LORD JELLICOE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19700, 29 January 1926, Page 6

LORD JELLICOE.

YALUE OF WORK. (From Otjh Own Correspondent.) LONDON, December 18. Lord Jellicoo is still very much in the limelight, for his activities are many, and he is doing a considerable amount of public speaking. • Yesterday, at a Brotherhood meeting in Portsmouth, Lord Jellicoo said that England would never overcome her industrial difficulties if workers fought among themselves, because every industrial upheaval put them farther back and made more lost ground to be recovered. If common national danger led to comradeship, why should not industrial difficulties do tho same? The great need of to-day was lor employers and employed to get together. An erroneous idea had got abroad since the war that things could bo done without hard work. The sooner that idea was got rid of tho better. There was no question of shirking w,ork during the war. Why should there be any question of shirking work to-day? People must get bask to the idea that work, well performed, brought pleasure in its train. A NEW ROLE. Lord Jellicoo (cornmenta the Glasgow Herald) apparently does not intend to enjoy the peace of honoured retirement. As an Imperialist and a distinguished scama-n, ho is tilling many public roles, but the most fitrenuoiia and certainly the one which will be most applauded in the boy world is that which he has just been appointed to— Chief, namely, of the Scout Organisation in London. It is not Lord Jcllicoo’s first acquaintance with the cowboy hat ami shorts, nor yet with the administrative side of tho movement, for when Governor-General of New Zealand ho acted as Chief Scout of the Dominion,