ROTARY CLUB

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1926, Page 8

ROTARY CLUB

TO-DAY’S MEETING. At the Rotary Club meeting to-day, presided over by Rotarian H. L. Young, the vice president, Rotarian B. J. Jacobs, gave a talk on Rotary education. Rotarian Jacobs stated that he had decided to tell the now members and the newer members something of the origin and development of tho movement. A little more than 20 years ago, stated the speaker, a movement now spread ovpr the whole globe had its beginning. A person to become a Rotary member must represent some active business in a town; secondly, thero must be one representative of each classification (nature, profession or calling of tho rotarian) and, thirdly, he _ must be at the head of such proprietary concern or profession. There wore many benefits to be derived from Rotary membership, such as meeting tho peoplo it was desirable to know, good fellowship, exchange of business ideas. But whether these benefits were derived f lay largely on the members; on their "desire to participate in them and the manner in which that desiro was cultivated. There was no oath, .10 promise extracted ; still, such was the constitution of Rotary, that there naturally fell on a member some responsibilities, that is, if he would have tho development of the club at heart. Rotary did not endeavour to change a man into an automatic machine, and by the “pressing of a button on his waistcoat get him to cough up money.” The chief aim of a Rotary Club was to obtain a member’s co-operation and service and to acquire internal happiness and good fellowship, concluded Rotarian Jacobs.