WORLD’S NEED

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1933, Page 2

WORLD’S NEED

ACTUALISTS THE CHIEF THING

G OYER NOR-GEINER AL’S VIEW

NAPIER, January 24

lit the present chaotic condition of the world leaders of public opinion are apt to be classed as either optimists or pessimists, such description often connoting an unjustifiably rosy or gl.wmy outlook, as the case may he, said the Governor-General, Lord Bledislce, in an address at the Napier Chamber of Commerce dinner.

“The solution of the world’s deepseated maladies can oni’.y be found by the possession of cool heads, prudent minds and a compassionate spirit,” libs' Excellency said. “Confidence, the great harbinger of prosperity, is not to he achieved by an exaggerated degree of either cheerfulness or gloom, but by a clear realisation of the true facts of the world’s economic position, not only on the part of Governments or trained economists and financiers but by the whole body politic, whose ignorance or inadequate enlightenment may prove a formidable obstacle to the adoption of drastic remedies, ;fhe justice and efficacy of which may be crystal-clear to the student or the statesman but far from apparent to the man in the street.

“What the world needs to-day is neither optimists nor pessimists, but actualists. There never wn’s a time when it was more essential for nations, statesmen and loaders of finance, - industry and commerce to lay all their ■ cards unrosorvodlv uron the table and tor keen 1 the great democracies of the ‘.world fullv ‘ ‘tofe of’ current d'-orders and of the directions in which l;a«ie curves are most likely to he found.