Rotary Spirit to Uplift the World

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6840, 22 April 1932, Page 8

Rotary Spirit to Uplift the World

CO-OPERATION IN SERVICE. THE ONLY WAY OUT. United Press Association. —J3y Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. MELBOURNE, April 20. The Chief Rotarian, Mr. Sydney W. Pascal!, who is making a world tour visiting Rotary centres, has arrived here after visiting South Africa, India, the Malay States, and Western Australia. Later he will spend a few days in Tasmania, where his iirm has business interests, and subsequently he will proceed to New Zealand cn route Home.

Speaking here, Mr. Pascall urged that the principles of Rotary could bo applied beneficially even to such a controversial subject as the tariff, wnich should be used only in such a manner that it would help the user and promote trade with other nations, instead of destroying it. . An exclusive tarill which disregarded the welfare of other countries’ trade could not bo productive of permanent benciit. “The whole world must realise,” he said, “that pursuit of self-interest, whether in politics or industry, has brought about the present mess. The only way out is to employ the Rotary principle of co-operation in service. Nothing else can lift the world from its present disorganised condition.”

Cheif Rotarian in Melbourne LIVE AND LET LIVE. MELBOURNE, April 21. Mr. Pascall, as guest of honour at a luncheon of the Melbourne Eotary Club, was cordially welcomed by the Prime Minister, who said that the principles on which Eotary was based were those which could free Australia and the Empire from their present difliculties. Mr. Pascal], responding, said that the policy of scllishncss and hostility between man and man, class and class, nation and nation, and Devil tako the hindmost, usually ended in the Devil taking the lot. The world would never recover until it adopted a policy of live and let live.