WHAT IS A MAN WORTH.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 April 1921, Page 8

WHAT IS A MAN WORTH.

The Prime Minister of Great Britain gets £5OOO a year; our most popular film star gets £250,000 a year! A street scavenger gets £3 7s 6d a week, and there are many country clergymen on whose education £lOOO to £l5OO has been spent who would be glad to exchange salaries with Jiim! These are two 'startling comparisons John Laurence makes in an interesting article entitled “What is a Man Worth?” in “Pearson’s Magazine.”

Perhaps his most striking statement is this one:—“At the moment of writing 1 have before me a paragraph which I will quote verbatim. ‘Tinplate and steel workers’ representatives met at Swansea to formulate claims for a further 75 per cent, advance on base rates. So far this year the men have received an extra 50 per cent. First hand steel workers are receiving to-day up to £3O a week, and first hand tinplaters £l4.’ “For £3O a week each Great Britain gets the following men to work for her, among others: A London magistrate, the head of the Crimjzxl Investigation Department of Seo<\nd Yard, the First Sea Lord, Admiral Beatty, the Assistant Postmaster-General, and the acting head of the Royal Mint! Admiral Beatty, as First Sea Lord, gets £l5OO a year, but kindly regulations allow him to draw 7 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.”