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Messages from the President
Paul P. Harris
Rotarianism is a step in the evolution of humanity and in
the emancipation of man from the exactions of unceasing
servitude to the interests of self.
The Cost of a Frown.
It
cost me the painful consciousness of the fact that I had let one
more of life's opportunities slip past unimproved and that I had
hurt some one needlessly.
The Profit of a Smile.
It
was not a hand me down, ready made grinlet. It came when I was
feeling particularly well and I couldn't have stopped its
coming.
It
won me another smile and an item of business and the thought of
it and the business it had won provoked still another smile
which brought me a glad welcome home, helped the dinner along
and encouraged slumber and dreams that wore not unpleasant.
I
have seen one spontaneous smile displace the gloom of a toiling,
sweating swearing throng as effectively as the sun dispels a
mist.
Don't fail to inventory your smiles. They are great assets, and
stand in the same relation to success that frowns do to failure.
Acquaintance, the Foundation of Success.
Here's to success, real success, your success, my success, the
world's success; and here's to the foundation of success, the
practicalized scientized, sterilized, vitalized foundation of
your success, my success, the world's success ‑ acquaintance,
the dynamics and harmonies of Rotary.
Do
any Except Rotarians Benefit from Rotary?
They certainly do, Sir. Rotarians acquire the habit of
helpfulness within the Rotarian fold, but the influences are as
the ripples that follow the fall of the pebble in the still mill
pond. They pass on and on in ever enlarging circles.
Fare Ye Well!
Now, at the close of this, my last year of activity in the
National Association, and just before the drop of the curtain in
the final scene of the last act, I shall give myself the honor
of a moment's pause before the footlights while I make a low bow
and with heartfelt sincerity tremblingly repeat the old
stereotyped but soulful words: "Thanking you one and all, on the
part of my little company, and myself, for your very kind
attention, I bid you God speed, Fare ye Well!"
PAUL P. HARRIS.
(Attorney‑at‑Law, No. 127 North Dearborn Street, Chicago.)
We
Thank You, Paul Harris –
For what you have done for Rotary and for The National Rotarian.
That new suburban home may be calling you to come and rest
awhile, but this is not the end of your activity in Rotary ‑ not
by any means.
THE EDITOR
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