TIMELY TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 25 October 1935, Page 6

TIMELY TOPICS

SPEECH DAY ELOQUENCE. “Don’t forget that a public schoolboy, even if he has a trunkful of prizes and blazers and caps of all colours, when he enters business cuts about as much ice as a newborn baby,” said Lord Trent, speaking to the boys of Leys School. “His value to the firm is less than that of an elementary schoolboy who has had a few months’ experience of his job running errands or licking envelopes, and who, what is more, has a much greater first-hand knowledge of life and its problems. For a time the old public schoolboy will be a liability rather than an asset to his firm. He will have to settle down, learn his job, and learn above all to mix with people whose origin, whose home life, whole whole background in short, is quite different from his. There is probably more scope today in business than ever before, both for those who are ambitious to make a career for themselves and for those who feel that we who live in comfortable homes . and have enjoyed the boon of a public school education are under an obligation to serve the community in which we are placed.” <s■<s><?>*> Words of Wisdom. Prefer knowledge to wealth ; for ! the one is transitory, the other per- 1 petual. —Socrates. j <s> <i> j Tale of the. Day. j “What happened to your nice | lodger, Mrs Murphy?” “Oh, I had to get rid of him. He told me he was a Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge, and I found out he had . a wife and family in Nottingham.”