THE JOY OF DOING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 12 January 1926, Page 3

THE JOY OF DOING

In ;i striking speech at SI I I- (Ii<■ I>l. .Mr 11. ( Dit'i loti Sel fridge said: "I lie i; i■t■: 1 1 ■ isi crime iiny man is capable < jl" i.s lazimss, I think thi' second grua tost- c-ri tin* is sell' -sat isfact ion. lieea use there is in 111. mg 1i i t disgusting than In sec a man wltu has .hue ;i little sit haek it) his chair anil think there is nothing inure worth accomplishing in this worlii. We must i itili'a vi'tir tn evti |tnr;i I e this idea from their systems. We must realise ter ourselves that the nld traeliiiig. that wluit was gcetl enough fur ear grandfathers is guod enough fur us. is not true. X''thing ran lie ten gund lur us. There is always the eluinee to progress, always the ehanee uf doing tilings heller. If we ean make young men feel they ean he progressive and enterprising. and i hat they must lake, risks, have nerve and eourage. must take a ehrnee uf failure, that, (hey must compete with anybody living, that, they must put themselves in that position ut an open challenge to the whole world; if we can do* that and at the same time toneh them and inspire them that they will pull their oars very hard, then they will do their duty tt» tlio State and give to themselves the pride of suecess. ■ The joy is not so niueh in the arliving; at the final goal. It is the doing it thiit is the real joy.