The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

you are expected to attend every Ro-
 tary lunch.
 Now Rotary has a way of compelling
 attendance. It isn't really compulsion.
 | mean the sergeant of arms does not
 so up and down the city making mem hers show up, but any one failing to do so without written excuse after a few absences is automatically dropped from the roll
 II If the churches had such system
 either one or two things would happen, the congregations would be increased
 or many leading decons stewards
 elders and vestrymen would be shelved
 Just think of member of any of our l 10th century churches being required
 to notify their pastor in writing when
 they laid out on him.
 The main thing about Rotary is
 that no man is big enough to get by in it
 without being a sure enough Rotaran,
 for if he hasn't enough of the Rota-
 rian spirit to conform to its simple
 rules he is passed up, and there are 1 ed circles are willing to forfeit their membership, for some have lost out to their sorrow and found it mighty hard
 to get back again.
 l If you are in your home town on Rotary day you are expected to be on hand, but if you happen to be in another city when the Rotarians are dining it is your business and right to 1 attend whether you know any one or rot. The presentation of your card is l your introduction, and all you are ex pected to do is to buy your meal ticket and walk in and sit down You can rest easy for it won't be long before some one will give you the glad hand. Wednesday John Dunaway and T. stepped off the Selma train little be- | fore one and he said, come on, let's go to the GayTeague to the Rotary luncheon and in a few minutes were in the lobby and surrounded with a bunch of good fellows, for wherever you find a lot of Rotari;.Hs you can | count on their being the real stuff out of which men are made
 The dining room of the Cay-Teague l where the weekly dinners are held is an attractive place. It is roomy and well lighted. I was surprised to find 1t well filled. I sat next to Clayton TulMs and just opposite me was George Reauchamp. All of us from Eufaula It is hard to get in any throng in Ala bama without running up on a lot of Barbour county men. Clayton is a leader in the commercial of the capital city and George is an authority in Masonic circles. The Eufaula boys are always at the top wherever you find them.
 President Meyer was away on his vacation but Max Pepperman was on the job. He hasn't the bonhomie of Frank Rushton. the charm of Val Nes- bitt, or the suavity of Morris Bush; but he has the punch" of Mercer Barnett and makes things happen lively. The presiding officer has much to do with the success of any club, and particu- larly so when it is up to him to manage lot of men who have reverted to boy hood and are eager to start something. Now I am going to make a state- ment that will not be credited, but am going to call on Will Nesb:.. who was present to bear witness to it's truth. As no regular programme had been supplied Max said, T am first go- ing to call on Birmingham's preacher lawyer editor to make us a talk. I do not know why I let the occasion go by, but I was out for no speech record and remained dumb my seat. Bruce Ken nedy thought was sick and Will Nes- bitt wanted to have~a physician sum- moned.
 Several were called upon and de- clined and when Bruce Kennedy, the versatile secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and orator par excellence was wheedled into making a half min ute talk and subsided Pep" remarked that with Frank Willis Barnett, the lcng distance talker of Birmingham dumb and BrucesKennedy the perennial SpeecHIHdher or montgomery qultter, and Will Nesbitt not even volunteering he would call all addresses off and pro- ceed to the musical program.
 wish we had a song leader like unto pr. Milton Kirkpatrick, the only man who has ever been able on a glass of White Rock to keep bunch of Shriners singing popular songs until sunrise after July 1st, to teach us the fun there is in singing. I believe if he could coach us for month that it would be nc longer necessary for Frank Rushton to call on Morris Bush to lead the club in The bells of hell so ting-a- ling."
 Rotarian Kirkpatrick i-C several l songs which were sung with fervor | but not with such lusty zest as was the one dedicated to me- Maxie said want | every one to join in singing the follow ing song dedicated to Frank Willis | Barnett, our Birmingham guest: I give !, it here: say young feller. where'd you get
 that bull
 Bless my soul, you talk like you was
 full:
 Bet my boots you came from out of
 town: