THE YOUNG IDEA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 August 1933, Page 2

THE YOUNG IDEA

Children attending over 2,200 elementary schools competed this year in the Duke of Northumberland’s lifeboat essay competition under the auspices of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The subject was “Why J should like to be a, lifeboatman.” Here are some of the reasons: — “I think I would rather take an interest in being awakened in the middle of the night.” “The sea is in my blood, and I should like to snatch lives from its angry grasp.” “I feel that a job of this kind will make me the man I want to be.” “When I was a small boy I wanted to be a lamp-lighter, later my ambition was to be a lion-tamer, but when I learnt a little about life my ambition was to be a lifeboatman.” “I should like to be a life-boatman now that I am getting older.” (essayist aged 10). “I would like to win medals, but not too many.” “When I come ashore my master would raise my pay.” “To save human life is better than all the wealth of the world. I should get a good deal of money for doing so.” “One can always be sure of the security of the family when one gets drowned or injured.” “I should have much lamentation and sorrow and I should also save the insurance companies from paying out money.” One essayist styled the life-boatmen “Brave sons of Providence,” and another “Splendid Godsends.”