only by those who have had the vision that looks beyond the stars.

The age in which we live is crying aloud for sons and daughters who will give the sense of the heavenly vision. Where there is no vision the people perish.

You shall personify the lender of the ideal when you seek to build up in your community the conviction that your nation is a borrower from all other nations and must be a lender to them. Do all that you can to blast away the bogie man of race prejudice. Proclaim it from the housetops that there are but two races of men, the borrowers and the lenders. Point out how even despised orientals lend a never-wearying patience and irradicable spiritual background much needed in the face of occidental haste and material madness. Emphasize the industrial and æsthetic value of the Japanese to our own civilization. Recognize the wealth of imaginative and idealistic power in the Hebrew and in the yet undeveloped Slav.

It is for the college young men and young women of this generation to loose the age from the slavery of the earth-bound and to give to it wings which shall bring in the conquest of joy and of happiness. As lenders of the ideal you will constantly find that you shall give of the spirit of sacrifice, that you shall never grow weary of the quest, no matter how long delayed its achievements might seem.

Whatever his shortcomings and failures might have been, there never was a braver seeker after

the beautiful than Edgar Allan Poe. In a little poem, "El Dorado," which he wrote just before his death, Poe confesses his quenchless passion for the beautiful, and he who would attain that goal must "Ride, boldly ride." I bid you “Ride, boldly ride," as you pursue your great quest.

Gaily bedight, a gallant knight

In sunshine and in shadow

Had journeyed long, singing a song,
In search of El Dorado.

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But he grew old, this knight so bold,
And o'er his heart a shadow fell,

For he had found no spot of ground

That looked like El Dorado.

And when his strength had failed him at length

He met a pilgrim shadow.

Shadow,' said he, 'Where can it be?

This land of El Dorado?'

'Over the mountains of the moon,
Down the valley of the shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,' the shade replied,
'If you seek for El Dorado.'"

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THE HAPPY LANDS OF SERVICE

"Even as the son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister."

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ENNYSON, in his "Lotus-Eaters," and his

"Ulysses," has given two thrilling, yet contrasted pictures of the land of happiness. In the first, he is telling of those battle-worn heroes who had suffered much on the windy plains of Troy. They were on their way home, to their distant realms beyond the sea. Varied experiences came to them. They barely escaped with their lives from the cave of the one-eyed Cyclops, some of them had been turned to swine by the enchantress Circe. They had been lured almost to destruction on the rock-bound coast by the singing of the Sirens, the whirlpools of Scylla and Charbydis had almost wrecked them. At length,

"In the afternoon, they came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon."

In this charmed land, of the Lotus-Eaters, they thought they had reached the true happy land,

"They lay them down upon the yellow sand,
Between the sun and moon upon the shore;

And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland,
Of child, of wife and slave; but evermore
Most weary seem'd the sea, weary the oar,
Weary the wandering fields of barren foam.
Then some one said, 'We will return no more';
And all at once they sang, 'Our island home

Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.'"

In "Ulysses" is a nobler and truer finding of the land of happiness. The strong old warrior has found his way to his Ithacan home, but he is not satisfied to dwell with luxurious ease. Even in his old age, he summons his companions of the old struggle to sail beyond the sunset, and to touch the Happy Isles and see the great Achilles. And though their strength may not be what it was, nevertheless, with heroic hearts and strong will, they consecrate themselves "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

We affirm that not dwellers in the land of the Lotus-Eaters, but Ulysses, ever pushing forward to new adventure, to new struggle, to new service, found the true happy land.

Rotarians have taken it as their great purpose to achieve the conquest of the happy land of service. Because some do not know, I would tell it, that Rotary is an association of enterprising men from every business and profession, who find their one bond of interest in fulfilling the truth of the motto, "He profits most, who serves best." Rotary has found the happy land of service in various goodhearted ministries. To the Children's Hospital, to the giving of a good time to the poor at Christmas,

Rotary is always in active commission. The Y. M. C. A., the Red Cross, Liberty Bonds, and every possible call of need has been ministered to by Rotary's heeding of the call to service. It was the Rotary Club that went "over the top" in making good San Francisco's pledge to the government, whereby Camp Fremont was made possible. At the Presbyterian Camp Side Church, where basket ball courses are splendidly established, is also to be found an attractively furnished library of a thousand volumes, of the literature that appeals to the interest and imagination of the normal man. The San Francisco Rotary Club placed that library there because it wanted to be of service to the boys in our army. Yesterday, three thousand kiddies were given a treat, by Cressy at the Orpheum, because of the interested activity of the Rotary Club. The Smileage Campaign for placing a book of tickets in the hands of every soldier, whereby he will be enabled to visit the wholesome entertainments under the direction of the government War Camp Activities Committee, was pushed to a successful conclusion by the Rotary Club. One never saw more instant nor generous response than Rotary always gives to every call of service.

This land of service which Rotary has marked out, is a happy land, because it exalts unselfishness. The quest of happiness never was brought to a successful conclusion by the direct seeking. True happiness comes through the seeking of some one's else happiness. This is a peculiar but true attribute of