Evening star., 1927-12-07
HEAD OF ROTARY
SPEAKS ON WAR
Diplomats Are Guests as In
ternationaI President Urges
Understanding.

Indicting most wars as business
wars and asserting that wars will
continue until there comes a mutual
understanding among all civilized ma
tions that wars shall he impossible
Arthur Sapp, president of Rotary In
ternational, speaking at the weekly
luncheon of the Washington Rotary
Club at the Willard Hotel this after!
noon. contended that Rotary. through
its motto, "He profits most who
serves best" and by it's active promo
ton of understa nding among the
worlds business men. can help solve
the international problem of peace
Members of the diplomatic corps and
high government officials were invited
guests of the organization.
international relationships are pri-
marily business relationships" Mr.
Sapp asserted. Most wars are busi.
ness wars. Most personal misunder.
standings among the peoples of diff
ferent nations are business misunder.
standings. If all the business prac-
tees and principles were on a high
plane there would be little cause for
the business men of any nation dis
trusting the business men, and con.
sequently all men, of the correspond
ing nations.
Solution I'm misunderstanding
International difficulties frequently
arise because nations stand on diff
ferent premises. the president OF
Rotary International contended, and
he suggested that problems arising
between nations usually can be solved
when there is a mutual understand.
ing of the issues.
Rotary is not miracle-perform.
ing organization" Mr.! Sapp said
1T cannot and will not work any
sudden miracles of peace. We are
interested primarily in the extension
of the principle of service. He profits
most who serves best is no idle
motto. 1t means exactly what it
says 1t is a principle good for the
individual and principle which is
good for the individual is worth while
for the Nation.
After all is said and done, a
Rotarian is a business man and if he
extends to his own business the ideals
of service, and that ideal of service
becomes a working force In any
nation Rotary will have started q
leaven, which will permeate the whole
industrial fabric of that nation"
Greeting the ENJOYS of foreign ma
tions who were the guests of the local
club, Mr.. Sapp said their presence at
a Rotary function was a splendid trib-
ute to Rotary, which he said. is no
longer American" but ''interna-
tional."
The speaker told the local club and
its guests that one of his outstanding
conclusions at the recent termina ton
of four-month tour of the countries
of Europe is that "the peace and
prosperity of the world will not come
by the lessening of the patriotic i'm
pulse, but rather by the increasing of
patriotism among all men and all ma
tions."
Service Is PatriOtism's Basis.
"The basis of Rotarianism is good
citizenship Mr.. Sapp asserted. and
citizenship, he said, cannot be sep
arated from patriotism and the ''prin-
ciple of patriotism is the principle nf
service-service to ones government
and the flag which represents it.
service to the king, the emperor or
the president"
Reviewing briefly the past year of
Rotary Internationals activities. Mr..
Sapp said he believed it's outstanding
accomplishment was the founding of a
club in Germany indicating the found
ing Of greater understanding between
the peoples who recently were enemies
and illustrating the truth of his earlier
contention that ''the progress of the
world demands crises"
On his European tour, Mr.. Sapr
said he found evidence everywhere
of amiable feeling toward the United
States, an indication, he suggested, OF
greater international understanding
w. w. Everett, president of the
local club, presided as POSTMASTER at
the luncheon which was marked by
one of the largest attendences yet
assembled at the clubs weekly
luncheon meetings.
The foreign envoys who were the
Washington Rotary Clubs guests
this afternoon were:
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