ROTARIAN IDEALS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5040, 15 October 1926, Page 4

ROTARIAN IDEALS.

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION.

GEMS FROM SPEECHES. “It makes very little difference whether a man is driving a tiamcar or sweeping streets or being Prime Minister, if he only brings to that service everything that is in him and perfbnns it for the sake of mankind. How does the tram-driver or the street-sweeper serve ? In the same way that you and I serve—by doing an honest day’s work and rendering a needed service with the consciousness that we are doing something f<ft mankind. The Man who gave us the Golden Rule nearly 2000 years ago was a carpenter. The fine thing about life is that the man who does serve well generally succeeds, and receives his reward. A service is something more than selling goods up to standard, quality, o»r quantity, and making delivery according to contract. To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that thing is sincerity and integrity.”—D. Adams, past-president of International Rotary. “The true purpose of human labour is not to make this or that person or

group of persons to possess inordinate wealth, often to their Own injury. The

true purpose of labour is to produce those things which are necessary for the sustenance, the happiness, and the development of mankind, and in this beautiful and noble work all should have proper, share and just reward. Our industrial system should be so ordered as to give to each one as nearly as possible that equality Of opportunity which the constitution cf our country intends him to have. A way mutet be found for men to labour together for the cdmmon good, cooperating in fellowship, not competing in suspicion and hostility, so that for iforce and self-interest we may substitute brotherhood and love.” — William Green, president of the American Federation of Labour. The foregoing are extracts from speeches at the International Rotary Conventiota.