DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 5

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

THE MOST INTERESTING THING IN THE WORLD (Copyright, 1927.) '*7‘OTJ may not believe it, but the stubborn fact is that the most interesting thing in the world is a fight of some kind. The enormous crowds recently gathered in Chicago to witness the fight between Tunney and Dempsey and the enormous amount of money involved in that event, millions of dollars, shows that the most primitive form of personal contest still is at the front of all interesting things. What the contest is about makes no difference. Nothing is to lie settled. Nobody cares one way or another over the issues. They just want to see the fight. Neither Tunney nor Dempsey is anybody in particular except rather prepossessing young men and men in the pink of physical perfection. They have no dispute to settle and no issue is involved. Somehow the old question as to who is the best man is a perennial one. The schoolboy illustrates it when he walks up to another fellow and says: “I can lick you.” His licking is about nothing and settles nothing. But the licking business remains interesting. The main thing for humanity to do is to transfer its desire for contest from a fight between men to a fight over the enemies of mankind. Recently Von Hindenburg denied <he fact that Germany was responsible for the war, although most of the Allied people think she was. M. Briand stated, very properly, that the question had better be left alone. Probably the thing responsible for the war. is that everybody had a lot of gunpowder stored up and a lot of men ready te fight and they wanted to see a scrap for their money. Fundamentally the thing that brought on the Great War was the ss thing that brought on the Tunney-Dempsey fight. Perhaps in time some other thing than the question who is the best n will come to the front, but so far in the world’s history that remains the m< interesting question. y,i Hi ?r. rs s*l :r rr Hi Hr ir :♦i v >. ifc * A: * -t: v r'.- -o n t