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Show : yD So FD MM DC20SC3 IPL : Coram Feels It Ought to StayiHbme . By BILL CORVM latanaatlonaJ Mawi Sparta Writer NEW YORK March it A round, ruddy-chtakcd Irlah . gentleman walked Into Frank Gloven'a flower hop In Eaat Forty-eighth ftreet an Eaater Sunday, blandly appropriated the largaat and reddeet carnation In tha place, carefully adjuated It In coat lapel, and announced: "Hera la a email token of my eeteem which la worth f 11,000." Tha token of the ruddy gentle-man'a gentle-man'a aateem waa an Irlah weep-1 takea ticket on the Engliih derby to ba run In June. Thee ticket," continued the gentleman, "are aent to me directly from a relative In Dublin. They are etrlctly the McCoy. X fle you an honaet receipt with every ticket you buy. There were aevcral aecondary and amaller prlae winner among my euatomera oa th recent Grand National iweep. Tola time one of than ta due to win a capital prlae. Yu can adviaa your cuetomera, friend and neighbor that I have an unlimited aupply sf ticket en the English derby." Little eeeiMW almllar t tha above are taking ptaee all ave tha United State thee daye. Kvea I before tha winner th March lrtoh awecpetakee have had chance ta caaa their cheek, -that .man with th braea ring i here 'agala. Mamma.'' Yea, the golden opportunity once more preeent ita if. Tha golden opportunity for Ira-land. Ira-land. That la. Alao for th astute European who operate the wee pa to which th United Btatee contribute anywhere from It to 90 per cent of tha a poll. Aatuta European Eu-ropean gentlemen who aoon will have taken out of thia country a sum comparable to the war debt Europe owea us. Ws make a noisy fuss about that war debt. A pretty continuous rues. War debts are the favorite subject of political columnists, editorial writers, and cartoonists who ars suffering suf-fering from hangovsrs, or a dsarth of shining nsw ideas. But somehow nobody seems to care how clean thia com parstl very new swespstakss broom swssps us. Plainly there'a a anfferenea In tha ettuaUona. Tha war debts are pretty aead docks, at beet, aamoo aa dead aa the young men of all nation who died ta and all ware unttl Hitler, Stalin er MueeoUnl got ready to start another ana. There's an Individual flavor to swaepstakss that national debts do not have. Every man, woman or child who haa one of those fkmsy-Ussusd fkmsy-Ussusd little Uckets tucksd away thinks that he or she is going to be the lucky one to hit the jackpot Far over and above the fact that there are actual winners, It aesms to this column that this Is th saving sav-ing gracs of sweepatsKes and lotteries lot-teries They create hope. Nothing that gives men hope can be all bad. Mind you, this Is not a defenss of lotteries. Let all of then be abolished tomorrow and ther would be no complaint frem thl corner. What w are attacking la th fact that wa have been supporting for at least six years one of the biggest and richest lotteries In the world; that we suffer from whatsvsr evils there are Inherent In lotteries, but fOeotlaute en Following" Pwee) U. S. Supports Irish Pools (Continued front Preceilln Pat.) profit from none of the universal benefits. Good Race at Homo We have a derby race of our own. One aa big, colorful and exciting as England's, If not as old. Our derby is run every May at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky. Louisville also haa floods. Along with other towns and cities In that part of the United States, It suffered suf-fered a flood recently that probably will be 193Ts major national des-aeter. des-aeter. The proceeds of one federal or state operated aweepataka on the Kentucky derby would go far toward preventing a repetition of that disaster. The proceeds of threo or four such sweeps might make a repetition impossible In either the Ohio or Mississippi valleys. Or, if there would be too much objection to government-run sweepstakes, sweep-stakes, then privately-run ones heavily heav-ily taxed, would produce the same results. Ws Amerlcsns have a strange philosophy phi-losophy about things that are unofficial un-official Maybe it's the Puritan in us, or the gypsy. When a thing lacks ths stamp of legality, we appear ap-pear to feel that it doesn't exist For at least five year before we got around to doing something about prohibition, everybody with eyea to ss knew that it was an utter failure. But prohibition (till probably would have been a part of our law if the depression hadn't depressed, deflated and destroyed It So It Is In th Strang sweep-stakes sweep-stakes situation. Somebody else I digging in our gold mine now. Ia about 1 or IS more yean, wideawake, wide-awake, keen American business men that we are, we are going to find It out Then there'll be a hoUer. |