Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-24
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. I'll. FELTON,
GAHdBLING-A WORD TO BOYS
AND GIRLS

In the early periods of my life
church people and country people did
not gamble and play cards.
Good country schools were scarce,
but L was able to attend a school in
Oxford, Ga, and one of the qualifi-
cations for the town was the fact
that people did not dance, did not
drink liquor and did not play cards.
Eighty years ago those things We're
dangerous, as before stated, and my
parents wanted their eldest little girl
to board and attend school in COM
munity where good people lived, and
where they were sane and sensible.
In those days when persons profesSed
to be religious the members of the
church did not dance, did not get
drunk and did not play cards. Either
of these ailments would call for a
church committee and a church trial
and more than likely dismissal from
the ledger of the church as COM
municant and a member; l am not
going to say anything about church
members who dance or those who get
drunk. The prohi amendment takes
care, or should take care, of the
drinking of intoxicants. A good
many people contend thatsa person
has the full liberty to drink all the
liquor he wants to drink, even until
he sees snakes and dies in delirium
tremens. 1t such q person could be
isolated from society and could hurt
nobody but his OWN poor fool seltt.
there might be some force in the con-
tention. But the sot can kill his
wife, starve his children and shoot
his neighbor while he is insane from
the intoXicantS.
Common sense and common JUS
tice demands that everybody shall
behave themselves, and no person
shall be granted liberty to shoot up
the community because he is willing
to make a hog of himself by getting
drunk and playing the fool generally.
/, therefore, conhne my written re-
craze that is pervading the United
States, and which will drag many
poor souls to perdition and carry
thousands to the penitentiary and
some to the gallows, for history al
ways repeats itself.
good Queen Victoria reigned i'll
Great Britain her son Edward, heir
to the throne and later the king OF
the British dominions, was called
into court to testify as to dreadful
gambling cheat and in which he was
known to be present and a player
1t was dreadful modification to
his mother. She and he" husband
Prince Albert. We're Christian PEG
pie, and stood for good things e ~
particular in his habits or his com
pany. If he had been the man he
should have been, he would not have
been caught with gamblers who
cheated and were exposed and prose-
cuted.
The prince had to confess that
checks or counters each valued at
S25, were shipped into his sleeve,
because the gang were delighted to
play in royal company, and he was
not above taking his chances in the
game. He never regained the high
place he had once neld in the es-
TEEN of his subjects. He was lucky
to escape a term in prison.
Dear boys (and girls. too), play
ing such games, fosters habits and
incites gambling passions that are
dangerous and which grow with their
growth and endure 20 the end. The
easily tempted are sure to go down
and under. AS a rule, they crave
intoxicants to spur laem on, just as
the demimonde crave liquor to make
their low life tolerable. I may be
an old fogy. but / am so afraid Of
gambling insanity that I never touch
la playing card. | might perchance
| escape and die ia my bed. but !
might by example tempt somebody
who could not refrain until they
were ruined and destroyed.