Galway In Days Gone By

1921

Indifferent girls

If our girls have any sense of local or personal pride, they will take prompt measures to remove the grave reproaches cast upon them at the meeting of Ballinasloe Asylum Committee on Monday.

It was charged that those who entered the institution to fit themselves for one of the most responsible posts in the nursing profession were “careless” in their studies, and “absolutely indifferent to their duties”.

A well-known Roscommon clergyman, whose knowledge of the classes from which these girls are drawn is considerable, went further and declared that they are “careless, idle and lazy”.

We had this week remarkable confirmation of the suggestion that girls who aspire to business and secretarial are indifferent to study. A shorthand-typist, so-called, was dismissed from a business establishment for incompetence – then she applied to a local school to study business methods.

It had apparently never occurred to her to improve her efficiency so long as she could “hang” on to her position. It is, indeed, a remarkable fact that Galway, with all its schools, seems unable to turn out a well-trained, well-educated, efficient business girl.

Those who are being sent out to the world are largely without skill, without ambition, and they altogether lack that thoroughness that tell so much in the office girl.

State of the roads

The state of the roads in this district has become a menace to human life. There are deep potholes all over, and the slush in most towns is ankle deep.

Nobody seems to be doing anything at all to roads. Yet money is being paid out every quarter for “maintenance”. Travellers must be careful if they wish to avoid accidents. And whilst the roads are allowed to run down officials are kept comfortable in jobs.

Surely, whilst general repairs on a large scale need not be undertaken, something should be done to clean the streets, and prevent our roads going altogether to pieces. The worse they get, the greater the costs on ourselves later.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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