The Washington times., 1923-06-18
ANT|PODESSEND
!. II To ROTARY
CONVENTION
Delegates and Wives Come
Halt Way Around Earth to
Attend St. Louis Meet.

ST. LOUIS, June 1S.-Whether
they started from home with their
faces set toward the east or
whether they turned around, and
went in the opposite direction
toward the setting sun-it made no
difference as to the distance to be
travelled by the seventeen delegates
and their wives from Australia and
New Zealand to the fourteenth. an
nual convention OF Rotary Interna-
tional, which opened here today.
They would start from scratch
either way and have about the same
distance to come to attend the con.
Ivention-which is more than half
way around the World-because they
would be compelled to travel 1 900
m or 80 - north or, as wen as 1000
Nine Of the seventeen globe cir
clers are members Of the Rotary
Clubs in the five cities of Aus
tralia and New Zealand, where Ro-
for two years. The remaining eight
are their wives or members of the
families of the Rotarians. In sew
eral instances these people are
making a complete circuit OF the
globe to be in st. Louis for the
convention. There are some very
distinguished people among them.
One OF these is w. II. Ifould, who
il state librarian Of New South
Wales and is a prominent members
Of the Rotary Club of Sydney. An
other is C.. Fl. Rhodes, of Auck-
land, New Zealand, who brings his
wife and two daughters with him.
Rotary was established in Aus.
tralia and New Zealand in the
spring of 1921.
Australian Delegates.
The delegates to the convention
from Australia and New Zealand
include r. r. Peacock and daugh
| ter; Sydney Stott, James Martin
and Hugh Patton, Of Melbourne;
H w. Holden and wife and w. H.
Ifould and wife, of Sydney; C. HI.
Rhodes and family, John Leyland
and wife, and r. III. Holdsworth, of
Auckland, and e. II. Wyles, of
Christchurch.
But the Antipodes are not the
only far-distant places that con-
tribute to swell the international
crowd at the Rotary convention.
Every continent is contributing it's
quota to the gathering, as well as
the islands OF the Seven Seas. A.
wv. Beam represents the Rotary
Club Of Manila, while Harry Nor
man made the journey from Shang-
hal to be present as the delegate
from the Rotary Club in that city
and tell about the new club recent
| ly organized in Tientsin.
Fl. e. Ewing is here from Buenos
Aires as the delegate OF the Buenos
Aires Club and the proxy for the
Rosario Club; the second OF the
Argentine Rotary Organizations.
Leo L. Daily is the delegate from
the Rotary Club of Montevideo.
Uruguay; and Panama has sent
three Of its club MISUNDERSTANDING
Fidanque, Melville Cordua and e.
A. Bocock.
Europe Sends Seventy.five.
Europe has more than seventy.
five in its delegation, the larger
part OF the delegates representing
the 100 Rotary clubs in the British
Isles. Alexander Wilkie, second
/ vice president Of Rotary interna-
tional board Of directors, and
Charles Smith, of Birmingham,
England. vice president-elect of the
association for Great Britain and
Ireland, head the list OF Britishers.
which will include such Rotary
veterans as Arthur Chadwick, past
president Of the London Rotary
Club; Thomas Hunter, past presl-
dent of the Edinburgh Rotary Club
and official host of the 1921 Rotary
| convention, which was held in the
Scottish capital; Sydney PASCAL,
hof London, one Of the leading mem
bers of the London Rotary Club
and one Of the speakers at the
present convention; J. Robertson
Brown, of Liverpool. and others.
One of the newest Rotary clubs
on the Continent Of Europe-Am-
sterdam, Holland - has sent it's
president, Anton e. Verkade, as it's
delegate. Spain has sent three
visitors from the Barcelona club,
one of whom, William E. Powell, Is
the clubs delegate.
There is a large representation
from the ten Rotary clubs Of Cuba,
headed by Mario Nunez Mesa, OF
Cienfuegos, who is a member of
the international board ofs di-
rectors; and Mexico has an unusu-
ally large delegation. Canada and
Newfoundland are in the forefront
Of the registered delegates, of
course, as there are between sixty
and seventy Rotary clubs in those
sections of the North American
continent.
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