Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1912. TRAINING FOR BUSINESS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 81, 2 April 1912, Page 4

Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1912. TRAINING FOR BUSINESS.

In a letter to a leading Home journal Mr H. Hirst, chairman and managing director of the General Electric Company, says that university men of 'good education, good social standing, 'and willing to work are wanted in business for highly paid positions, and that they cannot he got in sufficient numbers This aroused keen interest and much comment in business circles. Sir Edward H. Holden, chairman and managing director of the London City and Midland Bank, does not entirely agree with Mr Hirst’s views regarding the need for the university man, and says if we put Mr Hirst’s ideal university man by the side of the “business educated” young man in any commercial house in London at twenty-two years of age, we find the university man is ignorant of business, the’ other is an expert, and that the university man has no chance as an asset of business worth to an employer for a considerble period. “But I admit that my 'business educated’ young man lacks something which the university or social standing has given to the other,” added Sir Edward. “That to my mind is a great weakness. The council schoolboy has not had the advantage of a highly educated mother. He has lacked the indefinable influence of the culture of a trained woman. Neither the council school nor the Polytechnic give that to him. But I would supply the need. I would*group these council school-boys at varying ages and place them under the direction of highly trained men and women of culture. Given such a system, I unhestitatingly believe that at twenty-five years of age any business-trained boy will easily outdistance in business the average university man, however high his social position.” MR. KiPUNG’G FORECAST. Who will rule the world in A.D. 2150? what will be the dominant power then? These are the questions of extraordinary interest raised by Mr lludyard Kipling in his latest story, “As Easy as A B €,” in the “London Magazine.” Ho not only raises them, but answers them; and his answer is —Traffic! and some of the tilings he says are of considerable value. Traffic is going to make war absurd. Mr Kipling imagines A.I). 2150 as a perfected aerial age. dhe nations of the world have become educated beyond the point which allows of international jealousies and wars; and have appointed one Board, the Aerial Board of Control, to manage their public affairs. This Board has but one law and one object—“the maintenance l of traffic and all that it implies.” The vastness of the meaning underb ill ■; these simple words is brought mil in enthralling fashion by Mr Budyarl Kipling. He tells of the extraordinary adventures of the A If C and draws such vivid pictures of the world under this new civilisation as makes the story a remarkable one.