ROTARY'S BELIEF
AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD
(Special to the "Evening Post.") PALMERSTON N., This Day. As one of its ways of promoting international understanding among the younger generation, the Palmerston North Rotary Club conducts an essay competition open to pupils of secondary schools. It is felt that the knowledge of the affairs of the world obtained by high school pupils is bound, in time to come, to make itself felt in the Dominion.
The matter is referred to in the annual report of the club, which adds: "Gone are the days of our own youth when it was thought patriotic to brag unduly about one's own country and deride and revile other nations because they were "foreign." Rotary holds the view that there is nothing incompatible in learning to know and regard well the people of other lands; further, that if we had a citizenry in every country with an entire good will towards all peoples we would have gone a long way towards solving our international bickerings. As the peoples of the world become educated as to some of the causes of war, including a stirring up of warlike feelings by propaganda methods by armament concerns, so will they demand of their legislative leaders to have more faith in peaceful methods of arbitration."
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 9
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