“THE THINGS THAT MATTER."
England’s Interest In Cricket. LABOUR JOURNAL’S CRITICISM. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assoclatiou (Received June 13, 5.5 p m.) LONDON, June 12. A curious editorial in “The Daily Herald” (Labour) imagines the historian of the future writing: “At a crisis in the national industry, when two and a half million were unemployed the chief interest of the population of England, according to most newspapers of the period, was a cricket match. The merits of the players representing England and Australia were everywhere discussed, most elaborate arrangements made for reporting the match. Every other topic was overlooked. Anyone would suppose that the nation was never more prosperous, or more untroubled.” The editorial proceeds: “It is no use to lament the hold the teste have on public imagination. What wo have to do is to train up a generation that •will not be prevented by pleasant; things like cricket from attending to the tilings that really matter.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 14 June 1926, Page 9
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