Arizona republican., 1921-04-09
LATE CONFERENCE
 |S DISCUSSED AT
 ROTARY LUNCHEON

With the head table decorated with the big silver cup won by the Mesa Rotary club at the recent district conference at Long Beach, CaHf-, for having the largest attendance, con- sideration given for total membership and mileage covered, the Phoenix Rotary club met yesterday at the Y. M c. A, for their regular weekly luncheon The Mesa club was there
 19 strong, also.
 The meeting was given over to recounting of what was done at the conference, President John Brown,
 Vice president C.. F. Boynton. Sec retary A c. Taylor and W. w. Law
 hon giving brief talks. That it was
 a remarkable conference and filled
 with the spirit of Rotary, was the
 general opinion of all who attended. The addresses of Leslie Everts dis trict governor, and Of Raymond D. Ravens, international vice president,
 were particularly commented upon in the highest terms.
 There were registered at the con- ference nearly HOO, of whom more than 300 were ladies. The Arizona rotarians made a good impression, it was declared, and with their Arizona hat bands, their canes and more particularly with their songs, let all know that they were there ana were d livery dnu up- to-date delegation.
 That Phoenix has an excellent chance to capture the 1923 conference was stated at the meeting yesterday. The Rotarians from this city who attended the conference were unan- imous in declaring that President | John Brown made by far the best l address of any of the presidents and was a distinct credit to the organi- ZaffOn They nr0n6 of | their president, they declared. The silver cup captured by the Me | sa club is a handsome trophy, stand l ing nearly two feet in height and | mounted on a mahogany base. It is engraved with the name of the Mesa I club, the date and the manner of its winning
 Members of the local delegation
 were loud in their praise of the man. her in which the former Phoenix
 residents, now living in Long Beach,
 entertained them. Those included J.
 B. Cook, William Conrad Mills and l Walter Leecraft.
 The pioneers reunion in Phoenix
 next Tuesday and Wednesday to be
 held under the auspices of the The Republican was the subject of brief | talk by A. C. Stauffer, general mana | ger of The Republican. He told of
 the great interest aroused all over l the state in the reunion and of the large attendance expected. Follow ing MT. Stauffer's talk, a committee
 was appointed to assist in the reun- ion by providing motor cars for the
 accommodation of the pioneers in the parade to Riverside park on the first day and for the ride through the valley on the second
 How the Phoenix and Mesa Rotary clubs through their cooperation, could be of great service to the val ley was the theme of a brief talk by
 Herman Hendrix of the Mesa club
 He declared that one of the greatest
 things all members of the two organ
 izations could do would be to search
 out and enlist capital, inside and out
 side of the valley, to purchase the cotton, now waiting a market MT Hendrix, speaking for a Mesa com
 mittee of which Frank Samuels is the head, asked for the appointment of a committee from the Phoeni1 club to work with them in making this vision a reality which he insist ed could be done Already, he de clared, a start toward the necessary fund has been made
 The Phoenix Rotary club commit tee named to act with the Mesa com mittee in this matter is composed O Dwight B. Heard, w. w. Lawhon, W H. Knox, J. C. Norton and Harr. ! Welch.
 Charles B. Christy, who acted a. chairman of the day, prefaced his re marks with the confidential an nouncement that a new son had ar rived at his house.