Smyrna times., 1933-05-10
ROTARY CLUBS
9Th BIRTHDAY
Celebrated at Smyrna Cen.
tury Club House Thurs
day-Ladies' Night
INTERESTING PROGRAM

The Smyrna Rotary Club last
Thursday evening celebrated theil
9th anniversary. The affair was
held at the Smyrna Goth Century
Club House. Prof. 9. w. w
Schantz, president Of the club, well
coined the guests with this appro-
pirate address:
Your Excellency the Lieutenant Governor
of the State Of Delaware, fellow Rotarians
Rotary AIMS. and guests:
OF all the pleasures and duties which a
birthday brings with it, the most welcome
duty and the most exalted pleasure is found
in the opportunity which it affords for
seeing united under one roof the fellow
members and friends of a family which
is often far separated.
On this Sixth Anniversary of the Smyr-
ma Rotary Club. it is our chief pride to
have with us the representatives of other
clubs. Rotary knows no bounds of time
or place. of profession or creed. 1t knows
no bounds of age, either among the hosts,
or among the guests.
The Club which welcomes you here in
cludes in its membership all parts of the
community life. from the youngest to the
oldest. In includes all those who, coming
here without officially recognized connec-
tions with Rotary itself. bare to it such
relationship that they partake in its spirit
and feel themselves sharers of its glories
and its duties. Nor is it the living alone
who welcome you. Present with us. in
spirit, are men who have recently gone
from US. Present is a long line of great
dead who have devoted their services TO
Rotary. and who. being dead, yet speak
Representatives of Rotary Clubs whose
birth we have watched and whose growth
we can claim an almost paternal interest
in, stand here side by side with representa-
tives from other clubs.
Rotary knows no bounds of place, no
limits, natural or artificial. Characteristic
of Rotary, from the very beginning, was its
cosmopolitan spirit. That community of
thought and action which the members of
Rotary have thus pursued from the outset
has been, in recent times, helped beyond
anticipation by those modern inventions
which have annihilated space and have
made it possible to have with us represent
atives not only from our own state, but
also from our neighboring sister states.
Rotary knows no bounds of occupation.
The day is past when people thought of
the professions as something set apart
from all others, the exclusive property of
the privileged few. In Rotary there is an
interchange of ideas and ideals between the
professions and other vocations. Opinions
may differ as to the achievement of Democ-
racy, but none will fail to value that grow
ing Democracy which makes of every call
ing a learned and noble profession when
it is pursued with the clearness of vision
which is furnished by the objectives Of Ro-
tary. and with the unselfish devotion to the
public welfare which true Rotary inspires.
We are proud to have with us not only
the theologian or the jurist. or the ply
sician; not merely the professor or the
chemical engineer; but the men of every
name who, by arms or by arts. in letters
or in commerce, have contributed to bring
all callings equally within the scope of
Rotary.
Nor does Rotary know any bounds of
creed. by welcoming as friends all who
contribute to that inspiration, whether un-
der one form or under others. Our COM
mon religion. so fundamental that we can
all unite therein. teaches us broadly lessons
of reverence, Of tolerance and of earnest
ness.
Ours be the reverence of those who have
learned silence from the stars above and
the graves beneath. Ours the tolerance
which can "see good in evil and hope in
i'll success" Ours the earnestness which
would waste no time in the discussion of
differences of view point. but would unite
US as leaders in the worlds great move
ment towards higher standards in the pro-
fessions and in business. in thought and in
life.
Our objective in holding this Sixth An
niversary meeting. is to enjoy the fellow
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