New Britain herald., 1917-12-17
GOODMAN SUNDAYS
 VICE OF GAMBLING
Men at Y. M. C. A. Hear Vigorous Talk by Reformed Card Sharp

Frank Goodman, a reformed gam bier, handled vice with bare knuckles at the Sunday afternoon mems meet ing at the Y. M. c. A. yesterday and true to. the type of Billy Sunday. whose eloquence drew him from the paths of wild living, had Satan's sec- ords wildly tossing towels into the ring in token of defeat long before the bout had become interesting. MT. Goodman is 53 years old and part of these 53 years have been spent in places where no mother wants to see her son. He knows the under world of the big cities as we'll as he knows his own name. He smashed right and left at all crime-but he paid special respects to gambling.
 Gambling is gambling" he said at one juncture in the course of his remarks, whether 1t takes place over the top of a mahogany table or over booze-soaked pine table, and the man who says that he would rather see his children gambling in their homes than in rum joint is the cause of HelIs delight. More than 76 per cent of the material Is fur nished by private homes, in those ap- parently harmless little games, and the preparatory training received in those homes usually sends the victims flying down the toboggan from which they never return. Sin causes mark deeper than the deepest cut, and the stamp is never erased.
 II am here today not as an evan gelist," Goodman said, "but as indis- putable evidence of what evil and sin can do to a person and what the love of Jesus Christ can also do to him if hA nrfr 1~v that had to look up to see the bot tom of things and from the ring of racetrack gambler to a platform has been my jump, principally because I have seen light and am following 1t. II don't want to talk down my past, but I want to live 1t down. It is my experience that the toboggan of sin Is easy to travel, but that trip never has a round-trip ticket attached to 1t. The further you sink in the harder 1t is to get out. The trip is made by many routes and each is as hard as another to return by. Every time you go down you have that much more effort in your attempt to come back, and be- lieve me when I say it, for I know
 Many a person who has made an innocent sightseeing trip to the bor- der of sin has never returned, for it
 
 case have held jobs just long enough to get money to spend in gambling when I started out on my career as 8 gambler. I had one ambition after they got me the first time, and that was to beat the gamb bling game. Gam bling does not make fortunes in one day; it makes paupers over night. Take my case: After I lost hotel on my first attempt, I again built up an enterprise with the use of my old mothers money and then the lust got me again, even though I had once travelled upward from the sin. Two years and three months later this sec ond business was taken over by a re- ceiver.
 Do you know where | finally found myself? I was at the back of several of the most notorious money-making scheming gambling joints in New York City. I was the brains, and was making what some call money, but what I call blood. I was squeezing the blood out of souls and was breaking hearts and homes just through my business. Every gam bling place in New York is organized like a business, and slick business men are behind it. If that was not SO, the police would in thirty days clean up every joint in the city, but the police know what they have to battle, and they know that they are not able to combat with those people,"