El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-12-06
NO CHANCE IN
THE WORLDFOR
GAMBLING MAN
By C.. A. MARTIN.
tCOntinued from page IL

he can't win. Sometimes he does.
Then he returns again and again,
convinced that he Is one Of the
lucky ones Whether he wins
or loses makes no difference
now What started with vanity
has become a habit Does it
sound queer TO say people gam
BILE from hubitf i have known
men 10 swear by every hinE they
held sucred that they would never
enter n gambling house nEHin-
and the very next day you would
find them I'm one
/ This is what a gambler says Of
gambling. These are the words Of
1 faro bank dealer in El Paso in the
days when gambling was wide open
4 as it IS IN Juarez today-but not in
the name Of Christ Jesus
II Grows On One.
Scott Turner is one Of the best
rather. ex-gamblers. for he is no
] longer a gambler but a prosperous
D cigar merchant Of Los Angeles. But
one time he was a gambler and in
Z the current issue Of the American
I Magazine he exposes some Of the
/ tricks OF the trade and sounds a
/ warning 70 men-and women-to let
/ It alone.
I start he says. Here is what he did,
I in his own words.
when I grew older and the gam
7 bling fever actually got me, father
I became alarmed. My father, in fact,
I gave me his newspaper. the Memphis
: 'Scimitar,' hoping 10 would get me in
I terested- 1t was then a paper with
I fifteen or twenty thousand Circula-
I zion and a job office doing a good
I business I ran IT so days-then
turned it over to the foreman and
( ran away from home was gone
three years
cults the Game.
Telling of the end Of his gambling
days. he says he lost his job at Hot
Z Springs and started for san Fran
cisco, where he heard a job was open
Let him tell the rest;
1T didn't look good 70 me when
I got there and my wife seized the
psychological moment to say. Scott,
you've always complained that gam
bling was a waste Of time and got
you nowhere. Why don't you quit
we'll looked at her; this staunch.
accomplishing companion OF many
years I thought Of the time back in
Dayton Memories Of our cOurtship
and marriage came before me, and,
more vivid Still a sudden realization
OF the sense OF isolation which must
often have been hers because Of the
life I led And, thinking OF all these
things, said 70 her, All right, old
THAT very day we got on a train
and came TO Los Angeles ] had only
$50 when I landed here. ] hadn't .
saved a cent in all those years when .
] had been Tying high and making .
FL Pasoan Helped Him.
Salesmanslip appealed TO me, so I F.
tackled Stest0n and Barrett, whole .
sale grocers, for a job. I told them
held was with the Union Clothing
company Of Fl Paso, Texas. Of which
H l. Heyle was proprietor It was
one tine when gambling was closed
I was broke, took the Job at $50 a
Week-and stayed with IL two weeks
They wrote Henry Heyle. He
didn't reply Instead, he Just took
train FOR Los Angeles. walked into f.
their store, and told them IL they
could get me % 80 % WORK I'd make
them one OF the best statesmen they
ever had That's the sort OF a friend
Henry Heyle was he had taken an
interest in me when went TO work
for him; and after 7 left him had
kept track Of me with letters, urging
ne TO cult gambling When he got
that letter from the grocery firm he
just decided he'd step onto the train
and run down TO los Angeles and
IL n Hell Is head Of the Union
company in El Fasol
Z worked for Stetson and Barrett
Tor three years and made an aver
cigars for them AT the end OF that
lime, 7 decided I'd 90 into the cigar
business for myself I've been able
10 clear about $500 a month on my
n good residence district in Los
Angeles and have my own car. We
lave a nice garden and rfn buying a
'anch cut in the country.
II He Had Lived a Useful Life.
People often remark on my youth
b" ~
bout 20 years younger than ] really
IN.
srVhere would have been in
the business world today had
taken up n business career when
7 Wug n young muuf IL a no
use Specializing on that now. But
I know that the man who takes
up the life OF = gambler places n
yoke around HIS neck just az ef-
fectuaIlV aa though he were q
slave. He has committed himself
to an outside jan. He O. worse
off than the man who has been
sentenced to life imprisonment
The man in the penitentiary knows
3 concerned, he is dead. The gam
Ter is dead but doesn't know # He
sallzes Il only after the best part
{ his life Is gone. Too late he finds
nat MS lie has been thrown away
nd has been empty OF everything
God and worth while as II he had
oent II inside the walls Of a jail
Impossible to Win.
Il think one OF the best things a
.ty could do to check gambling
'ould be to have a gambling house
Ding under municipal ownership
18th skilled gamblers as instructors
teach young men how impossible
IS for them 70 win for any length
time. II you do that, you VIII do
lore than has ever been done before
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