ADVICE TO BOYS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 23, 2 May 1947, Page 7

ADVICE TO BOYS

VALUE OF MONEY AND FAME DR. JOAD’S PHILOSOPHY Dr. C. E. M. Joad, Britain’s philosopher, teacher, author, radio-Brains Trust member, and ex-Civil Servant, talked practical philosophy to boys at a meeting at the Schoolboys’ Own Exhibition at Westminster’s Central Hall. And here are some of the things he said: Although a lot of people pretend that they do not care about money, believe me, it is “all my eye.” Money is very important, and the older you get, the more important I it becomes. And the first thing you must insist on doing when you go into a job is to see that you get paid a reasonable high wage or salary ... If you do not, get another job. Money does not make you happy . . . but it enables you to be miserable in comfort.

Fame is the second thing that you might want when you grow older—something that I’ve always wanted —fame.

If you want to be famous you must not go into the civil Service, and you had probably better not go into an' office at all, because almost everybody in offices are not heard of anywhere else. | There is one drawback—that you I think you have never got enough. However famous you may be there is always somebody more famous than you. Women are not as mysterious as they were^ When I was a boy they were so covered up that I thought all women were solid down to the ankles, where they branched into a pair of feet.

However, you know more about them now than I did. You will know much more in years to come, and God help you, will almost certainly marry one of them.