DOES BRAIN WORK PAY?

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10406, 29 August 1911, Page 4

DOES BRAIN WORK PAY?

One . cannot fail (writes "Public Opinion") to -ask the question, Doe® brain work pay? when one i>>a Is of the new grants made firom the Civil List to those whose merits, or the .merits of their distinguished it latives, deserve their fin ancial, re cogndtioav—which, ■ however, is on'y given ,in case of weed ~ The Jist, f< i instance, contains the. name® of Jv.tr. Joseph Conirad, the: novelist, Mid Mr W JB. Yeats, the poet. The first gets£loo and tthe .second £150; La<ly Huggins, .the astroroamer, £1)0; an expert in Elizabethan and Jacobean, literature gets £6O; Professor Rnighlt,- the authority on Wordsworth, gets £SO; Mr T. Kirkip, ihe authority on Socialism, £SO; a lac 7 y ifor her contribution ito the btudy or Pali get® £SO, and several oth?r >l:.s--tinguished literary people get similar amounts. The list of those >vho get moniey in recognition of the g< rvices of their distinguished rmsit'ves includes members of the following (families who are in straitened car■cumstanoesi or have "inadaauate of support." The families of [the late Dr ft. B. Sharpe, the /oojlogist;' Colonel C. R. OonJ jr, the (Palestine expert; Mr John David|son., the poet; Mir Frederic Greeojwood, the founder of the Pall Mall |Gazette; Dr George Gore, F R.S., and .several others.