Arizona republican., 1921-09-24
TELLS HOW DONOFR|O. BOOSTED ARIZONA 1T
 |NTER|VAT LOYAL MEET

The Phoenix Rotary club went to Europe last night, took trip through England and Scotland, visited the International Rotary convention at Edinburgh, Scotland, and wound up with visit to Belgium and the bat tlefields of northern France.
 This pleasant evening was expe- rienced through the kindness of Dwight B. Heard, a member of the local club, who visited Europe the past summer and spent day at the Edinburgh convention As MT Heard talked but half an hour he could speak only at short length of the many things he saw and heard on this interesting trip.
 Of the International Rotary con- vention at Edinburgh, MT. Heard paid high tribute to D. A. Donofrio. the Phoenix club delegate to the con-
 vention, who, he said, was on the
 job every minute for the local Rotary
 club and for Arizona. MT. Heard.
 who was at Manchester attending
 the Worlds Cotton conference, went
 up to Edinburgh in company with an
 Oklahoma Rotarian to spend one day
 at the conference with Mir. Donofrio.
 He found when he arrived there, he said. that Dominick had already put
 Arizona on the map. He had uis- tributed cactus candy and cactus canes and was known by the name of the cactus king.'
 MT. Heard told how they organized for the great parade and with their Arizona yells made the staid Scotch and the other delegates in the parade acquainted with the fact that Arizona was there. The Phoenix Rotary club had every reason to be proud of D. | A. Donofrio, their delegate, MT. Heard delared.
 There were many interesting things touched on by MT. Heard concerning his European trip, of his visit to par lianent and the extreme business | like manner in which the proceedings are conducted. Of the novel sights seen, especially of the visit to par | liament that day of colored king. barefooted, but in all his robes and finery and with his barefooted reti- nue. Of a great banquet at St. Georges hall at Liverpool for which everything was brought down from London by special train, including | TOO walters; of the fine addresses there and of the manner in which
 the English are past masters in the art of public speaking.
 Of his visit to Scotland, MT. Heard l described how through all that coun- | try. with their man power so sadly depleted by the war, they are going | brayely ahead, one big effort of the | Rotary clubs of that country beins the care of the boys whose fathers
 were killed in the war.
 I Of Belgium, MT. Heard declared | that no one who has not visited that country since the war can have any idea of the awful destruction tha' completely wiped out prosperous
 towns and devastated a once beauti- full country. Their one effort now
 he said, is for maximum efficiency | to see how much they can do eacf day in rebuilding the homes ana bringing back the land to productive, ness again.
 The Somme country in France, ht declared, is just coming back thi' year for the first time since the war It has taken that long to dig th' | projectiles and the shells out of tn, ground, great piles of which, he said
 were to be seen piled by the side Q the road. Men and women, working side by side in the fields or in build i ing houses, are to be seen every l where. working many hours a day.