Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-05-19
MONTE CARLO IS
RUN FOR CASINO
Everything is Conducted on a
Commercial Basis.
MAKE GAMBLING A BUSINESS
Nothing Which Can Conflict With the
Casino or Detract From the Glamour
Of it Is Permitted by Authorities
All Its Surroundings Are Made al
Seductive as Possibie-You Come to
Win Money, You Will Probably
Lose 1t.

Seductive as Possibie-You Come to
Win Money, You Will Probably
Lose 1t.
A correspondent of the London
| Times, writing from Monte Carlo,
says whether it be full OF empty,
Monte Carlo is always the same in
credible, artificial, tantalizing place. 1t
has been reasonably argued that it
does not exist; because it is impossi-
BILE that it can exist-impossible that
a town so solid yet so ethereal, all
rock and seafoams could anywhere
arise merely to give people an oppor-
tunity to lose money at a gaming ia
BILE. The town has been well COM
pared to a meringue; so white and
new made it is, and it's inside so sweet
and fluffy and just a bit unwhole-
some.
Carved as it is out Of the face Of
the hills. there are spots in it from
which as you look upward and see it
rising c1oudlike, tier on tier, up the
mountain slope, it is all pure, fantas-
tic scene painting. They cannot be
true, those hotels and villas built each
seemingly or the roof Of the n be-
low. They can be only lath and
canvas and cardboard. And the beauty
of the public gardens, the cleanness
of the rock-ribbed streets, the luxury
of the shops! Kubla Khan might
have dreamed such things, but it is
absurd to suppose that they could, in
this commercial age, have come to
be true.
Business Proposition.
Not that Monte Carlo is not COM
mercial to it's very foundation. 1t
is fairyland with business principles
IA palace of all delights run by a
trading company. The Casino is es-
sentially a great commercial enter
prise, very shrewdly conducted. 1t
sells-just as over a counter-excite-
ment and hope and pleasure and
dreams of wealth. And it makes, you
pay for them on a strictly calculated,
cold mathematical basis. Nothing
else counts. Everything in Monte
Carlo is planned to feed the Casino T;
all roads lead to it; all its surround
ings are made as seductive as posi-
BILE; nothing which can conflict with
the Casino or detract from the
glamour of it is permitted. There arr
those who think that in this matter
the directorate sometimes overreaches
itself.
Nothing is so badly needed in Monte
Carlo or would contribute so much
to the contentment Of the English com,
munity (who are the best patrons OF
the tables). as a good English club
One is not permitted, lest people
should sit there and play bridge OF
otherwise reasonably enjoy them.
selves when they might be at Monte
Carlo losing money. 1t was %ostensibly
to satisfy the demand for a club thai
the Sporting club was established. II
is merely an extra sale Of the Casino
with dining attachments rather more
glittering and in which one can lose
money a trife faster. To provide II
| as a substitute to people who were
| asking for a real club is like giving
| to one who orders tea and toast sher
bet and sugared almonds instead.
Want Real Club.
And English people who know
Monte Carlo best are agreed that i
there were a real club there, Will,
on the one hand it would retain il
Monte Carlo hundreds of visitor
every season who now go elsewher,
after a week or two from sheer ennui
it would not interfere with the pa
tronage of the tables, but would in
! crease it. No normal man, howeve
much he loves gambling, can spen'
more than a limited time day afte
day in the atrocious atmosphere 0
the sales. He must go somewher
in the interval. 1t would make hir
more content to stay in Monte Carl
and continue to lose money if h
could go to a comfortable, friendl
club. Also, he would possibly hav
more money to lose, for the street
and restaurants of Monte Carlo ar
very expensive places to be turne
loose In.
That, after all, is the essence Q
Monte Carlo. You may so Their
hoping to win money. You will prot
ably lose it. You will certainly spen
it. What place is there for anythin
SO sane-so merely reasonable-as a
English club in this world of suga
castles and sunlight, music, dancing
ribbons and flowers? You must TAX
it for what it is, with all its fascina
tions--a town unlike any other tina
ever was or will be-curiously beaI
tiful in its W way. with the glitte
Of q jewel--and as costly. If you d
not like 1t, you can go elsewhere
Thousands OF others will come !
your place, and the Casino gauges I
admiration the tastes and weaknesse
OF the average human nature. II give
music Of the best, and abundantly
and ballots which are a Joy.
Nowhere In the world, perhaps, en-
you get so much music so cheaply a
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