The Rotary Balita no. 707 (October 23, 1952)

Rotary has luncheons, but is not a luncheon Club; Rotary spends millions in good works, but is not a charitable organization; it prescribes high vocational ethics, but is not a trade union, medical council, or bar association; it endorses the principle of the United Nations, but is not a peace society. Rotary is a global fellowship of business and professional men, dedicated to the ideal of human services, and from this simple, informal, stimulating, challenging, organization flows such applied idealism as is seldom witnessed in the long life of man on earth. Let Rotary neglect or abandon its integrating principle of service and it will have lost its fragrance, its beauty, the secret of its power. All Rotarians are under compulsion to serve each other, the community, and the nation, and the world of nations. - Syracuse Rotary Letter