Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-02-23

ghCLdlulenI OF winch devoted men and
women have been willing to lay down
their lives. Religion, philosophy and
laws have all sought to make it real
and yet it sometimes seems as far
from human grasp as it was the day
when the eyes of man first began to
turn sky-wards.
rs there still hope? There is, and
hope will continue as long as love con-
tinues to warm the hearts of men. The
sacrifices of generations past, leave no
alternative but to carry one.
| THE mills of the gods grind slowly
and we must be patient. Legislation
which is in advance Of public opinion
can avail little. The minds of more
and more of our citizenry must be
| turned toward this ideal until the day
NIT himself to tolerate the thought of
human destruction. The horrors of
| the world war have prepared us for a
more serious and determined attack
upon the war institution than has ever
been made before. That which the past
has considered impracticable growing
numbers have resolved to accomplish.
1T is inconceivable that any doubt
| the morality of the concept; many
doubt the practicability of it. They
would not tolerate lawless individual,
but they tolerate lawless nations be-
cause they can conceive of no practl-
cable super-power. In this one realm
alone. the realm of nations in their
relationship to other nations, in this,
the most important of all human rela-
tionships they have resigned themselves
to what they conceive to be inevitable,
the displacement of right by might and
as a consequence of their faith more
money is spent by the nations of the
world on war than on education.
Pretty Good World
ut is high time for the development
of new conscience, an international
conscience. The world in which we
live is pretty good world and we owe
lit allegiance We have at times over
stressed the national viewpoint. May
we not advantageously cultivate a
broader perspective?
Rotary has dedicated itself to the
advancement of an ideal, the ideal of
service; if the world once becomes
imbued with the spirit of service there
will be no more occasion for war: the
brotherhood of man will be here,
The accomplishments of Rotary to
date have been impressive indeed, its
spontaneous spread from one country
to another has been without precedent.
There is reason for such remarkable
success; it lies in the fact that Rotary
has placed it's dependence upon the
most dependable attribute of man,
friendGness. Doubts and suspicious
disappear when friendship enters.
brotherhood of man is friendship,
all inclusive, and Rotary therefore be-
lieves that in cultivating friendship
the means it has used in seeking the
advancement of its ideal, service, it is
assisting to make actual the highest
and mightiest of all human conceptions,
brotherhood of man. Rotary believes
that there is a empower capable
of preventing war and that it is some
times called friendship, sometimes love.
Here, then. is to Rotary; may it
advance to every nation and may its
spirit fill the hearts and minds of all
men, the strong and the weak, the rich
and the poor. the high and the low.
to the end that in Gods own good
time sacred friendships may take the
place of all traditional enmities and
the day of permanent peace finally
dawn"
Message From Mccullough
Message from Crawford c. McCul-
Tough. international president:
Il have always commended that no
tary will only survive through accom-
plishment and never through mere pro-
fession: that a Rotarian and Rotary
club assumes. by the very profession
which he or it makes, a very respon-
sible trust which always carries with
it attendant obligations.
The great thing to remember is that
the strength of Rotary is not as an
organization, hut as an ideal which can
be. and is, translated into practice of
everyday life. Even if Rotary had
no organization. the Rotary movement.
as such. would survive. But without
organization and without an interna-
tional association to safeguard the
ideals. the ethics and the principles
upon which Rotary is based, the ire
sistihle momentum of cooperation
would be lost and the tendency would
be to dilution of ideals and DETECTION
of purpose. We must look at this
whole matter with the vision of men
who are pursuing a great ideal and are
seeing with their own eyes how result
fully it works in practice. We must
keep before us vision of Rotary as
a great international world force
whose component clubs are each unit
in great movement. Remember that
the internationahsm of Rotary and its
world vision is built upon the concep-
ton which your club, as a particular
unit. has of Rotary's mission and that
you have part in the creation and
shaping of Rotary as world move
ment.
Seek Public Regard
"Since Rotary's great aim is the de-
yelopmant of the individual! and the
realization of the obligations of cti-
zenship. it is not conducive to the at
tainment of this great object that any
one section of the community, which
in this case is the Rotary club, should
assume obligations which really be-
long to the entire community
Only when an emergency exists re
curing immediate action for which
there is not the time or it is imprac-
ticable to make the effort citizen-wide,
should Rotary club proceed with the
in its own name The
reason for this is obvious because Ro-
tary stands for selflessness and if it
will be careful to give no cause for
the accusation either of arrogance or
of serving selfish ends. The value of
n Rntory el,,h ;p tn community will