SUCCESS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1927, Page 1

SUCCESS

UNDELIVERED SPEECH. BY LATE LORD COWDRAY. The speech which Viscount Cowdray had prepared in anticipation of the conferment on Him of the freedom of the City of Aberdeen, a. ceremony which had lie lived, would have taken place on -May 3, the day of his funeral, has been issued to the British Press. The speech, would have been in reply to one hv Lord Provost Lewis, acknowledging the deep debt of gratitude which Aberdeen owed to Lord and Lady Cowdray. In the course of his speech Lord Cowdray drew an analogy between Aberdeenshire and his native country of Yorkshire, which country, however, had some defects. It was too modest, and, from a publicity point of view, was much behind the age. These failings of Yorkshire were avoided by Aberdeenshire, which admittedly was modern in its methods and retrained from hiding . its light under a bushel. Happily, they of Ditneelit were within the proverbial 12-mile’ radius of Aberdeen. Therefore they fairly claimed the right to participate in the advantages of that fair and renowned city.

Alter referring to his early life. Lord Cowdray paid the following eloquent tribute to his wife: “ Of the influences which shape one’s life, nothing comes into the same category with the great crowning influence which a man possesses in that perfect partner —a wolimated wife. “To have by you one who shares with head and heart the successes anil the failures ; who gives tine encouragement, hut lias the courage to administer the home lruth, unpalatable Iml necessary sometimes; who is never afraid of responsibility, but is prepared to start life afresh should need arise, such a partner is beyond praise or price. She is simply one’s needed life blood, and 1 make no apology for tills due tribute to mine.

“ Indeed, in all my partners, I have been singularly blessed. They joined mo as young men, and it growing old can ever he pleasure, it has been in growing old together. “] would i'ike to say one thing to young men and women who must carry on the work of the world. Tn no part of it:, and 1 have work in many, is there any short-cut or royal road of success, and success includes much more than mere money-getting. “ I say tin’s because 1 am so often asked by anxious parents bow they can can ensure the success of their children, as if there were a secret to divulge.

“ Nobody can ensure the success of another. A man must stand on his own feet. The inexorable law is character. and let every voting man ambitious to succeed feel he has lost his way until he finds a job which absorbs all the best of himself. Success is sweet. To-day 1 realise how profoundly sweet it is. but the job is in the doing. Not the end of the journey, but the travelling is wliat makes life worth while.”