Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-02-04
EIPERs SUCCEED
u GETTING IN WORK
Que tion Raised as to the
llness Of the Drawing
tnment Considers
IA System Is Justified
)ecaIlse It Is Fair.

henos Aires. Jan. 12.-(By mail. -
fntina ID in the throes of her an
scandal over the high cost of lot
tickets.
lis IL a scandal which SINNERS the
Ne year round but it is only as the
Year DAYS approach that it
hes the boiling point. The cXpla-
pm Is that the big annual prize is
icularly large 10000 pesos, or
1000 In United States money.
Ne uproar Is singularly reminiscent
ne 'commotion in the United States
d. fall In connection with the sale
ckAts to the worlds series.
le;com plAint is that spectators get
eHsipn of the lottery tickets and
public can only secure them by
Ing big premium.
anybody who thinks the lottery
ness, at best, pretty doubtful
tpatlon for a government to be
hged in, it is somewhat funny to
rve what a high moral tone Ar
fines take in discussing the iniquity
Pioneering the means Of gambling
ks13beHspOoSljlS tie ntt-'.
ToNBE SOLD AT PAR.
|br the 100000 peso prize $4,000
ets were issued this year. as is
{omary. Nominally the price of a
let is $50 pesos. plus per cent on
present occasion, to build new
bital.
he tickets arc turned over to auth
led government agents, who are
'posed to sell them at par for 6
Ecent commission.
y usual, however, nearly every
jId-be purchaser who visits an
barized agent is told that the lat
Ehas already sold his last ticket.
Means that the would-be pur-
Der must do his trading with an
sub-agent usually a
Der, a shoeblack or tobacconist-
! begins by charging a so per cent
approaches, increases his levy to
|per cent.
there is strong suspicion
1.-THE authorized agents get their
he ministry of foreign affairs.
ch has charge of the national lot
/. did make an effort this year to
eect the public. 1t authorized the
hry directors to reserve 1000 tick
({rom the agents, for sale direct to
while they lasted. The
bry was that nobody would buy
n the agents at a higher figure
b that charged by the government
MOVE NOT EFFECTIVE.
his did not prove to be a Very eff
1--we preeaution, however. For one
II the only place where the gov
ment tickets were obtainable was
lottery headquarters in Gale Bel
no, where the crowd was so terri
THAT it took hours to make a pur-
be, not to mention the perils OF
furing into such a mob. More
y, the charge Is made that the bulk
he buying was done by the specu-
RS themselves.
Il any rate, the government tickets
gone now and the unauthorized
Eagents are reaping their usual
fits.
here are, rs n matter of fact, a
n many people in Argentina who
|icize the government for running
hbling enterprise. These critics
M to be mostly foreign residents of
country, however The Standard,
English paper published in Buenos
cs, for instance, refers to lottery
nbling as more preiudicial to its
aries than betting on races and
ounces the institution as "abao-
Ny contrary to public policy"
With the Argentines themselves the
rt is so popular that there arc no
Is which the government needs the
ney.
DRAWINGS ARE FAIR.
mere is no question as to the fair
Of the drawings and the profits
n the lottery are devoted to char
ia purposes. The governments
Il seems TO be that these considera-
- Justify the system.
Il order to catch poor people, who
mot pay $50 pesos for ticket, TO
nothing of the premium, chances
sold in fractions of as low as one
III. on which, of course, the specu-
,rs get their proportionate rake
Il
he queer feature is that each hold
Of a one tenth of e-thirty two
opportunity to pull down
,rize appears to feel that the odds
something like three-to-one in
favor for 100000 peso killing.
,usands and thousands Of Argen-
- consider seriously what they will
with their money. when they get
rhc fnct that they may have been
ving the same game for years with
winning a centavo does not seem
he least to discourage them.
he corncob pipe manufacturing in
try represents a valuation of $780,
u year