The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-12-04

VI Dfb. 'hhlnE tUrlNIlhn people. 80
you find the percentage all over tho
land.
! had a friend while ln the Y. 81
g. 4. work, an cx-gambler. lie was
one of the most expert gamblers iu
his dag Iis name was John I
Quinn. did you ever hear of him
We WAS arrested for working y three
card monte game on som" FELLOWS.
ana he was tried and sentenced and
sent Co the peniteutiary He told
mo that he d dnt do the job. but
| ne ala a great many things that he
ought TO have gone for. so he never
had any RICK coming.
While b" was In therc his housr
/ burned, and his wife diod. and h
| only child, q little girl. died There
| he wn2. pTematIrcly old man.
brokon In heart and spirit and dis
coufagrd. lie fen on his knees ant
Fald. God. n you Will get me out
/ OF thig. promise you that II
| never play cards again ns long as
I i've"
cod heard tho prayer OF the
gambler. Iie was pardon"d. His
/ friends heard his resolution and
I they gathered together $500 and
got him gambling car and fitted
I IL up with an tho gambling para
Z pherpplia. and the railroad com
paniI hauled him up ard down tho
country and young men would
come In nnd he would show them
| you cant beat gambler AT his own
game. Whore YOU have one chance
10 win. he has 100 against you, and
you are fool To- go up against him.
Tho gamblers saw that he was AZ.
feCtlnH their game. no they assault
cd him. and N YOU over see him,
YOU VIII notice that he has u ncr-
vods twitchirg.
He came In 20 give a series of
talks for a week in the Y. NJ G. A
han when / was secretary. I used
10 go out 10 lunch with him every
day when he was there lie would
take PACK OF cards and shuttle
them. and ~ he shuffled the cards
ho'd stack them, He'd put them iu
the faro box, little box with
string in tho bottom Of u. and he'd
hold the boz up and a tray OF dia-
monds would show. Then he'd
shuttle the cards and while he was
shufflinR them he'd tell you what
card would come up He'd tell you
the Jack o. hearts was coming up,
and the Jack OF hearts would come
up shswing you that tho hand Ia
quicker than the eye He showed
the various tricks that they used 10
put over
Learn at Home.
And I can see him as he leaned
on the pulpit and said. After A5
years l want to charge the so-Called
| Christian homes as being tho places
where most gamblers learn to
gamble"
About the saddest people meet
M | go up and down the land arc
mothers whose boys are gamblers,
or wives whose husbands gamble.
tNfaU h .fs,E. To- u, 10,
Iowa some years ago. and there
were 1 8 college men had come home
from college and they had fitted up
| n little ClubroOm, had nm old piano
and some periodicals scattered
around. and the merchants OF that
town were dead sure that they
were hitting the booze and gam
bling; SO positive were they that
they would not hire one OF those
| fellows to go In bank or put him
In any position OF trust.
The parents saw that that was
initiating against their boys. They
said: Mr. Sunday. whenever the
| merchants want "A hoy, instead OF
/ taking our boys. they go into somc
| other town and get some other boy:
can't you do something to find ou;
what Is going on7"
| And 80 1 began to investigate and
| found out that out of Is charter
mem mhersI 10 of them had been
taught to play cards I'm their homes,
and II out of the 10 had been
taught In the homes of protesting
Christians. And the most derogra-
tory things that have been said
about me have fallen from the lips
OF those who have grown up hitting
the booze and gambling. on. those
things drive people away from God!
Ia N.,N az 80
low stood mp In meeting and said:
This is the first and only sermon
I ever attended with my father and
mother" lie said: 81 sat right in
this pew where | am now when I
attended SUNDAY school, and was
In a class ~ II boys We used 10
go home with the teacher. and she'd
give us Ice cream and cake. and la
tor on she said Bows. don't You
like 70 play cards?' We never had
card In our home. but when I
went to my parents they said she
must he n good woman and there
wasn't any harm In PLAYING cards
or she wouldn't teach MS to play"
They became enthusiastic over
cards and later on they said: Wont
vou show us Eome moro tricksp"
Thcn thev began 70 plav cards and
they begun TO play penny ante for
pennies
All OF them, he said, developed
into gamblers Two ~ them were
In the penitentlaries. Three OF them
had hcen hanged. He said the Unit
ed states government was after two
NJ them NJ the time and that he was
on" ~ them.
He said, IT wish 10 God that
sundey school teacher had never
been born"
The woman sat near tho front
| She walked alo0g the front aisle
/ and threw herself an the floor IN
| front OF him and cried out, my
/ hoy, 7 was that sunday school teach
/ er--is that the result of that work -"
And the fellow. pale faced. went
| out and he has never been seen
/ from that day til this So YOU have
| got to not onlv look NJ the erfer,
such things as card PLAYING have
| unon yourself. hut YOU have also
got 70 consider the effect they viii
have upon other pcople, II you are
going to live for Cod.
A friend OF mine was preachIns
He was a travelling mamie is now
an evangelist During hts travels aq
no won't around TO tho different
| places. a lndv came MP 20 him and
4 A.