DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 194, 5 November 1927, Page 26 (Supplement)

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

THE POINT OF VIEW TAT‘?r’TT<3<STrw , (Copyright. 1927) BpS s. " S ° mg ° n recently in the press about George to b? a good telc S her emark that & W ° man ° Ught to be a “°«*er in order have T o^y r unmarrird aS teache a r S - ° PP ° SinS the tendencies -any places to of this n ques d Uon torS haV6 expressed themselves upon one side or the other After all it is merely a point of view. . , °. n< r sid< ? looks at the question as to whether a woman can do a good job at teaching or not. uo a soon to h. r fil e tS Slde lo °^ S the question as to whether the woman ought to hav e the place or not with the salary attached. .}? many Places of business a job is looked upon as a sort of special privilege and certain classes are favoured in giving jobs out, such as world war veterans, old people, unmarried people and so on. If a man can do the business, or a woman either, what difference does it make whether he or she is married or not or young or old? What most people want in business is results. Who attains them or how they are attained is a matter of indifference so long as it is done honestlv I remember once that a presiding elder in the Methodist church gave as his reason for sending a man to a certain place: .. * s ® nd that man it will kill the place and if I don’t send him it will kill him, so between the two I will send him and save the man.” This is a good example of care for the individual ranking above care for his work. Every man must be judged by the kind of work he does and not by whether he is deserving of the job or not. The other side of civil service is to select men competent’for the position and not to give the positions out to certain groups of men. In considering an applicant for the job, common sense tells us to consider his ability to perform the duties of that business and not his abilitv I in. some other direction. ~ j A president of the United States or the mayor of a city should be ! selected because he is capable of performing the duties of his office and whether he was a good handshaker and baby kisser or not has nothing to do ! with the case, in reality, although in politics it has jnuch to do with it.