WAR AND RACING.
SYDNEY Vt)AILY^ SPEAKS OUT. . .The Sydney Daily Telegraph of April--15 says :-t-" Another race meeting at Raiidwick ori Saturday served vto emphasise the callousness and selfishness of thS least useful class of the.' community. The pi'ocession of tramcars overloaded with burly eligibles,. standing even on the footboards, the motor-cars and cabs,' 1 and* streaming. masses of pedestrians com- j ing; away • from the course late }n ihp afternoon made a most nainful impression upon many persons, who witnessed the scene. The ne\ys of the latest British reverses had just been published, news grave' enough* iq arrest the attention, arid sober the frivolity of the least reflective. ' But the racegoers cared for Hone of these things. They continued to discuss their wagers and their gambling m- the public vehicles, and to flaunt their unlovely yicp m the faces of- those who had given their bwn nearest; and dearest to 'fight and die for Australia. As our correspondent, Mi 4 .' E.J. Marshall, pointed out m his 'admirable letter on the subject m our issue of, Saturday., the war is completely i overshadowed for. Very, many men m Australia by . horseracirig-. It is against the interest of Aus- ; ti-alia'that such encouragement should be given . to ! ,|he most . parasitical section of '[ the community. • . P'rfeparatibiis will shortly . be afoot for the . approaching 'Spring .Carnival', , ? in,>Sydney and Melbourne', with all the unhealthy absorption J m •: weights, performances, and betting that-. v ,must attend the; meetings. What right* have any . Australians to indulge iri'-a- ;Spring Camiyal > t when\ other yAustralians are giving-; up -their -lives ".in Europe to keep ; : Aiistmlia free? -There is -.sterner" work I : to : be\ done than : ;going to| races now. -It is -time that "this vio- j lation" of the decencies of - : civil" life: m a' grave national 'crisis pajn.e;£p .an a;brupt end '" - '■' ■'•' • - ;> " < '" v '"' : '' :? " * A
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14590, 27 April 1918, Page 5
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