New Britain herald., 1924-04-05

The speaker said that one time it ! was thought that matter and force
 could never mix. Now. he said, men are changing their ideas. Matter l is that of which the stars are made, and force is what sends their rays across the boundless wastes from the infinite beyond.
 'The spirit which is in all matter must revolutionize all history just as it revolutionizes all natural history. Men have tried to renew the cultural life of nations that have passed. "They have never yet come to the Greek ideal. They have not yet reached the place to which the Greek poet led them. Why? Be- cause they have been quarrying among the ruins for the marble form of something that once was. But there was something more than mar ble that entered into the ancient Greece. The marble will not take form.
 Tt was an effort to rehabilitate a great empire in Europe that led our sons and brothers to the great war
 
 build the roads of old Rome, on the part of once great empire. But there was one thing lacking. The senate, the people and the soul of Rome. They tried to do with legions what a soul alone can do.
 There is a soul in the United States that makes this country differ ent from anything the world has ever seen. We have the same garments as the rest of the world. but it isn't the garments or the language we speak, it is the spirit of the United States.
 Tt is so with Rotary. There are no secrets about Rotary. Anybody can do it. But if they take a club and organize it they cannot do it un- less they put into it some of the un- seen leaven of that great soul of Ro- tary. that something that can be felt but cannot be seen. .'.'
 Rotary places the old man side by side with the young man, not as the elder or younger but as equals on the same footing. The old man profits by the power of the younger and the other by the wisdom of age. |
 There are two ideals in Rotary human and divine. We call ourselves | by our first names because the last name is group name. Your first name is your own--it's. from jndi. gidual to individual.
 'The primary mistake of Germany, hat great empire to which the world once went to school. was that instead 'f having her ideals come to Berlin rom the citizens. it tried to make deals in Berlin and hand them down O citizens. They wanted to do the whole thing at tho, capital.
 "The great hope of the United 'tates is that the nations mind is lot made up at Washington. 1t only nds expression there. The mind f America Is made up in every vil- lge grocery store in the land, where len sit on the heads of cracker bar sls and soap boxes and discuss the . atlon's problems. They sent to not rulers but represen- 2 ltives. |, a. "'rhe great jury that sits in Wash gton is not a jury of 12 or even n fl is jury of millions who U on cracker barrels and soap boxes T l village groceries all over the D nited States" Thanks for Everybody. VI At thel close of. Rev Mir. Dan- rth's address. Governor Cooper He'd to their feet Leon A. Sprague. q 'ank Wachter. Fred o. Rackliffe, fl oward Breummer, A, II. Corbin, x. IL
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 Dyson. Ralph Britton and Louis tt Young, committee chairnen and al blicly thanked them. th The Burritt hotel management also es IS thanked, as was Ben Parker. the ju mist. and the committee members gc d all who helped make the affair m success. wi Menu cards at the banquet last m