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Folks, this is fantastic, but old Hope has a great
idea. He thinks everybody ought to give U. S.
Savings Bonds for Christmas presentsl
HO?EI
Thanks for the kind words' son. But no kidding'
ladies and gentlemen, those Bonds are sensational.
They're appropriate fot anyone on your list. On
Christmas morning, nothing looks better in a
stocking-except maybe Dorothy Lamour.
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Old Ski Nose is correct. And don't forget how easy
it is to buy bonds-you can get'em at any bank
or post office.
HO?E:
How about it, Mr. and Mrs. America? This
Christmas let's a// give U. S. Savings Bondsl
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LETTERS FROM
OF THE ROTARIAN
Books Come from Far and Wide
Reports Ar.rov G. Wrr,rrsor.r
Director of Li,brarE Serui,ces
Bibli,ot e ca B en jamin
Franklin
Menico City, Mer,ico
We deeply appreciate your thoughtfulness in sending us Tnn RorlnrlN for
September, and we congratulate both
you and Erik Vane for an excellent
presentation as to both story and makeup [see Biblioteca Benjami,n Frankli,n].
You may be interested in knowing
that we have received offers from Rotarians for the donation of books and
magazines from widely scattered areas
in the United States as a result of your
publishing Erik Vane's story. To both
of you, therefore, we are extremely
grateful.
Re: Stories to Tell in Public
Bgr Rononr McDoN,l.r,o, M.D.,
Rotarian
Phgsi,cian
Sarni,a, Ontario, Canada
Apropos the item in Last Page Comment in Tnn Rorenrlu for September as
to whether or not it is "a storv to tell in
public or to publish?" here is "" po"- on
the same theme from A Book of Liuing
Poems, by William R. Bowlin (printed
by Albert Whitman & Company, a Laird
& Lee publication):
Trrnpo Gerps
(From the Arabi,an)
"
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M;lh and Magic Do Wonders
Reports Rocnn M. Wnavrn, Rotarian
B
uildi,n
g -M at e rial
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Duluth, Mi,nnesota
Re t aile
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In a caption under a picture in the
article by Oscar Schisgall, The Bottle on
Your Doorstep [Tnn Roranreu for Novemberl, it is said that "Milk is an aImost perfect food." We in Duluth believe that, and have it in generous supply at our annual picnic for orphans of
our city. One of the wee ones is shown
in the accompanying picture [see cut]
with
the steel back, is designed to
Speed Sweep, the brush
sweep cleaner, faster, easier, and to
outlast ordinary brushes 3 to 1. Arbitrin
sweeping fluid, sprayed on the floor before
sweeping, disinfects, deodorizes, removes srains in the process of sweeping. These, plus many rnore advantages (16 in
all) have proved to be the perfecr answer ro effecdve, low
cost floor sanirarion in over 60,000 factories, offices, schools,
and stores. Mail coupon for cornplete facrs. Miluaukee
Dasthss Brusb Co., J-30 N. 22nd Street, Milwauker 3t lf/it,
III-III-
DUSII.ESS BRUSH CO.
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5t. o Milwoukee 3, Wis.
We ore interested in complete informqtion obout Speed
Sweep brushes qnd Arbitrin sweeping fluid.
A Duluth, Minn., Rotarian
sets
on
cx-
cellent example for a tery young lady.
DpcprvrepR, 1948
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with the President of the RotarSz Club
of Duluth, Hollis B. Rayn.
For 30 years the Duluth, Ctub has
MILLER'S AII.Widih
All. Purpose SLICER
been entertaining children from orphan
homes
there were 175 youngsters
- several rnonths ago.
on hand
Slices foods lhe llEW
EASY way.
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IDEAL' PRICTICAL GIFT.
Ilere's e knife that's pleasing:ly diffsrsnl-6 g:ad8:et every housewife
would enjoy. Those who've tried it
soon flnd it indispensable. NItrN
LIKE IT, TOO.
The perfect slicer for boneless meats,
(sandwich thin) breads, head lettuce,
tomatoes, egg:s, onions, etc. Slices
to any desired thickness-and
STRAIGHT-by simple fing:ertip adjustment. Plastic-handled. with
stainless steel miracle blade. Needs
no sharpenlnt. $1.50 PostPaid.
lniln
Char-
tered buses brought them to the picnic
grounds, where they were plied with
peanuts, crackerjack, sandrviches, ice
cream, presents-and milk. The attraction which caught the eyes of the little
folk was a magician, Claude O. Ebling,
a Superior, 'Wisconsin, Rotarian. His
tricks and the treats did u'onclers for'
the guests of the day.
ond furs
Yrlloy Gltt' torih De|lcte
speech
in the United
States.
Re: Naming Businesses
By Fnllvx O. Cor,nv, Rotarian
Neu;spaper Columni'st
Houston,, Teuas
According to the article Who Named
Your Business? [Tnn Rotenren for Octoberl the grocer got his name because
he "sold goods by the gross"-1hat is,
in lots of 12 dozen. This is not a cor-
The Disappearing Cow
Lamented ba X. FAnrtnov, Rotat'iatr'
CIti,cago, Illi,noi.s
Sure I like my milk pure-5,'et I
fondly recall the days before cows went
to college. And one of
the things
Institute, has pointed out that
defects constitute one of the greatest
unmet social needs today, and despite
the fact that one person in every 20 develops defective speech, there are fewer
than 600 qualified speech correctionists
I most hold
rect origin, for the word "gross" has the
primary meaning of "volume," "btllk,"
"quantity." It is from the French glros,
grosse; frorn the Latin grossus, mean-
ing "thick." Hence, the "grocer" (the
IVlidclle English \r'ord was "grosser")
\\ras one u.ho handled foodstttffs, etc., in
against city life is that
kids seldom see bossy.
A neighbor's young-
quantity lots, or in bulk. This refers,
of course, to the fact that the old-time
glocer bought such foodstuffs as flour,
sugar, butter, beans, etc., in large quan-
ster recently went to
the country and his
father says he overheard the lad boast to
a friend that he now knew horv to get
milk. You pull the right horn to start
the flow, pull the left to turn it off!
Oscar Schisgall's The Bottle on Yottt'
Doorstep [THn Roranrnx for November]
is a timely reminder that the milk on
our table is related to cows. The sit-
uation is about as bad as someone callecl
"Armour" put in the Neu' York Sztz a
few years ago:
Tlte milk, tue drinb is gradecl u;ell
And puri.fied, the labels tell;
It is, ntoreouer, Ttasteurized
And, oftentintes, hom og eni,zed,
tities-in bulk-and sold them by weighing out the smaller quantities desired
by his customers.
It is also stated that "haloerdasher"
is "a $'orcl of Anglo-French origin stemming from ltapertas and meaning 'of
unknotvn origin.' " Webster's Neus Internati,onql Di,ctionarE, second edition, explains that "haberdasher" is from the
AngIo-Fr"ench word h,apertas, which
means "a sort of stuff"-that is to say,
a kincl of fabric. After giving the meaning of ltapertas, Webster's states "of un-
knou'n origin," meaning that the origin
And tneasttred i,nto di,uers sorts
Of small contai,ners, pi,nts antl quorts,
By some nteans that toe know is uery
DeTtendable and sani,targ.
In fact, if's
so reuorkecl before
Ttlaced, each ntorn beside our cloor
That use forget just t-ohen ancl ltctw
It's
It
cous.
We Haye Hope, Too
Says Wnr. T. Scnr,rcnrnn, Rotariatt
WRITE
'tt[ti?ii''try
TOQUI
When in Chicago
why not stop at
]IMqIRELAND'S
for
toas connected usi,tlt.a
Seofood Dinner
632 N. Glarh
St.
Ghicogo. lll.
Ciuil Engineer
CIaE Center, Kansas
I read Neu Hope for the Stutterer,
by Charlotte Paul [Tnn RorlnuN for
Octoberl, u'ith much interest. It was
very fine. I believe we have hope ancl
a sequel'to that article right here in
Kansas-the story of the Institute of
Logopedics, of Wichita. It is the first
and largest institution of its kind in the
world devoted solely to speech-correction work. A nonprofit organization
supported almost entirely through philanthropy, it is serving residents of
nearly every State in the U.S.A., as 'lvell
as people from several other countries.
Replesentatives of some 15 I{ansas
Rotary Clubs recently met with oLtr
Club to hear Mrs. W. L. Barritt. of the
Institute staff, describe the work which
is being done for speech-handicapped
children. The Clay Center Rotary Club
is sponsoring aid to speech-handicapped
children in our community and hopes
to assist eventually in placing a fulltime Logopedics instructor on our city
school faculty.
Attention, Sportsmen!
vI
OU con eosily obtoin o full color prinl
of lost monlh's duck cover for your den,
oftice, or sludy. Prinls, reproduced from
lhe originol by Lynn Bogue Hunl, prominenl Americon wild-life poinler, ore now
ovoiloble on heovy peblled poper suitoblc for froming. Send lO cents (United
Stotcs coin) for soch copy lo Deporlment
M, THE ROTARIAN' 35 Eost Wockcr Drive,
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U.S.A.
Dr. Martin F. Palmer, director of the
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RoTARIAN
of the WORD hapertas is unknown.
So the haberdasher was not a seller of
"unknown origin." He apparently was
a dealer in fabrics, notions, etc.
A6t/rc to Staq
Reldx-and Don't Worry
Soys Monror Hur,l,, Rotarian
Wholesale Grocer
olgoke, M as sachusetts
H
Reading Donald
A. Laird's Relax
EFY: _ (4m.) Amerlcan plani (Eu.) European plaD,:(RM) Rotary Meets: (S) Simmei: rWl'Wintdi.
It Does the Most Good, [Tnr Rofor Octoberl reminded me of
"A1," whose picture, framed in plush
and gilt, has been handed down for
Where
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The following verse is my own,
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CDIr{OND A. RIEDER, Gcncrot ,rlodogot
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Tomomou;'s aure to corne in stride,
Without mE bein' noti,fied.
I keep happA at mg chore,
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Pool, Bung€lows, Courts and Apartments. t. W.- Coifai;l
Founder. Rotary Meets Thursday 12:lO.
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hondy
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NEW YORI(
Overlooking NEW'YORK'S Only privote pork
A Scot Eyes a Scot Piper
OBAMNRCY
By Tlrowrts CURR, Rotarian
Lithographer and Printer
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Kodachrome used for the front
cover of Tnp Rorenr.q.r.r for September
is a great shot, showing a piper of the
Scots Guards-not "the Campbells are
coming." (The tartan is the Royal
Stewart, and not the Campbell, as your
title
suggests.)
Someone, however, who knows noth-
ing of highland costume has reversed
the picture or printed it down the
wrong way round in making the blocks
(too much "rotary," in fact). The pipes
are sometimes played on the right
shoulder, but nearly always on the left.
The feather bonnet always hangs on
the right side of the head, never on the
left. The plaid lConti.nued on page 531
DncprvrBER, l-948
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next meeting.
These are the questions:
1. What do we individually contribute to make the public think well of us?
2. Does the wearing of the Rotary
button make any difference in the average citizen's opinion of you as an influence in the community?
3. Does the average citizen consider
it an honor to belong to this Rotary
Club, and, if so, why?
4. Do the businessmen of this town
think that this Club has contributed to
the improvement of business or professional practices? If so, what?
5. Does the community judge Rotary by the individual conduct of its
members?
6. Does the community think of
just
us
as a dinner club that gets together
just so the members can enjoy themselves?
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aqu6
piensan del Rotary club como
organizaci6n local?
Los socios del RotarY Club
de Columbia, Pensilvania, quisieron conocer las respuestas
a tales preguntas. He aqui la
forma en que procedieron
para lograr tal fin. Prepararon 13 preguntas y las distribuyeron entre otros
tantos socios, con instrucciones de tener
Rotaut
to learn them. A set of 13 questions
was prepared and distributed to as
many members, with instructions to
have two-minute replies ready for the
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to
those questions,
and here is how thev set out
Of 3 8OX GIFI)
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Members of the Rotary
Club of Columbia, Pennsylvania, wanted to know the
cote-
rrdneos de usted en su ca'
organization?
answers
otely gift wropped with cord identifying you
os sender, one box eoch will be sent in time
for Christmos, Volenline, ond Eoster.
ldeol Executive's gift for his fovored list.
Orders musi reoch us before December I 5th.
aQUE piensan sus
WHAT do your townsfolk
think of you as a Rotarian?
And what do they think of
the Rotary CIub as a local
7. What does the man who labors
think of us? Will he judge our Club
by what he thinks of us who may be
known as the "boss"?
8. Do our customers or professional
clients regard our membership as a
guaranty of fair dealings?
9. Do the townspeople think that our
community activities are sponsored
merely for the purpose of advertising
ourselves?
10. Do our competitors judge Rotary
by the way we conduct our business?
11. Does the community expect us to
take a more active part in civic affairs
than non-Rotarians?
72. What do our families think of
this Rotary Club?
13. Do other local organizations such
as other service clubs, patriotic organizations, welfare organizations, etc., feel
that our Club has contributed to the
welfare and betterment of the community?
Further programs can be held on the
subject. A more complete review of
local public opinion may be obtained
by redistributing the questions to other
members-until every Rotarian has had
an opportunity to answer one of them.
Besides being informative, such a series
should have some influence on future
activities of the Rotary CIub.
disponibles respuestas de dos minutos
para la siguiente reuniSn.
Estas son las preguntas:
1. aQu6 aportamos individualmente
para que el priblico se forme una buena opini6n de nosotros?
2. zEI llevar en la solapa el bot6n ro-
tario determina alguna diferencia en
cuanto a la opini6n que eI ciudadano
medio tenga de usted como influencia
local?
3. aConsidera el ciudadano medio un
honor pertenecer al Rotary club y, en
tal caso, por qu6?
4. aCreen los hombres de negocios dc
la localidad que el club ha contribuido
aI mejoramiento de las normas que
rigen en los negocios o en eI ejercicio
de las profesiones? En caso de ser asi,
ec6mo?
5. iJuzga Ia colectividad local a Ro'
tary por la conducta personal de sus
socios
?
6. aNos considera la sociedad local,
tomados como grupo que constituye el
Rotary club, s6lo como un club de comidas que se reirne peri6dica y tinicamente
para que sus socios pasen un rato agradable?
7. aQu6 piensan los trabajadores
de
nosotros? iJuzgar5-n a nuestro club por
la opini6n que tengan de alguno de
nosotros, a quien quiz6 conozcan como
el "jefe"?
8. aConsideran nuestros clientes como
una garantia de trato equitativo el que
seamos rotarios?
9. eCreen nuestros coterrdneos que
nuestras actividades civicas las patrocinemos s6lo con el prop6sito de ha-
cernos autobombo?
10. iJuzgan nuestros competidores a
Rotary por la forma en que manejamos
nosotros nuestros negocios?
11. ;Espera la colectividad local que
nosotros tomemos parte m5s activa en
los asuntos civicos que las personas que
no pertenecen al club?
12. aQu6 piensan nuestras familias
de este Rotary club?
13. eTienen la impresi6n otras organizaciones locales de que nuestro club ha
contribuido al bienestar y aI mejo-
ramiento de la comunidad'local?
Pueden desarrollarse otros programas
sobre este asunto. Podria obtenerse una
apreciaci6n mds completa de la opini6n
priblica local distribuyendo las pregun-
tas entre otros socios-hasta que cada
rotario haya tenido oportunidad de contestar una de ellas. Ademds de su ca-
rdcter informativo, esta serie
i,cas
is $2.
puede
tener alguna influencia sobre las futuras
actividades del RotarY club.
Tnp
RoTARIAN
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#wry{Me
voLUME LXXUI DECEMBER, 1e48 NUMBER
I Plur- Gn.olr was
a member of the
Egyptian Diplomatic Service. a
lawyer at the Court of Appeat in
Cairo, and professor of international law at the French School of
Law in Cairo before becoming a
journalist. He entered the service
of the Chicago Daily Ne'tos in 1939
and his first dispatches covered the
development of World War II. After
covering the Nazi collapse from
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You Are the Lawyer (Symposium)
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W. A. Calder, Luis E. Arancibia A., Allison
Ware, Amedee Caron, U Ba Win, and Allen L. Oliven
Comments by
The Man behind the Man Who Gets
Switzerland, he was an eyewitness
of the death of Mussolini. He now
Donald A. Laird
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Sadler the Showman
L. A. Wilke
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Viking Church or Colonial Windmill?
Elmo Scott Watson
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New Power for Europe
Paul Ghali
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Refugee fndustry in Britain
Gendall Hawhins
Ahead
heads the Dai,lg Neuss Paris bureau.
Rotarians in the News
f HnRoLD T.
Tnonres is manag-
ing director and
chairman of the
board of directors of the Maple
Furnishing Company of Auckland
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and Furnishing Retailers ll'r'edo
Group, and was chairman of the
Auckland Furniture and Furni.-,,ing Retailers Trade Group. His
breadth of Rotary experience led
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These Are Four Square Boys
lames Cloyd Bontman
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Capitalize on Your Differences
Raymond Fisher
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Peeps
at Things to
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Argero Booth Collins
Come
Herets Peace on Earth
to appointment as Chairman of the
1948-49 International Affairs Committee of Rotary International.
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This Rotary Month
H.ppy Though Palsied
tTis More Blessed
and Wellington, New Zealand. He
headed the New Zealand Furniture
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Speaking
of Books-
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Harold T. Thomas
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Hilton Ira f ones
The Scratchpad Man
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lohn T. Frederich .
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Other Features and Departments:
Talking ft Over.
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Rotary and the Community.. 4
Vikings in Minnesota in 1362? 18
Human Nature Put to Work. . 2l
How's Your Accent?. ..
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AManIAdmire.
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WarsoN heads the
Rotary Reporter
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Chicago division
Scratchpaddings .
Looking Back 25 Years.
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IEr,rvro Scorr
of the MediIl
School of Journalism of Northwest-
ern University and authors a
col-
umn in The Publishers' Auri,liary,
the newspaper trade'journal which
he once edited. He has written
countless historical articles which
have been syndicated by the West-
ern Newspaper Union.
This month's cover is by
Wnrcnr (from Publix).
SnrNny
Rotary Helps Cupid
Opinion
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Foundation Fund Passes
fr,428,OOO
Kiver-to-Kiver Klub
Prof. Clubdubb . .
Hobby Hitching Post..
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Sripped Gears
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Last Page Comment.
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Good News in Bad Weather
NO MATTER HOW DEPRESSING HEADLINES MAY BE,
MEN OF GOODNOIL1 HAVE GOOD REASON TO BE OPTIMISTS.
By Etrol T. Elliott
St.retatJ, Rotary Clnb,
Ncbrtorl,
lrrd . : Edito, , ^fhe American Fricnd
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L/OMEONE has said that when
Benjamin Franklin sent his kite
into the sky and drew sParks from
the string, he was the first man
in history to get good news out
of bad weather. That is a Parable
of our human problem-getting
good news out of bad weather,
hope out of discouragement, and
optimism out of human defeats.
For one thing, we have not
learned well enough to distinguish between the weather and
the climate, between storms and
the permanent atmosPhere in
which the electric Power is ever
present. A storm does not increase the resources of electricity
only makes them visible and
-it
audible. Human storms, for the
most part, increase the noise and
tempo of evil, but theY do not destroy the permanent truth about
the nature of men and their ability to want and to create a better
world.
Men are caPable of fear, hatred,
jealousy, and war, but theY also
possess a deeP longing for a better world, the dream of what it
might be and the will to helP
make it be.tter- That is their
deeper and truer self and it is the
final answer to the Pessimist who
insists that men must alwaYs hate
and fight.
Rotarians believe, in sPite of
news headlines, that men, in
every nation, if given a chance
can find a new and
lsc t u lffi secure level of life.
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Yet no one, standing
q?
at this point in his(p
tory, can
proPhesY
that there will be no
il* fil t,q,tF,ir$rtAl #
more \Mar. The point
is that though war should come,
we need not measure our faith bY
such storms, but bY the good
news that men want and can
build a decent earth; that theY are
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made for it and that sometime
peace can come-and stay.
It will not be a static peace, for
we need not hope for a world in
which there are no tensions, no
problems, and no conflicts, but
those conflicts can be reduced at
least to. a police action level of
life in the evolution of a yet better world-and who would want
'to live in a world without problems!
Recently I motored in a small
with Sir Ashley Cooper, Governor of Hudson Bay Compony,
over a lake of the Labrador to
Northwest River village-a small
trading post, where Sir Wilfred
Grenfell and his partner, Dr. Padden, had given their lives in seruice aboue self . While Sir Ashley
talked and ate with the head of
his trading post, I lunched with
the young Dr. William Anthony
Padden, son of the late Dr. Padden. He was just out of the Canadian Navy and getting affairs'at
the hospital organized for the
Winter which would shortly imprison the F ar North.
He told of losing dogs by distemper and his need of finding
others so that he could make hundreds of miles by sled in medical
ministry to the flshing centers. A
boatload of feed had gone down
in the lake, and he pondered the
possibility of being compelled to
kill some cows whose milk was
needed for his tubercular Patients.
Why worry with small isolated
communities in the Far North?
One might ask, why not seek a
metropolis where lucrative positions are begging for men?' Of
course, Dr. Padden would not tolerate the sentimentality of "sacrifice," so called. He is there because he uants to be there. Other
men serve in large cities because
boat
they usunt to, but all can find
something of the same spirit.
Service is interesting, intriguing,
and lures men quite as certainly
as do dollars.
For one brief day I dipped my
sampler into the life of this young
man and brought it up loaded
with a new
assurance and
a
greater hope. As we waved goodby, I knew that I saw standing
by his hospital on the shore one
more reason for believing that the
earth is fundamentally good, that
men are made to serve, and that
they find their greatest joy and
their better self when serui.ce is
aboue self.
-lI HOUGH war
should again for
a time drop its curtain
between
Rotary Clubs of many nations, we
should not give our ship over
completely to the storm, but trY
yet to steer by the Polar north
till the new day dawns. Then we
should again find young men to
help us build anew. We shoulh
also know that what we are doing
now for young men and women is
not wasted, but is a part of the accumulating store of good sense bY
which a new world is being slowlY
made.
We can keep heart even in the
if we know that
in the long run "good faith" wins
and realize thal we are on the winning side as long as we seek and
follow it.
Demagoguery and the sPuttering of little, men, grown fat on
power, are finally exposed foi. the
fallacy which they are. It therefore doesn't matter so much
whether we win or lose for a moment, but it matters greatlY
whether we are on the winning
side. There fs a winning side and
that is the best Possible good
news even in bad weather.
face of treachery
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RoIARIAN
\^/INTER
By Alma Robison Higbee
The n'hite integrity of Winter covers all
While starh trees etch their black on white and stand
r.eaning on the muted wind, the drift and
lall
Of snow along the branches loud across the land
Of utter quiet, then time stands alone
In one alabaster momen\ still as stone.
'Tefirpo Accele tato'
TIME FOR TORPID THINKING
.SERVICE' INTO ACTION TO AVERT CATASTROPHE.
IS PAST: PEOPLE MUST PUT
By Gabriela Mistral
Distingu'is bed C bilean P oet e ss ;
Nobel Prize Vhr'ner in Literature
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praetice of serving is familiar to all; rarely do we find
someone living so apart that he
fails to respond occasionally to
the heartbeat which impels men
to aid or to succor fellorti' beings.
Service as a daily function of living has not for most people become a "constant," or invariable,
inseparate from the natural pulse
of life.
But this is changing. Our postwar age is shaking the collective
conscience and upsetting its habit, with a resultant shift in the
halting tempo of social service
from lento to accelerato.
At this moment there is circulating from country to country a
kind of tacit mandate, not originating from Governments or leaders, a mandate unformulated and
unsigned. It calls us to serve in a
general mobilization and withottt
delay to pass from the tepid attitude to a fervent one. The world
needed to witness the spectacle of
the catastrophe of Europe and the
tragedy of abject hunger in the
Orient in order to change the beat
of its heart, grown lazy by trabit.
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Photo: Pan Amerlcan Unlon
The eall is now for an intense
cociperation, broad views, and
strong action. The industrial
term for it is "working at high
pressure," though the task to be
undertaken runs counter to mechanism. For it is precisely the
frigid mechanism of the modern
world that has brought about the
dehumanization to which our society has reached in a vertical fall.
Service has no rank. It is within the possibility of everYone, of
the thinnest pocketbook and of
the most burdened shoulders. It
is the duty of everyone. For seeing with a clear and open eye, we
must conclude that we are all in
some measLrre responsible for this
widespread distress. All of us, in
a way, are authors of the calamitY
to which we have come through
perversity or indifference.
The elementary idea that only
those can help who have more
than enough has done much harm
to the cause of Service. It is due
to this concept that so many shrug
their shoulders in the presence of
misfortune, personal or national,
that many go their way as persons
free from all anxiety, even rvhen
they come upon a fellow being
(or even their owl1 country) fallen by the wayside. One can count
the magnates and the powers behind the political machinery on
the fingers of one's hand; to rest
on great fortunes or on the governing party while sleeping a
siesta, eyes closed to the picking
of pockets, material and spiritual,
is both hypocritical and
sense-
less. Such evasiveness is comparable to passing by a fire and not
seizing an auxiliary pump or a
lifeline. In the world conflagration of today, whose fi.re is leaping and spreading in gigantic
kangaroolike bounds, all that is
needed are two arms here and
Dr. Mistral addressing the governing
board of the Pan American Union.
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there and everlrwhere, to resPond
in service. Those who turn their
back and flee from their dutY
ffi?y, on their return, find their
own house licked to ashes bY the
flames.
The all-important need is for
numbers. This summons to enroll
is equivalent to the call to the
colors heard by our young men
1939. It is a trumPet
call to civic duties, but as imPortant as the other, it is a challenge
to hear the danger signal and to
sense the need to act quicklY, as
the deer in the forest, leaving the
dust to the thick-shelled tortoiseThis is a task of saving men
and countries, ottr own soul and
the souls of our fellow creatures.
It means savihg the harvests of
food and the accumulated cul-
in the year
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tures, which must not decline,
and preserving that regime of
"bread with liberty" synonymous
with the condition of a "rePuhlic."
Among the wonders of human
resources is the possibility given
us to serve all, including the
whole limbed as well as the criPpled, the monopolist as weII as
the poverty stricken. It is for
each to give the living examPle
of Service, in order that others
may follow. Imitation comes easily, naturally, but it is the active
agent in the forming of habit.
Moreover, there is no one unfit
.
for the career of Service, nor need
there be distinction of ages, for
even the child's mite counts in
the final contribution. We were
made to serve as well as to enjoY
our benefits.
When the genial and wise Baden Powell founded the BoY
Scouts, designing it as an aPprenticeship in Service, he must
have foreseen that we were aPproaching a time when that kind
of cooperation might strike the
balance between life and death
for the world. If Parents and
teachers, in their caPacitY of tu-
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RoTARIAN
tors of the spirit, fail to
make
Service a part of the primer, they
deprive their charges of the essential, the first principle. But
the majority of us do not realize
where we fail. We go on living in
the style and habits not far from
the elegant individualism of the
18th Century or the mesocratic
individualism of the 19th Century.
From the dust of the past came
the mud in which we are now
: ':'' ::'":tr
l ne Joy oI'
fffl
AII Natufe,
iC a desire
to
a" '
senre.
embogged.
It is not so difficult to detect
the needy, the obviously poor, or
those touching bottom. To find
them one need not engage in an
odyssey or endure Herculean labors. The world is teeming with
broken beings, disoriented and
mispbced persons, with Robinson
Crusoes lost on islands not in the
middle of the ocean, but well
close to the coast.
The people of the United States
applied themselves to private
philanthropy before the Latin
Americans did and to something
better still: to the founding of societies not unlike a night watch
which, instead of pursuing the delinquents, goes forth to seek and
find the forsaken before they suffer. Yet we Latin peoples are far
from lacking in the sentiment of
St. Paul's doctrine or in the passion that moves it. We are emotional, and an appeal always
catches at our heart. Rut we have
failed in organization, in the extension and in the continuity of
works of aid-that is to sa-y, in the
application of method and stability to our spontaneous charity.
In the fire and smoke of the
wreckage only the nearest persons are revealed to us. Sometimes we glimpse the truth in
appalling statistics, but we rely
too much on others to repair the
loss. At the root of this habit of
the Latins we may discern the
inability to see clearly through
the srnoke of established attitudes, a conscience easily soothed
and the tendency of intermittent
effort in the ever-present duty.
In our Southern countries the di-
rectors of beneficent societies
must constantly strive against
that kind of spasmodic charity and
occasional or episodic contribution of
aid.
The term "chariDscorvrepn, 1948
ty," that beautiful word, that
burning orb of light, which means
"love," has been losing the fullness of its meaning, gradually
falling from its resplendent height
to the dust of the lesser feeling
of compassion, something which
is entire ,y void of the divine
flavor. It is an insipid, a cold
word, which offends with its
smart. The repugnance felt by
the poor for the most. beautiful
word in all languages comes from
old rancors. We have not given
the chari,tas of. the Apostle. We
have given pity instead. We have
changed the gold in charity to
lead. We have made an trgly substitute of it, which God cannot accept and which He must chastise
as deceit.
We are now being duly chastised with the rebellion of the
peoples. They at this moment are
not asking but are exacting and
are taking with blows of the hammer that smash the steel in the
foundation of the social republican order and the cooperation of
the classes. From the realm of
legends we have now awakened
suddenly and are correcting our
idleness: We Latins are not perverse or foolish; we are forgetful
we must admit-and fitful.
-that
And so a new tempo, the tempa
accelerato, is approaching with
the haste of the eleventh hour. It
is on the horizon, visible, heard,
felt in the air. It sweeps forward
like a wind, beating in our faces;
and now at last an instinctive response spurs us on to the true
chari,tas for the guilty, for the
idle, for all.
Rotary International may well
be congratulated for its clear sight
in having so early adopted the
brief and unassuming motto
"Service above Self." Quietly and
without ostentation, Rotarians
have emphasized not words but
deeds.
These postwar years have been
most favorable to the Rotary
spirit, giving it the opportunity to
spread in
all directions
the world. And
around
it has been blessed
with achievement. Everywhere
we see the cogged wheel-symbol
of the organization-at work in
large cities and small ones.
Symbols have no value until
they become living things, entities galvanized into action in
place of dead figures and scribblings on gold or silver. The Rotary wheel has fulfilled its promise, and in 'vvhat it has done is
promise of greater Service to the
world, once ailing and now
wounded.
You Are the Law yet:
Wb at Woul d, Y o// D o?
Here Are Essential Facts
of the Case: A man had abused and
She became sick and eventually died. FIer
brother meets the husband on the street, draws a pistol, and kills
him in cold blood. There are witnesses-two of them, boys aged
mistreated his
wife.
9 and 11. It so happens these are the sons of an attorney. The
killer asks this attorney to defend him.
Suppose you are that attorney. Remember that the man
who seeks your counsel has committed murder-though perhaps
with some provocation. Remember that your own two sonskey witnesses-are harrowed by the tragedy caused by the man
who now asks you to use your talents and training to get a light
'Would
sentence for him, or, if possible, to free him altogether.
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you take the case and defend the'man?
I \il/ould Not Take the Case
Says
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If/. A.
H:i:;',
rrr
Calder
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IO COnnE to the point at once, I
would not defend this man. While
I realize that every person is entitled to a defense and is innocent
until proved guilty, the father's
moral responsibility to his sons is
the crucial element in this case.
This responsibility I feel keenly
for I have two sons of about the
ages set forth here.
Say that I did take the case and
that my two sons were the crown
witnesses. In their excitement and
out of filial regard, they would
want Dad to win the case. Their
imaginations racing, they would
have difficulty in giving the court
the objective testimony desired. I,
too, would have difficulty in keeping my examination of them on a
purely nonpersonal plane. Justice
would be operating under handicaps. No right-thinking attorney
so involved in such a case, in my
opinion, should undertake the defense of the killer.
The lawyer's moral fiber is tried daily.
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in which a new
client asked me to
case
represent
him
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client. "Would
you really take a case against
against a former
me?" wailed the former client.
"Absolutely!" was my answer.
"Either you settle face to face
with your accuser-you haven't a
leg to stand on and you know itor we issue a writ against you."
If I did not do what my conscience tells me is the honest
thing, how could I face my sons
at the family supper table?
But I Sflould
!
Answers Luis E. Arancibia A.
Criminal Lautyr
tlI HIS case
1 lt's murder in cold blood in broad daylight
Io ate tvo boys, one age 9, the other age 77.
Vallaraiso, Chile
deserves a cafm,
well-reasoned answer. A crime
was committed, but the guilty person was impelled by a strong motive which naturally produced
rage and blindness. The children
of the lawyer who has been asked
to handle the case were witnesses
and are deeply impressed.
In spite of the way in which the
crime was committed, I would
take the defense and would try to
act as a Rotarian should. When
someone asks for a service, he
does so because he needs aid, and
if it is in our hands to help him,
we should do so.
The culprit should be made to
understand his responsibility and
should pay his debt to society
which his act has offended-but
he should be judged by the law.
His defender can only try to lessen the punishment by clarifying
the circumstances, which in this
case involves the fact that he is a
brother of the woman who was so
mistreated by the husband as to
bring on death.
It is the judge who must weigh
the responsibility; the lawyer can
only try to pave tho way for a just
verdict. Imprisoned, the murderer should be guarded against demoralization so that upon completing his term he should want
to remake his life.
The lawyer should make his
children understand that they are
to speak the truth without passion of any kind, thus sharpening
their sense of responsibility. When
they see their father take the defense, the two boys will understand the significance of doing
one's professional duty and of acting conscientiously. Watching the
defense their father is providing,
they will better appreciate the
procedures of justice. They will
recognize, too, that their father
does not approve the act of murder, but, on the contrary, abhors
it; that he is only trying to en-
lighten the case with the truth.
In each of these acts the lawyer
has an opportunity to teach the
delinqurent man and his two chilTnp
RoTARTAN
ity street. Among
,:r
is immediately
vitnesses
anrested.
n In jail the hiller begs the aid of a
y'1
lawyeT-1hs father of the two boys!
dren an objective lesson, and if he
seizes the opportunitY, he can be
sure he will be of service to all.
It Sums Up This VUY
For AIIison T[/are
Lauyer
Chico, CaliJornia
Fr|
I Hn ethical problems in
this
case would be analyzed bY me as
follows:
Any man charged with crime
has a right to a defense. He has
a right to the benefit of a full Presentation of all the facts, all conflicts of fact, and all extenuating
1.
circumstances.
2. Guilt or innocence of a crime
that has been charged are not the
only alternatives. In the case of
murder under our law there are
two distinct degrees: murder in
the first degree; murder in the
second degree. The former is
"NOW
2 "Should I tahe the case or not?" puxTles the lavyer that eve) o ning at home with his sons. If you yere he, what yould you do?
HO\T/ \T/E GOT THESE PHOTOS
how shall we illustrate it?"
That was our question some weeks
back . . . as the idea for this new kind
of symposium jelled.
Photos would do it best-laction
shots that would high-light the drama
of the case which our six lawyers
would be arguing. But how to get
them?
That was when we thought of the
2,50A Club Magazine Committees in
some 20 countries. Maybe one of
them would like to pose and shoot the
photos. We'd soon find out.
Off to the Rotary Club of Winnet-
ka, fllinois, we sent some rough
sketches (those shown below) of
what we wanted and asked if it had
the time and inclination to take on
the job. Back came our answer from
Robert L. Anderson, Chairman.
it read: "You bet! Leave'
it to us." ![/e were happy to.
A week passed-and in came the
Abridged,
three photos you see above, each
a
faithful yet imaginative execution of
our sketches. Excellent !
"There was nothing to itrt' say the
Wiruretkans. They cast peaceable
Harold J. Runnfeldt, a gasoline retailer, as the murderer; happily married Earl L. Weinstock, Jr., a lumber
dealer, as his victim; and serious Laurence Hutson, a sanitarium superintendent, as the lawyer. Ilarold's son
Jimrny, 9, and Laurence's son David,
11, completed the cast. Chestnut
Street, the village jail, and Harold's
home served as "locations.t'
More of these "What Would You
Do?" symposia will appear occasionally, falling within our regular debate-of-the-month series. Posing
down-to-earth problems of business
and professional ethics, they are, we
think, a fresh approach to a better understanding of Vocational Service,
"the cornerstone of Rotary.tt Your
comments in brief letter form will be
welcome.-.Eds.
punishable by death or by life im-
prisonment; the latter, by imprisonment from fi.ve years to life. All
indeterminate sentences are subject to parole.
It is practically certain that under the law of California the killer
in this case would not, under any
circumstances, spend more than
ten years in prison. It is the duty
of the attorney to give the accused
the benefit of the best possible
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presentation of the facts and the
law.
3. As to the problem of the children, the answer is very simPle.
If there is the slightest conflict in
the testimony of the defendant
and the testimony of the children,
no attorney who is the father of
the children could take the case.
It is the duty of an attorney to attempt to resolve the evidence in
line with the facts as given him by
his client. He would, if there is a
conflict in the evidence between
the children and the defendant, be
required to cross-examine his own
children and to seek to reconcile
their statements with the statements of the defendant. At the
same time he must be true to his
'parental responsibility. No man
could assume both sides of a conflict of this sort.
4. We must remember that both
criminal and civil adjudication ttnder all forms of Western law is
based upon aduersarE proceedings.
That is to say, it is the theory and
practice of the law to present both
sides of a case in a partisan manner, to the end that a just judge
or a fair-minded jury may arrive
at the truth.
This may not be a perfect formula, but over the years it has resulted in a high degree of justice
higher degree, I believe, than
-a
any other procedural form devised
by men.
I \flould
Defend Him!
Says U Ba lY/in
Adaocate,
Rangoon, Butma
T
IF rrrE cAsE in question oc-
curred in Rangoon and the killer
came to me, I would without the
slightest hesitation defend him.
Before.my admission to the bar I
gave an undertaking that I would
not withhold my services from
anyone and that I would discharge
my professional duties to the best
of my abilities regardless of remuneration.
According to the lar,r' in Burma,
rvhich is taken over bodily from
English law, it would be difficult
if not impossible to get him off.
The killer must prove that
he
acted whilst deprived of the power
of self-control by grave and sud-
den provocation. In this case the
act of the killer smacks of revenge.
If the husband had attempted to
bludgeon his wife in the presence
of the brother, the latter would
have been justified in killing him.
It would then be a case of justifiable homicide. The point for consideration is: can a ).awyer defend
a person whom he knows to
be
guilty?
One would have thought that
Declares Amedee Caron
Lauyer, Distri ct ll4agislrate
Rinouski, Que., Canada
I WERE the attorney, I would
not assume the killer's defense. In
the first place, an attorney is not a
public servant. He is a professional man who is free to give or
lefuse his services.
Suppose I would accept to de-
fend the accused: I would
be
placed, during the trial, in the
awful position of having to crossexamine my two young sons, try
to make them recant their story
told under oath, and, in my address, ask the court and jury to
disbelieve my own children.
And if by chance the murderer
be not convicted, what would.my
children think of the ways of justice? Would my success in clearing the murderer offset, in my chil72
tegrity?
the memorable reply that
My Answer Is 'No!'
I
lF
dren's minds, the doubtful opinion they would have of my in-
Dr.
Johnson gave to Boswell had settled the question once and for all.
It is not the business of the lawyer
to form an opinion on the conduct
of his client. It is his business to
present his client's case in the
most favorable light. He is not to
misrepresent points. He is not to
make untrue statements. His primary duty is to see that the guilt
of his client is proved in a legal
manner. A physician, for instance,
cannot and will not refuse treatment to an unfortunate suffering
from a loathsome disease on the
ground that she had had an immoral life. So also a lawyer cannot refuse to defend a person
charged with murder even if that
person has made a confession to
him.
Let us take an extreme case. A
man makes a confession in the
course of the trial. Is a lawyer
justified in withdrawing from the
case? Will not his withdrawal
prejudice the chances of the killer
with the jury? Such a case happened in England a number of
years ago. The lawyer, being in a
peculiar position, sought the advice of the judge and the judge
ordered him to proceed. This decision of the judge received the
approbation of the whole legal fra-
ternity.
In the above case, the fact that
the two eyewitnesses were the
sons of the lawyer should not interfere with his rights and obligations to defend. I am sure that
the lawyer who accepts the abovementioned case is setting a high
standard of courage in professional matters.
Client \(rants Too Much
Holds Allen L. Oliuer
'
Lautler
Cape Girard,eaa, Missouri
T
I WOULD not defend the man.
In the first place, I do not prac-
tice in the criminal courts except
in rare instances, but, even if I
did, I would not defend him. I
would not subject my sons to the
harrowing experience of being
caught between the natural desire
to help their father, and their
plain duty as witnesses "to tell the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."
My whole duty as a lawyer
would be to see that the man had
a fair trial.
The average client is not satisfied with that standard, however.
This murderer's desire to employ
me is conclusive proof that he
would want me to use my influence over my children for his benefit: he would expect me to see
that he got more than a fair trial.
No, I would not defend him.
In my youth a man came into
my father's law office and in my
presence asked him to defend him
and wrote out a check with the
amount blank, signed it, .and
handed it to my father. He knew
the man was guilty and handed
the check back, thanked him, and
told him he could not defend him.
The man protested that the standing of my father as his attorney
would be his best defense. My
father did not take the case. The
incident made a lifelong impression on me.
Tsn
RoTARTAN
THE MAN BEHIND THE MAN
\r/Ho GETS AHEAD
THERE'S PO\rER, HISTORY SHO\rS,
IN A PAT ON THE
By Donald A.
Lafud
Psychologist
tTr
I IIn world can take away selfconfidence. But it can also give
confidence. Which will happen
depends at times on so-called innocent bystanders.
Lack of confidence is often a
way of showing fear of failure.
Slight discouragements strike like
hammer blows. But so does a
Iittle
BACK.
encouragement.
The story of Robert Burness
shows how. His young head
swarmed with rhymes with which
he entertained the dunderheads
as they drank ale and brandy in
the cheap, smoke-filled
Then his father became gravely
and as the family stood at the
old man's bedside, they heard him
ill,
direct his last words to Robert.
"Shun all vice," he muttered
in a voice in which the rattle of
death could be heard. "There is
only one of you that I am afraid
for. ."
The old man's glazing
eyes
Then something encouraging
happened. John Rankine, who
was a wealthy farmer and a contemporary of the late father but
a man of jovial temper, heard of
his latest escapades and wrote the
plowboy bard. He offered something more than money, for his
letter bore praise and encouragement and included an invitation
to visit him at his fine house.
Burns reread the letter,
and
began to glow as he went to his
attic room to reply entirely in
verse, beginning:
I am a keeper of the latn,
In some sma' poi,nts although not
tilverns.
Only here did he get encouragement. At home, on the backbreaking clay farm, Robert heard little
but discouragement.
His poverty-dodging father
always carried a Bible with which
he would accost his son at any
unexpected moment and read
condemnations of his son's wbrldliness. As if that were not enough
to make the bandy-legged poet's
shoulders sag with timidity, the
neighbors added their share The
church made him sit in the Chair
of Repentance facing the dour
Scottish congregation while the
parson tore into him for repeated
cases of petticoat fever. The unrepentant young man went red
and white by turns.
This public censure marked a
low tide of self-confidence-so he
drifted back to associates at the
tavern where he would not be
censured. Here corn-haired girls
laughed at the new rhymes made
by this gentle man with the brittle feelings. No one put Robert
Burness' rhymes into print, but
they were soon recited from memory up and down the valley. People whispered that their composer
loved so many girls he could not
tell which he loved the most and
wanted to marry. Burness himDpcprvrsnn, 1948
self was losing more confidence,
drifting downward.
a,,.
With Rankine's letter, the
rhymester passed, the poet Burns
was born.
Under John Rankine's encouragement Burns forgot his humiliations. His scorn and contempt
for the world softened. His selfconfidence began to reappear, fed
by understanding friendship. He
could laugh again. He began to
write verse seriously, to polish
his efforts. His ambition
looked at the stooped figure at the
window, and fell back on the bed,
leaving Robert an inheritance of
pious humiliation and
several
years' unpaid back rent.
Censured before the congregation. Censured at the deathbed.
Robert felt like an unwantedchild.
His only resort against the
dreariness about him lay in his
rhymes. Broke, in poor health (he
had already contracted the heart
trouble that was to kill him), he
still could boast: I rhyme for fun!
Moving to a new farm,
he
changed his name from Burness
to Burns-an affectation,
called it.
some
was
raised; he stopped writing verses
to bring blushes to the faces of
the frivolous tavern girls.
Rankine had given a pat on the
back to this shabby youth who
had previously received mostly
kicks.
It was Rankine who gave him
the confidence to publish his first
little book of poems. Six hundred
and twelve copies were printed,
entirely at the poet's risk and expense. Today one of those copies
is worth a small fortune. They
did not make a fortune for Bobbie
Burns, however; he always had
to make the best of lean pickings.
When word came back from
London that this northern poet
ranked with Shakespeare, a little
more of the stoop disappeared
from his shoulders. He composed
13
with a new energy, and could
finally make up his mind that the
girl he wantet more ihan all the
rest was his long-time dark-haired
Jean Armour, his early love.
A brief ten years after Rankine
flrst gave him
encouragement,
Bobbie Burns was dead, but dur-
ing that decade of encouragement
he made himself one of the world's
Bound, Barbara Fri,etchie, Maud
Maller-and a poem To Wi,lli,am
Lloyd Gami,son, his encourager. . . .
Another story. This one begins
when Alexander Graham Bell was
28, sad faced, penniless, and love-
sick. He knew but very little
about electricity, yet was working at an improvement in tele-
favorite poets. Yet his mother
could not even write her own
name.
With all his money-making, the
finest investment John Rankine
ever made was the encourage-
ment he gave young
Bobbie
Burns. Encouragement which
gave the floundering youth neur
confidence to do his wholehearted
best. That is the only thing for
which the world remembers him
today.
A shy boy on a
rock-ribbed
farm in the Merrimack Valley of
Massachusetts first heard Burns'
poems when a Scotch peddler recited Hi;ghland Mary and Auld
Lang Syne in a rich, vibrant voice.
These verses opened his eyes to
the be4uty that can loe found in
homely things. Young John
Greenleaf Whittier tried to make
similar verses about the New
England life he knew.
Whittier was 19 when his sister
sent one of his poems to the editor of a near-by paper. She kner,v
her brother was too shy to do it
himself.
The editor who received the
poem was the famous William
Lloyd Garrison. He not only
printed it-he added a highly
complimentary editor's note to it.
He did more. He saddled his horse
and jogged over 15 miles of rough
roads to the sagging 2OO-year-old
farmhouse. The would-be poet,
wearing trousers a couple of
inches too short for his legs, en-
tered through the back door, too
self-effacing to use the front.
Garrison had gone out of his
way to encourage Whittier, and
he continued to encourage him by
introducing the long lean farmerwho-wanted-to-be-a-poet to other
editors. Garrison's encouragement
also reconciled the Quaker father,
rvho finally agreed to let the son
exchange a career of potatoes for
a career of poetry. Garrison gave
the youth confidence he needed to
make his lifework the writing of
such homel;r favorites as Snow
L4
--z_l
-\.
1tfrd{'o4
g&ad
"He saddled his horse and jogged
75 miles to the sagging farmhouse."
graph systems so he could make
some money and marry the deafmute girl he loved.
His heart was not in the multiple telegraph on which he was
vrorking. His friends-and his
prospective father-in-law
kept
him at that. But the tall -teacher
of the deaf had a vision of something more interesting to study.
He flgured that if he could vary
current the way. the density of air
varied when sound passed, perhaps he could make an apparatus
that could talk! He had always
been interested in talk, as had his
father, an authority on phonetics
and defective speech-not in the
clack-clack-clack of the telegraph.
He mentioned this idea of a
talking circuit to the friends who
had put up the funds for his telegraph invention.
"There's nothing to it," they
said. "Forget it and stick with
the multiple telegraph. Anyway,
what do you know about electricity?"
He couldn't forget it. And to
make up for what he did not
know about electricity he went to
Washington to visit the man who
for 30 years had been secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution.
Dr. Joseph Henry was 78 then-half a century older than the discouraged inventor. Dr. Henry was
a world-famous scientist,
Bell
tened intently, between
nose
practically an unknown. And on
that momentous stormy March
day Dr. Henry was irritable from
a handkerchief-consuming cold.
The distinguished scientist lisblowings, while Bell told him
his dream of a "talking telegraph."
"You have the germ of a great
invention," the scientist said.
"Work on it."
"I should like to," BeIl replied,
"but I lack electrical knowledge."
"Get it-I'll help you!"
In a blaze of new-born hope
Bell wrote his parents about the
great scientist's interest, and his
advice to GET IT-Bell wrote
those two words in capital letters.
"I cannot tell you how much
those words have
encouraged
me," he continued. "I have lived
too much in an atmosphere of
discouragement."
Under the spell of this encouragement Bell developed his idea
into the telephone. Although his
fame soon eclipsed that of Dr.
Henry., he nevertheless gave the
old scientist large credit for the
int'ention of the telepkrone. "But
for Joseph Henry I should never
have gone on with the telephone,"
he said.
Ahd as Bell's fame spread, he
in turn went out of his way to
give encouragement to unknown
inventors who came to him.
"f don't want to
discourage
him," he would say. "There may
be something
in it."
+*tt
"Confidence is the greatest gift
that one human being can give to
another," said General John Fremont. There is no better starting
point for confidence than to give
encouragement.
But since others will likely not
lavish encouragement on you, it's
a good habit to give it to yourself.
fllustratlons by
John Merrytseather
"Under' this encour4gerreu Betl dercloped his iclea into the telephone."
TnB
RoIARTAN
SADLER
The Showrtan
Here's Hailey-ready to crach a quip or spin a yarn.
,t LT LITTLEFIELD the editor of the Rotary
Club's Tumbleuseed was sheepish and chagrined.
Somehow, through an unkind slip of Fate, he had
lived his 34 years in Texas and had not seen a Sadler
show!
It was incredible to his wife-but aII's forgiven
now. Ye Ed. made good. He saw a show and wrote:
"The Rotary Ann on the hill won't have to salestalk me into attending Harley Sadler's shows any
more-for in addition to the entertainment Harley
and his entertainers relaxed me into a lot of Rotary."
That's what Harley and his wife, Billie, have been
doing for Texas townsfolk for nearly 40 years. Elsewhere, the old-time tent show has disappeared. That
it hasn't in Texas is one of the Lone Star State,s
rnany admitted advantages over the other politicalgeographic units that make up the U.S.A.
The origin of this particular superiority lies in a
country boy in West Texas who got star- and sawdust in his eyes. He was Harley, as you have
guessed. His father dreamed of the lad becoming a
lawyer. But Harley had other ideas. Every time a
Dncprvrsnn, 1948
tent show came within miles of his home, he followed
it as far as he could. Then he went home to work
to get more money to repeat the adventure.
Finally in 1909 he trailed a company so long that
its manager gave him a job. For two years Harley
stuck to it, then on the trouper's proverbial shoestring organized a corrlpany of his own. He specialized in old-fashioned melodrama, and all West Texas
liked it. Then he noticed his patrons sat especially
easy and laughed loudest when he ad lib-ed simple
philosophy. They seemed to like it even more when
the humor pointed to a moral.
Harley took the cue. Soon he was taking current
plays and revamping them to introduce a r6le that
gave him an opportunity for the fun and philosophy
he could turn out so well. His feilow troupers liked
it, too, because while he would be "Tobe" or some
simpie character, they got top billings. So year upon
year, his show pitched its tent in small towns or
played in pavilions in the larger ones, always to
crowds that took delight in modest, clever, always
humorous Harley and his clean fun.
They liked him for other reasons. From the start
he made it a rule he would never play in competition to a church service. He would never permit a
word on his stage that would be offensive to anyone.
And 10 percent of his proceeds always went to some
church or civip organization in the town that provided the receipts. West Texas today has scores of
churches built almost entirely with funds taken in
at Harley Sadler shows.
During the war, 48 of the 65 members of his troupe
were in the service, so he had to close his show and
retire, for the duration, to his home town of Sweetwater. But his talents were not idle. His townsmen
elected him to the State legislature where he served
two terms.
Now he is back on the circuit-with a troupe made
up mostly of men and women who were in uniforms
a year or two or three ago. And Harley is going
stronger than ever, Rotarians say. They ought to
know because they turn out en nl,asse when he comes
to town.
It's simple reciprocity, for ever since he himself
became a Rotarian 2O years ago, it has been a part
of his routine to provide Rotary Clubs with a noonday program. Perhaps there's a special application
in this of Rotary's motto, "IIe Profits Most Who
Serves Best," for being on the program makes certain that Harley keeps up his Rotary atterrdance record. That's something of which he is really proud,
for only once has he missed a makeup. But he can be forgiven that because he has averaged about one and
a half Rotary meetings a week since
he first put the cogged-wheel button
in his lapel.-L. A. Wrr,ro.
15
vrKrNG CH{JRCH?
Or a Colonial Wind,millo
SCHOLARLY SHERLOCK HOLMESES EYE
A FABLED TO\rER IN
RHODE ISLAND.
Scott Watson
By Elmo
'
Historian and loutnalist
if liou're waiting for Rotary International's Convention in Neu'
York City June 12-16 to tour old
Neu' England. For tr,vo famous
scholars-Dr. William S. GodfreS',
an American, and Dr. Johannes
Brondsted, of Denmark-are now
bringing to bear on this baffiing
problem all the tricks of modern
science. Should their investigations prove that Vikings built it,
a chapter in American history
must be rewritten.
The theory of Indian origin is
no\\, largely discounted, but it
cannot be entirely ignored. It
was first advanced by the editor
of a scientific journal, Anti,quities
of America, irt L847 - He was content to "dismiss the subject .
u'ith the simple conjecture that it
is the fabric of remote antiquitl',
intended for a temple of pagan
r,vorship and erected by the process of heaping up earth around
the building as it progressed; thus
furnishing facilities for elevating
the stones, as has been practiced
by the Chinese and other nations;
but the Sachem builders . . died
or failed before the building rvas
er,
"\tr[Ar
is
it? who bu't
it-
and when?"
For nearly three centuries men
have gazed upon a stone tou'er in
Touro Park at Newport, Rhode
Island, and have asked these
questions.
Some have said it r.rras et'ected
b,v a prehistoric race of Indians.
Others have held that this round
tower, supported by eight columns. is the remains of a lvindmill built during colonial days to
grind wheat into flour. But Ixany
believe that Norsemen, ll'ho came
to North America long before the
caravels of Columbus sailed from
Palos, set in place, stone upon
stone, the heavy granite boulders
in its walls.
WiU this fascinating riddle in
stone ever be solved?
There's a good chance that it
r,r'ill-and before r/ou see the tor.v-
rT
I- HIS is slender evidence, irto reach sober
deed, upon which
conclusions about the ancient relic, but it was more to go on than
rveakened by a tradition current
in Rhode Island that the tower is
Fenimore Cooper's The
Three u,teeks u)e usestusard bore
And u;hen the storm LDQr o'er,
Cloudli,ke IDe sau) the shore
This sketchy conjecture
was
all that is left of a mill built in
pre-Revolutionary War days. If,
as a schoolboy, you read James
Red
Rouer, you may recall that he re-
ferred to this tower as the "remains of a windmill." This explanation was given credence by
some early historians. As recently
16
( 1663-66; 1669-72)." This Arnold,
incidentally, was the great-greatgrandfather of the Revolutionary
War traitor of the same name.
The principal evidence to support this theory is contained in
Arnold family documents. One of
these is the governor's wiII, made
in L677, which, in disposing of
certain properties, mentions "my
stone built wind-miln." Another
paper signed by Arnold in the
same year refers to his burial plot
"between my dwelling house and
stone wind-mill" and still another,
a 1677 deed, mentions "ye Stone
Mill." In 1740 Edward Pelham,
Arnold's son-in-law, in his will
also refers to. the stone mill as a
part of the family property.
was possessed at first by those
who believed it was of Viking origin. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, popular American poet of
two generations ago, dipped his
pen in pure fantasy when he
wrote l'is Th,e Skeleton i'n Armor.
You may remember how in it a
bold Viking abducted a beautiful
completed."
fohannes Brondsted, famed Danish
scholar, vho is weighing evidence in
the mystery about Vikings in America.
Arnold, governor of the colony
as 1937, Rhode Island-A Guide
to the Smallest State, one of the
volumes in the American Guide
Series, stated that "it is now generally accepted as being the ruin
of a windmill burilt bv Benedict
European princess and then:
Stretch,r,ng
to
leeusard;
There for my lady's bouser
Bui,lt I the lofty tower
Which to thi,s uerA hour
Stands looki,ng seauard.
Visit one of Newport's leading
hotels today and you will see a
series of mural paintings based
upon The Skeleton in Armor. But
in this poem and these Pictures is
some of the substance (consider-
Tns
RoTARIAN
dition which King Magnus
Ericson of Norway and
Sweden sent to Greenland
in 1355 to bring back into
the church his subjects
there who had deserted the
Christian faith fof heathen
practices. Recently discovered reeords tell of such an
expedition setting out, but
so far no other European
accounts have come to light
to reveal what happened to
it. This expedition was led
by Paul Knutson, one of
the leading men of the
Kingdom. It is Holand's belief that they failed to find
the apostates in Greenland,
who set sail for Vinland
(southern New England),
which Leif Ericson and
other Norsemen had visited
300 years earlier-A.D.
1000, to be exact.
There on the present site
of Newport, says Holand, they
built the round tower to serve as
a church, as a defense against po-
tentially hostile natives, and as
headquarters for further expeditions on the continent to find their
erring countrymen. Holand notes
that its exterior construction resembles closely that of the round
churches of the 72Ih and 13th
CenturieS in Europe and that interior structural details conform
to those in L4th Century Scandinavian fortified churches, particularly St. Olaf's Church in Tunsberg, Norway. Certain measurements of the tower, he claims, are
not evenly divisible by modern
units of measurement, but break
up neatly into units such as may
have been used by Norsemen of
the period.
Especially significant is the fact
that four of the columns of the
Newport Tower rest as squarely
upon the four cardinal points of
Did Benedict Arnold's anceslor build this for a mill? Or was it a Vihing church?
Scientists silting the dirt around old Newport Tower hope to tutn up the ansyer.
Controversy rages over this walled-up
opening in the interior of the tower.
ably modifi.ed, of course, for romantic purposes) of the third explanation about the origin of the
tower.
Two historians are above all
others responsible for the Norseorigin theory: Philip Ainsworth
Means and Hjalmar Rued Holand.
Means and others of his school,
after pointing to the inconclusiveness of the Arnold records, refute
the windmillers with
questions.
If a mill, they say, why should it
have been built where it is? Why
was it fortified? And if built for
the utilitarian purpose of grinding wheat, why the fancy arches?
Holand, after a painstaking study,
stone by stone, is certain that
Longfellow's intuition glimpsed a
bit of truth: that the old tower
was built by Norsemen, not as a
"lady's bower," but as a fortified
church!
Its builders, according to this
Norwegian-born American historian, were members of the expeDpcprvreen, 1948
the compass as it would be possible to determine without using
scientific instruments. This orien-
tation was characteristic of medieval round churches. Other
points of close resemblance between it and these churches include the construction of the door-
way and the windows in the second story (which is more medieval than colonial); a fireplace,
rvhich is one of the most striking
features of the interior; and a recess in the inside wall which may
have been made to permit the insertion of a slab of stone to serve
as an altar.
In his recent book,
1355-1364,
Ameri'ca,
Historian Holand
de-
scribed evidence he has collected
to substantiate his theories about
the origin of the Nervport Tower.
His earlier volume, Westward
from Vi.nland, tells in great detail
why he thinks the Knutson party
penetrated to the interior of North
An expetl studies the Kensington
Rune
Stone-rtov al the Smithsonian,Washin.gton, D.
Sflere There Vikings in Minnesota
O *"
day in 1898 Olof Ohman,
a
Swedish homesteader, was grubbing an
aspen tree out of the soil of his Min-
nesota farm. He was bothered by a
large flat stone firmly imbedded in its
roots. After he had freed it he found
on the face of the stone and along one
edge a long inscription composed of
strange characters.
The next time Olof went to the village of Kensington to do his trading he
took the stone with him. Someone told
him that the characters in the inscrip-
C.
in 1362?
deceive people with a spurious relic.
So he took it back to his farm and
it in front of his granary, where
placed
for nine years it served as a doorstep.
Fortunately, he had placed the stone
with the inscribed side down. Then
Hjalmar R. Holand, a Wisconsin student of Norse history and runology,
heard of the Kensington stone and went
to see it. FIe was soon convinced that
the authenticity of the inscription had
been condemned on mistaken premises.
After a long study he decided that
tion were runic-in the written language of the ancient Norsemen. No
one could tell him what they meant so,
after exhibiting the odd stone in the
window of a Kensington bank for a
time, he sent it to a learned professor
at the University of Minnesota.
This scholar examined it and was
the runes were those used in the Scandinavian countries in the l4th Century
and thus he was able to translate the
inscription as follows, with some reconstruction:
fWe aref 8 Goths [Swedes] and 22
Norwegians on fanl exploration jour-
but soon declared that it was a fraud.
2 skerries one day's journey north from
flris stone. We wete foutl and frshed
one day. After we came home [we]
f ound 10 [oI ourf men red with blood
Iscalpedf and dead. AV [E] M IARIAJ
save [us] from evil. lwel have 10 of
able to decipher some of the characters,
Although committees appointed by the
Norwegian Society of Minneapolis and
the Minnesota Historical Society
which examined it gave a favorable
opinion as to its authenticity, professors in at least two other universities
also pronounced it a hoax. They did
so principally because they were going
on the assumption that the inscription
dated from the first voyages of the
Norsemen to America in the 1lth Century. Since they were unable to translate the numerals which dated the stone
as having been carved in 1362, they
could not reconcile the text of the inscription with the type of runes used
300 years
earlier.
Eventually Ohman became disgusted
with the controversy over his stone and
the insinuations that he was trying to
ney from Vinland round about the
West. We had camp by Ia lake withf
four party) by the sea to look aftet
our ships [or sfiip] 14 days-iourneys
from this island lin thef year lof our
Lord) 1362.
Although the authenticity of the
Kensington Rune Stone is still questioned by some scholars, it is significant that the Smithsonian fnstitution
recently accepted it for deposit in that
storehouse of American history and
Dr. Matthew W. Stirling, chief of the
Bureau of American Ethnology, calls
it "probably the most important archaeological object yet found in North
America."-8. S. lY.
America, via Hudson Bay and
Lake Winnipeg, and met disaster
among Indians in Minnesota.
Will the Norse-origin theory
stand up?
Newportians who watch Dr.
Godfrey and his crew dig and sift
the soil around the controversial
structure are sllre that no archaeological evidence u'ill escape them.
Every sqllare inch of its exterior
and interior is being photo-
graphed and studied meticr-rlously.
Dr. Brondsted brings to the
problem the best of European
scholarship. Famed as an authority on Viking history and an expert in runic writing, he has had
a long career as an expert archaeologist and is currently director of
the National Museum of Copenhagen. Brought to America by the
American-Scandinavian Foundation, under a grant from the Viking Fund, he will try to answer
once and for all the tantalizing
qllestion about Norsemen in
America. But, his verdict will not
be given until he has examined all
data, then has checked r,vith other
experts and museums in EuroPe.
Dr. Brondsted has already examined with great care not only
the Newport Tower, but also other evidences, suspected or authenticated, of pre-Columbian Norse
visits or settlements on the North
American mainland. These in"
clude "mooring stones," supposedly used by lContinu"ed, on page 58f
Tirr
RoTARIAN
HO was it who said, "When
two Governments cannot
get together, call in tech-
nicians, and they will"?
Electricity experts in Europe
who work in the Geneva Committee on Electric Power under the
aegis of the United Nations European Economic Commission, or in
Paris in the European organization of ERP (European Recovery
Program ) , x are giving an interesting confirmation of this remark.
Technically, the two organizations destined to pool Europe's
enormous but insufficiently exploited electrical resources are different. The first organ tries to
unite all European nations, members of the U. N. including Soviet
Russia and her satellites, for a
better management of their economies. The second groups Western Europe's 16 nations which
have accepted American aid.
Actually, however, both are
linked in various ways. The experts in tr'rance and Switzerland
are often the same. Even more
__t Sge Bretton Woods: an Etucid,ation, by
Ifanna, Trre RorenreN for October,
i#|.t.
DpcrNrspn,
1948
important, money or money prospects have the same source or
prospective source
America
either directly through
the ERP
or indirectly through the Interna-
tional Bank for
and Dbvelopment.t
Reconstruction
At the meeting of the Geneva
Committee on Electric Power in
May of this year, the Swiss representative, Frangois Kuntschen,
put it in no veiled terms: "It is
clear that the harnessing of waterfalls, whether they come from rivers or lakes, is the simultaneous
job of several countries. The problem cannot be solved efficiently if
it is treated on a purely national
basis. It must be tackled exactly
1938 and 1947
requirements
increased by 37
percent, while
producing
the
capacity went
up by only 13
percent.
The present
deficit in electricity in Western Eu-
rope has been calculated to be 17 percent of the total needs,
7
7
.
if f ronti,ers h,ad been t-uiped otLt
of Europe's map)."
European cooperation on electricitl'goes back to before the rvar,
but on a far smaller scope than
as
ns11r
'planned. Sr,vitzerland
and
Austria, which have abundant rvaterpor,ver resources, supplied approximately 20 and 10 percent, respectively, of their total production to other countries. France
and Germany were the takers. But
most countries of Europe have sufflcient generating plants for nearly
all their orvn electricity requirements, and little foreign aid rn'as
needed.
The situation has now drastically changed. During the years
immediately preceding the war,
power requirements were on the
npr,vard trend. In 1938 the net
production was 130 billion kilowatt hours and the total output
capacity was 39 million kilowatts,
of lyhich 14 million kilowatts was
hydroelectric plant. This production rvas equivalent to about 530
kilowatt hours per head of the
population a year, which compares
with a corresponding flgure for
the same period in the United
States of nearly 900 kilon'att
hours.
During the war, construction of
power plants was almost entirely
interrupted, while consuming
plants were being built up for war
purposes. For the period between
20
or 8 billion kilorn'att
hours. and as installations
of new plants take betrn'een
three to seven years, it u'ill
only be reabsorbed slowly.
Hor,v this deficit can be eliminated, and in what time, has been,
since July, 1947, the iob of the
Electrical Committee set up by the
16 nations which have pledged to
revive their economies with American help under the ERP. It sits
in Paris under the chairmanship
of Austrian Franz Hintermayer.
The Committee has had a hard
job of research and statistics. At
the end of 1947 it drew Lrp an extensive program destined to increase the power supply available
to the participating countries by
means of the development of hydroelectric and brown coal resources. The program embodies
both international and national
measLrres.
The international program recommends the construction of sev-
eral power plants built on
a
purell.
economic basis and without regard
for national frontiers. In some
cases the plant would be constructed in one country to give
supplies to another. In others the
construction of the plant would
involve the cociperative develop-
ment of resources lying partly on
the territory of one country and
partly on the territory of another.
The flrst of these plants is to be
built at Adige Noce in Northern
Italy, to give power force to Italy
and to part of Southeastern
France. The second will be at
Moutiere on the Franco-Italian
border. The third will be situ-
ated at Felsenheim on the Rhine,
where it forms the frontier between France, Switzerland, ancl
Western Germany. It will have
the additional advantage of improving fluvial navigation between
these countries. The next three
will be in Northern and Central
'Italy'at jLardepel.lo, iPiave;
and
Sarca Molveno. The seventh Plant
will stand on the Upper Inn River
at the intersection of the three
frontiers of Italy, Austria, and
Switzerland. The eighth is to be at
Weissweiler in Germany and will
enrich France and Benelux ( Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxemburg
)
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The total cost of this international program has been estimated
at 315 million dollars, which is beyond the present unaided re-
sources of the countries concerned,
by 200 million dollars, to be contributed by the ERP. Its com-
pletion, however,
will
produce
a
complete balance between require-
ments and resources in 1952.
Simultaneously, the ERP Electrical Committee has launched a
u'ide-range national program for
which 300 million dollars will be
needed from the United States.
But the national programs alone
leave a neat deficit of 3 billion
kilorvatts at the end of L952, which
only the completion of the international program can cover.
The rvork of the Paris Committee has been to develop national
resources to their extreme production limits, r,vith the ultimate view
of exporting surpluses. It has even
undertaken to procure the necessary funds through ERP credits,
but its action has been limited to
the 16 Western nations represented in Paris, in Jurly, 1947, plus
Western Germany.
TI HE Geneva Committee of the
United Nations has actually laid
the basis of Continental solidarity
for electricity, as it
combines
membership from both East and
West of Europe. Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, and Poland attended the
last meeting, with 12 countries of
"Western" sympathies.
Although Russia did not attend,
her satellites exhibited extreme activity and a keen readiness to sell
their coal and electrical power to
whoever wanted to buy it from
the other side of the "iron curtain."
It is difficult to say whether this
attitude, manifested with Russia's
consent, means that the U.S.S.R.
wants to cooperate with the West
electrical matters-or wheth-
-in* See Yotr, Slt.ottld Knon: about'Benelu,:t,'
by Edouard I{erriott, Trrt Rorenr-tx foi'
February,
1948.
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it springs from a desire to boost
the U. N.'s Geneva
Committee
against the ERP organization es-
tablished in Paris through America's initiative. The question still
remains open.
With or without Soviet blessings, the Geneva Committee has
been going ahead to establish itself as a sort of clearinghouse between nations willing to exchange
their electricity.
Listing the production of European countries and their needs
both in electricity and in equipment, it has laid down as a principle that electricity produced
through waterfalls could be exported to another country producing its electricity by coal, and vice
versa.
Fl-
I HE great
advantage of this
system is that in every low ebb
of electrical production, either
through climatic conditions for
waterfall countries or because of
strikes for coal producers, supplies
would be automatically compensated. With this system it is hoped
that permanent sources of electricity would be at the disposal of
every country soon, and at reasonable prices.
Initiators of the waterfalls-coal
exchanges are Poland and Czechoslovakia
two countries behind
the iron curtain.
Delegations of
both these nations have informed
countries represented in Geneva
of their plan to build jointly several electrical plants using lowgrade quality Silesian lignite, to
produce electricity for exportation. Czechoslovakia has the
equipment, while Poland has the
coal. These delegates are also
seeking prospective customers
such as Austria and Switzerland,
and eventually France and Italy,
which are countries with large but
irregular waterfall capacities and
insufficient coal resources. They
have asked these prospective customers how much electricity they
need, where it should be delivered,
and what they could give in exchange.
Politics is certainly not absent
from the friendly Czech-polish
proposals. Getting Austria as a
purchaser also means that Austria
will stop looking to the Ruhr and
the West for its extra coal needs
when waterfalls in Winter are unproductive. It also means that EuDpcpvrepn, 1948
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was rejected, althQugh on mere
grounds of rational economy it is
perfectly sound.
On the initiative bf iron-curtain
countries, the Ge{reva meeting
also raised the vit{l question of
electrical equipmenlt to build the
projected generatin$ stations. Fac-
tories making the required machinery should nowf reach an output of more than double that of
L947. Excluding GQrman produc-
also doubled within the next four
years. The result for American
business is that it WilI be asked to
export machinery destined ulti-
mately to wipe out ]American coal
exports to Europe.
There is little dbubt that the
implementation of Burope's electrical projects will cost a fantastic
sum to both Europefn and American taxpayers. Thb Geneva and
Paris plans give it ap 6 billion flollars for the four yeafs ending 19b1.
Most of this monQy will be paid
gradually by European States as
their resources incrEase and their
economies return to normal, but a
large part will have to be covered.
by the United Stateg-the world,s
biggest banker. Rugsian satellites
have already informBd the Geneva
Committee that they will ask for
a loan from the International
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to the 16 Western nations,
July 1, 1948.
Europe's electrica| equipment is
a costly deal, but aqy cooperation
in this troubled di$united continent, reduced to doll[rs and cents,
is priceless.
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N A COBBLED side street just
off the market Place of the busY
torvn of Blackburn in the midst of
England's industrial Lancashire is
the office of a manufacturer of
shoe trees. But this tall, whitehaired, bespectacled industrialist
has not alu'ays worked in Blackburn. Germany had been his home
and there he had a
large-scale
boot-and-shoe factorY until the
Nazis seized it. He was interned
at Dachau, but
subsequentlY
escaped via The Netherlands to
England.
"And rvhat did you bring r,vith
you?" I asked.
"The clothes I stood up in and
17 shillings," he answered.
That u'as literally true and yet
he, like other ri:fugees who fled to
England and elsewhere, brought
something very precious. It is
skilled craftsmanship. Herein history repeats itself for such infusions of new blood and new ideas
only today, but for the past
-not
800 years-have contributed much
to Britain's economic stability and
her people's character. Persecution expels but toleration attracts
the cream of a people: the most industrious, skillful, and cultured.
))
Britain had need of just such
people" In 1931, follo'lving the
slump in the United States, .r,ve
found ourselves in a. serious eco-
ready beginning to suffer from
Nazism, were invited to come
over. The little stream that then
began became a flood as Nazism
nomic situation. Just as disease of
the body attaeks the rveakest sPot,
spread its evil influence.
The result is that todaY Britain
so this economic blight shorn'ed
itself most in certain parts of Britain-parts which had depended
entirely on one or two heavy industries such as coal, iron, steel,
or shipbuilding. When the slump
came, there were no light industries to act as buffers. Places such
as Jarrow and Gateshead in Durham, Maryport in South Wales,
Glasgow in Scotland, and southeast Lancashire were the black
spots of Britain rvith Inass unemployment from which there
seemed no escape. In Maryport,
for example, 88 out of every 100
rvorkers were unemployed.
To induce British industrialists
to start light industries in these
parts, the Government created
special trading estatgs and offered
factory spaces and financial assistance. Progress was slow until
industrialists on the Continent, al-
is exporting cigarette
stead of importing
Paper in-
it; is Producing
in Bradford a mothproof hand-knit
rvool which previously was a jealously guarded secret in GermanY;
is manufacturing in Kettering dies
for leather shoe-caps never Previously made in this country. Glasgow is producing embossed bath
towels. a new industry to Britain."
The list runs long: todaY well
over 1,000 factories have been
created by refugee industrialists
and employ uP to a quarter of a
million Britishers. They are helping to transform "distressed areas"
into "development areas." I have
visited hundreds of these plants in
Glasgou', South Wales, Northern
Ireland, Tyneside, and Cumberland. The difficulties the refugees
faced as they started
afresh in a country r,$ tilrt1ilATrgltAt F$*
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comeback see Neur Heart in th'e HigltIands, by Andrerv Dargie, in Trre Ro:renr-tx
for September, 19{8.
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understood were immense. Successes have often been dramatic.
Let me tell you of a factory in
Northern Ireland which I visited
recently. It is the story of two
of three brothers. Before the war
they owned a family tanning business in Prague dating back to
7795. When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, two of these brothersJacob and Alfred, and Alfred,s son
Erik-happened to be in England
on a visit. Though cut off from
their assets, they conceived of
starting a factory here to turn
their knowledge and abilityt'to advantage.
Their enterprise soon brought
an order from the Dutch Army for
f'60,000 ($240,000) worth of field
gray sssfs-senditional upon delivery within four months! The
three Czechoslovakian refugees
had neither a site, nor machinery,
nor trained staff. By a miracle of
effort and energy they found an
old derelict mill at Shrigley near
Belfast and converted it. The
Government helped them acquire
machinery and they started to
train the villagers, male and female, who hitherto had known
little but unemployment for the
best part of 20 years. Then just
as the order was ready to be dispatched, Hitler invaded The Netherlands. The f,60,000 order evaporated overnight.
But these men were not discouraged. They turned their attention to manufacturing suede
leather. To cut a long story short,
their plant now absorbs no less
than one million skins per annum
and is producing 5 million square
feet of leather. The village of
Shrigley and an adjacent village,
comprising altogether 198 houses,
are now prospering.
The flaxen-kgirgd D. P. is learning
from a shilled textile-mill yorhi
hoy to "mend flaws in the yeayej'
ft's a typical story. In Leicester
another industrialist from Czecho-
slovakia is producing seamless
gloves in two colors-the only
manufacturer in England able to
do so. Another good friend of
mine in Leicester was the first to
manufacture cycle and road-sign
reflectors in Britain.
In Blackburn there is a large
factory producing up to 8,000 pairs
of slippers daily. It is a new business to Blackburn. An industrialist from overseas started. it in
1936 with five people, all of whom
had to be personally trained. Today they employ some 400 workers and produce up to 8,000 pairs
of slippers daily, mostly at the mo-
ment for export. ,Indeed, they
claim to be the biggest exporters
of slippers in England.
In 1938 victims of Nazi oppres-
sion started another new industry
in the little village of Brinscombe
lying in the deep hollow of the
lovely Gloucester hills. There they
made fiber boards for suitcases
whic
from
and
were
Kingdom producing these goods.
Suitcase manufacturers agree that
when foreign supplies dried up, it
was this output that enabled them
to carry on.
So it is that over the last decade
the industrial face of Britain has
been changed, strengthened, and
invigorated by her acceptance and
absorption of the flood of refugee
industrialists from the Continent
of Europe. The majority of these
people are speedily becoming in_
tegrated into the British way of
life. Most of them.have been or
are becoming naturalized British
subjects. In so doing they become
entitled to all the rights and also
all the responsibilities attached to
British citizenship.
The Secretary of State for Home
Affairs in the United Kingdom
Government is responsible for
turning an alien into a British
subject and the process-a fairly
long one-is based on the law.
Every applicant, from the highest
to the lor,r,-est, has to go through
the same processing. The basis
How's Your Accent?
Ypans AGo, when mv
brother and I were in our late
teens,we motored with our Parents through the deeP South
of the United States. One evening a storm came uP and we
stopped at a Pleasant far'm that
appeared relativelY Prosperous.
The owner, a fricrdlY man'
invited us into the house, Parked
our car in his barn, and treated
us as welcome guests. He
stirred up a fire in the firePlace
and we sat around it, our host
with his small son
leaning
against his knee.
Father was alwaYs interested
in farm
problems and asked
many queptions, which were
readily answered.
is five years' residence to ensure,
as far as possible, that the man
or woman has become assimilated
to the British way of life, and that
the Secretary of State has all the
available information.
Before a decision is made the
applicant is intervierved bY the
police very exhaustivelY on his
social, fi,nancial, Political, and
other activities. Moreover he has
to produce four referees (British
born ) and the SecuritY DePartment also issues a report on him.
Finally his application for naturalization is publicized through the
newspapers so that anyone is free
to give just cause why the aPPlication should not be granted.
Then if the applicant has been
found suitable, he is called upon
to take the Oath of Allegiance before a justice of the peace, in which
it is declared that he shall be . . .
"entitled to all political and other
rights and powers and privileges,
and to be subject to all obligations,
duties, and liabilities, to which a
natural-born British subject is entitled and subject, and to all intents and purposes the status of a
natural-born British subject." It
old rhyme rvhich runs as follows:
Hops, Reformation. baYs and' beer
Cante to England all i'n one Aear-
It
was the Dutch refugees who
introduced cabbage, celery, and
carrots to the English dining table.
A refugee Huguenot named Peter
Goyer founded the rn'orld-famous
Irish cambric industry. And the
no less famous Irish linen originated with a Dutch refugee in the
17th Century.
Up to the 14th CenturY almost
all clothing worn on our Isle was
imported from The Netherlands,
r,r'here the English wool was sent
to be dyed and woven bY Dutch
craftsmen. When war stoPPed this
practice, The Netherlands suffered
mass unemployment and Britain
suffered an acute shortage of
clothing. Consequently, on the
invitation of Edward III, the
Flemish weavers came to England
and founded our now u'orld-famous clothing industry.
So down the years Britain has
reaped att amazing dividend for
its generosity, while other lands
have suffered impoverishment, as
in the loss of some 300,000 Huguenots from France, one-third of
whom fled to England-Iace makers from Yalenciennes, glass man-
"flow large a farm have
you?" was the first
"I reckon I
one.
got about a foah-
mule farm," our host drawled.
"What do you raise?"
"Wall, I got some Pindars."
"Pindars?" Father Puzzled.
"I
reckon you-all calls 'em
goobers," he exPlained.
"Flour about Pork?"
"Paw, Paw," the boY broke
in, "what's
poke?"
"Daid hog, chile." This
an aside to the lad.
was
My brother and I were hav-
ing a great deal of fun, listen-
ing to this sPeech strange to
our ears, as we were Westerners. We winked at each other,
scarcely able to keeP our giggles to ourselves.
Finally the man asked, "Do
we-uns sound as queer to You-
all as you-all sound to us?"
That stopped us. Ever since,
whenever I havef elt like laugh-
ing at
anyone's sPeech I've
thought of the hospitable
Southerner to whom WE
sounded queer.
-Vivian
24
Rogers
SomethingnewforDritishn147ftg15-gmbossed-designtowels
'which yas ricently started by a relugee
in this fZctory
from Czechoslovakia-
is a procedure which is impressive
ufacturers from Paris, shipwrights
from Dieppe. and cambric makers
freedom from flamboyant formal-
from Cambrai.
The Britisher is a mixture of
all sorts of people. Behind us today stand the ghosts of our forbears-the original Celts mingled
u'ith Roman, Saxon, Dane, Norman, and many others. We are
essentially a mongrel people; and
as a nation, our very strength and
character lie in our capacity to ac-
in its dignified simplicity and its
ity.
But there is nothing unusual in
the welcome Britain has given to
these refugees from Europe. It
was a pqrty of Walloon refugees,
for example, who in 1524 brought
over the first hop plants from Artois and thus founded what many
regard today as Britain's nationaI beverage. Indeed there is an
cept and absorb.
Tnp
RoTARTAN
JTI
I Hn headlines
show who is mak-
ing news. Quite frequently
you
will find that men who are making
good news wear the Rotary wheel.
Rotarians
ol At
Epaminondas T
Fine Art School of
Greece, recently honored their distinguished lellou membet
a member of the Athens Academy and director of the
ens. The occasion marhed his 5oth anniversary as an artist.
Chicago,
Ill.,
vas
U.S.A. petroleum
Ledo Arroyo Tones, who is Secretary
ol the Trcdsury ol Uruguay, has been
a member ol the Rotary Club of Mon-
tevideo,Uruguay,for the pat
six years.
A Rstafian lot 20 yearc and 1947-48
President ol the Quito, EcuadorrClub,
George P. Shan, has been named United Stares Ambassador to Nicaragua.
DpcprvrsnR, 1948
IZT:,""1',i!::ffiT.
A Rotarian at Pleasantville, N. Y.,
is Howard C. Taylor, rccently elected president of the American Association ol Nurserymen for 1945-49,
25
These Are
Boys
At St. Petersburg, Flortda
moment for Tommy and sense his fear that it,s too
big for him. But he lifts his chin and sails into the
report he has written:
At the fir.st of the year. our boys organized their Club,
elected officers, and appointecl committees. Then we decided what our goals would be. We chose Citizenship to
begin rvith. Since Citizenship has so many points, we
worked on Sportsmanship, Clean Speech, Cheating, Courtesy, Loyalty, Honesty, and Scholarship.
Some boys were taken up for swearing and put on probation. They haven't been heard swearing agaiil.
Now I'll discuss the other points:
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or lose we go up to the other team and say, "Nice game,
fellows."
Counrnsy: At Thanksgiving we wrote letters of appreciation to different people who had helped us. We plan to clo
this again at the end of the year.
Loyer-ry: There is a little boy in the sixth grade that is
deformed. The boys got the referees to let the boy hit the
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Cnnerrxc: Our. Club got a letter from the Fifth_Grade
Teachers saying that a boy hacl been talking back to them.
They suggested that we should put him out of our Club
rmtil he proved himself able to join again. About two days
later he came and begged to be let into the Club again. He
has been good ever since.
SponrsrvreNsnrp: We have had some good sports this year.
A lot better than last. We also had lots of compliments on
the behavior of the boys at the games. Every time we win
P,,l-,
TI OP-FLIGHT
speakers are not rare for Rotary
in a city which dra\,\'s many visitors. But in
St. Petersburg the program that wins cheers and
Clubs
mists the eyes comes rvhen rve listen to boys of our
13 Four Square Clubs.
Here's Bill Buckingham, this year's chairman.
Bill mounts a box to reach the microphone, calls the
meeting to order, then asks all to rise, salute the
flag, and repeat the oath of allegiance. . . . Little
Peter Dunn offers the invocation. And after we eat,
Harry Lloyd leads lusty singing.
"Tommy Schultz, of the Gulfport School," BiIl
then announces, "will now tell us some of the things
his club has done."
Tommy's mop of unruly hair pops up at the speaker's desk. His eyes freeze on the microphone.
"At the-ee first-t-t-" \f,/s realize that this is a big
ball and let another boy run for him. A[ the basketball
games we asked to let the substitutes wear long pants so
that the boys at other schools would not laugh at him.
HoNnsry: After the boys had practiced and eliminatecl
the other things, they found they had already learned it.
Last is Scnor,nnsnrp: The little boy that is deformed I was
telling you about, I\'as the one that made us start Scholar'ship as one of our objects. The reason is, though he cannot
play baseball and basketball, he can outsmart any of the
boys in intelligence.
We have been successful in all the points in Crtrznlrsnrp.
Besides in our paper drive we collected $100.35 worth for
our school improvements and for Daddy Fagg's Children's
Home. We have been complimented by many people on our
good conduct at all times. Our Club has become well known
as a club for SponrsMANsHIP and Lovar,tv to School. We
are proud of our CIub and feel sure that all of our members
have helpecl.
Tommy jumps down from the box in a burst of
applause. Bilt introduces the next speaker: "The
Roser Park School report will be given by Hugh
Mclntyre, JrJ' Hugh's dad is one of our Rotarians.
Hugh's black hair is slicked down and his grin is
contagious. He speaks out like an old trouper:
In September we organize<i our Bing Crosby Boys Chorus.
We have 25 boys and five substitutes. We all \Mear white
shirts and black bolv ties. We present good music to the
By James Cloyd Bowman...Illustrations from 4-Square Club Reports
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churches, and tourist societies with Mrs. Marsic as our
leader. In all we have raised $101 for our School just
through singing. We hbve turned this money over to the
school for bicycle racks for the yard.
In October we made 200 Halloween game booklets to help
keep the kids out of trouble. The booklets had 20 good
games and six illustrations. We gave one to each boy and
girl in the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade to take home for a Hal-
loween Party. In November Malcolm Mclnnis made four
attractive wooden plaques to put on the cafeteria tables.
Each plaque had our Club emblem on it and the words
QUIET TABLE & CLEAN PLATES. We used these plaques
as rewards to keep good order in the cafeteria.
In December the Bing Boys sang carols and we collected
and gave canned food to the poor and needy.
In April our Club presented the Bing Boys in a Minstrel
Shorv, Zi,p-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,, which was a whale of a success.
This was given at School and we invited in all our parents
and friends. We made $61.50 and had only 50 cents expense.
May rvas the last and happiest month of the whole year!
First the Times Photographer came and took a picture of
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year. At the business meeting the boys act on the
reports of .their various committees, and decide
openly their policies and problems. The dinner
meeting is conducted as nearly as possible like an
actual Rotary Club. The Rotary daddy furnishes
the speaker-usually a Rotarian-who presents
some subject of vital interest to the boys. Oftentimes the boys ask their Rotary daddy to have a
certain topic discussed, apd he seeks out the right
person for the talk.
Four Square Club membership is limited to the
boys of the fifth and sixth grades. Boys of this age
group especially need to be brought under the influence of vigorous men they can idealize. Older
boys are already members of so many different clubs
that one more club is usually one too many. Given
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the Bing Boys in full dress for the newspaper. Next came
our annual swim and picnic at the Spa Pool. 'We won our
third consecutive ball game. \[rere u'e happy! And to cap
the climax we were given a radio audition over WSUN. . .
.
Again we applaud-and realize how precocious
our boys really are, and how much they can do if
given the proper supervision.
"Ben Beazley will now report for the Lakeview
School Club," says Chairman Bill. Ben's wide blue
eyes and golden hair and sensitive features are a
picture for an artist. He speaks in a high soprano
voice and concludes:
As our Srear closes, we are taking a look at our assets to
see if rve have achieved the goals set for ourselves. We
decided that 'we u'ould do the things which would prepare
us for the leadership r,r'hich St. Petersburg finds in our
Rotary "daddies" and all Rotary men. For instance, we
must learn to think for ourselves.
As Ben finishes, there's a thunderclap of applause,
for he winds up the program. Many of us step up
to congratulate the boys, chat with their teacher
sponsors and grammar-school principals, then try
to explain to awed and admiring visitors what the
Four Square Clubs are and how they started.
The story begins 23 years ago when Bernard
Thomas, a member of the city recreation department, was appointed Chairman of the Rotary Boys
Work Committee. Barney believed that Rotarians
should imbue the youth with their own ideals of
service and community conscience. He wanted to
start a boys' club in the public schools under Rotary
supervision and promised that the recreation department would help in carrying out the sports end
of the program. He spoke from deep conviction,
and our Rotary Club gave him the green light.
His first Club got under way at Central Grammar
School in January, 1926. It succeeded so well that
the Four Square Club movement, as it has come to
be called, has now spread to each of the 13 grammar
schools of the city.
Each Club is under the direction of a teacher
"daddy." Two
meetings are held each month during the school
sponsor, a principal, and a Rotary
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the right amount of leadership, the accomplishments
of these boys astonish us.
A healthy competition among the Clubs is maintained through the annual award of the Milton
Wright Rotary Bell. Two years ago the competition
was so keen that the bell had to be passed around
among three winning Clubs.
The city recreation department furnishes the leadership and the referees for sports. During the FalI
and early Winter the boys play basketball, and during the Spring, baseball. Competition is maintained
by running off a tournament in each. The boys work
hard to win, but are coached to take defeat and like
it. Clean sportsmanship is maintained.
Right standards of character development are not
neglected. At each dinner meeting four of the boys
are honored with a ribbon award for making the
greatest improvement in one of the desirable traits:
courtesy, loyalty, sportsmanship, or scholarship.
These awards are determined by the vote of the
Club members, and are
highly prized.
During the past 23 years
much thought and effort
have been given to this
Club movement by many
different sponsor teachers
and Rotarians, and also by
members of the city recreation department. The
movement is now a going
concern, carefully integrated and fully.organized,
and other Rotary Clubs in
Florida have introduced
similar programs.
We Rotarians of St. Pe-
tersburg are proud that
none of our Four Square
gangs is ever in trouble,
and that parents are not
worried when their sons
are out doing Four Square
work. Already we have begun to garner fruit. Three
of our former Four Square
boys are now active members of our Rotary Club,
and this is just the beginning!
"There's scarcely a handicap or a burden in this
tale of tearc that cannot be turned to dccounl.t'
Illu,strati,ons
Stuart Hay
Capitalize on Your Differenc
n
\
UHE
WAS an English
singer
weighing 220 pounds and "at liberty," as she termed her unemployment status. I was a young
American with too many shibboIeths regarding success, and I advised her to get slim.
"Slim? Nonsense!" she snapped.
"I want to weigh rnore. There are
too many slim singers whom no
one remembers. Give me a few
more jolly old stones (a sfone is
14 pounds in Britain) and they'll
associate my voice with my fat
and remember my name."
'She added the stones; peoPle
remembered her; she's doing well
today, thank you.
Madame Singer had something
of the right idea. Not so, some
other people f've known. Once in
my college class I had a young
man who was a "natural born"
comedian. Every time he said anything people laughed; the more
they laughed, the more confused
he became and just so much more
mirth-provoking. He finally ended
the matter with his suicide-for
he did not want to make peoPle
laugh.
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One of my best
friends is a tall wom3r, with 5 feet 11
inches of height and
a mop of handsome
Dpcn\nepn, 1948
AS
A JIMMY DURANTE
DOES
\rITH HIS NOSE, TTISE
PEOPLE MAKE THEIR PECULIARITIES P4Y.
By Raymond Fisher
red hair, who has spent much of
her life pining away because she
wasn't little and cute. To make
herself shorter she has developed
a stoop, and her other gestures
have been correspondingly inhibited so that attention will not
be drawn to her height.
Six doors from her is a man who
spends most of his life deploring
the fact that people do not like
him. Upstairs in an apartment
house is a widow who spends half
her substance (energy, time, and
money) trying to color her gray
hair. A cousin of mine is so Gargantuan in his ugliness that he
spends a good deal of his life keeping out of sight of people.
How I wish I could gel 2 cents
a word for extending the list of
self-appointed misfits who daily
come under my gaze. But I must
state my thesis, which is: There's
scarcely a handi,cap or a burden i,n
uale of tears that cannot be
turned to account. I do not want
to claim that even the salt in the
tears in the vale might be crystallized to prof it-though the
th,i.s
thesis has that general positive
note.
Look at some of our comedians.
how they have exploited or
capitalized on their big mouths,
popeyes, fatness, ungainliness, or
what-not. This is not encouragement for the unhandsome to turn
comedian, for we cannot all be
funny. The point is that many of
our comedians had sense enough
to accept their physical differences and to exploit them for what
they were worth, rather than to
deplore them 'or to try to be
See
glamorous.
The best educator I know of today is a blind man who went in
for the study of teaching the
blind; the next best educator is a
totally deaf person who has be,come an expert on methods of
educating the deaf. The greatest
expert on "personality" I know is
one who was so burdened with his
own personality difficulties that
he went in for scientific study of
personality. Likewise, among my
former colleagues is a father of a
chitd who at 6 years of age began
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to wither in every mental way.
Transcending this ghastly shock,
the father became interested in
mental retardation and has become one of the foremost men in
this field of study.
A schoolteacher of my acquaintance with a speech difficulty
made it a point to do as little
talking as possible. Recently the
superintendent said of her: "She
makes the greatest contributions
of all the teachers in the school,
for she has learned
to keep quiet and
to encourage the
youngsters in her
class to do the
talking."
When my wife
and I want outside companionship, we're likely
toask Maud MDutante
over to dinner or
something. Maud's 43 and stout.
She's far from pretty; she's not
"smart"; she's scarcely clever. But
she's a contribution of fun, for
she's restful and sincere and
honest-to-God. I like to feed
Maud; I like being nice to her,
too, because she has well-being
and salvation under the soothing
shadow of which I like to sit. Her
good qualities hang on the simple
framework of accepting what so
many women of her age and dimensions spend most of their substance in deploring. Consequently,
they make themselves scratchy
and jumpy, overeager and undesirable. Someone has to be 43
and someone who's not too smart
has to serve as a restful monk's
cloth background. Perhaps Maud
realizes that. Anyway, wo want
her over tonight and we hope
she'Il like the hard sauce on the
sailor's duff.
And now for the younger people. Each semester I have almost
100 college students. Some are A
students; some are D students; the
great majority are, of course, C
stuff. One gathers a personal fondness for them as he marvels at
their extremelvisdom and devious
dullness.
Ilere's Agnes, really an A studpnt, who, to gain what she thinks
is greater popularity, becomes superficial and sloppy. Agnes
should stay with what she hasa brain. She might as well accept
the fact that she's one of the
30
higher cerebraters and that it is
futile and silly for her to try to
play the r6le of Miss June College.
And there's June-trying futilely to play a r61e that isn't hers.
June cheats on her term papers,
lifting whole paragraphs from
books, the elegance of which far
outstrips her own command of
writing. This is only suggestive of
the cheating activity in which
June daily and yearly indulges in
order to be an Agnes.
There's Donald D (D for failure,
not for Duck), who should leave
college of his own accord, accepting the fact that his success will
not be in scholastic memory work
or in pseudointellectual activities,
but in the social setting, for he has
much social intelligence. He's a
nice boy and people like him, but
somehow or other he feels he
must play himself against what
Agnes has, just as Agnes sells out
to what J'une has. When 97 percent of the others do something of
the same thing, there's a human
crack-up among young people,
whether in the classroom or Casanovia, New York.
In education-as in all of lifethe doctrine which recognizes individual differences has more validity than one generally suspects.
If we would give more recognition
to individual differences in school
and college, we would not have so
many young people untrue to
their own light and unique genius;
we should, at least, have fewer
split personalities.
If the adult individuals themselves would recognize their differences and not deplore them or try to
whitewash them,
we would have
much more vigorous genius and
agreeable talent today. And if the in-
dividual himself
Cantor
would, instead of lamenting the
fact that he is different, put a premium on each difference, capitalizing on it as much as possible
it's very easy to make glib
-well,
promises.
Physiological difierences, even
with comic proportions, can be
capitalized (Jimmy Durante, Bein
Turpin, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Cantor, Charlotte Greenwood, and
others).
Differences in temperament,
even though they are not always
socially acceptable, can serve as a
guide to heightened accomplishment. (Here we must place most
of the poets and many of the
artists.
)
Differences in background need
never be deplored when we re-
member how many people, in-
stead of hiding their yokel, their
foreign, their meager, or their un-
derprivileged backgrounds have
bravely declared themselves a
product of that background
which, though perhaps off color,
was yet unique or full of strange
splendor or challenge.
As my thesis applies to individuals, so does it to groups. They,
too, have differences. They, too,
should exploit them. Take Rotary
Clubs. Ifere's a lively one, but it
has only 22 members and no prospect of more. It's a little Club; it's
completely dwarfed by Clubs of
400 or 700 members. Let it make
something of it! f can see its road
sign now: "The littlest but livest
Club in Rotary meets at the Rex
Cafe Thursday noon. Come on
over, visiting Rotarians!" ft seems
to me I once read in this magazine
of a Rotary Club in the
South
American Andes-was it in Peru?
is enormously hard to reach
-that
because the city it is in is away
up at 12,000-foot altitude in rough
country. That Club made the
most of the situation. It goodnaturedly proclaimed itself the
loftiest Rotary Club in the world.
If the things that keep your Main
Street going are the wheat, eorn,
pork, and beef of the surrounding
countryside, don't pretend it's
Fifth Avenue. Take pride in it
and, as f am told hundreds of Rotary Clubs do, invite your farm
neighbors in for occasional ruralurban meetings. I could go on, but
you get the point.
This discourse has not, of
course, been a. plea for. the stout to
get fatter, for the tongue-tied to let
the cats have their tongues completely, for the rattlebrained to
cease all cerebration, for the Cyranos to make their noses bigger
with bee stings, or for organizations to turn to wild press agentry.
No, it's simply a rationalization of
differences which, even if they
were as great as we suspected,
could still act as servants toward
splendid self-reali zalion.
Tnp RorArrAN
-fo,
News Notes from 35 tsast \$Tacker Drive, Chicago
at Hone. That is the goal of most
e great festival...and Rotaryrs
President, Angus S. Mitchell, who does, plans to
attain it. Now on a world Rotary tour which began
in Chicago October 21,'he was to be in Khartoum,
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, or December 1. Then, after
visits in Egypt, India, Burma, and Slngapore, he was
reaoh ldelbourne, Australia-hops !-6n Decenber
' to
13. He will be in New Zealand for New Year's, thus
pernj.tting hin to spend the holidays with his three
daughters, three sons-in-law, and six grandsons ' Thereafter he will resune his
tour, crossing the Pacifio in tine to open the January neet,ing of Rotaryrs Board in
Chicago. , , Acconpanying the Presi-dent on the first leg of his tour-Chicago to
Recif6, Brazil-was Asslstant secretary Juan M. Roger, head of the central office
Christmas
peo
.
departnent serving lbero-Anerican Clubs and Governors.
More Conings and Goi,ngs. Off on a flying business
trip to Britaj.n and Continenta@eneraIsecretary,PhiIipLovejoy,onNovenberl4.He
witL visit London headquarters of Rotary ln Britain and Ireland; Rotary's Continental Europoan Office in Zurich, Switzerland; and will be present when Rotarians of
Athens, Greece, celebrate their 25th anniversary Decenber 9. Gorald C. K€eler,
Convention Manager, sill aooonpany hin as far as London....Back fron Bonbay, India,
is Assistant Secretary Goorge R. ltreans. He is no9, assigned to duty in the Contral
0ffice.
Discontinued. Rotary Ctubs have been notified that the Presidentrs Award
Conpe-[ITi3i?nT1ie awarding of Distriot Governorrs Citations havo been disoontinued, in accordance with aotion of the Board.
Connittees. Only one is scheduled to neet this nonth-Constitution and ByLaws,TEGfi6?F2-3, in chioago..,.A change in llagazine connittee organization seeg
Merritt Owens, of Kansas City, Kansas, as Chairnan, a post fron which Ed. R. Johnson, of Roanoke, Virginia, asked to be relieved recently after the death of his son,
Sucius. Rotarian Johnson, a Past President of Rotary fnternational, will continue
as a nenber of the Connittee.
Puerto Rican Not€. Past District Governor Jose Antonio Canals, of Arecibo,
witl E?T-EE-E6-vreffif District 45 (Puerto Rico) during a two-nonth absence fron
Puerto Rico of Governor Jose R, Oliver, of Arecibo' The island has 15 Clubs, 774
nenbers.
Convention. Rotary's next one-its 40th internatj-onaf Convention-is slated
I,if
iffit,y June 12 through 16. Already 8,000 roons are under contract in the
for
city's leading hotels and lladison Square Garden is on the line as the nain neeting
hall. Progran and entertainnent are shaping up, with a top-flight New York producer
working on the latter. Rotarians planning to attend will, as usual, nake hot€l
reservations through their local CIub Secretaries, who will have forns for the
purpose in January....To keep on-to-New York Connittees and Governors abreast of
Convention news, the Convention Manager's office has issued a new Ej-neosheet titled
I'Prevj.ew.r' It will appear off and on until June.
Vital Statistics. As of 0ctober 25, there were 6,623 Rotary Clubs. Estimated
New and re-established Clubs since July 1 totalled
number of ffi20,000.
94 in
22
countries.
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"Yep, Thals
it!' Iohn W. Btoome,
L*bbock, Ter,as, Rouria4 teltt a"a'hoppel' ,o this palsied tad-----trot oble to hem ard undertantl.
Happy Though Palsied
CITIZENS AT LUBBOCK,
IN WEST'TTXAS, UNTiE
TO REMOVE THE BLIGHT FROM CHILDREN \irHO HAVEN'T HAD A FAIR CHANCE.
By Argero Booth Collins
T
r, OHNNIE is 5 y ears old.
Bal-
anced on the ample knee of a Lub-
bock, Texas, ,businessman he
stared blankly. It \^ras not the
look of ignorance nor feeble-mindedness. Johnnie had never heard
a sound and, of course, has not
spoken a word, for at birth he r,vas
crippled by cerebral
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palsy.
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Hopeless? People
once rvould have
said so, but citizens
at Lubbock knorv
better. Johnnie is one of the children to whom they have given a
chance to learn to live somewhat
normally.
Lubbock Rotarians became interested in the problem of the
cerebral palsied three years ago
through the Texas Society for
Crippled Children. Enlisting the
support of other service clubs,
thel, have a treatment center
staffed by a physiotherapist nLrrse
and assistant nurse, helped by a
number of Lubbock townswomen
u'ho offer their services as aides.
The center, housed in a cottage.
is open without charge to cerebral-palsied children from three
months to 15 years of age. Youngsters, like Johnnie, who are able
to attend school receive additional training at the School for
Exceptional Children, which is a
part of the city's
public-school
system. There under Mrs. Josephine Ballenger, they are taught
to read and write. If physically
unable to rvrite, they r,vill learn to
Tnp
RoTARIAN
spell with the use of alphabet
blocks.
Cerebral palsy, often called
spastic paralysis, is not inherited
nor is
it transmitted. Usually it
birth. Prematurity may
it, or too-fast labor, an in-
comes at
cause
sufficient supply of oxygen, drug
overdosage administered during
labor, or other reasons. It may
be brought on later by
severe
blows on the head, high fever and
convulsions, or such diseases as
meningitis and sleeping sickness.
Out of 100,000 babies born, seven
are victims.
Fortunately, cerebral palsy is a
physical injury; usually it does
not seriously impair the mind. "If
a child can say one syllable, he
can learn to talk," says Dr. Earl
R. Carlson, New York specialist
who was himself palsied from
birth. "If
he can take one step, he
can learn to walk."
But often the process is tedious
and may require years of patient
intelligent training. If diagnosis
is delayed, treatment becomes increasingly difficult. That was the
case with Patricia. She is 9 nou'
and is making happy progress at
thc Lubbock School, but she got
off to a bad start. Her parents
had noticed that she was ,,not
quite right" at three months, but
were assured that though her
nervous system was not stable
she would improve as she grerv
older. Her case was not correctly
diagnosed until she was 6.
Today Patricia walks with aid,
though she wore braces for sev-
eral years. She knows how to put
one foot before the other, and-
says her delighted mother-is
showing a great improvement.
Patricia has what technically is
known as spasticity, characterized by a tenseness about her feet
and legs and tight heel cords. Her
muscles are generally normal, but
control is lacking and they re-
spond excessively to any stimulus. But spasticity is only one of
five types of cerebral palsy: the
others are athetosis, ataxis, rigidity, and tremor, classified by the
degree of bra.in involvement.
In athetosis there is excessive
motion without meaning. The
child unconsciously attempts to
put his body in a distorted position when he essays to pick up
something. Facial grimaces accompany the flaying of the limbs.
A loss of balance is charactenstic
of ataxia. A child r,vill often be
nauseated and dizzy after looking
steadily at an object a few minutes. Rigidity and tremor, often
the result of disease, involve
severe physical and mental im-
pairment.
"Since no two cases are pre.
a thorough str-rdy of
each must be made," says John
W. Broome, Rotarian who is serving on the committee appointecl
by the Texas Society for Cripptecl
Children to cooperate with the
project at Lr-rbbock.
cisely. alike,
It has started on a modest scale
and is housed in a cottage. But
already it is attracting attention
from other communities, for it
sets a pattern for cociperative effort in a small city to combat a
crippling malady. If ignored or
not treated promptly, cerebral
palsy can irretrievably blight innocent children lvho have as
much a right as well-born children to enjoy inwardly happy and
outwardly useful lives.
1945.
Patience is the essence of training the handicapped. . . . The giil has a speech defect and is being coached (right) by Mrs.
losephine Ballenger. The boy is not so vell oft. He can neither hear nor talh-not yet. Hancls and leg muscles ieed coiirdination.
Dpcr:nreon, 1948
'Tis More Blessed
ROTARIANS HAVE A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY
TO HELP PEOPLE IN DISTRESSED LANDS.
By Harold T.
Thomas
Chairman ol lnternational Af airs Committee ol
Rotary lnternational; Auchiand, New Zealand
VVHAT a
contradiction
this December offers!
We
shall talk of "peace on earth"
yet we know that our world
is in desperate need of more
"goodwill toward men."
What can u)e do to produce i.t? Rotarians everywhere ask that question, and
Here's hov Santa Monica, Calif., Rotailans collected more than 600 cakes
of soap for the needy of Europe.
A f.77,500 chech lrom
Rotarians to
buy food for Britons is handed to the
Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Australia.
Photo: 6) Wellington Ewninq
Posl
there are many answers. One is so
simple that we easily overlook it,
yet it suggests an activity appropriate for the Christmas season.
Let any Rotary Club in a favored land. or a Rotarian. examine an Offici.al Directory ( every
CIub Secretary has one), and select a Club of a comparable size
in a distressed country. Or ask
the Secretariat of Rotary International in Chicago to suggest a
Club. Correspond with it. Don't
just send gifts at random. Inquire
what you can do to supply food,
clothing, or other items to be used
by Rotarians there or distributed
by them. Then do whatever you
can.
Hundreds of Rotary Clubs in
Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and other
countries are doing this. Recent
experiences in Europe have taught
me that the reception of gifts is
warming many hearts. PeoPle
there are hungry or bored with a
monotonous diet. Rotarians of
Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, to pick a
typical response, are sending a
seven-pound package of food to
some Rotary Club in England
every week. From the Club in
Chatham, Ontario, Canada, to Rotarians at Chatham,England,have
gone shipments of salmon, sausages, tea, tomato juice, puddings,
soup, sugar, powdered eggs, evaporated milk, and chocolate. Rotarians of Portland, Maine, loaded
a trawler with 107 tons of food
and clothing for fi.shermen's families at Nantes, France.*
Recently the Rotary Clubs of
District 56 (Australia) made an
appeal for g 10,000 for Food for
Britain-and collected about
f. 14,000. Some thousands of food
parcels were sent direct to people
in the United Kingdom, at the re-
questofcertain
donors, and a check
f or f, 11,500 was
Fats collected by Rotafians in Well'
ington, Nev Zealand, are refined and
shipped regularly to Great Britain.
Ro tarians of W imble
d
on, En gland, are
hoe
hey
rcll
ble.
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Photo: OMGUS PIO-Bowlds
German children want books in English, Doris Hillenbrand (above) tolcl a U.S.A. Rotaian. Result: more than a million
shipped.
turned over to the Lord I\{ayor of
Brisbane [see cut] by the then
District Governor, Herbert W.
Broad. It supplemented the Lord
Mayor's Food for Britain Fund,
and the food u'as shipped in bulli,
freight free.
Fats, honey, and other foods
have been favorite gifts of man.v
Ciubs, large and small, in my own
Nerv Zealand. You h.ave read, no
doubt, of the "Barling Scheme,"
originated by a Rotarian restaurateur of Dunedin, to send desperately needed fats to the people of
Britain. A typical collection con'* SS. ?'lris SIriTt trIade Nercs at lrortlan<I,
_
Trrn RorrnrA\ I'ol' .Irrtre. 1918.
Dncnucrn.
1948
clr-rcted along those lincs is being
handled as a Community Service
project by the Rotary Club of
Wellington, New Zealand.
New tin containers r,vhich tvill
hold 40 pounds of the vaiuable fat
are distributed to farmers' wives
throughout the area. When filled
they are consigned to a central
depot r,vhere the fat is tested anci
refined, then sent to Britain. Rotarian Jim Rod [see cut] is devoting his entire time voluntarily to
the service, treating the fat in
large copper vats.
CARE parcels of concentratecl,
nutritious food solve the rvhat-todo problem of many North Amer-
ican Rotary Clubs, for they cost
but $tO apiece. The American
Committee lthe Cooperative for
American Remittances to Europe,
Inc., 50 Broad Street, New York 4,
New Yorkl attends to shipping
details.
Rotarians of Cass City, Michigan, for example, send one every
month to Rotarians in Finland.
The 73 members of the Plymouth,
Michigan, Club have sent CARE
parcels for distribution to the 105
Rotarians in the Plymouth, England, Club.
But more than food is needed.
President Angus Mitchell has
pointed out how salvaged articles
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tarian Harvey M. Morley, of Angola, Indiana, started a one-man
necktie campaign which saw some
40,000 shipped. And so it goes. . . .
These gifts do something to the
spirit of people who are fighting
against discouragement. And good
cheer and courage are contagious!
A grand example is provided
by the Rotary Club of Wimbledon,
England. On certain nights of the
week business and professional
men of the Community Service
Committee repair shoes. Headed
A Rotary-sponsored clothing drive
clothesline
full of
gets
off to a flyirs start in Vineland; N. I., vith a
in Finland sill be the recipients.
signs and samples. Rotarians
of clothing, books,
magazines,
toys, stubby pencils, and other
items may be turned to,good account. Opportunities are limited
only by the resourcefulness and
energy of the donor.
There are but two provisos. The
still be usable and they
goods must
should be reconditioned. Clothes
should be mended, for example,
and cleaned. But time and again
generous Rotarians of the cleaner
and dyer classification
have
solved this problem.
Forty men's suits were in one
contribution sent to England. It
came from the Rotary CIub of
Lakewood, Ohio. When Rotarians
in Charleston, South Carolina,
learned that members of the Club
in Charleville, France, would not
ha.ve suitable clothing to attend
their District Conference last
year, they got busy and collected
several hundred packages of
warm clothing which were .
promptly shipped to the "namesake" Club in France.
Southampton, New York, Rotarians are sending clothing for
year ago last Summer he learned
that 3 million youths in the
United States zone were studying
English, but "had no books for
it." Nazis had destroyed the prewar English books, and no one
had replaced them.
Back home, Rotarian Park began telling Rotary Clubs, women's
clubs, educators, and school children about it . . and in no time
good clean bright books began
pouring out of every county in the
State. The movement acquired a
name: The World-Wide Book Aid
Program. Within a year it has
sent more than a million books
and magazines to Europe.*
Van Nuys, California, Rotarians
recently undertook to collect a
million pencils. Chicago, Illinois,
Rotarians sent tools to Rotarians
at Saint-L6, France, to help rebuild that war-wrecked city.t Ro-
by President Reu Hitchcock, they
were trained by an expert cobbler, and now with their own
hands stitch, resole, and reheel
boots and shoes they have col-
lected. They give the reconditioned footwear to the Save
Europe Fund.
All this is Rotary in action!
It's a cue for us who are fortunate
enough to live in lands.of comparative plenty. By intelligently using our own organization-if in
doubt, write the Secretariat-we
havei a unique opportunity of
demonstrating a truth spoken
2,000 years ago: Itts more blessed
to gi,ue than to recei,ue.
Further, it is a unique opportunity for each individual Rotarian to do something in the cause
of international understanding
and goodwill.
t See ?ools for' Sai'nt-L6, Trrn Rorlnr.o:rr
for January, L947.
Southampton, England, Rotarians
to distribute to the needy. Terre
Haute, Indiana, Rotarians are corresponding with members of the
Rugby, England, Club with the
same classification. and are sending them clothing. Scores of other
examples could be cited.
Food and clothing are vital, but
let's not overlook the amenities of
living-books, magazines, picture
books for children, and the scores
of items that make for normal,
cheerful living.
Here I am reminded of a North
Carolina newspaper publisher and
a Past District Governor, John A.
Park. On a journey to Germany a
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Like many other Ney Zealand Rotary Clubs, the Onehunga Club regularly dispatches foodstuffs to Rotaians in England. Herc is a consignment ol tinned fats.
Tno
RoTARTAN
PRESENTED BY HILTON IRA JONES, PH.D.
I Nematode's Nemesis. A parasitic nema-
tode (worm) called filari,a infests the
blood of perhaps one-third of the total
population of the globe. It is the pri-
mary cause of elephantiasis, known
principally in the Tropics, although
filaria also infest some temperate regions. The cure has heretofore been
difficult and dangel6qs-"1[e treatment
was a success, but the patient died!"
That was because the metallic ingredients used were poisonous. tr.or the
protection of soldiers in the Allied
armies in World War II a new nonmetallic drug was developed that promises to
eradicate completely the nematodes in
human blood streams without danger to
the host. A variant of the drug is also
available for animals suffering from kindred parasite diseases.
I Germ-Free Air. One of those miracles
that are seized upon by alert scientists
may help win the war on the common
cold. An odorless vapor has been found
that actually builds high resistance to
air-borne infections and disinfects air
thoroughly. For ten years, experiments
in the use of glycols for this purpose
have been going on, and now the process is being used commercially, both in
factorieS and in homes. Because of the
lotv flash point of propylene and triethylene glyco1s, it has been necessary to
dispense the vapor through forced-air
distribution systems, but a clever device
that electrically heats a saturated paper
roll and looses the proper amount of
glycol consistently without danger of
fire or ill-smelling aldehydes (which result from overheating) isnow commer-
cially available for small offices and
homes.
I Alarm Watches. Eve-y man
ning processes.
I Dampness Control. Until now, delicate regulations for humidity have been
cumbersome, inaccurate, and slow. Now
a device has been perfected whereby
in relative humidity as small as
one-tenth of one percent may be in-
changes
stantly detected and corrected. The device has a wide use in tobacco curing,
air conditioning, fiIm manufacturing,
and kiln drying, as well as in determining the moisture content of sand foundry molds and intake air for combustion
furnaces. The instrument itself neither
adds nor removes moisture in any sig-
nificant amount. Its accuracy is entirely
unaffected by changes in barometric
pressure. The nerv device operates because of the ability of a hygroscopic
fiIm to change its electrical resistance
instantly with microscopic changes in
moisture content.
I Emergency Light. In spite of every
possible precaution, sudden unexpected
blackouts can result from storms, fire,
accident, sabotage, or other unpredictable occurrences-from a blown fuse
to a major disaster. When anything of
this kind happens and the electric current supply is interrupted, a self-con[ained emergency lighting system is
available which instantlv and auto-
heads are adjustable and can be placecl
in any position or removed from thc
unit for installation on walls, stairways,
etc. When the normal current is resumed, the light automatically goes out
and a built-in charger restores.the bat-
tery for the next emergency. No special wiring is required. It is approvecl
by the Underwriters' Laboratories.
I Pipe Fittings. Ffere is how you
can join two pieces of pipe in 3O
seconds: Just stab a special fitting
over plain pipe ends and tighten the
end nuts of the fitting with a wrench.
A perunanent joint
results that will be
"flexible tight." No exact pipe fitting or aligning is needed. ft can be
used on gas, oil, air, and water lines
frqm 96 of an inch to 2 inches in
diameter, and is available in regular
and long couplings, ells, tees, and all
the others. This cuts down the time
of fixing the plumbing manyfold.
I Rubber Replaces Steel. It might seem
unreasonable to say that a coal chute
lined with rubber will last longer than
one of steel alone. But the facts are
that rubber lining bonded to the steet
will often increase the life of a chute by
twentyfold. In one actual case, after
two years, the chute is still performing
without replacement of lining. This
chute lvas actually lined with a soft,
elastic, black rubber. It is claimed the
lining protects equally well against
abrasion from dry materials such as
coal, for example, or r.et materials even
at temperatures up to 150' tr.. It is also
acid resistant.
who
does considerable travelling on close
train schedules should have an alarm
clock as part of his accessories. However, very few do and the reason is
simple: such a clock is too large and
bulky to camy around. But here is
some good news: a watch no larger
than an ordinary pocket timepiece
which has an alarm is available! trt
works just like an alarrn clock except
that it is a watch of standard size.
I New Tanning. A synthetic tanning
agent is obtainable which gives soft yet
strong leathers that can tre repeatedly
rri'ashed or dry cleaned without damage.
In contrast with leathers tanned by
other methods, gentle flexing ancl
stretching are all that is needed to restore the leather to its original softness.
It is particularly well adapted to the
tanning of white leather, gloves, furs,
and garment leather as well as chamois.
Because of their snowy lvhiteness,
leathers tanned in this way can be dyed
unusually br.ight colors as li'ell as pastel.
DpcprutesR, 1948
Such tanned leathers are as strong as
leather tanned by any Other process and
have the advantage of being as soft as
the finest chamois or doe skin-which
makes them, of course, feel warmer
than those made by conventional tan-
matically floods the protected areas
with light from its own power. The
system can be installed anywhere_
on a post, bracket, shelf, or platform.
No special wiring is required-just
plug into any convenient outlet of the
lighting circuit and the apparatus
stands by, always ready. It carries two
light heads, delivering about 100 watts
each, and is capable of illuminating an
area of approximately 10,000 square
feet for five hours or more. The light
I Embossed Aluminum Foil. Aluminum
foil is now being embossed in many
different patterns to give both added
strength and beauty. Such foil is finding increased use as a heat-insulating
material either alone or with a cotton
or other fibrous backing. Foil-surfaced
battings have an unexpectedly high
sound-deadening effect also.
I Reducing Static Charges. One great
handicap in the use of many plastics,
such as packaging films, etc., is the
building up of static charges on the surlint and dust cling. This
is especially bad with polythene table
covers and shower curtains. Two answers to this difficult problem have been
developed. One is a solution that is
dipped or sprayed on the surface; the
other, a hard, high-melting wax that is
united with the resins when molded.
faces so that
***
Letters to Dr. Jones may be ad,d,ressed,
i,n care of Tnn RornnreN Magazine, JS
East Wacker Dri,ue, Chi,cago 1, Illinoi,s.
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Here's Peace on Earth
ROTARIANS HERE, THERE, AND EVERY\rHERE
FIND \rAYS TO BRING HAPPINESS TO YOUNG AND OLD AT CHRISTMAS TIME.
T-r
l] oR cENTURIEs chitdren
have
known Christmas as a time when haPpiness prevails. But for many of them
this happiness takes solne making, and
in this Rotarians everywhere help.
While there is no way of knowing
what plans they are making to lighten
the load of Santa Claus this season, \'e
can report what some Clubs did last
year and predict that similar-or larger
are already under way for 1948.
-plans
Toys and practical gifts were given to
youngsters in six orphanages in the
Wheeling, W. Va., area. For more than
20 years Pana, I11., Rotarians have held
3B
a party at an orphanage, furnishing a
turkey dinner and most-desired gifts.
Orphans were remembered by Union,
N. J., Rotarians, too.
A 7-year-old custom was carried on by
Abilene, Tex., Rotarians when they distributed treats at a local school for Mexican children. Youngsters of New Waterford, N. S., Canada, also received su'eets
from the local Rotary Club, and under-
privileged tots of Chattooga County,
gentleman with a pack of sacked treats.
Rotarians put spark in the sparkle
of community Christmases in many
\,\'ays. A little white church is put up
each year in Homewood, Ill. Wired for
sound, it plays chimes and carols. A
live Christmas tree, now 25 feet tall, is
the axis of Santa's activity in Clarkston. Mich.. while a 42-footer was the
center of things last year in Mount
IJnion, Pa.
Trion, Ga., Rotarians. White and Negro
primary youngsters in Avon Park, Fla.,
La Crosse,'Wis., and Pawtucket, R. I.,
Clubs were among those playing host
to crippled youngsters, while all char-
were visited by the white-whiskered
Gee-
Georgia, were f6ted by Summerville-
itable institutions in and around
Tne RoIARIAN
Iti:.il:il:,,'i:i
ltlll
long, Austlalia. r.eceir.ecl Rr,rtary contlibutions for theil holiclay parties.
Staunton, \ra., Rotalians "partied"
1,000
youngsters; then the Club's chor-
us providecl special music at a rneeting. Several Clult parties u-ere for
membels ancl their families, and some,
like Elberton, Ga., rulecl that member.s
u.ithout childi.en nrust "borfo\\t" solne.
Among Clubs honoling senior citizens \\rel'e those of l(elos'na, B. C.,
Canada; n,Ioose Jar-, Sask., Canacla;
and Bridpor.t, Englancl. College youths
'il'ere gil'en a party in Prescott, Ariz.,
urhile Bedfor.cl, Incl., Rotar,ians remembered mernbers of a local hospital staff.
Grancl Har,en. nlich., Rotarians hacl
their Christmas fun collecting soap,
shirts, ancl laclies' hose to sencl to Rotarians in Nimuregen, The Netherlands. Special guests at a meeting
were a group of Dutch stuclents. Unley,
Australia, Rotarians hacl an auction to
Photo3 Saggars
DocnrurerR, 1948
39
raise funds to send food parcels to
Britain.
Xenia, Ohio, Rotarians put the "X"
in "Xmas" for a group of local lads;
then members received booklets containing a rdsumd of Club history in
rhyme. Wives of Stockton, Calif., Rotarians wrote Christmas greetings to
wives of members of 152 Rotary Clubs
in 50 countries around the world.
Rotarians have helped Santa answer
many letters, few or' which have
shown more spirit than the one received last year from a g-year-old boy
in a letter-writing contest sponsored
by Rotarians of Clintonville, Wis. He
wrote. in part:
". . . I am not a very good writer,
I got both of my hands cut off
rvhen f was only 3, but I write with
what I have . . . I work all my examples and help Mother with her u'ork,
too, and I like tops to play with and
books to read and Santa I wish all poor
folks could have nice tovs for Christbecause
mas."
Rotarians share that wish, I kttoto.
Y
ours-Ttte Scnercnpll
MeN.
P}.oto: Ludwig; Bridport photo; Smith
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/"4sZW
Spea,king
of BooksNOTES ON NE\T OFFERINGS
HIGHLY SUITABLE FOR CHRISTMAS GIVING.
inal iq ltreu England Bean Pot: Ameri,can Folk Stories to Read, and to Tell.
Here are truly American yarns of fun
and wonder, admirable for children
from 8 up. Ji.bby the Cat, by Felix
Salten, is as much for adults as for
children, I suspect, though children
should have first chance. ft's a fine
study of cat nature-and of human nature as lvell.
For that hard-to-please young person
is lvell along in high school or
starting college, the nerv Standard Atlas
of the World would seem to promise a
rryho
GAIN this year
I
shall
try to
sug-
gest to readers of this department books
for Christmas giving: books that promise the special interest and the lasting
.
satisfaction which make them ideal as
Christmas gifts.
Let's start off r,vith a suggestion for
the Rotarian who plans to attend the
1949 Convention of Rotary fnternational, in New York City: a book rvhich
see'ms made to ordel for the Conventiongoer's pleasure and use. It is Neto
York Ci,ty. a volume in the "Look at
America" Series, by the editors of Look
in collaboration lr.ith Frederick L. Allen.
Nh'. Allen contributes the introduction
to a volume rvhich combines abundant
and well-chosen pictnres with concise,
readable text and clear maps: all to tell
the prospective visitor what he lvants
to know about New York City-what to
see and how to get there. Historical
backgrounds are not neglected, but the
emphasis is on the Nerv York of today.
I venture to say that even the man who
imagines he knows Nelv York well t'ill
learn mnch about it from this
book.
Certainly it will be a well-chosen gift
for the prospective Convention visitor.
My Lord?-constitute a great and
living artistic expression of the deepest need of our times, the need for reIigious faith. F or me they add netr'ir
fi,ed
depth of meaning and association to the
spirituals, which I have long countecl
among the most preciotts elements of
America's inheritance. In homes where
the religious significance of Christmas
is sought and felt, I believe lhat Th,i'ee
Spirituals trom Earth to Heauen may
be valued above all other books of this
Christmas season.
In those same homes there ll'ill be
the wish, as well, for the fun of Christmas time; and a book that u.'ill add to
that fun, infallibly, is the nerl' collection
of dralvings by Gaar Williams, Hotu to
Keep from Grouing Old. The present
collection has more of Williams' satire,
Iess of his mello\['l1ess, than the preceding Among the Folks in Hi.stor"y.
But it has the same sureness in detail,
the same authority in characterization.
bilities, two books as different as could
eral, I think these are
best chosen with the
adjectives are complelely justified by
the quality of Allan Rohan Crite's drawings I feel no cloubt at all. Nor can I
believe that there has evel been a happier union of artistic methods than in
Mr. Crite's drawings for three of the
greatest of the Negro spirituals. Incleed, these
drarvings are t}:'e spirituals,
their very essence: the burdenecl and
humble aspiration of Nobody Knous the
Trouble I See, the profound and reverent vision of Stuing Lous, Stueet Chat"-
iot, the exuberant joyousness of
Heauen. Let me say, with all the
thoughtfulness and earnestness of which
I am capable, that I believe that these
drawings-u'ith those of Mr. Crite's earlier Were You There When TheE CruciDncolvrepR, 1948
season rvins my highest recommentlation'. Rentbran'dt, by Jakob Rosenberg.
Of the ts'o boxecl volumes, one is devotecl rvhollv to reproclttctions of paint-
ings, etchings, and drau'ings-nearly
of them. The other contains a concise account of the ascertained facts of
Rembrandt's life and a detailed discussion of his work-an account remark300
nembers of the family
are very important at,
Christmas time. In gen-
Three Spi,ri,tuals from Earth, to Heauen,
by Allan Rohan Crite, and Hotu to Keep
from Groui,ng Old, by Gaar Williams.
The idea that a fresh and sound religious art is being produced in our
time may seem surprising, but that both
things chilc,lren (ancl adults) have rvondered about, in a most enjoyable fashion; and the many pictures are both
enlightening and amusing.
tr'or the home in which truly fine ancl
beautiful books are valuecl and recognized, one lvork of this Fall's publishing
The new volume has a
fi.ne foreword by Franlclin P. Adams.
Books for the younger
Two books'lvholly of pictttres seem to
me especially happy as Christmas possi-
s'ell be, but each excellent of its kind:
lot of usefulness as well as interest. It
is at once complete, convenient in size,
and thoroughly up to date. This, of
course, would be a very fine gift for
the whole family. For the city child of
8 to 12 I suggest Going Up, The Story of
Verti.cal Transportati,on, by Jack Bechdolt. It gives a lot of information abottt
specific youngster very
definitely in mind, but
I do rn-ant to suggest
trvo or three n'hich
shouldn't be overlooked. Ki,ng of the
Wind, by 1\'Iarguerile
Henry, is a big and
handsome book for
boys and girls of 7 to
74. Mells the romantic
story of the Godolphin
Arabian, the common
ancestor of all modern
thoroughbred horses,
and the little Moorish
horseboy who was his
friend. Sound historically and charmingly
written and illustrated,
this seems to me an
outstanding book for
young readers.
Delightful and orig-
lacket design from Allan Crite's new booh of brush-andink dravings, Three Spirituals from Earth to Heaven.
4I
able in that the fruits of many years of
scholarly study are presented in terms
whieh hold interest and meaning for the
3eneral reader. This is surely one of
the'finest examples of the printer's art
produced in this dountry in recent
years-a treasure for the lover of beautiful books as well as for the lover of
great painting. The reproductions are
remarkably satisfaetory, and the arrangement of the pictures-with a few
examples of the work of Rembrandt's
contemporaries,
for
comparison-adds
markedly to their interest. The volume
of text has distinction of typographical
design worthy of the spirit, clarity, and
warmth of Dr. Rosenberg's writing.
Htt GREAT biography R,. E. Lee and.
the related Lee's Lieutenants have
placed Douglas Southall tr'reeman in the
front rank of the world's historian-biographers. This means that the appearance this FaIl of the two first volumes
of a projected six-volume biography of
George Washington, by Dr. Freeman, is
an event of highest importanc+and an
occasion of rejoicing to those who, like
myself, have enjoyed and admired the
h
I
earlier works. In these two volumes,
entitled Young Washi,ngton, Dr. Free.
man has carried his story through the
26 eventful years before Washington
married and became a Virginia planter.
With much research in new sources
and with fresh interpretation of facts
already known, Dr. Freeman has
achieved a revelation of Washington's
eharacter and personality in this period
far more colorful and vigorous than any
that has preceded it. With his charaeteristic method of richly abundant detail, he brings to life as well the colonial
longed truly to the 19th Century and
the romantic age. IIe was a man of
varied talents-novelist, poet, teacher,
as well as sculptor and painter-and a
man of great influence on his generation. His achievement was recognized
by such diverse contemporaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Oliver Wen-
dell Holmes, but has been long negu
lected. Mr. Richardson's account of his
life and work I find highly satisfying,
both in its revelation of Allston's personality and in its portrayal of his times.
This is another book fof the bibliophile
as well as the reader-handsomely
printed, with many excellent reproductions of Allston's work.
Linked together by the fact that both
novels combine biography and fiction
are No Son of Mi,ne, by G. B. Stern, and
Woman toi.th a Susord, by Hollister
Noble. In Miss Stern's book, however"
the real figure of Robert Louis Stevenson is scrupulously distinguished from
the.fiction of the impostor who poses
as his son; and the few departures from
ascertained biographical fact, in this
brilliantly told and largely satisfying
narrative, are conscientiously pointed
out. Mr. Noble has given himself
a
much freer hand in his treatment of the
story of Anne Carroll, whom he calls an
"unoffi.cial member of Lincoln's Cabinet." It is hard, indeed, for the reader
to know how much of the book has
sound historical basis, how much is the
product of Mr. Noble's enthusiastic admiration for Miss Carroll as publicist,
advisor of Stanton and Lincoln, and
originator of the "Tennessee Planf' for
Northern strategy in the Civil War. To
my mind the best things in the book are
its brief character portrayals of such
And now let's turn to the good fortune of readers whose special interests
lie in the world of science as presented
for the la5rman, for the Fall books include at least three especially fine ones
of this type. The Lungfish, The Dodo,
and the Uni,corn, by Willy T,ey, is a revised and enlarged edition of a work
previously published-and I, for one,
am extremely glad that this new edition
has been issued. Subtitled "an excursion into romantic zoology," this book
is a treasury of stories, traditions, and
Iegends about strange animals and fabulous monsters-the unicorn, the basilisk,
the sea serpent-and of information
about even stranger animals that actually exist. It is a capital piece of writ-
ing, as lively as it.is learned-an unfailing delight. For the reader whose
taste is for such things this is a rare
treat.
Though
I
I
have never seen a Pacific
have found engrossing reading
in Betuseen Pacific Tides, by Edward F.
beach,
Ricketts and Jack Calvin. If I could
take a weekly walk along a California
or Oregon shore<r one even farther
north or south-this book would be invaluable. It tells the layman what to
look for-the amazing wealth and variety of invertebrate life at the various
tidal levels-and explains what he sees.
The book is written with grace and
gusto, and is generously and delight-
fully illustrated.
The most engaging account of modern
(and ancient) astronomical knowledgq
which I have encountered is offered by
James S, Pickering in The Stars Are
Yours. Its purpose is to help the lay-.
man to understand what he may see
figures as Sherman, Grant, and Seward.
with his own eyes on any clear nightand to enable him to share some of the
of fine books as well as the lover of
character-in spite of the lively quality
of his narrativ+the less convincing
good reading.
he becomes.
achievements and some of the problems
of modern astronomy. The writing is
marked by vividness, humor, and
society of Washington's time. With its
many maps and portraits, here again is
a work that will delight the collector
A surprising gap in the vast array
of 'T-incolniana" has been worthily
filled by David Donald with his new
book, Lincoht's Eernfi,an. This is the
first
adequate biography of Lincoln's
friend and law partner, William Herndon, a man of great importance
in his
influenee upon Lincoln (and Lincbln
biography), and intensely interesting in
his own right. Mr. Donald began his
Lincoln studies under the direction of
Professor James G. Randall, the great
Lincoln scholar of the Univt:r'sity of
Illinois. He has searched the sources
thoroughly, interpreted and analyzed
justly, and written with genuine vitality. The product is a work indispensable
for any Lincoln library, and of very
positive interest to the general reader.
I weleome with enthusiasm another
first
adequate study
of a
neglected
Americanz Washi,ngton Allston, by Edgar P. Richardson. Washington Allston
was the first American painter who be42
The more space Mr. Noble gives to a
To round out our group of books biographical, here are two of the autobiographical clan-both unpretentious
and both completely delightfulz Fami,lg
Ci,rcle, by Cornelia Otis Skinner, and
The Land of the Crooked, Tree, by U. p.
clarity.
A book which fits equally well a field
Hedrick. Both are by famous people:
Miss Skinner an aclress and author, Dr.
Hedrick a scientist and author of many
(one is tempted to say "most") of our
best books about fruits and fruit trees.
The lives recounted in these two books
were widely different, in external circumstance: the Philadelphia home of
the eminent actor Otis Skinner and a
in the Little Traverse region of Michigan. But the books are
alike in their candor, their humor, their
deep sense of life. Mr. Hedrick's work,
f beleve, will become a classic of its
kind and field. In both I promise you
rich reading pleasure-for these surefy
are books to read for yourself before
pioneer farm
you give them away!
One ol ,he Dransom drawings for Franh
C. Hibben's llrmting American Lions
Trn Rormnr
of popular seienee or that of the out-ofdoors is Hunting Ameri,can Li,ons, by
Frank C. Hibben. Hibben is the author'
of. The Lost Arneri,bans, a book which I
revieu-ed with great enthusiasm in this
department when it appeared. His pres.
ent volume contains, I feel sure, morc
information about the ways of the
American lion than . has ever been
brought rvithin the .covers of a single
book before. But it is primarily a series
of stories of actual hunting experiences,
A Man I Admire
NOTES ON TTTO MEMBERS OF ROTARY'S BOARD
. AND ON
LIVES THAT HAVE INSPIRED THEIRS.
One of the men
Director I{. C.
("And,y") Anderson
most admires was
admirably told.
The Fishi,ng and Hutz.ti,ng Anszuer
Book, by David M. NeweII. Authoritative, detailed anslvers to thousands of
questions asked by listeners to a popnlar radio program for sportsmen.
Fi.sherman's Knots andNets, by Raoul
Graumont and Elmer Wenstrom. An
amazingly complete and brilliantly illustrated book for a special intOrest.
Steelhead, by Claude M. Kreider. The
famous sea-run trout of the Pacific
Northwest-experiences and information.
But frst a little
family which helped
bring culture to the
to me a most adequate treattnent of
both principles and methods in every
fleld of the amateur photographer's interest. Many remarkable photographs,
'with explanatory comment.
Glark,
Texas Christian University.
Ancle6on about Director Andy.
a,n lndependent
oil operator in
Shreveport, Louisiana, wbere he has
headquartered. since 1936. "Oil
lands-leasing' ' is his classiflcation
Born and schooled in Halletsville,
Texas, Andy comBleted. a commercial
coursq then taught himself law at
home. Learning the oil business
from the ground up in t-he Texas
fields, he lived. in Buikturnett,
R,anger, and, Marsha,ll, holding
Fon rrrn Aiaarnun Pnotocnepnpn
The Amateur Pltotographer's Hanrlbook, by Aaron Sussman, revised ancl
enlarged by Bruce Dor,vnes. This seems
Rotary
each of those Texas
cities. In 1932-33 Texas Rotarians
named him Governor of old District
41. Throughout his region he's famed
for his educational talks on Rotary,
for his 25 years of perfect attendance, for his never having missed a
membership
iu
District Conference. Busy, too, in
Boy Scouting, in a Nature'study
group, in chamber of commerce and
oil-association activities, he somehow
Fon rnp Musrc Lovnn
Th,e Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia
of Recorded lllttsi,c. A complete listing
of existing recordings of standard music, helpfully arranged. A most usefttl
records.
book for anyon"
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Wben a man is
of Botary
International, as S.
President
Ilendrick Guennsey
was last year, people
around the world. get
to know his life story
Herrtdon, David Donald (I{nopf,
ardson (University of Chicago Press, $10).oughCornelia Otis
the
$3.50).-fhs
Uni, U. P. Hedri
the
$4.50) .-Th
,
,
Dodo, and the Unicorn, Willy Ley (Viking,
$3;75) .-fi,sf,111psn Pacific Ti.des, Edrvard F.
Ricketts and Jack Calvin (Stanford University Press, $6).-?he Stors
S. Pickering (Macntillan,
Anrerican Lions. F-rank C.
$3.75) .-The Fi.shi.ns and
Book, David M. Nervell (Doubleday, $2.45).
Knots and Nets, Raoul Grau-Ii'isherTn.an's
mont and Elmer 'Wenstrom (Cornell Maritime Press, $3).-Steelhead, Clalude M. Ilrei-
der (Putnam, $3.50).-The Amateur
tographer's Handbook, Aaron
Pho-
Sussman
Gramophone Shop
d,
Music'(Crown,
$5j.
Stern (Macmillan.
of a pioneering
raw
Texa"s
frontier,
Cla*
Bandolph Clark and bis brother Addison established Add.-Ran Gollege
in Thorp Springs, Texas, in 1873. Out
of it has grown Texas Gtristian Uni-
versity at Fort Worth. Director
Andy got to know Professor Clark
well in the last decad.e of bis 90
life
"Ilere was a manrtt says Andy,
"who gave his time, talent, and
years of
money-{ying a poor man-in order
that boys and, girls might gain an
education Often he fbok a bushel
of corn or potatoes for tuition. Ee
was a tall, white-beard.ed. Confederate veteran, an insBiring preacher, a
true Christian gentlenan 'Everything that you do,' he taught youth,
including his seven fine children, 'do
well! Be honest, and have the courage of your convictions to so state
them! t t t
"
The things
I
most
ad.mire about Edigo&" he says, "were
his constructive
thinking, his Batience,
his determination, his
never grving up until
his aim was accom-
so oll.
his sense of humor-these, too, account for Ken's admiration. "I{e
was human. IIe enjoyett a good story
and a good cigar, and. his close and
Still, there's a Ken Guernsey few
Douglas Southall Freeman (Scribner's, $15).
Son
inside and out. In
K,en's case they
learned, that he is an
Guernsey insuranceexeCUtive
in Jacksonville, Ftorida, a leadef in
State and local civic afiairs, the
proud. father of two pretty d.aughters, a golfer, a deepsea angler, and
-fuins6ln's
$5).-ITosh.ington Allston, Edgar P. Rich-
civic project.
college wbich became
L.
who started. a little
Ife's
most every worthy
S.elflessness was
one of the qualities
Andy ad:nired in the
late Randolph Clark.
Randolph
Fon rnu IIuNrr:n exo FrsnrRMAN
fnds time to aid al-
Rotarians know. Ken Guernsey the
inventor. "As a boyrt' says Ken,
"f invented, a nurnber of gadgets
which, though uever patented, proved,
practical, and even yet, when opBor-
tunity permits, I like to think
scheme along inventive
lines."
and
For
this scheming he has a powerequipped, workshop
rage.
just off his ga'
I(nowing this, it comes as no surprise to learn that Ken's boyhood
hero was Thomas Alva Edison and,
that the late great American inventor continues in his thinking " as a
man
I
would like to emulate."
If he did. not
originate the stateme[t, he ofteu used
plished..
Edison
it:
'Genius is 98 percent perspiration
and,2 percent inspiration.' "
Ed.ison's wholesome family life,
his scholarships for promising youths,
friendly association with Henry
Ford, Harvey Firestone, and others
rras a lesson in friendship for the
whole world. Incid.entally," Ken
ad.d.s,
"he was an honorary member
of the East Orange, New Jersey, Rotary Glub and was a valued citlzen.''
As Immed.iate Past President, Ken
you
would know more about his 28 years
in Rotary and his proud. business and
is a Director this year, and. if
civic record, turn back to "That
Man Ken," by Matcus C. Fagg, in
"The Rotarian" for July, 1947,
a Staord, Hollister
DncnrvrepR. 1948
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BRIEF ITEMS ON CLUB ACTIVITIES AROUND THE WORLD.
Lost Ride
of Summer
Bnrsror,,ENcr,lr.ln, Ro-
tarians recently took
a group of 100 criPpted children on a river-steamer outin$,
giving them one last bit of fun before
colder weather set in. They also distributed chocolate to the youngsters. ' . -
Crippled tots were also on the minds of
SvrnrHwtcK, ENGuNn, Rotarians, for
they took a group on a motor triP.
AnYone glancing at
the register of visitors at the Continental European Office of Rotary International would have no doubt that Rotary
Zurich Office
ls ,Crossroods'
Amsterdom Club For the past 17 years
Invesfs in youth Rotarians in Alvrstnn-
DAM, N. Y., have
been investing in youth through their
Student Loan Fund-a fund which was
built up through fi.nes, theatrical performances, and other means. The Club
project was recently extended to in'
clude assistance to registered nurses'
which will lead to additional competent
Australia, Syria, United States, The
Volunteers Erect
School Building
nisia, Madeira, Palestine, New Zealand,
and England.
Members of most Rotary Clubs are interested in the welfare
of the younger generation, and the CIub
of Oarvrenu, NEw ZnALlNn, is no exception. It regularly provides collectors
for the Crippled Children Society's
street day appeal, distributes Christmas
hampers, and. recently collected AI82
for the United Nations appeal for the
children of EuroPe.
Thoughts Are
of Children
Peiping Proys
for-peoce
San Antonio, Tex., are
Rotanr.tN
office.
supervisors for local hospitals. Through
the years the Club has helped 23 students, most of whom have already taken
responsible positions in life and have
repaid their indebtedness to the CIub.
Netherlands, Union of South Africa, Tu-
in
word of the meeting to Tnu
is an international movement. For instance, 35 Rotarians who recently visited the Office represented Clubs in 19
different countries. They came from
Switzerland, Finland, China, India, Belgium, Egypt, France, Denmark, Sweden,
Rotarians
membership of 75. Incidentally, it cost
$1,100,000 (Chinese National) to send
Rotarians of PntrrNc,
CHlNl., recentlY codperated in a "call-
to-prayer" service for the United Nations General Assembly meeting in
Paris, France. Among items on the
program was the recitation of the Lord's
Prayer in five languages. Thirteen nationalities are represented in the Club's
Photo: Hakeboom
The Rotary Club
of Cor,uMsrAvrLLE,
Mrcn.. found an
answer to the problem of classroom
shortage which was facing the local
school. When it was apparent that
there would be no school funds available
to construct a needed building, a "work
or pay" solicitation was started, and
soon enough cash was donated to buy
the materials, and enough volunteer
labor was provided to construct a 40-byS0-foot cinder-block building to house
the school's science and shop departments.
Approximately 40 persons are enrolled at the school which Rotarians of
Gulner,l.rane, Mnxrco, have established
for children and adults, giving them an
opportunity to learn to read and write.
The CIub also inaugurated a children's
home, which now has 130 enrolleesyoungsters whose parents would otherwise have no place to leave them while
they are at work.
The Wucnow, CHINI., Rotary Club recently established a free school for the
poor. Books and school supplies are
furnished. Members recently sewed
gunny sacks and distributed them
A
among the poor for blankets.
home for deaf and mute children is
being organized by the Rotary Club of
Nlcosre, Cvpnus.
Deod
WiliBe Honored
Pongosinon
The RotarY Club
of DncurAN, rHE
PurlrrtrNEs, is
sponsoring a Province-wide campaign to
raise 150,000 pesos to construct a monument honoring residents of the Province
of Pangasinan who perished during
enemy occupation of the region during
World War II. The shrine will be
de-
signed by the nation's leading architects.
of nine pins provided but a small patt of the.
when a- group of Rotaians and their wives I
nt a veeE as guests of Rotatians in Deventet'
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His ExcellencY DrK' N' r{atju' Governor of West Bengal,
was recently inducted as an honorqry
Colcutto Club
Heors Kotiu
member of the Rotary Club of Car-cutte,
Tnp
RoTARIAN
INlr.c,.
clared
'In addressing the CIub, he deit was the duty of every patriotic
citizen to do his utmost to raise production so that the numerous difficulties
facing the country might be
solved.
"Today," he saicl, "the real battle of India is on the industrial fielcl," pointing
out that Cer,curre plays an important
part in the industrial life of ilre
try.
?.A
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coun-
Hcimeenlinno Rotarians of H:trtHos o New Home EENLTNNA, FrNl,tNn,
are justly proud oI
their neu' cabin (see cut), saicl to be the
only structure of its kind in their country. Built in the ancient Finnish style,
using round logs, the cabin is locatecl
or1 a srnall islarrd orl'ned by the CIub.
The facilities inclucle the indispensable
Built by the Rotary Club of Hiimeenlinna, Fhiland, this cabin (also see item) serves as
a meeting and excursion place for local Rotarians. Other groups will use it, too.
sauna (Finnish bathhouse). On the
ground floor there are a large r"oom s'ith
an open fireplace, a smaller l'oom, and a
kitchen. There are bech'ooms on the
second floor.
Were
lnformotive
Answers
As a \rocational
Service feature on
Club plogr aIn,
a
a
number of members of the Rotar5' Cltrtr
of Paonre, CoLo., rvere recently askecl:
"In u'hat business or professional associations do you holct membership?"
"What benefits do you clerive from such
membership?" "What do you contlibute,
other than financiallv, to the advancernent of your business or profession?"
Although the program \r:as looth spontaneous and unrehearsecl, the responses
to the qrtestions \vere rcportercl to be
both intei'esting and inforuative.
It All Adds Up
llortier crossing
Some 6O guests are "testing" the new picnic shelter which was provided by Datton,
Mass., Rotarians and other local gtoups. Two fiteplaces n'ill be built soon.
is
to Understonding colrimon zrtnong Rotarv Clnbs and Rotarians, ancl usthlly such events aclcl
their bit tolvard incleasing international
understanding. For instance, a TucsoN,
ARrz., Rotarian visited the SeN Lurs PoTosI, MExrco, Rotary CIub sorne months
back, r,vhile serrring as a member of a
foot-and-mouth d i s e a s e inr.estigation
commission. I{e promisecl the Club that
his Club woulcl pt'ovide it rvith a Llnitecl
States flag. That promise rn'as kept. on
the recent anniversary of Mexican inclependence. . . . Tu-enty members of the
Rotary CInb of Er- Carrpo, 'fEx.. r'ecentlv
nade a bus tt'ip to l\fexico, putting on
the prograrn at four Nlexican Rotary
Clubs in as man.y days. Norv they are
planning a trvoJrus trip all the l'ary to
Rotarian "Indiants" of Mission, Kans., ate making a goodwill tour ol nearby Clabs.
In Baldwin they gave Prcsident C. B. Butell (center) a tomahawk to rip.g the Club bell.
Moxrco Crrn.
The
\4roncEsrFrn, Nlass.,
CIub recently
obselved "Hungary Da-v," rvhen a native
of Hungary \\ras the guest speaker, ancl
other nationals norv living in the community u-ere invited guests. 'Ihe affair
.!vas so successful that the Clult pians to
dedicate futule tneetings to othel nationalities.
I9 More Clubs
Mork 25th yeor
Silver-annivef sar.y
congratulations a r e
due 19 Rotary Clubs
during December. They are Pulaski,
Tenn.; Siloam Springs, Ark.; Las CruMex.; Charleston, Miss.; Hominy,
OkIa.; Reading, Mass.; Medforcl, Mass.;
Somerville, N(ass.; Menomonie, Wis.;
ces, N.
DncpnreoR, 1948
Whgn the Rotaty Clubs of Ringtovn, Girardville, and Shenandoah, Pa., held a family
outing in Ringtown, d program high sPot wat this reversible "mixed" quartette.
45
Gallup, N. Mex.; St. Johnsbury, Vt.;
Boonton, N. J.; Gallatin, Tenn.; Pittsburg, Tex.; Sudbury, Ont., Canada;
Watertown, Wis.; Dunellen, N. J.; Ayden, N. C.; Clay Center, Kans.
The roster of RotarY
lo
NewClubs! International h a s
Greetings
25
been enriched by the
recent addition of. 25 Clubs. Congratulations! They are (with sponsor Clubs
in
parentheses) Osceola Mills (Houtzdale), Pa.; Amble and Warkworth, Eng-
land; Raahe, Finland; Saugatuck-Douglas (St. Joseph-Benton Harbor), Mich.;
Washington (Clay Center), Kans.;
South Glens Falls (Hudson Ealls),
N. Y.; Nufloa (Santiago), Chile; Lemvig, Denmark.
Ybor City (Tampa), Fla.; Westhoughton, England; St. Marylebone, England;
I(orumburra (Warragul), Australia;
Shepparton (Benalla), Australia; Bulli
(Wollongong), Australia; Boone (Lenoir), N. C.; Ribe, Denmark; Mishawa-
ol Siloam Spings, Ark., recently proted that their hearts are vith ,he
6l the communiiy. They built a fenced-in sandbox playground, and on
dedication day showed ap yith a generous suPply ol ice cream lor the hiddies.
Rotarians
youngsters
(Emporium), Pa.; Halstead, England;
lower; laundry service
was all just in fun-which is a good
Prestwick, Scotland; Atenquique (Ciudad Guzm6n), Mexico; Gorizia, Italy;
rng.
(Marble Hill-Lutesville), Mo.
Rock Rotarians of BlowDoys rNc RocK, N' C', can
way their "'aoptlXf;: ?1i;"# lx:
ka (South Bend), Ind.;
dentures
- insurance-20-pay-life. -It
shorts; and
Johnsonburg
ingredient to mix into an intercity meet-
North Fresno (Fresno), Calif.; Moss
Vale (Bowral), Australia, Advance
Roise Funds
the Foir Woy
The Rotary Club of
Alrxlrtnnrl Bnv,
N.
Y., has pledged $10,500 toward the campaign in its community to construct a hospital. Part of
that money was raised at the Club's recent ninth annual fair. from which the
Club's Crippled-Children Fund and Community Service Fund also benefited.
These
'Minules'
Blowing
Soves the
Bedford, Pa., Rotarians "made almost
seyen yards on one playr" vhen they inducted Ross Brown and his tall ttins,
Ned and Ted, at one meeting. Another member that day yas Gordon Moser.
Although there were
Were Approved various tYPes of
ahead to normal, happJ lives.
tertainment, includ-
ing golf, at the recent intercity meeting
sponsored by the Rotary Club of GneNo
Fomily Doy the
Elizobeth
Rarros, Mrcu., guests and hosts are still
laughing about the alleged "minutes" of
the Board of Directors meeting .which
Don J. Porter, Program Chairman, read.
Classification Committee was rigidly enforcing the rule of having no overlapping classifications. Among classification still open were dentures-upper,
sters, Johnny and Grace Day, were the
victims of poliomyelitis and were faced
with the prospect of becoming hopeless
cripples. Deciding to "adopt" the youngsters, the Club sent them to a near-by
camp where trained therapists were on
hand to help Nature strengthen their
bodies. Today, for the first time in their
memories, the two children can look
en"
Among other points, he stated that the
turned out. They learned, some time
ogo, that two mountain farm young-
Woy
Even the Youngsters
now have a better
understanding of Ro-
tary in Er,rzesprH, N. J. The local CIub
recently had a family.day which put the
idea over. The wives assembled for a
Brantford,'Ont., Canada, Rotarians
hnow one yay to entertain a Director of Rotary lnternai,onal. When
Gordon E. Purdue (second from left)
visited, they had a golf "tourney."
meeting and program of their own in a
separate room, while the youngsters
came and dined with their dads. One
member spoke briefly on what fathers
do in Rotary and what the Rotary movement should mean to them. Another
speaker, a museum curator, used live
squirrels, snakes, and raccoons to illustrate his talk<n wild life.
Sportsmonship Something new has
been added to the
Will Poy Off
interscholastic program of the high schools in Wrcnrte
FlLLs, Quewarr, Cutlonrss, VunNoN, Er,ncTnA, and Gnerrem, Tnx. They are now
competing for a Rotary sportsmanship
award-a beautiful trophy which will
be given by the Rotary Clubs to the
school whose townspeople, students, and
players show the most sportsmanship at
The sun always seem: to shine bright'
est on the annual Su,.shine Picnic the
Ro
to,
(2
me
fiu
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THU
RoTARTAN
Dixie
were then given on the various phases
of Rotary before the lights were turned
on again.
'l
Love
oPorode...'
Folks in Slur,r Sru.
MARrr, ONt., CRNaoe,
recentlv witnessed the
biggest parade they had seen in years.
It *as a part of the local Rotary Club's
26th annual Community Night celebration to raise funds for Crippled-Children
Work. The affair was as successful as
e Club realthe
rom the afized,
fair,
Y unils and
an exemplification of friendliness be'
tween the United States and Canada.
A silver cup now stands on the mantel
Toys and comic books-boxes of them-are provided lor the young patients of the
polio convalescent unit of the Ellen FitTgerald Hospital in Monroe, N. C. Donors
are Monroe Rotaians, hiaded by President Arthur H. Miller (third from the left).
games. A three-man committee from the
competing schools lvill judge the conduct at each game, and at the encl of the
season the school having the most points
r,vill receive the trophy-rzr,'hich can be
won permanently with three years' trying. The Clubs plan to take turns hanDowny Chins
Members of the Ro-
and diamoncl-jubilee celebration. The
affair marked the Club's 25th anniver'sary and the 75th anniversary of the
The Worcestets catne a step closer togerhet when lohn B. Edwards (lelt),
an honorary Rotarian and Mayor of
Worcester, England, spoke at a meeting
of the Rotary Club ol Worcesler, Mass.
Photo: Basil
over €
\,\'aysofbringing
1,200.
Newkirk Knows lts
con-
Good Neighbors
tact. Rotarians of Nonrru\rproN, PA.,
for instance, have a policy of visiting
rural churches and granges during the
them, exhibited their best pullets and
cockerels at the county fair. Each
youngster returned four dressed cockerels to the Club, r,vhich auctioned them
at a recent meeting.
The Rotary Club of RaNcroRA, NEw
u.i[h a number of
other local organizations recently to
ZEALIND, coiiperated
cure funds to help the children of Eu'
rope. The total raised \\'as something
Town ond Country Rotary Clttbs h a v e
Brought Together found a variety of
Summer months, gradually accluainting
the farm people lvith Rotary and Rotary activities. . . . MncnallrcvrllE, N. Y.,
Rotarians provided 50 baby chichs each
to a group of 4-H members, r,vho raised
"The best float in the Parade," tlle
judges said of the entry of the Rotary
CIub of JacrsoN, MrcH., in the recent
Parade of Progress stagecl in its city.
The Club's entry depicted a crippletl
child on a special hospital bed, being
rvatched over by a trained nurse.
hold a parade and other functions to se'
founding of the torvn.
rural and urban regions into closer
eently as part of a Summer Mardi Gras
. . . The float of the RotarY CIub of
WasnsunN, ME., was an outstanding en'
try in the parade which featured the
recent annual Potato Blossom Festival.
As a special feature, the "Sweet-Potato
Queen" of Louisiana was a gtlest of
honor.
dling contest details.
Out DowneY WoY' tarY CIub of DorvNEY, Calln., recently
dug up old-time costumes ancl let their
rvhiskers grow as part of their prepareclness for the Dou'ney community fair
of the dining room of the Rotary Club
of Nonrnpont, N. Y., as a pleasant reminder of the fact that the Club's float
won first prize in the parade staged re'
Residents of NprvKrRK' oxla'' who
in their daily lives
live up to the plecepts of Rotary's
motto, "Service above SeIf," are honorecl
periodically by the local Rotary Club.
Checks totalling $1,081 are given by
George Calder (center), Bristol, Conn.,
Rotary Club Community Service Chairman, to continue favorite projecls of the
Boy Scouts and the Bristol Boys' Club,
They are designated as "Good Neigh-
bors," and are special guests of the Clul-r
at a meeting. It is not the Club's purpose to honor someone tvith an outstanding accomplishment, but rather to recog-
Froncisco A "most astonishing
Woy resPonse" from the
membership \\'as
part of the reWard for the effective
method of receiving new members
rvhich was recently employed by the
Son
Finds o New
Rotary Club of SaN Fneucrsco, Clr-rr. As
the Chairman completed his remarks
explaining u'hat was to loe done, the
lights dimmed and a beam of light fell
on a flolver-bedecked table at rn hich
Committeemen were seated. Short talks
Ro
Poun
yill
a
DpcnvrenR. 1948
36-
. It
nd.
4l
nize that there are many fine men and
women whose fairness, honesty, and
kindness have enriched the lives of all
who are associated with them.
showed up for a tour of the airport and.
treats. The biggest treat of all was the
plane tour of the Bay area which 56
lucky youngsters were privileged to
Olympics Teams c omP ete d
of Southbridge bY "countries"' an
"Olympic torch"
take in 25 airplanes.
P. S. The event has become so potrF
ular that the Rotarians are planning to
have a similar treat for the girls.
winners' stand (see cut), etc.,
Things
Junior
burned throughout the ceremony, and a
Coach
of the winning team receives
the Southbridge trophy (also see item).
made
the recent "Junior Olympics" staged by
the Rotarj Club of SournnRrDGE, Mlss.,
just like the "real thing." A crowd of
1,000 was on hand to cheer the ladsaged 9-1fand also to see the Rotarians
themselves compete in a mid-afternoon
game of softball with a girls' team- - The
proceeds went to support the local highschool band. P.S. The Rotary team won
the softball game, L2 to7.
They
All
I.OOO
Botted
FigurativelY at least'
everYone batted
1,000 percent when
the Rotary Club team of Ar,suquERQUE'
N. Mnx., competed in the recent softball
tournament of service clubs held in its
city. The RotarY team won the crown
by virtue of three rather
one-sided
scores, and the Club scribe credited
it
to and trom his nevsstand vith ease
since Bakersfield, Calif ., Rotaians gave
him this electric-powered "autoette."
to the near-by naval station for their
meeting and heard interesting reports
from two officers. One of them mentioned. the desirability of establishing a
naval recreation facility at VrncrNrl
Bplcn for the enlisted personnel of the
district. He was informed that the Rotary Club had alreadY named a Committee which is working toward that
objective.
Solvodor After hearing a talk
by an executive -of the
Seeks Sofety
Inter-American SafetY
Son
Council, members of the Rotary Club of
Sau Ser,vlooR, EL Slt vlooR, raised funds
cial success, realizing something over
the goal of $3,000 for the milk fund.
the survey.
showed their appreciation of the fine
play of the pennant winners in the sen-
ior and junior divisions of the local
playground baseball league by enterThanks to the sponsorship of the Ro'Wasr., some
Er-r,pNsBURc,
50 youngsters of its city enjoy baseballr
tary Club of
They play regulation hard ball, and
were recently guests of the Club on a
trip to SEArrlr, where they saw a Pacific
Coast League game.
Sons
of Air
Age
BoYs' DaY at the air-
'Go Upstoirs' Port was a big daY
in Plr,o ALro, Cnr,m.,
recently, when the local Rotary Club
sponsored its third annual outing for
lads of the area. Some 200 of them
a
safer city, the Rotary Club was assured
of fult codperation by local authorities
in enforcing traffic regulations following
Pnrr,r,rpssuRc, N. J., Rotarians recently
trophies.
a testtoom tor visitors. So members
ol the Rotaty Club built one, complete t'ith quailers for a caretaher.
matters
for a traffic survey. In planning for
taining them at a dinner and awarding
Minnedosa, Man., Canada, had need ol
in
with the high average on the basis of
attendance, raising money, and actual
competition. Yes, the affair was a finanScott E. Burchett, a polio victim, gets
Shipshope Interest
evident
ot Virginio Beoch nautical was
when the "RotarY
Club of Vrncrxr.l BrlcH, Vl., recently
observed "Navy Night." Members went
Pupils Perk Up
Aftendonce
Realizing that.the efficiency of an educa-
tional system de-
pends upon the regular attendance of
the pupils and that the better the attendance, the better the youngster's
chance of becoming an asset to his community in future years, the Rotary CIub
of MunrneEsBoRo, TENN., eonducts an an'
nual contest among the white schools
of Rutherford County. The schools are
divided into three groups, with the
school with the best attendance each
month winning a loving cup to be held
for a month. At the end of the year
those with the top records are given
permanent possession of the trophies.
Members of the new
Rotary Club of NewMAN, CALrF., are looking forward to great accomplishments,
and if the CIub attendance record is any
Good Stort
Good Omen
indication, results should not be disappointing. For the first six months of its
existence, the Club's attendance record
was perfect, thanks to careful planning
of several members who were travelling
in various States, in Mexico, and in
Canada.
Are It's getting to be almost an everYdaY
Air
event for Rotary
More Clubs
Toking fo
Club to "go a-visiting." And every day
more Clubs are getting the idea of making their intercity-meeting trips by air.
Approximately 20 Sawrr,ln, N. Y., Rotarians recently made a l4-minute cross-
to visit the Bntncnront,
. . . A group of 54 Rotarians and ladies recently held an "air
Sound flight
CoNtt., Club.
tontard tnatntenance of a camp for hardof-hearing youths. Here four members and ten lads Prepse for an outing therc.
Havthorne, Cdlit., Rolarians conttibute
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meeting," flying from Cnepur-rrprc, Mnxrco, to Acarulco and back.
Trro
RoTARTAN
ROTARIANS
S"t*
A 'swAGtrAN.' rn reporting on
the recent visit of Rotary's international
President, Alrcus S. Mrrcnnr.r,. to the Rotary Club of Portland, Oreg., Secretary
ANnnnw A. PlrrnnsoN states that "special
music" was called for after
PnnsrDEN'r
Mrrcnsr,r- had given his talk. SoNc
Lrlnpn Tnorras Lurn told the Club President, Leunnuco C. Manm, that he hacl no
special music, blrt he'd go out and "dig
up" -a singer. Ffe carne back lr,'ith the
hotel doorman, who sang Stout-Hearted
Men, and Waltzing lltlati,Ida. As the
chorus of the Iatter rri,as reached,
Cnlnr-ns WrNtnnNrurE, Portland Rotarian, came in disguised as the "swagman," the well-known character in the
song. Despite efforts to stop him, the
"strvagman" proceeded
to the platform,
where he hailed PnpsrnuNr: Mrrcnpr,r, as
a fellow "swagman." The President rose
to the occasion and greeted Rotanrax
Wnrrnnl-urp in his usual wal'm
and
Great Britain. l\{aplazines slrould be
shipped directly to E. H. G. Banlrrnr-1,
Pe:tce Haven, 25 Chantry Close, Kenton.
England. There are 200.000 members in
2,0tX) clubs. (For. lrrore about Rotarv re-
liel
see page 34.)
IIe's a 'G. P.' F-eatured pr.ominentlv
rr recent issue of Life magazine (Septenrber 20) was a pictorial dealing u'ith
the problems of a general practitioner,
Dn, EnNssr Guy CpnraNr, a member of
the Kremmling, CoIo.. Rotary Club,
which was organizecl a year ago. He
serves his Rocky lVlountain community
in
diatrician, psychiatrist, dentist, oculist,
ancI laboratory technician.
Ilonor Townsman. \{embers of the
Ro.ary Club of Enid, Okla., turned out
the other day to honor a fellow tournsman, DR. EucoNn
friendly manner.
Bnrccs (see cut), r,vho
is serving as president
of Lions International
[his year. Dn. Bnrccs
spoke on international
relations at the meeting, lvhich exemplified
Good Start. Five ne's'members of the
Rotary Club of Green Cove Springs,
Fla., feel that they got off to a grancl
start when they rvere recently inducted
into Rotary by S. Kpxnnrcr< Gurnnsnv, of
Jacksonville, Immediate Past President
of Rotary International. His address,
notes a Club spokesman, inspired the
older members to be better members,
too.
Idea No. 2. Several months ago
Henvnv W. Monr,nrr, an Angola, Ind., Ro-
tarian and newspaperman, started a
program of sending neckties to Ettrope.
Some 40,000 ties, of a value of more than
$20,000, have already been sent, and still
the ties are coming to him. RoranreN
Monr,nv is now devoting most of his attention to a new project, ho\,l'ever. He
is suggesting that publishers (and individuals) send surplus magazines to
provide reading material for members
of the Boys' Clubs and Girls' Clttbs of
the spirit of intergroup fellowship.
Flanliing him at the
Briggs
speaker's table were
Gr:,vp lVlrnnrrr. President of the Enid
Lic,ns Club, and Pnrco FuuquRv, Presidetrt of the Rotary Club.
Siinger. Cn.tnr,Bs Aucusrus Benernn,
a
member of the Rotary CIub of Newark,
N. J., is a man who sticks to a thing
on<:e
he starts.
F
or instance, last Spring
he sang his 64th consecutive Edster
service (see cut) at famed Trinity
Ch.rrch, New York, N. Y. He joined the
choir as a lad of 8, singing first treble.
He now sings second bass. He has been
a rnember of the Downtown GIee Club
of ltlew York City for 21 years. He joined
These five Rotary couples rccently observecl th,:ir golden yedding anniversaries. Congratulations to them a!l! They are (left
to right) Mr. and Mrs. tiowad R. Reimard, of Danville, Pa.; Mr.
DncsNrepR. 1948
Charles Auguslus Barbier sings his
64th Easter service (also
as physician, sulgeon. obstetrician, pe-
see item).
a publishing company as bookkeeper
back in 1897, and four years ago he
retirecl as president of the company.
Recently Ror,q.nnu ancl Mns. Banernn observed their golden wedding anniver'sary. The only attendant at their mar'riage \vas present at the reception.
Good Hands. Folks in Visalia, Calif.,
must like Rotary leadership, for, according to Jr,cr< 1,. DAvls, President of the
local Rotary Club, there have
been
seven Mayors during the past 13 yeals
and all but one have been Rotarians.
Besides that, practically every commu-
nity
erzent or proiect
headed by a Rotarian.
of
consequence ls
Rotarians llonorecl. Seven members
of the Rotary Club of Colombo, Ceylon,
were recipients of honors in the King's
Birthday Honors List. They are Rrcneno
Ar,uvrnlne, Knighthood; Screron J. A.
D. Vrcronra, Commander Order of the
British Empire; Srxeron A. R. A. Razrx,
GuNesnxe oo Soyza, and B. E. 'Wnuna.
Order of the British Empire; anrl
Horyrr Brr,r,rnronm and R. Donnseruy, MemsrNGHE,
ber of the Order of the British Empire.
When'W. O. DlNrpr,s recently resignecl
as Secretary of the Rotary Club of Lubbock, Tex., after serving for nine years,
and Mrs, Frcnk Warner, of Binghtmttn, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. l. W.
Long, of Davis, Cali[.; dnd two couples from Canton, Ohio-Mr.
and Mrs. William E. Strassner. and Dr. and Mrs. W. Stuart Canres.
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fellow members showed their appreciation of his service by presenting him
with a watch. . . . A Rotary plaque was
Cnlntnnns
Rotarians
tY service.
the building materials for a BoY Scout headqulrters cabin, which has been dedicated to his criPPled son.
EowrN Svrrtrr SrEweRT, a member of
the Rotary Club of Abilene, Tex', was
recently named State chairman for the
1949 March of Dimes camPaign bY the
president of the National Foundation for
Meet the identical Hansen twins of
Inlantile ParaIYsis.
Hownno T. Huuu, son of Rosnnr E'
HnuN, of Richmond, Ind., a Past First
Vice-President of Rotary International,
was recently appointed to a ten-month
instruction course at the National War
College in Washington, D. C.
ders who enjoYed .I
English, bY Charles
Prince of Wales
of Wales-now the Duke of
Windsor. An honorary member of the Rotary Club of
Windsor, Ont., Canada, he
was given a solid gold card
as a certificate of his membership.
appeared in Tnr Ror as a rePrint from
Thi,s Week magazine, will be interested
'Wnrrr'
in knowing that it was Ponnv lI'
of
Club
Rotary
a Past President of the
Taunton, Mass., who suggested it be
used.
Quick Wit. When Rotarians of Dis'
at
trict
ZO
held their recent Conference
**:F
Prominent
position was
dian" camp
the Boulder,
Club, where
lived in teIndian attire.
***
Ethics' PIace in Business
was a provocative piece in
ere Picking'
which Turner Jones discussed Rotary's possibilities
and potentialities as a Positive influence in business and
industry.
***
An article by Harry Botsford was filled with advice
which is as good todaY as it
was when offered. He said,
"flave a hobby-then ride it
hard !"
***
Tales of Battles Long Ago
featured a meeting of the
Peru, Ind., Rotary Club, at
which
it
was host to-30 vet-
erans of the Civil
Wir.
One
reported that but twice as a
soldier had he ever been entertained by an organization.
***
A new insight to RotarY's
possibilities was obtained bY
the Alamosa, Colo., RotarY
Club when it held a "competitors' meeting." Members
invited their competitors, or
representatives of lines of
business not then represented in the Club membership.
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be sticking'
President to become Secretary' At a recent meeting fellow members paid trib-
ute to the 35-years-plus service by presenting him with an inscribed silver
bowl. l'SEcRntARY SrD" received numerous letters of congratulations, including
one from FneNr< W. Wpnoon, whose record as Secretary of the Syracuse, N' Y',
Rotary Club slightly shades his 35 years'
Act of Thanks. ANroNro
DANnu, a dis-
quarian of Palermo, Sic-
other side of the island
ance of the Allied forces
1943. Learning that his
home had been bombed, he was greatlY
concerned over the safety of his wife
child. He was befriended by an officer of the New Zealand forces, who
and
managed somehow
to get DenPu
home
Tsp
RoTARTAN
\\ihlre he founcl his rvife ancl chilcl
un-
harmecl. The men-became goocl friends,
ancl recently the Neu' Zealander' \\:rote
f)r.r,iptr that a friend of his, RoranraN
Ile.ror,o T. Trrolrrs, of Aucklancl, Nelv
Zealand, r'r-ould be in Augusta, Sicily,
betn-een planes, ancl suggestecl that,
shoulcl DaNou be in the vicinity, he
mig;ht rl.ish to meet Tnoir,ras. DlNpu
trip 1300 miles across the
islancl to be there. Rorenr.lN Tnornr.,ls,
lvh'r is Chairman of Rotary's Internatiorral Affairs Comrnittee, reports, "I
founcl him to be a delightful and 'ivelltnarle a special
Now Angus S. Mitchell, President of
Rotary International, is an "admiral."
He is shown receiving that honor from
Nebraska's Governor, VaI Peterson
(right). The "navl," of course,
is
Nebraska's all-admhal organi1alion.
Photo: Clrillicothe Gazetle-Orr
inforrrrecl fellou', lvith a particularly
keen interest in the international situ-
atic,n. I{e u'as able to give me most
interesting ancl valuable information
about current events in Italy.
." l\t
no small inconvenience to himself SrcNon D.tNriu .was trying to return a favor'
to lhe Neu. Zealand officer-and Crrarn.
nrer{ TrrolrAs \\ras happ,v to be the nridrllernan.
.tt lou'er lr'Iiers.
Tlr'o San F rancisco,
Cal;f., Rotarians .were featured prominently in an article, The Flouers Fly
East, in a recent issne of The Saturday
E'L;ening Post. They are \MaxBueu G.
and Encen G. NIcLBr,l.tx, \\rl'ro rvith a
third brother. Roo, operate extensive
family flo$.er farms. They send their.
blosrsoms to market by plane.
',1[nno I)ornini.'
A calenclar series of
xs entitled Anno Dotnini, has come
frorn the pen of Dexrnr, KlrrER, a member of the Rotary Club of Fillmore, N. Y.
Selerctecl verses from the poem foi. Decetlber follo'n':
poe
ork program goes ahead in
Ohio, as the Rotary Club
ound moyie proiecior for
y Scouts. Here President
C. Z. Erdmann, fr. (le[t), presents
it to Scout Executive Charles A. Preyer.
So 1'rosf is on, tlte Lanrl at [q5!'['tt flesh, ancl bloocl, a !o.ttg1 . en(l (Iertll'lte sparroto shuns the frigi.cl, blasl,,
Free Booklels by
Dr. Robert R. Aurner
A',t icy sTt|irtter
itt his lt.eat't.
F'rtutintt, crou)ns the bu'necl-ottt rceecl
Decentber lotoers gray attd colcl.
Let tnortul ltcuul y lto to scetl
INGREASE THE
PUttING POWER.
A,td, tintcless couttterpart enfoltl.
Witlt N
M ttt's
Beyrntd"
'1'o lt.e
of your business letters
ed and still,
tiotts l-ise
Your
success
h,iil.
kies.
with
business letters is
On, iti.glt, abreast th,e t:attl.tecl bltre
B,trns Cod's briglt! Chrisltttus flr'c.'
His 7tt'ontise undcfiIcd ottd true
OJ tIrc neu: antl fujler lifc to ba.
Author. Eunrco BRANco Rrenrno,
a
the Rotary Club of Sdo
Paulo, Brazil. ancl a Past Advisor of Rovrsr r RornRrA, has authored a ltook, .Rotor.E, o't'the Legacy of Pau.l Hat"ris.
Cop i.es, which are of course printed in
Port.uguese, were among the prized souvenjrs brought home from the 1948 Rotary Convention at Rio de Janeiro by
Pasl; President of
nunrerous Rotarians.
Historic. Braintree, Mass., Rotari:rns satv themselves in action as the
Cluir celebrated its recent silver anniR,ael-y
versary, when SHnrr-pv Nnel, a charter
menrber, presented a reel of colorecl
movies. Included u.ere all present members, all the Club's Past Presidents, and
T7riting
Making
"The rea
he helps
secondb
Yoar First Sentence.
et, Moneypoints out,
say." Then
thit pay in
tSOeKin
years
busi-
"r.",1
ters Division.
Both booklets are rcady f or you
both
- busifree
write today. Please use your
ness -letterhead. Fox Rrvnn Papnn ConPoRATIoN, 1615 Appleton St.,
Appleton, I7isconsin.
neally all forrner members. The late
P. F{ennrs, Founder and President
Eme,ritus of Rotarl' International, was
also included-pictured as he appeared
several years ago n hen he attendecl a
P.q.ur,
on an inspection of the gold mines.
DECnuBnR, 1948
inee:ing at Oyster Harbors, Cape Cod,
\'Iasl;. Paur,'s boyhooct home in Walling-
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ford. Vt., was also shown. Others in the
picture were H.tnnv'L. Rucclns, first
song leader of the Rotary CIub of Chi-
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Growing. Rotary is growing in Australia. In fact, Rournt F. Devroson, Sec-
retary of the Rotary Club of Hobart, has
pointed out the "gain of a whole District." He has called attention to an
error in the Australian quiz in Tlrn RoTARTAN for JulY, which numbered the
Districts in his country as four-instead
of five.
Ticks for Truman. Hlnnv S. Tnuvr.lN,
President of the United States and an
honorary member of the Rotary Club of
Independence, Mo., will probably remember for a long time the recent stop
he made in Salida, Colo. Among the
folks he met was RotenreN Fnnn MntNeN,
who made the President a gift of a handsome wrist watch. The introduction
was made by Mns. MencuPnrrn Prvrou
Tnontpsox. wife of Dn. L. E. TnorrtPsoN, a
Rotarians of St.
Salida Rotarian.
Clair, Mich., were pleased to see a recent
issue of the Detroit (Mich.) Neuss at the
time of PnssrnnNr TnuMeN's visit to Detroit, for standing at the President's side
in a front-page photo was LTnUTENANT
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THE IDEAT CHR'S7MAS OIFT
J. GpenrNc, a Past Presi-
dent of the St. Clair RotarY Club.
Commissioner. Cnlnr,ps J. Buncnnlr.,
of Halifax, N. S., Canada, Third VicePresident of Rotary International in
7925-26, has been appointed High Commissioner for Canada, serving at St.
Johns, Newfoundland. He will act until
Rotarian Charles l. Burchell is
a Commissioner again (see item.)
Newfoundland's admission as the tenth
Province of Canada, a date which has
been tentatively set as March 31, 1949.
A number of years ago Rorannx
Buncnnr,r, served as Canada's High Com-
missioner to Australia. (See cut.)
Recognition. The Tennessee depart-
ment of the AmErican Legion has presented its National Citation Award to
the Kingsport Press, Inc., of Kingsport,
for its outstanding record in the
employment of physically handicapped
veterans of two world wars. Cor,oNnrE. W. Plr-vtnn, president of the firm, is a
member of the local Rotary Club and a
Past Director of Rotary International.
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In the case of Lieutenant RoY G.
Boger, Jr., a B-17 pilot of Amarillo,
Texas, and Madame Renee Annik
Fusy, of Lyon, France, that helP
came through Rotary. And just in
the nick of time!
Lieutenant Boger met the attractive young widow and her 3-year-old
son while he was on dutY in France.
After returning to the U.S.A. he
proposed by letter and was
promptly accepted. But before
Madame Fusy could come, certain
legal matters had to be untangled.
Lieutenant Boger's father, a
prominent Texas educator and Rotarian, wrote innumerable letters to
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anD
ftuileP ot
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bigb to mnbep lo Oeir fricnbs in
Soterp bagt bistes for s Dqpp
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consuls and statesmen, but still
matters dragged. Finally he wrote
to Antoine Rougier, President of
the Lyon Rotary Club. Rotarian
Rougier hired a new lawyer, and
in a matter of weeks the case was
completed, and the Fusys were
Smiles
from
Renee and Roy Bogpr.
do-."
T'hey have just said, "I
free to enter the United States.
But they had to do it by December
27,7947. Rotarian Rougier got them
on a plane which whisked them
across the Atlantic with four days
to spare. Renee and Roy were mar-
ried on that fourtn ug;r"
Rrvrns
Trrp
RoTARIAN
Talking
It Over
IContinu,ecl front page Sl
should be over the left shoulcler. The
Claymore shoulclel belt is tr\rorn over the
right shoulder, never over the left. The
dirli is strapperl to the right thigh,
never to the le[t.
Close to Truth-Naturally!
Notes Jnanxn \{. Llzenus
ritish Inf orm,ati,on S eru ice s
Netu Yorl;, \Teu York
\\re r,vere extremely interestecl to read
Andrerv Dargie's Neu; Heat"t inth,e Hi.ghIqncls [Tnn RoranreN for Septemberl.
This is indeed an excellent article, which
B
is extremely accnrate in reporting
the Scottish scene today.
No,
Mr. DeArmond . .
on
.
Soys War,rnn W. Ancorv
The llIentti.nger
F oun
dation
Topeka, Iiansus
I am somewhat concernecl over the
general tenor of Fr:ed DeArmond's con-
tribution to the debate-of-the-month
Shall W e PtntisLt Y oung C riminats ? l"trtu
Roranreu for SeptemberJ. I think it is
obvious that for hundreds of years r,r'e
have been Llltsuccessful in our treatment
of delinquents and criminals. Certainly
one of the reasons \\.hy this has been
true is the lack of a scientific approach
to the study of criminals, and, further,
a lack of carry-over of the ferv scientific
discoveries in the field to ilre actual
treatment of crintinals.
I do not mean to condemn N{r. DeArmoncl's article in total, for there are
several statements in it which are d.e-
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fensible. But these ar.e a minority. He
points out, for instance, that rvhen an
offender enters a correctional institu-
tion, he is "offerecl regeneration through
honor systems, paroles, etc.', yes, it is
true that so,nLe oft-enders are offered this
opportunity, but in a majority of the in-
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stitutions in our country, I am afraicl
conditions are sucll. as to make the atmosphere and the operation of the derrices rarely correctional. Contrast, for
SERVICE MAN
Wl tL without obligotion . . .
instance, Albelt Deutsch's reports of
American "refol'm schools" u'ith those
r-lescribed in August Aichhorn's \4/aytt:at'd Youth,.
Irinally, NIr. DeArmoncl gives us to un-
Survey ond onolyze your cleoning needs.
Troin your operotors.
Give you improved methods in reducing
CLEANING TIMEI
Show you how to get the most out of your
cleoning tools.
clerstand in his next-to-last paragraph
that fear is the one thing that
keeps
man moral and nations at peace. This
makes me too sick to go any further.
Most contemporary thinkers, philosophical and scientifi.c, agree that fear is one
of the gleat scollrges of mankincl.
I am glad that Warclen Best rvas able
to counteract the effect of some of these
statements
in his portion of tl-re article.
Enyironment Breed s D elinquency
Belieues Ar,r,ax L. Sl,rrrn. Rotat ian
M on tt ment M urt uf actur er
nI ontreal, Queb e c, C anada
I have been connected with a society
known as the Prisoners, Welfare for S0
years, so f u'as interested in the debate
in Tnn Ro.renraN for September, Shatt
fr-ntre "
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We Punislt. Young Cri.mi.nals? Since all
things that happen are the result of pre-
DncnMeeR, 1948
Pipe
Smolier's
country docfor ofier whom it is
nomed. Hos the mokings of life-
53
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Pricc llst of variousCheesc of the Month assortnents ond rnernbcrship plons:cnt upon rcqucrL
Again yoild tourists can yisit ltaly's ancient ruins . . . dtrd now they can see old
P6mpeii eyen at night. A Naples-Rotafian (see letter) thought up the floodlights.
MARSHFIELD 6, VISCONSIN
RUBY RED GRAPEFRUIT ond
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vious environments, it necessarily follows that juvenile delinquency is only a
part of the large problem that knowl-
edge and education alone can solve.
This is proved by the fact that few of
youthful age who are incarcerated are
children of highly educated parents.
The late R. G. Ingersoll, in an essay on
crime, says, "As long as children are
born in the tenement and the gutter,
jails will be full."
Proper education and environment in
the home would nearly empty our jails
in 20 years. In the meantime, every
penitentiary should be a reformatory.
To end what is now known as "repeating" should be the principal object of all
prisons.
Brownsville. Texca
Bor 935-A
Whether people are to be incarcerated
in great numbers in the future depends
on the school and environment at home,
the adoption of humane laws, and steady
employment or presence in high school
of all youths of age 18.
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Reports Brecro Bonnrrr.r-o, Shipper
President, Rotary Club
Naples, Italy
The American reconstruction plan for
Europe, known as ERP lEuropean Re-
covery Programl, aims at the restora-
tion of Europe to economic prosperity
and to social peace. It seems evident
that such aim can only be achieved if
stable economic equilibrium can be established in each nation.
In the attempt to achieve this enormous task I believe that Rotarians can
develop a beneficial activitY.
Italy, as so eloquently expressed by
AchiIIe Bossi in the article Italy Begi'ns
Agai.n [Tne Ror,q.nrar.r for AugustJ, has
begun the reconstruction work. This
country, which severely suffered from
the war. never lost confidence in her
own pov/er of recovery. Naples suffered
from the largest number of air raids
and most severe bombardments and
from starvation and miserY like no
other large city. But in spite of all this
Naples never lost courage or faith, as
proved in September, 1943, when the
people got up in arms to liberate the
city, facilitating the Allied occupation.
During that period the Rotarians of
Naples demanded to resume their
ac-
tivity, desiring to redstablish as soon as
possible old contacts, and contribute in
the Rotarian spirit to the liberation and
the reconstruction of the country. .
In the reconstruction of industry and
cirltural life, Rotarians of Naples have
offered several proofs of their maintain
ing faith in the motto "Service above
Self." In the good days of peace they
took the initiative of building the Naples-Pompeii auto road, one of the most
panoramic roads in the world. It was
accomplished through the collaboration
of Naples and Milan Rotarians. Naples
Rotarians are at the head of the company which recently built the new rail-
way joining Naples to Sorrento, and
which has undertaken the construction
of the new Mount Faito residential dis.
trict near Castellammaro di Stabia. It
wiII become one of the most beautiful
residential resorts for the people and
tourists from aII parts of the world.
It was a Rotarian of Naples who took
the initiative of illuminating old Pompeii, which proves to be one of the
greatest attractions for lovers of art and
beauty [see cut].
Naples has Elums and poverty, but it
has a population of hard workers, in'
telligent and skilled men. With suffi'
cient help and encouragement it will
become a very active economic center,
and. with its beautiful islands and other
charming places around the bay, it re'
mains a place of great attraction in the
Mediterranean.
The problem of the reconstruction in
Italy must be solved by Italian solidan
ity, but with the help of ERP. Rotarians,
I am sure, will miss no occasion, as of'
fered by the ERP plan, to contribute to
strengthening friendly relations betweei people, the onlY guarantY to a
stable peace.
Tnn
RoTARTAN
FROM LETTERS, TALKS,
ROTARY PUBLICATIONS.
Christmas Greetings
L. J. Clnr.EroN, Rotari,an
DrE-Goods Wh,olesaler
Munchester, N eu) Hampshi,re
Once each year, on December 25, we
emotionally proclaim "Peace on earth,
goodwill toward nlen." At Christmas
time we promote friendliness and good
fellowship. We share our good fortune
and the blessings bestovi'ed on us by
Almighty God. Yes, the Christmas spirit
is wonderful, it's inspiring.
It is now late in 1948, but not too early
in advance to promote and share each
day our best understanding of genuine
Christmas spirit,, friendliness, and good
fellowship that should prevail with us
each day of the year. The application
of this ideal each day and each tomorrow r,l'ill advance and promote that
grand opportunity we possess to attain
a better world in which we live.
At Christmas time and each day
throughout the years, may the objective
for peace, goodwill, and harmonious
relations be with us and among men
everywhere.
Open Letter to Santa Claus
Dear Santa:
It is going to be my pleasure to be one
G'VE yOUR FAMILY RA
DIO COTTROT,
FOR THE GARAGE DOORS O ' '
Here is
a
protection
from
one
Your fami
DIO CON
'Virh RADIO CONTROL, you cao banish
forever_the
forever
the chore of opeoing
opeoing the
ihe garage doors
every time rbe car goes io or out. Now all
of the guests at Rotary this Thursday.
You know each year there are a lot of us
kids about my age that are invited to
have dinner with the Rotarians. They
usually give us a good meal, then Santa
Claus comes in and unloads his pack, so
that we all go a\\ray with some kind of
a toy and a sackful of nuts, fruits, ancl
candy. Yep, it is really a mighty nice
party. iiUT-you knorv we kids are a
little more informed than your generation and those \r,'ho are now Rotarians.
We have the radio to listen to, we learn
to read at an early age, and we overhear
these adults talking things over.
To get down to business: Don't think
that we don't appreciate this fine gesture on the part of Rotary, but for my
part I'd just as soon you'd have them
skip all the trinkets and extra food for
this year at least. Instead why not bring
us some of the things which will mean
so much to us as we groll'up? I don't
want to seem unreasonable, but better
equipment in our parks and more of
them would be something. Maybe some
5 U B STANTIAI PRO FITS!
Build q,nd Own q Trailer Park
There's good profit
in
accom-
modating the more-than-million
responsible citizens who own
trailer coaches. Your community
needs a good, profitable park.
T.C.M.A. can give you valuable
facts and guidance, even to free
architect's plans and the specific
TRAILER
G
advice of experts retained by the
Association.
Write todav, as the first step;
ask for " Planning a Prof itablc
Traihr Parh," containing a wealth
of pictures, diagrams and cost
data. Address Trailer Parks Dept.
at address below. Box 1216.
(IACH MAIIUFACTURERS ASSOGIATIOII
CIVIC OPERA BUIIDING
PI,AT BDTIEN
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CHICAGO
6,
tLLtNOtS
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If you want the "Know lfow" to
ASTT1YOU
stroot in the 80's or less, then here's
Personal Appearance" in
the office. Contains valuable
suggestions and information.
Send today. No obligation
Dot{0RE cHAtR C0itPAltY. |l{c.
Dept.l 226, gkhart, Ind janr
"The neighbors will sure be surprised
vhen snoyballs start flyins in iuly!',
Decprvrenn, 1948
55
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of us who might otherwise pay the penalty of playing in the street would grow
up to be worth-while citizens. Bring us
swim and enjoy the
real fun that Rotarians used to enjoy in
the river and the creeks. Then we might
a pool where we can
be able to use it to skate on in the
Winter, instead of taking our chances
on this beautiful but treacherous river.
There seems to be a good start toward
BOOIILETT
Before you complete your
plans for your winter va-
cation, write for our new
St. Petersburg booklets
which will help you plan.
Find out why the Sunshine
City is the most popular
vacation center for thousands of people everywhere.
St. Petersburg has prepared a big program of recreation and entertainment
for the coming months. There will be
all kinds of fun under the sun-and
sunshine 360 days ayear. Accommoda-
tion facilities greatly increased.
Famous hospitality and friendliness. For
booklets write today to:
H. M. Davenport
Chamber of Commerce
SrPEIERiBURi7tuzaa
THESUN5HINECITY
our getting better schools-but don't let
them fold up on us, Santa. We think we
are deserving of only the best, and even
though we realize we'll have to pay for
it all when we grow up, we will be just
that much better equipPed to do so.
There's something else we'd like to
have this Christmas, and that's the se-
curity of knowlng that our leaders are
Christian gentlemen who have our welfare at stake and are going to make it
their business to get along with the rest
of the world. Of course, I realize that
you will have to bring to some of these
other countries that same kind of in'
dividual for their rulers, but maybe you
can arrange that. Then all will live in
peace and harmony so that as we grow
up we can know that we develop for the
good of ourselves and society and not
for targets for the enemies' guns.
And while we are about it there
is
something else I wish you'd take care
of. This atom bomb must be so much
more terrible than we know that most
people ean't understand what it is all
about. Wouldn't it be great if you could
take them all back to the North Pole
with you, then all of a sudden
have
everyone in this world forget there ever
was such a thing and it would stay forgotten for all time? And in its place the
formulas now known would be used
only for the good of mankind and not
2
PUSH BUTTO]I
O TAGHONETER
OTETETETEN
o sToPwATcll
his destruction.
Bring us in America the good American way of life. Make room elsewhere
for those among us who do not wish to
live that kind of life. Let this be a free
America as provided by our forefathers,
but let it also be understood that it is
not something so free that peoples of
other lands can come over here and help
TEASURE SPEETI ATII' D| TAilGE
Wilr fhis All-Purpose luristuatch
TEII, TIiIE
A. VICTOR RECORDS
show
How to lmprove
YOUR SPEAKINE VOICE:
$1,428,000
mark was surpassed as contributions
of 33 more Rotary Clubs were added
to the Paul Harris Memorial Fund
of the Rotary Foundation. At that
time t,54+ Rotary Clubs had contributed $10 or more a member. The
latest contributors (with numbers
in parentheses indicating membership):
AUSTRALIA
South Sydney (23).
BRAZIL
(unbreakable) plus a comprehensive l0-lesson, 194oase instruction book. Decide now to cultivate a
holc efrective speaking voice. Write f or
literature today'
f ree
FREEMANTEL VOICE INSTITUTE
.
ll3 West 57ih Street
l0ll Steinway Hall
New York 19. N. Y.
56
it Let
us show others our
ever reign. Hows about it,
Santa?
Yours. Ji,mmi,e.-From Kankakee Kogs,
RotarE Club of Kankakee, Illi'noi's.
Build Bridges ol Understanding
Bannlnl. HnNnv
o mi.ng t on, Illi.n oi s
One blot on our record of imProvements may be one that we are erasing
as time marches on. True it is that the
American policy of freedom and equality is practiced only incidentally when
B lo
we review the relation of some people
in these United States. Betty Hannah
Iloffman, writing in the Ladi'es Home
Journal, has given me the exact words
I have been seeking. She reviews the
success of Philadelphia, the city of
brotherly love, in obliterating its prejudices. Fellowship House and the Fellowship Commission are the answers to
our problem. These two agencies make
it the obtigation of both sides to arrive
at satisfactory conclusions, and they can
only do this when they are brought to-
gether to learn of each other's good
points. Both have built the obstacle
course and made it tough. In 1938, Marjorie Penny, ex-magazine illustrator'
and Maurice Fagan, former historY
teacher, joined forces to combat prejudices. Before and during the war there
were 25 organized groups spreading
hatred in their city, Philadelphia, and
approximately 50 cases of violence resulted. In 7947, none occurred, onlY
minor disturbances. Miss Penny sums it
up by saying, "We are not trYing to
obli,terate lhre di,fferences between races
and religions. We are only trying to
build brid,ges of understandi'ng so that
people can pass back and
forth." As is
Foundation Fund Passes #L,428,ooo
fn mid-October the
R. C.
themselves to
way of life in a manner which will attract them to following it in their own
lands. Take away from those who dictate to us, and for us, their selfish instincts and instead make their thinking
of the unselfish kind with a good smattering of the Golden Rule thrown in.
If all peoples could be RotariansService above SeIf would be our watchword. and peace in the world would for-
Blumenau
(2+>.
CUBA
Victoria de las Tunas (19).
UNITED STATES
Royal Oak, Mich. (60); Pekin,
Ill.
(60)
Spring, Md. (51);
(27); Masontown, Pa.
; Silver
Renovo, Pa.
(40); Fort Ann, N. Y. (20);
ShelbY,
Mich. (33); The Pelhams, N. Y.
(16) ; Mount Sterling, Tll. Qa); Titusville, Pa. (50); Loveland, Colo.
(62); Beloit, Kans. (a6) ; Marshalltown, Iowa (68).
Slater, Mo. (39); Lancaster, Pa.
(159); Harrisonburg, Va. (68); San
Luis Obispo, Calif. (82); State Col-
lege, Pa. (56); Council Grove, Kans.
(40); Independence, Mo. (58); Elba,
N. Y. (22); Bowling Green, Mo.
(39); Putnam, Conn. (42); Huntington, Ind. (60)-; Trinidad, Colo.
(35); Sunnyvale, Calif. (29); Ma-
maroneck, N. Y. (30); Visalia, Calif.
(109); Needham, Mass. (66); Odes-
Sd, Tex. (59); Missoula, Mont.
(1oe).
Tns
RoTARIAN
seen by Philadelphia's plan. u'e need
collective action. Philadelphia's comrrrission is trying to persuade people to
know and understand each other, not
drarv them to their bosom and absorb
them. Its plan is getting business and
leLbor
o
ab out t/tat
Cbristntas ListT
Why not include
copies of
Service Is
My
Buslness
The book that
thousands are acclaiming as
an important and tirnely
contribution to human
er:ance,
I for the members of
my club, with my personal inscription .
2 for my business partners and associates . . .
3 for my foremen and
other key employees
for my salesmen.
A conf,dential u,ord
to
\7hat better ROTARY
GIFT could you include on loilr Christmas List for father, husband, or brother ?
Ten copies
coPy
for $z.lo
Over l0 copies, 75 cents
each.
The fly leaf contains quotation from Dickens' "Christmas Carol"; printed in easyto-read typ.; 144 pages:'
quaint illustrations; bound in
gold-colored cloth, stamped
in blue; each copy enclosed in
tissue jacket and individually
packaged.
seLs
City, Washington, New York,
your copies
in
ample time for Christmas!
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ideol gitt for Cusfomers,
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of
y'lung mother replied to a questionnaire, "f do not teach my child any disclimination," but she had just an hour
before spanked her child for playing
with a Negro child. Unconsciously she
sent the rvrong lesson to the heart of
her child, who rvill have to learn truth
the hard way. Philadelphia's plan is beirLg copied in Reading, Baltimore, Kan-
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Wiseonsln
How do children get cerebral palsy?
Il is usually inheriled.
It is lransmitled by off,ers.
ll usually comes at birth,
2. Approximately how many factories
have been staried by refugee industrialisls in Great Britain?
800. 50. 1.000.
...willpraise
10,000.
you for YOUR
good taste,
to
and ITS good
taste. . . when
Dr. Willred Gren|ell.
Sir Ashley Cooper.
you serve
Beniamin Franklin.
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN
4. One of these does not apply io
Gabriela Mistral:
Nobe/ Prirc winner.
Disti ng uished Chil ean poefess.
M elropolilan O pera slar.
5. One o{ fhese couniries is not represented in the debate-of-the-month:
Chile.
Canada.
Cuba.
Burma,
5. Whaf will the electrical power proiecf {or the l6 Weslern nations of Europe
and Germany cosf?
95 nillion dollars.
500 nillion dollars.
300 nillion dollars.
frorn IDAHO
!
7. ln which Texas city does Harley
Sadler reside?
Corpus Christi.
Sweefwafer.
Houslon.
Auslin.
8. Robert Burns received most of
his
encouragemenl from:
His
Send your order now and
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Errol T. Elliott,
3. Who, according
was the firsl man lo gei good news out
of bad weather?
the u'onten of Rotary:
$1.OO per
for it is "easier to teach young-
fairness and equal opportunities
than to unteach prejudices when they
ar:e adults." Some adults do not seem to
'their influence. A
ftLthom the extent
s1,ers
relations in business
and industry. AN
IDEAL GIFT-
4
leaders to write fair employment
practices into their contracts, contactirrg more teachers and parents on tol-
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minisler.
Local
John Rankine.
Barmaids.
9. What is this monlh's hobby about?
Timekeepers:
Eoolleepers.
Seeteepers.
ho's rrpland valleys are carefully cqred
and grnoked to srlperb flavor over fragrant fires of applewood, then guickIrozen at the peak of their piquant perfection. Expressed. ready to serve, at
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10. The Roiary Club of what city sponsors ihe Four Square Boys?
Sf. Pelersburg, Fla. Miami, Fla.
Dover, England.
Denver, Colo.
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For distinctively lovely
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domestic carpeting, so appropriate for home or oftce,
see Nahigian Brothers first
Rugs setrt on approval to
Rotarians and their friends.
Nahigian Brothers, Inc.
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the Viking seamen, which have been
found on Cape Cod and in Minnesota;
the Kensington Rune Stone; and certain weapons and utensils that have
been discovered along the supposed
route of the party that failed to return
to the "fortified church" in Rhode Island
from its journey in Canada and the
Northern part of the United States.
In this investigation the most up-todate knowledge and the most modern
techniques of a dozen or more arts and
sciences are being employed. It calls for
a kind of superdetective work in which
many a scholarly Sherlock Holmes seeks
clues in his particular field. Obviously,
the historian will continue to pore over
ancient sagas already known and seek
others not yet studied in order to "check
and double check", certain facts which
are seemingly insignificant in themselves, but which are highly pertinent
when correlated with other facts. Obviously, too, the archaeologist will continue to contribute his expert knowledge
of artifacts and other relics of antiquity.
But the successful solution of such
mvsteries as that surrounding the Newport Tower cannot depend solely upon
evidence supplied by history and archaeology. Anthropology, architecture, chem-
Tbe
iL.li
istry, ethnology, geology, geography,
mathematics, metallurgy, mineralogy,
meteorology, physics, runology-all
these will have an important r6le in this
utork.
Should excavation at Newport turn up
bits of half-decayed wood or fragments
of charcoal. the science of dendrochronology * will be employed to determine
from growth rings when the tree lived.
Should it be dated in the colonial period,
the windmillers will nod; should it be
established as of the 14th Century, the
church-school rvill glow-especially if
stones uncovered around the base of the
old tower fit the pattern of the nave or
other features of a medieval church.
Suppose a fragment of rusted iron is
sifted from the dirt. Its shape may re-
veal its original purpose-or it may not.
In either case, if chemical analysis reveals the same impurities found in iron
implements fabricated from ore taken
from mines which date from the 13th
Century in Falun, Sweden, Hjalmar
Holand could chuckle a knowing "I told
you so!"
Convincing evidence to support either
the windmill or the church theory may,
however. come from the newest of
sciences. Experts at the University of
Chicago are striving to determine how
rapidly carbon loses radioactivity when
*Originated by Rotarian Andrew E.
Douelass. University
of Arizona. See .EIe
SoIuTd the Rid.dle of the Cliff Droellers,
by Harold E. Cooley, Tnn Rorlnrlx for
Nlarch, 1940.
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(A) swings hnife (B), cutting dog's leash (C). Dog (D) then
for cat (E), which arches its bach and hnochs box (F) "f hickory nuts (G) on
the floor. Squinel (H) pulls cord (l), vhich spills glue (l) o" seat of the chair
of member (K), thus preventing him lrom leaving the meeting before it is over.
Professor's assistant
heads
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disturbecl. If a scale can be set up, it
mrry be possible to determine lvithin 25
years the age of carbon, such as is
found in soil or u'ood.
In the Arnerican slang, to which Dr.
Bt'ondsted doubtless has also been expcrs€d, he s'ill o'i'erlook no bets. The
least promising clue u'hich investigators
of an earlier
claSr
u'ould have
scornecl
may tre the key to the mystery. A tiny
dil;covery coulcl topple like a house of
cards all the theories ancl refute the evidence piled around them like buttresses.
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'tiAPtE
lrorn Old Vertnont
in chnrrning gift container
trd6
LArrnnRG, a
knouss
T
speakers are born, not made. Not being
a speaker, but being a Rotarian, I felt
DEEB MOD@E FABME
R. F. D. il4. Brattlchoro. V3.
Sugar House $16
Rich, mellow
ilII}ICE]||EAT
agel in toool
that I was doomed to something or
other when I was called upon to make
a craft talk.
After considerable pondering, I decided that since I'm in the timekeeping
business I might make a study of all
methods used in telling time from ancient days until the present.
The magnitude of the task soon became apparent from ancient history
and the hundreds of volumes published
on the subject. There are many collections of clocks and watches, more of
the antique type, but nothing (at least
that I have ever heard of) pertaining
to the methods used before the mechan-
ical age, arranged in chronological
i
&
(AN OLD COLONIAL RECIPE insPired
this superbly flavored Colony House Mincemeat. Liberally laced with fine sherry and
hearty New England rum,prepared and aged
with special care. Makes unforgettable mince
pies of matchless fragrance and flavor'
AN IDEAL GIFT! The quaint MAPLE
FINISHED FIRKIN (alone retailing for
31.50) makes a most attractive container
for cookies or candy, sugar or tobacco.
PllUll0S
je'rDeler,
full uell that it is. A craft talk
I LEARNED years ago that public
tlrcnd rnonoy order
ilU
ne-
he gaue before hi,s Rotary Club started
him off on a n1,ost i,nteresting hobby.
But let hi,m tell about it.
on oheck to
l0uf
Fillmore, California,
h liilh, rrlt $4.65 D.str.ld
No C.O.D.'s, olcasc
Colong B.itehens
PantrY #9
NORFOLK, VA.
order, dating back about 7,000 years.
After several months of work and
study I was ready for my- talk. I had
completed 15 types of timepieceswater clocks, sun dials, hour glasses,
etc. In putting on the program each
timekeeper was shou'n to the Club and
an explanation was given as to the year
that type was used, the countries using
it, etc. Then the entire displa;' was
set up, and the members crowded
around after the program to examine
them and ask questions.
The interest which was aroused encouraged me to continue my research,
and to make more of them. In the years
that followed I have added 38 more
pieces to my collection.
I can't claim full credit for the creations, however, for I have had the able
assistance of a fellow Rotarian, Gr.nN
A. Mosnancnn, who is an expert wood
carver.
Anyone who has not tried to create
Here's HeIp for the
f..otarv Club Spca|rer
FOn the buey Rotarian who is
called upon to plan club programs and speeches, what could
be more convenient and useful than a completely indexed
Bound Volume of l94B issues of
Trrn RoTARIAN ! Available about
April I at $4.00 per volume in
U.S.A.; $4.50 in other eountries.
THD BOTABIAN
35 East Wacker Drive, Chicago
60
l, Ill.
something with his own hands is missing one of the greatest pleasures any
human could ask for. The knowledge
gained in understanding the different
kinds of woods, the methods used in
putting on the finishing touches on an
article, are joys all their orvn.
The time spent in making the collection runs into thousands of hours, to
say nothing of the time spent trying
to find materials to work with. For one
timepiece
^t
O/L
r-.--
cessitE is the m.other of i,nuenti,on. A,. B.
1?:""#"'12.fl1
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EVERYONE has been told that
Working with our
frlends and neighbore wo make what
we believeis the fincrt-flavorcd Maple
Sy.rrp ever to come
out of Yermont.
Ito delicioua flavor
will intrigue you.
Ve'll send yorr fifteen full fluid orrncoe of thie Green
Mountain nectandone rrp aa it doecrvocinalovely cor-
\
*r44tl
eountries lt has to come from a certain
place, and according to legend, it should
be boiled in wine nine times before the
rough edges are smoothed off.
Another job was to make the barrel
for a cannon clock. Finally a rifle
barrel was cut off and turned -down to
the correct size. Making the patterns
and casting the metal for the gun supports proved very interesting.
While I was studying the structure
of the sun dial an odd fact came to my
notice. Although a dial can only be used
in the latitude for which it is made, it
can still be put in a vertical posltion,
facing south, and used elsewhere in the
place where your latitude subtracted
from 90 indicates.
f can trace the history of timekeeping from the most ancient period
through my collection. About
5000 B.C.
the cave man plaited grass rope and
put it on the floor of his cave. He
dampened the grass so it would burn
slowly. As time went on, he learned
to tie knots in it so as to give him a
more accurate division of time, either
by day or by night. Candle nuts were
also strung on a string and hung up in
caves. As they burned and fell off,
time was indicated.
The Chinese used a water clock ln
2650 B.C. The device consisted of
a
large bowl filled r,r,'ith water. It was
tended by a slave who would place a
small bowl with holes pierced in the
bottom of it in the larger bowl. When
this filled with water and sank, the
slave would strike a large gong which
could be heard over the entire courtyard. The Chinese also had another
water clock consisting of a number of
pails set on steps, graduated with the
largest being at the top. An indicator
in this rose as th,e water filled the pails.
As it came to the proper place, an
attendant would annolrnce the fact, and
the process would begin over again.
Another device was a set of highly
colored joss sticks. Usually used in sets
of three. the sticks were mounted on a
stand which held them upright. The
hours were marked in lines around
each stick, and as they burned down,
I needed a bell. None was to
be had, so I made one by cutting up
an old aluminum drinking cup and
hammering it into shape.
Some of the seemingly simple things
are often the most difficult. For instance. the sand for an hourglass. It is
a problem to make it flow without
clogging. It is said that in European
"And, Mr. Brown, il you tail to ansvet
the next question correctly, the $500
will be awarded to lhe next of hin."
Tnn
RoTARTAN
the passing of tirne could be figured.
There are more than 20 different
kinds of sun dials in my collection, the
oldest being one which was used in
Egypt about 1500 B.C. The most modern in the collectioE is a window dial
of the type used in early American
colonial days. Notches were cut along
the window sill, and the sun's shadolv
would indicate the time.
About 1800 8.C., I learned, the Chinese used an amusing "alarm clocli."
When they wottld retire for the night.
they woulcl select a piece of punk of
a certain length, place it betrveen their
light it. When it burned them,
it was time to get up.
Probably the most interesting "Clep'
sydra" or water clock in the collection
is one of the type used in Greece about
197 B.C. It has a dial wil}r 24 numbers
toes, and
and only one hand, and is operated bY
a pulley, chain, and float. 'Ihe float fits
into a tank at the bottom of the clock,
which is filled lvith lvater. A small hole
in the bottom of the tank lets the 'water
run out, lor,l'ering the float, lvhich in
turn moves the single hour hand.
One day rvhile rvorking on this model
I noticed that when the hour hand
pointed to the hour of 18, the tail of
the hand was at 6. Gr,nm and I started
figuring when we saw the possibilities
of what could be made out of this.
The absolute simpli.city of reading a
clock in both military and civilian time
rvithout adding or subtracting the hours
seemed a great
advantage. To
read in military
time [see cut],
alrn'ays reacl off
the point of the
hour hand, reading minutes and
seconds the usual
way. To read the
regular
12-hour
time, read the point of the hour hand
in the morning and the tail in the
afternoon. Read the minutes and seconds the usual wav.
It took us more than three years to
design and mal<e this clock. We made
a dozen models before we were satisfied with the proportions and balance.
The numbers are our own design, and
are all sawed out of metal by hand, as
well as the hands and other brass work.
We have completed several of these
clocks, which are operated by a fine
electric motor. The cases are of r,valnut
and mahogany.
We selected the name "Sespe" for
the clock, honoring an Indian tribe
which lived here years ago, a Sespe
hot springs near here, the Sespe back
country famous for its hunting and
fishing, ancl for Sespe Avenue, the
street on rvhich we both live.
60).
10. S+. Pefersburg, Fla.
(page 26).
tuottlcl li,ke pen pals aged 15-21), % C, L.
Pa Lel, I\Iission Road, Nadiad, India.
I
ar-old, son of
Ro
I eacha,nge),
Bo
.S.A.
lltarrps: John Townsend, (collects stannTts
li,ke to correspnd, nsi.th people
-tuould i,nterested in- other couitri,esl,
si'nfi,larly
Winterset, Iowa, U.S.A.
()ld Buttons; Antiques: Mrs. Roy Salpisbelg (ttsife of Rotarian-collects old buttons
ond antiques.), 303 Hartford Road, South
Or:rnge, N. J., U.S.A.
l&estaurant Ploce llats: Mrs. Ernest W.
Dtrnbar (utfe of Rotari,an-collects restauratft place mats), Rd. No. 2, Taneytown, Md.,
U.:;.A.), 15 Rue de la Benazie 75, Passage
d'lr.gen, Lot-et-Garonne, France.
lButtons: Mrs. J. J. McMillen (r.oife oI Rotari,an-collects old, and i.nteresting buttons;
tui|.I erchq,nge Ari,zona articles auai'lable to
Ir,e',- uhi.ch mi,ght interest otlrcr h,obbAists),
Bos 967, Clifton, Ariz., U.S.A.
lPerr Pals: These people have indicated
thirt "pen pals" are their hobby interests:
flarol Parker (70-Aear-ctld daugltter of llofqrion-wluld Like gi,rl pen pels aged 70-11
li,tsing outside U.S.A. i.nterested in ntouies,
rettdi,ng, swimmin.gl, 819 Weldon St., Latrcbe, Pa., U.S.A.
(iloria Evans (16-Aear-old d,aughter of
[]nfevien-usrtld ltke to corcespond witlt
Ao'mg people in the U.S.A., Canada, Sotttlr,
Anterica; interested i,n m,ttsi,c, sports, dress
defi,gning), 816 N. Main Ave., Scranton 4,
Starnps; Colns: B. C. Patel (16-aear-old,
DocpnnsrR, 1948
free ripened, iuicy,
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JAmES
Acconmodoles 32
Thc Checkelette is easilY
carrie(I. Sets up in a minute s'ittrout nuts, bolts or
too I s. Heit{rt ad,iustable
for adults. stuall ctrildren
oI garment balt s:torage. A
smart sift for homes - ansu'ers the party problerlr.
Ideal for churctres, hotels,
clul)s. collee shoDs. etc.
AccoNmodates :12 with
s[ap-(rn double hooks on 4
ft. rod for coat hangers.
sturdw welded steel conand
stmction. dcsigned
manufactured bv makot of
oITFICII vAl-ft'f Watdrobe
Ilquipnrant f()r offices. factolies. and institutions.
Wrile for
Cireulor No. I I
Pa.,.U.S.A.
.tuditlr Hector ( 17-gcar-old clau,ghter ot
Rolarian-woul<l li,ke to corresponQ uith
yo"ttlts her age liuing in Canada, Australia,
U.li.A., South Anteri,cct; interested in books,
tratel, ntodern music), Cromar, Flitchin
Road, Letchlvorth, England.
.\nn Chapman (13-year-old, daugltter ot
[f, sf(rvictn-desir s corr sp ondenc e tuith b oA s
an7 girls aged 12-14, especi'ally in South'
Ar'teri,cct and flurope), 422 Murphree St.,
T'r'cy, Ala., U.S.A.
l)onald Nearrnan (17-Aear-olcl son of ll'of,e7'ion-u)6ttld lilte to correspond u:itll Aoung
pe'tple aged 76-21 , pref erablg in lrrance,
Ge rrnang, S wi,tz erland, Austt'ia ; inter est ed i,n
Ttsilchialry, rntsic, books, pltilosoTthg, lan
e
e
guqges, stelzLps, drannatics, scttlpture), 4O9
Brook Drive, Falls Church, Va., U.S.A.
It{ancy O'Brien (16-Aear-old d.aughter of
ftsteyicln-ulishes to corres7tond wi,tlt Aoung
pe'rytle in Europe, Asia, Afri,ca, Sotttlt A'nter-
ica; i,nterested in religion, u;orld pe&ce,
drrttoing, trauel, fashi,ons, tt'tttsic, autontobiles), 543 Main St., Hamlet, N. C., U.S.A.
-\nn Holloway (l4-Uear-old daughter of
Rotariqn-usotr,ltl li,ke to corres'pond toith
Ao'ung people outsi.de Australia; interested,
in swimnting, tetntis, reatling, filttt stars),
Box 146. Inverell. Australia.
.lanet Nesbitt (16-Aear-old granddaughte'r
of Rotarian-s26vl6l li.ke to correspond ui.tlt,
ng ou.tsid,e Austreli.a; interAo',tng
ing, tenni,s, reading, filnt,
esled
verell, Australia.
strtrs),
'Willa Perkins (13-gear-old dau(th,ter of
R o t ari
on-us
is h
e
s to
c
or r
aged, 72-75; interested, i,n
e utriti,ng, hi.story,
I
of
Ao'
Me
llarbara
ftqfcryictni,nterested
collecting ),
son oI Rotq,rian-collects stqmps and coins;
Mt. Lassen Brand
Lorgest sizes,
.Jsnz Records: Postcards: Bernard L.
Brrsse (20-gear-oltl son of ft,sf,eviqn-collects
AtrrcricatL jazz records, toould liloe to obtai,n
th,em i,n erchange for French stamps; ttsill
efichange Frenclr postcards lor those of
e s
p o ncl
Ro'
bol
wlr,
N.
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Franklin (p"g" 61. 4. Mef ropolilan
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7. Sweetwafer (page l5). 8. John Rankine (page l3 ). 9. Timekeepers (page
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Queen remembered an old yuletide custom of his native Germany and in 1841
My Favorite Story
had a Christmas tree set up in Windsor
Castle, thus starting a form of holiday
Tuo dollars uill be paid to Rotarians or thei,r ui,Des subnxi,tti,ng
stori,es used under this heading.
Send entri.es to Stri,pped
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celebration that remains popular in
British homes till this day?
7. When the Reverend Phillips Brooks
wrote the most popular of all Ameriean
Christmas carols in 1868, what countrv
had he recently visited, which is suggested by the title, O Li,ttle Toun of
Gears,
Magazine, 35 East
Wacker Dri,ue, Chicago 7, Illi,nois.
Here i,s a faupri.te of R. C. Hancock, a member of the Rotary CIub
Bethlehem?
of Bri.sbane, Australi,a.
8. Which of America's pioneer colo-
A businessman arrived home for
nies frowned so severely on the celebration of Christmas that anybody who
dared to stop work and hold a feast on
December 25 would be haled into court
evening dinner to find his lovely
daughter arrayed in her latest
purchase, a two-piece swim suit.
She said, "How do you like it,
Dad?" He replied: "'Well, you are
well on the road to receive a good
tanning everywhere except where
you should get it."
E'YII N D O
Three-Way Golendor
o Meelino Dqv Reminder o Hondsomc
Menbership Pllque o Usefut Cqlendor
and fined 5 shillings?
9. Who was the great saint of the Middle Ages who commemorated Christmas
in the year \223 by setting up a manger
with a live ox and donkey, thus starting
a custom that has become an important
part of the Nativity observance in South-
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but he was a tight-fisted hand at the
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Santa may be looliing for a good man
for his Christmas Information Bureau.
If you can answer these questions correctly----or, say, at least nine of the ten
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him lhat h ear s it, ne uet in the -tonguc
of him thatmahes it.-Sftaftesbeare.
plantation that has now become the
most popular of all Christmas flowers?
3. Who was the sedate Oriental-languages professor of a New York theo-
Boastful
logical seminary who wrote the world's
most popular poem about Santa Claus,
which begins:
'Troas the night before Christntas, uthen all
tlr.rough the house
"I've got two little brothers and one
little sister," boasted one. "FIow many
mouse.
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be
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may consider you as the one for
-he
the job:
1. In which of these countries did a
Not a creature utas stirring-not even
O Extro lorgc. Fine
James
The ansuser to this puzzle usill
found on the following page.
jolly postal clerk, Einar Holboll, propose
that a Christmas stamp be sold to raise
money for poor tubercular children, and
so pioneered the modern holiday seal
that is now sold all over the world? Denmark, Australia, the United States.
2. When Dr. Joel R. Poinsett gave up
the office of United States Minister to
Mexico in 1828, what famous plant did
he bring back to his South Carolina
e?
in a famous
Christmas story was it written: "Oh!
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With 'wings outspread.
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4. What is the name of the well-
known carol that was first heard 130
years ago on Christmas Eve in a little
church in Oberdorf, Austria, the assist-
ant pastor of which wrote the words and
the organist of which composed the
music?
5. What President of the United States
in 1904 was such a strict believer in
forest conservation that he would not
allow a Christmas tree to be set up in
the White House?
6. What husband of a great English
Two Hollywood children were talking
as they were walking home from school
one day.
do you have?"
"I don't have any brothers and sisters," answered the second one, "but I
have three papas by my first mamma
and four mammas by my last papa."Rotary Flashes, Nnw HevEN, CoNNEcrrCUT.
On the Agenda
Husband: "'What are you planning to
do tonight?"
Wife: "Nothing special. I'll probably
write a letter or trvo, listen to the radio,
and so on."
Husband: "'When you come to the so
on, don't forget the missing buttons on
Tns
RoTARTAN
knr:w I could give the dime more cheerfulty, so I put that in."-trVoman's Home
my shirt."-ft11[,o771 l{euusletter. Nonrn
MeNcr$srrR,
INDTANA.
Co',npani,on.
Tough Goi.ng
A certain ambitious )roung movie 'Time for Deci,sion'
actress complained to a declining star:
rL little boy took the family clock
"It irks me to think that I get only ap:rrt and then put it together again.
picture."
$100,000 a
During the night the clock struck 117
To which the other rejoined: "Nice tirrLes without stopping. The child's
irk if you can get it."-?he Spokesman, ' father shouted to his sleeping wife,
Ifennrssunc (HousroN), Tnxls.
"Cjndy, better git up! Durned if it ain't
later than f ever knowed it to be beLookout
f6vg."-ft6f,crvy Club Bulletin, NutLnY,
Traveller: "\A/hat is this on the reg- Nnw Jnnsnv.
ister ?"
Clerk: "A bug, sir."
Traveller (laying dou'n his pen): "I
don't mind if you have bugs in this
hotel, but when they come out to see
u'hat room you take-that's too much!"
& Ohio \l[agazin,e.
-Balti;more
Bei,ng Fair
y'. conductor lvas driven crazy at rehee,rsals because at least one member of
the orchestra was alwa3rs missing. After
the Iast rehearsal he tapped his baton
for attention ancl said, bitingly: "f $'ant
to t.hank the first violin publicly for being the only man in the orchestra who
Ouersi,ght
Student nllrse: "Wake up!
up! "
Wake
hact the, clecency
GnAHAtr,r, Tnxas.
Ch.eerful Gi,uer
The boy's father, handing him a dime
and a quarter, tolcl him he might put
either one in the collection plate. When
they returned from church, he asked
which he had given. "Well, Father, I
thought at first I should put in the quarter, but just in time I remembered 'the
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fhis monfh. lf was writfen bv Elf."dt"
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in a last line lo complete it. lf i+ is
chosen lTong_. the "fen .bes.l," you will
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to attend every rehear-
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Ioored sheepish. "It seemed the least I
cotrlcl do," he said in a deprecating tone.
"You see, I don't expect to show up for
tlre concert tonight."-!fus Kablegram.
Nurse: "I forgot to give yotr your
sleeping pills!"-ffus Sean.d.ol Sheet,
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name-the Book-Aid Program.
And it goes on-with groups in
Connecticut and other States now
joining
MEN WIIO
are in position to know say we
stand at a pivotal point in world
history. The next few months,
they believe,may decide the awful
question of whether there is to be
peace-or a third world war. One
issue after another that divides
the nations is moving toward a
showdown. In recent months
your magazine has tried, through
authoritative contributors, to
single out these major friction
points in global affairs.
CANADA'S
distinguished soldier-statesman
General McNaughton, for example, told you in the October
issue where the world stands on
the atom-control problem . . . and
a few days later he was quoted in
the news from Paris as he spoke
to the U. N, Assembly of the impasse. Back in JuIy Argen-
of
peace.
Well, our fellow editor Errol
Elliott finds some good news in all
this bad weather, as you read in
his guest editorial this month. He
believes that in the long run good
faith wins, and that that's the only
side
to be on. And Harold T.
of New Zealand, comes
along also in these pages to tell
what this "ordinary peaceable fellowl' can do to demonstrate his
faith, how Rotarians in many a
favored country are shipping
food, clothing, books, toys, and so
on to people in lands where
Thomas,
No.4...LittleStories
of Service above Self
Vhen the gifts were given out to
the pupils clustering around the
Poland's
school Christmas tree, the teacher
saw to her dismay that one litde
Oscar Lange debated for you the
nothing. Vhile she frantically
tina's Jos6 Arce and
question of abolishing the U. N.
Security Council veto. . . . Just
last month eight social scientists of six different countries'
of them, significantly, be-one
hir:d the '"Iron Curtain"-gave
you their reasons for cohcluding
that peace is possible and
Ambassador Carlos Romulo, of
The Philippines, told how the
world press "is called upon to
help halt this mad march to disaster." Yes, on the Palestine dispute and on many another clash
Tna RoTARTAN has tried to provide
you who read this magazine with
calm pro and con opinion. To
see how these conflicts will be resolved we shall need to watch the
daily press and keep an ear to the
radio.
IS TH5RE NO CIIANCE
that the "mad march to disaster"
can be stopped? Have we no right
to optimism? The ordinary peace-
able fellow in every land, busy
with his work and family, wants
to know. He wants to know
whether we've come to so bad a
pass that there's nothing left to do
but shrug the shoulders and wait
. . or whether there is still maybe some little thing ue cala do that
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will help tip the balance in favor
fellow had been overlooked and had
searched her mind for what to do,
she saw an older boy go behind the
tree as if to get something. Reach-
ing into his pocket, he brought out
a ticket to the local theater and a
nickel. Then, striding up to the
disappointed little boy, he
"Look what Santa left for
said:
your
Johnny-a ticket and a nickel for
pop corn while you see the show!"
by Mrs. Ray Lows,
uckhannon,')V est V irginia
lonttibuted
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hunger is greatest and hope lowest. That is doing something
about it; it may tip the scales.
newspaper mission and, as Harold
Thomas notes, stumbled upon the
fact that the thousands of German
youths who want to study English
have almost no books for it. So,
back home, this Past District Governor began to talk up the idea of
sending books
Also, in the way that
THIS MONTH
much of the world celebrates the
birthday of a great Teacher who
said that the way to get peace is
to turn the other cheek. That is
something to think about these
days. And meanwhile most of us
can do some little thing-like
sending a CARE package-"unto
the least" of these who suffer in
so many numbers in so many
places.
IN TIIE LATE
Count Folke Bernadotte the
world had the ultimate example
of Service above Self. In the name
of the United Nations and all who
cherish peace and justice, he was
striving to mediate the Palestine
dispute. Then, one day in September, he and Colonel Andr6
Pierre Serrot, of France, fell to
assassins' bullets in Jerusalem. In
his long association with Rotarians of his native Sweden the
Count must have learned of Rotary's motto. Be that as it may,
he lived it, undertaking many a
personally dangerous mission for
the International Red Cross, serving as a peace negotiator with the
Germans, arranging truces between Jews and Arabs. He had
more faith in the spirit than in
the sword, and neither his goal
nor his sacrifi.ce can ever be forgotten.
JOHN A..PAR,K
help. Editor of
the Raleigh, North Carolina,
Times, he was in Germany on a
saw a chance to
in.
one good idea ignites another, the
program has set some North Carolina Scouts to eollecting shoes for
ill-shod young Europeans. TheY
are trying to round up 20,000 Pair.
to the impover-
ished youngsters across the Atlan-
tic . . and saw school
children,
parents, teachers, and Rotarians
of his State collect, pack, and ship
a million books in a year. For in
no time the idea had acquired the
force of a movement and even a
Prlnteal ln U.S.A.-W. F. Hau Prlnting Co.
WHAT IS YOUR
Rotary value? We have the bulletin of the Rotary Club of Christchurch, New Zealand, we think,
to thank for this yardstick:
100 percent . . . Of course I can.
90percent...Iwill.
. . . I think I can.
. . . I will if I can.
60percent...I'lltry.
50 percent . . . I might be able to.
40 percent . . . I'd like to be able to.
30 percent . . I'm doubtful about it.
20 percent . . . I don't think I can.
10 percent . . . I couldn't.
0 percent . . I'm dead.
B0 percent
70 percent
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Or once o month oll through the yeor oheod!
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It
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Yet, they add' it's their guess that ilr?nur
facturers actuall2 do make about 25 cents !
The facts are that in normal years American conrpanies average about nine ccn'ts
Take Aluminurn Cornpany of America in
for exarnple. Out of each dollar
re-
ceivecl last year by Alcoa and its subsidiaries,
the net profit amounted to
can enterprise. Facts ttrat show a fair return
for a good product.
prolit per tncorne dollar.
1947,
We show above where the rest of
that dollar went. Nearly half of rt in wages,
salaries, and employee benefits' to Alcoans"
Alrnost another half for materials and
services lve bought. Over six and a half
cents for taxes.
The dollars-and-cents story of Aluminum
Company of America represents the kind
of facts you'll get from any typical Ameri-
cents.
less
than eight
Within the heart of America are those
who would like to confuse and mrslead
you. It pays to ask straight questions, where
you can get straight answers.