The Waipukurau Press. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1932 YOUTHFUL ENTHUSIASMS

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 127, 24 May 1932, Page 4

The Waipukurau Press. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1932 YOUTHFUL ENTHUSIASMS

While due consideration should be given to the sentimental “rights” established by lengthy and loyal service in business or public affairs, it is evident that if the cause of progress is to be taken into proper account the claims of youth must be recognised more sympathetically than is generally the case. On this issue the Prince of Wales, a broad-minded man and blessed with more than the aver-

age share of common-sense qualities, has placed on record his outlook. Discussing salesmanship in a speech at the conference of the Incorporated Sales Managers’ Association of London, a recent cablegram informed us, he urged the importance of going out into the world and finding new customers for British goods. The urgent need of the whole world, he said, was the expansion of international trade, not its restriction. He advocated more efficient marketing methods to lower costs. It was essential that there should be the closest consultation and co-operation between all engaged in planning, directing, supervising, and operating industry and commerce. Remarking that if a man at 30 was not capable of taking responsibility and exercising authority and initiative, there was small chance of his becoming so later, the Prince urged that young men should be given key positions at an earlier age. “Recruit wisely,” he said, “train throughly, and trust boldly, and our young manhood will not. fail you.” For our part we incline to the viewpoint that the best years of a man’s life as far as initiative and sound judgment are jointly concerned lie between 30 and 40 years of age. In exceptional instances the 25-35 years period is marked by a decade of well planned achievement, and in other cases 40-50, or even later, but

in general experience it sems that mentally and physically, a man is at the “top of his form” in the thirties. Taken separately, his physical energies are usually at thier height during the ten years preceding the advent of his 30th birthday, while his mental powers appear at their best after he has reached his 40th year, but in balancing the account between the physical and mental claims we have arrived at the mean of 30 to 40 years. That the subject is a highly debatable one, we do not deny.

EXAGGERATED IDEAS As a country to live in, New Zealand evidently does not appeal to ! some Australians. An Auckland woman, who is spending a holiday in Sydney, states that people who are in general well informed have surprised her with theii* ignorance of the exact circumstances of the Dominion. A belief, ludicrous to New Zealanders, and engendered by the misapprehension that the Dominion is frequently shaken by earthquakes, is that it will sink beneath the sea some day, even though several of our lofty peaks overshadow Australia’s highest mountain, Kosciusko. No less unfavourable to reputation of the Dominion were the Auckland riots. They seemed to be the main topic of conversation in the “city of the big bridge.” The Aucklander

having since received newspapers from home, has been able to explain L o anybody who mentioned the riots to her that hoodlums and unde.rsirables had started the . trouble, not genuine unemployed, as many people thought. With a few exceptions, the

Dominion news : iii ;! Sydney news-' papers, the Aucklander complains, concerns such matters as riots, earthquakes and crime.