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Time marches on. King Albert who entertained Rotary International so royally at Ostend only seven short years ago, was killed by a fall while mountain climbing. Italy had commenced her war of conquest with Ethiopia. Unrest was in the air. Only one new country joined Rotary, little Iceland. This was a singing year for the Club. Perhaps never had the members enjoyed so much music as "O.M." gave it. One week it was the Purdue Quartette, then music from the children
of the Knights of Pythias. Another time it was the Dayton Girls Musical Organization introduced by Jack Ralston, and again the Purdue Womans' Club Ensemble introduced by Jimmy Cattell. Al Stewart twice brought some of
his singers out to Lincoln Lodge, and once Spotts Emrick entertained with pieces from the Purdue Band. The Club helped the West Lafayette Band financially and in return they rendered a musical program as a sort of a
"thank you." At the Birthday Party in February Dean Coulter spoke with that sincere idealistic spirit of his, and the response was made by beloved Jimmy Hoffman. There was a most interesting meeting at the Peerless
Wire Works in May as the guests of Jim Wiselogel and Ernest Schilling; and the usual installation of the new officers the following month. Ernest Brown in his report of the Detroit International Convention spoke of
the concert of the Chrysler Motor Company's two hundred employees; of the Davidson memorial and the fine tribute Allen D. Albert paid to this Rotarian, James W. Davidson who did so much and gave so much to make Rotary
truly international in far corners of the world. Ernest quoted at length from the address of International President John Nelson, somewhat as follows: "Whenever nations are in distrust or fear of one another, Rotary
has its greatest challenge and its greatest opportunity. Concern was felt by all of us, and perhaps for the first time a Rotary International officer, your President, visited parts of the Rotary world to imbibe
knowledge rather than to give knowledge. Twice I visited Europe, and once Northern Africa and Asia Minor. We often speak of how Rotary can express itself in so many cultural forms. This is true of religion as well. When
one watches the adoration of the Musselman in St. Sophia, of the Roman Catholic in the marvelous extent of St. Peters, of the Englishman in the hushed silence of the Abbey which makes us WE, one realizes how comforting
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