Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1921. WHAT IS A MAN WORTH?

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2257, 31 March 1921, Page 2

Manawatu Herald THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1921. WHAT IS A MAN WORTH?

'iUK Crime. Minister of Great Briliiin gets .03,000 a year; our most popular lilm slur gets £250,000 a year! A s tree I scavenger gels £3 7> (id a week, and there are many country clergymen on whose educa--1 ion £.1,000 to £1,500 has been spent who would be glad to exchange salaries with him! These are two startling comparisons John Laurence makes in an interesting article entitled “Altai is a Man Worth? in Pearson’s Magazine. Perhaps his most striking statement is this one: “At the moment of writing I have before me a paragraph which

I will quote verbatim: ‘Tinplate and steel workers' representatives met at Swansea to formulate claims tor a further 75 per cent, advance on base rate.-. So far this year the men have received an extra 50 per (•(■nt. First hand steel workers are receiving to-day it]) to £3O a week, and lirst hand i inplaters £ll2 For £3O a week eaeli Great Britain gets i he following men to work for her, among others: A London magistrate, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, the First Sea Lord, Admiral Beatty, the Assistant PostmasterGeneral. and the acting head of the Koval Mint! Admiral Beatty, as First Sea Lord, gets £1,500 a year, but kindly regulations allow him to draw half-pay as well while serving a grateful country. It is indeed fortunate that money is not the only test of a man's real worth.