GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2193, 23 October 1920, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

‘•'l'he defendant is only a poor working man,” staled counsel at the Alaslertun Magistrate's Court on Friday. “A poor working man,” replied the Magistrate. ‘‘ls there such a thing in the world to-day as a poor working man?” “A hat ahout a coal-miner,” remarked another counsel, amidst some laughter, in which the Magistrate joined,

A Business Talk with Business Men. —“There is a vast difference between wishing and winning. Many a good man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone ought to have been.” Are you wishing for more business, but lack the winning? Advertising is a sure enough winner, but it needs backbone in the man directing it. Advertising doesn’t bring results with a jerk. The beginning is slight, but the pressure is constant, and increasing all the time. The open season for hunting business lasts all the year round, but just now the game is particularly well worth going after. The best ammunition is an anverlisement in “The Manawatu Herald.”*

•'‘When speaking to children it is customary to give advice," said Go-vernor-General Jellicoe, at Wellington. “They hate it —Just as much as I hate giving- it. The only advice I have to give is—‘Be unselfish!’ Unselfishness carries everything else with it. Whether it be in a football team, a cricket team, fighting the Germans, or playing a part in 11 political agitation —it is all the same thing. Don’t think of yourself—think of those you are acting, or fighting, or playing with. That was the spirit which caused your fathers and brothers to go and fight for civilisation. In (he Army and Navy it was called discipline. It was that which carried men ‘over the top’ to face all sorts of things on the other side of the parapet —it was the spirit that carried a nation, an empire, through anything. If you cultivate it in your games, it will stand to you in the strain of later life, and you will come out on top, and you will find the British Empire—the finest Empire on which the sun has ever set —will also come tout on top.”