The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-09-23
THE GAMBLING CURSE

Whether of gambling not it rrefutabe
fact that this practice has uifed the minds of peoe 1t has
weakened their group strength has broken the morale of their
civic institutions and find ourselves CONSERVATION chagrn
and dismay.
shaer their letters and demand unconditional recognition from
civilization as we see them gueessv allowing themselves to become
enneshed in the spenne coils of gambling help but
shudder requires great imagination picture the ruined and
wrecked of human clay which could have been moulded
into and of might who might have defeated the
invisible of enemies and brought down the spontaneous
paudts of the world,
black America would hesitate and pause during
the shuttle of the cards and the CHATTER of the dice they would realize
that fifteen million white Europeans seeking grappe America
jobs bread They realize anbIack propa
gand being scattered throughout the world They
would realize that the northern states of America that they stand
ION ia beforhe cynical and prejudced Caucasian follows
that they make good and they discharge from their
sona private and public each and influence
which will retard and disintegrate.
Gambling peculiar to of Some specie
of exists wherever found is neither characteristic of the
rich the the inherent evil streak in humanity which
life involves the chance element Every investment has associated
with the chance of either winning losing When has the
certain then society condone the chance but where the
chances for winning losing equal when energy and te
precious gold M society stands aghast and both law
religion register their dissatisfaction
In Chago-he Eyan fields seek refuge from
choogy of the seeks foothd would expect find
teced One would also expect those who here
engaged the task of building their struggling
majority Yet finds that the communities populated large
dollars changing hands and gambling
VIGOROUSLY unmoeed protected by political systems which
the administration the commonwealth and the people Every
public official dsgoges the blame, knows that the
Monte Carlo of the south side the product crooked unhoy
system which makes Chicago the "devi town. of America.
We do not need the ntuitve deducve ability of a cmino
ogs to know that the broken hungry gambler easily
verted into the boodhy mercess hghwayman and prong
reckless footpad The gambling tables with heir hypnotic green
baize drive red erocious danger stare into the of the
The borer loses both job and hope He becomes ood
Of niquy and his fellow black worker uneasonab forced
suffer for his DELINQUENCY The professional who has
maeats and negects his trusting clients Unempt children
faces and emacated bodies give silent but terrible rebue
of their fathers The whole civic life
infected with this of gambling sweeps Ike wild fire
through the ranks of much battered army.
In the of civilization, law and order npore the
huence of goodness and morality to free this terrible
stuon of gambling which fattens the political prohte he
meey snatche his toll from the trembling fingers of the reched
The young of Chicago they would be saved
selves with the inevitable forces which will the
tn. gambling community. Let dehrone god
of gambling whose political throne be found somewhere
Cages Southside