Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-07
WILL FORM PLANS
 TO-DAY FOR COMING ROTARY CONFERENCE:
Committee Will Act This Af- ternOor on Prelimi-
 narleS

i Preliminary plans for the confer
 ence of 400 or more Potarians from
 Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi
 in Pine Bluff on March 24 and 25 next, will be made at meeting this afternoon at o'clock at the Merchants and Planters bank, of the
 central conference committee of the Pine Bluff Rotary club. This committee is composed of J. Frank
 Franey. vice president of the club, pr J. l. Norris, A. D. Foster, w. N.
 Trulock J. F.. Boyce. Capt. Will Nichol. Roy M. Kemp, H. E. Blnthen- thal. II. Kemp Toney a-d g. G.. Seabrook.
 Seventy members of the club and a number of guests attended the meeting. devoted mostly to discus sion of the district conference. which is expected to be the larpost
 and best ever held in the 14th Ro- tary district The program for the
 conference has been arranged bv
 the international association. and provides for addresses and discus
 sions of many important subjects and vocational sections Estes Snede- cor, vice president of the interna-
 tional association and Ben;.~ c,
 Brown, district governor will be among the notable Rotarians attend ing.
 Appointment of the conference committee at this meeting, was in accord with telegraphic suggestion of Chas. w. Holmes, president of the club, detained in the East, and fo11o,taI licouccion boc tho importance of the meeting and of making proper provision earl y, those speaking being pr. Norris. MT. wit and A. G. Whidden. secretary of the club, who described briefly the outline of the conference program.
 Reporting on the distribution of the $735.75 Christmas fund, pr. Norris deplored that more Rotarians did not have the privilege possessed by him of distributing wherewithal to make Christmas more joyful for some than it. otherwise would have been. "It would do you men good - make you happier and better" he said. In connection with such work Dr. Norris announced that the an- nual meeting of the Associated Charities will be held at the Cham bor of Commerce Monday evening, and urged Rotarians to attend Some of you may not like the way in which the work has been carried on," he said. But unless you show more interests. and assume some of the responsibility you cannot in jus tice criticise. Come up there. WeI want you; we need you. And you will gain from participation in this work"
 E. R. Norton of the Norton Wheel CT company, elected to represent Rotary to the tight barrel slave manufacturers, was received into the club. R. Ray Mcintyre was called upoc to explain some of the benefits of Rotary, and Mr. Franey told of obligations of the Rotarian. The clubs we've was extended by | Thos. F. Gadberry.
 What l Think of Rotary" was the topic assigned Dr. B. D. Luck, ad. i mitted at the last meeting of ths club.
 Other speakers were A. L. Ed. whose assigned topic was "A Monticello Romance" and V. O l and o F. Tcdstrom, guests at the session.
 Misses Alice Cashell of Rockville, Md; Mildred Wood of Atlanta, Ga.; and Catherine Montgomery of Pine Bluff were among the visitors. 9th CTS were Harry Schafer, Rotarian of St Louis; Walter McAdams of New York and O. F. Tedstrom, V. o. Alex ander, H. w. Shepard. and Ragland iFtzhugh, all of Pine Bluff.