A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

THE GREAT ARE THOSE WHO SERVE

Ino not know in whose brain first dawned the idea of the great printing press which turns out this paper to-day.

L do not know the names of all those who helped to improve it and bring it to perfection. But I do know that the man who tends it and the man who cleans it are just as great as the greatest ol those whose ideas it converts into newsprint, if they are doing their work with the same honesty, faithfulness, and capacity. We must look larther than our History Books, our Halls ol lame, our “ Who's Who ” for a list of the great people of the community. To find the great people of the community you must find those who are serving faithfully in home and school, farm and workshop, engine-room and factory, mine and office, on sea and on land. “ For he is greatest who serveth best.” The great people of the community are those who use to-day lor a better to-morrow. They work in those movements which take us upward, onward, lorward. They arc the people who start things run tilings—inspire things—which spell human progress. They are the people who transform forlorn hopes into successful ventures by their enthusiasm and service. Their highest pay comes from doing the things they are not paid to do, and from doing faithfully the things they are paid to do. .Liiey are rarely thanked, but more rarely still do they think they deserve thanks. Sometimes their faithfulness is l'®iferred to in obituary notices, but not always—aiul they don t caie. They don’t work for the “gate money but for the game, not for the glorv, but for the goal, and the goal is the good of the whole team—the Community. M. PRESTON SI ANITA.