GETTING USED TO IT
[ "We grumble, we revise our budgets, we say that revolution is inevitable, but our nerves are under the spell of a drug," writes Mr Gilbert Scholes, in Scribner's Magazine. " The breadlines are submissive; above the level of starvation there is a sullen anger, and above that, a surrender to ' the inevitable.' Hysteria is not visible, and the reason is, I think, that hope has not yet been abandoned. I think also that America is still a fairly prosperous country. Perhaps if we knew now that what we have salvaged from the wreck of 1929 is the permanent level living for the next decade, we might be a little more violent; It may be an illusion for us to seek prosperity, around no matter how many corners, when the truth is that prosperity, of the 1932 model, is already here, and all we have to do is to get used to it/'
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3253, 10 November 1932, Page 3
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