LOSING GROUND

Southland Times, Issue 21271, 18 December 1930, Page 7

LOSING GROUND

BRITISH TRADE APPEAL TO LEADERS TO “WAKE UP” SPEECH BY THE PRINCE (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) London, December 17. “Here in the Guildhall where my father a generation ago besought England to ‘wake up.’ I appeal to the leaders of British trade to wake up and thoroughly consider and act,” said the Prince of Wales decisively at the Incorporated Sales Managers’ banquet. The Prince called attention to the fact that Britain for several years had been losing ground at home. He said that the people must realize the risks attending the maintenance of methods which were satisfactory last century, but inadequate in the present conditions. Salesmanship, like sportsmanship, needed a love of adventure, courage, endurance, energy, initiative, judgment, unselfishness and philosophy to meet setbacks and be unrattled. The great game of commerce required all these qualities. Besides expert education, the Prince urged that public schools and universities should recognize these needs and provide training designed to produce recruits for trade suitably equipped to battle against the organization of other countries. Employers should recognize the need of appropriately educated and well paid staffs if British trade was to live and grow. B KIT Al N’S OPI’ORT UN LT Y AGREEMENTS WITH DOMINIONS. (Rec. 12.30 a.m.) London, December 17. Four Conservative members in the House of Commons, Sir Robert Horne, Mr J. Buchan, Major Walter Elliott and Major Oliver Stanley, have issued a manifesto stressing the need for economic and trade agreements with the dominions. They declare that the whole national future is at stake and democracy is threatened by the suggestion that a representative Government is unable to deal with business problems. Sacrifice and discipline are required from every class. If there must be a revision of wages in certain sheltered industries, it must be accompanied by a wholesale revision of management methods and sacrifice by capital as well as labour. The nation must not be put off with fiddling while Rome burns.