Officers Howard E. Enders, President T. Fred Williams, Vice President Ernest R. Brown, Secretary Bert Force, Treasurer Jesse W. Young, Sergeant-at-Arms Directors Bert Force George Haskins Ernest Schilling Z. M. Smith International President Sydney W. Pascall London, England International Convention Seattle, Washington Delegate: Howard E. Enders District Governor John H. Beeson (20th) Crawfordsville, Indiana District Convention Indianapolis, Indiana February 22-23, 1932 New Members Cable G. Ball Kenneth C. Boxell Richard L. Holden Randolph Mitchell Elliott H. Parfitt David L. Ross Generose M. Stronk Both the Executive Conference and a Rotary Outing were held in August, the latter at the Lafayette Country Club. A trip to the Zoo at Columbian Park for the children; luncheon, cafeteria style; tennis and bridge for the ladies; swimming, horseshoes and golf for the men; with flying for all; and a chicken dinner at six. In November the Indiana Rotary Riley Convalescent Home of the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children was dedicated. One day Paul Harris and Governor Beeson visited the Club, both speaking; and the following week almost the entire Club membership went down to Indianapolis for the District Conference. The Club was now meeting at Lincoln Lodge on the North River Road during the summer and at the Lahr Hotel for the winter months. At a Joint meeting with the Kiwanis Club in March Past International President Sapp was the speaker, and the following week President Edward Elliott addressed the Club. Howard Enders, on his return from the Seattle International Convention, had much to say. He recalled the Presidential address in which Sydney Pascall told of his extensive travels, giving us the following words: "The first time I came to the United States to attend our Directors meeting and to address many of the inter-city meetings, I was met at my New York hotel by a squad of police. There was a motorcyclist with a loud bell, many motorcyclist with shrill sirens. My chauffeur had a policeman by his side. They took us through the streets at a breakneck speed; we passed through red lights over white lines; we held up traffic; we shot through here and around this corner on two wheels; we cut in and we broke every known traffic rule and regulation; we dashed through the Hudson tunnel at twice the speed rigid regulations called for. One of my American companions said, 'We are so glad we came; we never could have had this thrill otherwise." Then President Pascall went on to relate many most interesting stories of his trips in Africa, in India, in New Zealand and in many other countries. Ghandi's niece entertained them in India with dried fruits and goat's milk. "We approached Bombay at early morning's dawn. We have been into seven of the most beautiful harbors of the world." He described the Bombay Rotary Club: Four Mohammedans; seven Hindus; five Jews; five Swiss; two Swedes; one Japanese; two Americans and sixty-nine British. The thing that impressed him was the difference of the life from that of America, and of Europe and even of Africa, yet the adaptability of Rotary. Howard told of the House of Friendship with its thousands of fir trees, and their sweet odor. Of the cedar logs and cedar shingles giving the vast arena floor a log cabin effect. He spoke of the hundreds of "courtesy" cars ever ready to take you wherever you wished to go. He told of the illumination, a group of big fir trees sprayed with metallic paint so that they glittered like silver, and of the colored floodlights playing on them to make of them enormous Christmas trees of glittering tinsel. He told of the rhododendrona, thousands of them and of the other beautiful mountain flowers. It was the height of the rose season, and roses were everywhere. Bouquets of fresh flowers every day for all of the visiting ladies. Howard spoke of the address of Mrs. James W. Davidson, the Mrs. Davidson whose husband had done so much to spread Rotary throughout the East. We are going to quote from this address, "Trailing Along Through Asia," and it is of the women of that great continent she speaks: "The Turkish women voluntarily threw back their concealing veils and for the first time in history, with faces bare, stepped out into the public streets. With velvety black eyes beneath gauzy turbans, they were irresistible. Nudity does not mean indecency. The Balinese woman, pure and chaste, bare from the waist up, carries herself like a queen. Distinguished in appearance, often handsome, the women of Athens are nearly all intellectual and well informed, seldom speaking less than four languages. The Parsee ladies, often very handsome, and exceptionally intelligent flit about the streets like lovely butterflies in their becoming saris. We visited a Sinhalese gentleman. His wife, a plump, motherly little soul, greeted us dressed in her native costume, tight silk sarong and spotless white muslin basque. She talked of her two sons who were attending Oxford. The cute, bob haired, often pretty Chinese women of Hong Kong and Shanghai, in their attractive costumes of silk or brocade are now seen on the streets with their husbands. The gentle, dignified, sweet little ladies of Japan still cling to their kimonas for they are delightfully picturesque in them. Now the lesson in all this mingling with Turks, Egyptians, Arabs, Persians, Indian Moslems, Hindus, Burmese, Japanese, Malays, Siamese, Chinese, Japanese and Europeans resident in the East is that, with each nationality, one finds some virtues that we and the others lack. No nation and no race has a monopoly of all that is good or desirable. None a monopoly of all the defects. If an Asiatic irritates us, we irritate him to the same degree, only he is generally too courteous to show it. We of the West in our inter-racial contacts, are often lacking in the good manners that many Asiatics possess."