HOW TO GET ON.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 62, 27 February 1912, Page 3

HOW TO GET ON.

•In what wav can I be of use in this world is a cry I am constantly hearing from many well-qualified young Australians, sa.d Sir Henniker Heaton in a speech at the conversazione held in Lis honour at the Sydney Town Hail th? oth/r day. lie said that as far as polities were concerned everyone could not be a Gladstone, a Palmerston, cr a Disraeli. but 1: ■ v.ould advice every young fellow ambitious for good, everyone who lead not ti.e all-round great qualities of these statesmen, to try to become a sort of Paganini and play perfectly on one string. He hopeel to live to see the day when Australia would send a young fellow to be Prime Minister of Eng land, to win the Derby, or a young fellow to b’ Archbii-hop of Canterbury, f-r Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, though he was told that these ecclesiastical appointments would be the more difficult because of the great absence of veneration among the young people. But lie would warn every aspirant for distinction that one quality was necessary, and that without it the young Australian was doom-, d to failure. This quality was nut knowledge. though this was absolutely nec.'-’-'ary : it was not eloquence, though this was most helpful ; it was not force of character and the hide of a rhinoceros .though it was essential—:t was belief in one’s cause. Without this faith or belief wholly -engros-ing one's mind the critrcs of t’ne great men and the simple would so.>;i find on? out.