THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
THE BRIGHTER SIDE. 1 It has been said that the pessimist remembers that the lily is allied to the onion, hut that when the optimist sees an onion lie thinks of the lily. The Englishman: belongs to the . former class. He is a chronic grumbler and a had window-dresser. Ever-’ since postwar difficulties began ho has been advertising his million or more unemployed and the. amount/of money he pays in the “dole,” with the 'result that numbers of people in the Dominions and in fo r eign countries picture Britain, as on the verge of industrial ruin.. The American is wiser. There appears. 1 to be about the same amount ,of unemployment there, hut little is said of it. The world is invited to envy the American his bounding prosperity. The new* Government, in England, more' imaginative than its predecessor, has the supplementing of the regular returns of unemployment with the numbers of those in work. That is to say* it invites attention to the bright as: well as the gloomy side of English industry. There are mope than a quarter of n million more persons working in England to-day thhn there were a year, ago. —Auckland Paper.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1929, Page 4
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202THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1929, Page 4
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