The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-02-07

The Rotary Club was founded in
Chicago, Illinois, on February 23rd,
1905. by. Paul p. Harris. lie informally
gathered a few OF his clients and
friends together and arranged TO meet
AROUND at thir various offices each
week. At these meetings the members
were told OF the business OF their as
societies and encouraged. throu GA ac4
quaintanoe, to patronfze each other
This Rotary Club movement grew and
spread until in 1911 Rotary conven-
ton held in Portland. Oregon. At
this convention Arthur Frederick Shell
dan. President Emeritus OF The
Sheldon School. presented Ny Plat
FORM" in which he used the expression,
-He profits most who serves best" He
pointed out that service is the heart
that pumps the life blood Of salesman
ship into the body OF business build
ing.
Upon the conclusion OF Mr.. sheldou's
address. one of the members sprang to
MS feat and moved that the motto of
Rotary should be: He Profits Most
Who Serves Best" And from that time
On the Rotary movement has been built
around this principle.
And what does 1t mean7
Success II life is governed by law
and not by luck. Show me the man
who climbs the ladder or success until
r "a gets up TO the top and then shouts
FOR more ladder SO that he can climb
higher, and I will show you one who
has, consciously or unconsciously, har-
uonized with natures laws. The man
who fails has, consciously or uncon-
sciously violated some one of natures
Laws. While there are multitudes OF
laws OF success. the one around which
all the rest rotate is the law of service.
Service is cause and pay IS effect;
just IRE La cause and heat is effect
The reason why there arc many fail
xres In life LIS because there are too
many people who look for affects but
are not willing to build the IRE OF
service.
Statistics show that IL you select one
hundred young man at the age OF 25
eliminating all those who are mentally
or physically handicapped. and follow
them through for q period of forty
years. at the age OF So, So will be dead.
81 viii be dead broke. Will still be
working fer their daily bread. will
have enough so that they do not have
20 work, and Just OF the bunch Will
Re wealthy IS per cent fail econonli-
caLy, and only ) per cent succeed The
reason is that the e5 per cent violate
some more OF natures laws
the chief one OF which is The law OF
service
Visualize three parallel tinss or equal
length. Let tbs top line be the pay. the
middle Tine tbs service rendered and
The bottom line the Individual.
The average man has his eye focused
OF the first line-the pay line. whereas.
we can readily see that IL We hold our
eye 70 the first lfre-that is, IL we in
crease the man power OF the individual
thus frightening that line. the service
rendering power viii increase, or len
CITIZEN and the reward or Pay will take
care OF itself. Many man Is looking
Tor more pay and better job. while
if he would only look for more work
and better work. the pay would take
care OF itseR.
In this way. Nfr. Sheldon laid before
the Rotary convention his explana ton
and understanding OF the motto, He
pronts Most Who Serves Best
Il am not preacher, neither am
the son OF q preacher. fsut every once
! whilc have a feeling come over
me that ! would Ike 10 preach. re /
were taking On text for sermon to you
today. ! would select IL from the best
piece o. business literature which has
ever been published I am fairly well
versed in business literature. the in
sttutton with which I am connected
having spent over 100000 in education
al and research work to Eud out how
and why men succeed In business and
TO correlate those laws and principles
OF success in a set-at-able form. And
yet am recommending to you a publ
"a ton between the covers Of which you
VIII find more of the rules of conduct
IN human relationships tnan IN any
=ether publication Of which know.
Many OF you have the publication at
home; those who haven't should buy
one on the way home; you can get II
II the library. ] refer to the Bible.
There is rule for making gold
sometimes called the Goidern Rule.
1ill cndeavor to give you q modernized
s, translation of that text It says: There
cussion, "whatsoever''-and that takes
IN lot of territory-ye would that the
other reliow should do TO you, beat him
70 it Then 1t goes on 10 say, FOR
that is The Law and the prophets .
And someone has suggested that the
word prophets should be spelled
p-r-o-p-h-i-t-s- But il says that this
rule FOR making gold is The I.aw---not
law-just as We speak of the new