Truth THE NATIONAL PAPER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1928. In the Looking Glass

NZ Truth, Issue 1204, 27 December 1928, Page 4

Truth THE NATIONAL PAPER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1928. In the Looking Glass

THERE is pleasant music m striking the gong of those "Happy New Years" on the first two or three days when, chrysalislike, the new span of life uncoils itself and breaks through its sheath.

Life seems to be ever an experience of looking forward, while retrospect, however pleasurable m recollection, is akin to so many old letters m a .filing cabinet- — their portent almost forgotten with the effluxion of hours or years, their significance wellnigh suppressed by the climbing column of incident which seems to pile upon itself as the hour glass spends its sand. If your experience of what WAS has been at all clouded, be cheered by the thought of a pleasant TO BE, and by our sincere expression that even though your best-remembered present m 1928 1 was twins, or that you suffered imprisonment through failure to pay yoiir income tax, we wish you better luck and" happier fortunes from the time when the gentleman with tlie scythe collects the fragments of this year and moulds it into the next. \ From the national vantage point one does not perceive anything very stimulating m the records of 1928. ; Governmental supervision of New Zealand's hospital systems is m precisely the same "pathetic condition which manifested itself a year previously ; rail passengers still are subject to the brigandage of railway buffets, where travelling families are obliged to spend most of the money they had tucked away m those red pillar-boxes, on the kitchen' mantelpiece. Thoughtful parents need not clutter their children's heads with thoughts of what vocations they shall choose. Successful tenderers for the catering requisite of sleepy folk who stagger from the train at some mid-coun-try {Station 'make bewildering profits. Fourpenco* for a single ham sandwich is a bright example of what is meant, and bright youth should observe a lucrative future m the business. Peculation and outraged trust continue among a . section of the legal profession^ New Zealand. Wagonloads of advice were tipped on to the problem, but the lawyers do not seem to have dipped very deeply into the mound which confronts them. Still, there is 1929 untouched, and Opportunity, is now a wide open door. The police, force had its pay increased. . This should have happened years 'ago. . What more is there to say? Very little, except that m addition to wishing our readers the happiest of New Years, it is hoped that at least ten per cent, of those fairy dreams weaved by Sir Joseph Ward come true.