OUTLOOK. ]f you want to know liow few interests the ordinary man has, go and listen to a conversation in a pub. AVliat is it about? Usually, there are only live subjects—the price of beer, the races, gossip, the wages, and the weather. Very little else. In ’mosteases, too, you will find a pack of pessimists, who beieve that the world is going from, bad to worse, and that nothing can he done. Even in Great Britan there are millions of pessimists—people who do not read—people who have never travelled. Their interests arc as local as the interests of a horse. For them there is no hone of advancement. IT.ow can any sort of good luck ever reach such people as these?
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1929, Page 6
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