The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-20
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ies. such as truancy and gambling, for
| instance,
'"These two practices nearly always
go together" he continued. Every
| truant is pretty sure to be a gambler.
although every gambler is not always 4
truant Wipe out gambling and
truancy will cease.
You can have no conception Of the
amount of gambling which goes on
among the small boys of this school and
Of almost every, other situated in a
crowded district. The diversion is not
local. It is just as much followed on
the west side as 1t Is over here and up
town as well as down-toWn schools in
clude pupils who spend every spare
moment they can get in playing craps,
pitching pennies buttons and the like.
There are 1000 boys in this school.
and hardly a class. ! am afraid, but has
| its gambler on ringleader who acts as
Instructor to dozens Of other boys
Here the principal turned to his desk,
fished out a pair of dice from a pigeon-
hole and picked out some bits of paper
from a drawer. 81
/ zone OF my teachers said he,
captured these dice the other day from
a boy in her class, and these papers
contains the names Of boys discovered
gambling on the school premises or near
the building. OF course we have no
! Jurisdiction over boy when he is away
from the school precinct but do make
point OF interfering every time see
boys gambling on the sidewalk any
where near here.
when the game takes the form of
pitching pennies edge close up and at
the first chance put my foot over a cent
stoop down, pick 1t up and put 1t In my
pocket. Then I tell the boys. If you
want to get this back send your mother
or father after 1t. to the school, I am
Ii cents to the good at present, for Of
course not a boy Of them all has yet
/ sent after his money.
/ my interference doesn't stop with
taking the money though. for ! always
try to point Que some reasons why a
boy should let gambling in any form
alone.
Sometimes the games try to break
up are played with buttons picture
buttons, or any old buttons-or with
cigarette pictures, the sort which when
certain number are collected may be
redeemed at the cigarette sellers for a
| trashy prize. $ aa
"What do I do with a boy who is re-
ported to me for gambling? send for
his mother or farther and ask her or
him to help me break up the habit.
Sometimes that does some good. oftener
the parents show little or no concern
over what I tell them. Something
more. 1 find is needed to break up this
gambling habit than appealing to par
ests. $780, @<
zone way to stop crime is to make it
| impossible. In Queen Elizabeth's time
1t was impossible for a merchantmen to
cross the seas in safety unless heavily
armed. withdraw our Navy, and how
long would it be before pirates would
be as thick and thicker than they ever
| were =
III should like to see an organized sys-
tenn which would deal with the child
gambler very differently from the way
he is now treated, and do not see why
we cannot have a system which will
| take hold of and stop the evil
Have you any plan to propose" the
principal was asked.
Eyes, I believe that If every boy
found gambling on the sidewalk, or
elsewhere was arrested and his parents
| fined a small sum the evil would soon
! be wiped out. Touch the majority OF
the parents in tenement districts in
| their pockets and you will make an i'm
preston on them at once.
1T will do no good whatever to ar