The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-11
ENJOY CONVENTION REPORT;
DETAILS OF PROCEEDINGS ARE NARRATED

Holding the attention of the local
Rotary club for more than an hour,
Robert Heun, secretary of the organi-
cation here. made an extended report
of his trip to the Thirteenth Annual
International Rotary club convention
which was held at Los Angeles, Calf,
June to 8, at their luncheon meeting
at the Arlington hotel Tuesday.
Mr., Heun told of the many courte-
sizes shown the Indiana delegation en-
route to and from the convention, and
told of features of the convention.
At the beginning and at the close OF
his report he was accorded a big ova-
ton. His report follows:
Tribute to Clubs
THE trip itself to Los Angeles re-
quires very little description as
great many of you have made the
! journey yourselves, but brief tribute
lis only just to those clubs and in
| dividuals that entertained the Indiana
| delegation en- route 1t is known to
all of you that we left Indianapolis at
noon May 81 and arrived in St. Louis
that same evening at about o'clock.
The ST. Louis Rotarians were waiting
at the station with sufficient cars to
convey the entire delegation in one
| trip to the Hotel Statler. The dinner
hour having been set for o'clock, we
enjoyed two hours ride about the city.
| A very excellent program had been ar
! ranged and about 400 guests from
various parts of the country enjoyed
/ the hospitality offered. We left St.
Louis that evening, arriving at Kan
sas City the next morning where we
were again met by ROtarian automo-
! biles and enjoyed a three hours sight
seeing trip around that city.
AT noon We left for Denver, arriving
there the next morning where the
same program was followed. After
noon of the same day we arrived at
Colorado Springs and again Rotarians
inspired with the same true Rotary
spirit met our delegations and we were
entertained by being taken through
, the Garden of the Gods and the more
/ venturesome Rotarians were carted to
the top of Pixies Peak. Those Of us
who chose the Garden of the Gods trip
showed superior wisdom because the
Pixies Peak parties ran into blizzard
and were something like eight hours
making the trip.
Entertained BY Club.
an the first line of the Colorado
Springs delegation was Elwood Nc
CURE looking for the Richmond rep
resentatives. Later in the evening
all the visiting Rotarians and theil
families were entertained at a trou
dinner as the guests of the Colorado
Springs Rotary club. l was Informed
that this Rotary club entertained owe
$500 Rotarians and Shriners in thi!
5 manner during period of four days
$ Every bit Of the service and food hav
' Springs Rotarians. On June 3 W.
passed through the Royal Gorge AM
. the Canyon of the Grand, arriving a
:. Glenwood Springs at 4 o'clock.
. My time is entirely too short to pei
l., nit OF any expression of the emotion
: felt while in the presence of thes
; wonderful marvels of nature. No
;. slone during the trip to California bu
n also later on in Canada on the wa
r home. At Clenwood Springs We wer
4 ! accorded the privilege of swimmin
4 in the sulphur pool which is always a
O a temperature of about 80 degrees
= Between Clenwood Springs and Sal
;, Lake City a landslide had taken plac
.. and our train was delayed for min
:, hours. This cut our stay at Salt LAX
- City to one hour, although due to som
= train trouble it was atterward extend
~ ed for another two hours enabling u
y to have dinner at the New Utah hote
! I'VE arrived at Los Angeles at
u o'clock the evening of June 5. Tn
deepest impression made during thi
"trip upon everybody was the splendi
spirit shown by the Rotary clubs an
iPotarians in the various cities in whic
- we were fortunate enough to stop. |
= every instance the service was rende
y ed in such a manner that there coul
be no doubt as to the manner of ma
n The convention was called to ordt
" promptly the morning of the sixth ar
+ was Immediately followed by the re
% derirg of a prologue entitled "Rotal
10 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
: is absolutely impossible for me to
scribe this beautiful production.
a. Series of TabIeaux
10 at consisted of a series of tablea1
ID following the story of Rotary from i
,e inception at Chicago up to the orga
70 ization of the last club to become
Nv filiated The last setting showed
~ very beautiful woman seated on
H. throne and was entitled The Spirit
Rotary This woman was an exec
n tionally clever elocutionist and deli
to cred her Grafton, The Spirit Of R
IN tary,' in a manner that moved ever
one in the hall 1t might be interel