MODERN YOUTH

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXII, Issue 4642, 20 May 1938, Page 3

MODERN YOUTH

" 'Modern youth,' a great employer said the other day, 'is not so much painstaking-, which is a virtue, as finnicky and trifling, which is a sin and a crime. . If by some lucky fluke it does get to the top, it won't know how to handle things.' That, indeed, is tho danger* that besets the trifler. Concerned as he is with making

mountains out of molehills, will not the size of a real mountain discourage and overwhelm him? Rather has he been looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, where everything is distorted and small, and the result is inability to cope with anything bigg-cr. To be sure, trifles have their place and are not to be disdained by any means. Michelangelo was right: trifles do make for perfection, but only at the right end of achievement, when something has been accomplished, when *the back of a task has been more or less broken. Youth about to set ohitra life cannot be told too often that even if the handle of the pick is not too smooth, it is better far to let it be bo than to pause and fiddle with sandpapering it. The odds are* certain that a competitor has already made a bigger hole."—J.W. in the Birmingham Post.