LITTLE INCENTIVE FOR YOUTH TODAY TO WORK HARDER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 27, 19 August 1949, Page 5

LITTLE INCENTIVE FOR YOUTH TODAY TO WORK HARDER

The youth of today was passing through a difficult and dangerous period, County Commissioner, Mr C. Kingsley-Smith, Whakatane, declared in his report to the annual meeting of the Bay of Plenty Scout Council, when stressing the great service scouting could give the youth of New Zealand. The average boy had far more money than he should handle. He left school with a wider range of knowledge, but much less thoroughness and accuracy. They read alluring advertisements in the Press appealing for their services, offering easy conditions and high wages, he said. Promotion Just Comes

“They do not need to discipline themselves and work hard to earn promotion—it just comes automatically in six months or less and its successive rises are posted on the office wall, showing also the wages of their seniors.

“Off they go to higher paid jobs. What real incentive is there to cultivate those values of industry, thrift, self-discipline and respect of their seniors, the character that has pioneered New Zealand?” he asked. Scouting could help immeasurably in training the individual to cultivate those latent powers of selfreliance, appreciation, courtesy and respect. He appealed for continued efforts in the interests of the “grandest movement ever dedicated to youth.”