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Show ray club sms - COfflllfiil DBIVE- Local Organization Decides to Bring International Gathering Here. MOTION IS UNANIMOUS Commercial Club Pledges Support; Campaign Begins Be-gins at Once. "Salt Dake will he the rrcra for ah v , UotarlaiiB in l'i'u, on the occasion of th j annual convention of the Internationa. I Itotary ohib." That ih! filial be r'-aliz'-l was the de-! de-! clidon of the Salt Lake lioiary club at j iu regular weekly luncheon yesterday at t ! the Hot.d Utah. The effort of local P.o- -! tarians to bring trie convention to a!t l,.-fke will have the pledged Kupport of I Han Francisco Rotary 'dub, guaranteed S,. j James Lynch, president of that oraniza- tion, who was a guest at the luncheon. y. C hramm. former chairman of th convention committee, expressed the i opinion that Salt Lftke can have the convention con-vention for the asking. He declared that It is one of the easiest conventions, from an expenditure standpoint, of any convention con-vention oi ihe present day. As a. matter of fa.t. he Bald, it will take care of Itself, It-self, the $5 paid by eah member of 'he. club who attend h providing suffiefnt funds for all entertainment purioaes, J Campaign Plan Suggested- Although the matter had not been dis-ctjt-.ed to any zrea t extent, George Relf informed the club that he had received a numi'T of letters si.gstlng a manner of paving 'f- way for the convention. He read a letter from Horace G. Wtl-1 Wtl-1 Hams, a member of the convention com- mi i tee- at Cincinnati, suggesting tuai "r" after the convention neyt yeur at JiinsacT "ity a trip to Suit Lake be organized to bring a large party of eastern people through this section or the country. "Lone Tom ' Phillips, in a letter to Mr. Reif. has suggested that a special train he chft i tered to bring as many as pos-I pos-I sihle from the Kansas City convention lo Salt Lake. Mr. Relf also read a letter from Archie Clum, In which the writer der-lires that the Ro tarians owe the In- .-ter .-ter national convention of 1319 to Salt Lake. If Salt Lake will extend the invitation, Mr. Clum states in his letter, the merits of Salt Lake as a convention city wtil be heralded from one end of the country to another in all meetings of local Rotariaa clubs. Benefit to Utah. Ti e coming of Rotarians to Salt LaVo -to attend the international convention, said F C- Richmond, president of the Salt Lake Commercial club, will bj.ient not only Salt Lake, but the whole sta"J, and indirectly will be a benent to the . country Jn that it will broaden the idea f of the people of the east particularly of ' the wonderful resources and possibititie of the great state of Utah, which, he de- dared, at th present is contracted and narrow. Any action which the Rotary club maj" take, said Mr. Richmond, will have tho undivided support of the Salt Lake Commercial Com-mercial club. In extending the invitation to the International Rotary club to hold its 119 convention in Salt Lake. howAvr, Mr. Richmond declared that the local Ro- tarians would be undertaking a big proposition. prop-osition. The step would mean, he said, that every" member or the Salt Lake Rotary Ro-tary club must hold himself in readiness to give up his entire time to the entertainment enter-tainment of the visitors. The only opposition the proposition met came from Melvin H. Sowles. who de-clared de-clared that Salt Lake should not attempt to entertain a national convention mc:lV' often than once in seven years. If ?Tie present war crisis should continue during t lie next two years, he said, it would be poor policy for Salt Lake to ofTer to entertain en-tertain any convention in 191S. He also maintained that the attendance would be limited because of the fact that Kansas City, to many who will attend the convention con-vention at that city next year, is considered consid-ered so far west that they will deem it out of the question to travel any further west to attend a convention. Boston, he said, will have the convention in 1920. and 1921. he declared, would be soon enough for Salt Lake to consider the matter mat-ter of holding the convention here. Opposes Postponement. Opposl tion on the pa rt of Mr. Sowles met with instant response by Charles Tyng. who declared tjiat nothing Is too ' big for Salt Lake to consider and that if Salt Lake wanted the international convention con-vention at all, now is the time to issue the invitation "If we are going1 after it at all." Mr. Tyng said, "let us go after it now. It will astonish you to know how small a sum will be necessary to take care of the ' convention. Compared to other cities, expense will be almost nothing to the club, for on the $5 which those who attend at-tend pay . Into the entertainment fund they may be entertained. The expense will be nothing but time." David Smith said that the Salt Laka Rotary club could not afford to let the opportunity ef having the international convention in Salt Lake slip away and he urged the most active campaign to Vring it here. j,. "Are we going to be a bunch of qvd- ters?" asked Mr. Smith. "If we are' running run-ning a bluff, let us continue to run It. Let us have the convention, and send the visiting Rotarians away boosters. I hope we shall not lie down at this time, but go through with a determination to secure se-cure the convention and handle it properly." prop-erly." The vote to inaugurate a vigorous campaign to bring the 1919 convention of Rotary clubs to Salt Lake waa unanimous. |