get reports on anywhere
from fifty per cent to one-tenth
of one per cent of the birds we band.
Actually, w€ get returns on about three per
cent-but that's enough to keep a devoted bird
bander agog from one month to the next.
"But why did you pick such a queer hobby ?"
friends sometimes ask.
I answer that to me my hobby is not queer.
Rather, it is a h"ppy blend of work useful to mankind and a fascinating out-of-office-hours recreation.
As a bird bander, I point out that I'm helping
gaqher facts about bird migrations which are essential for an intelligent conservation policy. I am
a cog-and a little one to be sure-in a widespread
organization gathering scientific information for the
good of society.
Consider, too, for a moment, that only one form
A snip ol the pliers, and the author has banded this
Gull. Gulls are great trauellers, often follouing liners
out ,o sea. Largest ol the heron lamily is the Great
Blue Heron (aboue), sometimes called the Blue Crane.
protection of ourfeathered friends
?
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I'll not name them, but you know hobbies that a
paper to which they listen without laughing,
outwardly at least. Then there are the Boy Scouts,
who come for instruction and to pass their test for
benefit stops there. Not so with bird banding. And the bird study badge; it is something prerty submaybe that's why there are so many Rotarians in stantial to have a hobby which brings you a steady
our growing band. Often on field trips far from stream of fine boys, who come as strangers and
my home at Waukegan, Illinois, I have hunted up end as warm friends.
a Rotary luncheon to keep up my attendance
All told, I have had about ten times as much
records. On numerous such occasions, I have en- fun out of banding my 65,000 birds as do my golfcountered fellow banders from distant points and irg, fy-casting, trap-shooting, horse-riding friends
we have had enjoyable chats about our own way from their hobbies !
of contributing to what, as Rotarians, we can label
All the while, I have that satisfying inner conCommunity as well as International Service.
viction that this is as truly service to my fellow men,
as truly an act of international helpfulness, as any
BUt don't think for one momenr that bird peace-prize winner can claim-though mine is on
banding is a gentle philosophical pursuit! It brings a modest scale. Anyone working with birds must
its devotees all the fun of a healthful outdoor sporr. think internationally, otherwise he finds himself
I make my livelihood by selling real estare, but out of harmony with his winged friends. Because
each morning of the year I hie forth early to my birds are contemptuous of boundaries, we banders
trap lines before going to the office. Each evening must depend upon men and women in other lands
I hurry eagerly home to have anorher look at them. whom we may never see. For instance:
Rain or shine, snow or fog, 20 below zero or 100
A hunter in Trinidad, West Indies, returns a
above, I spend from half an hour to two hours out band from a Blue-winged Teal banded seventy-six
of doors in rough clothing. Each bird trap with a days earlier in Canad& . . . A British missionary in
futter inside is a promise of another species never Africa returns a band which a native took from a
before taken here, or of a banded bird bearing on dead bird in the Niger, a Tern banded four years
its l.g a long-awaited message to scientific men. earlier off the coast of Maine . . . A peruvian at
I experiment with all sorts
Trujillo forwards a band ofr aTern
of seeds and berries and lures
from the upper Great Lakes . . . A
to bring more birds within
Cuban sugar plantcr reports a
reach of my banding pliers.
Heron banded in th. Middl. W.rt
r puzzle over improving
. . . song birds, shore birds, game
design of traps,
uirds, waterfowr-numb.rl.r." sp.figure out an entirely new
I cies fly thousands of miles in the
type, and next Saturday or
Western Hemisphere, pursuing the
Sunday trte an hour or two
sun and food of perpetual summer.
to make it and set it with
The first need of a bander is. of
high hopcs. I struggle as
course, birds to band. About twenty
president of the association inyears ago, I bought about five acres
i
cluding the bird banders beof land which have been mv home
tween the Rockies and the
ever since. It contained then. and
Appalachians, carry on coffe- A Lcsscr ycllowlegs, also cqllcd still contains, the best natural
spondence with fellow zealots shorcbird,louxd h south Ameics. featufes of a bird sanctuary: a
all over North America and occasionally-hampered ravine with a little stream trickling through; a hillby my lack of forcign languages-with banders side; an old orchard. These natural features have
abroad.
been supplemented. Our border shrubs have never
Once in a while I take a trip o band birds un- been trimmed, afiording the best possible thicket
known in my backyard. I go to mectings presided cover for birds. wc gow sunflowers here and
over by scientific pundits of universities, govern- there, and Russian hemp, because no maner how
mcnts, and museums, and sometimes even produce deep the snow is, these lcontinrcd on pagc 6(il
are pretty selfish. The man who rides one of them
may get some personal pleasure out of it, but all
the
occasionally
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2l
SEPTEMBER, t935
A smart nineteen-story s\yscra?er ouerloofrs
Napolcon Square
in
modcrnized Warsaw.
Boorrr Tirrre
,ln Europe
By
Clarerrce A.
Manrrittg
l#
oF North America have long
been proud of the fact that our countries
are new, that their development has been
dazzlingly rapid. This is still true despite
our remarkable failure of nerve during the
last five years, but a hint of leadership and a rise
in the stock market are enough to bring us back
Photo: Dwing GlallowaY
and the bustle, when his wife wearies of the
women's club, the couple go to Europe for a rest.
They make the grand tour.
Now wise Europe knows what they expect and
Our younger inhabitant takes pride and pleasure in
pointing out the pasture in which he used to run what to show them. Everywhere the North Amerfifteen years ago and which has been turned into ican traveller turns, he is confronted with the old
a mass of concrete and skyscrapers. He is glad to and the changeless. He is shown the bed where
tell you that his native village has jumped in fifteen Queen Elizabeth slept, the painting that was adyears from a population of one thousand to one mired five hundred years ago. He is shown the
symbols of permanence, and the European whom he
hundred thousand.
The land is full of such communities. Town meets is as ready to boast of his conservatism as the
after town has been constructed with houses of the visitor of his love of progress.
That is the impression that Europe wishes to make
same character, the same colored paint, the same
it succeeds. But there is another side of.
pretensions and aspirations. Go almost anywhere in
-and
the West, and you will find miniature cities with Europe-a Europe that is new and growing newer.
one-story buildings and with a broad and spacious In many a city and country, life is pulsing at a rate
avenue, usually well paved, because that particular that makes the visiting gG-getter green with envy.
Let us take a city like Belgrade, in Yugoslavia,
Main Street is going to be the center of the civilized
world. At least it may aspire to be the lettuce center as an example. A decade or more ago, it was reof the world or the chairJeg capital of humanity. covering from the wreck of the World War. Streets
Rapidity of growth has become a symbol of were largely unpaved, and clogged with piles of
American greatness, and the average American looks building material. Good-looking horses and old
on Europe as a land of conventionality and of the carriages dragged the traveller up and down the
status quo. When he becomes tired of the hustle various hills on which the city is built. The market,
to our old
beliefs.
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THE ROTARIAN
with its little booths arid shacks, seemed a fragment
of the distant pasr. Through the crowds of buyers
and of sellers, the old water dealers made their wzy,
picturesque men dragging around on their backs
very much begilded and ornate fire extinguishers.
Through the streets lazily wandered oxcarts; and
peasants and cattle alike seemed indifierent to haste
or worry. On the main streets sat a picturesque
crowd of men. They quietly sipped their cofiee
and their rafrija as if they had no other occupation
or care in the world.
Today, all is changed. You now enter a real
capital, for Belgrade has a quarrer of a million population and only a real and progressive capital can
contain that many people. You pass from the station up the hill on paved streers through lines of
modern office buildings and apartments. you come
to excellent hotels, in one of which the Rotary club
meets on Monday evenings. These hostelries have
baths and running water in many of the rooms,
and, of course, those two indispensable articles of
progress, an "American" bar and a jazz orchestra.
The royal palace is outshadowed by the new
marvels. In the suburbs new quarters are being
built. A building boom is on. villa sites are bein!
dealt in by speculators. small homes are rising for
the thrifty and the honest workingman. In the
heart of the city the old market is gone and its
place is taken by . French park, properly decoratecl
with statues. The university has been extended. A
new library has been built. The old citadel has been
remodelled. The moat has been filled with muchused tennis courts.
lES, progress struck Belgrade with a vengeance.
But Belgrade is not alone in this. Throughout that
entire stretch of land that reaches from the Arctic
to the Mediterranean, progress has been working
overtime.
Even a provincial city like Skoplje has felt the
inspiration. The city was old and decrepit and was
under the Turkish rule until rgl2. Streets were
crooked and dirty and
dusty. The wandering
stranger in 1922 was
told that if he arrived
at night he should
wait in the station
until morning rather
than risk a journey
among unfamiliar surroundings.
Now the city has
up and
been cleaned
A Czecltoslouaftian
trast
tu an d
conol d.
Aboue: typical modern
shoe factot'y. Right: an
idyllic nooft in an old
s
ecti
o
n of
Pr a gue.
Rotary entered Czechoslouaftia in 1925, aith
organization of a club
in the capital
there are th
clubs, hauing
a thousand
compising the
Sixty-
sixth Rotary D i str iit.
SEPTEMBER, 1935
rebuilt, or rather, across the Vardar River a new
town has come into being. Its center is a milliondollar officers' club, the finest single building in
the Balkans, with chandeliers that cost into the
thousands, with ballrooms and music halls and
restaurants and cafeterias. You see paved business
streets with plate-glass windows and displays of
Parisian dresses and the latest books.
The conscious desire to "keep up with the
foneses" extends even to the enforcement of traffic
laws. Where but a few years ago an automobile
was unknown, now as I drove in the evening I had
to stop at a chauffeurs' club or hotel in the old city,
because only one headlight on my car worked and
no car with defective lights was allowed to mar the
splendor of progress. A car passing into the new
city has to be up-to-date and complete or a traffic
".op" is ready with the ever-present ticket.
A university is struggling into being, and not far
away is a health center working in conjunction with
the Rockefeller Foundation and attracting students
f rom all ove r the
world. The Rotary
club brings business
and professional leaders together once a
week. A city archaeological society is ac-
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and modern. The old fairylike, unreal town of
minarets and spires, a dream land from the neighboring hills, a mass of dust and dirt as you approach, now wears the solid costume of a young
business city.
The old natives of the town may grumble, but
progress is in the air.
IHEN there is Tirana in Albania. A Moslem
village a few years ago, it now has its first straight
boulevard, the Boulevard of King Zog I. It runs
straight through the heart of the city where the
United States built its first legation building because it wanted to have a bathtub for its minister,
and there was no house in town which possessed
one. A fine old mosque or some monument was
in the way. It was destroyed as ruthlessly as any
building in New York might be that interfered
with the widening of a street.
Automobiles and donkeys, oxcarts and taxis form
a muddle in the streets. Full evening dress is
Gallolay
tively restoring the old
caravansary in order
to provide a mlrseum
in historic surround-
::::
"t",:,"'.:l
:::
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"
Yugoslauia, too,
ts
en-
joyirzg a building boom.
Note the si gnif icant
scafrolding alongside
the old-time marftet in
thriuing
Zagreb.
Modern roads are
dence
eui-
ol the bid Yugo-
slauia maftes lor tourists....This country
nou has n;neteen Rotary clubs, the oldest of
athich dates bacft to
1929. They mafte ap
District Siuenty-seuen,
THE ROTARIAN
24
becoming necessary, no matter how hot the day nor
how large a proportion of the women still wear
veils. The people are proud of their football team
and a chauffeur will drive a hundred miles over
rough roads in order not to miss a game. A tennis
club has been founded, a movie house has gone up.
Pass to the north or to the east, to Athens where
the refugees are having a new quarter of the city;
to Sofia where the Macedonians have built their
own quarter. It is everywhere the same-building,
building, building. There is a shortage of labor, a
shortage of material, a lack of money, but progress
goes on unrestrained.
fASS through the capitals of Czechoslovakia and
Poland-Prague and Warsaw. Here are today a
greater Prague and a greater Warsaw. If you ate a
Rotarian, stop off and visit their clubs.
Only a few years ago the field railways ran out
beside a dirt road toward the Willanow palace a
few miles from Warsaw. The road was unkempt
and abominable. Now a boulevard leads out, and
along it are the eternal villas and summer houses.
There are suburban time-tables and bus lines.
In Warsaw, itself, there has been the cleaning up
of the old city, the redecorating of the old houses
to bring them back to the beauty of centuries ago.
Streets that were in the slums are witnessing a transformation. Slum removal, sanitation works, union
terminal stations, new
theaters, new movies, all
are in the air. The parks
are redecorated. Russian
walls have been torn
down. Old monuments
have been restored. A
tomb has been erected in
honor of the Unknown
Soldier with an eternal
guard. The old droshkies
which were attractive and
slow have seen the writing
on the wall and
even
though the taxis are old
and decrepit and threaten
The castle still is on the
hill at Deua, Rumania,
bat in the ualley the people
are building homes in
the latest rnodern
styles.
disaster at every step, yet they show that the reign
of the taxis has come and the old drivers
sleepily
and sadly are making their departure.
Go still further north to Kaunas, home of a recently organized Rotary unit. When it became the
seat of the Lithuanian government, this city had
hardly a two-story house. They were all one-story
structures, country peasant houses placed row upon
row in monotonous series. Now, almost all have
been removed from the heart of the city. The main
street is a boulevard with bus lines and shops. Again
new sections are being built, new quarters for the
increased population.
How is the motive power for all this exerted ?
By every device known to government. By every
device known to high pressure salesmen. An insurance company, for instance, will refuse insurance
on a wooden house when the neighborhood is to
be turned into stone. Governmeirt aid is extended
directly.
It
really makes no difference what method is
employed. The good old days have passed and
Europe-at least in those countries which sprang to
life after the Armistice-has felt the pulse of the
new day. The time has passed when these cities
were proud that they allowed the buildings to stand
until they fell down, when the buildings were so
strongly constructed that they would last forever.
The modern city wants fContinued on page 551
SEPTEMBER, 1935
25
Head, ]leart/
HarrdsT arrd
]lealth
By
Park
Dougherty
Rotarian and Ban\er,
Austin, Minnesota
I
OU have read profound and alarming mag azine articles on the plight of
agriculture. So have I. But I should like
@ suggest that, all theories aside, about
the biggest and best thing that could
happen to agriculture in any country
would be a popularization of really good
Lesterschutz,lT,of Ld,y::;:,'i;:;nY,T';:"X"ii't!ii,1::;i?*q:;;.
farming.
fied" 4-H boy, was giuen fue pure-bred Aberdeen-Angus cattle. He
began his 4-H worft at age nine, and il)as a member of the TippeYou have read equally serious and
canoe County Corn-Club, sponsored by the Rotarians of Lafayette.
equally disturbing articles on the soThe high and low age limits for membership are,
called youth problem. We all have. But, again, I
should like to submit that the biggest single stroke respectively, twenty-one and nine.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that the 4-H
toward solving it would be making alert and intellimovement is something new. It is twenty-five years
gent boys and girls want to stay on the farm.
"the
U. S.r" have the 4-H old this year, for it dates back to a pig club for boys
To attain both ends we, in
clubs. Canada has its Council of Boys and Girls Club founded in Louisiana in 1910. Soon thereafter, the
Work. Australia has its Toc-H. Similar organiza- idea was taken up by land-grant colleges and the
tions exist in other countries, but because I know United States Department of Agriculture, and with
more about 4-H, allow me to confine this discussion official direction of county agricultural agents and the
largely to it and the way service clubs can help it do unofficial aid of public-spirited citizens, extended to
all parts of the country. Today, 4-H clubs have a
a service to community and nation.
membership of approximately one million !
"But whatr" you may be asking, "is 4-H ?"
Figures on another significant point are hard to
The answer is, simply, an organization of sons and
daughters of farmers which stresses the development get, but it seems a conservative statement to say that
of : Head, Heart, Hands, and Health. Each pledges: more than two hundred Rotary clubs are among the
groups coriperating locally to advance 4-H work.
My Head to clearer thinQing,
Sometimes it is by financing the purchase of regisMy Hemt to grea.ter loyalty,
tered stock or fancy poultry or improved seed. Somo
My Hands to lmger seruice, and
times, it is by backing exhibitions or trips, giving
My Health to better liuing
money for prizes and dinners or lbcal exhibitions.
For rny clab, tny con rnunity, and my country,
THE ROTARIAN
26
Last year's champion liue-stocft judging
teant and coach (left) at the International
Stocft Show. They hail from Minnesota.
He comes to see you when he "goes to
town." Then, one morning, a few years
later, after he has become twenty-one
and has graduated from 4-H activities,
you spread out your morning Dispatch
and an item and a picture catch your
T;;ffi;
4-H is that it is so broadty set up as
to make some phase of it applicable to any ruralurban community. A member may choose one or
more projects that especially interest him: raising a
calf, chickens, pigs, sheep, vegetables, and so on. For
the girls there are: garment making, vegetable cooking, fruit canning, or home remodeling. And the sky
is the limit for ingenuity when it comes to cociperation from Rotary or other town groups.
Fr' T Norwich, New York, for example, thirty 4-F{
club boys were unable to finance their poultry and
potato raising. So Rotary stepped in. Each boy was
sponsored by a Rotarian and a business agreement
signed whereby in the fall two roosters were to be
returned in payment for twenty-five chicks, and a
bushel of potatoes for a bushel of certified seed. Fried
drumsticks and mashed potatoes smothered in rich
gravy must have convinced Norwich Rotarians that
their proposition was not one sided !
Personally, I am not so sure that the benefit to the
Rotarian is to be regarded as less important than that
of the youngster.
Imagine, for a moment, that you are sponsoring an
overall-ed 4-H boy. You go to the barnyard with him
to see his first Aberdeen-Angus calf-club steer. You
watch him lovingly scratch its
black poll. You hear him talk,
shyly at first, then with warming enthusiasm, about its care
and fattening.
You have loaned him the
money to buy the calf. The note
was drawn up in businesslike
form, with interest rate stated.
You keep in touch with the boy.
Etnma Scudder, Wann, Oftla.,
uhose canning brought fi4,200.
First pig-club boys, lathers, and
sponsoring Rotarians
ron, Dawes County,
at
Chad-
Nebrasfra.
eye. Your boy has shown some of his prrze stock at
the International Live-Stock Exposition, has captured
a grand championship !
That's not imaginative fiction. The facts, as related,
actually happened. And if you want to get a vicarious thrill, just spend five minutes with the Rotari:n
who had the experience.
The county seat of Dawes County, Nebraska, is
Chadron. And if ever you meet a Chadron Rotarian,
ask about Ralph Rhoads, ]r. Back inL929, Ralph was
one of seven boys whose names were drawn by lot
from a list of Dawes County lads. The Rotary club
borrowed $475 at the bank, and loaned each boy $68
with which to pay for a registered pig. The understanding was that the money was to be repaid, that
the boy was to keep one pig from the first litter, the
Rotary club the second, the boy the
third. the club the fourth. and the
bov the rest.
That was six years ago. Today, razorback hogs are no
longer to be found in Dawes
County, having been r€,
placed by better strains.
The Rotary club's note at
the bank has been paid in
U
SEPTEMBER. 1935
27
George Schotiler, the enterprising protlg|
of the Rotary club at Austin, Minnesota,
and his prize-winning tonJitter of pigs.
full. And among the younger generation of enthusiastic farmers is Ralph.
His prize and sale money at various fairs
exceeds $1,100, and among his many
trophies is one for state championship
in meat production and a gold watch,
commemorating a trip to the International LiveStock Show in Chicago.
I can't over-emphasize the fact that, along with the
good work that follows Rotary cociperation with 4-H,
there goes a lot of real enjoyment. The boys and girls
have a good time, but so do the Rotarians. Over at
Ackley, Iowa, for example, Frank McGreevy
was
president of the Rotary club when drawing was made
for boys-to-sponsor and calves back in 1926. It so
happened that President McGreevy's prot6g6 got the
poorest calf in the lot, and had to put up with a freqtrently sung parody onThe OId Gray Mare. But not
so long ago, when his boy drew sweepstake prizes
with one of the finest one-year Angus steers ever seen
in Grundy County, someone appropriately suggested
that this revision would be in order:
Macll's blacfr calf is better than the
otlter calues,
Macfr's blacfr calf is better than
the other calues,
Macfr's blacfr calf is better
than t/te other one of tnany
long years ago!
For seven years, my own
Rotary club, at Austin, in
southern Minnesota, has
Photo: @ S. C. Smith, Welllngton, N. Z.
made 4-H work its "p.t" community service activity.
Last year, w€ paid out some $6,000 to 4-H boys and
girls [.or prize-winning stock. Then we entertained
at dinner the ten youngsters who took prizes at the
|unior Live-Stock Show at St. Paul, and swelled their
earnings with checks totalling $1,800.
Frankly, we Rotarians of Austin are mighty proud
that our boys and girls have taken these awards at
the big funior Live-Stock Show in St. Paul:
3 grand championships, bacon hogs;
2 reserve championships, fat barrows;
3 grand championships, pens of lambs;
2 grand
championships, fat lambs;
1 grand championship of all breeds,
an Aberdeen-Angus
steer.
Such results, of course, were no accident. They
were worked for. And for every blue-ribbon winner,
there were hundreds of close competitors. It is no
wonder that the resultant interest and enthusiasm
for better stock has raised the standard throughout
our section of the state, nor that this has been helpfully recognized by a local packing concern and by
the county bankers' association.
Our Mower County agent supervises this 4-H
work. To him is due most of the credit. The Rotary
Community Service Committee does not try to "run
the showr" but supplies some of
the ideas, inspiration, and enthusiasm, and quite a bit of hard
or ganization work in the
County Committee.
As farm difficulties intensified
in 1930 and 193I, the County
Committee found its responsibilities greatly increased. Farm
fathers, who found themselves
VeraPadelf ord and championMinnesota lunior Stocft Show lamb.
City boys at Wellington, New
Zealand, study animal husbandry
under Y.M.C.A.-Rotary
auspices.
THE ROTARIAN
28
Aad wty shoatdn't they smite? Each ol
yeat by bcirg a aate champion
*H
thcse
shk uon a trip ro tlc
cannet Thc grard prizc winnet
frY#iTrtri'#J"T
canned
;o ct;"ogo ton
5!74 quu* of lood in cight
years!
young (1.) Aggrcssive and educated young people have
stock for their sons and daughters. Therefore, an been kept on the farms. It is obvious that farming
hard-pressed, cotrld not finance the purchase of
Austin bank took over the financing of every calf, must come back; and ,l.H club work is helping to
hog, or lamb that any boy or girl wanted; the County point the way. One pure-bred, high-quality steer such
Committee, of course, approving the application first. as the club boys and girls raise, is worth tlree times
Last year we had $1p00 invested in 64 boys and girls as much at auction as the common grade. The 4H
-€very cent was repaid. This ycar wc have $2,360 club work drives home the lesson that quality is
profitable.
invested in ninety-nine boys and girls.
The,1-H plan is such that, in order to gain credit (2.) The 4H club work has "pepped" up the
for completing a project, a club member must exhibit oldsters. Many fathers were lukcwarm in the beginsome part of the project publicly. Experience in Ohio ning. Now scores of them, having seen their sons try
and other states shows that eighty-five pcr cent of the out new ideas of animal husbandry own pure-brcd
boys and girls who join a club are able to meLs x1 bulls and have weeded non-profit "boarder" cows out
exhibit and also keep satisfactory records.
of their herds. Directly as a result of last year's fatDemonstration work is also an important phase of catde 4-H club exhibit, sweral thousand hcad of qualclub activities. Two or more members who have be- ity feeding catde were shipped in. Rotarians financed
come skillful in canning, judging catde, grading them. For years the boys and girls have been winwool, makiag a roadside stand, etc., may ofier local ning championships with fat lambs. This was undemonstrations, and if good enough, demonstrate at doubtedly a great factor in promoting our county as
county and state fairs. Our Mower County fair win- a fattening ground for wistern lambs; last year wc
ners take part in the state-wide |unior Live-Stock handled 75,000 head.
Show. Non-prize-winning stock is sold immediately (3.) The 4H club work has helped to break down
after the fair at auction.
the wall of distrust between farmers and the rest of
the world. The farmer has had, and is still having,
LOrt year,fat live-stock was dirt cheap. Current a desperate struggle. Small wonder if he believed
prices might discourage 4-H clubbers, we thought, tales told him that he was the prey of city sharpers.
so six men, four of them Rotarians, persuaded local Sponsorship of 4-H club work by Rotarians and
merchants, professional men, and packing-house omcials to bid one or two cents over the market for calves.
The important question is, you will agree, does the
work contribute anything positive to the solution of
agricultural problems, and farm boy and girl prob.
lems I Many activities under the acids of depressions,
have gone into the discard. But 4-H club work, as a
medium of community service and as a contribution
to community welfare, has stood up amazingly well.
In our county these three results are observable:
others has helped to take off the keen edge of this delusion. Slowly, year by year, prejudices have dissolved.
Perhaps most significant of all, however, is that
4-H members are under the expert guidance of the
county agent or the home demonstration agent in
actiuities uthich the youngsters plan to mafre their lifelong aocetions. Pig raising and canning and homemaking are not hobbies for these boys and girls;
rather, they are a serious-but thrilling-preparation
for their r6le as citizens of whom we-shall be proud.
SEPTEMBER. 1935
29
Old'Rackets'
with New Frills
B;'Alvin f. Gillett
Secretary, /sss6i6:tion
ol
Comtnerce, Madison, Wisconsin
lHn
TELEPHONE rang. The Doctor heard a
"Dr. Brown l" "Yes." "This
is long-distance calling." A pause. "|ust a minute,
please, Dr. Brown; Mr. faybee wishes to speak with
pleasant feminine voice:
you."
The pleasant feminine voice was succeeded by
one briskly business-like, and male. "You are Dr.
Brown ?"
"Yes."
"This ir I. B. faybee, editor of the Blanfrton Times.
I have an editorial about you-a boy from our town.
Mind if I read it to you-P"
"Go ahead."
"Mr. |aybee" proceeded to read a most fattering
write-up. "Is it satisfactory ?" he asked upon finishing it.
"sounds fine to me, young man. You shouldn't
be wasting your time on a small-town newspaper.
You ought to be on a big daily. What's the charge ?"
"Oh, no charge-none, that is, for running the
"'This is l.B.laybee,editor ol the "Blanfrton Times." I
haue an editorial about
you-a. boy lrom our toun . . .'"
editorial. fust an item of twenty dollars for setting
the type. That's all right, I suppose ?"
Dr. Brown, being no piker, said it was all right.
There are several interesting things about this incident. One is that the charming feminine voice
sometimes called itself the secretary and sometimes
the wife of "Mr. ]aybee." Another is that the "long
distance call" was put through from an apartment
about two blocks from Dr. Brown's office. A third
is that the editorial about himself, which Dr. Brown
thought so fattering, was a standard write-up about
any doctor, that could be, and was, used regularly
about other doctors in other cities. A fourth is that
the editorial was not printed by the newspaper whose
name was mentioned, but by another one located in
a tiny town in Michigan. A fifth is that according
to United States postal laws, a paid write-up is paid
advertising. A sixth is that no less than $1,200 worth
of such editorials were printed about business men
in Madison, Wisconsin - $1,200 worth of "free"
editorials.
And the seventh is . . . it was a "racketr" pure and
simple.
The near-criminal mind seems to be especially
active thinking up clever ways to separate people
from money these days, and to give nothing (or very
little) in return. The trouble with many of these
"The pleasant leminine uoice was succeeded by one
brisftly businessJifre and male. 'You are Dr. Brown?"'
THE ROTARIAN
30
"hot business" stunts is that they are often exceedingly plausible. They take untold millions every
year from business men, housewives, the unemployed,
the unprotected, the unsuspicious money that
should go into the tills of local merchants. There
is an annual loss of eight dollars for every man, woman,
'"-q..
and child in the United States
from rackets and promotion schemes, the
National B etter
r:.s::.;
'%..
the books to sell at one dollar each. Few of the contributors would give a penny to such a scheme if
they knew the real truth.
Rackets thrive on human gullibility. Most people
are honest. Racketeers presume upon this and upon
'
the fact that most people conduct themselves
accordingly.
Many of the unemployed have been, and
are being, gulled in their eagerness for jobs.
A sample ad, perhaps, appears in the news-
paper. The man who wants a job is told
to call at a certain hotel room. Often the
There is, for example,
catch is that those answering are
the cook-book stunt. It
required to deposit cash. The
is old enough to be fasums may range from $25 up to
rlti:
miliar to everybody, but
$500. The deposit may be for the
there are always new
purchase of an "6g1fi1"-or for
people to be taken in by
some other plausible purpose.
rt. I know of three conThe job-hunter soon finds that
Derns, located in Texas,
there is no such concern as the
Dhio, and Indiana,
one that "hired" him
- or the
which, it is claimed, make this
goods he paid for are worth only
particular racket their specialty.
a fraction of their cost.
Here's how it is worked. The
I know of a so-called detective bureau
promoter comes to a likely
which collected money from several men in
town. He hunts up the officers
my own city. Each one who paid was to be
of some church or parent-teachthe bureau's "sole representative" in the
ers' association an organizacounty. One of the dupes was a carpenter out
"One ol the dupes was
tion that can use a nice lump of
of work. He went to Chicago and deposited
a carpenter out of uorft."
money-and says:
$25, then came to us and found out the truth !
"Would you like to have $500 for your organizaEvery racket of this sort, aside from the element
tion without any work on your part ?"
of sheer dishonesty, is a competitor of legitimate
That's a pretty big temptation.
local business. Publicity is the prompt remedy. And
The promoter pays somebody in the selected or- a strong Better Business Bureau or anti-racket deganization as much as three dollars a day to go along partment in the Chamber of Commerce is an essenand call on business men. Of course, the promoter, tial if the rackets are to be kept in check. Every
often a woman, does the talking.
scheme that is doubtful should be referred to this
"Wer" says she, "are from such-and-such a church. central body.
Our church is getting out a cook-book." Will the
The magazine racket is another that takes thoubusiness man dig ?
sands of dollars out of communities all over the
country. A goodJooking boy calls on your wife,
I N ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, he does not or a good-looking girl comes in and sits on your
question the authenticity or good faith of his callers. desk, swinging her legs nonchalanrly. You are asked
This particular racket has been worked year after to "vote" for thep-presumably for a college scholaryear in many communities. Every cent of the local ship. We have investigated hundreds of these sobusiness man's money goes out of town, except the called students and never found one who was
three dollars a day paid to the honest "come-on" who enrolled in-any college, universityt or school. The
accompanies the solicitor. Usually the solicitor keeps chance of getting the magazines you subscribe and
30 per cent of what is collected, and the balance goes pay for through them are exceedingly slim. One of
to the printer out of town. The church gets 500 of these racketeers got into one of our high schools.
ness Bureau savs.
Busi-
SEPTEMBER, r935
He collected $40 from one teacher, and $70 from
others-and no magazines were ever received.
Business men, again, are solicited by mail to buy
raincoats, suitcases, or similar articles. The bait is
an unusual price if the prospect will give a letter of
recornmendation. He may get a first rate article
himself. But all his friends get copies of his recommendation-and if they fall for the stunt, they some,:.r get the worst kind of shoddy.
3t
generally is found to be running some kind of. a
racket.
One of the worst of all racketeers is the "hearse
chaser." Hundreds of widows are paying good
money in large amounts f.or biographies (which
they may never see) of their lately deceased husbands. Or they may be paying for goods which they
are falsely told their husbands ordered before they
died. The ingenuity of the petty racketeer is matched
only by his utter lack of scruples when money is to
IHERE is also the "smuggled goods" racket. It be gained.
The racketeers are sometimes so close to the borderusually runs to "oriental" rugs, "imported" lace,
"fur" coats, and so on. The salesman may be a line of honesty that it is impossible to prosecute them.
"sailor," or somebody supposedly just back from They are a threat to all honest business. It is an
abroad. The goods-whisper it!-came in duty free.
That's the yarn. Often they are the cheapest sort
of trash. One woman I know of paid $80 for four
"oriental" rugs that were not even worth $20. The
"Persian" who sold them was arrested, luckily, and
returned the woman's money.
The number of rackets is almost limitless. Unordered merchandise may be sent. Many charity
appeals are blatant rackets. So are many so-called
"railroad magazines" and time-books, year-books,
radioJogs, directories, and shippers' guides.
Free town-lots, so-called, or
other given-away real estate,
nearly always have a catch.
Cripples with insurance checks
often buy the checks from firms
that speciahze in forgeries. Employment for home work is a
common racket that victimizes
those who can least afford to
lose. Out-of-town collection
agencies sometimes cause a lot
of. racket grief to
merchants and professional men who
trust them with bad
lllJ
""' '
man
accounts. iAty
CLVvUlIlo.
I
^rlqrr
who "sells
" One
work!'':s1r"'s\\s-'';"r-'
uoman I
frnou ol paid
lor f our
$80
'oriental'
rugs that tuere not
eaen worth fi20."
obligation, not merely to be on guard against being
victimized, but to see that others are not taken in.
There is one safe rule. If everyone followed it,
it would cover the whole case and scare the whole
tribe of parasitic racketeers. It is: Inuestigate first.
THE ROTARIAN
32
P'hotos: (rtsht) RoNi (left, center) Otava
I*ft:
A typical steam
bath cabin in Finland.
Rota:yArol
Suorrri-Jinland
SUOMI-FINLAND came into
history in the 700's. Rotary came
into Suomi-Finland
in
1926-
and is fourishing in this beautiful "land of a thousand lakes."
Already there are five clubs and
some 200 members. . . . Almost
half of this country lies under
forest, and the wood and paper
industries lead all others. . . .
Education is compulsory, and of
the 3,600,000 people, less than
one per cent of the adults are
illiterate. . . . Finnish musicians
and architects enioy world fame.
Finnish girk (l4t)
...Parliarnen building, designed by Ro-
tarian I. S.
Photos: (above)
E lfrand; (rtght) E
Atel
Siren.
Helsinfti-Hels,
(aboue) . . .Estor
SEPTEMBER, 1935
33
Photos: (below) Parikas: (right, eenter) Erving Galloway
Rigltt: AnEstonian oil
rlrdtheBaltic
n5
#s\
U
shale reduction plant.
Estorria
IN ESTONIA, too, Rotary is
well established. The first club
was founded five years ago at
Tallinn, the republic's busy port
and capital. As in Suomi-Fin-
[or*
-
land, high governmental officials
and professional and
business
leaders are on Rotary club ros-
ters. . . . Estonia's economy is
based on agriculture, almost
three-fourths of its million and a
quarter inhabitants deriving
their living from the soil. New
gf ors
,
and important industries are
developing rapidly in the cities.
A bit of old Tallinn
(right) and the 300year old uniuersity
Finnish capital
at Tartu (louer right).
n youth at play (below).
Photo; (above) Parikas
THE
34
RO
TARIAN
Pboto: (left) BrilukaDl
l-afvia
AS AN INDEPENDENT nation, Latvia is
young. She, like other Baltic republics, was
carved out of Russia's west coast at the close of
the World War and is, today, freight handler
for much of Russia's goods going to the sea.
Three railroads fung over her wooded plains
converge at Riga, the capital, where merchant-
men of the world put in daily. Latvia's two
million people engage chiefy in lumbering
and agriculture. Flax straw, flax seed, and
lumber are her main exports. Connoisseurs
proclaim Latvia's butter equal to the best, and
the world buys much of it every year. Latvians
are proud of their national customs, and the
folk plays never fail to delight the tourist who
wanders from the beaten trails to this country.
. . . Rotary entered Latvia in 1932 when the
club at Riga was established. It has progressed
steadily under able leadership. Membership
now exceeds eighty, more than a score of
names having been added to the club roster in
the past year, and includes prominent citizens
in the economic and
social
life of the citl'.
Views from
p, ogressiue
Latuia: (frorn top to bottom) riuerside uista of
Riga, the capital city . . .
"Tlte Mourning Motlter," a. ular tnetnorial . . .
typical business building
ofmoderndesign...the
of tlte
communication seraices ol the Latuian
radio,
gouernment
- mail.
telegraph and
impt'essiue home
SEPTEMBER, 1935
35
Photos: (nert to bottom) "Modorn"i (bottom) tr4. SmeiechausBas.
Lithuania
LIFE IS SIMPLE in Lithuania. Hard work
comes first for her hospitable people, but in
folk dances, games, and songs there is happy
escape
from monotony and boredom. Rooted
deeply in the soil for twenty centuries, Lithuanians love nature, and the old forest gods
persist in their ballads and legends. Fields and
woods yield more than enough for life's requirements, and agriculture, chief occupation
of the people, has lately made great advances.
Lithuanian farmers are especially proud of
their apiculture and cattle breeding. . . Tourists are beginning to discover Lithuania, too.
Here no mountains are to be found, but visitors are intrigued by the countryside with its
little gray wooden towns, the neat white
churches, and the stately old manors. Gigantic
sand dunes abound along the coast. . . . In
Kaunas, the capital, a Rotary club was set up
in
1934.
It
has thirty-two active members,
among whom are numbered some of the nation's most distinguished citizens and officials,
including the president of the republic.
From picturesque Lithuania: (top to bottom)
typical old uillage . . . a
weath.erbeaten
s
h r i n e,
such as are found
throughout the countryside...Lithuanian
rnaidens in national
dress...abitofmod-
ern Litltuania-the
building in Kaunas
tltnt houses the county
council and the police.
THE ROTARIAN
36
Chn ROTARfAN
I HE
Obiects
of Rotary are to
encourage and foster the
of service as a basis of worlhy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
ideal
(l) The development of
for
acquaintance as an opportunity
service.
(21
ds in business and Professions,
iness of all useful occuPations;
the rec
Rotarian of his occupation as
and th
an opportunity to serve society.
Publishnd Monthly by
ROTARY I NTE RNATIONAL
(3) The application of the ideal of service by- -cvetv
Roiaiian to his-petsonal, business, and community life.
35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A.
g
z
of international undetstanding,
Eh a world felowshiP of business
ed in the ideal of setvice.
Editorial eorrrrrrent
Back of Back-Slappirlg
That question has been thoughtfully considered
by the Board of Directors of Rotary International.
The decision it reached is well worth setting forth
here in full as an item of general Rotary information. It is:
lr
FAVORITE phrase of certain critics who, to
borrow someone's inspired words "ripened before
they matured," has been "back-slapping." It slips off
Rotary is an association
the tongue like a gumdrop, and saves mental effort in the practice of the profe
in describing "the type" who holds membership in interest in the institutions
of
service clubs. But, thanks to Dr. Squire, who writes or hold positions requiring the exercise
elsewhere in this issue on T lre Psychology of Fellow-
ship, the man whose friendliness expresses itself in
a thump on the spine need no longer hang his head
before the self-styled sophisticates.
Dr. Squire knows his Freud and Adler, too. 'Ihe
disparagers of exuberant friendliness have no monopoly on that. But whereas they stop their cerebrations
when they can glibly parrot wondrous words and
ideas, Dr. Squire applies the basic concepts of sound
psychiatry to men as they are. With scientific discernment, he detects in fellowship, such as marks
service-club association, a spontaneous and natural
response to the need of every human being for relief
from the tensions of everyday living.
So cheer up, if you're one of those enthusiastic
souls whose hand often feels the urge to slip over
the shoulder of a man you like. You are vindicated.
You aren't on the way to the asylum. You are normal. And you may be doing somebody besides yourself a whole lot of good-all of which has a scientific name that we won't bother about here.
Rotary in Rrrssla?
I O SIAM, to Palestine, to Peru, to Lithuania,
and recently to Iceland Rotary has gone. Clubs have
been established in eighty-seven of the earth" po-
litical and/or geographical divisions. But what, it
frequently is asked, of Soviet Russia. Why does
not Rotary International try to establish clubs there
?
discretionary
authority, or practice their professions independently.
In modern Russia, ownership of business rests exclusively
with the state and thus precludes from ownership interest
those who are engaged in the management of business; and
the practice of the professions is directed by the state. Under
the conditions which have governed Rotary elsewhere, the
only persons eligible for membership in a Rotary club in
Russia would be those who exercise discretionary authority
in the government, which is to say that Rotary in
Russia
would be limited to members of the cabinet.
If it should be proposed that Rotary clubs might be organized in Russia to be made up of men presiding over
branches of government business-as the rePresentatives of
business and the professions under a new state organization
effect would be the affiliation of clubs limited to gov-the
ernment employees which the Board believes could not be
assimilated with clubs all organized uPon an altogether
difierent basis.
Boy Problerns Grow Up
-I o
MOST men, a boy is one of the most interesting things on earth. No two are alike. To
one, the description "a noise with dirt on it" may
apply. Another will be shy and serious with oddly
conficting ideas struggling for expression in action.
Wise adults understand this, for they know that
the growing period of a youngster is above all a
time of adjustments to a constantly expanding social
and physical environment.
But boys grow up, and so do their problems.
Youngsters have had an especially difficult time in
making their adjustments in the past five years, for
37
SEPTEMBER, 1935
8. Direct an educational survey of the problems for both
the conditions about them with which they would
and youths which will bring about a better underadults
come to terms have themselves been shifting. Un- standing of economic difficulties.
certainty in the world has hyper-complicated the
9. Write to the central ofrce of the Secretariat for mimeotask of "getting set" faced by youth in the late teens graphed pap€rs entitled Suggestions for Program on Youth
Seruice and Seruice to (Jnernployed Youth, and also for the
and twenties.
folder on The Transient Youth Problem.
SuperfiEvery nation has its "youth problem."
cially, it may vary from country to country, but the
same economic and social factors that bafle a young
man in North America today underly the situation
of the unadjusted youth in England, or France, or
I gEnB is an interesting enterprise in which
Australia, or elsewherb. That is a fact given skyline
at
clarity by testimony at the recent Mexico City con- many thousands of Rotarians engage-iointly,
least-wherein the ideal of service is often difficult
vention of Rotary International.
to realize. It is home management.
Stemming the strawberries, stringing the beans,
setting the table, and sweeping the stoop on the
maid's night out do disturb a man's dignity and are
youth
the
of
physically strenuous.' They are, however, services
I HE GRAVITY, the universality
problem is recognized in Rotary. Relaxing not one through which the man may bear witness before
whit its Boys' Work, Rotary last year focussed at- his wife, a representative of one-half the population
tention on youth, especially between the ages of of the earth, to his belief in the idea that service
sixteen and twenty-four, by creation of a special does not end at 5 o'clock in the afternoon when he
Youth Service Committee. A good start was made. clears his desk, claps on his gray felt, and strides
Dr. Herbert Schofield, English college president, down the hall toward home.
If, though, the man has conditioned his wife to
chairmans this year's committee, and with a strong
personnel is pressing deeply into the question of expect none of these homely services and now, after
what Rotary clubs and Rotarians as individuals can r .h"ng. of heart, plans to extend a few of them
do to help youth fit creatively, satisfyingly, and use- to her, we suggest that he consider carefully, move
discreetly, and take the added precaution of warnfully, into society.
In every Rotary club are men who are personally ing her several days in advance.
concerned with the problem. They constitute a reservoir of potential strength and action. To tap it,
to channel it through the turbine of organized activities-that is the objective of the Youth Service
banding as a hobby for men is all that
Committee . They recognize the impossibility of Br*o
achieving it fully, yet they believe the following enthusiastic Rotarian Lyons says it is. But, facing the
suggestions chart procedures that can but lead to probability that space in Tnn RornnrnN will not soon
good. They recommend earnest consideration by all permit another article on the subject, let us here
suggest a point that he probably has up his sleeve
clubs of these nine points:
which
agencies
governmental
l. Co<iperate with private or
for another article. It is that bird banding makes
may be operating in your community for the benefit of an ideal hobby for boys too.
youth.
Slingshotting song birds and robbing nests of eggs
2. Appoint a Youth Service Committee whose chairman
for many a youngster.
and members are sympathetic to youth and its problems. have an undeniable appeal
3. Select qualified Rotarians to counsel with youths on Some sympathetic adults may hold that such ac'
their problems.
tivities qpring from the wholesome attraction of wild
4. Organize conferences, where youths may present their life and the out-of-doors for the growing boy. Be
views on their problems.
that as it may, let it be suggested that it would be
5. Organize conferences'of those adults who have atmuch better for the boy, to say nothing of the bird,
tended youth conferences so that they may endeavor to find
were the impulse directed toward helping science to
solutions to the problems'presented.
6. Send to the central office of the Secretariat information
learn the moving-day habits of man's feathered
youth
problems
in
solving
concerning practical experiences
friends.
so they may be made available to other clubs.
What fifteen-year old wouldn't thrill to his very
7. Study the articles by Walter B. Pitkin appearing in
from a South American explorer
Tnp RoTARTAN with a view to applying suggestions con- heels to get a report
about . bitd he had banded in his own backyard !
trined therein to local conditions.
A Gentle Srrggestion
What Rotary Can Do
ln Lieu of Slingshots
THE ROTARIAN
Modern social
seraice
needs good ercecutiaes;
. . . trained leaders for
boys' and girls' clubs;
Ptrotos: Acme; Chicago
Colnmunity X'und;
Dwing Galloway.
. . . erpert case worfters
also research utorfters
and college instructors.
to counsel needy folfr;
,lll lyind Jobs/
I T'S AN ill wind that blows
good!
any
nobodvJ
Once in a lifetime, a series of cataclysmic events opens wide the doors of a new
profession. Thus today. During the past
six years, nearly one-fourth of the workers
have lost the good things of life: their
jobs, their homes, their security. And as
a result, the career of social work oflers
perhaps more opportunities to more kinds
of people than any other. And the need
will continue for many years to come.
Do not confuse social work today with
social work, old-style. Years ago the social worker (who was usually a woman)
was a mixture of'mother-confessor, prac-
a
a
a
tical nurse, home economist, amateur
psychologist, backstairs trotter, and humanitarian-in-general. She took upon her
kindly shoulders the burdens of "the
underprivileged." She was termed a professional worker only by courtesy, for she
was seldom trained for her calling.
_ Today, social work is becoming a profession. A career here calls more
-or.
for college graduates with broad"r,d
theoretical post-graduate training in social problem-s, supplemented by supervised practical experience in the field. What is this
field?
The social worker is a human trouble
shooter! He (and she, about which more
By Walter B.
Pitkin
in a moment) is employed by both public
and private welfare agencies of all sorts
to help people who, for one reason or another, can't help themselves.
Until recendy,
social workers have con-
fined themselves largely to case workthat is, dealing with individual and fam-
ily problems.
The fones family on Tenth Avenue is
being evicted, has no rent money, and
three fones children are close to starvation.
Desperate Mr. fones turns to the nearest
welfare agency for aid. The agency sends
Miss Smith, social case worker, to find
facts and authorize the necessary aid,
Miss Smith keeps an eye on the fones
SEPTEMBER, I935
'
39
family as long as Mr. Jones is jobless and
penniless. If things improve, exit Miss
Smith. If not, her career and that of
the foneses weave in and out for many
4. Interest in and liking of other people.
sense of earnest altruism!
The good social worker really likes
But not in the
people. He does not "peddle" the doctrine
months.
of the
The social case worker is on call to find
out why |ohnny Slovinsky persists in playing truant from school, to supply food to
the needy, and medical aid to the sick.
patronizing interest in learning "how the
other half lives."
She helps people
find jobs and homes and
what security she can.
Dr*t*G
the past six years, however,
the scope of social work has expanded
enormously. Government programs call
for the organization and supervision of
more and more parks, playgrounds, recreation centers, adult education centers, and
similar public welfare agencies. People
are helped through neighborhood centers,
community centers, and even through
agencies which aid entire counties. So
job opportunities for group service have
brotherhood
of mankind, or
a
5. The ability to write a readable report. Alas! How few are able to do this!
What training is
needed?
Since social work is rapidly becoming
profession alized, the greatest need is for
college graduates with advanced training
in one of the many schools of professional
social work. Today all such schools are
turning away applicants. Competition for
training is higher than ever before. Nevertheless, highly promising applicants will
push out, as usual, the weaker brethren.
So if you wish advanced training in social
work and have unusual promise, you may
still be able to enroll. Almost all schools
offer scholarships. But beware the corre-
here. No such training
increased proportionately. Social workers
by the thousands are needed to supervise
all such group activities and interests.
Who qualifies for openings in social
spondence course
workl
Look first at the broad qualifications.
Emergency relief has called into service
thousands of people who have learned
what they know about social work only
through the cumbersome method of prac-
What kind of human being makes a good
social workerl
Both men and women are wanted. Men
are needed especially for executive posts.
And they should have at least the following purely personal qualifications:
l. Good health. This includes not only
high energy, but high emotional stability.
For many years, social work has attracted
.too many semi-neurotic and otherwise
emotionally unbalanced men and women.
Being maladjusted themselves, they have
often been abnormally interested in other
people's maladjustments. Thus much
needless confusion and even misery have
resulted. Today, healthy people are weeding out through sheer bodily and mental
superiority.such emotional incompetents.
2. A wide age range. Both
young
people and middle-aged men and women
(up to a maximum age of about fortyfive) can find openings after the proper
is worth one three-cent stamp.
Of course, there are opportunities for
people without such specialized training.
Good News
F
LL READERS of this magazine-
especially those deeply concerned with
problems of youth-will be pleased to
learn that Mr. Pitkin has consented to
continue this series on ttCareers for
Youthtt in six more issues.
Mr. Pitkin, whose book Life Begins
at Forty has made that title a house-
hold phrase around the world, is
a
psychologist, a business man, a farmer,
btit above all an understanding stu-
dent of youth. He invites readers
(Care THr Ro,
to write to him
'Wacker
TARIAN, 35 E.
Drive, Chicago), telling of new industries and
new ideas which may lead to jobs for
young men and women.
to all kinds of people and to inany different parts of the country. Their iobs
take them everywhere. Their interests
should be broad, their knowledge of and
experience in dealing with all kinds of
individubl and group problems should be
wide. This does not mean that
special
training is not an advantage. It is. But
i[ does mean that versatility in dealing
with people-like versatility in altr fieldsis a long step toward high achievement.
lowing types of workers are needed, all
of whom must have as much professional
and field training as possible:
l. Administrative and executive work-
ers. It is probably safe to say that executive openings will call more for men
than for women, as a rule.
2, First-class teachers, both in colleges
offering courses in social work, and in ihe
social work schools themselves. There is,
furthermore, a growing demand for a
wholly new type of teacher, who must
work on adult vocational retraining. In
this field, the Milwaukee public schools
led. But in most other places, the
work is being handled, at leasr in part,
have
ii
the
vocational adjustment of unemployed
young people. The Minneapolis Y. M.
C. A. has done some parricularly fine
work in this field.
3. Writers. There is a great and growing need for social work literature. This
includes both technical and popular books,
articles, and reports of various kinds.
4. Research. Opportunities here, however, are relatively limited.
5. Workers specializing in racial and
religious group work.
Salaries arq in general, somewhat lower
than those paid teachers. They vary so
greatly relative to size of town, type of
training of workers, and so on, that you
ought to read the most recent report on
this subject that has come to my attention.
Miss Esther Lucile Brown, of the Russell
Sage Foundation, New York, has just
Social work is
one of the most mobile of all vocations.
Workers must be able to adapt themselves
lN addition to practical case work and
groqp work already menrioned, the fol-
by special welfare agencies. So too
training.
3. High adaptability.
are today for the first time being served
by social welfare agencies. Federal, stare,
and local agencies have combined to aid
all parts of the country. Hence many jobs
are opening up in outlying regions. New
typ€s of community workers are being
sought for the improvement of country
life. These people often have to have abilities that go beyond those mentioned in
this article. These vary more or less with
the region served. The best opportunities,
however, still lie in the cities.
tical experience aided by whatever super-
vision they could get. Nevertheless, as
the schools turn out more and more highly
trained graduates, the latter will almost
certainly be assigned to jobs now held by
relatively inexperienced, untrained social
workers.
Where will you find openings?
Social work is still largely concentrated
in cities and metropolitan zones.r Bn!
today there are mbre opportunities in
smaller towns and villages than there
were'six years ago. Many rural regions
completed an extremely useful discussion
of Social W*k as a Profession and includes, of, course, information about salaries. If you seek more details, you cannot do better than to read this useful
pamphlet, and to get in touch with the
American Association of Social Workers,
130 East Twenty-second Street, New
York.
ill
Our weather prophets are saying that
winds will be blowing for a long time
to come. This should bring good cheer
to you who may be interested in the
careers that blow along with them.
THE ROTARIAN
40
Rotary ]lourglass
ROTARY WELCOME! The
cordial
hand of fellowship to these new member-clubs
of Rotary International:
Oaxaca, Mexico; Carmarthen, Wales; Ronne,
Denmark; Palembang, Sumatra, Netherlands
Indies; Gonzales, Tex., U. S. A.; Springs, Union
of South Africa.
Ir**
From Crombie. A postcard from
Crombie
Allen, Ontario, Calif., newspaperman and Rotarian, comes from Spitzbergen, Island, and
reads:
"Top of the World-----only 625 miles from the
N. Pole. Kings Bay is farthest north
postoffice.
fuly 10, '35, the Land of the Midnight Sun, sun
rose at L2:55 a.m. Sets next Saturday at 1l:02
p.m. A week of steady daylight. The new Rotary Ch.rb at Reykiavik, Iceland, gave a royal
reception to the ten Rotarians on SS. Rotterdam.
The Re1'kjavik Rotarians are a fine bunch of
fellows
l"
aaa
fndian Item. Herbert W. Bryant, of
Bom-
bay, has resigned as honorary commissioner of
Rotary International to become field representa-
tive in India, Burma, and
London in 1937? The Board of Directors of
Rotary International gave serious consideration
at its last meeting to the city in which the 1937
convention should be held. Recognizing the fact
that it is now four years since a Rotary convention was held in Europe, it authorized the making of certain investigations and contracts which,
if successfully and satisfactorily accomplished,
will undoubtedly result in the selection of Lon-
don,England.
* * *
A Quarter Century. There seems to be no
more adequate way of describing August 18,
1910, than as a "red letter day" in Rotary history, for on that day Chesley R. Perry began
service with Rotary as secretary. Twenty-five
years later he is still on the iob. . . . All of
which was fittingly, rvhich is to say simply, commemorated by a dinner held at the Chicago
Club on the evening of August 16, 1935, attended by a small group of Rotary officers, past
and present, and present-day co-workers. Immediate Past President R. L. Hill presided and
brief, sincere statements were made bv Past
Presidents Arch C. Klumph, Arthur Sapp, Clinton P. Anderson, Treasurer Rufus Chapin, and
Vice President Don Williamson of the Chicago
Rotary Club. Then President Ed. R. Johnson,
who was to leave the next day on a Rotary mission to Europe, told of the sheaf of congratulatory cablegrams, radiograrns, telegrams, and letters that rvere pouring in on the Secretariat
from all parts of the earth. The evening was
climaxed by his presentation of an illuminated
scroll
to "Ches," herewith
reproduced.
*t*
Long-Short Sequel. Governor A. E. W.
Short, of Adelaide, Australia, whose picture was
published in the fuly RornruaN with that of
Governor Stanley Long, of Seattle, Wash., as
"the long and short" of the convention, stopped
off in Seattle on his way home. The meeting of
the two men was short on nothing save tirne,
and long on everything that makes for good fellowship-including even a dash of adventure.
"Ernst Short's boat, the l{i6:gara, on which he
sailed from Vancouver for Australia," writes
Governor Long, "was struck by a freighter ten
hours out of Victoria. He tells me that the captain informed him that had the boat been struck
slightly mo.re aft she would have sunk in a few
minutes. As it was, no one was hurt----only discommoded. Ernst and his wife had to go back
Ceylon.
**t
Peale on
Air.
"The Art of Living" is the in-
triguing title for a series of radio
programs
rvhich Rotarian Norman Vincent Peale, a member of the New York Rotary Club with the classification: Protestant clergyman, is giving Saturday evenings over WEAF and associated stations
at the invitation of the National Broadcasting
Company. The hour is 7rl5 Eastern Daylight
Saving Time; and the series
will run
through
October 5, inclusive.
trcgrrt
Detroit Echo. Among the American
tarians calling on Rotarians
in Europe last
Rosum-
mer is Albert R. Worm, of Indianapolis, Ind., a
charter member of his club. Among Rotarians
he looked up is Otto Fischer, of Stuttgart, Germany, a former director of Rotary International,
with whom a friendship was begun at the De-
troit convention in
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1934.
Nt**
Pulitzer Prize Man. Rotarian Arthur W.
Thompson, auctioneer of Lincoln, Nebr., is
wearing the sort of grin that all "cornhuskers"
do when the crops are up to expectations-or
better. The reason is that his son, Elwood
"fack," is one of three graduates of the School
of fournalism of Columbia University to be
awarded a $1,500 Pulitzer travelling scholarship.
fack is, as this is written, on the high
seas,
Europe-bound, his bride accompanying him.
***
English for a Fortnight. "Four pretty
daughters of Greater Boston Rotarians," so the
Boston Traaeller reports, were entertained for
two weeks as adopted daughters in English families, last summer, after which they made a trip
ttr the Continent. The young ladies are Ellen,
daughter of Albert Northrop, vice president of
S. S. Pierce Co.; Marjorie, daughter of Kirvin
Dunton, president of the Doten-Dunton Desk
Co.; I(ene, daughter of Leon Hicks, treasurer of
Hicks & Dodges Co.; and Ida, daughter of H.
W. Litchfield, president of the Seven Oaks
Dairy. They were members of a party selected
by the International Friendship league, which
had cooperation in the project from several Eng-
lish Rotarians and their wives.
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SEPTEMBER, T935
Constitution and By-Laws-Bartley N. Holt-
to Seattle, take the train to
San Francisco and then the Matson linet Mari'
to Victoria,
posa
come
to Sydney."
*
*
ham (law---commercial), 70 Wellington, N.,
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada; Karl F. Barfield
*
(sanitoria), 2100 East Speedway, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.; Clinton F. Karstaedt (newspaper
publishing), 4L3-I7 Pleasant Street. Mail address: Box 741, Beloit; Wisc., U.S.A.
Rotary Almanack. Hear Ye-and all of that
sort of thing to let it be known that below is
a list of important Rotary International
events
(committee meetings unless otherwise stated)
for the two months ensuing:
September: 4, Magezino Chicago; 5, International Service, Zurich, Switzedand; 5, Extension,
Chicago; 9, Publicity Conference, Chicago; 12'
European Advisory, Venice, Italy; 15, Regional
Conference, Venice, Italy; 16, Foundation Promotion, Chicago; 25, Canadia;n Advisory, Chicago; 28, Convention, Atlantic City' N. f.
October: 9, Boys' Work, Chicago; 11, Community Service; 14, Vocational Service; 22, Club
Service; 24, Investment; 24, Finance; 28, Aims
and Objects-all in*ChicaSo.
Young, But-. Perhaps the youngest Rotarian to become mayor of a city is Albert Graves,
of Hope, Ark. He was born in 1909, attended
Hendrix College and Harvard Law School, and
was admitted to the bar and to the local Rotary
club in 1933. The following year he served as
president. He was elected mayor of Hope last
i& n *
April.
Medals. Two of the fifty-seven members of
the Rotary Club of Port Arthur, Canada, have
been signally honored by His Maiesty, King
George V, by presentation of |ubilee medals.
These Rotarians are Hon. D. f. Cowan, M. P.'
holding the classification of general law practice, and George Gibbon, whose classification is
groceries retailing.
i& n
,r
Rotary Committees-Ed. R. Johnson, president of Rotary International, announces the following committees for the year 1935'36. The
chairman,
in
each case, is the man named first.
Aims and Objects-Robert F. Phillips (pub-
lic utilities attorney), 307 Public Service Build'
ing. (Mail address: Box 505), Asheville, N. C.'
U.S.A. ; Maurice Duperrey (abrasives manufactur-
ing), 19, rue de Paradis, Paris, France; Walter
D. Head (education-private schools), Montclair
Academy, Montclair, N. 1., U.S.A.; Will R.
Manier, Jr. (general law practice), Baxter Building, Nashville, Tenn., U.S.A.; Herbert K. Walton
(capital investments), 304 Albert's Building, San
Rafael, Calif., U.S.A.
Club Service Committe*Herbert K. Walton (capital investments)' 304 Albert's Building
San Rafael, Calif., U.S.A.; Karel Neuwirt (sur-
gery), Bratislavskd 2, Brn6,
Czechoslovakia;
William N. Phillips (insurance actuary), Modern
Woodmen Building, Rock Island, Ill., U.S.A.;
Carlos P. Romulo (newspaper publishing),
T.V.T. Publications, T.V.T. Building, Manila,
Philippine Islands, 306 Vermont, Malate, Manila;
Clifford I. Shafer (re6ned oil products distributing), P. & L. E.R.R. & Harrison St., McKeesport,
Pa., U.S.A.
Vocational Service-Walter D. Head (eduprivate schools), Montclair Academy,
cation
- N. I., U.S.A.; Fred Coulson (teleMontclair,
phone service), Brown Building, Abilene, Kans.,
U.S.A.; fames S. Dunwoody (municipal water
service), Short and Chestnut Streets, Erie, Pa.,
U.S.A.; William B. Hislop (engraving), 9, Albany Street, Edinburgh, Scotland; Prentiss M.
universities), 142 Pennsyl'
Terry (education
vania Avenue, Louisville, Ky., U.S.A.
C.ommunity Service-Will R. Manier, fr.
(general law practice), Baxter Building, Nashville, Tenn., U.S.A.; Robert E. lleun (trade associations), Room 202, Kresge Building, Richmond,
Ind., U.S.A.; William C. Mainwaring (light
t
Financ+Carl E. Steeb (education-universities), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio,
U.S.A.; Ernest W. Dunbar (rubber footwear
manufacturing), 748 Main Street, Cambridge,
(banking), Broadway and Locust Street, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.A.;
M. Eugene Newsom (general office fixtures retailing), 112 W. Main Street, Durham, N. C.,
U.S.A.; P. L. Slis (savings banking), Ged Boter'
sloot 149, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. (Res.:
Mass., U.S.A.; Noble R. fones
Rotarian and Mrs. Grant L. Smith,
of Shelbyuille, Ky., for whom the
golden wedding bells recently rang.
power service), B.C. Electric Railway Co., Ltd.,
425 Carrall Street, Vancouver, B.C., Canada;
Fred W. Sargent (railroad transportation), C. e
N.W. Ry. Co., 400 West Madison St., Chicago,
Ill., U.S.A.; Thomas A. Warren (educationgeneral administration), Education Offices, North
Street, Wolverhampton, England.
Boys' Work-Robert E. Heun (trade associations), Room 202, Kresge Building, Richmond,
Ind., U.S.A.; Daniel G. Aldrich (penal institutions), Sockanosset School, Howard, R. I., U.S.A.
(Member, R.C. of Providence, R.I.); Winthrop
R. Howard (screw
anchors distributing), 98
N. Y., U.S.A.
Youth Servic*Herbert Schofield (education
Loughborough College, Lough-
Lafayette Street, New York,
-colleges),
borough, England; fohn L. Griffith
legiate athletics), 156
(intercol-
N. Clark, Parlor "A",
Chicago, Ill., U.S.A.; Ray F. Myers (educaliensecondary schools), 25th a Broadway, Council
Bluffs, Ia., U.S.A.; Carl W. Snyder (telephone
service), New York Telephone C-a., 132 Barrett
Street, Schenectadn N. Y., U.S.A.; Earle G.
Thatcher (chamber of commerce), Chamber of
Commerce Building. Mail address: Box N N
Vero Beach, Fla., U.S.A.
fnternational Servic*Maurice
(abrasives manufacturing), 19,
Duperrey
rue de
Paradis,
Paris, France; Arthur Merton (journalism), 13
Sh. Ibrahim Pasha Neguib, Garden City, Cairo,
Egypt; fohn Nelson (insurance-public relations), Room 407, Sun Life Assurance Building,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Luigi Piccione (electroplating service), Piezze Umberto I-6, Trieste,
Italy; Karl Schippert (automobile manufacturirg), Daimler-Benz A.-G. Untertiirkheim bei
Stuttgart, Germany. (Res.: Neue Weinsteige
46.)
Extension-]ames G. Card (tax counseling),
2005 Union Trust Building Cleveland, Ohio,
U.S.A.; Hugh
A. Butler (gtain distributing),
302-307 Grain Exchange Building, Omaha,
Nebr., U.S.A.; Felipe Silva (corporation law
practice), Hourruitiner 34. Mail address: Box
179, Cienfuegos, Cuba; Charles Reeve Vanneman (public utility engineering), 75 State Street,
Albany, N.Y., U.S.A.; Herbert K. Walton (capi-
tal investments), 304 Albert's Building,
San
Rafael, Calif., U.S.A
Convention-Alfred H. McKeown (newspaper publishing), 1959 E. |efferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich., U.S.A.; Ernesto f. Aguilar (plate
glass distributing), Avenida 16 de Septiembre
No. 5, Mexico City, Mexico; Algernon
Blair
(building contractor), 1209 First National Bank
Building, Montgomery, Ala., U.S.A.; Fred W.
Gray (boot distributing), 3, The Poultry, Nottingham England; Robert F. Phillips (public util-
ities attorney), 307 Public Service Building'
(Mail address: Box 505), Asheville, N.C., U.S.A.;
O. B. Sellers (beauty parlor supplies and equipment distributing), 50, Lamar Street, Fort
Worth, Tex., U.S.A,.
Mecklemburglaan 35.)
Investrrent-M. Eugene Newsom fueneral
office fixtures retailing), ll2 W. Main Street,
Durham, N. C., U.S.A.; Rufus F. Chapin (past
service member), 1320 North State Street, Apt.
A1, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.; George W. Olinger
(mortician), 2600 Sixteenth Street,
Denver,
Colo., U.S.A.
Magazin*Robert L. Hill (education-universities), 2L7 lesse Hall, University of Missouri,
Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.; Walter F. Dunlap
(advcrtising), Commerce Building, Milwaukee,
Wisc., U.S.A.; Manuel Gaete Fagalde (notary),
Huerfanos 1235 (Casilla 3113), Santiago, Chile;
Henry |. Guthrie (leather & grindery distributing), P. O. Box 190, Dunedin, New Zeeland;
Harrison E. Howe (chemist), 706 Mills Building, Washington, D.C., U.S.ARotary Foundati'on Promotion-Charles W.
Boll (savings systems), P.O. Box 367, Hartis'
burg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; George W. Bahlke
(life insurance), Metropolitan Life Insur. Co.
of N. Y., 719 Munsey Building, Baltimore, Mary'
land, U.S.A.; H. Wingate Lake (hotels), Hotel
Californian, Fresno, California; Hart I. Seely
(newspaper publishing), 435 Fulton Street,
Waverly, New York, U.S.A.; Bruce Williams
(analytical chemistry), 620 foplin Street, foplin,
Missouri, U.S.A.
Rotary Foundation Trustee*Harry H.
Rogers (past service member), 904 Atlas Life
Building, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A.; Crombie
Allen (honorary member), 617 North Euclid
Avenue, Ontario, California, U.S.A.; Clinton P.
Anderson (casualty insurance), 113 South Third
Street (Mail address: Box 1291), Albuquerque,
New Mexico, U.S.A.; Robert L. Hill (education
2I7 |esse Hall, University of
-universities),
Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.; fohn Nel'
son (insurance-public relations), Room
407,
Sun Life Assurance Building, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.
C.ommission on Rotary fnternational
ministration-F. E. fames (planters
Ad'
associa-
tion), 200 Mount Road, Madras, India; Raymond
f. Knoeppel (law practice<orporation), 5 Beekman Street, New York City, N. Y., U.S.A.; Kurt
Belfrage (financial exchanges), Stock Exchange,
Borshuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Donato Gaminara (civil engineering), Burgues 3275, Monte'
video, Urugueyi
l. Murray Hill
(education-
commerce), 1149 College Street, Bowling Green,
Kentucky, U.S.A.; Charles E. Hunt (general law
practice), St. fohn's, Newfoundland; Edwin Robirrrott (fruit distributing), Castlefolds Market,
Shefield, England.
Commission on Location of Rotary fnter'
national Conventions-Ed. R. |ohnson (rail'
9-14 LibertY
U.S.A. Cable
Hill
(educa-
UniversitY of
42
THE ROTARIAN
Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A.; fohn Nelson (insurance-public relations), Sun Life Assurance Building, Room 407, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada; Clinton P. Anderson (casualty insur-
ance), 113 South Third Street (Mail address:
Box l29l), Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.;
Sydney
W. Pascall (sugar confectionery
manu-
facturing), ]ames Pascall, Ltd., Mitcham, Surrey, England.
Canadian Advisory-fames R. Agar (real
estate agency), 444 Columbia Street,
New West-
minster, British Columbia, Canada; W. R. Allen
(past service), Res.: 4707 The Boulevard, Westmount, Quebec, Canada; Chester f. Decker (general hospital service), 101 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Douglas C. Howland
(bonds), Hotel Palliser, Calgary, Alberta, Can-
ad,a; Charles
L. Wood (education
trade
- Box
schools), Windsor Academy. Mail address:
420, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada.
European Advisory-Kurt Belfrage (6nancial exchanges), Stock Exchange, Borshuset,
Stockholm, Sweden; Paul Baillod (general law
practice), 1, rue du Pommier, Neuch6.tel, Switzerland; (Secretary) Alex O. Potter (Rotary International), B6rsenstrasse 21, Zurich, Switzerland.
The following are members or alternates:
|ean Appleton (education-law), 99 Boulevard
Haussamann, Paris, France.
Ratary's 1935-36 Board of Directors . .
fea-t9d, left jo rie!t-P.
i;,Itl5i.'"ioi.'ffii
8fi1,ilT";T; fuY,;i A
Maurice Duperrey, Paris, France; Kurt Bel-
frage (financial exchanges), Stock
Borshuset, Stockholm, Sweden;
Exchange,
Axel F.
En-
striim, Stockholm, Sweden; Piotr Drzewiecki
(locomotive manufacturing),
7l
ferozolimska,
Warsaw, Poland; Emiljan Loth, L6dz, poland;
Dr. Bela von Entz (pathology), Nagy Lajos
Kollegium P6cs, P6cs, Hungary; foseph Imre,
Budapest, Hungary; Fred W. Gray (boot distributing), 3, The Poultry, Nottingham, England.
(Alternates from R.I.B.I. not yet announced.)
Otto G. Kroeger (periodical
Breiter
W.g L75-I77,
publishing),
Magdeburg, Germany;
Robert Biirgers, Cologne, Germany; Hans Lichtenhahn (book publishing), Freie Suasse 40,
Basel, Switzerland; Dr. Eugen Nienhaus, DavosPlatz, Switzerland; Edo Markovic (commercial
banking), Vlajkovica ul. 3, Belgrade, yugoslavia; Vladimir Leustek, Zagreb, Yugoslavia;
fohannes Martens (newspaper publishing), Stortingsplass 7, Olso, Norway; Eilif Amundsen, Bergen, Norway; Clare Martin (refined oil products
distributing), Sharia Aboul Feda, Zamalek, Cairo,
Egypt; Arthur Merton, Cairo, Egypt; Domingo
Mendizabal Fernandez (highway construction),
Zurbaran 20, Madrid, Spain.
]ose Gastalver Gimeno, Seville, Spain; Karel
Neuwirt (surgery), Bratislavsk6 2, Brn6, Czechoslovakia; foseph S. Zaba, Prague XVI, Czechoslovakia; V. Nogueira de Oliveirl (pedi-
.lrom a ?horogaph ta\en ia
atrics), Pr. da Batalha 12, porto, portugal;
Ermete Pires, Lisbon, Portugal; Christian pen-
nescu-Kertsch (automobiles-retailing), Cal.
Victoriei 53, Bucharest, Rumania; Dionys Ritter
von Anhauch, Cernauti, Rumania; Luigi piccione
(electroplating service), Piazza Umberto I-6,
Trieste, Italy; Achille Bossi, Milan, Italy; Ernst
Prinzhorn (paper manufacturing), l, Mahlerstrasse 7, Vienna, Austria; Otto Bcihler (steel
rnanufacturing), I Hoher Markt 8, Vienna, Austria; G. M. Verrall Reed (building marerials distributing), Trinity Road, Wood Green, London,
N. 22, England; Edwin Robinson (fruit dis-
tributing), Castlefolds Market, Sheffield,
Engshipping
agencies), 24 Quai ]ordaens, Antwerp, Belgiurn.
land; Louis E. Steinmann (freight
Henry Wigny, Li6ge, Belgium; T. C. Thom-
sen (water purifying plants manufacturing),
Kristiansgade 22, Copenhagen, Denmark; Erik
Drer,vsen, Slagelse, Denmark; Marcus Tollet
(news bureau); Presscentralen R.F., Uutiskeskus
R.Y., Glogatan 8, Helsingfors, Finland; C. A. I.
Gadolin, Abo, Finland; Dr. Henry
L.
Visser
(pharmaceutical science), Sterreschans r,veg 26,
Niimegen, The Netherlands; William de Cock
Buning, The Hague, The Netherlands; Walters
Woits (civil larv practice), Blaumana ielA 13,
Riga, Latvia; Karolis Zalkauskas, Kaunas, Lithuania.-THE MeN wrru rHe ScRercupeo.
Chicago shottly after the coruention at Me$co City.
vie presideDr Kenneth
Yia"Yf;*:ff"""iif*'$1'6i:Js,':J;"Sl,.lb,:::.f:B:ii,",sili
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€ Presideor Cha.lei L. rcl,eerer. crn Fmn,;.(6, Cr,ir., U.s.A.: Fjrst
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SEPTEIvIBER, 1935
In few countries does Rotary's worfr among crippled children haue rnore
irnpetus than in New Zea-
land. The late Tom List,
?ast gouernor ol the Fifty-
third district, did much to
stir
th.e moaetnent into
a.ction. T he beautilul
ltouse pictured here, a gift
of W. R. Wilson, neu)spaper publisher,is a home
for crippled children,
typical of whom are the
youngsters in the ?icture belaw. Large endow-
rnents for the care of the
children haue been raised.
Rotaty Arorrlrd
the World
NOfWay
Kartstad visits
were helped
osto
in their effort to complete a four
ffi1":'":'.'?;,;
;ff:::T'#,"'I",,?,'l'#;l
OsreRotarians and their wives of Karlstad, on by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A.
Sweden, recently visited the Oslo Rotary
fi*f;::?,"illllXiu*ot*1":ff:,
111
Club.
:lT
was
glven support'
Austra I ia
life, was given in honor of the Swedish visitors. Youth. Weeft
Hosanr-A youth
Ceylon
luuenile Ofrenders' Needs Are Greatest
Cor-oMsrconcluding, at the end of an examination
of work among children of. the
city, that juvenile ofienders receive the least
assistance, the Colombo Rotary Club recently
made plans to provide amusement and guidance
for such children.
China
Shelter for Ricftsha Men
Auov-Though it is little more than a year
old, the Amoy Rotary Club has already made
several contributions to the welfare of the community. A shelter for ricksha men has been built
and is being maintained at a cost of $50 per
month by the club, and a number of charitable
institutions in Amoy are receiving regular support.
Horns for Blind Youth
flaN66He\M-[n imposing list of
achievements
week was the outstanding
feature of recent activities in the Hobart Rotary
Club. A program planned to interest youth included: addresses by Rotarians in public and
private schools, pet and hobby shows, visits of
school children to industrial plants, a beach picnic, special church services, and the distribution
of fruit and flowers to children in hospitals.
Spur to Attendance
Nonrn SvDNEv-A beautiful uophy
bearing
the Rotary wheel was recently presented to District Seventy-six of Rotary International by Athol
fohnson, immediate past president of the North
Sydney Rotary Club. The club which attains
the highest aggregate attendance in the district
during the year is to be awarded the cup at the
annual district assembly.
Milft for Needy Children
Gprr-oNc-Learning about two years ago that
needy children of the city lacked sufficient milk,
the Geelong Rotary Club began the distribution
of fresh,milk free of charge among them at that
time. To date 40,000 pints have been donated.
of the past year has been credited to the work
of the Community Service Committee 'of the
Latvia
Hangchow Rotary Club. Musical instruments for
thi formation of a band were purchased for students in a local institution for the blind. A bed
for the use of sick students was maintained in a
hospital, . . . Two deaf and mute students
Intercountry
Rotary Clubs of Suomi-Finland,
Estonia,
Latvia, and Lithuania were represented in a
meeting of Rotarians from the four Baltic states
held in Riga, Latvia, during the summer.
lndia
Suruey City Needs
Q41su114-The Calcutta Rotary Club, ready
to embark on a number of service projects, has
made detailed studies of the needs of the city,
and has completed plans to help in clearing the
slums, in solving the beggar problem, and in
controlling infectious diseases, . A safetyfirst movement and a vocational guidance service
have already been initiated.
Cermany
Honor Rotarian Mestrouic
Brnr-rN-The Berlin Rotary club has taken
pride in an exposition of the sculpture of Prof.
Ivan Mestrovic, renowned artist and Yugoslavian Rotarian, shown during the past summer in the Reichstag building.
Netherlands . . . Germany
More than 100 Rotarians, thirty-six of them
from eight German cities, and the others from
ten clubs in the Netherlands, assembled recently in Arnhem, the Nethedands, for a German-Netherlands Rotary meeting. Among them
were district governors, past governors, presidents, and secretaries, and the German visitors
were given a hearty reception. A tour of the
district was included.
Floating Club Entertains
Henrsunc-Rotarians from Canada, Germany,
and the United States met in two unofficial
meetings of the "floating branch" of the Hamburg Rotary Club on the S. .S. Resolute before and
after the international convention of Rotary in
Mexico City. Commodore Fritz Kruse, president
of the floating club, was presented with a Ro'
tary bell in appreciation of his services by the
136 Rotarians attending the meetings.
THE ROTARIAN
44
An
Eagle Scout with lour times as
rnany tner;t badges as he needs is
lohn Cooper, mentbcr ol America's
all-Eagle Scout troo?, of Reno,
Neu. Rotarians-atnong them lohn's
scout tnaster lather, Stephen H.haue sponsorcd the troop for years.
frst
in a
short period twenty-five
of $400. . .
deposited a total
of the boys have
. Children of
the
St. Nicholas home for the blind are supplied
with toys each year, and an asylum for lepers
in the vicinity has received regular support from
. Plans to build a home
the Penang club
for Penang poor are also under
way.
England
Send Unemployed on Outing
WaNoswonrrr-At the invitation of the mayor,
of the six Rotary clubs in this borough sent
one hundred unemployed for a day's outing at a
each
popular resort.
f[,000 to a Hospital
PurNrv-A
f€te held recently by the families
of Putney Rotarians netted a sum of f1,000 for
a local hospital.
Transport N cedy Persons
KrpprnvrNsrrn-A well planned motor-car
service for the beneft of poor persons has been
organized by the Rotary Club of Kidderminster.
Canada
Giue Rides to the Beach
Hewxrsaunv, Oxr.-Throughout the
Union of South Africa
Youth Leaguers Are Guests
Dunsaw-Forty Australian boys of the Young
Australia League, accompanied by six adults,
visited the Durban Rotary Club during the summer. Durban Rotarians invited their sons to the
luncheon, and the young men from the two
countries had opportunity to form new friendships during a trip they took together around
the bay on one of the harbor tugs.
Many of these young men underwent a training
period on St. Johns farm, an institution main-
tained by the Auckland Rotary Club and the
government. In few countries is the work
among crippled children so well organized as in
New Zealand. Large private gifts and proceeds
from benefit entertainments have provided substantial endowments for homes and hospitals
for the children. A fund started by the Mayor
of Auckland now totals over €14,000.
Peru
Dental Clinic . . . TriPs lor Aged
Intercity Friendliness
GERMIsToN-Plans of the Germiston Rotary
Club include the establishment of a dental clinic
for children, and the organization of a boys'club
and, perhaps, a girls' club. Elderly men and
women of the city have been entertained in automobile drives to scenic spots in the vicinity- A
group of singers from the club has appeared
before invalids in a sanatorium here. Among
club members, the fellowship nights have been
Rotarians of Arequipa and Mollendo gathered
recently at Vitor and welcomed to their meeting
a delegate from the Tacna club. Telegrams in
behalf of peace were sent to Rotary clubs at
Asuncion, Paraguay, and La Paz, Boliva. A fund
to buy furniture for the local school was initiated,
and other community services planned.
popular.
Wins Ciuic Recognition
CeneeFor its outstanding
contributions to
community welfare, the Rotary Club of Callao
New Zealand
lobs for 950 Boys
Aucru,rx>-The solicitude of citizens of Auckland for the welfare of unemployed boys and
crippled children in the city began with the work
of the local Rotary club. During t}re past year'
the Auckland Boys' Employment Committee,
which has received the support of the Auckland
Rotary Club and which is headed by a Rotarian,
placed 950 boys in urban and rural positions'
was recently presented
Provincial Council.
Stra
with a gold medal by the
its Settlements
Busy Penang
PrN,twc-A club for poor boys, which houses,
feeds and entertains them and also finds employment for them, has been maintained for
some time by Penang Rotarians. The boys are
encouraged to open savings bank accounts, and
past
summer Hawkesbury Rotarians provided transportation for children to and from the bathing
beach, a service which they began a year ago.
Fair Nets fiS500
OsH,rwA, ONI.-A two-day fair sponsored by
the Oshawa Rotary Club during the summer
was so successful that it netted the club about
$5,500 which will be devoted to the care of
crippled children and to the boys' work program.
Crippled Children Treated
Or::ew.t, Or.rr.-The Ottawa Rotary Club has
continued its help for crippled children through
the summer, holding as many as five clinics
which treated thirty-two patients in a single
month. Wives of club members entertained
groups of the children at their country homes,
the school bus being donated for the uansportation of the youngsters.
Boost Cherry Carniual
CHrrrtwncr, B. C.-When the local boa^d of
uade conceived the idea of a cherry carnival
about six years ago' the Chilliwack Rotary Club
endorsed the idea and helped to raise it to its
present popularity. Forty-eight tons of cherries
are now sold in Chilliwack on this day' Six years
ago the sale of cherries here was almost negligible. In the cherry carnival parade of the past
,rrrn-.r, Chilliwack Rotarians entered a float
which won first Prize.
Austria
Giue Fruit Trees
Lrr.rz-Noting a scarcity of fruit uees in thc
neighborhood, the Linz Rotary Club purchased
and distributed sixty trees, giving a large por-
SEPTEMBER, 1935
45
tion of the number to the school garden. Thc
children, under the supervision of the school
master,
will tend them.
dents from the senior classes of local high schools
The Hawaiian lslands
Camp Accommodates 3,000
HoNor-ur,u-Camp Harold Erdman, which is
attended by over 3,000 boys and girls each year,
has always been given active support by Honolulu Rotarians during the five years of its exist-
ence. Four years ago the club erected a fine
central lodge, and just recently it has been responsible for the provision of an efficient and
permanent supply of spring water.
United States of America
Aduice to College Graduates
Snv,urNen, Ga,.-Members of the Savannah
Rotary Club make it a point to
fully all possibilities for empl
men who have been helped by
Fund, in an attempt to make
while they may have to make sacrifices in their
own fields at present, their future possibilities
are much greater.
Htlp for
Cou
tion is
so Rot
Students Write Themes on Rotary
DavroNa. BucH, Ful.-After two honor stu-
Discouraged
sort of recogni-
nding students,
ve reversed the
custom and have as their guests at meetings boys
who have become discouraged, and are not do-
ing good work in high school. This group is
encouraged to keep on trying, and is assured ihat
Rotarians are really interested in them.
had attended meetings of the Daytona Beach
Rotary Club for one month as its guests, they
were asked to write themes on "What I Think
of Rotary." The papers are reported to have
shown a remarkable comprehension of the purposes and functions
A
of the movement.
Record Hoosier Rotary Picnic
honoring f. Ralph Thompson, new governor of
District Twenty. The picnic, which included the
largest outdoor dinner ever served Rotarians in
Indiana, was held in a nearby state park recently.
A moonlight excursion on the Ohio, aboard a
steamer capable of carrying 3,500 people, climaxed the interesting event.
cele-
Nicftnacfts Fund
KeNses Crrr, Mo.-When they left camp after
a recent session, sons of Kansas City Roiarians
set up a small, voluntary fund which was to be
passed out to underprivileged boys who would
be following them into camp. The
money
bought the nicknacks that boys like. Members
of the Kansas City Rotary Club also contributed
to the fund which their sons had started.
"Let's See" Fund
BnoNx, N. Y.-Through its ..Let's See" Fund
the Bronx Rotary Club provides spectacles for
many needy persons each year.
Underpriuileged Boys to Camp
Dewvrns, M,q,ss.-Four underprivileged boys
spent two weeks at Camp Rotary
in Boxford dur-
ing the summer, their outing being a gift of the
Danvers Rotary Club. This sorr of aid is given
boys here each year.
When prom;nent lapanese Rotarians
e (Austral;a)
Ro-
Will Darfter, tlzen
tralian flag to Dr.
editor
"t
presented an Ails-
K. Abe, assistant
the Toftyo Nichi Nichi.
ANN Annon. Mrcn.-A review of the achieveof the Ann Arbor Rotary Club during the
past year shows that total money contributions
to numerous causes for that period were $1,808.
The sum, raised through a musical concert and
individual offerings, was distributed
among
many recipients, among them a hospital school,
a recreational center, college scholarships, life
guard training for idle youths, and crippled
children work. New activities within the club
started recently, have been the organization of a
double quartet which sings at each luncheon,
and celebration of a field day at a local golf
Yacht and Aeroplane Contests
Rocursrrn, N. Y.-School boys in this city
have been devoting much of their time to building models for a yacht contest and another for
aeroplanes, both sponsored by the Rochestei Rotary Club.
Donftey Baseball Brings Dollars
Clean Speech Contest
SneN.q.NooaH, Pa.-When the Shenandoah Ro-
complete their college work, records of the
club recently disclosed. Many other former students helped by the Fort Worth Rotarv Club
are located in important places in the busin.r,
world.
Gif ts Total fiL,808
tarians observed the fifteenth anniversary of their
club. Special exercises, during which redwood
trees were planted in memory of deceased charter
members, were attended by about 150 persons.
A prize was presented to a high school girl who
won 6rst place in an essay contest on the Thirtieth Year of Rotary International.
of Rotary's thirtieth birthday, Napa
to
time receiving aid from the educational foundation of the local Rotary Club which enabled them
newspaper.
Ro-
bration
Fonr Wonrrr, Trx.-Fourteen persons who
just begun work as new teaihers in the
Fort Worth public school system were et one
have
in a daily
course.
Ponrsrvrourn, Onro-A pleasant way to raise
money for the care of underprivileged children
was discovered when members of the Portsmouth
Rotary Club found crowds of townspeople glad
to pay to see them play donkey baseball. Exchange club members were their allies, Kiwanians their opponents.
14 Teachers Are ex-Rotary prot6g6s
essays appeared
ments
MnorsoN, Irvp.-Madison Rotarians were hosts
to Rotarians from all parts of Indiana and from
clubs in Kentucky and Ohio in a celebration
Filteen Years Old
Nen4 C,rur.-With the international
from each of their pupils. The thirty best essays
were read to the club which then chose the best
seven, and first, second, and third prizes were
awarded. The awards were presented to the pupils in a meeting of the club, and their winning
tary Club announced it would sponsor a public
school essay contest on the subject of clean
speech, teachers and principals volunteered to
help and requested an essay of about 300 words
Shaftespeare
I nternational Good
uill
Pawrucrrr, R. I.-When Pawtucket Rotarians
recently dedicated a Shakespearean garden which
they built in their Grove of Friendship, a com-
munity-wide festival, the theme of which was
international goodwill, resulted. More than
10,000 people representing every race and coun-
try witnessed the ceremony which took place in
the midst of sixty-seven trees which symbolize'
sixty-seven countries in which Rotary has
clubs. Three bands, a chorus of.200 voices, addresses by public officials and officers of Rotary
were high lights in the event. . . . Immediate
Past President Percy Hodgson, responsible for
developing many international friendship projects in his club, recently received a memorial
medal in tribute to his achievemeot in that 6eld
from the city of Budapest, Hungary.
THE ROTARIAN
46
Hickey has stimulated interest in raising artendance records.
It
is placed conspicuously above the
rostrum in the luncheon hall where each of the
club's 104 memb6rs may see.it.
$30 per Child . . .
Dar-Las, Trx.-Approximately $30 has been
spent on each of thirty-five crippled children
handled by Dallas Rotarians during the last
year. In addition, twenty-three cases have been
cases
handled for Rotary clubs outside of Dallas, and
the ladies of Rotary have provided braces and
spectacles for many of the children. Several doctors in the club have donated much time to this
work.
Craft Boofts for Library
BCyS:68+.
W$
Cllnrsoar-r,, Mrss.-Clarksdale Rotarians have
discovered that Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are
among the most frequent users of the city library,
particularly of its handicraft shelf, and have
provided for the purchase of more books on
woodcraft, Ieather tooling, metal working, etc.
The club sponsors a Scout camp in this vicinity
each summer.
"Wagon Wheelers"
SRrrNe, l(aNs.-"Jhe Wagon Wheel Club" is
the title Salina Rotarians have given a group
some
of them
have organized
to
promote fel-
lowship. The "Wagon Wheelers" meet "now
in some one's cabin at a lake nearby,
eat a "dutch lunch," sing, and enjoy themselves.
and then"
Boy-Sized Hamburgers
LJNrow Crrv, Ixo.-[4ore than 200 boys attended a picnic which Union City Rotarians gave
them recently, the fourth of its kind the club has
sponsored in as many years. A coupon clipped
from the daily papers and signed by the pareots
admitted the boys to the popular affair. Caps
reading "Rotary Boys'Picnic" were awarded each
boy, free transportation was provided, and baseball, swimming, and races packed the afternoon.
A boy-sized hamburger supper topped off all.
Young Men and Their Euenings
AnuNctox, Mass.-A young men's club program which provided two interesting evenings
of recreation and instruction per week was the
answer of Arlington Rotarians to the challenge
that there were no wholesome evening activities
for young men in the city. A junior high-school
donated its gymnasium, a physical director was
fairs at the University of Virginia was the scene
of the round table which was directed by Dr.
f. Anton DeHaas, professor of international re-
lations at Harvard University. Contemporary
problems in the economics and politics of Europe
and the world were analyzed, and discussed. Hundreds of Rotarians and their families and guests
attended and were entertained in the Universitv.
Camp Rotary Is Populer
Cnewronpsvrr-r-E, fNpr.-Camp Rotary, spon-
sored by Crawfordsville Rotarians, has become
popular with Scouts of the city during the summer, approximately seventy-five of them using
the camp during each fortnight. Scout tests and
construction work have been their chief activities.
Beach Party for Orphans
PonrraNo, OnE.-Two hundred and forty
Portland orphans spent a
full
young men, Rotarians, and friends recently climaxed a successful year in this work.
afternoon lately
riding on ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, and
miniature trains, in swimming, and in eating free
ice cream at a local beach as the guests of portland Rotarians and a welfare society.
Rotarians Promote Spa
Good Attendence Motiuator
hired, and many speakers were scheduled. An
exhibition and entertainment attended by the
Seneroca SenrNcs, N. Y.-Members of the
Saratoga Springs Rotary Club have observed dur-
ing the summer the completion of the
Roosevelt
Baths, a large health resort built at the medicinal
springs, and a development which they did much
to promote. The project was financed by the
United States government,
Study World Afrairs
SreuNrox, V,r.-{ne of the largest proiects
thus far undertaken by the Rotary clubs of Virginia materialized during thp summer when for
six days they sponsored jointly a roundtable on
European relations. The Institute of Public Af-
Camden,
Neu lersey, educators,
u)or-
ried about what youth in their city
may do with its leisure time, fnd
that Rotary ofrers a.n ercellent solution in its annual hobby exposit;on.
Mowrconarnv, Ar-a.-{ large and technically
complete attendance chart built for the Mont-
gomery Rotary Club
by
Rotarian Harold I.
Though this group has no official standing in
Rotary, almost all of the Salina Rotarians attend
its occasional sessions which have helped the
spirit of the regular meetings of Salina Rotary.
Lunches
lor Undet'priuileged
SnnEvnponr, Le.-For the feeding of poor
school children the Shreveport Rotary Club contributed over $700 to the cafeteria of a local public school during the last school year.
Hospital Bed
lor
Cripples
fecrsoNvrr-r-E, Fra.-{ specially designed bed
for the treatment of cripples has been installed in
the County Hospital by facksonville Rotarians
and is to be used by crippled children who are
receiving help from the club.
Attendance Champions
CurHannr, Ga.-Because the Cuthbert Rotary
Club had, for the fourth consecutive time, the
highest combination of attendance and mileage
at the annual conference of District Sixty-nine,
it was awarded a loving cup to be kept permanently, a cup which all clubs in the district have
been trying to win for eight years. The new Ed
McCuen Cup, presented to the club showing the
highest increase in attendance and membership
in the district in one year, also went to Cuthbert.
Courtesy of Camdeo Board of.Educatlon.
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47
"The Dunes" (aboue) by lVilfred H. Wolf s, Westfield, New letsel, winner of third place in 1934.
"Friends" (center) by G. C. Lundlee, Grizzly Flat,
Califot'nia, and "Industry" by H. R. Anderson,
Pretoria, S. Africa, both unusual tn hwman interest.
Lilst Oiltl!
T"OOt
is yet time for you to enter the annual
vacation photo competition sponsored by THE
Roranten. Photos must be received by the Contest
Editor not later than September 15, 1935, (extension to October 5, L935, for entries from outside
the United States and Canada).
$300
in Cash Prizes
Here is your opportunity to win one of the twenty
cash prizes which total $300. This year's contest is
divided into tr,tro groups-(I) human interest and
(2) scenic-and is therefore especially attractive to
the amateur. For each group the following prizes
will be awarded: first. $50; second, $35; third, $20;
fourth and fifth, $I0 each, and five honorable mention prizes of $5 each.
If vou are a Rotarian, or the rvife, daughter, or
of a Rotarian, you are eligible. For further
son
details see theAugust RoTaRIAN magazine (page 53).
Address
all entries. etc., to:
The Contest Editor
THE ROTARIAI\
35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Ill.? LJ.S.A.
THE ROTARIAN
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Our Readers'Open forurn
visions whereby other undesirable types would
eliminate themselves.
Io closing there comes another thought,
prompted by the writer's seagoing experience.
Why not some sort of standard "Rules of the
Road for Motor Vehicles"l Something as simple
and universally effective oo the highways as the
"Rules of the Road" for vessels at seal
lContinued from page 2f
country it is among the big bus
that you find the smartest bus operators who are neat, efficient, and careful and
who operate their vehicles on time. There are
1. In this
companies
Such standard legislation, even without
would at least establish some sort of
privately owned stages serving the less exacting
needs of outlying districts but they are seldom
the fine modern buses of the big companies;
more often they are converted private cars and
their schedules are only approximately adhered
to. This is the general picture though there are
Winter Haven, Fla.
doubtless many smart, punctual, efficient private
operators.
A
licenses,
national standard of rights, responsibilities and
liabilities for the motorist.
Mrr.rs F. ("Skipper") Sronru, Rotmian
Clarsifcation:
country would be
permitted to work seventeen hours at a stretch.
Whether there is a law against it or not, no
bus company with any sense would allow it. A
driver could not remain at the wheel consistently
day after day at this pace. Accidents would be
inevitable and a company would have no defence. Here again the superiority in efficiency
of a substantial company can be seen; it operates
of the bus company was a Rotarian maintaining
'the
sound, ethical business methods, whereas
old man whom Maurois holds up to admiration would be the outlaw undercutting the
reputable concern by dubious methods and working his relatives far longer than the company
was able
to
do.
3. If
Maurois' picture were even approximately true, it would imply free and open competition and then we reach a rcductio ad absurdum. For, if the privately owned bus could go
into competition with the company bus, why
could not another and another privately owned
bus compete with the first? lnstead of operating seventeen hours a day, a driver would soon
be at the wheel twenty or twenty-four hours
a day. And in the course of time, the drivers
would get together and form a union for their
own protection against such exploitation.
4. On this continent. we have travelled far
from this state of affairs,. for in most states in
the United States and provinces of Canada something in the nature of a certificate of convenience and necessity is issued by the government
permitting a bus or line of buses to operate.
This is the inevitable method whereby the public
is protected against the chaos and danger of
life and limb of open competition.
5. Maurois says "they made it their business
not to be overtaken." This is a sentence that no
bus company on this continent would enjoy having applied to it. Private automobiles here make
much better time than buses, largely because
bus companies have determined to live down the
accusation, more or less false, that they bog
the roads and push other cars off.
6. Nowhere more than in talking about the
speed of picking up passengers does Maurois
show that he is "all wet." He is on the horns
of a dilemma. If he
says
that the old man's
bus travels on schedule time. he can't also have
the passengers board and alight with lightning-
like rapidity. Here is why: A
schedule must
be sufficiently ample to allow for the maximum
traffic. Traffic varies from day to day. If he
has just sufficient time to get on board twenty
passengers,
passengers.
he won't have enough for thirty
If he allows time for serviog thirty
Word on 'Town Bullies'
TARIAN
on the above subject, I'm fully in accord
that no person should be permitted to operate
a motor vehicle on public highways without
being fully qualified by a test examination, which
Photo: NationNl Safety Council
That snooty felloat, Mr. Road Hog.
Its
You would probably find that the marager
Insurance
Will Licensing Motorists Cut Motor Accidentsl
After carefully reading both articles (Roy F.
Britton and Sidney f. Williams) in the fuly Ro-
2. No bus operator in this
under rigid rules and regular working sheets.
employees work, say, an eight-hour day or
drive a maximum of so many miles.
Lile
passengers, he must
twenty passengers.
kill
erate one small bus.
I suspect that at times
time when he has only
7. There is something the matter with the
picture when three men are necessary to opwill
there
be more crew than passengers, in which
event the old man would put his car in the
gerage while the company bus, operating on
rigid schedules would be left to pick up the stray
traffic which would not pay for the operating
expenses of the trip.
This is just an example of the fanciful exaggeration that is permeating our mass psychology
today. "Big business is always bad;" "soak
the corporations," and such like. I am surprised
at Maurois giving such a superficial picture and
pandering to such infantile tastes as in this
article.
f. Lrcnraoov,
Rotarint
Classifcation: Electic Light and Pouer
Vancouver, B. C., Canada
'At Mercy of the Boorish'
The monthly
discussion
in the |uly issue
(Let's License the Motorist) promprs the follow-
would include medical examination as well.
Destruction and shortening of human life by
automobile accidents is a national and serious
problem and everything possible should be done
in order to eftect reduction in automobile accidents which would have considerable effect in
reducing not only loss and maiming of human
life, but property damage as well and insurance
premium coverage to the careful drivers.
There is another thing I observed in my experience of driving close to twenty ]earg-x
considerable violation of traffic within the town
and boroughs. Stop signs are disregarded by the
people living in d1s leurn-rnore so than by
strangers. I have known automobile drivers
who, because they have political infuence or are
acquainted with the local authorities, have no
fear of being arrested or prosecuted. They shoot
from the side streets disregarding stop signs, in
front of a fast moving vehicle and on many occasions strangers are exposed to hazards. Disregard of the law by these so-called "Town Bullies"
contributes a great deal towards automobile accidents.
fosrnn Wessrl, Rotarian
C I ass
if catio n : Lil e In sar ance
Shenandoah, Pa.
ing thoughts.
Auerage Motorist . . . Slou T hinfrer
The day is here when we must all recognize
that to drive a modern motor vehicle upon the
of driving, it would appear that the average mo-
public highways is not necessarily an inherent
right of citizenship, but rather a privilege. There
must be some adequate legislative machinery to
withhold, revoke, or suspend that privilege.
Recently the Florida Legislature fumbled over
proposed legislatioo to license automobile drivers.
The opposition was largely on the grounds that
such licensing was a curtailment of personal
liberty, as well as an unnecessary additional expense to the owner and driver.
for another two years at least, I, with a
million or so other Floridans, shall continue
to be exposed to the growing hazard, presented
by the partially blind, the partially deaf, the
boorish, the careless, the half-witted, or the
drunken driver; all of whom are granted equal
So,
rights to drive on our roads.
Yet, no person who falls into any of the above
classifications would be permitted to drive a
locomotive, street car, or elevator. Certainly any
legislation for motor vehicle drivers should, to
be properly effective, eliminate those with
physical or mental disabilities which would
create a road hazard, and contain other pro-
From general observation, after nineteen
torist is a slow thinker, because
years
of situations
that constantly arise where common
courtesy
could be extended to others without the slightest
inconvenience.
Situations arise daily where a "string" of
will be running in one direction where none
of the drivers will slow up to give way to one
driver coming from the opposite direction wishing to turn left across this stream . . . In these
cars
and similar instances, courtesy costs little or
nothing and is usually recognized by a friendly
salute when given.
As to penalties for "reckless driving," it seems
strange that none have been instituted that would
arrest the car. It would seem that if a driver
of the use of his, or her, car,
depending on the seriousness of
the offense, such medicine would have a salutary
effect. Such drastic penalty, however, should not
be meted out for minor, non-dangerous infractions of the motor laws.
H,l,Rorp Bnocrrr-sANx, Rotmian
Pres., Mansell, Hunt, Catty & Co., Inc.
Hoboken, N. |.
were deprived
for a period
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SEPTEMBER, T935
Frorrr Storre Ag"
to Rotary
By Frank J. Heyward
Illustrations by Ben Albert Benson
Nr""t. The sun is sinking into a
pool of gold behind a great wooded
mountain whose nearer front falls sheer
for a thousand feet. Below the vast cliff
are rolling foothills, and then a band of
fat forest land bounded by the waters of
a huge landJocked harbor.
Flickering against a background of
gaunt gums and banks of ti-trees is a
note of the mope
hawk far
DAWN.
away.
Once more we see the great
mountain. We are nearer than before. It
towers above us and dominates the scene.
sional shouts lead us to a clearing. Along its edge runs a line
of huts formed of interlaced
saplings thatched with rushy
grass plastered over with mud.
A tent or two stand near
grinning soldier precedes them, swing-
litde rocky headlands. Forests
everywhere, which, but for the
gay sunlight, would be somber, grey, gloomy.
The thud of axes and
occa-
a
large hut built of split palings.
Over it the Union fack's bright
in the breeze. A soldier in
fire around which naked, dark-skinned
colors whip
their hair rolled into little pellets matted
with grease and ochre. And many naked
entrance, for
men and women squat. Some are
streaked with red ochre. Others have
breasti are striped with ornamental
cicatrices.
Their weapons lie nearby on the sandy
bank. They are but fire-hardened ti-tree
saplings and sticks with spear points
formed by stone tools, for these are an
aboriginal, a stone-age PeoPle.
A
kangaroo
is thrown on the
fire.
little distance from the embryonic town.
Tonight the officers have company in
their tent. The chaplain, the surgeon, and
the surveyor are the guests of the evening. Boiled salted pork, roast hindquarters of kangaroo, broiled founder and
flathead appear on the snowy cloth amid
the silver and cut-glass appointments.
White-jacketed military orderlies deftly
serve the gentlemen. Toasts are proposed
and honored. The voices become louder
and argumentative, then finally slacken
into monosyllabic, stammering sounds as
glasses clink again and again.
With arms interlocked, three figures
stagger towards the civil settlement: a
There is no sign of the black inhabitants. The shimmering waters of the bay
ripple on sandy beaches and splash
against
a
scarlet coat and white cross braces, a musket in his hand, stands guard at the
this-let it
ing a lantern that cuts a moving
eddy
of light through the darkness. As the
little procession zigzags homeward the
gentlemanly part of it sings snatches of
be known
Government House.
-isFolk move over the
roads. They are dressed
stumpy
in a style
gone by-knee breeches, stockings,
odd-shaped hats. Now and then
small gangs of unkempt men
dressed in blue kersey march by
under charge of an overseer. Convicts, they are on their way to move
There is an odor of singed hair and skin'
Presently the smoking carcass is taken
off, half charred, half raw. The men
gorge themselves first, the women and
.hildt.tt finishing the rough fare. A few
timber or to hack roads through
the wilderness. No horses trudge
about the street, but a small cart
is being dragged by straining,
handfuls of white grubs and other tidbits are then roasted and eaten with
The afternoon hazy with the smoke
of burnt scrub and forest, wears on and
lusty ballads of the barracks . . . This
in the year of our Lord 1804 at the British penal settlement at Hobart in Van
relish. Now and again the feasters stroll
a little distance to a clear stream falling
into the bay, there to drink.
the sun drops behind the mountain. Now
Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
lights glimmer from unshuttered win-
The sun has set, and the twilight
deepens into night. Soon the
men and women and children
lie near the fire in front of
rough windbreaks of
branches stuck into the
leafY
sand.
The fire's glow wanes'
and
the clear chilly night is soundless save for the murmur of
the waves and the melancholY
sweating convicts, a guard behind them.
dow openings and open doors. The military guard and its officers are camped at
DAY. Mount Wellington still overshadows us. The brown clifl frowns on
the seas first as it did in the stone age.
All else is changed.
We are only one hundred
yards from the site of the little
dinner party given to the civil
ofrcers by the officers of the
garrison 131 years a1o, but
around us spreads a city of
60,000 inhabitants. It is Hobart, capital of one of the six
50
THE ROTARIAN
federated states that form the Common-
wealth of Australia. Fine stone buildings
in wide streets traversed by electric tramways have taken the place of the mud
hovels and the wooden goverrrment house
of a century ago.
The convict transportation
system
ceased long years since, and the establishment buildings have become moldering ruins visited only by tourists. Great
wharves and piers now fringe the splendid harbor where once the stone-age men
feasted and fought. Millions of cases of
fruit are stowed in great ships bound for
Europe and elsewhere. General merchandise as well as minerals of various kinds,
including pure metallic zinc produced
by the electrolytic process, pass over the
wharves.
From the spot on which we stand we
hotel. A steady stream of business men is passing through the great
doors, for it is the luncheon hour. In
face a large
the private dining room we see them
again. On the lapel of each man is a
round badge proclaiming his name and
business.
It
is a Hobart Rotary luncheon.
Side by side sit the docror, the soldier, the tradesman, the official. A meal
much simpler than the little dinner of
l3l years ago is spread, yet all is good
cheer and friendliness. The company vigorously sings a chorus and then a chemist
recounts his business experiences, dwellirg on some of the problems of his
Yocation. Short comments from various
members follow. The national anthem
is sung, and the men by twos and threes
move to the door.
As they pass into the sunny streets,
the sea mist slowly drifts across the head
of Mount Wellington's senrinel clifi as
it has for a thousand, a million years. It
is a lingering reminder of the pageant of
striving men who have passed this way,
of that age-old stream of mankind that
came out of the darkness and then vanished after a brief share of the sunlight.
from an obstetrical cause-although we
have had the deaths of two heart cases,
one a mitral stenosis dying eighteen days
after delivery in our own hospital. Our
supplies must all be carried in our saddlebags. Abnormal cases are reported to
our medical director, who gives them
special attention.
Our stillbirrh rate has been a third less
than the rate of the Unitecl States, and
the death rate among infants in the first
month of life, one-third lower than the
rate for the white population
of
Ken-
tucky as a whole.*
Aside from its medical and nursing
work, the Frontier Nursing Service maintains a social service department financed
by the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority;
a
department of vital statistics set up and
for two years financed by the Carnegie
Corporation; a courier service of young
girls who volunteer to carry messages and
people over our vast territory. The Frontier Service has also done a great deal
of work in economic research for remotely rural areas
We are convinced by long residence
and study that the development of forests, fish and game, and local woodworking industries, as well as a play ground
for tourists, is the economic outlet for
our population. Aside from its program
the Frontier Nursing Service is planning
to use its laboratory as a training field
to equip graduate doctors, nurses, social
workers, and economic investigators with
adequate experience in remotely rural
technique both for an understanding of,
and further work in, the vast rural areas
of the United States.
In concluding, I want to touch briefly
on the value for international relation-
When the Frontier Seraice nurse cotnes upon a Kentucfty mountaineer's family in
urgent.need ol medical attention, as the nurce in the aboue picture has, there
is just one thing to do-load thcm all on lter horse and set out lor the clinic.
in
terms .of goodwill of such a
service as ours. _I am more and more
inclined to think that even the peace
societies do not accomplish ar m.t.h fo,
mutual understanding among nations as
such agencies as the international Boy
Scouts, Rotary International, the Nobel
awards,the Rhodes scholarships,the work
of some of the foundations-all of which
ships
l{here fhe frontier Lirrgers
cotiperate with others in recognizing the
values of each and in promoting a com-
lContinued from page
mon purpose.
The Frontier Nursing Service now at
121
and the admirable work done by the
famous Queen's Nurse-midwives and
their medical directors. Sir Leslie, with
his wife, came over to dedicate our hospital. Half of our nursing staff are British and half are American-and all have
received, either in London or Edinburgh,
the graduate training in midwifery required of the rural British nurses. It's a
real piece of international coiiperation.
The most significant phase of our work
is the outstanding success we
have
in reducing the maternal death
rate and in protecting and fostering the
lives of the young children. Each of our
mounted nurses lives in the heart of her
own territory. She goes out at any hour,
day or night, winter or summer, in sleet
and snow and over frozen streams, to
achieved
€very maternity call.
We have now delivered some 2.000
in childbirth without losing one
\\'omen
work among a folk who have
been
stranded among the Appalachians, is the
youngest and the newest in this great
galaxy of goodwill groups. It adds, we
trust, another link between the old world
and the new.
.
SEPTEMBER, 1935
51
fhe Psychology of fellowship
lContinued from page
151
free period prior to the more serious
part of the weekly meetings. But this
sort of release, often makes it possible for
worried men to carry on.
Look deeply under the friendly "josh-
ing" and "kidding" and you will disof all media in
cover the most natural
which men relax and unburden themselves on their personal and mutual
problems. Banter and play are a "coming
up for air" for all of us. And for those
with grievous troubles, like George's, the
friendly atmosphere opens the gates for
relieving mental pressures.
It gives men
chance to get Problems "ofi their
chests" and thereby obtain a new grasp
on themselves. We have all seen this
a
work out: we seldom, if ever, stoP to
realize how psychologically sound and
how humanly important
it
is.
Rotarian told me recently that
he would have been lost during these last
O*t
few years were it not for Rotary. It
brought the opportunity to meet weekly
and to chat with others who were standing up under even heavier burdens than
his. He testified that the manner in which
he saw his fellow Rotarians solving their
problems caused him to go back to his
mental disorders and breakdowns have
found this to be true. We can also add
that troubles vanish, strength to face
them increases, and the "case" is "cured"
very often by the simple means of finding
fellowship, somehow, somewhere, for the
person who feels cut off and alone r,vith
besetting problems about which no one
cares. This is the psychological function
of fellowship. Rotary plays a large r6le
in dispelling loneliness for untold numbers of men today by providing them
with a brief interval of play and by turning a sympathetic ear to their troubles.
I can further vouch for the fact that
fellowship, such as Rotary affords, materially lessens the tendency toward the
act of self-destruction. Suicides are increasing to an alarming extent as the
sequelae to our modern high-pressure
ryit.ttr and curreot business failures.
After investigating more than 1,000 suicides, I have concluded that most of the
would have been deterred if they
people
.been
had
given an opportunity for expression and for seeing their difficulties
in a truer perspective.
I have also talked with many people
who have unsuccessfully attempted to
with renewed vigor and determination. This man had already given
up all other fraternal organizations and
in
trivial when
interchange
such
of
ideas and sympathetic
world, persorts are voluntarily permitting
themselves to be placed in sanitaria and
mental hospitals which are especially
equipped to ward off such mental breakdowns. This may be an extreme measure,
in some cases-but it is their salvation.
How many others, less advanced in
mental disintegration, are saved from
breakdowns by the simple action of the
psychology of fellowship in organizations
such as Rotary, and how many people,
sorely pressed by circumstances, are enabled to keep going because someone took
an interest in them, talked with them,
listened to them, we shall never know.
AS WE SIT
A 60 Year Old Body
I wonder if ever there was a time in
the history of the world when Rotary
was more needed than now. Its aims and
of
fully. After
understanding of their problems, both
real and imaginary. Today, all over the
order to be able to retain the
one most valuable to him.
ideals are always important,
discussed
discussion of the nearly-fatal mental
tangle, the insight of these people usually
has become so clear that they have been
able to see their situation in a more hopeful light and have gone forward to live
normal lives. In technical language, the
discussion led to mental re-orientation.
It is equally true that a large proportion of those who sufler from mental ills
could be straightened out by sirch an
a
IF WE STOOD
businesS
clubs
commit suicide, and I have found that
the motive which was actuating them at
the tirne of the attempt was admittedly
at the Ag" of 40!
lf we siood as we sitl What a travesiy on Nature's
handiwork!
course'
but in days like these Rotary is doing a
real psychological service to its members
and through them to society in general.
By definition, fellowship is the very opposite of loneliness. Loneliness is a terrible adversary for anyone to deal with.
George, in the story I related, was lonely
among all the men in Sing Sing. There
are many fighting a great battle among
the crowds of a large city. There may be
someone struggling with this enemy in
your own family.
A man does not have to be alone to be
lonely. The most terrible kind of loneliness is that which arises from a real or
apparent lacfr of fetlouship ot lacft ol
understanding with the people with
whom a man associates. To make matters worse for the person who feels that
he is cut off from his fellows; he usually
feels this way just at the time when
other troubles and problems plague him.
Those of us who deal colstantly with
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52
Are Too Many Going to Collcge? YesfContinued from page
161
their share of radicals, pinks, and socidists. Good citizenship depends first upon
a knowledge of government, and the
during which he spends a total of only
2,200 hours in class room or laboratory.
He soothes his conscience by assuring
average college graduate knows litde or
nothing about his form of government
or its functions.
Ask him to explain it to you in detail
and watch him gasp. Ask him to tell you
himself that he is building up contacrs
which will later become profitable, as, if
and when, and in the belief that campus
activities really fit him for something or
all he knows about the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution of the
United States and the events leading up
to their adoplion. Ask him the one word
he has never learned to ask himself. That
Xa
is Why.
ITETTING down to cases, ask him to
name all the members of the cabinet and
the supreme court. He cannot do it, yet
his economic and political and religious
freedom is largely in their unknown
hands. Then ask him to name the senators, the congressmen and the members
of the state legislature who are his personal representatives, and finally, if he
lives in a big city, ask him to name his
own alderman and the captain of his
own precinct.
It is a safe bet that the average college
graduate cannot do this, yet he pretends
to be an educated American citizen. In
reality he is a poor citizen as a general
thing, because he side-steps the personal
responsibilities of citizenship. He considers politics a vulgar occupation and permits ignorant but interested men to run
his local government. He yells against
corruption at the top of his voice, but he
seldom works at the polls and he tries
to avoid jury service. In the very recent
past, 'fifty thousand college alumni in
Chicago<nough to swing any election
themselves aloof from the political
-held
arena while a certain type of politician
nearly ran away with the place. And
your town is just about the same!
So if it is true that our colleges have
failed to produce active, intelligent, and
interested American citizens why increase
the production? Why not cut it down?
I believe the second purpose of a college education should be to teach a man
to earn his living. I think the colleges
fail to do this because they do not teach
the student to work. I mean utorft fot
the sheer joy of working. I blame this
upon the general lack of personal discipline in our colleges and the almost complete independence given to young boys
who are usually away from home and
upon their own for the first time.
The average college is a country club
where the average student loafs four years
other, but seldom for work. If colleges
do not teach our boys to be lazy they at
least fail to teach them to be industrious.
Certainly they do not teach them really to
work for the joy of the job.
Proofs? Show rne the average shop or
of6ce that employs fifty. men. Forty-five
of those men are giving their jobs everything they have in determination, imagination, activity, and time. They're "hitting the ball" as hard as they can, first
to hold their jobs and second to
secure
advancement. kss than ten per cent of
the workers in average business organizations are loafing or "getting by." Th.y
either work, or they get fired.
Now show me any college dormitory or
any chapter house of any fraternity having fifty students, and we find those figures are reversed. Only ten per cent of
the students can honestly say that they
"hit the books" as hard as they can with
everything they have. The other fortyfive are doing enough work to stay in or
to get by, and getting by is pitifully
easy. So what's the rise of filling our
colleges with loafers and producing college graduates who have never learned
how to
workl I've had hundreds of col-
lege graduates in my employ, and I want
no more. It takes too long to overcome
the self-satisfied indiflerence rhey learned
on the campus and to teach them to see
that the most exciting and fascinating and
adventurous thing
in life is the joy
of
achievement from hard work well done.
The third purpose of the college, in my
opinion, should be to teach the student to
live with himself and others, and by that
I mean to build a wholesome personal
philosophy and a cultured taste in language, Iiterature, and the arts. Now it is
hardly fair to expect a college graduate
really to know very much after only 2,200
hours in actual college classes, but it does
seem reasonable to expect that he should
have developed at least a taste for better
if it is asking too much for him
to have any actual knowledge of them.
So let's examine the average college
graduate, especially one who considers
himself a somewhat superior person, and
what do we find? His principal reading
things
consists of newspapers and magazines,
detective stories and trade journals. Ask
him to tell you truthfully when he last
read any Dickens, Hugo, Dante, Voltaire,
Burke, Carlyle, Goethe, Marlowe, Darr,vin
or Cervantes. To say nothing of Caesar,
Livy, Tacitus, Horace, Juvenal,
Virgil. Don't let him change the
subject or wriggle into the field of contemporary modern upstarts. Pin hirn
Cicero,
P.liny, or
"The aaerdge college is a country club ailrere the aaerage student loafs four
years during afiich he spends .. . only 2200 hours in clasi room or laboratory."
SEPTEMBER, 1935
53
down, and you will find that he is usuaily
ignorant, pitifully ignorant, of the masters. He read smatterings of them in college, because a little of that was required,
but you will find the average graduate
in literature and really
knows nothing of the subject. He just
has no real taste
pretends to know!
Try him on philosophy and you will
find that he is totally ignorant of Plato,
Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Confucius,
and Emerson, and its a safe even-money
bet that he has never even heard of Mon-
taigne. Try him on poetry' and he
not even name ten great poets of
world, much less quote a line from
tion racket that fails to educate?
college presidents are to blame,
I
thrnk
because
they have ceased to be educators and they
have lost personal contact with students
who might have succumbed to their inspiration, which may be a good thing at
that. They are now financiers who trade
honorary degrees for endowment funds.
But they're not always commercial about
honorary degrees. Sometimes they trade
a degree for themselves with a neighboring president who can use a little honor
mixed with publicity. University
tives have become adept politicians who
the
can get money from state legislatures
when other causes
fail. Th.y
"Even money" again that he cannot name
come builders of buildings, but they have
ceased to be builders
upon which so much of the art and literature of the world is based. If he is not
a musician himself, it is a safe bet that
he cannot name ten great composers and
one composition of each, nor can he call
them by name when he hears them, and
he would fumble hard in trying to name
ten operas.
Artl Why the average college graduate cannot even name ten great painters
nor ten sculptors, much less describe their
masterpieces. And most of them cannot
write down a complete list of the fortyeight states that form the American
union.
Well, what does he know? Very little,
outside of his own business, because he
really does not possess an education; he
only holds a degree. He does not have
true taste or true culture unless he is far
above the average. He only pretends to
have! He knows the trend of the stock
market, he listens to Babson and Kip-
bered seven college presidents among my
personal friends before I wrote this piece.
without knowing anything about economics. There is yoirr typical college
alumnus, the man who was exposed to an
education that "did not take."
n ND
how do I know so much about
him, in case I really do I Because I am
one of them myself, a fair example of a
man who attended several colleges, taking up room that should have been given
to a real student who seriously wanted a
real education along some definite line,
and was willing to work for it. I never
worked anything but the faculties, and
when I left college I went into business
for myself because I was too lazy to work
for anyone else.
Who's to blame for this college educa-
Includes the lundamentals
0l
tio n, Ai rng and
n
ics
I broad, basic, intensiYe Gourse
have be-
ten of the great figures of mythology
linger, he keeps track of baseball scores
and football prospects, he follows Moon
Mullins and Andy Gump in the "funny
papersr" he listens to Wayne King and
Joe Penner over the radio, and talks his
head off about the economic condition
E]IGIlIEERIlIG
execu-
caneach.
ELEGTRIGAT
BHSS
of men. And I num-
They, of course, were the exceptions.
(I
ETECTRICAL SCHOOT
sal that!)
Tt
I-'OLLEGE faculties?
Well, what can
you expect when the president has ceased
to be an educator and has become a highpowered promoter of bigger and better
stadia I Every faculty has its share of
dead-wood prof's who hang on while
younger, enthusiastic teachers who might
really inspire students are sidetracked,
stymied, and silenced by the system. So
they either atrophy while waiting for
their elders to die or work themselves into
the textbook game. Know about that?
Well, it works this way. If you use your
infuence.to get the people at your institution to adopt my textbook I'll use my
infuence at my place to get them to adopt
yours. Simple?
Oh well, what's the use and who cares
America
will be electrified.
Air-condi-
for more men. But they must be trained
in iheory and in practice.
For 42 years this school has supplied
training in the broad field of electrical
engineering. It now includes in its course
the fundamental theories ol all its branches
6s r\rsll-and accomplishes this in mini-
mum time-ONE YEAR. Its record with
industry, educators and graduates is convincing.
anyway? Most people go to college because it is the thing to do, the style, if
you please. Underprivileged parents de-
prive themselves of necessities to
their children opportunities that
give
they
themselves did not enjoy.
And many an
old father who sweats for a living has
acquired a far better education from a
lifetime of reading than the son he
has
sent to college.
Five years from now, Peter Piper will
be at the place where he must.choose
whether he wants college or not. If he
has a yen for a profession, I'll probably
encourage him to go, though
I think
he
would get more out of four years spent
before the mast or tramping through the
countries of Europe. The fact that he
now wants to be a Sigma Nu "like the old
man" will probably have too much to do
with it, but I'll sit up nights to hope and
pray that he misses Sigma Chi. Ah! my
Name
friends,
Address
if he didn't,'wouldn't that
a real calamity!
be
BTISS ETEGTRIGAT SGHOOT
18{ Takoma
Washington,Il.G.
Auc.
Please send me your illustrated catalog with-
out obligation on my part.
State-Wben utriting, pleate mention "Tbe Rotarian"
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54
A country lifte ours needs educated lollouers
Are
as utell as educated leaders, and
roo )lany Going to Collcge?
fContinued lrom page
s.ion. But there is no evidence that the
social wastage arising from mistakes in
excluding talented students would not be
cation has reappeared and has found considerable support in strange quarters, and
greater than arises from letting some try
and fail. The fundamental mistake of all
the processes of pre-selection lies in the
assumption that the "tests" rest on prin-
with strange bedfellows. Some people,
critical of the expense of public education,
discoverr" he goes on to say, "that the
aristocratic doctrine in education may
help out-the education of the best for
higher education-a few . . . gifted ones."
I OR years, some institutions have
to limit numbers by admitting
sought
only students from the first fourth of
graduating from high schools, be-
lieving that they thereby got a superior
group of studentsr-prospective "leaders."
Any one familiar with secondary educa-
tion knows that they were
mistaken.
Some of the ablest students come out of
the second, third, or even fourth quarter
of a class; and the boy in the first quarter
in one high school might have been
fourth in another.
Then came the so-called psychological
tests. These are not so popular as they
were a decade ago. Some of them could
show only alertness
or
Nol
171
Washington, remarks: ". . . just now
we are in the midst of a period of reaction. This aristocratic philosophy of edu-
classes
the more with higlter education thc better,"
ciples as uniform
in their operation
as
those of physics.
It
is proper and necessary from time to
time to raise the conditions of admission
to college and university and to change
their character, provided, of course, that
this is not done for the purpose of deciding in advance that certain classes of peo-
ple may not be permitted to try for admission to college. The old tesrs were of
character and thinking power as determined by previous educational achievement. The new ones, or some of them,
apparently partake of the element of social discrimination; they rest in part on
recommendations of alumni and others,
who may or may not be capable of giving
fair opinions. The'obscure boy in a poverty stricken district of a large city is not
likely to secure the requisite recommendations.
smartness, but
these qualities are not proof of thinking
power. They ignore the fact that some
young people develop late. Moreover,
some of the tests are trivial, and the setting of a time limit in some of them
would appear to be misleading.
Some advocates of the limitation of
numbers justify their opinion on the
ground that the fa;lure of so many who
enter college to complete the course is a
"social waste," which should be prevented by judicious selection for admis-
cry is that it is the business of the
f""
college or university to educate the lead-
ers. But who can tell beforehand who
will be a leader of his people twenty years
from the time of his admission to college?
Many boys and girls mature intellectually very slowly. Many a young student
who has been regarded as stupid by one
teacher became a brilliant student in the
same subiect in the hands of another.
The slow boy of today may in some cases
be the bright one of tomorrow. The boy
who comes from favorable surroundings
starts the college race
with some
advan-
tage. It does not follow that he will finish
it ahead of one from a different environment, or that in after years he will be a
leader of the other in business or civic
or social life.
l*
with an educator trom
"O*VERSATIoN
Russia some time ago, the writer
inquired concerning the conditions of admission to Soviet institutions of higher
learning. He was informed that when
more applied than could be taken care of,
the choice was made on a "social basis." It
may be that this thought is in the minds
of a few who think that they should inquire closely into the family background
of prospective students and the cultural
surroundings
in which they have
been
brought up.
Again, a country like ours needs educated followers as well as educated leaders, and the more with higher education
the better. It is urged by some that many
need not go to college to be educated but
can get their education otherwise. Is that
a reason why they shall not be permitted
to go to college if they choosel
From some points of view, the whole
movement towards exclusion is undemo-
cratic and
a blow at the equality
opportunity once regarded as
of
necessary.
The field of education is not the only one
in which fetish worship is present.
The social significance of the great influx into our colleges is that it is the.
manifestation of a demand on the part of
"the
masses"
for a higher minimum
standard of education for themselves. At
first, the working man was thought to
))
SEPTEMBER, T935
need no education for himself or his children. Then he got d1s'igrammar schoolr"
then,the high school, and now he wants
at leist the first two years of education of
college grade. His ambition is fostered by
the demands of industry and business for
better trained employees and by the in-
clusion of individuals on the ground of
social class, family background, psychological tests of mere alertness or smart-
for education which will
enable him better to understand his place
social loafer, the young person who goes
for family ieasons, the athlete for athletics
and duty in our increasingly complex eco.
only, the mentally incapable, who were
nomic society.
formerly discovered by their failure to
pass the entrance examinations, are certainly among those whose attendance in
creasing need
This point was well made by the late
Theodore Roosevelt in an address before
ness
at solving
p:uzzles,
on their probable future
or pre-judgment
success.
Undoubtedly there are some young
people who should not go to college. The
the alumni of Harvard University some.
time in 1906 or 1907. He is reported to
college is of no particular benefit to them,
have said:
weeded out in normal
university has two special functions. The first is to produce a
small number of scholars of the highest
Moreover, there are many able young
people who have a distaste for the discipline which a college education implies.
It is true, too, that many young men and
women have gone through college with-
" LGREAT
rank, a small number of men who, in
science or in literature or in art will do
productive work of the very first class.
The second is to send out into the world
a very large number of men who never
could achieve and who ought not to try
to achieve such a position in the field of
scholarship, but whose energies are to be
felt in every other form of activity, and
who should go out from our doors with a
balanced development of body, mind, and
above all of character which will fit them
to do work both
ciently."
Some supporters
honorably and efr-
of limitation of
ac
tendance appear to think that the policy
may be adopted with propriety by the
endowed institutions but not by the state
universities. As some put it, "there must
be a process of selection, except of course
in the state universities." Such a
state-
ment, it seems obvious, misses the point
of the obiection.
Any conditions of admission constitute
a process of selection, and state universities as well as others are at liberty to lay
down such conditions. But the conditions
should be the same for all applicants and
should not have as th.eir purpose the ex-
the college, or society: They will
be
academic processes.
out becoming educated, and that
some
who have not attended college are better
educated than some who have the degree
of doctor of philosophy. But, when one
considers the lack of. knowledge and
judgment shown by a large number of
citizens on political and economic questions he must be convinced of their need
for more knowledge and better developed
thinking power-not
less!
This need is one which a college education is supposed to
fill. Yet candor com-
pels the admission that when one reviews the actions and attitudes of the
intellectuals, so-called, he is likely to wonder whether it always does so. He may
be convinced that it does not when he
sees the lack of knowledge, and not too
seldom the perversion of the facts of history and experience, to say nothing of the
lack of sound judgment, shown by certain
teachers as well as some products of their
instruction who at times fill important
places in business and the public service.
Notwithstanding all of this, it is doubtful whether there is an adequate substitute for a college education as a training
school for life and citizenship.
Do Schools Cost Too Much?
OMETHING like 30 million boys
and girls are served annually by the
public schools of the United States at a
cost of approximately 2 billion dollars.
There are many people in the land who
view this expenditure of money with
growing alarm. Some have even gone so
far as to start propaganda to abolish the
free public school and establish in its
place a system of tuitions and rates. If
that time comes when education would
no longer be free and universal it would
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mean that the roots of representative government would be seriously injured.
It must be admitted that 2,billion dol-
lars is a huge sum. Yet a few simple
comparisons will quickly show that there
is no great danger lurking in educational
costs. For example, in the same year that
our schools spent 2 billion dollars, the
approximate cost of the administration of
criminal iustice and the losses due to
crime totalled fi2,148,733,000. Further-
more, the number
of delinquents is al-
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far smaller than the number of
school pupils; hence the annual cost per
head for the former was $400 and for
the latter less than $lOO.
Take another comparative angle on
costs in the United States. It is interesting
to note that while public education was
costing the people 2 billion dollars, the
total national income was set at 7S billions, making the expenditure for the
schools less than 3 p.. cent.of the whole
income. At the same time the outlay for
highways
in
continental United
is simply an efiort to show that, after all,
the money spent for the education of boys
and girls is no larger sum than that which
is being spent for other items about which
we give very little concern.
There is a mistaken notion among
many people that the public school system spends the great share of the tax
dollar. Statistics based on data of the
National Industrial Conference Board
show that the governmental tax dollar is
distributed as follows: Education,
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to make
was $2,302,646,000.
In the same year that our schools were
cents; highways, 19 cents; protection, 21
cents; social welfare, 9 centsl general government, 7 cents; and all other factors,
comlortablercool ....
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costing 2 billion dollars, the wholesale ex-
20 cents.
penditure for tobaccos and soft drinks in
the United States was $2,047,415,000. If
one were to take the retail 6gure, which
is the actual amount spent by the people,
this item would total half again as much
and reach nearly 3 billions of dollars.
The most surprising comparison of
costs is that between education and passenger automobiles. At the time when
the bill for the former approximared 2
billion dollars the money spent for the
latter totalled nearly 12 billions. These
comparisons are not made with any view
of protesting the importance of one type
of expenditure as against another. This
Striking reductions in school costs have
been made in the past few years of economic stress. Thinking people must be
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on the alert lest the propagandist bring
infuences to bear which will cut more
deeply into the heart of educational expenditures using the cry that "schools
cost too much." These few instances of
comparative statistics prove quickly that
before any more school opportunities are
taken away from the boys and girls, the
people would better cut down on other
and less important costs.-Wnrrrn W.
Luorrnrex, Dean, State Normal School,
S
prin gfeld, South Daftota,
Boorn Tirrre in frrrope
lContinued from page
241
the latest style and wants it badly.
Modern furniture has come in with
modern costumes; and the old priceless
peasant dresses are being sold for a song.
They are unsuited for factory work and
so they go and the collector can buy
them for next to nothing at al[. For a
few cents (of pre-depression value), he
can get scraps of embroidery that represent much of the finest and most difficult
sewing.
Turkey had to give up the fez, and
so
fervor, the excitement and the speculation which has long been a characteristic
of the New World can find a worthy
parallel in many of these communities. It
all seems to be a law of human natureand so, regardless of needs, regardless of
profits, regardless of bond issues, the
work has gone on. On it went until the
home markets were supplied. On until
higher tariffs were invoked to save the
home market in order to give work for
the inhabitants of these newer and
from New York was purchased a cargo
of used hats and caps. Nothing like it
has taken place since Peter the Great
bigger factories that are appearing on
ordered Russian society to shave in the
name of progress and thereby to enter
Western civilization. Mustapha Kemal
orders the fez dropped, and the secondhand dealers make a profit by supplying
the new demand . . . Yes, we are going
lrND then came the depression. Fortunately, the bulk of the population were
somewhere, but where?
Building, building, building. New
styles, new manners, new customs. They
can guarantee that the old conception of
foreign trade is dead. Th.y can guaran-
tee that the life on the great plains of
the East and in the Balkans is not to
be a placid and a forgotten life. Th.y
can guarantee that the heat and the
every side.
still living on the land. The bulk of
them were still untouched, but there is
a large and increasing number that
are
subject to all the vicissitudes and changes
of economic fate that people not anchored to the soil experience.
Perhaps the time is going to come
when we of America will learn the folly
of hustle and bustle. Already we dream
of how fine it would be if factories were
scattered throughout the country. We
are talking of reforms and of change.
We are trying to preserve old churches
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57
and buildings. We are commemorating
historical events. We are discovering a
pride in ancestry. We are doing, or
commencing to do, all those things
which tend to emphasize stability. We
with cumulative acceleration. Would it
not be the irony of an unkind and iesting fate for the European of 1970 to look
to North America as a refuge from that
thirst for activity that travellers from
to send roots
America for so many years past have been
accustomed to seek in the old countries
in
short, now trying
into the soil beneath us.
are,
Suppose
all of this were to
of the Old Worldl
continue
America's finest and most
ive r si I i e d col I ection.
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service club
17 First Rotary club outside United States
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Strong boxes
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32 Bitter vetch
34 Alieht
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63 Spirit
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69 Lair
71 Brief
Rhine
71 Sick
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90 Toward higher place
91 Last
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wheels
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102 Bv wav of
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37 Relating
18 Evergreen tree
39 So far
41 Is essential part
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A few of the more than tuo hundred Rotarians at the charter-day ceremonies.
Why I Like The British
lContinued ft'om page 8l
few, wrote the best book about the Eng-
lish that I have ever read. It is called
England tlte Unftnown Isle and gives
many reasons why I myself admire the
British. He said that the finest fower
of evolution from the primordial slime
to the present moment is the English
gentleman; and I think he was right. If
I wanted to exhibit to a visitor from
another planet the best specimen of the
human race,
I
should present the English
gentleman.
THE ROTARIAN
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Chicago, Illinois
No other country in the remote past or
present, has so glorious a history
as England. Although England is sepa-
in the
rated from the continent by only twenty
miles of salt water, the last person to
enter England and stay there without an
invitation was William the Conqueror
in 1066. The English know nothing of
foreign armies on their soil.
I admire their capacity for self-governrnent. Their last revolution was in 1688;
it was an absolutely thorough revolution;
the people who made it got everything
they asked for, and their
descendants
it today. Yet it was the driest revolution in all human history. Not one
have
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drop of blood was shed.
I like their genius for political compromise when the welfare of the nation
is at stake. No man in recent political
history was more hated than Lloyd
George. Yet when they found during
the war that he was the only man who
could lead them successfully, they backed
him up. Today, in the general financial
crisis, they manage to rub along somehow with a coalition Cabinet made up
of men with as different views as Ram-
say MacDonald and Stanley Baldrvin.
They seem actually to prefer the welfare
of the country to party triumph.
I like what is called English justice
where matters are quickly yet apparently
equitably settled in the courts; and in
murder and other criminal trials, the
newspapers are allowed
to publish only
what is given them by the court. The
rnurderer on trial cannot become a motion-picture hero.
They have, of course, their sensational
newspapers and their silly movies; but,
in general, I think their special articles,
book-reviews, etc., are more intelligently
mature than ours. In fact, it is like the
diflerence between a university and a
high school. To say in a metropolitan
book-review "this is swell" or "lousy"
would not seem adequate to the British.
Their postal service is far better than
curs. If you post a letter in a Londoa
street pillar-box during the morning, it
is always delivered in the afternoon. A
telegram costs one-half of what we pay
in America, and is equally expeditious.
We should always remember in comparing Englishmen with Americans, that
England is equal in size to Michigan
or North Carolina. If the whole history
and culture of the United States, with its
Congress, President, Supreme Court,
magnificent cathedrals, universities, art
galleries, and the men and women distinguished in public life, or as writers or
artists or scientific investigators, were all
within a
space
no larger than the
state
of Michigan-Americans would be somewhat different from what they are now.
SEPTEMBER, 1935
59
The chief reasons that make the English race what it is, are two: Their civilization goes back twenty centuries and
is intensive. Thomas Hardy told me
that any time he could go into his dooryard with a trowel and dig up Roman
remains; when he sat at his desk to
write, he was in competition not only
with his neighborJuminaries, but with
twenty centuries.
The English are certainly not so ami-
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able, so enthusiastic, or so demonstrative
as the Americans; and I love Americans
for these qualities; we want to be h"Ppy
and Members of Tbeir Families
ourselves, but we want others to be
h"ppy, too. We are appreciative; we like
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to put strangers at their ease; we cannot
bear to have them uncomfortable. But
there is also something about British indifference that wins my respect.
WB
AMERICANS are perhaps over-
eager to have others love us; the English
do not care what any one thinks of them.
The Irish patriot Katherine Tynan used
to say, "If I could only make them angry!
But when I tell them that the Irish
re-
gard them as abominable hypocrites, they
roar with laughter, and seem to think it
is the most diverting thing they
have
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more effective than precept, what a lesson to the whole world is afforded by
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to be like them. But we live alongside
each other in absolute harmony.
I believe that Canada and the United
States are unaffectedly and unpreten-
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whole world will liue about fiue lrundred
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SAVE MINUTES
n'rom a palntlng
't1'll:lllltflll:ll
in
the American trIuseum of Natlonal Elstory.
This year marfts the l50th anniuersary ol lohn lames Audubon, early student ol
ornithology in America, whosc deep interest in bird lore has inspired thousands ol
persons cueryuhere to lorm societies lor tlte study and protection ol wild fowl.
Brs MA RCK Band Birds for a Hobby
HOTE L-CHI CAGO
Checl the points of interest
fContinued lrom page 201
in
Ghicago. Of the leading hotels the
Bismarcl ranlts first in convenient
location. Note fhe distance figured
in minules.
Rooms, $l.SO up-with
bath, $3.50 up. Write
for booklet with
of
map
downtown Chicago.
seed heads are available to feed the winexcept
ter birds. Our grass grows long,
around the garden plot, to provide bird
shelter and feed. The neighbors think.
us careless because our yard looks unkempt. Actually it is planned more care-
fully than most show gardens. This
yard of ours is a bird's idea of heaven,
and we keep it exactly as he likes it.
But such elaborate setting is not necessarily a part of bird banding. A fellow
hobbyist, who is a doctor, Iives in Chicago in a densely populated neighbor-
hood. His yard is very small but he
a great variety of birds, which
goes to indicate that even in unfavorable
surroundings we have feathered visitors
in profusion. The doctor's traps hold,
long enough for identification, dozens of
bands
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species which otherwise would never be
identified thereabouts. Probably every
backyard in his neighborhood has almost
as wide a variety of birds as his.
Ingenuity has soared to heights in
trapping birds for banding. Traps are
used of every familiar sort employed for
catching animals alive, most of them
based on the principle of luring the bird
inside and dropping a door behind him.
But there are many other types. Some
ground birds cheerfully crawl up through
a hole in the floor of a trap, but will
not go down out of the hole. Others
squeeze through a wire-funnel opening
for one-way tramc. Several of my traps
are bird houses. Inside is a perch, to
which the victim jumps. Alas for him,
the floor is on pivots, the perch is offcenter, and Mr. Bird instantly finds himself dumped upside down through the
foor, through a length of stove pipg
unharmed into a wire cage beneath.
But my masterpiece is on a large
scale,
Along the creek bed is a tangle into
which all manner of birds go on their
way upstream. This has a covered ceiling
and sides of wire mesh, which the bird
does not discover until he has progressed fifty or a hundred feet inside.
But there are several attractive openings
in the wire, so he flies for one of these.
Unfortunately for his immediate plans,
the opening is glassed with a pane set
at a 45-degree angle. The bird caroms
down into a funnel, through a length
of stovepipe, into
never injured.
a cage. The bird is
YV HEN the bander makes his rounds,
in the cage, reaches in,
grasps the bird. Thereupon all struggle
he opens a door
ceases.
laxed
The average bird sits quietly
in the hand. A
re-
band is quickly
affixed, the number noted in a field book,
It all takes not over
the bird released.
a minute.
Kind-hearted folks tell me the bird
must be scared to death. Why, half the
time he has to be tossed ofl the hanc'!
Then he fies five feet awav and
sits
SEPTEMBER, 1935
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looking at me as if
I were an old friend.
shoo him, he soars for the nearest
thicket. Some birds come back into the
work together et banding with
the
If I
closest possible understanding. Canadian
traps d"y after
in fact, apply bands bearing the
Washington address, and records are ex-
d"y. One bird, easily
recognizable because he had been mauled
by some enemy, entered my traps at
least twice a day for four weeks. Some
varieties become regular trap boarders.
During the height of the migration season, I have sometimes actually put e
few hundred white-throated sparrows
into cages and hauled them five or six
miles away to release them, because the
birds which had already been banded
were d*y after d"y cluttering up the
changed between Ottawa and Washington as though they were branches of the
same ofrce.
Is there anything about bird banding,
you ask, that does not suit mel Yes, in-
deed. The aching pain in every North
American bird bander's neck is due to
the lack of returns from the countries
of Central and South America. We know
that infinitely more of our bird bands
must be found there than are ever re-
traps so that'"newcomers could not get in!
turned. Many of the 'birds which are
rigidly protected against hunting in the
banding is really not a new
I may have led some readers
to suppose. The first known bander was
an aristocratic Englishman who, many
yeirs ago, sought to learn whether the
woodcock bred on his acres were the
United States and Canada are considered
game birds anywhere below the Rio
Grande, and consequendy there should
same birds that came year after year. He
this wholesale shooting should supply an
caught them and banded them with silver rings engraved "S" for the name of
his country seat. Later, banding on this
estate was extended to other species, and
still continues on a grand scale.
But silver, alas, was too expensive for
most would-be banders. Iron and brass
and copper were unsatisfactory. Aluminum, however, solved the problem, for
ideal source of returns and
I.)IRD
hobby, as
it is inexpensive
and light. Now banding is done in Europe, Asia, Africa, and
North America. Some fifteen years ago,
it
came under the wing of the Biological
Survey
in the United
States. Flere, the
individual bander serves as an unpaid
agent for the Survey which supplies the
bands in return for his reporting on how
and when he uses them.
And chalk this up to international
co-
iiperation! Canada and the United States
be hundreds of these bands returned each
year from birds shot by hunters.
From the bird bander's
standpoint,
information-
Not frotn my human friends, lor they
Are shifting sltadows such os I
And soon will follow tne auay;
But from my earth that still must swing
From day to dusft, frotn darft to dawn,
Slow shimmeringon from spring to spring
Through all tlte years when I am gone.
is producing
Volume
and
Profit
:::;:"i;'ji^",;;!:
l]'
closed doots
It
or
f
melt the barrier to a prospect's mind.
Situations
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properly may exist within
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If so the Gits-NIX'E is at
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w
The
is a useful little companion
handy and unusual
your prospect or customer
-so
will want to carry it with
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slogan) on the side of this
knife smiles out at the
user, reminding him of
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and the service you stand
ready to render him.
The
Gdrs-
NIFE
ds also
oaailable
thtough
relinble
stalione/s.
but so very, very few bands come back
from the southern lands. If only we
could induce our friends of Central and
South America, of Mexico and the West
Indies, to let us know when they find
our bird bands, we should undoubtedly
double our total returns, and multiply by
hundreds our returns from their part of
the world.
But all in all, it's a grand game. I
love every minute that I manage to
steal from business for bird banding. If
I could only somehow arrange to quit
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For a Dog to run a free lending library may
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Amos O. Squire, The Psychology ol Fellotuship, was only twenty-three years old when he
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Too Il[uch? is dean of the State Normal School
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M.ry Breckinridge, l4lhere the
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in
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CO.
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The Five-Minute Girl
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Haunted Ground
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An End to
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Farewell to Cuba
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To the Invader
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Old
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