Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-02-20
ROTARY CLUB
Anniversary
CELEBRATION
Message from Founder of the
Organization Is Received
at Luncheon Today
READ HARDING SPEECH
Three Legislature Bills Con-
cerning Hygienics Endorsed
Hands Off Transportation

The nineteenth anniversary of the
founding of Rotary was celebrated
at the weekly luncheon of the Perth
Amboy Rotary Club at noon today.
The meeting was in chars of the
program committee. Roy Minton,
the chairman, read the anniversary
message from Paul Harris, of Chi
cago. the founder of the organiza-
tion. Rev. f. D. Niedermeyer read
tbe address delivered by the late
president Harding before the Rotary
convention in st. Louis in June last
year.
the club went on record as endorsing
three bills now before the legisla-
ture regarding hygienics. These
hills are Assembly No. 233 and SEN
ate Nos. 144 and 156. A resolution
was passed also petitioning congress
not to interfere with the present
transportation acts.
One newJmember, v. V. Roseboro'
General secretary of the Z. M. Z. A.
vas introduced today.
The anniversary message OF Paui
Harris is as follows: :,
Nineteen years ago seeding OF
thought came into being in our great
citv of Chicago. 1t has grown into
an idea for the development by busl-
ness and professional men of good
will. understanding and peace among
men. The idea has grown with re-
newed energy each year, and now
has taken root in twenty-eight ma
tions of the earth. What we call
Rotary came into being unheralded,
without accompaniment of mysticism
or shroud of superstition. 1t had no
new truths to tell, no prophets TO
proclaim, no prophesies to JUSTIFY.
no visions to reveal. 1t has never
theless already helped in its own dis
tinctive way to fill a very urgent
human need-the need of friend
ship.
As I proceed with the adventure
of life the power of friendship be-
comes more and more impressive. |
believe the word friendship has been
given a new meaning by Rotary and
kindred organizations. And all in
these organizations, flushed with
success, can today proclaim that We
ARE daring to dream of the day OF
universal brotherhood.
If It is true that the spirit of
friendship as we are exemplifying it
| in our Rotary, our Kiwanis, our
Lions. our Exchange, our Civitan,
our Gyro and similar clubs, has with
in it the power to lead the way to
international comfy and understand
| ing, then it would be unpardonable
on the part of any of us TO content
ourselves with little things of little
purpose. And let us not fear the
blazing of trails entirely new. Uni
versal brotherhood is a big order,
and its attainment is a purpose
worthy of the best metal of all man.
| kind
This spirit of friendship, we called
Rotary when we organized the first
club whose anniversary is being cele-
brated today, must not be limited TO
| a small esoteric circle, a close cor
| poration, a snug and snug bour-
geois group. 1t was and is too big
to be confined within the narrow
bounds of one group or organization.
1t has already burst the boundaries
set for it by its pioneers-not once
but a dozen times. Only a portion
of what we nineteen years ago call
ed the Rotary ideal of friendship and
service Is within the confines of Ro-
tary now. The groups we know as
Kiwanis, Lions, Exchange. Optimists
Civitan, Gyro, etc. are broadcasting
it from powerful stations. as also are
such groups as the fraterna1 orders.
organizations older than our own.
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