EACH MAN TO HIS JOB

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1935, Page 3

EACH MAN TO HIS JOB

DAY OF SPECIALISED KNOWLEDGE. NECESSITY TO PULL TOGETHER. “There is a story of a ship’s captain and a chief engineer who got rather fed up with their jobs, and they said: ‘Let us have a swop,’ and they changed over for a voyage, “The chief engineer went on to the bridge and the skipper went into the engine room; the engineer got the engine going and things went all right for a stretch, and then the boat came to a dead stop and the skipper down below, after trying all he knew how to get the boat going, shouted to the engineer on the z bridge, ‘Mac, you will have to come down here, the engines have stopped,’ and the engineer shouted back, ‘ I am not surprised a bit, because the old schooner has been ashore for the last half hour.’ “That is what I mean when I say,” . commented Sir Arthur Lambert, in a speech reported in the Cost Accountant, “that we must stick to our specialised knowledge. “We have had a glorious past, but we cannot live upon it. Britain will have a great future if we. are prepared to work and win it, and if the whole community are prepared to pull together,' and shall then live to see the words of the poet Whittier come'true:— ;'' , “ ‘Through the harsh chaos of the day The low, sweet prelude finds, it way. Through clouds of doubt and clouds of fear •. . The light is breaking calm and clear.’ ”