SEEK THE BEST MAN

Hutt News, Volume 19, Issue 13, 29 August 1945, Page 9

SEEK THE BEST MAN

There is someone who knows how to do the job better than anyone else. Find him. —Herbert Hoover NOT ENOUGH Competent men are so scarce that there are not enough to go round. —Edison. POSSESSION OR PROFESSION What a pathetic thing it is to witness communities of men straining desperately to disentangle themselves from all kinds of confusion, trying collectively to make social adjustments and improvements, yet all the while distrusting the efficacy of individual application of the Golden Rule. Still, profession of its belief in its efficacy continues. A strange trait of human character, this man daring enough, in the face of God, to live distrustfully. of the Christhood's example, yet not sufficiently courageous to give up professing belief in it. Oh, courage return to the souls of men! —John Roebuck ASPIRATION Keep us from pettiness. Let us be large in thought, in word and deedLet us be done with fault-finding and leave off self-seeking. j May we put away all pretence and imeet each other face to face without self-pity and without prejudice. May we never be hasty in judgment and always generous. Teach us to put into action our better impulses, straightforward and unafraid. Let us take time for all things; make us grow calm, serious, gentle. Grant we may realise that it is the little things that create differences; that in the big things of life we are one. And may we strive to touch and S know, the great human heart com- [ mon to us all, and let us not forget r to be kind., £ ~ 0 LAUGH o The most completely lost of all days is that on which one lias not 8 laughed. . —Cluimfort. U O —' I) MY GOAL 6 Give me ayways a goal to try for, Let me fight till my breath be spent, Give me a dream to live and die for, And I shall be content. [j Keep for others, your silken leisure, n Drowsy days in the shade or sun, U 1 was never one to treasure |1 Rest, till my work is done. o No, for sloth is the worst of sinning, ] Give me the joy and the zest of U the fray, H Finding true reward in the winning, o Not in the prize or pay. ] O And if Victory be denied me ] I shall not shrink from anotner test, £ Nor care at all if my foes'deride me, Knowing that I did my best, ° Somewhere still there are roads unchartered, Somewhere still is an unfouiul U Grail. fj Let me go upward, valiant-hearted, o To the end of the last long trail. [] Give me always a goal to try for, £ Let me tight till my breath be U spent, fi Give me a dream to live and die for, o And 1 shall rest content. jj —From the "Weekly Letter." jj THE LAST WORD n "The last word" is the most dan- U gerous of infernal machines. H —Douglas Jerrold. o