Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-02-19
ROTARY clubs !.
CELEBRATION !
lSTHBIRTHDAYi
Presidents, Prime Ministers
and Other Prominent Cit
izens Make Talks to the
Clubs

CHICAGO, Feb. 19.-With president.
prime ministers. chief Justices, and
heads Of national legislative bodies
throughout the world contributing brief
statements Of their ideas Of the resp0n-
sbilitics or the individual citizen for
the kind Of government he gets. nirety
thousand members Of Rotary Interna-
tional began a world wide campaign
for thorough understanding of these re-
spoRsibilities as part ofthe celebration
of the eighteenth anniversary " the
founding OF the first Rotary Club.
President Harding. Speaker Gillet Of
the House Of Representatives and Attor-
ney General Danghrrry are the authors
of the texts Of the citizenship messages
iotarian~ NJ the United States are car
rying to the people Of their communi-
ties. President Harding tells in his
statement of the responsibilities of the
individual citizen for the execution OF
the laws and declares no citizen can
consider himself a good citizen who
does not do all in his power 90 make
careful selection from among the candi-
dates for office and then vote for the
person he has deliberately selected
which, the President remarks parenthct-
ically several millions Of the citizens Of
the United States regularly fail to do
BY failing TO vote Mt all.
Speaker Giilett also pleads for care
full selection of the candidates for leg
slative office and states that the quack
and the dcmagogue hcorE in the same
category. in that they arouse sympathy
~ telling the victim Of his real trou-
blcs and then offer their own remedy
a. the only panacea for the trouble.
Attorney General Daurhcrty declares
that constitutional government IL not
possible unless the individual citizen
first acquauts himself with and obcys
the law himself.
The three basic statements Of the
principles Of citizenship being used In
the United States arc duplicated in sim
liar messages from the heads ot the
main branches of government in most
Of the twenty countries in which
Rotary Clubs have been established The
educational work the Rotarians are do
ing has nothing to do with partisan
politics nor are the statements from the
three distinguished government Off
cials partisan. They are devoted en-
tireIy to the broad principle Of the re-
sponSibilities Of citizenship.
The text messages are being used I'm
addresses to schools. industrial plants.
civic organizations. etc. wherever the
Rotarians think they can find good
audience. They are being brosdcasted
from thousand Of radio stations and will
form the subject " talks at every Ro-
tary meeting durir~ the week.
The first Rotary Club was organized
in Chicago. February 23. 1906. There
are now 1925 Rotary Clubs with mem
bcrship OF approximately 10000 I'm
twenty-scvcn countries The clubs are
organized for the purpose Of practicing
and spreading the principles Of service
through the adoption or codes OF ethic-
AL practices in all lines Of business and
professions. through work among boys
to prepare them for citizenship and
through utilizing the service idea IN
aiding and abctting NIL worthy causes
for the general good Of the communi-
ties in which the clubs are established