The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-27
LOCAL ROTAR|ANS HONOR PRESIDENT WITH BANQUET I Dr. Pidgeon Makes Stirring Address on Rotary
 Principles READING MINUTES CAUSES EXPERIMENT. Carson Adams Tells of Liberty Bonds and Sergeant Blake Describes
 Battle Scene in
 France

There is no true joy but the joy | of mplishment-it means the l bringing out of the potentialities or
 the inner self. that is what makes greatness. l have never known an or | ganization to fail because it's ideals were too high, but the shores all along are strewn with the wrecks of | those whose ideals were too low said Rev Leslie Pidgeon international Ro- tary president, who addressed Bir- mingham Rotarians at a banquet given by the local club in his honor last night at the Tutwiler hotel Dr. Pidgeon was welcomed in a happy vein of well chosen words by Uncle Tom Rennie, who told the dis tinguished visitor that he was now in one of the best lands under the green canopy of heaven-a city of pay rolls, one of 212,000 souls--all busy. This is liberty bell which the president has his foot on to tap if we speak too long, consequently it is not bell of unlimited speech" said MT Rennie. Following the welcome by MT. Rennie, round of jokes" were in. dulged in, the chair calling on Frank Rushton. Morris Bush, Sidney Lazarus, John Henley, Sol Caheen and Dr. H. M. Edmonds They all delivered with the desired mirth producing punch
 SERGEANT BLAKE SPEAKS John Sparrow introduced Sergeant Major Blake, one of the four Canadian heroes in Birmingham for the week, who spoke interestingly and gripping ly of the service he and his comrades had seen in the trenches in Belgium, receiving the rapt attention of the Ro. tarians. His remarks were vociferous- ly applauded, especially his depletion of the scene in the. trenches and on the battle field in action
 Carson Adams was the serious speak CT of the programme, he having mes sage anent the liberty bond campaign that went home to his hearers as he pictured the war at our door-the lib- erty bond issue as our fight at home. John Henley read the minutes of the previous meeting. The minutes Follow: "The last meeting of the Ro- tary club had the usual disappoint- ing attendance. President Nesbit was again present and to the regret of all present Vice President Andrews took the chair, and in view of the absence ] or MT. Pidgeon, MT. Sparrow was made guest of honor.
 The secretary read the excuses from large number of members. most of whom had been absent three consecutive meet 1ngs. The acquaintance committee re-
 ported that no meeting had been held on
 account of the lack of a quorum. The
 sergeant-at-arms repoted that one man
 mad a button but it developed that he
 had borrowed it from a friend. The pro- gramme committee reported that it had decided to let things drift as usual. The
 treasurer reported that things were go- ing from bad to worse. He declared that Carson Adams had been trying to place slow note for $50 with some To- cal bank and had secured the indorse- ment of George Gordon Crawford, Morris Bush, Eugene Brown, Frank Rushton and J. D. Moore. So far he had not been successful in raising money on the pa per. No other committee had been able to have quorums, except the grievance committed, which had many complaints to make, including the complaint from the management of the Tutwier that snoring at the meetings annoyed guests m the hotel lobby motion prevailed that Bob Ewing be hereafter barred from the programme. The speaker of the day was Luther Doty. Just before the end of the hour Bert Jacobs arrived. The meetings adjourned half hour later while MT. Doty was still speaking A motion to disband was referred to the board of directors. Favorable action is
 forecast. Just before adjournment it was voted to make as decent a showing as possible the night of President Pidg- cons visit and address, and that these minutes be not then read.
 The reading the minutes provoked gem eral laughter, and the members relished every thrust with genuine delight. Seated at the speakers table were Dr. Pidgeon, president Val Nesbitt, J. w. Donneny, T. H. Rennie w. Carson Adams. E. H.
 Andrews Morris w. Bush, J. Frank Rushton, John c. Henley and Oliver Cox.
 PHILOSOPHY OF ROTARY
 Dr. Pidgeon's remarks were calculated to give Rotarians a broader view of rotary, and in the course of his remarks
 he said in part;
 'The philosophy of rotary is the or ganic unity that governs society You never should separate heredity without environment. All that heredity gives to a man Is capacity. Society only gives 8 man environment or opportunity, but 1t gives him all of his opportunities, for no amount of preaching or teaching can counteract what man sees or his en- vironment
 There should be an educational proc ess going on in rotary always to edu- cate a man up to his social standard No general sentiment for the public good generaln ?Hascgh, on w Ffogoodh .wRqgo?o is safe until it is embodied in an insti- tuition for the public benefit. We should never forget what the institutions of democracy cost our forefathers. We should use all our power to see that our private conceptions are embodied in pub- lie institutions. Your doctrines of service means that you are interested in the ways and means of every mans way of making living, and the kind of work that he does.
 Every mans daily toll should be his school of virtue. If any mans work cramps his mind or prevents him from reaching the height that God intended that he should reach. that would im- poverish his soul to remain in that work then he should change. The strength of the pack is in the wolf and the strength of the wolf is in the pack, One of the greatest of unconscious evils is class leg islation, for whenever you get members of class to choose men for their purposes. as tools of the task. it simply means that the strongest combination will run the crrxvarnrv, mt. for fhafr. oyvr nl1rnOaa opd