THE PRICE OF BRAINS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8792, 22 April 1907, Page 4

THE PRICE OF BRAINS.

“To-day,” said Mr Haldane at the meeting of the British Science Guild, at the Mansion House, “ brains have a better market in Great Britain than for a long time past.” He spoke with satisfaction of the progress of technical teaching, mentioning in particular Birmingham University, under Mr Chamberlain. To show how science developed new industries he cited the motor-car. He commented, too, on the striking development in railway management. While the fact that the private employer was giving way to the joint-stock company had its disadvantages, the ready command of capital possessed by the company meant more .and more that the price of brains was the price paid to the manager of a company and less and less to the private individual. Enormous enterprise was giving more opportunity to make colossal fortunes than ever before. Besides industrial magnates there were other magnates, who command colossal salaries because they are men with the power of organisation. Through the whole hierarchy of business we had a capacity such as we never used to know.