ROTARY IDEAL

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21961, 9 December 1936, Page 20

ROTARY IDEAL

BIG CHANGES gtoj q ADDRESS by MR w. The speaker at the fi luncheon yesterday was Q District Governor of recently returned in America. 5^ •Much criticism had baa Rotary, said Mr Thomas. no doubt that in its early movement deserved crit^J B l been started as a business men met together f advertisement and baci-eJ® 5 was frankly avowed by to be such. There idealism. That was 31 years ago 5- ~ Since then Rotary had tically every country of a membership now With its expansion of emphasis. Rotary a t sh , a ™ ed of its beginnings^? its fellowship on the motto*W* Service Sake.” Eventual!? might be summed up in S ‘•Humanity,” indicating that A was a fellowship without dkiJ? race, creed, or class. It it was now filling a basic 3 Its cosmopolitan precluded the possibility nf Zj action. Any attempt at differing creed or class to S gather for any specific obiwZ most sure to end in Rotary spirit could best Sai J sion in individual action. It was very important at •*. time that the British America should come toanZZL 1 mg, said Mr Thomas. TheW could not get behind the Englishman. The colonialw was more approachable. It that we lost the prejufe cherished against American^were very fine people. ‘