The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-05-07

cred around a greasy old table with
dirty deck OF cards and jack pot of
money. The other kind of a gam bier
is seen in our fashionable homes.
with rich draperies, costly trimmings,
beautiful decorations, elegant furn-
fishing. marble-top table, with an ele-
CANT deck of cards. the women be-
spaneled with jewels. hair flashing
with brilliants. and their powdered
necks encircled with diamonds Their
jack pot may be prizes or money,
Whenever property changes hands
over the luck of cards IS gambling
If that is gambling in the little back
room in connection with the saloon
or brothel. then that is gamb bling IN
the fashionable parlor. One OF the
jack pets may be moulded as a dol
lar. the other as silver loving cup.
One jack pot may be money the other
diamond stick pin But if one is
gam bling. so is the other If one is
not gambling. neither is the other. 1t
is not the amount of property at
stake nor the form of values, but if
it cnanes hands over the luck OF
cards. the persons who participate In
7 it are gamblers. As long as you are
gam bling for prizes in your homes at
the card table, you have no right TO
say word against the man who
! gam bles in our gambling joint The
United States postal authority has de-
clared that it IS unlawful for any one.
TO use the United States mails TO send
an invitation TO card parties or whist
parties where presents are given, be-
cause it is game OF CHARGE.
"5tn. Ny fifth objection to card
playing is the euchre deck is the tool
for the gambler. You say it IS an old
WORKOUT argument. / confess it is old,
as old as the euchre deck, but il is not
worn-out argument and il never
shall be as long as the euchre deck IS
manufactured and sold ! have been
in hundreds of saloons and gam bling
bells of this country trying to lead
men to a better life and 1 never saw
men have anything but that same
kind of card board many of you have
in your homes and teaching your chill
your children to play cards, you are
putting into their hands, that which
has ruined thousands and brought
them down 10 nameless graves of
suicides. A mother does not know
when she lets her children matricu-
/! late in the parlor to learn to play
cards where they will graduate in the
game. whether on the gallows, cleo
trio chair, or brothel. Billy Sunday
says. 1t is estimated on good author
ity that 900 gamblers out of every
thousand have learned to play cards
at home and that 75 gamblers out of
every hundred declare their parents
are members of the church. God
help the church to wash her hands
clean from the influence and the
curse of the card table.
Theater.
II shall not speak about the theater
as an ideal institution, nor what she
was in the past. but what the theater
IS today. IF the theater were what
1t ought ODE. clean, wholesome. up
lifting. I would not speak word
against it. That the theater is mould
ing morals, there is no question. but
the moral power which the tneater
alizing. The theater is a child of the
church. but became 50 nasty. corrupt
and disobedient, that the church
could not hold IL in the realms of de-
cency. so the church cast it off as a
spoiled child. I am not speaking
against the principles of acting. but
against the theater as 1t is found to-
day. The theater is. corrupted by its
so-called friends. It is in bad hands.
Many theater gadder is like some
old DRINKS, you cannot excite them
WlInOui giving lne ma k4illuS QudulleJ
of whiskey- Many people are so har-
dened to the nastiness OF the theater-
that they are no longer judges of
what is decent or indecent. They
have lost all sense OF modesty or de-
cency- They are no longer shocked
at what they see and hear. They sit
with unblushed cheeks and are only
thrilled by something exceedin siy
vulgar and breezy. condemn the
theater today on the ground OF the
biIl-boards. The bill-boards are the
bills of'fare: they-tell US partly what
is TO be seen and heard in the play
house. II the average show is as bad
as its bill posters and signs repre-