Milford chronicle., 1932-10-21
". CRER SPOKE
BEFORE MILFORD
ROTARY CLUB
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aid"
"B. To deliver in person"
A Rotary Cldb consists of men
who are elected to membership be-
cause they are representative of the
businesses or professions of a COM
munity. The real roster of Rotary
Ciub-its classification roster--is an
index of the businesses and profess
sicns in a community. Business and
professions in any community are
judged solely by their conformity to
the first of the two definitions of
the word "serVe"-"TO promote the
interests of; aid" No business or
profession has any place in a COM
munity of which it does not pro-
mote the interest, and the respOn-
sibility of promoting the interest Of
a community rests heavily and pos
itively on every business and pro-
fession in it. The memberships in a
Rotary club are held by men whose
first duty is promoting the interests
of the community. These men are
selected as being men of distinction
as men who will bring to the RO-
tary club the experience, the ideals
and the habits of mind made by
training in their businesses and
professions. How did they get that
distinction? How did we come to
know them more than we know
other men engaged in the same bus
mess? We came to know them and
were impelled to select them be-
cause their daily lives eXemplified
the second definition of the word, to
"serve"-each because he recogniz-
ed the fact that the chief duty of his
business was to promote the inter-
ests of the community and he there
fore delivered in person!" That
was one reason.
There was a second reason-and
these two reasons are the para
mount reasons for selecting mem
bers for Rotary clubs. Unless a man
qualities equally we'll under both, he
is not eligible to membership-no
matter how outstanding a citizen he
may be. The second reason is that
coming into Rotary he will study its
principles and so out from the club |
meetings imbued with the desire to
put them to work in his business. !
In other words that just as he |
comes into a Rotary club as a rep |
resentative of the business to which |
he belongs, so will he go out of
Rotary club as the positive, deter
mined and result-getting represen-
tative of Rotary to that business or
profession.
His business or profession makes
the man eligible to Rotary under
the first of these headings. His eX-
perience in Rotary makes him ELI
gible under the second. And the re-
sponsibility of his fellow-Rotarians
to see that he gains that experience
and justifies that experience is
what we call Rotary education. 1t is
he development of the individual to
the end that he will make the ideal
Of service the basis of every worthy
that serves to
promote the interests of the COM
nunity and that he delivers in per-
son. 1t is the responsibility of his
to see that he
adopts high ethical standards in the
business or professional life of his
1t is a responsibility to
zee that he knows men and things
hat he knows the community and
is needs-that he knows humanity
md it's needs-that he promotes
his acquaintance for the sole pur-
lose of serving-of promoting the
interests of his acquaintanceship ;
md of delivering that interest or
hat service in person. 1t is a re-
to see that he recog-
lizes the worthiness of every busi- I
less in the community and to diSni- !
v his own business or profession
o be proud of it and glory in it as
lis opportunity to serve. Build these
deas in the mind of the member i
nd he will automatically under {
tand just what this great ideal of t
rotary service really is-that it is {
ctivity-that it is perpetual seek
ng for opportunity to effectively i
erve and to constantly strive to {
make his business or profession a t
reater and more effective agency d
CT delivering service. t
This education is what Past Inter- y
ational President Hill calls the pri- a
nary purpose of Rotary-the devel- t
pment of the individual to the end s
hat he will find his place in the Il
Immunity and constantly serve in v
nat place. S
Fellowship in a Rotary club is t
reat achievement. The fellowship g
f men of different walks. of life t,
anded together to study and I'M a
erstand their own businesses re- f,
Its in opportunities to promote is
lie interests of their community. b
yhen they have reached an un0er-
anding of the houndless OpportHH- t
les, their businesses and profess il
ons give them, they will find them il
Elves met by the fact that the basic n
eeds of every community on earth p
re exactly the same things. These Il
may be of different W
ices, different craeds, and live un- a
er different forms of political con- CT
ol-but those things that promote n
e interests Of one community h
lose basic things that teed it, thaS es
ach it, that beautify il, that house k
that care for it in sickness and m
health--those services that pro- in
ote the interests If the commun- bl
Y-are identical in all communi- ia
IS. That is the understanding that in