Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-02-01

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| the president of the local Rotary cIub
greatly to the latter's disadvantage ::
| next he compared me to the governor
Oh CaIlfornla, and of course the guest
was 1ar superior to Hiram Johnson
| ana hnally he reached the inevitable
comparlson-with Napoleon. You
gentlemen who are not short and have
Dig nose and remorseful counte-
nance can congratulate yourselves
and as his voice grew shriIler he
ranged up and down and cried ont. AZ
want to tell you sirs, that where the
genius of Napoleon was destructive
the genius of Napoleon was construc-
i've (Laughter) The president of the
CIuD leaned over to me and whispered
TO me watch your STEP" Qaughter)
IL thls entertainment was onlv to
bring happy traveller into yerv han
py touch with his fellows of Rotary
III each new city, it would be enough
LOT me, but there are certain char
dcterlstlcs or Rotary which 1 wish to
speak of tonight. The Rotary Cover
nor OF this district-Will Zimmers-
was surprised when he saw those four
ilundred races break into smiles, that
is not strange when he himself is the
embodiment of smile. 1t would be
impossible for him not to grow in the
aHectlon and esteem of his fellows
when he is preaching our beautiful
gospel everywhere and teaching them
the wholesome and simple lesson of
kindness and help.
Isn't 1t rather a strange thing that
whole room full of people. few of
them have ever seen us before. and
not a few of them altogether unac-
quainted with Rotary should be
brought under the fine influence and
leadership and happy fellowship that
now prevail? For long time I was
unable to account for it in any rea-
sonable way, but the meaning has be-
come plain. Perhaps in "War saw
as our musician friend terms it. it
may be due to the spirit of the Ian
guage that Rotary makes possible.
Have you ever thought that Rotary
has limited itself so far to those coun-
tries that speak English. At our In
ternational conference l protested
against this, and yet l have felt more
than once that possibly in this way we
might be better able to master every
phase of Rotary. In the spread of
Rotary and Canada and the British
Isles rather strange consequences
have followed, and you girls whose
husbands and sweethearts are in Ro-
tary must not feel resentful when
you hear those beings whom you con-
slider the very summit of dignity call
ed by their first name, because one of
the precepts and practices of Rotary
is that there can be no elevation of
one personality-of one person over
another. Woodrow Wilson is an en-
thusiastic Rotarian. Vice President
Marshall is likewise, so are many gov
ernors and presidents of universities,
and one of the choicest things they
get out of Rotary is that when they
come to the sessions, they cease to be
Judge" or Honorable" or Doctor"
and become Woodrow and Frank and
Joe. Now in England it is not so
easy as it is in the United States. Over
here it does not seem to require any
special effort, we seem to have more
love of our fellows in our soul
and we can call one man Chester, and
another oneElmer, and we don't think
anything of it, but in England they
have to teach themselves to do it. Two
men are meeting in England-one
says Good morning, ALBERT,
to which the other replies, Good
morning, Thomas"
And this is explanatory of the fell
lowship that is radiated into the air
tonight. 1t is only one of the most
superficial of its manifestations. A
group of men had come together to
ask me categorically a series
of uuestions-there were some teach
ers, on the faculties of universities
that had come together and discussed
matters along social and economic
lines, and they came to me as the pres
ent bearer of the larger reponsibili-
ties of Rotary to ask me what the
movement might really be, and as l
talked with them, l suggested that
they organize a Rotary Club, and this
is all it is when everything is said and
done Rotary is nothing else but an
association of men who desire to
grow in capability of service-an as
sociation of men who desire to grow
in capability for service. The whole
movement might be termed an accl-
dent. it is not more than five years
| old and it encompasses about $4,000
successful men of business and reach
es from Edinburgh to Honolulu, and
we have members in Queenstown and
Melbourne, and the capital invested in
Rotary certainly exceeds 100000, and
nerhaps reaches to 100000. This is
/ a company of very large potentialties,
brought together first by an impulse
and a craving for full relaxation. l
venture to say. altho l do not know,
that the people of Wausau are not ac-
= customed TO assemble at a banquet
table and sing their thrOats of, 1t
would have been much more difficult
q few wears ago than it was tonight,
and the secret is that number OF
men are given to complete relaxation
like the grown up little boys that we
are. A., r,-.,
;ron the Glover, Lambs clubs, but
+ have never known such wide spread
fam sueh good fun, with so little re-
gret the next day, as can be found IN
ltbe characteristic Rotary session, and
in the words of the first president OF
Rotary. my predecessor, Frank Mul-
lbolIsnd 1--WE don't have to get hall
dr,nk 10 have a good time" In all the
ar~angement for this banquet and on
the tables there is yet no place for 8
s;n-Ie drop of intoxicating liquor
I
.bat thought. Another discovery Is
that t in ALI the hours of Rotary there
i not a moment available for the
Questionable story: we have learned
that the greatest mysteries of life are
the greatest beauties OF LIE, ana We
@ Rot going TO besmirch the grea
Laro,,-n of motherhood for the sake o
moor Joke. Now in this mood of en-
,;rs relaxation Rotary makes fol
Very ~ man a new educational focus
Ssrsf we educate men in business
there is no room for the failure no no,
, there is no room IN hotaES 10
: ny .ne failure. not that we ar'
- .,sss but the very system
nf organization eliminates an'
,,,sss u the failure; if he is repre-
pe,,ns plerr1 the merchants and fails, he i
, sa longer a merchant and so his rep