Business: On to Ostend

Six Cunard liners cleared from Manhattan last week bearing 3,000 much-maligned souls to Ostend, Belgium. From various quarters of the globe other ships bore 5,000 more souls, equally maligned, to the same destination. They were the world's Rotarians and—as they call their wives—Rotary Anns, off to their annual international convention to promote the Sixth Object of the Rotary.*

Of the fleet of North American Rotarians it was announced that radio communication—or "contact," as Rotarians say—would be continuous between ships all the way across the ocean so that...

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