ROTARY CLUB

Wairarapa Daily Times, 2 March 1934, Page 6

ROTARY CLUB

ADDRESS BY MR C. M. BOWDEN. Attendance at the weekly luncheon of the Masterton Rotary Club yesterday was somewhat reduced on account of a number of members being away attending the conference at New Plymouth. The speaker of the day was Mr C. M. Bowden, and his address, the last he is to deliver before setting out on a trip overseas, was most interesting. Taking as his subject “Meanderings,’-’ Mr Bowden went back in the world’s history for some thirty years, and “meandered” through to the present day, touching as he went on such topics as trade unionism, Socialism, surgery, radio, machinery and a number of others. Never in any other period in the world’s history had such extraordinary developments taken place, said Mr Bowden. And where, lie asked, were wo heading, and what was to come next? What was to be the outcome of the unrest abroad in the world to-day, the so-called over-produc-tion, vicious suspicion one of another, and many other problems, the solution of which was baffling the best brains in the world to-day. Mr Bowden said he was unhesitatingly of the opinion that the ultimate solution of the problems confronting the world lay in getting back to the fundamental principles of Christianity.

Mr Bowden was accorded a very cordial vote of thanks for his address on the motion of the Rev. E. J. Rich, who said he entirely agreed that the cause of our troubles to-day was that we had lost our grip on Christianity. Unless we got. back to a realisation of that fact society was doomed. A visitor to the luncheon was Mr T. McCracken. Birthday greetings were extended to Mr P. W. Jackson. The chair was taken by Mr 11. M. Peacock, who offered Mr and Mrs Bowden the best wishes of the club for a pleasant and beneficial holiday and a safe return.