Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-10-30


! fit and on the job every day while he
was President of tho United States. Dr.
| Charles F.. Barker of Grand Rapids.
| Mich, is due here on Monday, Nov. 9.
| Through the initiative of the Rotary
Club DR.. Barker is going to toll the
| secondary school boys and girls of this
city and vicinity how to make the
most out of life. the women of the
| city just what their responsibilities
are to their daughters. and the men of
| the city just what their responsible
ties are to their sons. The first adj
! dress for the boys and girls is schcd-
uled to be held at lis o'clock on Mon
! day afternoon in the city opera house,
! the second address for the women at
! ; o'clock in me same place. and tho
| third address for the men at 730
o'clock in the evening in the same
! place
The Doctor is unique and any at
tempt to describ him is sure to omit
much that should be said He is a
! man of wide experience on the public
pat FORM and his addresses are of such
an amazing and inspiring character
! That all who have the opportunity to
! 90 so ShoulC near nm.
| DIR. Barker makes no attempts at
| oratory. but he is a wonderfully in
| tercstirg and electric speaker He puts
, the punch of a pile driver into his
words and drives home with thrilling
illustrations the truths he upholds. He
quickly gets an audience and holds
it straight through a talk of an hour
For several years following his at
tendance upon President Taft Dr. Bar
ller engaged in locturing to tho gen
cral public on health and other sub
JcCts In 1919 he SO attracted the
attention Of tho Rotary Clubs at their
annual convention with his great adj
dress o. "A Fathers Responsibility to
His Som that requests came to him
from all quarters of Rotary to speak.
Since then the Doctor has been dc
voting mere and mo"a of his time to
the Rotary clubs until now all Of it
is devoted to them.
DR.. Barkcs has delivered a total of
more than four thousand addresses be-
fore audiences agGr"gatin% more than
| 1000 0G0 persons. His justly famou~
address on How to Make the Most
| out of Life especially do-i-nnd to
help high school boys and girls meet
and solve their problems, has been &C.
| livcrod before riorc than a0n. 600 boys
and girls in the high schools Ct tho
) United States and Canada. probably
more high scnool students by far than
have been addressed by any other
! speaker.
Besides the address to the high
school students. DR.. Barker viii de-
liver an address to women on "a
Mothers Responsibility to Her
! Daughter" and one to mon on "a
Fathers Responsibility to His Son"
All mothers and fathers who desire to
be of the highest service in helping
their boys and girls to a better I'M
Outstanding of some of lifc's most i'm
portant and serious problems should
make a determined effort to hear
these addresses.
The entire expense of DR.. Barker's
visit is being borne by the Rotary
club. Secretary George H. Mari au-
nounces, as contribution to the
welfare Of the city.
| The Watervile Rotary club is COM
| posed of so business and professional
men most of whom are engaged in
many lines of activity, and yet the
attendance upon the meetings of the
club is looked upon as so important
that two weeks ago there was an
average attendance of nearly 95 per
cent, last week over IS per cent. and
this week the attendance is likely to
reach the 100 per cent mark.
An interesting rule of Rotary is
that member may be counted as
present at his own club even if, be-
cause of enforced absence from it's
meeting. he attend a club meeting
elsewhere. In fact. Rotary Interna-
tional makes it rule that if men,
Der is unable to attend his own club
meeting, he must make it a point,
within the week, to attend q meeting
of some other club. A number of the
Wateryille Rotarians who have been
out of the city on business have at
tended the meetings in New York.
Boston. Atlantic city and New Or
leans, while others have attended
meetings in Augusta and Skowhegan.
The Importance of attendance is
strongly emphasized in Rotary for
the reason that the organization is
founded upon the principle of fellow
ship-frequent meetings of fellow
citizens that the problems of all may
be studied by each that better. un-
derstanding of one another may re-
suit. Because of this emphasis upon
fellowship il, frequently happens that
the entertainment side OF Rotary re-
ceives an undue amount of publicity
to the corresponding loss of emphasis
upon The more serious work that the
clubs are doing. In the Waterville