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Show Driggs Reports On j Rotary Convention j At Atlantic City! The contention of International Rotary held at Atlantic City, June .1 to 'l-o. was termed the greatest ever attemoted by that association, by Prealdent Frank Driggs in his report to the Ogden Rotary club. Mr. Liriggs quotes president Bert Adams As 1 Was standing out In the lobby, at the dose of the morning session, s member t tho Atlantic City police force came up t" me and introduced himself. He -said Mr. Adams, I want to tell you that vou have the most wonderful conentlon that Atlantic Clt has ever seen. It has been the finest crowd of people and the best I crowd of peop! the best behaved; crowd of people thiit I have ever seer. In Atlantic City since I have been on the police force, and I wanted you to know that that Is the way we felt about it.' " Mr. Driggs gave his report as follows: fol-lows: GREATEST GATHERING. The eleventh annual convention of International notary held at Atlantic City. June Jl-25. l'J20, termed the Victory convention, goes down as the greatest Kotary gathering The official offi-cial registration was over 7.200. The report of tho credentials committee shows that there were present 3'J officers of-ficers and 1.542 voting delegates: 663 clubs were represented, or S7 per cent of the total number of clubs In the association More than S.000 persons per-sons were present at the opening session ses-sion Monday evening, Juno 21. Tour continents. North America, South America, Europe and Asia were represented. Three languages, English. Eng-lish. Spanish and French were spoken spok-en There were speakers from England. Eng-land. Scotland. Ireland, Wales, Canada. Can-ada. Cuba. Shanghai and tho United Slates. During the session Bert Adams, Ad-ams, president, read a cablegram announcing an-nouncing the organization of tho Ko-tarv Ko-tarv club of Paris. France. To enliven the convention there were twenty bands, two Scotch piper organizations, numerous small musical musi-cal entertainers and two big glee clubs. The oogatl (Utah) Glee club representing the Twentieth district (Utah, Idaho and Montana), made the hit of all thCSfl organizations and opened two sessions of the convention. conven-tion. PROGRAM OPENS. The program opened with the entry en-try of delegates from foreign countries coun-tries In native costume, led by Mrs. It. Bristol, Mrs. Wesley King, Mrs. George Relf and Mrs James W. Collins Col-lins In Canadian costume, representing represent-ing the Canadian delegates. Then followed the British association of Rotary clubs, Cuba, Hawaii. Porto Rico, Uruguay, the Philippines, China. Panama, India and Argentina. This spectacle was awe-insplrlne;. PRESIDENT GIVES ADDRESS. Bert Adams of Atlanta, Ga., president, presi-dent, gave his address at the second session. Extracts from address by President Presi-dent Adams; "Tho thing that will keep Rotary a living, vital force In the world for all time, the very foundation of our organization, in friendship. 'Not fair-weather friendship that rejoices only in another's success and happiness, but the kind that stands by with help and encouragement when the other fellow Is down on his luck; ihat puts an arm around him in the hour when the shadows fall about him, and that shows to him the way back Into the sunlight, and proves to him that the greatest possession In the world Is a friend friends who belicvo in him and stick to him, who tell him of his faults, but who do not wait until the last lamp burrs low to tell him of their loe for him. Th great thing that Rotary education edu-cation Is doing for men is encouraging the opportunity and creating the desire de-sire to "do something for somebody else.' 'Tho education of a Rotarlan. I through service, covers every lorm j of activity and touches at every point or community lire, bringing to him a realization of his responslbllitli and duties as a man and as a citizen it 13 particularly appropriate thai Rotary should call this its loyalty convention, for if a man be a real Rotarlan. Ro-tarlan. he must be loyal to his God, to his country, its flag and its laws, to his city, to his family, to his, friends and to himself. "Rotary stands today as the leading lead-ing exponent of th Ideals. Do something some-thing for romebody else.' Rotary stands for a square deal to the employer, em-ployer, the employe and to tho public pub-lic and holds that each must be made to respect the rights of the other, and to realize that Rljrht ends with th abuse of right'.'' j Next came the reports of various standing committees Parts of the I report of the boys' work committee as presented by John Dolph, chalr- I man, of Washington, D. C., are here I given: STRIKE T BOLSHEVISM. "If Rotary would strike a blow at Bolshevism, It muM be done positively positive-ly and not negatively by bringing the boys under its uplifting Influence and I dedicating itself to the development of real citizenship Among the recommendations ol last year, two stand but prominent! as having proen most effective. The I first was the necessliv for a complete survey of boy life of each community to disclose the local needs, and the Other was the advisability of organ Izlng advisory councils, which have-proved have-proved very helpful In determining tome of the most successful activities activi-ties of the yeur. "Many clubs have been active in I ' athletics and recreational work In 1 connection with tho Y. M. C A , the schools, and in other way's. Whole-i Whole-i some entertainment without limit has been furnished. Boys' bands have been organised and financed. Gymnasiums, Gym-nasiums, playgrounds, athletic fields. swimming pools and other rccrea- tlonal opportunities have been established estab-lished and equipped. The needs ot I underprivileged boys have been I studied and supplied. Juvenile courts I and institutions for the training of delinquents have been established. Boys' clubs and bonu s for boys have I been organized ond assisted. Amerl-j Amerl-j canlzatlon programs resulted most I I satisfactorily. ' nionai guidance and vocational vocation-al education have Interested a number num-ber of clubs. Others have co-oper- , La ted In the organization of night schools for boys. Some clubs have 1 specialised in individual work for I ! boys. This has resulted In supplying II medical and surgical treatment and i artificial limbs. Splendid resul s are reported from campaigns to enrnur-j enrnur-j ago boys lo earn and to sa.ee money, I end to Inspire and materially increase school attendance, ns well as the rcad- lug of good books "Probably no tdnglo undertaking In j behalf of boys by any -club compares ' in the mutter of wld pre bd commun- Ity Interest and far-reaching results II to the campaign Initiated and carried out most successfully by tho Now York club durln th0 week beginning j on May Day, and dedicated by proc-i proc-i lamatlon of tho mayor ns 'Boys' ' Week'." TEN-MINUTE ADDRESSES. 1 Following this report wero olx ten- minute addresses upon different I phases of boys' work by prominent E Eotari:n. Bach address was a mas- n terplece Our own boys' committee will do well to read these addresses In tho printed proceedings. INDl ST RIAL. RELATIONS. One of the greatest addresses of tho i convention was that or. "Justice and Industrial Relations." by Rotarlan W. U Huggin8j presiding judge of the 1 1 court of industrial relations, Topeka, 6 K in as. He said . ' WO arc im In I lie midst of a most brutal utid destructive Industrial warfare war-fare It Is world wide If prompt ; and concerted action be not taken, the present struggle may yet prove' disastrous to Ilbertj and democracy, I and the fruits of our military victory may be turned to ashes 'The new battle Is being waged around tho relations of employer ami employe, capital and labor, the wage- payer and tho wage-earner. Selfish. 1 cruel men are seeking to Inflame class against class, the poor against the rich, tho ixnorant against the Intel-' llgent i am here for a very definite pur-pose pur-pose 1 am a citizen of a oommunlt which has undertaken to provide legal le-gal measuie for the settlement of industrial in-dustrial disputes and to protect the general public from the evils of industrial in-dustrial v arfare by the orderly pro-i cesses of the law. 'if democracj is to 6urvi. we must evolve a lawful solution of theye constantly rccunlng Industrial dis- putts, which so vitally affect the peace and prosperity of every class of our people. "Under the common law since very ancient times, certain Induatrli 8 and vocations have been regarded as lm-i pressed or affected with a public in-) teres! liv Inn, the blacksmith shop, 1 the grist mill, are familiar examples ! "In tho United States, tho govern-1 ment regulates that class of Industries known as public utilities' in the Interest In-terest of tho general welfare. The legislature of my state, in attempting at-tempting to find a solution for in-i d.ustrlal p-oblems, adhered strictly to the established principles of the common com-mon law "The Kansas court of industrial relations re-lations is emphatically not a tribunal! for arbitration. The Kansas law Isj based upon the principle of adjudication, adjudi-cation, not arbitration. "The law provides for the adjudication adjudi-cation of Industrial controversies in tho same orderly way, and by the same kind of tribunal, a.i have been used in the adjudication of all othei es Of controversies for hundreds Of years. PROTECTION OF PUBLIC "The prime purpose of the Industrial Indus-trial law is the protection of the public pub-lic against the Inconvenience, the hardsnips and the suffering so often caused by Industrial warfare. "Some have called this effort to compel capital and labor to cease industrial in-dustrial warfare an infringement of corporate and individual rights. If so, It is simply a re-statement of the old principle that the rights of the many are superior to the rights of the individual; that every man's rights leave off where his neighbor's begin, that no man may so use his own as to lnjuro others. "There is one question which I will not debate with any man. It Is the question of obedience 10 the iaw ol the land. Loyal, patriotic citizens will oocy It Iioin compulsion. I believe be-lieve that the great majority of or-' Banised workers In America are loval! and patriotic J am not disturbed by the loud boasting of some of the alleged al-leged leaders that organized labor will not give up tho right to strike, law or no law.' But this declaration on tho part of somo of the responsible-heads responsible-heads of organized )aborhas Joined the isauo of this country. Tho ques-tion ques-tion thus Is. Shall democracy prevail pre-vail and the will of the majoritv legally expressed remain tho law of! the land, or shall Bolshevism lake' the place of democracy ?" The Immia is plain and it cannot be misunderstood. misunder-stood. BOYS' WORK TOLD. Tho Inspirational address of Tav-lor Tav-lor station, national boys' work secretary sec-retary of the national council of the loting Men s Christian association of Canada, was, to my mind, tho crowning crown-ing glory of the Victory convention, voung Statten Is a wonder, a groat .speaker and carries his message over with Illustrations upon a blackboard Hs told us that the decisional years I in evirj b.c,, hf, U(rc between tli ages of'l-i and 18 years, that the In-fluenees In-fluenees of mother, father. church and school waned from 12 to IS and that the influences of tho gang and the hero held sway. He pointed out most graphically that Rotary must do its boys" work in those decisional years and try to help the boy to make right deci3ions then ih0 Challenge of the Boy" was given by Taylor Statten. national boys work secretary of the National Council Of tho Young Mens Chrls-tlon Chrls-tlon association of Canada, Toronto Canada He said In part: "Rotary is based on an Ideal diametrically dia-metrically opposed to the German Ideal of. domination. It is the Ideal "" ' v !' ' Instead ,,f bellev Ing thai that nation which would be the greatest great-est must be the most powerful, wo believe that tho nation which would be the greutest must be a servant ot other nations "The greatest challenge before Ro-tarlans Ro-tarlans today la to instill In the minds of our growmg boys the idea.s 01 Rotary This will help us to stem the tide of Bolshevism. Tlie prospect of another and sthl greater war is one we must cither prepare for by vaster armies than ever, or by prevention The first alternative Is unthinkable. There remains re-mains only prevention. Prevention Is possible only if there is erected a reai league of peoples, not merely a league of governments. To this end, cannot tho Rotary Clubs launch a great movement that will create enthusiasm on the part of the rising generation for the "-'" ""-r of thlii..':- " ,o ih, future lies in the acceptance of Idi LIS of Rotary by our growing boys." 00 |