The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-15

NiAS-lentnS or the gamblers or this
country today were taught to play in
their own home and eight out of 10
were taught to play in the homes of
processing Christian people.
Be not deceived, God is not
Knocked" In n year, from reports
from a newspaper, 108 people were
shot; rs attempted suicide, and 81
committed suicide; so were murder
ed; 2 were driven insane; so were
ruined and the crimes committed to
get money were 8. There were %
1orgerles and 80 cases where people
nololng positions of honor and trust
absconded with $500, 900 with which
10 gamble. A fellow will do anything
TO get money to gamble, but not to
ouy bread with. Boys flop pennies
on the street and the police will
pinch" them, but they have got to
keep out of these private reserves
that we call our homes, where they
sit around, my friends, and gamble.
Cards are n of society's contri
buttons that is dragging people down
to perdition. I think cards and the
dance are greater enemies to the spir
itual life Of the church. my friends
than the saloon was. / believe thai
cards and the dance are greater enc
mics to the spiritual life of the church
than the saloon wasi
! You don't imagine for a minute that
J was in favor of the saloon. hops
! think the church loses 10 times more
members that backsIlide through the
dance than through the saloon. II
is time that good citizenship and qooc
morals begin to cry out against som.
of these evils that are getting hold o.
our homes and wives and children un
til our women are beginning to be
lot of Whisky-soaked, IoW-downs where
they go to smoke cigarettes and hi
the booze. When a woman will d.
that, that's all ! care to know-don'
tell me any more.
God knows I pity them from tht
depths of my soul. l am not here
to condemn; l am here to try anC
help you. and I will fight with al
the power that God gives me to try
and free you from these curses.
Oh, gambling may be carried OF
without cards. You can gamble or
billiards, pool; you can gamble will
the roulette wheel, wheel of fortune
horse racing, baseball, football, stocks
l etc, but nine-tenths of all the gam
5 bling is done with a pack of cards
) AS far as that goes, you can gamble
on anything. | know who is going Il
win out-you bet your life do!
Gambling Is
Expensive.
1t is estimated-statistics are harC
2 to get that $50, 900, 900 change
; hands a day in gambling, $125, 800
l 900, 900 a year! 1t kills industry
= rNHo folIo-- 4IoA aoa -,so eEnn -,
thousand a night, he won't work; h
will spend his time hanging aroun,
saloons and drinking md spendini
his time in absolute idleness. 1t dull
the saw, stops the engine, puts GU
the fires in the hold of the ship an,
2 in the furnace of the great big fac
tories, and all over and away it i
drifting on.
: There is nothing so tame as t
ask anybody to play a game of card
for fun that's learned to play wit
7 the sky limit, or even penny ante
! You couldn't hold them. So they ha,
to have their progressive euchre an
: whist and all these things. VIII
. tsome church members have cards o,
their tables as often as food OF
sure!
The dance had its origin anon
the ancient Egyptians = let me Civ
o you some history. That's as far as W
know anything about it and it wa
. described as an invention of thei
d God.
a Plato tells us that dancing wa
q never used by the Egyptians as a 81
cial amusement! The sexes neve
n mingled together never! 1t was
. religious ceremony to their God
e Men and women danced to their God
e as religious exercises never, neve,
= did the sexes mingle together.
In the days of Roman luxury and |
e ~centiousness, the dance degenerate
into a social amusement. In Indi;
Rome, Egypt, girls danced on publ
occasions. But it was always take
for granted that they were disreputi
II BILE and they were prostitutes or the
wouldn't do it. No respectable woma
ever danced in public.
d A Latin inscription on a monumeI
It which stands today, says: ut is di
IL graceful to dance or for a virgin
enter a ball room"
. Early People
Condemned Dance.
10 I'm showing you how they locke
on it way back there even in the b
ginning and l think it's now a twel
tieth century condemnation-see no
1t things were away back at the star
d at the kickoff, away back there; o.
ID the stately cotillion. I'll tell yo
a that's too slow for the hot blood
n the twentieth century.
The minuet of the colonial times he
d been relegated to the rear, and in i
a place came the various waltzes; o
IS and the ragtime and Cubanola gliG
and Mobile buck. Wow! Wait
s, minute. Such dances were ne Sc
sual enough, seemingly, to satisi
these panderers that have no rega1
for virtue and would not hesitate
d come into your homefold and carr
away the choice lamb from yol
ID family flock, and they will seek a
~ introduction tt your daughter viii
she is a rose in her girlhood, and the
will lead her down to the booze roo
il and contaminate her into a blood-re
n, rose OF lust with the contaminatir
influences of those that she meets
ID Not everybody that plays cards wi
ct be a gambler, but every gambler pla!
ID cards. Not every woman that dance
It will be a prostitute, but three-fourtl
or of all the fallen ome fell as a resu
" of the dance.
Not everybody that dances do'
v SO from a bad motive, not everybot
~ 80 I'll - IaI n@ onrfo !