The Boulder Dam Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, March 10, 1927

THE BOULDER DAM Officers FOREST R. MILDREN - - - President C. E. PEMBROKE . . . . Secretary J. T. WATTERS Treasurer C. E. PEMBROKE - Club Correspondent F. M. FERGUSON - - Sergeant-at-Arms We meet Thursdays at 12:15 at Union Pacific Dining Room Issued Weekly by the LAS VEGAS ROTARY CLUB LAS VEGAS, NEVADA "The Best Town b T" ' t by a Dam Site" T.ir-f h 1 0 1 0 - . 7. Directors FOREST R. MILDREN , C. C. BOYER FRANK GUSSEWELLE O. C. BOGGS C. E. PEMBROKE J. T. WATTERS WILL BECKLEY Past Presidents L. R. SAUNDERS W. E. FERRON A. A. HINMAN DOIT' T Forc-JT - SAJU 1TIG-T - JIHS HAIL _ 7HAT??" ? TIE A1JTJUAL FOTAPY DIIT?TJE DAFC; _ n . 7 :4£ r.n. "SHARP \ X Have any of y:u fallows noticed Sam this past week? He has "been as Viusy as that cat. .lis Missouri Meershaum has been steaming like a 7800 Class locomotive. He reports T 7~2 TIIU of the season. le promises to do whatever is customery in mahing it a hig party. ' - 0 - A S-JTinTI^TJ low difficult, it seems, for us to learn that our growth is from within - not fr^m without. It is the spirit within - the in-ternal essence - th t attracts to itself t "ih #ssbnt1cTs for its pro-gress. It is the life-thrilling sap thet courses through the tree of life, sending its constructive fcrcss to t .e outer surface and to t ie uttermost t,Tigs whic i gives to it its heauty and strength. Just so does mr,n grow My expansi n from within ratber than t.rough absorption of external things. - Quinley. - 0 - C-OOD JILL. Good "Jill is Public Opinion thinking good, confident things ah cut you. It is the biggest asset in business. It will weather the disasters of storm and fire. It makes John Smith say,"I like thrt concern, they are square* I ' l l jive them my order.1' Good Jill toward men is the cornerstone of business. Ycu cannot estimate it in dollars and cents on your balance sheet. It comes from the heart. It is the Golden P.ule. A business founder1 on this principle will win success. Pota-Haws. - 0 - B0ULDJP3I '.L: There's a xxxxxh difference between rersens th t sound good and good sound reasons. You m y fail to cash in on promises, but yui can always col-lect one hundred cents on a dollar bill. le w o arru9S with a woman either lacks experience -r desires to kill time. Motor Chat. BOYS' WEEK WILL HAVE GENERAL OBSERVANCE Boys' Week in the U. S. for 1927 has been set for April 30 to May 7, inclusive. There is every indication from the re-sponse received at Rotary International headquarters that the coming celebration will be greater than any before. Boys' Week originated with the Rotary Club of New York City in 1920. The next year it was carried to Baltimore, Kansas City, Chicago and Newark, New Jersey.' In 1922 it had spread to 207 cities, and the next year it leaped to 608 cities. In 1924 the observance crossed the waters, becoming world-wide and celebrations were held in 1,400 towns and cities. Six hundred more localities took up the movement in 1925, and last year reports were received from Austria, New Zealand, Cuba, Porto Rico, England, China, Japan, South Africa and South America that in-tensive programs were being put on. The object of the week is to focus public attention upon the boys as the world's greatest asset. Rotarian Walter W. Head, of Omaha, is chairman of -, the National Boys' Week Committee. Many Rotarians are prominent in the affairs of this body. UPPER-TEEN-BOYS MEET Upper-teen-age boys from'all parts of the world were brought together by the Y. M. C. A. recently in Helsingfors, Fin-land, for a conference on social problems pertaining to young manhood. At about the same time a conference'" representing near-teen-age and the early teens was held by the Boy Scouts of the world in Jander-steag, Switzerland. PROPOSES MINIMUM PROGRAM Major, the Rev. C. P. Hines, chairman of District No. 5, RIBI, has submitted a "minimum program" to the member clubs. This provides that every member is to en-tertain at Sunday tea, at least once a month, a fellow club member and his wife with whom he is not well acquainted. The members of the Vocational Service com-mittee, among other things, are expected to develop personal friendship without patron-age with one or two artisans. The International Service committee is expected to urge its club to inaugurate a correspondence by members and by classi-fications with a Rotary club or town in TJier countries. FOUR MINUTE TALKS The Education Committee of the Okla-homa City Club of which Dr. Eugene Antrim is chairman has developed 39 topics for four-minute talks, based on the Rotary Code of. Ethics and Six Objects and other Rotary Ideals. On the list are subjects such" as "Dignity and Worth of My Business," "How My Vocation Serves Society," "What Rules Should a Young Man Adopt as Guides to a Real Success," "My Personal Code of Ethics," "What is Legitimate Profit and When Docs Profiteering Begin?", "Can the General Ethics of Business Be Im-proved?", "Competition and Cooperation in Business," "Duty of a Rotarian To-ward His Employes," "Legitimate Rotary Activities—Personal, Civic and National," "Business Motives Other Than the MOT tive of Service" and ".May Conduct Be Legal and Yet Immoral?" DIRECTOR FLYNN VISITS COAST Director "Eddie" -Ftynn, apostle of "Peptimism," forsook St. Paul for the Pacific coast the last of January and while lenjoying the well known climate spoke be-fore a number of Rotary club^. He also talked to a high school and spoke at the iluncheons of other, service clubs. NEWFOUNDLAND CLUB ACTIVE The St. John's, Newfoundland, Club has sponsored the organization of a Municipal Improvement Association for the better-ment of the city along the lines of health conditions and the furtherance of art. IT TAKES TWO JUMPS TO MAKE IT Rotary took a running leap last month and landed in another country, making a total of thirty-seven. The board of direc-tors voted in a club at Bogota, Colombia. Helsingfors, Finland, had its application in the mails but it did not arrive in time for formal action. 3 MAYORS FROM BRITISH CLUB- • The Rotary Club of Camberwell, Eng-land, has supplied from its number three consecutive mayors of the borough: Rotarian IC. W. Wilmot, J. P., 1924-25. Rotarian F. C. Eaton, J. P., 1925-26. RotarianS. W. Shalders, J. P., 1926-27. ADMIRAL THANKS ROTARIANS In a previous issue there appeared an item calling attention to the fund being col-lected by the Secretary of the Navy (through authority granted by an Act of Congress) for the restoration of the U. S. Frigate Constitution, popularly known as "Old Ironsides." Philip Andrews, rear admiral of the U. S. Navy, and chairman of the National Execu-tive committee handling this fund, has written to the Secretary of Rotary Inter-national thanking the Rotarians for their response. He says: "It is very pleasing to t.he members of our Committee to know that Rotarians are taking such an active interest in the effort to reconstruct the famous old frigate "Con-stitution," and I should like to extend to the entire membership my sincere thanks and appreciation for the cordial manner in which they are replying to this worthy cause, and I should like you to convey these thanks through the medium of your publi-cation. There is every evidence that Rotarians generally are taking cognizance of the spirit displayed by the brave mem-bers of the crew of this gallant ship'and are interested im restoring her as a fitting memorial to these courageous men who, like themselves, placed 'service above self' in their determination to maintain the in-tegrity of our country." ONLY A BOY BUT— He is going to carry on what you have started. He is going to sit right where you are sitting and attend to those things you think are so important—when you are gone. You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they are carried out dopends on him. If you make leagues End treaties, he will manage them. He is going to sit at your desk in the Senate and occupy your place on the Su-preme Bench. He will soon assume control of your city, your state and your nation. He is going to take over your prisons, your churches, your schools and your cor-porations. All your works are going to be judged, praised or condemned by him. Your future reputation is in his hands. All your work is fcr him and the fate of the nation and humanity is in his hands, s' —San Diego Rotator. "Rotary cannot be effective unless every member works."—Harty H. Rogers, Inter-national President. TACKLING THE ATTENDANCE PROBLEM AT CLEVELAND The Cleveland Club recently took a hand at the attendance problem by sending out a letter to each member whose percent-age was below 70. It asked if his low record was due to absence from the city; whether an effort was made to attend other Rotary clubs when away; if Rotary had the same appeal as it did when he became a member and if not the reasons. It also asked for suggestions how to secure better attendance and if the recipient believed the attendance rule should be enforced. The answers revealed that most absences were due to the members being away from the -city. Some attended other club meet-ings regularly, some occasionally and some Hot at all. Ninety-nine per cent answered "YES" to the query as to whether Rotary had the same appeal as it did wjien they joined. Suggestions for obtaining better attendance were varied and too long to enumerate. Ninety-five percent responded that they believed in the attendance rule but some suggested slight modifications and leniency. PERSONNEL OF EXTENSION COMMITTEE Past International President Crawford, C. McCullough of Fort William, Ontario, has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the Extension Committee of Rotary Interna-tional which was caused by the resignation of James Layton Ralston, who recently re-moved from Halifax to assume his duties as Minister of National Defence at Ottawa. The personnel of the Extension Commit-tee is as follows: Chairman, John B. Orr, Miami, Fla.; Robert E. Heun, Richmond, Ind.; Stanley Leverton, London, England; Crawford C. McCullough, Ft. William, Ont. T. C. Thomsen, Aarhus, Denmark. TWO NEW ROTARY DISTRICTS Two new districts have been created in Rotary. At the last meeting of the board of directors, Belgium was made a district and Dr Edouard Willems appointed as district governor. Spain was also made a district und Dr. Florestan Aguilar named governor