The Washington times., 1920-11-21
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FIXED amount of money. When the gambling
ends there is still exactly the SAME amount Of
money, changed from one pocket to another by
dishonesty or chance, but NOTHING HAS
BEEN GAINED.
Time has been wasted the boys, excited by
the gambling, have lost interest in real work.
They are conscious of having broken the law,
which demoralizes them They have used up in
tense energy, absolutely for nothing, for those
that cheat and win are most to be pitied in tho
long run.
Intense harmful emotions of hatred and dis.
appointment have filed their brains and weak
ened those brains making them less capable Of
good work-and ALL FOR NOTHING.
It ought to be possible to explain to every
boy how foolish it is to 60 into an enterprise
that is vicious, that causes bad feeling that in.
jures the mind, harms the character and can
produce nothing at all when the thing is over,
simply permitting one perhaps to get something
from another, only to turn it over to third in
some other gambling game.
What is true of half dozen boys gambling
in the gutter is true of the millions that gamble
in stocks, and especially true of the ten or twenty
thousands that gamble on racetrack in States
where official corruption still permits the gam.
bling. Racetrack gambling, in which few rich
men, for their amusement and to help nav the
expenses OF their racing stables, makes thieves
OF other mems clerks and demoralizes women. is
the worst form of gambling, disgrace to every
State that permits it,
But big gambling or little gambling, it is all
the same. Gambling is degradation it breeds
dishonesty and immortality It has disQraced
millions OF fathers and mothers through their
children. 1t has driven thousands of women to
immortality, for gambling is infinitely more
harmful to character than drink or even drurs.
Every gambler knows that he is dishonest
or a fool, The honest gambler, so-called-for a
man is not honest with himself who does what
he knows he ought not to dds shown bv Nc.
Cay in this picture. The "honest gambler" is
the victim of the professional gamblers. tho
swindlers that fatten their pockets on the
stupidity and vice of others.
Let five men work together; at the end Of the day and
at the end Of the year the wealth of all five il
They have at least lived by their work.
Let five gamble together and at the end Of the ram.
bling not single dollar penny has been added to the
IOtal VI Wealtn Lucy nave created nothing
have wasted time and energy and Others or their
savings, have supported them while they gambled
In talking to young people about gambling try 20
get away from the MORALIZING tone The fact that
the gambler is fool and WEAK fool is the point 70
emphasize. For many young man. unfortunately. will
smile complaoently you tell him he is immoral whsrea,
the smile will fade you tell him, and PROVE to him
that he is fool.
Tell young men that the stupidity of the gambler il
proved by the fact that the weaker the race and thu
weaker the mind the greater the love Of gambling.
There savages weak in will, in character and IN
appreciation Of what Is worth WHILE that will gamble
everything they have, then stake their own bodies with
slavery as the penalty if they lose.
Mccay in this picture shows you the evil spirit Of
gambling, shaking the dicebox with dice and human BE-
ings mixed in the right hand Under the left are piled
up bodies Of the ruined dislusoned victims of the worst
of all mental vices.
If you shake dice or match pennies q million times
at the end the thing will about even according
to the rules of chance But the gambler will have lost in