Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-06-13 | Page 12 | Cities Seek to Win Convention of 1920

"cities seek TO Will CONVBimOM OF 1920 New Orleans, Cleveland and Atlantic City Eager to Entertain Visitors. Kotarians are said to be a group of forAvard-looking- men. The habit of watching watch-ing the future is claimed as one of their most distinctive characteristics. They approach ap-proach tht-ir business, their enterprises, with a view to outcomes. Perhaps it is this habit of lookinc ahead that is responsible, re-sponsible, but whatever it is, there is already a very considerable amount of interest among the men who open their convention on Tuesday as to where the next convention will be held. Rotary is not put to the difficulty of poinp to a city uninvited. Far from it, for there are always a number of localities locali-ties actively interested in desiring- to play host to the convention. Salt Lake had to ask more than once to bring- the convention here. And Salt Lake had to show all her attractions in order to convince con-vince the International Rotarians that this was the place this year. Three cities have already begrun to tell of their respective merits in order to persuade the Rotarians to come their way for the 1 120 convention. These are Atlantic At-lantic City, Cleveland and New Orleans. Others may come in when the convention conven-tion sessions begin. But these three are all out for 1? -i with considerable vigor. The contest will provide amusement for the visitors and for Salt Lakers as well. They will apparently vie with one another an-other in stunts calculated to call the attention at-tention of the Salt Lake convention lo the cities bidding- for that of next year. All three have definitely announced some of the attractions they will present, and all hint much at surprises to be developed de-veloped during the course of the convention. conven-tion. New Orleans and Mardi Gras celebrations celebra-tions are practically synonymous to many persons, and the New Orleans Rotarians are bringing with them some of the costumes cos-tumes and much of the color of the city's Mardi Gras celebrat iuns, to put on one of their own for Rotarians in Salt Lake. Thev sav that they have the regal robes of the queen of the carnival with them, taken out of New Orleans for the first time. The New Orleans business men have been conducting national advertising advertis-ing campaigns for some time, and thoy are known to be aggresivtdy after the liO) Rotary convention. Cleveland, too. promise? to bring on some talent that will make it clear to all-comers that Cleveland wants that convention. con-vention. Thev are bringing with them a band leader just out of the service, who is said to know how to get the music from his players. He will have a band of his own when he gets here, and the Cleveland men promh-e entertainment. Frederick J. Gillespie has been in Salt Lake for nearly a week mapping out the preliminary campaign which he hopes will win the convention for Cleveland. Then there is Atlantic City, "where the cool breezes blow," as the advertisements sav. Atlantic Citv is inviting Rotary to visit there in RCu. This city by the sea has an electric siirn on Main street, which alreadv announces the fact. They have a flock of wheel chairs from the board walks along the Atlantic to further demonstrate dem-onstrate the theory. And. if the Rotarians are not soon singine the Atlantic t. ity song, it won't be because they don't get a copv of them. Joseph A. McNamee. city rlerk and veteran Rotarian, Is in Salt Lake to pav the way to Atlantic City in LO.