Show MM T lAKE AKE IT By Frank H FROM DAD r Why Is Gambling So Undesirable Dad I lost t my bet on In the football game Saturday principal cau caught hl me plying p It In the hall this morning FD and oh boy but I d- d got bawled out out Ile He Ilea a h fairly pounced upon v y 1 me I brat I was as J- J sore as a boiled owl but he set me to JI I S t thinking h Ink I n g I never neer 4 y wt VI thought or of It as be Ing ng or tits dl f F f rj i loyal to the school 12 ry J for tor e does It but gee dad I 1 d bate to cu cast t even a little shadow v tn tD you so I just thought Id I'd tall talk It osera 0 oser er era a bit Yec Yes Bob nob encouraged Mr Smith hou hough h go right along lull dad what J 1 wont want to now know Is why Is gambling so wrong and un undesirable desirable L seems to be do doIng doing Ing It under one cIrcumstance or an another another other I had no though of being any or of the things the principal accused me ot of By It s n a big Question and there Is very much to be said about It it To get something for nothing e except os as osa asa a friendly gift is 13 basically immoral It ItIs Itis Is a lIttle harmless seed eed from frum which much that Is sery ery sery ery bid springs Money Is stored per personally personally All money Is the price of II bite fe and labor and to use It so flippantly In n a world of ns as great need as ours Is Certainly lE ImmoraL To bet ten cents on this or that seems but a little thing and Is but the principle In soled 01 cd Is just as lt gre-lt To ste II ten cents or ten thousand dollars involves Olves the same great reat principle of honesty There of cour course e can be no such thing I os as little litHe thefts or no such thing as little harmle s bets to a man manof of staunch princIple To carry In your pocket money which has hns become yours by bv no use or of your manly powers or efforts which has ceased to he another boy s by no willing acceptance on his hb part ot of Its equIvalent is degrading You bet on the Bob as you thought t to prO prOe e your support of your but betting my mv boy Is the sery ery hel height ht of ports unC will so surely kill true sport for there can be no whole whole- wholehearted hol hearted lose lo of sport port for sports sport's sal sale e where there I is betting It Is betting Bob whIch introduces profession into college athletics for by and b and Ins 10 when boys moon lOon mooney ey cy usually not their o n then the are I QUite to do dishonorable things to shape the results e so they can win In When the lose the financially often leads to embezzle meat ment Ind dishonesty to cover coer up I 1 Bob oh betting Is bad because It 10 oh e the principles of i snobbery and conceit I The The better Is s certain he knows s more than lIs als neighbor and be because because cause or of his superIor wisdom exacts i a toll toil Scarcely any alY vice works more disastrously on the or of youth than gambling for It soon makes a apart apart part of the gamblers s lire life philosophy that he cnn can and ought to get some some- something something thing for nothing Hand me down that volume of Chlrles 1 letters Unless I 1 m badly mistaken there Is on an enlighten lag Ing letter there to his own son on the same question I rom It Bob we 11 see that the problem Is as old as the therace therace race and that the best thought has nl al always ways been the same concerning It Here It Is sure enough I My My Dearest Bo Boy There Is a matter In your last let let let- letter ter which gave me much uneasiness S ou said you had put Into Inlo some lottery for the Derby and had hedged to make it site low ow nil all this Is bid d b bt b t nothing but bad Of nil h gambling Is the one o oleI I hate most and hale avoided most Of all habits it grows gros most on eager minds Success and loss alike make It grow gro Of all habits howe er much civilized men may give way to It It it 11 itis Is one of the most Intrinsically say sav age It gains money by the lowest and most unjust means for It takes money out or of your neighbor 8 pocket without giving him anything In return It tempts you to use what yOU fan fancy fancy superior knowledge of a cy your our anything else to horse a 8 or merits your our neighbors neighbor II harm It If you know better than your neigh neighbor neighbor bor you ou are bound to gh e him your advice Instead you conceal your knowledge to win from his Ignorance hence come all sorts of dodge dodge- I say the tho Devil Is the only father tather ot of It it I m sure moreover that Mother would object seriously to anything bike Uke a lottery betting or ors s bUng gambling I hop hope you VOU lase not won I 1 should not be sorry for tor you to lose hose It If you OU have ve won I should not congratulate you It If you ou wish to please me you will give back to Its lawful owners the money you hae ha won von It you are area area a loser In grose thereby I 1 lit gladly reimburse your losses TIllS time I have spoken my mT mind once an and for tor all on II a matter which I hate held the same views for tor more than twenty venty years and trust In God you VI alli not forgot forget my words In after life I have te seen many mn a good follow tellow ruined by finding himself one day short of money and trying to get et a III little tie by or betting and then hen the Lord have mercy on his simple soul for tor simple It will not remain long lIr d I am not the least angry you Betting Is the way of the world but to the Devil It leads It if indulged d n In of the wise wille world and l its ways wa 8 lour loving Pater that but Bob there thue Is still one last thou thought ht that Js Is Important E ery roan who gambles to keep popularized and gl gibe gle e social sanction to a system that multiplies embezzle embezzle- embezzlements embezzlements ments and deepens poverty ta Q 1970 Newspaper r |