SUCCESS IN LIFE

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16420, 14 January 1919, Page 8

SUCCESS IN LIFE

• MR MASSEY OX CHARACTER. | In a recent issue of the London pubi lication "Tit-Bits" several prominent men stated the quality they considered most likely to lead to success in life. The following is attributed to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Riehfc Hon. W. F. Massev:— __ "Which qualitv makes most for success in life! 5 " How very interesting a question! But how difficult to answer satisfactorily. I might say a dozen things, as it) seems to me just now, and each wouldi satisfy some cases of success we see round us. But if you ask me for one quality—well, if I must keep to tjiat, I should say: "A character people can, always roly on." * First, a man or -woman must liava what we generally term a "good character" ; he must be known as Itonesb and straight dealing, as trustworthy and reliable; as self-reliant to a certain degree, and rewlute to do his best. That is, at any rate, the type of man. we want to oome to us in the Dominion! over the seas. The day for the wastrel, for the spendthrift, for the ne'er-do-well being sent over to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, because he is a failure at home, because he has lost his character there, because it is hoped that "people abroad will not be so particular," is quite over. To-day, we :n the farther parts of the great British Empire are -willing to receive and welcome men and women, boys and girls, with open arms, and to offer them every chance of making names, fortunes, splendid homes with us. But they must be men and women, boys and girls, of high character; they must be trustworthy and have some self-reliance; they must be workers, and not shirkers. True manliness, allied to high Character ! That is* what leads to the highest! success.