The Rotary Club no. 652 (August 10, 1950)

Today's luncheon guest speaker WAS Dr. Everett Stanton Turner, honorary general secretary, of the YMCA of the Philippines. Dr. Turner voiced the opinion that the Philippines, being the first democracy and Christian nation in the Orient, is called upon to play a leading role in the preservation of democracy in the Far East as the cold war goes on. The basic issue in the present struggle, Dr. Turn, pointed out, is between "a police state with its consequent enforced slave, of the masses (and) a free world." He defined thus the conflict of ideologies between the communist-dominated world and the democratic states. He maintained that the world cannot exist half-slave and half-free and advocated that the democratic nations in their struggle against communism should include the education of people everywhere on the true meaning of Moscow domination. Dr. Turner urged all democratic nations to send material support to the Americans who are already dying in the battlefields of the hot war in Korea. In the case of the Philippines particularly, he said it has the "supreme opportunity, to help save the world for the cause of freedom." "Rotary and Rotarians," he said, "have the greatest opportunity of all times in (the) cold war. We have 7,000 clubs located in strategic centers of the world. No other luncheon club has such a world outreach. "We stand for brotherhood and mean it. The cause of mankind in this cold war obliterates racial and nationalistic barriers. We do not know the term alien." Responding in behalf of the Rotary Club, "Fred" H. Stevens paid tribute to Dr. Turner. He lauded the guest speaker's record of public service in the Philippines, stating he is one of the great Americans who devoted the best years of his life to the youth of this country.