MUST GAMBLE.
BORED WORKLESS. ONLY INTEREST IN LIFE. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, April 2. "The whole lives of many of the unemployed centre round the pools." This sentence is taken from "Men Without Work," a report published this week on the problem of the long-unemployed in various parts of England and Wales. "The all-pervading atmosphere of football pools, horses and greyhounds has become such an important environmental factor for Liverpool's individual unemployed that it is difficult to develop interests unconnected with them. "The queues at the post office filling in coupons, the number of 'guaranteed systems' for correct forecast on sale in Liverpool's poor districts, the periodicals containing nothing but pool analyses, the dirty and torn sports columns of the papers in the public libraries, with the rest of the paper untouched apart from of vacant jobs, are some lof the measures of the strength of this interest."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 97, 27 April 1938, Page 9
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148MUST GAMBLE. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 97, 27 April 1938, Page 9
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