A MATTER OF COURTESY

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 21, 24 July 1918, Page 6

A MATTER OF COURTESY

10 THE EDITOR

Sir, —No better justification for ih'e letter of "Expert Tactician" could bs made than the letters of "Shop Assistant" and "Looker On." . These two writers quite overlook- the fact that shop assistants are paid to be civil (which, by the way, they should be, without being paid), whilst the public is not so paid. These correspondents are actually endeavouring to find an excuse for incivility;, employers should note this fact. I am a shop assistant of 20 years' experience, and I am with shop assistants every time in anything connected with their welfare, but I have no time for shop assistants who fail to recognise that even if they do not owe civility to the public, or to the interests of their employers, they at least owe it to themselves as assistants. Surely, even if the public is uncivil, it is no justification that they should ba so also. We must look with a broader outlook. How best can. we serve the public? How best can we serve the interests of our employers? 'How best in so doing can we serve ourselves? Not how little, but how much service can we give must be our leading * thought. Service is not ignoble. It is the highest manifestatiea of life, and the great war is ushering in. a new era in which service by all must be the mainspring of the Empire. —I am, etc., SERVICE. 23rd July. ;