Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-06-20
ROTARY TO COMBAT
EVILS OF RADICALS
WARNING TO PUT DOWN AGITA.
TORS SOUNDED BY HEAD
OF ROTARY CLUB.
Delegates From Every Section of the
United States Gather at Utah
Capital for Tenth Annual Con-
Vention of Association

Salt Lake City.-The tenth annual
convention of the International Rotary
association was formally opened in
| this city on June II, although for sew
| eral days the city had been thrOnged
with delegates from every section of
the United States, and many from
foreign countries, with more arriving
on every train.
| At the opening session President
John Poole sounded the keynotes of
| the convention in an able address.
| Foremost among these came the ques-
ton of relations between employer and
employee.
ROtary's opportunity for great SER
vice is at hand, he said, in bending
every energy toward combating the
perils of Bolshevism, particularly in
keeping at gainful and wholesome en-
ployment every man and women who
earn a living. Mr.. Poole spoke of the
spread of Industrial unrest abroad and
called attention to the possibility of
it's gaining a foOthod on this side of
the Atlantic.
Mr.. Poole promised for the future
that Rotarians will occupy themselves
to a great extent with the problems
of the relations between employer and
employee, and with the boy problem.
In connection with this latter phase
of the work, Mr.. Poole emphasized the
need for close and cooperative re-
lation between fathers and sons.
Mr. Poole was welcomed to Salt
Lake on behalf of the local club by
Will G. Farrell, president Mr.. Farrell
spoke briefly of the privilege which the
city enjoys in being host to the inter-
national gathering, and paid his COM
pliments to the Rotarians of the in
termountain country who have CO.
operated with the Salt Lake men in
assuring the visitors q convention they
will long remember.
The meeting was opened with a
prayer by Heber J. Grant, president
of the Latter-day Saints church, which
organization offered the use of the
tabernacle for the convention sessions.
the delegates were provided with
amusement features which assisted
materially in making the Salt Lake
meeting one of the most enjoyable in
the history of the association. One
day was devoted to visiting the var
iOus pleasure resorts, Il genuine wild
west show furnished entertainment
and thrills galore for the visitors;
reproduction of the Madri Gras of New
Orleans, which the delegates from the
southern city staged. Salt Lake society
was out in force for the dance.
Tuesday night the Madri Gras was
attended by the delegates and their
wives; Wednesday they flocked to
Saltair, which for the first time in its
history was closed to the public, only
Rotarians being permitted to visit that
resort during the day. On Thursday
the Wild West show was the attrac-
tion at the fair grounds, furnishing
thrills for the visitor from the effete
east, as we'll as genuine enjoyment for
the westerner.
During discussion at the opening
session it was pointed out that the i'm
preston that had once prevailed that
Rotary had been organized for the
pecuniary benefit of those who be-
longed had been thoroughly and effect
lively dissipated. 1t was likewise set
out that there still remained a great
work to be done to bring home to men,
bers of Rotary definite and intimate
knowledge of the real meaning of
Rotary and the part that 1t should play
in community and inter-related ac-
tivities.
Every vocation of Importance in the
life of the nation received attention
from the vocational sections of the
International Rotary. More than 100
meetings were held in various hotels,
clubs, apartment houses and business
houses.
Farmers from Wisconsin exchanged
views with ranchers from Honolulu,
and telephone service experts from
Alaska discussed telephones with del
egates from Texas. Librarians, min
listers, engineers, physicians and news
paper men are some of the delegates
who met for the purpose of hearing
addresses by experts in their voca-
lions, and for mutual benefit and in
| spiration.