The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-23
ROTARY club
TO CELEBRATE
Local Club Plans Big Luncheon
in Celebration 18th Anni-
versary Of Rotary

! his week Is Notdl WIN
all over the country, and the
Elizabeth City club which was
organized here in April 1922,
will this week celebrate the
18th anniversary of the organ
ization. At its weekly lunch
con at the Southern Hotel
Friday of this week, a special
program will be observed, the
anniversary idea to be carried
out in its several features.
The Elizabeth City club has 81
members, and is one of 81 clubs in
the 37th district of Rotary. of which
Roger Moore of Wilmington is pres
ident. The local club has taken part
in many educational and charitable
enterprises since its. organization. II
put on an attendance campaicn IN
the schools here, is sending a boy
to Wake Forest College, hrs con-
tributed to the milk fund for under
nourshed school children, helped in
raising the ambulance fund for the
Community Hospital, putting on a
baseball game and minstrel show
to raise money. In many other ways.
Rotary has made its prcseace felt in
the community.
The officers of the Elizabeth City
club are ]. c. B. Ehringhaus. frcsi-
dent; A. b. Houtz, Vice-Prcsi,lcnt;
n. Howard Smith, Sergeant at Arms;
and J. G. Gregory, Secretaey-Trcas-
urer.
Beginning with the first club in
Chicago in 100, the organization has
expanded until it embraces today l.
$50 clubs in q different countries
throughout the world, with total
membership of more than 10000 bus
mess and professional men.
During the 1S years Of the life Of
Rotary International, not one club
has surrendered its charter or aai
its charter revoked.
In no section Of the county, has
1 the spread 81 Rotary Been more
spontaneous and rapid than in the
Carolinas. and this is particularly
true of North Carolina. The growth
of Rotary in the CarolinaS AMI Nr-
ginia. all of which were formerly en-
braced i'm one district, has been 81
great that it became necessary TO
| divide the old district into two dis
tricts. Elizabeth City is in the 31th
district. which embraces part of Nir-
ginia and the eastern half of North
/ Carolina.
The Rotarians of the entire dis
trict are looking forward with in
terest to the approaching Rotary dis
trist convention at Petersburg, Va,
which will be held next summer.
Putting the golden rule 10 work
in every day life is the way the
members of the local Rotary club
explain the world wide citizenship
campaign they are staging this week
in observance of the 18th anniyrr-
sary of the organization Of the first
Rotary club in Chicago February 23,
1905.
Ninety thousand RotarianS in -
countries are observing this ami
versary and practically all Of them
are enlisted in the citizenship cam
paign which will continue through
out this week.
The PrincipIst of Service.
The sole business of Rotary is TO
make the principle of service 10 the
community as well as TO the indi-
vidual the Object of all Roiarians.
For this purpose each ROiarian has
subscribed to definite code Of bus
mess ethics and is striving to put
this code into effect in his own buSi-
ness and TO bring about the adoption
of similar codes in all business as
sociatiOns.
Making practical demonstration of
community service as performed by
n Rotary club to its community Is
the way local Rotarians describe the
world wide citizenship principles that
are being broadcasted all over the
face of the earth this week AS sn
observance of the eighteenth anni-
vcrsary of the founding Of the first
Rotary club.
From one man to ninety thousand,
from one club to more than thrice
hundred. from one city to the cliio
of twenty-seven countries, in ih'
small cycle of IS years is the way
the organization has grown. accord
ing to the speakers at the birthday
anniversary meeting. Many reasons
were advanced for the growth-hut
the main reason suggested is that the
practical application of the Rotary
creed-"He Profits Most Who Serves
Best"-in all branches of business
and social life in the communities
where Rotary has been established
has caused it to grow, surely and sub.
stantialIy. This unique creed Is
part of what is called the Rotary
Platform and the Rotary Code Of
Ethics.
The Rntarv nlntfnrm WIS adoptel