BETTER DAYS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 67, 18 February 1932, Page 8

BETTER DAYS.

Goodbye to all the luxuries, that go with modern days. We’ve all been travelling far too fast, we’ll have to mend our ways. Mon preach and preach economy, we’ll have to find out how 1 To turn our idle fancies down, and face the crisis now. WVve all had money in the past, it’s no use looking glum. We’ve used it liko an endless chain, the reckoning day has come. We’ve lavished money here and there, on many useless things. And now we stand like moulting birds; we ( can not .spread our wings. Our markets overseas are dull, our spending power is low. We’ll havo to bind our wants about. ’Till money starts to flow. Our tastes have been extravagant,, our prudence gone to pot, Now we are chastened sore we’ll make, tho best of what we’v© got. We’ve had our warnings in the past, and now we’ll use our pence More wisely than we did our pounds, by using common sense. , Our good old men a few years back, pled with us as they may, Wo laughed at pessimism then, and scorned this evil day. We’ve all been guilty of the past, we i truthfully must own. And those who live in homes of glass should never cast a stone. Experience teaches lessons hard, though none of us should gloat. Somehow there’s comfort in the thought that others share the boat. It’s bad enough when trade is slack, and business wears a frown. But worse than any coward’s trick to hit us when we’re down. But are we down? Who said we’re down? though want stalks through the land, We’ll join our foroes one and all, and fight it hand to hand. ’Neath common bond. of sympathy, our troubles will grow pale. But should we strive amongst ourselves, humanity must fail, If we Have learnt our lesson well, and with it mend our ways. We *ll' with confidence can wait, the dawn of better days. R.LkJ,