Vocational Guidance

Many homilies have been preached on " life's failures "?who are generally visualized as grimy loafers supporting die walls of a public house. But failures are of many types and they are not always recognizable at sight. They include the adventurous spirit eating out his heart as a bank clerk; the Army officer whose heart is in Cambridge or Bloomsbury and who finds nothing but boredom in his work; the schoolmaster who may know his subject from A to Z but who has a constant nerve-racking struggle to keep discipline. Such men are failures from their own point of view no less than the man who eschews work altogether. And they may well be more dangerous to society; for the loafer is often a jovial fellow and no-one's enemy but his own, while the man who is working constantly " against the grain " lives in a chronic state