Show rr K THE THE STRAIGHT GAME IL 1 I George Robinson not his real name t twenty four years old a pr prisoner loner in his Britannic majesty's prison of ot t. t Wormwood saw no use in inV V j f hl his continued living so so he he be hanged himself in n his cell And that was the 7 end of ot a man who still very ery young thought ought that tha all Il h hope pe e e ended d. d f for r hind him t. t 0 o I when hen the prison d door CIO closed behind bl d him When hope dies nil all dies In the working of ot the universe wise though often otten inscrutable everything has a Even the pitifully short and hard life lit of or George Robinson will help to uplift the world for tor he left lefta a message B Before fore ho bo died he wrote a note to a ayoung ayoung ayoung young woman In it he said The straight game Is the best after niter all You who laugh at preaching who think the teachings of ot the moralists are arc rot trot think over over the tho t testimony of ot the tho poor burglar convict For himself he realized too lato late that the straight game is the e best best At the end of ot a n short note to to his sweetheart he be preached the lesson to the world that others might read and profit thereby He Ho Hoad had Bad ad followed the crooked path t kno knew the wea weariness Dess of tho journey urney and t the disappointment that lies ties at the thet j t I t farther end From afar he be had beheld beheld beheld be be- held the straight road traveled In honor and respect with hard toil toll perhaps per haps hops but still with the strong arm of or consciousness of ot right to help over the rough places He lacked the courage to cross over He ne bad had played the crooked game and knew that in It th the cards are stacked against the player tho the dice are loaded tho the roulette wheel is weighted You cant can't beat It Ho knew the game was crooked but buthe be he had bad not the moral courage to break breakaway breakaway breakaway away from it To its very crooked end bo ho played It for tor suicide is a crooked way of ot finishing the game of ot casting aside the worlds world's burdens and responsibilities The message of ot George Robinson proved that that he had Intellect enough to appreciate the meaning of or life It If t he be bad had but had bad the the courage- courage to stick stick It out to the end and to serve his term something might have been made of ot him elm It If you are playing the crooked game and end think you u ar are going to fA get set a away way with it think of ot the convict of or Wormwood wormwood Worm- Worm wood and his last message to the world |