Norwich bulletin., 1921-04-15
ROTARIANS' LADIES' NIGHT MAKES
 BIG SOCIAL EVENT OF SEASON

adopted the methods known to you all | to accomplish its end. Rotary believes l that it can work out its purpose in the world by developing and strengthening Inc individual member SD that each can uo his part in the world at large.
 Rotary tries to teach it's members to look on their business as a means7of serving humanity rather than a means Of making money. A few weeks ago a con- csrn in Jersey City bougat the Ma-lin plant in New Haven and moved to the new location. A member oi the New Haven club whom some of you heard speak at Swampscott went out to sec if they needed ofilce supplies. They wantei desk of certain kind and he wrote the order. A few minutes later he found the same kind of desk unused, in an adjoining room and when tine purchasing agent admitted that 1t would serve the purpose he tore up the order. The pur- chasing agent asked him what kind of business that was and he said That's Rotary and now the purchasing agent Is clamoring to be admitted to our club. 1 Rotary believes that If you sell man something he doesn't need and yon know ! It, you are committing larceny.
 Builder of Character.
 Rotary is builder and keeper of char | scter. Under the church which I attend in New Haven lies the body of the wife | of Benedict Arnold. You all know that | Arnold was a man of culture, education, and great ability. But he became bit- ter through thvarted ambition and | turned traitor. Aaron Burr went to Princeton and while there decided that | he had snch brilliant mind and strng personality that he could live without a
 moral code. He became another arch
 traitor. Rotary tries to keep it's mem
 bers true to themselves and to their fel- iown1en.
 Rotary believes men develop by know ing other men intimately. Do you real ize how much we learn by conuact-by
 merely coming into touch with things and
 people? Most of you probably have
 never given any particular study to at.
 tomobiles, yet when you como to think
 Of 1t you have fund os informat t:or
 about motor cars that is amazing. Ho1 i gained 1t by contact with them. ThS
 most successful men ara those who are
 learning something every day, not ou
 of books but out of their comings-to
 gether with other men. About Jnontf
 ago one of our members who has a re
 sponsible position with q large indIslIl
 sat down beside me for our weekly lurch con. He had been on I trip through if,
 west for six weeks and ilc said. "I neYei was more blue in my life than am now
 What are you doing tonight, can't vol
 come around and see me?' I went t'
 his house in the evening and spent twt
 hours during which he rnbur'lened Iii
 mind and we had splenlld visit D' you think I spent that evening withou
 being made a bigger man? If you do
 you do not understand human nature.
 Friendship Great Fsrce.
 Rotary believes that friendship is on
 Of the greatest forces in the world an
 that most of the troubles that exist be . tween men could be mended if we coul ] all be really friendly. I am not going t g enlarge upon this except to give som 5 quotations.
 I Most men make friends easily enough
 few keep them. They do not give tn
 subject the care, and thought and troubl :. 1t requires and deserves. We want tn pleasure of society without the duty. W would like to get the good of our friend. without burdening ourselves with any re : sponsfbiity about keeping them friends Hugh Black.
 Friendship is one of the largest factor F of success not only in the social but als in the commercial and political world . Many a merchant is carried through z crisis by his friends when the strict law z of business would have dropped him int !. ruin. It was Lincoln's immeasureabl f capacity for friendship that made h = lsplendid career possible.-T. T. Munger.
 He who has made friends, loyal an . true-if they have been friends in var |. ous circumstances alll lines of life-ma
 be sure that he has partly succeeded
 life and has not wholly failed. It is nc
 simply that he is happier because he hs l. troops of friends around him. but he hs t so much right to say that He did til Il thing that he was sent to do."-Edwar y Everett Hale.
 II Builds Leaders of Men.
 5. Rotary is building leaders of me s These weekly luncheons and dinners, u h educational and inspirational talks V ,t hear month after montN the appreciate s. of the other fellow which We gain throus r the intimate acquaintance of Rotary a
 unconsciously build our characters ar . stiffen our backbones. F. D. Van Ar ' burgh of the New York City Rotary clI . wrote the following few days ago: s The leader of men must serve in o - der to be served. He must have (excu
 mel the 'guts' to be fair wit hall CO s cerned. He must have the knowledge ss his business and the abilit yto impart tn n knowledge. He must have the idea
 industrial harmony, and then insist :. reasonable pay for reasonable work. H
 self control must bt sure, then his contr
 of others will be secure. The world is r need of tall timber"
 W Membership Qualifications.
 = And now just word about membersh .u in Rotary. What are the qualification to In our colleges and universities we ha As honor societies known as Phi Beta Rap KS and Sigma Xi. Members are elected se these organizations because of excellen lo in study and the attainment of a certs Ah mark in their work. I have sometin , thought that Rotary might be called t lu honor society for business and prof l sional men, at any rate in the electi v of members We should be governed No certain standards To be a good Rotari a man must have a degree of success
 his calling not only to enable him
 properly represent his classification l A. also to give him the ability to carry a. part of the load. Rotary is not hospi a. or a erformatory. I believe that a ma In success as citizen is of more importaI
 than his success in a financial way. I'd Rotarian ought to be. one who natura no takes a great interest in and feels de m responsibility for the welfare of his co ty munity. Some clubs will not accept do man who is not already member of ne local Chamber of Commerce simply he cause that is an indication of ones r m civic interest.
 lty A man must be absolutely clean, nor ms ly and every other way, both in his I IS vate and public life, to be a Rotari ,a- AS ona snaaker recently nut it-Rot. m- brought into existence new kind of S Ev- feel at home There is ahsoIntelv no nl a cf