IDEALS OF ROTARY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 8

IDEALS OF ROTARY.

Application to World Problems. The opportunity for the Rotary movement, with its ideals of service, to assist in the economic reorganisation of the world, was discussed bv Mr S. J. Harbutt, president of the Auckland Rotary Club, in an address to a luncheon meeting of the Christchurch Rotary Club yesterday. He suggested that the ideals of Rotary were applicable to every business and profession, for Rotary declared that every profession and business which rendered a service was worthy, and that high ethical standards could be applied. Mr Harbutt said that he did not offer as a solution of the problem of how they might be applied, an> elaborate theorv or revolutionarv suggestion. He advocated a simple return to first principles, and the practice of them by the individual—in short, the readoption of a spiritual or humanised point of view in industry and business. The task of Rotary was to re-estab-lish the spiritual complex between employer and employee. It rested upon the individual Rotarian to carry Rotary’s spirit of altruism and its high ideals of service into their respective crafts and professions.