Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-08-05
FOUNDATIONS Of CUBA
THREATENED BY LOTTERY
of Gamble More I'm,
portant Than Cabinet
Members.
rnorIrEEns SELL TICKETS
Onrinl Gazette Carries Names nf
Dcnr People Who Arc Supposed to
he Vending Tickets AT Legal
Prices.
tRy AssoclatedpresS.l

National Lottery to Liborio. who is
Cuba personified b. tho cartoonis,e.
But baseball never has threatened
the Constitution nor cricket the
Magma Carta. while the lottery has
shaken the Very foundations Of the
2b-year-old Cuban republic.
In tho significance of the lottery to
i-lhorio is included the Willingness OF
some hundreds of thousands OF
Cuhans 10 take a chance three times
"a month. and the opportunity this
has given thosc managing the LOTTERY
|" direct the republics political des-
;inics.
Created - years ago during tho
administration Of the late lose Miguel
Gomez and after being banned By the
provisional American government.
IN" lottery was modelled after that
which hourishcd for decades under
spanish rule.
government Rraps uaryrst
Just as the records OF the Spanisb
governors general throw little real
light on the intimate workings q,
the nineteenth century gamble 50
uoes the Legislative tangle surround
ing ITS twentieth century successor
today keep almost everybody outsjd.
Il charmed circle from knowing Ina,
now the wheels go round. From the
sn"pPE 'etal excerpts appearing on
'hc oacN OF the tickets it can be cstI-
mated that. II the government COTS
all It's legally is entitled To and ,ho
80 yearly drawings are all absorh.d
d? the public. saiG public Will hay.
paid roughly S7.5oO.OOO a wear Tor
'hrec dozen shots at the usual bip
prize OF 100000 and his smalIar
brothers.
bu'' Just as the lottery has drawn
away from the Secretary OF tha
ireas"rE' so do the prices paid in tn,
street for tickets differ from tho lac,
scale. The director of tho io,t,s'
'esp"hsible only TO the President has
eciirsed III Importance most of ~
'"p'hct members. and the prices naid
pe"d'"rS Tor tickets are from % T.,
y" per cent above par. During tbo
"ah'r of the millions that marke
az ,'h' sugar profits, they wcr.
""' "a" !eHai rate. These phe-
,'"'h"ha nave afforded grounds for
bitter philippics by political ours avn
onh"nenis or gambling on the size
49, ''''pichts OF these extra receipts
Get ON Gazette.
once year a list OF |. 0OO na,ros
punished in the Official Gazette mr.
porting TO be those who have he.u
sr"h'ed Inc tri-monthly privilege NJ
securing 81 full tickets from tho 90
eminent at $40 each and selling them
az not more than SCI. The publica.
10, 10, OF me last list on May was
,o''oWcu inns year by charges fled
IN criminal court by Repr,sentoti,.o
Enrique Ma:;as that not only diL No
sons !ohS dead and others in ina,r.
hsEIufns figure in the list. but thar
s"'-+"'"oo n year OF lottery recrints
We're being diverted to purposes IN
MN and TO the Cuban public nm.
known ""
Although Judge Antonio Garcin
'o'", VINO Investigated these charges
20 "ctefmine whether there existed
grounds for indictments aunorncad
lie had found the lottery rerords -,
nertect order. the sensation producnI
10y the publication OF charges ~,
n"" oeeh going the rounds for months
nN"u Tue attention OF both tho nun
:" ana congress on the lottery and
,he mysteries thereof. Their. w,s
..'i' surprise when il was learned
'h"' one of the famous ten memo-
.h""a submitted to Precedent Alfredo
n 80 'nst month by Maj General
nrn.ih - ,roWder, who speaks for
PRESIDENT Harding in the national
pa'ace' was concerned with the NAV
aSencnt OF the lottery and w,a
inhortant. in It's way. os tb. 90,
.hat insiHuated the necessity M c,t
49, 'eloFin aud moral clean-un I'm
.hc collection and disbursement nr
Federal revenues. va
nat was when the foundations or
nv repupllc trcmblcd. for whila IN.
-, o'e"h up JOBS were not consid-
crea unduly dinicult. mcddIipp w,;,,
an institution with such wi,,e. mss
political ramif,catious as m, In,,
was horse OF a different color H.
,crNchtion reports flew thick and fac,
p"Se" on the supDosition that nd,
"'S.ratlon would not permit for-
eiSn hands TO tamper with tbe con.
OF 'he Deus ex machina that rur-
nlSheh the motive power for IN. mn.
ii'ical steamroller
resident C"nferS with House.
Just after the Hons, dcciI.1
CONSTRUCT permanent base or on.-o
tons FOR it's lottery orfcneiva "a
wore cam" from higher IN ,bot IN
reform suggested in one n, -,
memoranda would be brourb, oho,,,
nF presidential decree. and co,,r
'""" would b" spared great dc,, -,
complicated ana probably Ijsncr
""'' i"HIs!at:v" fnrmaliiies. Tho n;
"t inc lottery 4 few DAYS oro
'"hs conferences with presi
cent |ayas. and /, Is renor,od 49,,
-, ~ ''t''Htu 10 him whn.
W"h!d to. done to give tho ;rs,,,,
tlon lie still controls lis nrjs,t,
orishiness of 1907 Il IL nor 80
P"'ted that the axs will fau rn,u
after the end of the fiscal vnor -
June 80 before which date Congress
mus promised to enact much vit,I
IeG'siation. To act before then miyh,
ue'"y much needed laws, for nobodv
nhows in what directions and bo,,.
''r the lottery's influence exte,Ls
throughout all the recent hne an,
cry about the lottery IL has bcan NV "
ticeable that demands for ,,s .ar,
n'e'e suppression have been few ana
Jar between Liborio is Just MS clos.,y
Ne""e" 10 buying tickets three ,imas
month as he Is TO raising surar
cane ana tobacco.
Ihere are many In Cuba. bowav.-
l'sht Sleepers for the most mart VINO
ire strong for at least one reform
'nat OF putting teeth into tn. nro.
VISION which prohibits lottery ned
a,'rs from shouting their wares
lheF nave been awaited too mani
times in the early hours Of TN. three
MORNINGS month on which IN.
hlindIo!ded orphans draw the Iucky
balls from the cages for the big ana
little prizes, by the raucus shouts ~
y. H.. IL.