REAL JOY OF LIFE

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6546, 20 November 1924, Page 8

REAL JOY OF LIFE

LIES IN ACHIEVEMENT “It is up to all the boys and girls who are present in this theatre toiay to achieve something,” said Mr Bransby Williams, the celebrated actor, when addressing a large assemblage of secondary school pupils in Dunedin. “One’s joy in life is achievement,” he continued, “and because a boy or girl is not bom df rich parents is no reason why he or she should not achieve something in the woi’ld. There is no rooin for the drone. Bees have no use for the drone. Th6y hunt him out. Shakespeare was a poor man, but the whole world was proud of his works. Edison Was a poor boy who worked on a railway station platform, but he was one of the wonder men of the present day. Lloyd George was once a poor, half-starved boy in the hills of Wales, but he was one of the greatest men of the day. Admiral Sims, of the United States Navy, was once a ragged boy who sold newspapers in New York. All these men had risen to fame as the result of their determination to grasp achievement, and once grasped they had clung to it.” ' ,/ i