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Six Cunard liners cleared from Manhattan last week bearing 3,000 much-maligned souls to Ostend, Belgium. From various quarters of the globe other ships bore 5,000 more souls, equally maligned, to the same destination. They were the world's Rotarians and?as they call their wives?Rotary Anns...
But deriders of Rotary will learn better very soon now. As Rotarian Gardner Mack wrote only this month in the Rotarian, Rotary has "turned the corner." From a little lunch group brought together by a lonely Chicago lawyer, it has become a huge organization "covering 40-odd separate nations and...
Rotarians have been called many names, from "grownup Boy Scouts" to "snouting imbeciles." But no one conversant with Rotary's inception and ideals could possibly give credence to such abuse.
Rotary was founded 22 years ago, when Percy Paul Harris of Chicago called three friends into his office and discussed the Golden Rule with them on the evening of Feb. 23.
But little by little, by reading more excerpts, Questioner might have brought Shut-Eye to suspect that though the style was Mr. Mencken's the viewpoint was far from his. The page Questioner read from contained 19 press clippings prefaced with Menckenian facetiousness, but the solemnity implied was not, as...