Show Men Ever Susceptible to LUl Lure e of Lot eries ies I It Js Is curious that proposals for a strIct curb on stock exchange e gain gam bUng should coexist coc Ith t 1 rIsing dE demand mand for the release of similar cur curbs s son on gambling ese elsewhere here In some con congre gre circles margin trading i is considered nicked In It itself the fhe pro pro- professional JOnal fess-JOnal speculator fleeIng from the stock e th c ln e lq is now no noto to be en the com mod It e e change c like likewise wise And yet et It at the same moment tes t are filC rice track ambling tot tOl sears un under er the theban theban ban cities are means ot of on the of thick thell ens and esen en the federal gO government itself Is heln being urged to adopt a national lottery Mans lain profess to Fee no teney In this file They hold that while ought to he be sharply re restricted I on the e chan e es for the pro of time the Investor and the whole i industrial system the gambling In instinct Is too deep seated to be re repressed InI I pressed Taking as their I text teat Mrs Hoose elt s recent remar remark It It scents impossible to sr to people you shall not gamble they propose first to give gire them such national out outlets outlets lets for their e Impulses as horse racing and second to turn nt at least part of the proceeds Into pub lie channels Ilard times has hl e a been heen ns as potent an m Influence In this effort ns as changing morl moral standards In Indeed Indeed deed lotterIes are by their spon sponsors 01 like e henne Kenney If ew 1 Jersey author of the billion dollar s lottery bill ns as a means of raising mone to fill depleted O treasuries The lottery otter is s sn n in institution tion The Promised Land was ded among the t ch e tribes of Israel h by lot Quern Elizabeth Introduced the lotter lottery Into In vl and for more than t 0 centuries it was n a reg- reg regular regular ular source of public revenue re In th it 1 country soon spreading to France Germany and Austria Eng Ian land money for the British rou mu scum b by means wenns of a Kings Icings college nas nasI founded d on the proceeds of n a e w a are told that the first French lot lottery lottery tery her held In 1691 was 1 won on by y the Ling nn an outcome which for a time dampened the ardor of IllS his subjects After ln hn been under the ban for forn fora n a hundred its s-its 1 I the French lottery as re rc c and met with In Instant stant tant popular m Zhe he best known and most widely lotterIes In the world toda today are arc the hush rl rice ee State s sweepstakes Iud and the lie Calcutta sweepstakes S Cs Opponents of lotteries point to the thelong thelong long record of corruption and crook crookedness crookedness edness with them during their earls use ucc here mind and broad abroad they hey condemn them on social a as well as morn moral grounds pointing to the fact that the desIre on the part of hun hundreds hundreds of thousands of Americans to get het rich quick In thIs fashion is is isone one of the thc causes of our financIal crash It Is also argued that lotteries Ith cheap tickets ets base hl their great greatest est appeal appell to persons small In Income incomes comes come and therefore operate IS as an social tae on the poor In con can considering the thc attitude of government go to toward gambling It Is possible to draw ra n a line between bet een those measures w filch recognise moral standards vide Ide Interest In hor horse e racing the difficulty of enforcing pro statutes and es e een en the de e of obtaining some public re- re return turn front from s sporting events and those measures which seek ceel to put the gO government whether hether federal state or local directly Into time the bush busl bushness ness of promoting an outright gam gambling bUng bling Institution like lIJe a lottery A British royal ap appointed appointed pointed to investigate the subject brou brought ht In n a report last year ear Ino in the re of lotteries In England on the ground that pr private vate lotterIes Invited fraud that the I i government gO should not engage c in fn practices c to ninny of Its ens tint the ical of ef effect feet of u a national lottery y would auld he be bud bad and that the Income would be only trifling e York Times |