The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-31

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p 5HSSe hHtss IS 81 the Streets. '6ths
er organizations feel reinforcement
Or popular favor. The tone, Of Civic
Ipfide becomes keenerI The things
lthat are good for everybody obtain
tcurrency and favor srhe2 outside
lpubic shares in this and rejoices in
iit, and is enlisted for 1t without be-
ling called ION to inquirei where the
progressive impulse originated and
what is 30 steadily sustaining it, Ro-
tary is; an finfluence, all for good,
never for itself. vi toui293 >fGh ~pjiC
| The Rotary movement originated
among business men, and at its out
set was 2hore personal thans public.
Very soon the ivalue Of cooperate
thinking between the representatives
of the different lines ofGbusiness I'M
the same community became. evident
in the Improvement of each line par
ticipatingv From that first expert
ences Rotary has expanded its, idea
until typical Rotary club lin a town
lis the hot center of good business
intelligence. eyTAec result isothe Gre
alton, of corporate, 4 composite bust
ness, intellect in. that cpmmhlpity. .lt
is true many Of its business men peIn, al nd
its best, business men, are not Ro7
ltarians, but they, are M none the, Less
influenced, by, Rotary. since its ideas
and its spirit are designedly public
and not private. Only those are So;
Elected for Rotary who are Of the pro-
gressive sort OF business men. The
dead ories, s5ro tile smGgiy c6hceited
6nes,n 81 the selffshiy devoted ones,
do hot get id, Of II by accident one
Idoes, he IL ground out as logically, as
|inevitabiy as the flour mill process
shakes" Che cheat out Iof the wheat.
1.-THE topics or Rotary talk are not,
however y mainly commercial The
basic idea of Rotary for business men
lis "He profits most who serves best. y
The ideal OF doing business with a
viewlto serving the public carries Ro-
tarians immediately into the realm
Of ublictbenefaction That Ideal be-
comes a contagion. The merchant
next door! to aAotarian, the,tlawyer
in, an, adjoining office, or the profess
sional man next Idoor, hearing that
this is the idea of his Rotarian neigh
Dor, sits UP, and takes notice. . Its is
D this silent forceful, pervasion Of. a
) highly moralized conception of life
\ that makes Rotary educational; Not
y only this Is true, but Rotarians in
j their meetings constantly hold up the
j entire community before their eyes
: and look at it"intently Community
: defects are an annoyance to Rotary
d Ign6fahte,o sdaaior,o disease, filitera-
:. cy disturb a Rotary club. 1t vitiates
/ tie flavor Of a good dinner. A 20.
Cent cigar tastes like a ''two-fer" i
{. the town has a rotten hole in It, Very
! Naturally, tbs Q fundamental, educal
tional agencies of a community bel
come the direct concern Of Rotari.
ans.e Their Influence individually as
y citizensf'fs enlisted for all THE en-
tightening enterprises by whornso
. ever started, eanditunder whatever
anspicesa1 iItis worth, repeating thai
! Rotary excludes the ljealousies! 81
, community leadership. If any man
or set of men, in the town want tt
, get the Backing III the Rotary club
let him start something good for th'
J town! NO Question will be raised a
Z to who put 1t over. II it is somethih,
thatSought to be, Rotary cannot with
. hold itself. y Soshere is the bit of lea
4 ven that influences the whoief lump