THE UNHAPPY CANON
MODERN CONDITIONS DEPLORED WOULD BANISH NEWSPAPERS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 29. (Received October 30, at 1,25 p.m.) Canon Alexander, of St. Paul’s, a worthy colleague of tho “ Gloomy Dean,” is unhappy over modern conditions. Ho advocates a drastic cure in no newspapers, no cinemas, no telephones, and no wireless, but pai Ocularly no newspapers. He admits that ho uses tho telephone and reads newspapers, but says that ho could easily do without them, adding that the early Victorians had ranch raoro individuality.
When the Canon was asked what he would introduce to replace tho condemned things, ho replied, sadly, “Nothing, nothing.’’—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20010, 30 October 1928, Page 7
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108THE UNHAPPY CANON Evening Star, Issue 20010, 30 October 1928, Page 7
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