Show Painless Debt Payment Representative Adolph J J. J Sabath of Illinois has announced a painless way to pay payoff off the national debt His method is the establishment of a a national lottery which he says would net about 8 a year ear for the gov government This is by no o means means means' the first time the idea of a national lottery has been proposed in congress Bills for that purpose have been introduced before In fact several years ago Harold Knutson of Minnesota now the powerful chairman of the house ways and means committee sponsored a lottery bill bilI If Knutson backs Sabath's 8 scheme heme it is quite possible a new lottery bill will at least get W well ll started through the legislative mill if it is introduced Admittedly a national lottery would raise a a. substantial sum of money painlessly Much of the profit to the government would come come out of the gambling losses losses' which now go into the pockets of pr professional gamblers bookies and other racketeers on the fringe of the underworld Many people are aIe going to gamble with or without a a government lottery lottery its its it's just a question of who gets the profit on their gambling activities And certainly if the government government gov gov- t used the he profit t to retire the public debt it is putting the money to much better use than if it goes to line the pockets of gamblers and racketeers On the other h hand d there ther is an ethical question involved that many Americans will find impossible to ignore If the government operates a lottery it will be putting its official stamp o of approval on gambling gambling and and millions of Americans would fight that to the last ditch It is a painless way of collecting government revenue revenue and and an easy method of retiring that huge public debt of ours But tempting though it is we doubt if advocates of a lottery bill willever will willever willever ever be able to muster enough support in congress congress' to enact it |