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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8497, 3 August 1933, Page 4

“One way of getting back to better times is by trying to be more cheerful,” said Colonel H. Holdernesc, president of the Hastings Returned Soldiers’ Association, at the quarterly re-union of ex-servicemen. “I am sure,” added the colonel, “that though for some of us it may be difficult to look on the bright side, wt can all do a great deal to help ourselves and our friends along by being more < heery about things. However bad they are, \vt should remember that they could always be worse, and that in some countries they are decidedly worse than they are here.” “There are many modern anoma- j lies in our modern social system,” j said Professor J. Shelley in an ad-1 dress o the Philosophical Institute j of Conterbury recently (reports the Press). “A man pulls a funny face; in a Birmingham factory and is dis- j missed. He goes straight to the studios of Los Angeles, pulls a funny face there, and draws a salary of GO,OOO dollars a year. Why? Because many persons in the world have become so depressed that they want to see a funny face, and we have developed means of communication by which, if they are prepared to pay for the privilege, they can see this particular funny face.” Writing to his parents in Dunedin, a young New Zealand engineer now domiciled in England states that there are fewer unemployed in the Old Country at present than there have been for the last two years. In industry generally, he said, there was a definite brightening of outlook, and it only required the lifting of the depression which hovered over the coalfields to bring about an improvement that would be marked by very beneficial results to the community.