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, -BY ROTARIA.~ DIe LUDWIG MISES~ ',::,

. Professor at the University {ji Vienna. - :

.: ' ••'Service~" is ply: gi~i~g in-exGhange the fruits, p£
'the device: of the: his -industrial .' efforts -, 'The present
: 'Rotarian. ' ;,:;. .' standard of life of all', nations' is ba-:
, , In' no .§phere sed ...on the' enormous 'increase' of ~he
"of humanj acti- productivity" of human work r.which
-: vity' "can ' this has been made possible onlv; by ,an
, ., principle .Iind an international division of labour. ,'
.: - application on a .INTERDEPENDENCE OF C.OUN-
: .. larger scale than -'". ., :TRIES. .: -'
in econ~mics: ~u; : ..~These' 'are ·proposit.ions so .simple
man SOCIetyDe~n.o-and self-evident that It seems hardly
based on_a dIVI- 'necessary to .mention t~e~. The: -~a.ct,.
sion of. labo~H, 'however _ that commercial hostility
t~e. work ?f Ill- :still exists between nations" proves
dividuals IS... of 1that,. in spite of the axiomatic, 'nature
.• -e, .' ·necesslty. plece-. 'of this truth . it is not quite . ·super-
work only. E,:~ry, human ~elllg, 'p~r- iflm)\is tore-state it. Tlie spirit has not
forms .one, task bn~~ an~ h,IS aC~I.vIty:y,e{ died' ont 'wbic~ regards the prospe-
IS limited to a nan?w held. Unaided. :l;Ity of other nations 'as a danger to
by th~ ,~o~k of ?-t,~e[.s.h~ ca!1no~:eX.Is~.'one's own country" though experience
'..The manner m, which every indivi- .teaches 'USevery 'day that in VIew..of
dual arranges hIS Iife : presupposes 'the close·' "economic ..'int-erdependeI}cj}·
~h:e.'adi'ytty:-:-~f other . in~m~c~'s of of. ail countries e"yerY'si~gle' state )i~s:
s~Clety .m "?f~upatlOn~,,:~Jtl,cf~B.;J:.J1\Q-' ~,~.·la~g~.mter,esj, In t ' nr~spenty .'of
~~~ously.Gornplement hIS ~wn w'oFk a?10 ;other. states. ~Any de-fj . of business
v.H;e,.versa,.:If: .weconsc~o1!-sly~.,~?e(,Ia-.activity in AI;Ile6c~ ruukes' itself felt,
lize 1P 9ne,: kind . of. ,achvlty,:!Ve can --in."an -exraordinarily .acute manner'
'dp '~o,. o~l~ .~be~iJ,u~.?~.6 ..~·')_~n( npon ~all /:Over., Europe" .. When '. business
other .indi viduals being ready to serve .flourishes" in 'the United States, more
-us i.us~·~s we 'are prepared to ser,ve •European jciods -:al'e imported. ~here
t~em dt IS .her~, that· !he great prm- .and a-.Targer number ~~ Americans
c~ple of solidarity, which governs 50- : visit 'Europe .with the, con~eqnen~e
cicty, comes into play, . .' . 'that business on this 'continent . IS
The principle;' of' solida I'lty': howe- brisk· ~h.en there. is a depression ~p
ver, does not lose "its force at the the United States, .there IS distr ess jn
frontiers of a country. Economic soli- ,E,u'rope. ,:",' . ~ -', , , '. .
darity does not unite. compatriots -. :: To recognize the need for solida- .
only, but It tie" together all peoples. ;rity in economic lite and to affirm It
The .European feeds on,' and clothes !by conscious action is service in the
'himself in, the products which Aruc- .sense .in which a Rotarian uses the
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