Just so long - page 12

The Rotary Balita no. 790 (February 9, 1956)

A dynamic presentation of world events since 1903, the ethical, economic and political conditions which governed when Rotary was born, and the impact on the world which Rotary has had, and may have, in the future, made by Past District Governor R. F.. Rutsch of Bern, Switzerland, included with these meaningful and inspiring words: "Because the idea of Paul Harris attempts to substitute service for power, friendliness for hate, understanding and goodwill for recklessness in business and political life, it will live much longer than the regimes of despots and of dictators. As long as we endeavour with all our strength to press ever onward toward our goal, as long as we do not exhaust ourselves in an empty chase after a super-organization, as long as we avoid glutted self-satisfaction, forgetting neither our ideals nor the necessity of doing battle for them, just so long need we have no fear for the fate of Rotary."