The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-14
THE SLOT MACHINE MENACE

of the United States. -
THE above words from clause in the last will and testa
ment of the late Charles Hayden who died last Friday
centuate truth that should be engraved the heart of
every father and mother of this nation
THE late Mr. Hayden left millions of dollars to be spent
upon the youth of America. He chairman of the fl
committee of the KennecOtt Copper Company,
of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company of
which the Ray (Arizona) mines DIVISION and the
town of Hayden, Arz. named for him.
g. TO AID AND ASSIST :. THE MORAL
mental intellectual and physical wellbeing, uplifting and
development of boys and young Of this country "
is another clause incorporated in the Hayden will.
THAT the nations youth be kept from evil environments
and guarded against baefu Influences, is still another
excerpt taken from the Hayden will.
NOW citizens of Coolidge what is the environment right
under noses? Go the side Coolidge Union
High School building at noon parents and stop, look
isen and THINK, when almost two hundred young men
and young the flower of the land, who hold the
furure of this nation in their hands, come pouring out in
buoyant manner with the urge written all their faces
TO go forth and do things and decide for yourselves then
and there what YOUR RESPONSIBILITY IS TO THESE
YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN some of them per-
chance YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS.
DO YOU want to them enced into the primrose path
that strewn with thorns, thses and blasted lives?
The late Mr. Hayden was firmly convinced" that the
future of this nation rests in the hands of the young
ana young women who attending high schools and
our grade schools today He bequeathed his millions for
ther PROTECTION and for their DEVELOPMENT
WHAT here in Coolidge doing to protect these
young men and young from environments that if
allowed to continue find them right here in COOLIDGE
this very day. will lead to the spiritual moral physical and
mental deaths of telling how many of the flower of the
land.
WAKE UP Coolidge foks-gird UP your lons TO the end
that your backbone will be sufficient to warrant Won TO oct
or tho Ffutu
such determination that you will sav in the FIGHT until
Coolidge purged of the evil environments that exist
today.
IHE EXAMINER does not know how manv slot machines
are IN Ooohdge today; but The Examiner does know Cd
against the laws of Arizona permit the operation of
sIot machines; (2) that slot machines are oamhlino
0ClaSH Where the percentage to win out of all pro-
portion to the percentage lose (3) that slot
haunted IN the faces of the young and Young
u ooay are menace to that future nation the late Mr.
ayoeh had IN mind when he bequeathed millions of dol
lars 10 aid and assist young men,"
M H,>ANlNER also is cognzant of the fact that oc-
caSlonal Wners, ,, in truth and in fact arc IOsEpc
S lucre IS not the medium that brings happiness TO
Vhose who possess it; money that is derived from s+
'0nlheS ana other gambling devices is FILTHY The
greatest OF all the great bards said che who steals NV
seas out trash but he who my fair name steals
my ALL ~ ''0"F'
taxpayers are doing their part toward the DE-
FhOfM MENU of our boys; the fine school buildnos bero
anu the splendid teachers that employed to DEVELOP
S ana girls are doing everything within their power
loO percent IN their respective lines of dutv
out what are these taxpayers doing to remove
+ uehces! what are they doing to HELP the teachers
4ior tnelr sons and daughters? The great number
| 'chlnes that are daily and nightly in operation in
OooHoge answer The Examiners Question
lhAl these gambling devices should NOT be ALLOWED
- ~ in OooHoge Tor any other place for that matter)
,rbi1o i; - i"e examiner IS taking; The Examiner
Wnae knowing their operation here or anywhere esn ~
arizona IS UNLAWFUL, will not stress that as tb noo
pol'-'ne man thought with this newspaper is that o+
are menace to the well-beng of young men and
ab I |nen they are passing thru the impression
Io 10 continue here means that in years to come some
'""' were promising at the beginning will bo rnind |
0lu some mothers and fathers will sueea.