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(These words were first used at a Rotary meeting or convention by Arthur Frederick Sheldon of Chicago, at the second Convention of the International Association of Rotary Clubs of America. Sheldon and Ches. Perry had joined Chicago number 1 in January 1908 and both of these men were to leave their mark on this new and fast growing organization. Sheldon was ill so could not deliver his address so it was read by Secretary (of the National Association) Ches. Perry. B. Frank Collins, President of the Minneapolis Club followed Perry and in his address he said, "The motto of my Minneapolis Club is -Service Above Self." This address was not published in the convention proceedings but was published in The National Rotarian a few months later.- J.A.C.)

That we are living in a scientific age, one in which all lines of useful effort are rapidly becoming reduced to a scientific basis.

That we are living in an age of the survival of the fittest.

That it means more to be fit today than it did ten years ago.

That it will mean more to be fit ten years from now than it does today.

That we are living in a commercial age, and that commerce or business is a science.

HE PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES BEST

SHELDON ADDRESS & PLATFORM (cont’d)

That a science is simply classified common sense based upon proper seeing, grasping, comparing and recording of facts,

That a profession is a Science practiced.

That the science of business is the science of service, he profits most who serves best.

That when business getting and business building are reduced to a science by organizing the knowledge pertaining to them we thereby elevate business to a professional plane.

That the success of any institution is the sum of the successes of the people engaged in its service.

That no house is greater than its representatives and that every one connected with the house is its representative.

That a house is known by the customers it keeps.

That both the getting and keeping of customers depends upon the efficiency of its representatives.

That in the broad sense every one is a salesman; each has something to sell, whether it be services or goods.

That success in life commercially hinges upon business building, the art of securing permanent and profitable patronage.

That the life-bleed of business building is salesmanship, the power to persuade people

HE PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES BEST

SHELDON ADDRESS & PLATFORM (cont’d)

to purchase product at a profit.

That the heart which pumps the life-blood of salesmanship is service - - the power to serve to the end of satisfaction and profit of both buyer and seller.

That all of the natural laws of success may be boiled down to four injunctions which apply especially to the salesman. These are: First, Man, know thyself; second, know the other fellow; third, know thy business; fourth, apply this knowledge.

More in detail these injunctions maybe stated as follows:

First, he must have a good knowledge of himself. This knowledge, applied, secures for him that confidence which is the basis of all trade.

Second, he must have an accurate knowledge of human nature, so as to deal with the customer in the most intelligent manner; his individuality, needs, moods and whims.

Third, he must be able so to analyze his goods or proposition, that the points brought out will show to the best advantage the desirability or utility of the thing under consideration. This is logic.

Fourth, he must have a knowledge of the Mental Law of Sale and how to lead the mind of his customer through different steps. Here is where a practical aspect is given to psychology.

HE PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES BEST

SHELDON ADDRESS & PLATFORM (cont’d)

That those upon whom rests the burden of making and distributing the world's products are entitled to the enlightening and uplifting influence of science as much as anyone can be.

That this enlightening and uplifting influence can be spread only through education.

That education is eduction, drawing out, development of the positive or desirable qualities.

That this eduction is the WHAT of education.

That the HOW of it is two-fold; first, nourishment, and, second, use.

That the mental man must have mental exercise and mental food as a means of growth as certainly as must the physical.

That the fruits of education are health, money, honor and harmonious adaptation to environment, as well as cultures that these are reliability, endurance and action as well as ability.

That the educative process may be applied to the development of the body, the sensibilities or feelings, and to the will as well as to the intellect.

That the result of the education of the positive qualities of the intellect is ability or intellectual capacity; of the sensibilities, reliability; of the body, endurances of the will, action.

HE PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES BEST

SHELDON ADDRESS & PLATFORM (cont’d)

That therefore the prime purpose of true education is mo increase man's area. AREA being spelled with the initials of these four words.

That success in life in its broad sense is a matter not of luck or chance, but is governed by laws of nature - mental, moral, physical and spiritual.

That to work in harmony with all of theme laws would mean success of the highest order.

That to violate some of them means only partial success.

That to violate enough of them means failure.

That it is possible to discern and teach these natural laws and that to do so is better than to cram the head of the student with much that is now taught in the name of education.

That all men and women have the same inherent faculties and qualities, the difference being only on degree of development.

That a good quality well developed is positive – undeveloped or abnormally developed, it is a negative.

That the positive qualities are the instruments for the expression of these natural laws.

That when the qualities are made right the man is made right.

HE PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES BEST

SHELDON ADDRESS & PLATFORM (cont’d)

That when the man is made right the work takes care of itself.

That man’s value to himself, to his employer and as a citizen increases as his need for supervision decreases.

That his need of supervision is occasioned by errors of omission and errors of commission.

That the errors are caused by the negatives.

That the negatives are overcome by the development of the positives.

That the product of positive quality development is AREA, or ability, reliability, endurance and action.

That since every normal human being possesses a body, an intellect, feelings and will, therefore nature has blessed each with the raw material out of which to manufacture more AREA.

That these four factors developed and exercised by any given individual insure success of the permanent and increasing kind.

That the human race passes through four stages from the standpoint of the evolution of intelligence: first, ignorance; second, knowledge; third, learning; fourth, wisdom.

That the road to wisdom is through the education of the positive qualities.

HE PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES BEST

SHELDON ADDRESS & PLATFORM (cont’d)

That the people of every vocation are divided into four classes from the standpoint of efficiency: First, the indifferent; second, the students; third, the adapts; fourth, the masters.

That the road to mastership is the drawing out of the positive qualities.

That the great successes in business and in history are those who have arrived at the state of mastership - whether as office boy, mechanics, salesmen, executives, warriors or kings.

That life is of four stages: First, non-consciousness of the vegetable and mineral kingdoms; second, the simple consciousness of the brute creatures; third, the self-consciousness of man who knows and feels and wills; and, fourth, cosmic consciousness, to which man is tending.

That comic consciousness is a development of the universal sense, an appreciation of the solidarity of the race, the all-oneness of things, the reality of the brotherhood of man, on which plane man comes to see the reality of the fact that in business or anywhere else, he profits most who serves best.

That the road to cosmic consciousness is the development of the positive qualities.

That the desire to serve develops as man passes from the selfish or self-conscious stage toward the wisdom of universal

HE PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES BEST

SHELDON ADDRESS & PLATFORM (cont’d)

consciousness. In other words, as we unselfishly enable others to succeed, we ourselves make progress towards success.

That the mental and soul existence which we call psychic is as real as bodily or physical life.

That man is evolving and that psychic evolution of man is dependent upon the development of the positive possibilities which exist in each normal human being.

That these faculties are all included in man’s physical power, his power to know and to feel and to will.

That true education nurtures, strengthens and develops the positive faculties.

That the positive qualities are then as natural a result as heat is a natural result of fire.

That every one has in him undeveloped capacity for more and better service; in business, in craftsmanship and in professional life,

That the rewards of service are sure for you and for each one. A. F. SHELDON"

(Sheldon’s "He Profits Most Who Serves Best" and CollinsI "Service Above Self" were not adopted officially by Rotary International until the Detroit Convention of 1950 when both were made official. J.A.C. )

Toronto, Mar. 18,1963

A QUESTION AND ANSWER TO AND BY PRES. LAHARRY

"Mr. Laharry, what do you consider to be Rotary's most important purpose today?"

My personal concept of the ultimate objective of Rotary, I said, is the creation of a world fellowship on a person-to-person basis. Progress toward this goal is the keystone of my program this year. In the pursuit of this objective I think we should beware of the danger of narrow, immature nationalism so that we can get the free world together on the common basis of humanness. Peace, they say, begins in the minds of men, and, as such, the defenses of peace must also be built in the minds of men in order to prepare each individual for the realization that a warless world is possible only if each one of us is determined that "nation shall no longer lift sword against nation."

A striking example of what nations can do by the exercise of foresight and wise statesmanship has been provided by Britain, who voluntarily, gracefully, and bloodlessly surrendered her sovereignty over India and many other lands in Asia and Africa. Thereby, Britain did not liquidate an empire, but created a great reservoir of friendship among these people. Today in India, from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, there are thousands of Britishers pursuing their vocations in goodwill and living in amity with the people of the country. These are bridges of friendship of which mankind can be justly proud: they span the chasm of this narrow and immature nationalism to which I have referred.

One world does not mean universal meddling. Nor does it many an attempt to herd

A QUESTION AND ANSWER TO AND BY PRES. LAHARRY

together humans into a polyglot society, or to impose one's way of life or beliefs upon others. In my own country we have been taught to believe in the essential oneness of all mankind under our Supreme Creator.

Thou hast made me known to friends I knew not

Thou has given me seats in homes not my own,

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

So sang the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. So also runs my dream of a world fellowship based upon neighborliness and friendliness."

MITISH C. LAHARRY – J. A. Caulder, 3/7/63

President Laharry has completed his year as President of Rotary International. Now he is enroute to his home in Calcutta, India. He has served Rotary well and made a worthwhile contribution to "world understanding". His slogan "Let Us Kindle The Spark Within", was well received and many experienced Rotarians feel he provided a very much needed motto. We may be resting on our care too much and we needed this gentle, kind hearted, cultured gentleman from Asia to drive home to us that Rotary has not reached the peak of its good influence but has only started. We hope to see him often in the future.

* D. MacRAE incorrectly spelled throughout article. March 1963

DONALD MacRAE

"A name to be remembered in Rotary".

He was the first to suggest the addition of a Fourth object in Rotary which proposed that The International Association of Rotary Clubs make the development of International understanding a main plank in Rotary's platform.

This was the time when the future of Rotary was being charted and at the Los Angeles convention in June 1922, with Crawford McCullough presiding, an entire new Constitution and By-laws was adopted. These three conventions: Atlantic City, June 1920, presided over by Bert Adams - Edinburgh, Scotland, June 1921, presided over by Estes Snedecor, and Los Angeles, June 1922, at the close of Dr. Crawford McCullough’s year, were history making to a degree not seen before or since.

During these years, besides the Presidents of the International Association, such names as Chas. J, Burchell of Halifax; Donald McRae of Halifax and Samuel B. Botsford of Buffalo loom large, All were great men and real Rotarians. The Hon. Chas. J. Burchell is still with us and active in Rotary and in his law practice.

Below is a copy of a letter from Chas. Burchell to the undersigned and written at Halifax December 14th, 1962.

Also below is a copy of a report of a special committee on Rotary's Constitution and By-laws presented at Atlantic City in June 1920. Donald McRae did the drafting of this document

DONALD McRAE (Cont'd)

and no doubt was an important factor in developing it. The letter from Chas. Burchell tells the story in detail. There were two other reports, one in 1920 and a later one in January 1921 (McRae was then Chairman) which I would like to include in this volume but they would take up 100 pages. Anyone interested should peruse the Proceedings of the conventions of 1920-21 and 1922 in order to follow through on the tremendous amount of work which culminated in the new Constitution and By-laws being adopted at Los Angeles in June 1922 when the 4th Object was added and the name changed to Rotary International.

It seems unfortunate that the Toronto Club could not have made use of Donald McRae's great talents and Rotary knowledge when he moved to Toronto in 1924 and resided until his passing in 1957.

J.A. CAULDER.

"The name of Dr. Donald McRae should always be enshrined in Rotary History as the author, draftsman, and promotor of the present fourth object of Rotary, commonly known as the "International Object."

His original draft of the object which was approved on his motion at the Rotary International Convention held in Scotland in June, 1921, was as follows:-

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DONALD McRAE (Cont'd)

"4th. To aid in the advancement of international peace and goodwill, through a fellowship of business and professional men of all nations united in the common ideal of Rotary service."

McRae was a graduate in Arts of Dalhousie University in Halifax, N.S. in the year 1908 and after graduation was a lecturer for several years at Princeton University when Woodrow Wilson was President. In 1914 he was admitted as a barrister in the Province of Ontario and in the same year was appointed to be Dean of the Law School at Dalhousie University. McRae became a member of the Rotary Club of Halifax, N.S. in 1915 and was a delegate from that Club to the International convention held at Atlanta, Georgia in June, 1917. On his way to that convention the story is told that McRae asked one of the other Halifax delegates if Rotary was merely a "flash-is-the-pan", and the reply he received was that he would not need to ask that question after his attendance at the convention.

At that convention a resolution was unanimously passed that no resolution could be presented for discussion at a Rotary Convention unless it was international in scope and character.

After the passage of that resolution McRae remarked that if it was followed Rotary would certainly become International and if developed in other countries of the world would be a strong force in the history of the world and would certainly not be a flash-in-the-pan.

(see over)

Page F. 5

He was one of the principal speakers at the Rotary Convention at Kansas City in June, 1918, his subject being International Peace, in which he expressed the thought that Rotary with its motto of service would prove to be of great value if developed internationally. At the date of his address Rotary Clubs had been organized in only three countries in the world, namely the United States of America, Canada and Great Britain.

At the International Convention held in Atlantic City in June, 1920, a committee on constitution and by-laws was appointed and was instructed to meet during the conference and consider suggestions for alterations in the form of government of Rotary as it then existed. The Committee was composed of five members, two from the United States, one from Canada, one from Scotland, and one from Cuba. The members from Scotland and Cuba were unable to attend the meetings and the remaining three members agreed that Donald McRae be asked to act as draftsman of the report.

The report of the committee which was drafted by McRae in conference with the members of the committee was presented to the conference and received unanimous approval. It contains seventeen paragraphs for the government of what the report called "International Rotary". A perusal of the report will show that it is the background of the present day government of Rotary and may perhaps be called the cornerstone of the foundation of Rotary.

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DONALD McRAE (Cont'd)

One of the members of the committee, Estes (Pete) Snedecor was appointed President of Rotary International at that convention and immediately appointed Donald McRae to be chairman of a committee to prepare a draft to form a new constitution and by-laws for Rotary in accordance with the recommendation contained in the report of the Atlantic City Convention.

When he was engaged in drafting a new constitution McRae noted that its objects did not contain any provision for the development of Rotary Internationally and prepared the draft of a new fourth international object forth international object which he submitted to the Board of Directors who approved it. His report contained forty-seven printed pages and was completed on January 24, 1921. It included a new fourth object reading as follows:-

"Fourth: To aid in the advancement of international peace and good will through a fellowship of business and professional men of all nations united in the common ideal of Rotary SERVICE."

And also contained the following explanatory note with respect to the above object:-

"In Section 1 a new paragraph has been introduced (Paragraph FOURTH) for the purpose of recognized among the objects of Rotary the promotion of International Peace and Good Will. This aspect of Rotary was emphasized particularly at the Atlantic City Convention. Past President Klumph spoke of a "league of men bound together by that warm friendship, that happy fellow-

(see over)

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DONALD McRAE (Cont'd)

ship and that great inspiration which is so characteristic and distinctive of Rotary." President Emeritus Paul P. Harris said: "Rotary is now recognized as a world asset, as a spiritual dynamo, making for friendliness among men and nations." President Albert Adams said, "When we have made the greatest contribution of modern times to the early coming of that day when all can again join in that greatest song of the ages: "On Earth Peace, God Will Toward Men." I can see a great Congress of Rotary bringing together men from all parts of the world, mingling is friendliness and spirit the flags of every civilized nation of the earth."

A complete copy of McRae's draft of the new constitution and by-laws was sent under date of February 2, 1921, to all Rotary Clubs in the world by the Secretary- General.

Under date of Feb. 22, 1921, the Eleventh Rotary District met at Evansville, Indiana and strenuously objected to McRae's draft and protested against its adoption in the coming international convention which was to be held in Edinburgh in June, 1921, because it did not provide for the government of Rotary by national divisions. Part of the resolution is as follows:

"It is resolved, that we are unalterably opposed to the revised form of Constitution and By-Laws as proposed and submitted by the I.A. of R.C. Committee on Constitution and By-Laws, and we earnestly protest against

(cont’d)

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DONALD McRAE (Cont'd)

its adoption at the coming International convention.. . ."

"It is Resolved, that believing there is a strong desire and aspiration among Rotarians throughout the United States and in other countries where Rotary is established for the right, as occasion arises to engage in activities that are essentially national, and to devote their energies and their means to functions which, though strictly Rotarian in Character, are limited in their scope to special national conditions, we now urgently recommend that steps be taken to secure the adoption, at the International Convention of 1922, of changes in the Constitution and By-Laws of I. A. of R. C., which will attain the aforesaid purposes; that provision be made for National Divisions in Rotary according to countries, and that such National Divisions constitute the primary governing units in Rotary; that the Rotary Clubs located within the geographical boundaries of each country have direct affiliation with such National Divisions."

Protests were also passed by other District conferences recommending that McRae’s draft be not approved at the Edinburgh convention because of the objection made by the Indiana District conference.

When the International Convention met in Edinburgh and in the recommendation of the Board of Directors, McRae moved that his draft of the new constitution and by-laws should not be considered at the convention, but that a committee of thirty-one should be appointed as an enlarged constitution

and by-laws committee to reconsider and if considered necessary to recommend alterations in his draft at the next international convention.

This committee of thirty-one was composed of outstanding Rotarians from various clubs in the Rotary world and held several meetings under the chairmanship of Samuel B. Botsford and presented a revised constitution and by-laws at the Los Angeles Convention in June, 1922.

This report of the Committee of thirty-one was approved at the Los Angeles Convention. It made very few chances in McRae’s draft of the Constitution and By-laws except that in deference to the resolution of the Indiana District conference, with respect to the administration of Rotary by national divisions, the report recommended that any country which so desired, with the approval of the Board of Directors, might organize a territorial form of administration. Up to the present time the only clubs in any country which have adopted the aforementioned form of administration are the clubs in Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the recently issued report to the Board of Directors by Rotary International Organization and Procedures Committee contains the following comment:

"In its discussion of the territorial unit form of administration, the committee took cognizance of comments of some Rotarians as noted by members of the committee relating to the point of view that the territorial unit form of administration

DONALD McRAE (Cont'd)

should be developed and extended to all parts of the world so that Rotary International ultimately would develop into a rather loosely associated federation of national or regional territorial units. However, the committee was of the opinion that the advancement of international understanding, good will and peace through Rotary requires a general recognition of the vital importance of preserving and promoting, international fellowship of member clubs throughout the world based not upon the grouping of clubs in national or regional areas, but upon the direct, relationship and common responsibility of member clubs to that international organization."

In presenting the report to the Los Angeles Convention Rotarian Botsford stated as follows:-

"As you gentlemen know; the Committee of 31 has during the past year been working upon the object of a proposed new constitution and by-laws for the International Association of Rotary Clubs. Last year a Committee on Constitution and By-Laws reported to the Edinburgh Convention. That Committee was headed by Donald McRae of Halifax, N.S, and at this time I want to pay tribute to the work that they did and to say to you that whatever results have been accomplished this year would probably have been impossible had it not been for the hard work and the highly intelligent work of the committee headed by Donald McRae last year. That committee reported to the Edinburgh Convention that in their judgement the report that they had prepared and had sent out for consideration

DONALD McRAE (Cont'd)

should not be adopted and they further urged that a larger committee should be gotten together for the purpose of giving further study to the matter, which resulted in the enactment of a special by-law at the Edinburgh Convention, creating this committee of which I am Chairman and for which I am now reporting."

In the Golden Anniversary of Rotary in the year 1955 the then President of Rotary International, Herbert J. Taylor, under date of January 20, 1955, sent the following letter to Dr. McRae:

"In this Golden Anniversary Year of Rotary, it is only natural that we should pause to think of those Rotarians whose individual contributions have done so much to make the organization what it is today.

This is just a line to let you know that the contribution which you made at the Edinburgh Convention has not been forgotten. Those inspiring words with which you played such an important part in adding to the Object of Rotary, have been changed very little in the intervening years but they started Rotarians on the path which has led to one of Rotary’s greatest achievements - the development of international understanding and good will."

It is interesting to note that it is now recommended by the Rotary International Organization and Procedures Committee, whose report is now before the Board of Directors for consideration, that McRae’s draft of what is now the fourth object of

DONALD McRAE (Cont'd)

Rotary and is commonly called its International Object should be the only object of Rotary and following closely McRae's original draft should be as follows: "The object of Rotary is to develop, encourage and foster understanding, good will, and peaceful relations among people throughout the world, based upon the ideal of Service," and. that the other present objects should be called 'objectives".

McRae reigned from his position at the Law School in Halifax in 1924 and removed to Toronto where until the date of his death in 1957 he was associated with Osgoode Hall Law School.

His removal from Halifax necessitated his automatic resignation from the Halifax Rotary Club and from that date his direct connection with Rotary ceased. During his membership in the Rotary Club in Halifax he acted as District Governor, established a new club at Charlottetown, the capitol city of his native Province of Prince Edward Island, and took an active part in five international conventions, namely: Atlanta in 1917, Kansas City in 1918, Atlantic City in 1920, Edinburgh in 1921 and St. Louis in 1923. At St. Louis he actively supporter resolution 23-34, with respect to community service which resolution has stood the test for nearly forty years.

After his retirement from activities in Rotary McRae became actively interested in the work of the Canadian Bar Association. He was appointed by that Association as a one man commission to inspect and report on the work

of the Law Schools in Canada and the recommendations contained in his report, which were largely based on the Harvard Plan of the teaching of law, were adopted and have been followed in most of the Law Schools in Canada.

(signed) O. J. Burchell.

Halifax, Nova Scotia,

December 14, 1952."

The Committee on Constitution and By-Laws, having met and considered various suggestions in the form of government of International Rotary, respectfully recommend as follows:

1. That the practice of holding an International Convention annually be continue; that at each International Convention arrangements be made by the Program Committee for separate national assemblies at which matters exclusively national in their scope and character may be separately considered by the Rotarians from each country represented at the Convention.

2. That the governing executive body of the International Association of Rotary Clubs consist of a Board of nine directors to be selected as hereinafter provided.

3. That for the purpose of electing such directors, the territory of Rotary as at present developed, be divided into nine divisions, each of which shall elect one director.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION

AND BY-LAWS (cont’d)

4. That each such divisions be for the present as follows:-

1. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to constitute one division.

2. The Dominion of Canada to constitute one division.

3. Cuba and Porto Rico to constitute one division.

(The U.S. of America to comprise six divisions constituted as follows:)

4. Atlantic Coast Division consisting of Districts 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7.

5. North and South Division consisting of Districts 6, 8, 10 and 13.

6. Northwestern Division consisting of Districts 9 (U.S. clubs), 11 and 12.

7. Southwestern Division consisting of Districts 14, 17 and 18.

8. Middlewestern Division consisting of Districts 15 and 16.

9. Mountain and Pacific Division consisting of Districts 20, 21, 22 (U.S. clubs) and 23.

5.That the Board of Directors be empowered from time to time to redistribute the territory of Rotary as it may be developed and for that purpose to create new divisions.

6. That upon any such change being made, each division shall be entitled to elect one director, and the Board of Directors shall be increased accordingly.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION

AND BY-LAWS (Cont’d)

7. That the Board be empowered to formulate from time to time the procedure for making such changes in divisions.

8. That except at the election at the 1921 International Convention, Directors be elected to hold office for two years.

9. That at the 1921 International Convention four divisions shall elect Directors to hold office for one year and five divisions shall elect directors to hold office for two years and that prior to the election at the 1921 Convention, lots shall be drawn to determine the four divisions which shall elect directors to hold office for one year.

10. That at or prior to each International Convention nominations for the office of director may be made by clubs in each division entitled to elect a director at that convention.

11. That at each International Convention the voting for directors shall be by divisions, and the delegates from the divisions entitled to elect directors at such convention shall vote for one director from their respective divisions.

12. That the Board of Directors shall meet at such times and places as it may determine, provided that the first meeting of the Board shall in each year be held within five days after the close of the Annual Convention. At such first meeting the General Officers of the Association shall be chosen by the Board.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION

AND BY-LAWS (Cont’d)

13. That the General Officers of the Association shall be a President, three Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Secretary-General, and Sergeant-at-Arms. The President and three Vice-Presidents shall be chosen from the members of the Board. The Treasurer, Secretary-General and Sergeant-at-Arms may be chosen from Rotarians who are not members of the Board.

14. That the administration of International Rotary shall be continued by districts, as at present, with district governors as representatives of the International Association, working under the general supervision of the Board of Directors, and in co-operation with International Headquarters, the creation of divisions being merely for the purpose of electing directors.

15.  That, in addition to International Headquarters, the Board be empowered to establish and maintain a branch office in any country to facilitate the administration and promote the interest of Rotary in such country.

16. That there shall be an International Council, composed of the Directors, General Officers, District Governors, and Chairman of standing committees, which shall meet within ninety days after the chose of each International Convention, for purposes of conference and planning co-operatively, the work and activities of the Association and its member clubs for the current year.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CONSTITUTION

AND BY-LAWS (Cont’d)

17. That the Board have authority to publish in each country, where the circumstances

and the best interests of Rotary require it, an official publication, for the use and benefit of Rotarians in such country, and that these publications should be so edited and adapted as to meet the requirements of the Rotary clubs therein. That extensive exchange of Rotary material for publication be maintained between such publications, so that all Rotarians may be kept in close touch with the activities and development of Rotary throughout the world.

Editor’s Note [Not in Original]: When Joe Caulder put together his Information Volumes, he generally used both sides of a page. In the case of the following speech of Tom Davis, he apparently first used one-side of each page for Davis' speech and then later went back and added other material to the reverse side of the page. When he numbered the pages, however, he numbered them consecutively and thus the Tom Davis speech, "Rotary at Work", bears odd numbered pages and distinctly different material is on the reverse sides even numbered pages. So that reading the material will be easier, I have put the odd numbered pages together, to be followed by the even–numbered pages.)

(Address by the late Past President of Rotary International, TOM J. DAVIS, of Butte, Montana, at the New York Convention June 1949. Tom Davis was President of R.I. for the year 1941-42 and presided at the Toronto Convention in June 1942. Tom was one of the great R.I. Presidents. A top-notch lawyer of Butte, and a great citizen of the U.S.A. I had the honour of serving with Tom as District Governor in 1921-22 and we were close friends until his untimely passing on October 22^nd, 1953. - J.A.CAULDER)

I think you must understand the trepidation which I feel as I was given this very fine opportunity to talk with you, my Fellow Rotarians, about a subject in. which we all have a very keen interest.

I was talking with Porter Carswell, as "Buzz" was presenting me, and he told me that a group of very beautiful and altogether charming and very talented young women will follow my talk. My observation was it was rather too bad to have a wind instrument precede these lovely and musical girls.

Yesterday I had lunch with a group of men who are my very close friends. They are men who have served Rotary in the past with a great deal of distinction. They are men who know very much about Rotary. They are men who constantly give of their time and their energy in order to see that Rotary continues at work.

In this group at luncheon there was a very distinguished American, a man who has had the great privilege of going into many parts of the world and there serving his country. He has called important conferences in connection with food distribution and food production, and, as he told us most interestingly of his travels, particularly into three great countries of the world, he said that, when he had completed the official business which had taken him to that country, in talking with one of the outstanding men of the country where he happened to be, he said, "Now lot's talk a little bit about Rotary." To his amazement, not one of the three men in these three countries knew of our ideals, nor the purposes which we had in our minds, and, certainly, they were not acquainted with the work, which we were trying to do.

To this man who has given very much of his time and energy to Rotary, this statement was rather a disappointment.

I am wondering how many distinguished men in different parts of the world have failed to learn of the significance of Rotary and of the important influence of Rotary in more than 80 geographical units of the world. I am wondering if the time has not come when we must change some of our ideas about our relationship with other organizations, and I am wondering if the time has not come for us to give some real consideration to the great possibility of Rotary as we relate ourselves to existing organizations and agencies which have in their programs

things in common with us, things which we hope to accomplish.

I was thinking, too, as I made a resume of the work of Rotary International, work with which I have been rather familiar, if the time has not come for us to give some consideration to the so-called controversial issues in our Clubs and particularly those things which are controversial in the communities where we live.

It is not my thought that Rotary as an organization should concern itself with controversial things and make a decision as to the rightness or the wrongness of those things. But it is my thought that, as an educational process, Rotary should inform the individual Rotarian about these controversial things, and then permit the individual Rotarian to reach his own conclusion as to what might be right or wrong in connection with the issue which is involved.

I believe that the intelligent, well-informed group of men who fill the classifications of Rotary should be unafraid of controversy, because, in the next decade or two, it is very definitely possible that we shall be constantly confronted with things which are controversial, things in which Rotary may very well have a place of leadership, things which Rotary might very well help the world decide.

If Rotary should undertake such a program as that, is seems to me it would make a fundamental contribution to better understanding in every part of the world.

So you men of Rotary, in connection with controversial issues, should be one of the very first groups, in my opinion, to so inform yourselves that you will be able to talk about, to discuss with those with whom you come into contact, these things about which we know so little, and, so often, seem to prefer to ignore.

I wish to call another thing to your attention and, as I do, I wish you to believe me very sincere when I say I am not in any sense talking politics, but I wish to challenge the attention of all of you Rotarians, regardless of the place from which you may come, to concern yourselves with the problems of government in your nation, because it is very definitely a part of the work and of the ideals of Rotary.

An enlightened citizenship is a great asset of any country and, as President Angus so splendidly said last night, an enlightened, informed public interest will help rule the destiny of the world.

Today I call your attention to a thing which, to me, was rather tragic. In the last elections held in my country, fewer than 50 per cent of those who were eligible to vote were willing to take

the time to cast their ballot in helping to determine who, for the next four years, would be the President of the great United States.

They refused to give the time or the energy which it would have taken to go to the polls in order to assist in selecting the man who would fill, in my opinion, the most important place of leadership in the world, the man who would fill a place of leadership which might very well determine the pathway over which civilization will pass for the next five or ten decades.

And I say again that it is time for Rotarians to concern themselves with the kind of government which they will have. And I very quickly say I am not concerned with how you vote, but I am tremendously interested in this group of men who belong to Rotary taking a sufficient interest in and participating in and securing for their nations the kind of government which will be good government, and which will permit us to participate in worldwide activities, which, in the last analysis, will cause this world to be a better place in which to live.

Now, Rotary is in the very front lines of the great battle for worldwide friendship and better understanding. Rotary frequently overturns the kind of logic which is so prevalent today, the logic of facts. Rotary hails the logic of thought, the logic of good will. Rotary believes in the logic of friendship in action.

That this position is sound is proved by the remarkable progress of Rotary and by the great accomplishments of Rotary in more than eighty geographical units of the world.

Today, in this great and brilliant meeting, Rotary demonstrates the power of the forum of Rotary, a forum to which is called the outstanding men, the finest brains, and the very best characters, a forum in which men of all classes participate, a forum to which the whole world listens.

The forum of Rotary, nonpartisan in character, without prejudice in its presentations, and without attempting to share the form or idea of utterance, presents the most effective platform in the whole world; a platform from which come expressions and thoughts of men determined to make a better world; a sounding board which echoes around the world.

The forum of Rotary is a provider of information, a distributor of sound knowledge, a disseminator of friendship and good will. But Rotarians know that knowledge is not enough. Knowledge is a neutral thing.

In the hands of men of good will and of friendship, knowledge is used for the purpose of building a better world, but knowledge in the hands of men of avarice and of greed frequently is used for sinister purposes, for purposes which tend to disrupt and to wreck the happiness and the understanding of the world.

So, the forum of Rotary must be and is based upon different points of view, honestly expressed, and with the idea of helping those, regardless of class, of creed, or of color, who listen.

This information, given out from the forum of Rotary, reaches countless thousands, among whom are 330,000 professional and business men, in 6,800 Clubs and in 81 geographical units of the world, who call themselves Rotarians.

Rotary has the distinct opportunity to develop an informed public opinion in the communities where it exists. It seems perfectly obvious that an informed public opinion, based upon factual knowledge, is much to be preferred to public opinion based upon misinformation, prejudice, or ignorance.

Rotary is international and intensely cosmopolitan. Rotary recognizes that no nation, no individual, has a monopoly upon the goodness of things; that no nation, no individual, has a monopoly upon the best ideas, the best traditions and the best ideas of right living.

Rotary very often finds the best expression of its genius in the smaller cities and towns. The fact is that more than 40 per cent of the Rotary Clubs in the United States are located in communities which have a population of 5,000 or less.

Napoleon was once supposed to have spoken disparagingly of a great Country as "a nation of shopkeepers." This title could be claimed

and would be claimed with great satisfaction by the people of my country.

The backbone of local American communities is their small business men. With such independent men, engaged in small businesses, we have our best demonstration of American free enterprise in action. Retailers are, by far, the more numerous, closely followed the service trades, and then our professional people.

Big business is necessary, but it is a most reassuring thing that, when business grows big, small enterprise grows alongside and, in a large measure, keeps pace or often leads the way.

All these "united in the ideal of service" form the Rotary team, which builds better men, and maintains better places in which to live.

Rotary communities are better communities because the men of Rotary are in them. The chief interest un making a community a better place must come from those it.

Location, industries, payrolls, organizations are necessary to build better communities, but organizations are not the most important thing. Men build communities - - men of vision, men of ambition, men of character, men of Rotary.

So, platitudinous as it may seem, the work of Rotary is reflected in 6,800 communities as Rotary tries to make those

communities better places in which to live.

We have done a job, which I think is significant, in connection with the building of higher ethical standards in our professions and our business. We have been able to teach thousands of Rotarians that the rules of business and the professions are clear and well defined, and that a man who plays outside those rules will surely lose. And the contribution which we make to the building of better standards is a most significant thing because it works in your lifer and in mine.

There has never been a time, in my opinion, when that energy, that urge was more needed than now. Certainly, that is true in the United States.

We go back in our thinking to the days of Guy Gundaker when he did that great thing in relation to the writing of codes. But today there seems to be more of an individual need as the Vocational Service program tries to relate itself to our customers, to our customers, to our competitors, and to the conduct of our business generally.

In the office of a very ordinary lawyer in Montana, there have come to his attention in the last five months the following cases: A young man, the son of an outstanding family, a man whose father had been the manager of a great organization. That boy has embezzled from his friends and from his firm the sum of $5,400 in the last five or six months. His problem was drinking.

Another man who filled an important piece with a great bank for a period of five or six years has been systematically embezzling and robbing the bank and the depositors of their money. His problem was Chinese lotteries.

A third man, holding a most responsible position, has been systematically taking money which belonged to one of the great organizations in the United States, and it amounts possibly to ten or fifteen thousand dollars.

Of these three men, at least two will go to the penitentiary. Their lives have been disgraced. These men have been humiliated, but the significant thing is that each one of these men was employed by a Rotary organization.

I am wondering if we, who are employers, are taking the time and spending the energy which we should spend in order to inculcate our employees with the spirit and with the ideals of Rotary. It is an important thing, a thing which we should not neglect.

Just recently in another community the pilferage, the shoplifting, has been so great as to take two cents out of every dollar of the stock placed upon the shelves in a certain group of stores.

We placed operators in charge of this problem and arrested 21 thieves in one store in approximately three hours.

Again, the significant thing is that this

organization was a Rotary organization. What are we doing or failing to do that would build a better understanding, a better relationship between these people who are our customers and who are coming into our stores for the purpose of patronizing us?

Then I saw in a Rotary bulletin a short time ago a most amazing statement. It said that 26 years ago a group of men met in one of the great cities of the United States. One man was the head of a great steel company; one man was the outstanding financier of Europe; one man was the head of a great utility empire. And so it enumerated the 11 or 12 men, .including one who was a member of the Cabinet of the United. States.

Then they made an analysis of what had become of those great leaders, tycoons who had been held out as examples to the youth of the United States as being men expert in the accumulation of money. And at the end of 26 years, the great steel man had died insolvent, after having on borrowed money for five years; the great financier from Europe had jumped out of an airplane; a very wealthy, successful man in the United States had committed suicide. The president of a great stock exchange had been sent to the penitentiary for things that he had done. And, finally, it was climaxed by the member of the Cabinet of the United States government returning home to die after having been pardoned from the penitentiary in which he bad served.

I wonder what there is wrong with the structure of our business, of our great financial leadership, that would cause men in these responsible places to fail.

These things, isolated, I admit, are things which cause me to believe that there is a great job to be done by you men of Rotary in relation to your ordinary classifications, in the work which you do in order to cause your communities to be better places in which to live.

I want to speak very briefly of the work done in communities. Perhaps lacking somewhat in modesty, I think of a great privilege which has come to me as I have gone from one end of the world to the other, and as I have seen the unselfish demonstration of the work of Rotary in these many places where I have been.

I have stood with Tom Warren in England, in a great children’s camp. I have gone down into Latin America as we dedicated a great playfield and started the construction of a huge hospital for crippled children.

I have seen the great educational work that is being done in Portugal because of the activities of Rotary. And today, if I could call the roll of every club represented in this great meeting, every one of you could tell a similar story if having contributed unselfishly to the building of your communities and, to again repeat the almost trite expression, the effort which you have made in order to cause your communities to the better places in which to live.

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ROTARY AT WORK (Cont'd)

Finally, I want to bring out of my own background - - and I am sure you will forgive me for having been so personal - -and call to your attention some things which have been done in the work of Rotary in behalf of the program which will cause better understanding and greater friendliness to exist between the peoples of the world.

I remember one day I was in Chicago presiding over a Rotary meeting. Phil Lovejoy came to me and said, "Tom, they wish you at the telephone."

So I answered the telephone, and, as I did, a very lovely voice came, a deep, resonant, bass voice, and he said, "Is this President Tom Davis of Rotary International?"

I said, "Yes."

He said- "Do you wish to serve your country?"

I said, "Who questions that?"

He said, "This is the Office of the President of the United States speaking."

He then told me the amazing story of the situation which existed at that time between China and our country and the other countries interested in our understanding of liberty and of freedom.

Distinguished American officials had made speeches which were considered to be indiscreet. They had said that, "When we have finished with Germany, then we will go into the Orient and we will do what we can to help in that situation."

The enemies of Chiang Kai-shek had taken hold of this idea and were making it so difficult for him that he had asked the United States government to assist.

This man who talked with me was the son of one of my professors when I was a student at the University of Michigan, and he wanted to know what could be done.

I said if they would permit me to talk with the Secretary and to discuss the matter with my Board, I would report. So, I went back to the Board and told them what had been said.

Phil said, "We can immediately organize some China aid meetings."

Again this man from the President’s office called me on the telephone. I told him what we could plan to do, and he asked how quickly it could be done,

I said, "We can have the notices of these meetings in the mail, within three days."

He said, "I don't believe it."

"Well," I said, "we will try."

I returned to the Board and got the consent of the American members of the Board, Arthur FitzGerald said, "President Tom, Canada will go along."

It is not necessary for me to recount the things which Rotary was able to do in relation to that matter, Eleven hundred meetings were held in all parts of North America, broadcasts were made from one end of the world to the others; speeches were made by a great many men interested in trying to build a better world.

Finally, Dr. Hu Shih, who was the Ambassador from China to the United States, came all the way to Butte, Montana, to thank the President of Rotary International for the thing which we had tried to do in connection with that difficult problem.

And Upton Close, in his broadcast the following Sunday said - - and I know you will forgive me repeating it: "Thank God for Rotary International and for President Tom Davis. They have done the only intelligent thing thus far done in behalf of our Oriental situation."

I think of another thing. There had been a dispute, a boundary dispute, going on between Peru and Ecuador for one hundred and fifty years. They had fought three dreadful wars in relation to that problem.

Finally, with the consent of the President of Peru and the President of Ecuador,

Rotary tried to organize a plan which would help in that difficult situation.

Ches. Perry went with me to see Mr. Cordell Hull and, as we presented the matter to him, he said, "President Davis, rot only may you say that you have the consent of your government, but you will have the complete co-operation of your government in relation to this matter."

So, we names Joaquin Serratosa Cibils of Montevideo, Uruguay, we named Cesar Andrade, the former Finance Minister of Ecuador. We named Andre Dasso, a Senator from Lima, Peru. These men went to the home of Joaquin Serratosa Cibils, and there for four and one-half days they sat down and worked out a formula under which and by virtue of which this dispute could be settled.

The last item on the agenda at the great meeting of Rio called by President Roosevelt was the settlement of this boundary dispute which had lasted l50 years, in the almost identical terms of the formula prepared by these five splendid Rotarians.

And when I say this to you, when I tell you of the work of Rotary in connection with international problems, I say to you that, in my thinking, Rotary has become a tremendously important, a really significant organization in helping toward the solution of problems which very often disturb the happiness and the peace of the world.

So you men who try earnestly and sincerely to build a better world, are making a contribution which cannot be underestimated, because you are the ones who will help, in the last analysis, to determine whether or not the U.N. will work, whether we shall continue to spend our money for war or whether we shall spend it for living.

And it does not cause me any great trouble to conclude in my own thinking that it is very much better for us to live, and to live intelligently, with our neighbors, than for us to spend it on a spree which will result only in death and destruction.

I should like to close with a statement which I have made many times, that through out my life I have lived through three dreadful wars. I have seen men come home with their arms gone, with their eyes gone, with their legs gone, after they have given all they were and all they hoped to be in order to maintain freedom and happiness and liberty for you and me, things which have become almost commonplace in your life and in mine.

You men and you women are too intelligent to be compelled to resort to such a procedure. So, as Rotary tries to cause us to better understand the persons with whom we

come into contact, and to be friendly with them, then Rotary is making a real, a genuine contribution.

War today is the most stupid, the most wicked, the most futile thing in all the world. Although Rotary has repeatedly said it is opposed to war, the time has come, in my thinking, when we should do something about the prevention of war.

So, as we support the U.N., as we try to build this understanding between the peoples of the world, we make a fundamental contribution, a contribution that will result in your happiness and in mine.

One day I was on a train going from London up to a Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Suddenly the train slowed down, and we could not understand why that had taken place, but, when we got into this beautiful city, we understood. The places which had been the homes of these people in this lovely spot were blown to bits. There were piles of brick and mortar in what had been the streets. The gas mains were shooting fountains of water fifteen or twenty feet high, and the poor, dazed dumb people were parading through these piles of rubble and, with their fingers, trying to find anything of value they could find.

I watched a very elderly lady whose back was turned to me, and I said to her,

"Things are rather badly off this morning."

She turned and, for the first time, I saw the ghastliness of her face. It was beaten to a pulp. Her lips were so swollen that she could hardly speak. Then she told me in detail how the bombers had gone over, how they had blown these things all apart, and how the bricks had struck her in the face, and how only through the providence of God she had escaped with her life.

Then she said, "It wasn’t the bombings, though, sir. It was the awful machine-gunning afterwards. The men who had run those planes had returned to spray these people with machine-guns."

Beyond where she stood, there was a girl about eighteen. Her eyes were red from weeping. They had taken the father’s body out of their home. Beyond where the girl stood was a man whom you could never forget if you lived to be a thousand years. His face had all the appearance of a human skull, eyes deeply sunken, the skin pulled over the bones of his face, and yet, as that man stood there, he seemed to be completely unafraid. He had returned from his work looking for his wife and for his family, and they had told him she had gone to a Catholic Church center to which they belonged. He said she could not have gone to the church because, if she had, she would have been home long before that.

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Then he stood by while the man with picks and shovels first took out the body of a once beautiful woman, broken, bloody and battered; an eighteen year old girl, his daughter; his sixteen year old son, and, finally, the eight year old curly-headed daughter.

Across the street from where that man stood a great factory had been blown to buts, and the man who owned that factory, within a half hour, had taken a placard he had written the word, "Cheerio!" Then he put the pictures of his King and Queen, and then he had written these words, "One day nearer victory."

And I say to you again, with all the earnestness that I can muster, the time is coming when we may be called upon to give a little of ourselves if we are to maintain these ideals, these liberties, and these freedoms which I said a moment ago have become almost commonplaces in your life and in mine.

Thirty years ago, as a young man, I was sent in my uniform from Camp Lewis to New York. I went up to the fortieth floor of the Bankers Building, which w3as very close to the water’s edge. Suddenly we were terrified, just frozen with fear. They told us that a submarine had come close to the Harbor of New York, and that it was going to blast this great city and would kill the non-combatants who had no part in the war. We thought what a

Bestial, what a terrible thing it was!

Then I move on twenty-five years, and an atomic bomb destroyed a whole city and killed or wounded 80,000 men, women and children, and very little was said about it.

I may to you today that Rotarians must consecrate themselves to better understanding and to better friendship, in order that that thing will not happen again.

Civilization, twenty-five of them, have been destroyed. All of them have contributed to the civilization in which we live today. I should like to warn you men that civilizations are not destroyed from without; civilizations are destroyed from within. If ever this priceless heritage of ours is taken from us, it will be because of your apathy, your unwillingness to serve, your lack of information.

So, my last word is to beg of you, my fellow Rotarians, to inform yourselves and to again rededicate yourselves to the principles and the ideals of Paul Harris, and to be willing to do the things that we as individuals are able to do in order to make this a better world.

May I close with a prayer which I have used in every speech I have made for two and one-half years because it says so wonderfully well, in just a few stanzas, the things which I have so ramblingly said for thirty-three or thirty-four minutes:

Each day I pray God to give me strength anew,

To do the tasks I do not wish to do;

Yielding obedience, not asking why,

To learn and hold the truth and scorn the lie;

To look a bold world in the face,

To cheer for those who pass me in the race,

To bear my burdens daily, unafraid,

To lend a helping hand to those who need my aide.

To measure what I am by what I did;

God give me strength that I may richly live.

That is the challenge; that is the responsibility; that is the possibility. It is the responsibility of you men who are my fellow Rotarian. Rotary at work has a great responsibility and Rotary will not fail.

Toronto was host to the R.I. Convention in 1924 and made a name for the city and the club that is still talked about. Jim Davidson was a hand with his wife Lilliam and daughter Marjory. Jim, along with J. L. Ralston, and in 1921 organized in New Zealand and Australia and had done a great job. I had served as Governor of District 19 (Ft. William to Edmonston) in 11821-22. One of my great President was Jim Horn, C.P.R. Supt, at Kenora, Ont. Jim had 17 consecutive 100% meetings so was called 100% Jim. The conference opened on Monday and I got a wire from Jim which read, "As shipping you a bear tonight". I assumed it was a joke so handed the wire to three bankers who were close by. They were Ken Reekie, Bank of Commerce, Lethbridge, Reg

McCaul, Bank of Commerce, Swift Current; and Bill Radcliffe, Dominion Bank, Regina and I said, "I appoint you three men the Bear Committee". That afternoon my three bankers paraded a three months old cub on a nice long chain.

All sessions were held at the C.N.E. By Wednesday evening the bankers were fed up with the bear and something had to be done. They were paying a bell boy at the King Edward to care and feed the bear and were missing all the Convention sessions, Something had to be done so they bribed a bell boy to get them a key to Davidsons’ suite. The ball was held on Wednesday evening and after it was well underway the three bankers turned the bear loose in the swanky Davidson suite, Jim, Lillian and Marjory arrived at their suite at 3 A.M., very happy but very tied. They found the bear and fortunately for all concerned no damaged had been done. Once more a bell boy, looking innocent, had to take the bear to the basement and put him to bed. But the bankers the revolted on the job Thursday A.M. as it was the final day. Guy Gundaker, the presiding President, was nearing the end of a very successful year and no incident had marred the first three days, so he was happy. Then about 10:30 A.M. a member stood up and asked to be heard. He made a great speech extolling the R.I. President and then took the bear from the bankers and presented it to President Guy. The President accepted the gift and then proceeded to thank the donor when the bear’s jaws ruined the starched shirt front of the immaculate Guy. He made a grand speech of thanks and then in flowery language proceeded to present the gift to the popular Jim Davidson. Jim accepted of course and in another fine speech

he presented the bear to Hutch who was the Secretary of the Rotary Club of Auckland, New Zealand. Hutch was equal to the occasion and holding the bear under his right arm he thanked Jim and announced that the bear would return with him to Auckland and would be named "Rotary Jim." The Australian boys liked the idea so the following December they shipped two young Kangaroo to Jim Davidson at Calgary. They arrived when it was 40° below zero. Jim gave them to the Zoo where one died in a few months and the other lived for some years. In the meantime Rotary Jim grew to weigh 800 pounds and became the very special pet of Auckland children. Rotary Jim died about 12 years later and thousands of Auckland children had a school holiday and followed Rotary

Jim to the animal burial ground. About 1957 or 1958 the Olympic games were held in Australia and Ex. President Guy Gundaker asked me to get him a small bear to take to Auckland (1500 miles from Australia) to replace Rotary Jim. Dr. Norman Scollard of our Toronto Zoo found a fine cub in April but Guy was sailing in October, and the bear would grow. Nothing daunted Ex. President Guy. However, illness prevented him making the trip and Norman likely still has the bear. Only recently I learned that Walter Peace, son of the Founder President of the Toronto club, then a boy, earned 75 cents for parading the bear around the C.N.E. grounds when the bankers played hookey. Plenty of fun in Rotary in the early days.

From - The Voice - Toronto Club - Nov. 22, 1962.

My father used to say that it took him two years to do one year’s work. He was Charter President of the Rotary club of Toronto from November 1912 to December 1914, although, according to the by-laws, officers may hold office for only one year.

William A. Peace was devoted to Rotary. He attended all the International Conventions up to and including New York in 1952. Perhaps the most important of these for him was that held at Buffalo in 1913. There he was appointed Area Vice-President of the International Association of Rotary Clubs, with responsibility for all of Canada East of Manitoba. He had the task of organizing new clubs in that vast territory.

When he retired from active business in 1950, his church, Rotary and his family of nine with thirty grandchildren, became his main interest. He attended every district conference and special meeting of the Rotary Club of Toronto even when in failing health. Father was stricken when attending a Rotary meeting in Toronto in 1959, and died in Lindsay Memorial Hospital, August 21^st, 1961.

Bill Peace was an honorary member of the many clubs he helped to organize, but the Toronto Club was always closest to his heart - - it was his baby. On its fiftieth birthday the child will remember its father, he would have liked that.

I’d rather see a sermon

Than Hear one any day

I’d rather one should walk with me

Than merely show the way.

The eye’s a better pupil

and more willing than the ear;
Fine counseling is confusing,
But example is always clear.

I can learn just how you do it

If you let me see it done;

I can watch your hands in action
But your tongue too fast may run.

And the lectures you deliver

May be very wise and true;
But I'd rather get my lesson
By observing what you do.

For I may misunderstand you

And the high advice you give

But there's no misunderstanding

How you act and how you live.

EDGAR A. GUEST.

From – Bulletin - the Rotary Club of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Too busy, friend? That's mostly stall,

You can’t get by with that at all.

If you can’t find the time to do

That Rotary job assigned to you,

Then brother, quit right now. Resign,

Or else lay off that doleful whine,

I’m too busy."

"As white corpuscles defend the human bloodstream against the ravages of disease, so the constructive forces of co-operation, tolerance, courage, and brotherly love will eventually overcome selfishness, envy, intolerance, hatred, and fear - - the most destructive enemies of the social order."

From – Rotary - The Rotary Club of Albany, Georgia, U.S.A.

Rotary is the oldest movement of its kind in the world, and the most extended in its work. This fact adds a certain dignity to Rotary which other similar organizations can never attain.

Rotary means something big in the world. It should mean something big in the life of the individual who belongs.

"From - Rotary Voice, Nov. 22, 1962.

By:- TOM ROGERS.''

"Tales that have the time of Age"
Do not now our pen engage;
Nor have we the space to tell
Names of those who served us well.

Rotary in nineteen twelve

Cast O’er them its potent spell;
Worthily they played their part
Men of vision and of heart.

Step by Step they paved the way

To the Club we have today;

And though some have passed from view,

We that upward path pursue.

Each succeeding year proclaims

How far-seeing were their aims,

Placing service in the van
To complete what faith began.
In that goodly company,
Each his own true self could be,
And a friendly spirit show
Toward the men he came to know.

Every one would do his best

To observe the "FOUR-WAY TEST";

Give his talent and his time,

Helping other men to climb.

In the things that have been done,

In wise projects here begun,

In our fellowship and fun,
Marching with the morning sun,
Golden is the goal we've won!

Kindling fresh the spark within,

Ventures new we now begin.

From - Sunshine Magazine

If I can throw a single ray of light across the darkened pathway of another; if I can aid some soul to clearer sight of life and duty, and thus bless my brother; if I can wipe from any human cheek a tear, I shall not then have lived in vain while here.

If I can guide some erring one to truth, inspire within his heart a sense of duty; if I can plant within the soul of rosy youth a sense of right, a love of truth and beauty; if I can teach one man that God and Heaven are near, I shall not then have lived in vain while here.

If from my mind I banish doubt and fear, and keep my life attuned to love and kindness; if I can scatter light and hope and cheer, and help remove the curse of mental blindness; if I can make more joy, more hope, less pain, I shall not have lived and loved in vain.

If by life’s roadside I can plant a tree beneath whose shade some wearied head may rests though I may never share its shade, or see its beauty, I shall .yet be truly blest - - though no one knows my name, nor mourns upon my bier, I shall not then have lived in vain while here.

If a man should ask you what he can get out of Rotary, tell him this: "High on the side of a mountain in Scotland there is said to be an inn and over the door a sign with these words: ‘In this inn you will find joy and good company- - provided you bring them with you.’"

Author Unknown

From: Frank J. LoSasso – Past Governor

District 785 - Barre, Vermont, U.S.A.

Is anybody happier because you passed his way?

Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?

This day is almost over, it’s toiling time is through;

Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?

Can you say tonight, in parting with day that’s slipping fast,

That you helped a single fellow of the many that you passed?

Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said?

Does a man whose hopes are fading, now with courage look ahead?

Did you waste a day or lose it, was it well or poorly spent?

Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent,

As you close your eyes in slumber, do you think that God would say

You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?

Provided by: Frank J. LoSassos Barre, Vt.,

The Hindu: "The true rule is to guard and do by the things of others as you do by your Own."

The Buddhist: "One should seek for others the happiness one desires for oneself."

The Zoroastrian: "Do as you would be done by."

The Confucian: "What you do not wish done to yourself, do not to others."

The Mohammedan: "Let none of you treat your brother in a way he himself would dislike to be treated."

The Jew: "Whatsoever you do not wish your neighbor to do to you, do not unto him."

The Christian: "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even  so to them."

Rotary: "Service Above Self."