That admirable institution, the! Rotary Club of Shanghai, will next] week be pleasantly engaged in. welcoming the founder of International Rotary on the occasion of his) visit hhere on the way to Manila for a Rotary Convention. Mr. Paul P. Harris, in 1908, started an organiza-ion. which has' permeated the world. in a manner comparable only with Lord Baden" Powell's Boy Scout Movement. On that account alone the has a claim to Shanghai's appreciation. But the achievement of Rotary International in providing common platform for men of goodwill femong all nations puts his modest Nenture on an even higher plane of esteem. Rotary has served the cause of international understanding with] fidelity and. commonsense. It has never pretended to accomplish mira-jules of diplomacy or lightning tours de force in strengthening the bonds of brotherhood. But it has at least developed the technique of free, frank "and friendly discussion of differing points of view and divergent opinions. And it has succeeded in showing that, even when polities are relegated to the background, there are topics which can stimulate the interest of the reformer and can come under review without prejudice fo friendship or racial intercourse, Whether this be called a philosophy of business relations or a practical working principles of life, 1s of litre moment." Rotary, especially in this intensely international atrrosphere of Shanghai, has proved its worth and tated on the borneing' proparians tarris is to be warmly congratu
of his thirty-year old offspring.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.