LORD LEVERHULME.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18220, 3 November 1924, Page 13

LORD LEVERHULME.

HIS CAREER AS A GROCER

(THOU OCR OWN COREESPOKDENT.) LONDON, September 2-1. When Lord Leverhulme opened the Grocers' Exhibition at the Koyal Agricultural Hall, Islington, ou Saturday, ii: was announced that he is leaving this week for Belgium, on his way to the Belgian Congo. Lord Leverhulme. who celebrate! his 73rd birthday last week, said his familv had been' associated villi the trade for over a hundred years. The motto of his father and of himself had always been: "Service to the public." "I began my career 57 years ago as an. apprentice'iu the grocery trade." he said. "As the word Calais was said to have been found engraved on the heart of Mary, so, if yon will look at my house, you will find engraved upon it, 'The Grocery Trade.' A man's profit is what lie is entitled to. Isn't the grocer as useful as uie lawyer? We have the guinea barrister," the 1000-guinea barrister, and the L'fi.OOO-guincu barrister. So in the grocery trade. The successful grocer considers the best interests of his customer, and at the back of his civility must always be his sincerity. There is a limit, of course, to the grocer's service to the public, as my father found on an occasion. A little girl came, into .the shoii and said. 'Please will vou let. mother have change for sixpence?' My father counted out the coppers an.l asked for the .sixpence. 'Oh, that's ail right, sir. Mother will send it rouul on Mondavi' "