The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1922-02-24
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THE ROTARY LUNCHEON
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The regular bi-weekly luncheon of
! the Newberry Rotary club, which was
held in the grill room of the Newber-
rv ho.el on Tuesday afternoon, was
a natural born, "full-o-pep" meeting
with the accent on the "pep'). A
Rotarian is by nature full-grown
"peptomist"- it goes without
saying that the Newberry species of
this organization absolutely refuses to
''play second fiddle to any other
bunch of Rotes international. Of
course, there are larger Rotary clubs
throughout the world, but there is
none that has more at heart the inter-
ests of it's community, whose member
ship is composed of a bigger-hearted,
more whole-souled, never-say-die
bunch of business men than the New
berry Rotary club. That is fact!
The program for Tuesdays lun-
cheon was a cracker jack; every Rote
was there with the goods-and deliv-
cred them; there was less singing and
more action than at any meeting in
the recent past. Well, the whole
truth of the matter is, that with so
much pep to be exuded during the
hour and quarter allotted to the lun-
cheon, Rotarian Earle Babb didn't
have the opportunity to place his
song-birds on display as he usually
does. Then, too, Rote Solidarity
Jollity" Derrick, who is generally
recognized as one of the leaders in
Babb's Harmonizers, was suffering
from a slightly affected throat, which
made him hors de combat, and-well,
what is a chorus, anyway, without
Sid's assistance? What is salt without
its savor?
Ralph Baker made his premier ap-
pearance on the program and told in
very interesting way about his VS.
it to the Greenwood Rotary luncheon
and the return home with District
Governor Joe Turner. This Rctarian
is waking up to Rotary in & splendid
way and his attendance record be-
speaks his great and growing interest.
Secretary Dollar Down" Hal kohn
who can always be counted upon to
inject something of most interest
ing character into Rotary meeting,
was, as usual, loaded with communi-
cations and valuable information to
the club, which he proceeded to un-
load upon the Rotes and their guests.
Rotarily speaking, nothing gets by
Hal-and he sees to it with vim that
all goods things are passed on to his
fellow Rotarians.
Then it was that President Ben
Cromer turned the meeting over to
Rotarian Jim Moon-and Jim certain
" did demonstrate that he can run
a Rotary meeting. Why, in this, his
first attempt, he proved himself to be
a close second to Rotarians Cromer
and Haskell Kibler, who are known
far and wide as "being style all the
while" Yes, Jim performed like a
veteran-and, maybe, he is.
Then came Rotarian Earle Babb-
he of singing fame-who changed his
tune at this luncheon to a talk on
'Rotary Education" This was a
splendid talk-rendered in splendid
manner, Just as Rotarain Babb is
wont to do. In closing his remarks,
Rotarian Babb presented Rotarlan
Jim Kinard, who made short, and a
most excellent talk on the second
commandment" in the Rotary Code
of Ethics. Rotarian Kinard's ser
monette" hit the spot all right-and
everybody knows that Jim practices
what he breaches.
An unexpected pleasure was snort
talk by Mr.. w. w. Watt of Charlotte,
N. c., who was guest of the club.
Mr.. Watt told of his faith in New
berry-that faith which prompted MIN
to make a considerable Investment
in this city some years ago; an invest
ment which he had not ye- come to
regret. He spoke of Newnerry col
lege-a most valuable asset to this
communicated referred to the fame
of this institution in other parts OF
the country The zeal with which
Mr.. Watt entered into discussion OF
this subject prompted Rota-ian Der
rick to state that it was one OF the
finest talks for Newberry college that
he had heard in many day.
Following Mr.. Watt, Rotarian Lad
Eskridge, who will be heraafter letter
known as "On-to- -Winston-Salar1 Esk-