NOT TO BE LAUGHED AT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 6

NOT TO BE LAUGHED AT.

Your article on "The Laugh Maker," Mr. Laszlo Schwartz, was very interesting. "Mr. Savage may not realise it," he assures Uβ, "but in a way he could become the greatest laugh maker in" the history of Xew Zealand." Yes, he could, If he realised it, and that's the tragedy. If Mr. Schwartz stayed with us «. while we could show him the smile on the faces of the Maoris at Orakei, on the faces of the unemployed, on the faces of the taxpayers, on the faces of the B station folk, on the faces of the parents who have to pay so dearly for the "free" education of their children "from the infant school to the University," on the faces of the employer, farmer, the house seeker, and a lot more. Had he been a little earlier he would have seen the smile on the face of those Government members and their friends as they arrived back from their glorious trip overseas, "all expense* paid." Humour is a errand thing; the rollicking laughter of the housewife when she pave just a little more each day for each article is just about as good to hear as the comment of a sustenance man when he is arrested for drawing a dole he is not entitled to. This, ■sir, is not a time for humour. We New Zealanders cannot help seeing the tragedy of the worklese and homeless. and cannot help remembering those election promises. The Rev. Jaeper Calder, Sister Esther and the hundreds of other social workers in this city <see nothing to roar with laughter at. Our cheer leaders, in a different capacity, are doing well, and the Optimists' Club ba.« gone out of business. In conclusion, let us wish Mr. Schwartz well; some day, too, we may laugh agaiu. as a nation. Just now it's of ''Knock, knock, who's there?" "Another inspector." HA. HA.