Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-02-22
BIRTH OF ROTARY
WILL Be OBSERVED
DURING THIS WEEK
Continued from page ~

les guiding and actuating all Rotary
clubs. THE Rotary club demands
fair dealings. honest methods. and
high standards In business" Is the
theme OF this platform. aud The last
sentence In the platform "ilr profits
most who serves best" has been
adopted ms the latter part OF the of.
fetal slogan ~ Rotary Tho complete
slogan reads. Service Above Self
He Profits Most Who Serves Best ."
The Rotary Code of Ethics" was
adopted by the organization In 1915.
and sets forth the principles and
practices that should exist not only
between Roinrians but all business
and professional men everywhere. 10
read this Code nj Ethics which the
Rotarians have adopted Hs their
ideal. ~ 20 realize one NJ the roa.
sons why this relatively new move
ment has gore forward by leaps and
hounds during the past five years.
Men had been waiting Tor this very
thing. II became Giving force" In
he lives al many men who had boon
obscssod with the ono idea Of max
ing money. TRANSFORMING them into
men who chose for their motto "be
profits most who serves best" in
stead Of the old standard Of "iln
profits most WAC nccumulates most
in material thinge." To these men.
lofe hocnmc an investment. not moa-
surcd In terms Of dollars. hut mea-
a Il. q T..N. Tsal 4
charge ~ mans highest duties 10
society The governor of one of The
greatest states in the United States
las said that Rotary IL able Ia
catch the heart -heai-thc harmony
81 life and put II into action"
Every Member M Active Member.
The Rotary club has one rule
which must not be- violated. This b.
The rulr IN regard To attendance.
Practically every club has clause
IN its Constitution whereby n mem
her is automatically dropped from
membership II he misses four meet
ings IN succession. TO this rule Is
attrihutod one of The reasons for the
remarkable efficiency ~ Rotary \
careful record ol each members nt
tendance Is frpt hy the secretary and
nothing short nf sickness or death
can excuse q member Absence from
the city Is no excuse. for there Is @
gneclal rule whereby member may
attend the meeting OF the club IN
the city whore he happens To be-.
and the secretary of his home club
is officially advised uf this fact. and
he receives credit FOR attendance
Just as II he had been present az
The meeting Of his own club
Rotary clubs thus hold an envia-
llc record Tor high percentage of at
tendance ~ meetings. clubs with "a
many ms two and three hundred
members have rs hish as 81 Per
cent Of their members present meet
Ing after meeting. There are Rotary
districts with jurisdiction over Us
many ~ forty and fifty clubs which
maintain q district percentage OF
attendance" M meetings of all clubs
in the district of from 20 20 SO per
cent New records FOR high attend
nucc PERCENTAGES are continually be
ing made and as quickly being
broken hv some club somewhere Tho
latest achievement has been by a
club on the Pacific Coast with sixty
members which has made the re-
markablc and heretofore unheard OF
record of 100 per cent attendance,
ar every member present, not only
II one meeting which would he an
unusual record In itself-but 100
pcr cent attendance at seven conse.
cutive meetings
\ Definition of the Rotar, club.
Various definitions of Rotary and
descriptions az the Rotary club hay,
heen published from time to time. \
contest has recently been held
throughout the Rotary clubs for the
best definition OF "What Is Rotary
and every member asked to give his