Mr. Frank Goldberg Hails A Brave New World

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 36, 17 February 1939, Page 5

Mr. Frank Goldberg Hails A Brave New World

New Democracies In The Pacific

RE are plenty of pessimists abroad in the world today, but that enterprising advertising expert, Mr. Frank Goldberg, governing director of Goldberg Advertising Ltd., who arrived from Sydney" by tne Mariposa last week on a visit to his firm’s New Zealand branches, isn’t one. In his opinion, a new world is being born, he told the "Record." "I think it is going to be a very different sort of world, but a much better one," he said. "The world -in spite of the pessimists-is going to enjoy an era of hard work and reasonable ‘leisure, instead of

an era of unemployment, fear and hatred. It is going to be a world in which our children will enjoy life. Dictators may try to stop it; forces of vested interests may try to stop it, but it is going to arrive, for’: mankind must go on progressing." Mr. Goldberg hates. croakers, On every hand he heard themmoaning about the inevitability of war, fearful of the power of the dictator. "But one has only to look around at young; virile countries like Australia and New Zealand to realise that here, with Nature’s gifts and with a heaven-sent opportunity, we are building a free and untrammelled

civilisation that no man can submerge," he said. ‘I firmly believe, as do many other peopie, that the future of the world may easily be in this area of the Pacific, with Australia, America and New Zealand showing what may be accomplished in building up industries and making decent conditions ‘under which people may live in comfort. Wartorn, overcrowded and rent by racial jealousies, Europe really seems to have collapsed, and it looks as if these younger, freer lands must show the world the way to peace and security." Incidentally last week’s voy. age by the Mariposa was Mr. Goldberg’s 99th crossing of the Tasman, so that when he returns to Sydney, he will have reached his century. How many businessmen can_boast of so many crossings? Sir Benjamin Fuller holds the record, but not many have passed the century mark.