“SPIRIT OF GRAB.”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10727, 26 October 1928, Page 5

“SPIRIT OF GRAB.”

PREVALENT AMONG POLITICIANS.

DEAN INGE’S STRICTURES,

Unileil Prose Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright

(Australian Press Association.)

LONDON, Oct. 24. Following Lord Birkenhead’s resignation owing to the financial interests of his family Dean Inge, in the Evening Standard,; asks : _ Are our big.men overpaid, ' particularly; whether with £SOOO per year, and the honor of serving their country they should lie content as members of Cabinet Y Personally he thinks that, if a man is not content with £SOOO and he. probably is dear at the price, it would be better to let him go. True, the stipends of Ministers were fixed when money went twice as far, b'ut high officials in those dajs expected to live in extreme pomposity., it was also true that- ihe public, which paid civil servants a pittance, rained gold upon actresses, movie stars jockeys, dramatists, lasers, and business men, it would be of incalculable benefit to the country if it were made plain that the best people were content with simple self-denying lives. The stability of the social structure _ was threatened by the universal. spirit of grab. Certainly large business incomes were not. really earned, except in the case of a clever surgeon. Let public men cut their coats according to their cloth. It is unpatriotic to ask for more money at present.

LORD BIRKENHEAD’S APPOINTMENT. COMPLETE DENIAL REPORTED. United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright Australian Press Aspu - United Service LONDON, Oct. 24. The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent quotes a fully informed authority that there is not a vestige of truth in the statement that Lord Birkenhead has been appointed to the management of the new Imperial Communications Co., at a salary of £15,000 a year.