ADVICE TO GIRLS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 137, 7 December 1938, Page 19

ADVICE TO GIRLS

ADDRESS BY LORD GORELL

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" London

Representative.)

LONDON, October 27,

Advice to girls was given by Lord Gorell when he spoke at the Godclphin and Latymer School. The theme of his address was the rapid changes in the modern world.

The world in which they were \iving, he told the girls, really dated only from the days of their grandfathers. If it were possible to assemble, with suitable interpreters, an educated Roman of the old days, an educated Elizabethan, and one of their grandfathers, he thought that it would be possible for them to carry on an intelligent conversation and make one another understand the type of life they had all lived. But if a fourth were added to the party in the person of a modern young man, they would find -things very different. He would probably arrive and announce that he had left his car in a one-way street and would have to go out and park it elsewhere. When he spoke to them of cars, aeroplanes, and telephones the three from the preceding generations would come to the conclusion mat he was either mad or a liar.

Communication in the old days could not go faster than the pace of a horse, but now there were a hundred and one ways of communication and locomotion. His own father, who was born in 1848, had to go to school by coach because the steam train was only just coming in. He died before the era of the aeroplane or wireless broadcasting.

It was a great pity that the incredible inventiveness of man during the past twenty years had been devoted not so much to engines of construction as to engines of destruction. Our mental equipment was far outstripping our moral outlook. We were inventing things which, if they were ever let loose, would make life impossible. He

hoped that day would never come and that the girls would be given the opportunity to take advantage of this wonderful age in which we lived.