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Show HISTORIC EDINBURGH CHOSEN I COinil CITY OF ROTARY I CLUBS OP WORLD THIS YtflR I President Estes Snedecor Issu2S Calls for Annual Assemblage Which Will Be Held in Scotland; Ogden Club Entitled to Two Delegates Besides District Governor; Many Rotarians Will Arrange Tours of Europe in Connection With Journey to British Isles to Attend Assemblage; Robert Louis Stevenson's Steven-son's Description of Home City. ! ipDIMlURGH. Scotland, will bsj the l- cf.eno during Jun'- of the gr-at twelfth annual convention of the International In-ternational Association of Rotary I That the convention will be one of I the mosi important assemblages ever' held in shown by reports from Rotary , clubs throughout the ("nlled States. I ; for preparat i.,nu are now being made l for the delegations lhat will travel! across the AUantic to attend the event. According to the call thai has been , issued, each affiliating club will be entitled to one delegate for each fifty of its members or major fraction, thereof The Ogden Rotary dub. under un-der this rule, will bo entitled to two delegates and two alternates, in ad- dliion, the district governor Is ex .officio a member. PREPARATIONS MADE This convention will open Monday. I June 13. nnd will continue for several j days. The exact program has not i been announced but preparation! are being made by the international offi ' ! crs and committees anrl also by th : Edinburgh committees for many days replete with Interesting affairs. In addition it is expected that hundreds of Rotarians will take the oppor- J tunlly to Jouru-y ihrouch Europe. The- official call for the convention i Issued by President Estes Snedecor' follows 'To the Affiliating Clubs: The board of directors of the International Association of Rotary clubs having accepted ac-cepted the Invitation rrotn the Edinburgh Edin-burgh (Scotland) Rotary club and ihavlnc decided that the next annual convention Of the association shall be held rft Edinburgh this official call Is lssuSj in corip! ' wMi article iti. section 1, of the constitution. I "The twelfth annual convention of International Association of Rotary ! clubs will convene In Edinburgh, I Scotland, on Monday June 13. A. D. 1921, for tho purpose of receiving and acting unon the reports of Its officers offi-cers and committees, the election of officers, and the transaction of such I other business as may properly be brought before the convention HOW CLUES REPRESENTED "Representation in this convention shiill he in accordance with article I 7 of the constitution as follows: "Each affiliating flub shall be entitled en-titled to one delegate fur each fifty. I j (50) ol Its members or major fraction frac-tion thereof, excupt that honorary .members shall not be considered in inning at the number of delegate! to Which a club Is entitled, and x-'cept x-'cept further that each affiliating club shall be entitled to at least one 'delegato even should its membership be less than fifty (50). Each delegato shall he entitled to cast one voto upon all questions submitted lo 1 ln-con ln-con vent Ion. Each club may select one alternate for each delegate, and I the alternate shall be entitled to vote onlv In tho absence of his delegate. "Each officer of the association president, vice president treasurer, secretary-general. sergeant-at-arms and district governors and each past I president of the association is cx-'. cx-'. off icio a member of the convention land entitled to vote on all questions. Each club having in its membership any of the above mentioned officers is entitled to its full constitutional quota oi delegates In addition. "No proxies shall be allowed except ex-cept in tho case of proxies from clubs located in countries other than the British Islos. (See article 7. section 1 6 of the constitution) . CAN ARRANGE PROXIES "Clubs in the United States and Canada, lf necessary can arrange to vote their enllro voting strength by proxy at Edinburgh "Action looking to the amendment or of addition to tho constitution shall bo taken In accordance with article IS of the constitution, which provides 'that written or printed notices ihere-of ihere-of shall be given by tho secretary of the association (o ihe affiliating clubs at least thirty (80) days prior to the date of the convention. Resolutions re- lating o such amendments of addi- ilous should' he in writing, and must be in the secretary-general's hamh not later than April 23. 1921, In order that he may have time to send notice H thereof to Ihe affiliating culbs. "In addition to the voting delegates each ilub may send as many visiting members as it desires, and every club lis urged to send a large delegation of visitors. All visiting Rotarians will be welcomed at the convention and will find much to interest and benefit th m, and (following precedents) they will be provided with seats so far as the attendance may permit, and per- jH mltted to take part in the discussions before the convention. "The benefit which a club securer H from 'the convention is in pronortlon to the slse and character of the dele gation which it sends there. "Steamship accommodations may be secured through the headquarters office of the 1. A. ol R. C. H "A reservation of steamship acconi modal ions will be considered as a for hotel accommodation and a guarantee deposit of $10 must H be made by each individual who re Delves an assignment of rooms. "Attention is called to the fact that a registi-ntion fee of ten dollars will be paid by each delegate and H visitor, man and woman. "Dated. 21 December. 1920. "ESTES SNEDECOR "President. "Attest: CHESLEY R. PERRY. "Secretary -General " DESCRIPTION OF EDINBURGH For months Rotarian interest will H he centered on the international con- H Mention city. For that reasou the H history of the Scotland city will be H studied. Robert Louis Stevenson's es- H say on his home city, Edinburgh, is H one of the most fascinating accounts H of community life. In opening his essay, Stevenson says; "The ancient and famous metrop oils of the north sits overlooking a windy estuary frofti the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her tall precipice and terraced gar- dens she looks tar and wide on the I sea and broad champaigns. To the- least you way catch at sunset the park of the May lighthouse, where 'he Firth expands into the German ocean; and away to the west, over ill tho carse of Stirling, you can see tho first snows upon Ben Ledi. "Venice, it has been said, differs from all other cities in the sentiment which she inspires. The rest may fl have admlnrs, she only, a iamous fair one, counts lovers in her train. And Indeed, even by her kindest friends, Edinburgh is considered in a .-i i n 1 1 1 a r sense These like her for H many reasons, not any one of which H Is tatistactory in itself. They like her whimsically, if you will, and somewhat as a virtuoso dotes upon H his cabinet. Her attraction is ro- mantic in the narrowest meaning of the term. Beautiful as she is. she is not so beaulirul ;n interesting. She i pre-eminently Gothic, and all tht more so siuce she has set herself olf with some Greek airs, and erected H classic temples on her crags. In a word, and abovo'all. she is n curiosity. curios-ity. The palace of Holyrood has been left aside in the growth of Edinburgh and stands gray and silent in a workman's quarter and amoug brew erics and gas works. It is a house of many memories. Great people oi yore, kings and queens buffoous and grave ambassadors, played their suit, ly farce for centuries in Holyrood. H Wars have been plotted, dancing hss lasted deep into the night, murder has been done in its chambers. There Prince Charlie held his pbautom levees and In a very gallant manner (ConUnued on Page Three) J ; EDINBURGH CHOSEN AS CONCENTION CITY ia 55 (Continued from Pago one. i ; represented a fallen dnasu tor ?onie : hours. Now. all these things of clay ; are mingled with the dust, the kins's : mown itself is shown for a sixpi-nc to the vulvar: but the ston palace j jhas otttlived thf-st changi CASTLE DOMINATES CITY : ''The old town occupies a sloping M ridge or tail of diluvial matter, pro , itected. In some subsidence of the ' (water, by (he fustic iliffs which .fortify it to the west. On the one jsidc of it and (he other ihe new I towns of the south and the north oc 'cupy their lower, broader, and more ntle hill tops. ThUSi the quarter of 'In castle overtops tbc whole city :nd keeps an open iew to sea and ,land. It dominates tor miles on every I Side; and people on the decks of .ship-', or ploughing in quiet country place over in Kife can see (be ban-1 ban-1 ner on the castle battlements, and Ho- smoke of Ihe old town blowing abroad over the subjacent country A city that is set upon a hill It was. I suppot, from this distant aspect that she got her nieknime of Auld (Reekie. Perhapsit was given her by i people who had never crossed her Idoors; day after day. from their u-irious u-irious rustic pisgahs. they bad seen ,i lie pile of building on the hill top, and the long plume of smoke over the 'plain; so it appeared to them, so it had appeared to their fathers tilling 'lie same field: and as that r.as all they knew of the place. II eould be lull expressed in those two words. if grew, under the law thai regu (luted the growth of walled cities in precarious situations, not in extent jhuf i Ti height and density. Houses sprang up story after story, neighbor i mounting upon neighbors shoulder, jas In some black hole of Calcutta. ! until the population slept fourteen or 'fifteen dep in a vertical direction. Tbe tallest of these lands ns they ,are local I. termed, have long sinco been burnt out; but lo this day it I not uncommon ip see eight or ten ! windows al a flight The poor man I may roost up there in the center of Edinburgh, and yet have a peep of I the green country from his window; Ihe shall see the quarters of Ihe well j to-do fathoms underneath, with their j j broad squares and gardens; he shall have nothing overhead but a few spires, the stone top gallants of the I city; aud perhaps the wind may I reach him with a rustic purcness. juitl llirlng a smack of the sea. or of flow- rin: lilacs in the spring. " 1 see a vision of Edinburgh not as you see her iu the midst of a little neighborhood, i but as a boss upon Ihe round world . Witii all Europe and the deep sea fori her Mirroundnigs. For even place is a eenter to the earth, whence highways high-ways radiates or ships set sail for foreign for-eign ports; the limit of a parish is not more imaginary than th frontier of an empire; and as a man silling at home In his cabinet and swiftly writing books, so a city send abroad ' an influence and a portrait of her self There is no Edinburgh emigrant, emi-grant, far or near, from china to Peru, but he or she carries some love- 1 ly picture of the mind, some sunset te-hiiKj the Caatle cliffs, some snow scene, some maze of city lamps, in-rl"liblo in-rl"liblo in the memory and delightful to study In the intervals of toll " These extracts give but a faint idea of the exqulsi'e heautv of the little book in which Stevenson has en I shnned forever n picture of his na- m tive dty 'hat will last as long as the language which is used there shall 1 1 be spoken. fl |