The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-02-25
ADAMS
DEFINES ROTARY
Dinner of the Ocala Club Friday Eve
ming Will be at Seven Thirty
Instead of Eight

The "All Rotary" dinner which the
Ocala Rotarians will have Friday
night, in the dining room of the new
Masonic home, will be held at 1880
o'clock instead of 8 o'clock The din
ner which will include a program and
celebration of the 18th anniversary of
the founding of Rotary, promises to
be one of the most enjoyable occasions
that the local club has had
AS the Ocala Rotary Club is one of
the baby clubs. and as Rotary is new
in Ocala. the following definition by
Albert S. Adams, of Atlanta, presi-
dent of the international Association
of Rotary Clubs, and written espec-
islly for the Rotary week celebration,
VIII be of general interest:
What is Rotary? 1t is just an ac-
tive everyday infuence-somethin
that can be taken into the office or
shop or factory and that impels a
man who has become a Rotarian to
greet his employees with a smile and
CHEEKY good Notwithstanding
he can take home to the wife and kids,
something that makes him more con-
siderate to everyone with whom he
comes in contact.
at is an influence that is bringing
men out of the shadows and making
them unashamed to tell the other fell
low how they value his friendship-to
go to him in his troubles with help
and encouragement-to rejoice with
him in his success and to cry openly
in their sympathy and love when the
shadows fall about him.
"It has reminded men, full grown
and successful, how to play again
for as Ebert Hubbard has said, 'Ro-
tary is to help others and to make
two laughs grow where but one
crouch grew before
"It is making men realize that the
boy lis the stuff out of which men are
made and that 1T is better to put up
a hand rail and save the boy than to
run a dead wagon for fallen men,
ats influence is teaching men that
the using and not the making of mon
ey is the real joy in ife-and that
every man owes a civic debt to the
town in which he lives which can only
be paid by giving of himself to every
civic undertaking.
at is making men see that the
Golden Rule is not only the best pol
icy, but the only policy in business;
ard that there is something finer in
business than mere profits or ma
terial success.
at has taught US that there is a
vast difference between succeeding
and winning To win some must
lose. But we can all succeed and at
der of success with US.
at is making men recognize that
business when honorably conducted,
and the making of money, when it is
properly used, are the things that are
making the world a better place in
which to live.
"Rotary's influence touches men of
all ages, of all kinds, of all stations in
life, of many occupations and profes-
sions. 1t makes them all seek for the
ideal of service, binding them to-
gether in an association devoted to
organized unselfshness,' and filled
with the Rotary spirit that believes in
and practices:
"ked roses for the living and hand
clasps warm and true,
A heart that's tuned to giving, and
strength to dare and do;
The sound of honest laughter. the joy
of honest toll
| For those who follow after, to leave a
finer soil.
All this has been and ever will be the
Rotary plan,
A mans sincere endeavor to serve his
fellow men,"