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Show oo BIRTHDAY GIFT OF ROTARIANS Renewed Pledge of Commu-j nity Service Given By Ogden Organization v.'ltli the announcement of a birth-! do;' pjft of u renewed pledgo of ser-I ser-I e to the community, to tho business busi-ness and social llfi as well ae to betterment generally, tho Rotarv club of this city is celebrating thle week, the seventeenth anniversary of the organization or-ganization of the first Rotary' club in the world. Rotary came into helnc" in Chicago. February 23rd 1905, with a group of four men ,ne a coal dealer, one all mining operator, one a merchant tall-IB or ond tho fourth an attorney The I" attorney. Paul P Harris, first nrt- . vanred the idea of forming a club dif-J dif-J forent from any club then known and to hlin belongs the credit for starting the Ki eal Rotary movement. I At this meeting of the four, when decision was made to organize a club it was also decided to Invite to lyVWMI MM I membership Just ono man from each I different bunlness or professional calling. call-ing. A printer, a real estate man. an I Insurance man and a banker urcro the nc-jct four admitted. Rotary" was chosen as the name of the new club because tho mombers met In "rotation" at their places of busine9 Rotation Club" scemwl 'somewhat inapt, so they adopted the I shorter form, "Rotary C lub." Tho Chicago club continued to increase in-crease In membership. In 1908 three 'years after tho first meeting tYu load Rotary club was orgunlicd in Ban j BVandtpO. Other clubs followed on ih- lJaclfh coast and then tho move-! move-! mnil spread to tho oaat and then to i he south until sixteen cluba had been I organized Ly the end of 1010. It was In 1910 that the first contention con-tention was held In Chicago and the National Association" formed. At 'this convention Chesley R. P.rr WMM li cd secretary and ho continues lu bold this office at the proseni time, notary emerged from a national organization or-ganization to an international organl-iiiion organl-iiiion two years Inter at the Duluth convention. A short time pre. lous to this convention u club had boen oi -Ktinlzed at Winnipeg Canada, and during t be convention a cablegram was PO hud from the Rotary club of London Lon-don Kngland, asking tor a charts: Rotary had thus quickly evolved from ono club In 1905 to un International organization in 1912. Since 1912 tho organization ha grown SVeil more rapidly than during t lo first seven years. Today thor are more than one thousand Rotary clubs in thf world. Although the greater number are In tho United States, vhere the movement originated, originat-ed, there aro now Rotary clubs In Canada. Newfoundland, Great Hrltaln and Ireland, Cuba. South America, the Republic of Panama, China. India, Australia and N.w Zealand. This growth scorns all tho more remarkable when wo realize that tho organization has never at anv tlmo emnloyed paid organizers. And In addition, extreme i aro ha always been exercised in surveying cities and towns applying for membership to make nurt that such communities are ready for a Rotarv Ro-tarv club and are of eufficlont size from which in secure a membership 1 of repreaenl&tiro men and still have th membership restricted to one man from each busings or profeHion jajpssssssssjBss |