Rotary's Power for World Peace

Messages from the President

Paul P. Harris

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