The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-05-26
ROTES FOR PEACE
AND HUMANITY
Against Foreign Strife
and Internal
Disorder
Ocala Club DenOunces Spirit of Dis
sensiOn and Praises the Desire
to be Helpful and Hopeful

A message from International
President Bert Adams on Canadian
American relations and on the wide
spread destructive criticism of gov
ernmental institutions read by Presi-
dent Jake Gerig, and a history of the
Marion county hospital, read by Mr..
T. T. Munroe, were features of the
regular weekly luncheon of the Ocaia
Rotary Club held Tuesday in the dim
ing room of the new Masonic home.
Rotarian Milby Lloyd, until recently
a member of the Richmond, Va, Ro-
tary Club, became a member of the
Ocala Rotary Club, having moved
his home to this city. Rotarian John
Taylor had as his guest at Tuesdays
luncheon Mr.. T. T. Munroe, Rotarian
Dave Woodrow had as his guest Mr..
Harold B. Swope of Eastlake, and
Rotarian Ed Chace had as his guest
Mr.. r. V. OFT, manager of the Lon
Gala Phosphate Co., who has just
moved to Ocala from Gainesville to
make his future home in this city.
The Rotarians voted to have Mr..
Mpnroe's paper of the Marion County
Hospital given to the press for publi-
cation.
The message from President Adams
was in part as follows:
"For long we have, with rightful
pride, boasted of those 5000 miles of
border line between Canada and the
United States-3OOO miles without a
fort or a gun, guarded only by the
friendship and mutual understanding
one people for and of another.
"But there is. and has been for
some time, abroad in both countries
widespread propaganda, and deter
mined effort that has for it's object
the breaking down of those friendly
relations, and building up of bar
rier of distrust, misunderstanding
and unfriendliness.
"These feelings are being fostereC
by some newspapers and magazines
whose hatred of everything British
will take them to any length; by pol.
iticians of both countries who woulC
whose votes they desire; and by some
writer's and cartoonists who do not
give thought to how what they write
and draw may. hit the other fellow.
every Rotarian should use every
influence he has at his command tx
combat this deplorable situation, anC
should ON every occasion, and thru
every organization to which he be
longs, give expression to the fac
that the great peoples of Canada ant
the United States are friends and in
tend to remain such, and that thos'
newspapers, politicians and organiza
tions who, for purely selfish reasons
would indicate to the contrary, do no
speak for, nor represent the FORWARD
looking, right thinking peoples of TIL
two countries, who are the vast ma
jority."
With reference to the "saturnali;
of abuse of our government, on
laws, our institutions and our offic
ials," President Adams says:
81 have before me a report of
meeting of an Americanization com
mittee in New York in which tn
principal speaker stated that 80 pc
cent. of the officials in the state de
partment are socialists, and tha
President Wilson is the most exalte
instigator of social revolt in tn
world Is such stuff getting US any
where? The newspapers and maya
zines are filled with it. scarehead
play up every shortcoming, both rea
and imaginary. and criticism of eve
rything and everybody is given rfon
page.
every day things are written an
said by men prominent in public life
and played up in the newspapers
that are far worse than anything an