Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-29

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probably will have an eye on
the race, too. He wants the
Government to run a lottery
to help reduce the national debt
and cut down on taxes. 1t
doesn't have to be based on a
horse race, but could be accom-
plished by simply pulling a
number out of a hat. However,
Elmo has made no noticeable
progress among his Capitol
Hill colleagues in a decade of
campaigning.
This hasn't deferred him.
Every few days he inserts i'll
the Congressional Record more
evidence of why we should have
a lottery. His latest argument
points out that New Jersey pro-
poses to extend its racing sea-
son 80 days to raise So million
to help pay for the recent
storm damage to beach resorts.
He notes that it is an easy,
simple way to raise money
'painleSSly and voluntarily"
But he thinks it time we
stopped being hypocritical and
had a lottery.
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Well go along with Fine.
Although a hesitant 50 bettor
at the races, we'd welcome a
chance to win a small fortune.
Teen-agers throw away more
than a couple of bucks on
nickel slot machines where
Legal and bee-bop records.
You spend a quarter for a
chance on a $50 radio or a
case of booze to help almost
any cause and don't give it a
second thought. Why not in
vest in the Government and
have a little fun doing it?
Newspaper clippings tell of
the housewives "tupenny" bet
that won $576,878, the widow
who won $211, 300 on a l6-cent
wager, and the laborer who
collected S841,815 for a few
cents. These were football
Wagers, but the principle is
the same. A man gladly will
give up the price of a short
beer or cigar to take a chance
on winning a small fortune
even though his hopes are slim.
Hope keeps a guy going when
the gas bill is overdue, the fl
nance company is threatening
to snatch the car and the in
come tax is due.
Representative Fine points
out that gambling can't be such
a horrible thing when Congress
imposes a Federal tax on gam
blerS to collect more money for
the Treasury. His beef is that
millions of untaXed dollars are
going into the wrong pockets
because the Government re-
fuses to permit a lottery. As
ne further points out, the
money would help everybody in
reduced taxes. Most foreign
countries have lotteries. Heaven
only knows how much more
money we'd have to lend them
if they didn't.
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AS for the Grand National it.
self, it has supplied many
thrills and Spectacles to horse
racing. Loyal MarylanderS in,
SiSt that their Maryland Hun
Cup, scheduled April % thi!
, year at Worthington Valley, il
a more severe test. Let it go b!
saying that it takes a goot
, jumper with speed to win eth
er one. The Grand Nationa
. jumps are solid thorn fences
garnished with spruce, fir ant
gorse. The Maryland course
about four miles, is over pos
and rail fences.
The English race is crammet
with historical tidbits. Beecher'
Brook is named for a Captain
IBeecher who took a bath, will
his mount, Conrad, in the JumI
marking that particular OBJ
stacle. In 1850 Add Ell Kder
whose dam had pulled a stage
coach despite her thoroughbred
breeding, won the race. In 1908
Rubio, an American bred who
had pulled a hotet bus in Tow.
cester, was the victor. Still a.,
other, the grand old Manifesto