The Washington herald., 1920-06-26
D. G. ROTARIANS
|. OFF TO GOTHAM
Will Be Guests Of New York
Members at Elaborate
Program.
BIG CONVENTION ENDS
Estes Snedecor, of Portland,
Elected international
President.
(By q stan Correspondent.

Atlantic City, n. j., June 25.-The
Washington delegation to the elev-
enth annual convention of the In
ternationsl Association of Rotary
Clubs. which was brought to a close
today. disbanded tonight.
Some Of the delegates went home
tonight. Other groups will start to-
morrow.
The New York Rotary will have as
guests the members Of the Wash
ington delegation among other dele
cations on Monday which is Rotary
day in Gotham. The program is an
elaborate one and Is costing the New
York Rotary. $4,000. Twenty-Five
hundred Rotsrians have registered
for the trip.
VIII Take Trip Up Hudson.
On Monday morning they will
meet at Forty-second street and
will board the Clermont for a trip
up the Hudson. They will arrive
at Bear Mountain at noon. Auto
mobile buses will be on hand to
drive the delegates to a camp for
a chicken dinner. They will re-
turn on the Clermont about 3
o'clock ana will stop at West Point
Military Academy, where supper
will be served.
The McAlpin Hotel will be the
headquarters, and hundreds of au-
tomobiles will be at the disposal
of the delegates in New York
throughout tomorrow and Sunday.
This is in line with the stunt OF
the local Rotary when they placed
seven hundred rolling chairs at
the disposal of the RotariaRs.
The twenty-second door of the
hotel has been set aside solely for
the ladies of the party.
Local Club to Give Dinner.
The Washington club will be host
at a dinner in New York tomorrow
will be six or eight theater par
ties, a treat of the Washington DEL
cgation to other Rotarians.
Estes Snedecer. of Portland, Ore,
was elected international president
lanta, Ca. He received the united
support of the Washington contin-
gent. The Capital City delegation.
for vice presidents.
THREE Ballots on Presidency.
The three winners of the vice
presidents race. out of a field of ten
contestants, were DR.. c. c. McCul-
Tough. of Fort william. Ontario: :
Raymond NJ. Havens. of Kansas
City. Mo-, and Robert II. Timmons,
of Wichita, Kansas.
International President Sned ecor
was elected on the third ballot.
A worldwide campaign to es-
tablish Rotaries in every nation on
the globe is under way today. in
augurated by the International AS
ISOLATION OF Rotary Clubs. This ac-
tion follows an address by John
Barrett. director general of the Pan
American Union and chairman of
the foreign relations bureau of the
International Rotary. Mr.. Barrett,
after his address. announced that he
would resign from the chairmanship
of this bureau. IF l do not. it is
the poorhouse for me-" he said.
Good For Entire World.
"I hold that il Rotary is good for
the United States. for Canada. for
the United Kingdom. and for Cuba,
IL is good enough for all the world"
he declared. Rotary has not been,
is not. and will not be a political
influence in the original meaning of
that term and II will not stand for
an attempted domination of any
country. 1t does stand for, and re-
spects the mighty principles and
formulas that may influence forever
the political. social, economic and
commercial development"