A Good "Joke "

NZ Truth, Issue 1149, 8 December 1927, Page 8

A Good "Joke "

CURELY it is the pinnacle of ignorance and bad taste to find cheap wit at the expense of our unemployed. Thus the " Auckland Star": "One tally showed the people m the queue to number 44. Although they all looked very resigned, patient and crestfallen, was not a procession of unemployed. . . They were paying their telephone accounts."

If some of those good people who find humor m the slightly shabby and wholly dejected looking figures of the unemployed were compelled to join the alleged wits whose cheap "gags" creep into the newspaper columns, they would be amazed at the patient fatalism of those poor beggars who, every day, tramp our streets m search, not of charity, but of enough work to keep body and soul together . . . trying to subdue a gnawing desperation with a faint spark of hope.