WHY WORRY?

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4442, 19 July 1922, Page 1

WHY WORRY?

There is, according tp the geologists, less than eighteen years' supply of oil, and this is frightening S’ome folk. The granddads of these same folk worried over the shortage of whales.

Pessimists are pointing to the short coal supply, while scientists smile and picture the immeasurable resources of electricity.

Every time the pessimists mention the shortage of something up goes the blood pressure of some people.

Humans are short on hard work, but out of the brain comes some lab-our-saving machine, and then humans hump to get another job.' The law of supply and demand in genius seems to be working. We worried over our super-navies, but now battleship building is unpopular. We got all “hit up” over Bolshevism, but it shot its bolt. W? have worried over the income tax and worried through the outgoing tide of business. We have wept and wailed over the world, and left a lot of! our own tools out in the rain to rust. Personally, we are going tp leave this country to Parliament and take up our own tools and try to put sometiling together worth while. We are going to try to help New Zealand by turning in and turning out what New Zealr id is in great need of—commercial courage.

There is np need of this article, or any other article, to encourage commercial courage when we stop to think.

New Zealanders 1 have plenty of courage of any brand; You are hou’eful and so arc thousands of other humans.

You feel that you will win, and thousands more (eel the same way. You have great faith in the ultimate result of most things that are right, and this is exactly the way thousands of other folk feel. You have confidence in this country, and we all have. Any day that you lack courage or confidence, just turn your proxy over to the Highest Authority and let Him run the world until your courags come; back.

You will find, when you come to reflect, that He has been a reliable and resourceful manager from the day He started the sun to shine. You w' find that folks get ahead by keeping their 'heads—by minding their own business.

The military men who set out to change the map of tlie world are most of them on the other side of the River Styx. A few are hiding behind some picket fence in a friendly country. God still, rules in a msytenious but masterful way.