The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-22
URGES PLAYING
CARDS IN The Y"
MAYOR M. VI. MURPHY BELIEVES
PLAN COULD BE WORKED
OUT SATISFACTORILY.


Grand Forks. N. D., Jan. 22.-Card
playing as an added amusement In
the Young Mems Christian associa-
ton was urged by Mayor M. Il. Muir
ply at the annual meeting OF that
organization. He contended that the
playing OF cards under such condi-
tions would have the effect Of keep
ing the boys off the streets, and away
from places where cards might be
played under bad conditions.
Three directors We're reelected n
one new director was named at the
annual meeting Of the Young Mems
Christian association. w. III. Brown,
Thomas Porte and r. L. Goodman
were reelected, and M. Rasmussen
was named to succeed Harry Will
son.
The election. together with the re-
ports Of the officers of the activities
for the past year, took place imme-
diately following a banquet to MEM
bers in the gymnasium, at which time
Mayor M. +. Murphy, and Rev. J.. M.
walters of Fargo were the principal
Add Gard Playing.
Mayor Murphy. in discussing the
question of providing the boys of the
city with amusement, believes that
card playing could be added as an as
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der such circumstances would NO be
harmful. He expressed his pleasure
at the ann in which the ~associa-
ton was occupying the field in caring
for the boys, and believed that much
good was being done.
He also talked of automobiles and
cheap shows, eontending that the au-
tomobile was having a harmful influ-
ence because people without means
were buying them, while cheap shows
were declared, not only expensive in
the long run but degrading.
"5e Real" Says Walters.
The address of Rev. Mr.. walters was
very striking. He took for his topic
Shams, and he treated Of the sub
feet in religion, in social life and in
politics. He declared that we are liy-
ing in an age when shams are gaining
a foothold in every field of human ac-
tivity. In religion, he said, people are
turning to spiritualism, to any new
religion the founding OF which claims
to he able to held communion with the
spirits. But he said the religion OF
God was not intended to be mumbled
In unknown tongues, to be received in
the dark or made known by signs; IL
was to be spoken In a language which
all can understand. He declared that
while religious federation was a great
fOrW ara step that IL was carried TOO
far when the elite to society would
entertain Hindu takers who propose
to bring . more advanced religion
from the nations Of the east.
Taking UP the social side of life,
Rev. Mr.. Walters declared that the
greatest trouble in the world today is
that everybody wants to be as well
dressed and to have all the comforts
OF his neighbors. The girl behind the
counter, he declared, wished to look
as we'll as the wealthy woman she
serves.
Taking up the field of politics, the
speaker declared that he had much
doubt as to the sincerity of the muck
Takers who had been attacking every
institution in the country. He declar-
ed that whenever he saw a paper or
an individual with a banner On which
was inscribed the words, I'VE are
honest, now watch the devils rum
he became alarmed. He said that he
often wondered if much of the muck
raking were not lone for the reward
there was in writing il. To illustrate
mis- point, he referred to the maya.
zine which had made a rabid attack
on pink pills and other patnot medi-
cines. and then ran a full page adj
vertisement for cigarettes, an article
which he held responsible for much
of the insanity of the country.